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Kūchū Buranko (TV)

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Alternative title:
Die seltsamen Methoden des Dr. Irabu (German)
Sky Swing
Trapeze
空中ブランコ (Japanese)
Plot Summary: Irabu Ichiro is a psychiatrist who lives in a colorful alternate version of Tokyo. Patients would visit him to have a counseling on their problems. However each of the patients feel perplex about Ichiro's behavior. Ichiro wears a bear head mask & is able to change change his appearance from an adult to a kid. Despite Ichiro's zealous attitude, he does succeed in helping out each of the patients who come to his office.
User Ratings: 12 ratings have been given [details]
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 Excellent: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Very good: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Good: 1 vote (sub:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 62 users, rank: #2706
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.167 (Good+.16), std. dev.: 2.8529, rank: #1375
Weighted mean: 6.892 (Good-.10), rank: #1789 (seen all: 8.00 / seen some: 8.24 / won't finish: 1.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.172 (Good+.17), rank: #1051
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage: 2009-10-15
Opening Theme:
"Upside Down" by Denki Groove
Ending Theme:
"Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel)" by Denki Groove
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kenji Nakamura

Series Composition: Manabu Ishikawa

Script:
Isao Murayama (eps 2, 4-5)
Manabu Ishikawa (Tatsunoko Pro. - Ep. 1)
Tomoko Taguchi (ep 3)

Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Kakudou (ep 1)
Kenji Nakamura (ep 1)
Kimitoshi Chioka (eps 3-4)
Kiyotaka Suzuki (ep 5)
Takayuki Chiba (ep 4)

Episode Director:
Hidehito Ueda (ep 2)
Kimitoshi Chioka (assistant - Eps. 1, 3-5)
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (ep 3)
Kouhei Hatano (ep 1)
Kouji Ogawa (ep 4)

Music: Hideharu Mori

Original creator: Hideo Okuda

Character Design: Toshifumi Hashimoto

Art director: Shoji Tokiwa

Chief Animation Director: Toshifumi Hashimoto

Animation director:
Akira Takada (ep 5)
Hideoki Kusama (ep 1)
Natsuki Watanabe (ep 3)
Odahiro Watanabe (ep 2)
Sayuri Sugifuji (ep 2)
Shinichi Sakuma (ep 4)
Tatsuya Oka (ep 2)
Toshifumi Hashimoto (ep 1)

Sound director: Yukio Nagasaki

Cgi director: Nobuhiro Morita

Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada

Art Advancement: Maoki Sawada

Assistant director: Kimitoshi Chioka

Assistant Episode Director:
Satoru Misawa (ep 2)
Yasunori Koyama (eps 1, 4)

Color design: Rumiko Nagai

Finishing Advancement: Shō Kaneko

In-Between Animation:
Haruna Akechi (ep 4)
Hiroko Onodera (ep 4)
Nozomi Tanaka (ep 4)

In-Between Check:
Mariko Kiyota
Reiko Saito

Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (ep 5)
Akiko Mori (ep 5)
Akira Takahashi (ep 4)
Ayaka Shimoji (ep 2)
Chuuichi Iguchi (ep 2)
Hidemi Yamashita (ep 5)
Hideoki Kusama (ep 1)
Hyun Ju Lee (ep 4)
Isamu Fukushima (ep 5)
Junichi Yokoyama (ep 5)
Katsunori Enokimoto (ep 4)
Kazuhiro Taga (ep 2)
Kazuya Morimae (ep 2)
Ken'ichi Fujisawa (ep 3)
Kenji Hayama (ep 5)
Kiichi Suzuno (ep 3)
Kiko Hashimoto (ep 3)
Kouichi Hayamizu (ep 2)
Kumiko Shishido (ep 5)
Manabu Nakatake (ep 5)
Masahiro Okamura (ep 2)
Mayu Yoshida (ep 3)
Miho Kaneshiro (ep 2)
Misao Abe (ep 1)
Momoko Nagakawa (ep 5)
Natsuki Watanabe (ep 3)
Nobuaki Tanaka (ep 1)
Nobuyoshi Sasamon (ep 1)
Odahiro Watanabe (ep 2)
Retsu Ohkawara (ep 5)
Rie Saitou (eps 1, 5)
Satomi Kani (ep 5)
Shigeki Kuhara (ep 5)
Shingo Ogiso (ep 1)
Shuji Ono (ep 5)
Shuuichirou Manabe (ep 2)
Takayuki Manaka (ep 1)
Takayuki Murakami (ep 3)
Tatsuya Oka (ep 2)
Tetsuya Ishii (ep 3)
Tomomi Ueda (ep 3)
Tomoya Takayama (ep 3)
Tomoyuki Kojima (ep 5)
Toshiyuki Sato (ep 2)
Tsuyoshi Kakihara (ep 2)
Yoshiaki Wada (ep 4)
Yoshihiro Nagata (ep 5)
Yoshitaka Yajima (ep 1)
Young Mi Joung (ep 4)
Yuichiro Yamada (ep 2)
Yukihiro Urata (ep 3)
Yukiko Kobayashi (ep 5)
Yukiko Nakatani (ep 5)
Yuko Yamamoto (ep 2)
Yūsuke Isōchi (ep 3)
Yuuko Yoshida (ep 5)

Production Advancement:
Masae Sano (ep 5)
Takuya Naitou (eps 1-3)
Tomoaki Okumura (ep 5)
Yūsuke Hata (ep 4)

Theme Song Performance: Denki Groove (OP\ED)

 

Daisuke Namikawa as Shin'ichi Sakahigashi (ep 4)

Hiroaki Hirata as Tatsurō Ikeyama (ep 5)

Hiroki Takahashi as Seiji Ino (ep 7)

Mitsuo Iwata as Yoshio Iwamura (ep 8)

Miyu Irino as Yūta Tsuda (ep 6)

Romi Paku as Irabu Ichirou 

Ryotaro Okiayu as Mitsuo Tanabe (ep 10)

Shinichiro Miki as Jun'ichi Hoshiyama (ep 3)

Takahiro Sakurai as Tetsuya Taguchi (ep 2)

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kōhei Yamashita (ep 1)

Wataru Hatano as Hiromi Yasukawa (ep 9)

Yuji Mitsuya as Irabu Ichirou 

Yumi Sugimoto as Mayumi

Haruhi Terada as Mrs. Ikeyama (ep 5)

Juurouta Kosugi as Professor Nomura (ep 5)

Katsuyuki Konishi as Arai (ep 3)

Keiko Han as Mrs Nomura (ep 5)

Tomoaki Maeno as Suzuki (ep 4)

Yumiko Kobayashi as Takuya Ikeyama (ep 5)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Toei Animation

Broadcaster: Fuji TV (2009-10-15, Noitamina)

In-Between Animation:
A-Line
AIM Entertainment
Flying Dragon Cartoon Studio
Kagura
M.S.J Musashino Production
Meta Studio
Production Reed
TAP
Tatsunoko Animation Room

Key Animation:
Dogakobo
Flying Dragon Cartoon Studio
HEBARAKI
Kagura
Kino Production
Meta Studio
Mutsu Planning
Nakamura Production
Neo Media
Seigasha
Shanghai Dove
Studio Graffiti
Studio Liberty
Studio Mark
Synod
Tatsunoko Production

Production Assistance:
A-Line (ep 2)
Studio Guts (ep 3)
Tatsunoko Production (ep 5)

 
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