Unico in the Island of Magic

Moribi Murano (often miscredited as "Mami Sugino") directed the second movie, titled Maho no Shima e ユニコ 魔法の島へ (To the Magic Island) in Japanese and Unico in the Island of Magic in English, which was released on July 16, 1983, five days before the release of the first Barefoot Gen movie, which used many of the same production staff and in Mexico on January 30, 1988 which Television premier on Canal de las Estrellas.
This film essentially picks up after The Fantastic Adventures of Unico with the West Wind dropping Unico off in a new location called Poland where the gods will be unable to locate him. The story begins with the West Wind erasing Unico's memory of the past events and he is left to once again fend for himself. Unico runs into a Heathcliff-like cat named Melvin Magnificat who is the apparent boss of the forest which Unico has stumbled upon. Later, Unico meets a kind-hearted young Polish girl named Cheri (also spelled "Cherry", voiced by Sumi Shimamoto). Cheri's older brother, Toby (in Japanese, "Torubi", voiced by Shuichi Ikeda), is working for the evil Lord Kuruku (in Japanese, "Kukuruku"), who plans to turn all living creatures, animals and people alike, into unusual zombie-like beings called "Living Puppets" to be his slaves. Toby's job is to change people into Living Puppets and then lure the Living Puppets to Kuruku's fortress on Nightmare Island in Baltic Sea off the Coast of Sweden in exchange for learning more of Kuruku's magic. His plan is to obey and serve until he learns enough to be the master, but fails to protect Cheri twice. Toby also takes on Melvin Magnificat ("Yamaneko" in Japanese) - who hates Unico because Unico "intruded" in "his" forest (the forest in which the West Wind left Unico) - as his assistant. After Cheri's parents and neighbors all get turned into Living Puppets, she and Unico team up to stop Kuruku.
Seeking advice from the Trojan Horse, Unico and Cheri learn that Kuruku is a puppet who was mistreated by his owners and discarded. He washed up at the Ends of the Earth - where all unwanted "junk" ends up eventually - and was brought to life with the power of 200 years of sunlight exposure, determined to take revenge on the human race. With help from the Sphinx's daughter (voiced by Noriko Tsukase; named "Marusu" in Japanese but not given a proper name in the English version), Unico - who realizes that Kuruku is really just a lonely, friendless creature - is able to break Kuruku's spell, but since Kuruku's hatred was the only thing that kept him alive, Kuruku dies, reverts to puppet form, and Cheri keeps him as a toy. Soon afterward, the West Wind finds Unico and spirits him away once again to avoid detection by the gods who want him dead.
As with the first movie, the second movie's ending song (Do-Re-Mi-Fa Lullaby performed by Emiko Shiratori) became an instrumental in the Spanish and English dub. Katsue Miwa in the original version and Barbara Goodson in the English dub reprised their roles as Unico in this film, while Verónica Castro took over their roles as Unico.
==Voice Cast==
Character 	Original 	English
Unico 	Katsue Miwa 	Barbara Goodson
West Wind 	Chieko Baishô 	Diane Lander
Sheri's Mother 	Kotoe Taichi 	Diane Lander
Kuruku 	Fujio Tokita 	Jan Rabson
Melvin's Lackeys	Kenichi Ogata 	Jan Rabson
Melvin's Lackeys	Eken Mine 	Ardwight Chamberlain
Tolby 	Shûichi Ikeda 	Max Christian (Toby)
Yamaneko 	Ichirô Nagai 	Michael Sorich (Melvin Magnificat)
Marusu 	Noriko Tsukase	Lara Cody (Spinx's Daughter)
Trojan Horse 	Ryûji Saikachi	Ron Gans
Sheri's Father 	Kazuo Harada 	
===Additional Voices===
*Original: Sumi Shimamoto (Sheri)
*English: Ardwight Chamberlain (Roller Dragon)
Category:1983 films