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Mao-chan (TV)

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Related anime:
    Mao-chan (manga) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
Earth Defender Mao-chan
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan
Rikujo Boeitai Mao-chan (Japanese)
陸上防衛隊まおちゃん (Japanese)
Themes: military
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Mao Onigawara is a happy 8-year-old grade-schooler and the granddaughter of Chief of Staff of Ground Defense Force. Equipped with her cloverleaf-shaped badge which enables her to transform (but gives her no special power whatsoever), Mao and her best friends (granddaughters of Chief of Staff of Air and Marine Defense Force, respectively) will defend Japan against the invasion from "cute aliens," who are way too cute to be dealt with regular armed forces.
User Ratings: 123 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Very good: 15 votes (sub:10, dub:3, raw:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 34 votes (sub:25, dub:9)
 Decent: 21 votes (sub:19, dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 So-so: 19 votes (sub:15, dub:4)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:11)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 318 users, rank: #1399
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.911 (Decent-.08), std. dev.: 2, rank: #3239
Weighted mean: 5.962 (Decent-.03), rank: #3140 (seen all: 6.61 / seen some: 5.31 / won't finish: 3.37)
Bayesian estimate: 6.078 (Decent+.07), rank: #2654
Running time: 12 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2002-07-03 to 2002-12-25 (Japan)
Releases: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"All My Love" by Yui Horie
#2: "Brand new day" by Aice5
Ending Theme:
"It's My Style" by Yui Horie
#2: "Eternity" by Aice5
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
In the news 3 times:
2003-07-03   New Anime Dubs
2003-06-01   A-Kon News
Comment:
New opening and ending themes, Brand new day and Eternity, respectively, are introduced in reruns in April 2007.
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Related reviews:
    Mao-chan DVD 1

Related releases:
    Mao-chan - I Will Protect the Peace of Japan (DVD 1) 2003-10-28 (from $5.00)
    Mao-chan - Go! Unified Defense Force (DVD 2) 2004-01-06 (from $5.00)
    Mao-chan - Song of Defense (DVD 3) 2004-02-24 (from $5.00)
    Mao-chan - Let's Defend Happiness! (DVD 4) 2004-04-20 (from $5.00)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yoshiaki Iwasaki

Series Composition: Yousuke Kuroda

Screenplay: Yousuke Kuroda

Storyboard: Hideaki Oniwa

Music: Takayuki Hattori

Original Concept: Ken Akamatsu

Character Design: Masahide Yanagisawa

Art director: Chitose Asakura

Animation director: Yoshio Suzuki

Art design: Junko Nagasawa

Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta

Color design: Mitsuko Sekimoto

Theme Song Composition:
Chika Itô (OP)
Yuki Matsuura (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Chika Itô (OP)
Yuki Matsuura (ED)

Theme Song Performance: Yui Horie (OP/ED)

 

Kimiko Koyama as Mao Onigawara

Yui Horie as Silvia Maruyama

Yuuya Yoshikawa as Misora Tsukishima

Ai Iura as Chinami Noki

Akio Nojima as Rikushirou Onigawara

Kiyonobu Suzuki as Sorajirou Tsukishima

Machiko Toyoshima as
Emi Uehara
Shouko Akasaka

Masayo Kurata as Carol Cameron (ep 21)

Miki Nagasawa as Kagome Mishima

Takashi Taniguchi as Adalbert von Maruyama

Yukiko Mannaka as Yuriko Oozora

Akira Tomisaka as
Kangaroo alien
Maiko Mita

Chiaki Takahashi as
Mio Nanba
Officer (eps 2, 5)

Junichi Sugawara as Prime Minister

Kanako Hattori as
Class representative (4 episodes

eps 5, 15-16, 25
)
Female student C (ep 5)

Keiichi Sonobe as Galaxy the Great

Keiji Hirai as Politician

Kouji Haramaki as Rikukichi Onigawara

Machiko Toyoshima as Operator (eps 1-10, 12)

Naoki Bandou as Tokusaburo Tokugawa

Satoshi Katougi as Ground crew

Satsuki Yukino as Kuniko Onigawara

Tomoe Hanba as Kuko Tsukishima

Yui Horie as Naru Narusegawa (unnamed) (ep 20)

Yuji Ueda as Keinosuke Urashima

Yuri Shiratori as Kiku Ichimonji the Third

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Xebec

Broadcaster:
Chiba TV (2007-04-08)
KBS Kyoto (2007-04-11)
Sun TV (2007-04-09)
Tokyo MX TV (2007-04-09)
TV Aichi (2007-04-09)
TV Kanagawa (2007-04-07)
TV Saitama (2007-04-08)
TV Tokyo

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Wendee Lee

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Kaeko Sakamoto

 

Julie Maddalena as Silvia Maruyama

Kay Jensen as Misora Tsukishima

Sandy Fox as Mao Onigawara

Anthony Mozdy as Sorajirou Tsukishima

Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Kagome Mishima

Kay Jensen as Chinami Noki

Michael McConnohie as Rikushirou Onigawara

Michelle Ruff as Carol Cameron

Ron Allen as Adalbert von Maruyama

Wendee Lee as Yuriko Ozora

David Orosco as
Galaxy the Great
Prime Minister

David Umansky as Ichiro Suteki (ep 22)

Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Naru Narusegawa

Julie Ann Taylor as Operator

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Production: Production I.G. USA


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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