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Ronin Warriors: Message (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers: Message
Samurai Troopers in Message
Yoroiden Samurai Troopers: Message
鎧伝サムライトルーパー MESSAGE (Japanese)
Themes: samurai, sentai
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: When Touma discovers a 300-year-old book, which chronicles the adventures of the troopers, he also meets the mysterious spirit Suzunagi. When Touma goes missing, the other troopers meet to discuss the book that Touma sent to Ryou. Going their separate ways, they set out to find out who this Suzunagi is and why she is so interested in the troopers and their armors.
User Ratings: 16 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Very good: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Good: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Decent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 So-so: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 52 users, rank: #6406 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.500 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.9365, rank: #5627 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 6.382 (Decent+), rank: #5988 (of 9642) (seen all: 6.38)
Bayesian estimate: 6.894 (Good), rank: #3786 (of 7243)
Number of episodes: 5
Episode titles: We have 5
Vintage: 1991-03-21 to 1991-08-23
Release dates: We have 6
Ending Theme:
"Tsukamaeteite" by Kaori Honma
Insert song:
"Hoshi no Lullaby" by Kaori Honma (ep 5)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers - The Complete Collection [TV + OVAs] (Blu-ray) 2021-12-28 (from $79.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers - The Complete OVA Series (DVD) 2015-02-24 (from $85.53)
    Ronin Warriors - Message (DVD) 2003-06-03 (from $2.79)
    Ronin Warriors - Message (DVD) 2004-04-13 (from $3.50)
    Ronin Warriors - Complete Collection (DVD) 2004-09-28 (from $499.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Masashi Ikeda
Script: Masashi Ikeda (eps 1-5)
Screenplay: Masashi Ikeda
Storyboard:
Masashi Ikeda (eps 1-5)
Episode Director: Osamu Sekita (eps 1-5)
Music: Osamu Totsuka
Original creator: Hajime Yatate
Character Design: Norio Shioyama
Art Director: Mitsuharu Miyamae
Animation Director: Norio Shioyama
Sound Director: Kōichi Chiba
Director of Photography: Kazunobu Okeda
Producer:
Shinichiro Kobayashi (Sunrise)
Yasuhisa Kazama (CBS Sony Group)

Color setting: Kayoko Nishi
In-Between Animation:
Hatsue Nakayama (ep 4)
Hiromi Funatsu (eps 4-5)
Katsuji Kobayashi (eps 4-5)
Keiichi Watanabe (ep 1)
Ken Sakuma (eps 1-3)
Kumiko Kasuga (ep 5)
Takuya Suzuki (eps 1-3)
Tatsuya Suzuki (eps 1-3)
Yasuo Ishii (eps 1-3)
Yoshikazu Samura (eps 1-2)
In-Between Check: Koichiro Kiyoshima
Insert Song Arrangement: Tatsumi Yano
Insert Song Composition: Ritsuko Okazaki
Insert Song Lyrics: Ritsu Morino
Insert Song Performance: Kaori Honma
Key Animation:
Kumiko Kasuga (eps 1-5)
Manami Hattori (eps 1-5)
Masahiro Yamane (eps 2-5)
Miki Ukai (eps 1-5)
Ryuichi Makino (ep 2)
Takuya Satō (ep 1)
Theme Song Arrangement: Tatsumi Yano
Theme Song Composition: Keizou Ami
Theme Song Lyrics: Shun Taguchi
Theme Song Performance: Kaori Honma
Yoroi Design: Hideo Okamoto
Daiki Nakamura as Date Seiji
Hiroshi Takemura as Hashiba Touma
Nozomu Sasaki as Mouri Shin
Takeshi Kusao as Sanada Ryou
Tomohiro Nishimura as Shuu Rei Fuan

Kaori Kusakabe as Nasuti Yagyuu
Kumiko Watanabe as Yamano Jun
Mitsuki Yayoi as Suzunagi
Norio Wakamoto as Kaosu (ep 1)

Gara Takashima as Suzunagi's mother (ep 5)
Hiroshi Hamanaka as Man B (ep 5)
Kōichi Chiba as Ushering voice (ep 5)
Manabu Itō as Man A (ep 5)
Masashi Ebara as Speech director (ep 2)
Ryuuichi Shouji as Man C (ep 5)

Japanese companies
Animation Production: Sunrise
Backgrounds: Baku Production
Distributor:
Aniplex
Toei Company, Ltd. (Blu-ray)
Toei Video Co., Ltd. (Blu-ray)
Finish Animation:
MI
Studio Tomcat
Photography: Asahi Production
Planning: Sunrise
Production: Sunrise
Sales Agency: Dream Shift (Blu-ray)
English staff
English cast
Translation: Kevin McKeown
Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi
Producer:
Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Miho Kinoshita

Additional Translation:
Elizabeth Ellis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Noelle Siddall (Discotek Blu-ray)
Audio Restoration:
Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Elaine Morland (Discotek Blu-ray)
Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Blu-Ray Compression: Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Chief Producer: Charles McCarter
Design Director: Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
DVD Menu Design: Victor De Anda
Engineering Assistant: John Duncan
Menu Breakdown: Gary Swarer (Discotek Blu-ray)
Menu Design: Gary Swarer (Discotek Blu-ray)
Production Assistant: Elaine Morland (Discotek Blu-ray)
Production Coordination: Kirsten Thorarinson
Quality Control:
Logan Rebholz (Discotek Blu-ray)
Marc Levy (Discotek Blu-ray)
Recording engineer: Jason Cushing
Script Adaptation: Mike Bridges
Special Thanks To:
James Howell (Discotek DVD)
Reed Nelson (Discotek DVD)
Stephanie Shih (Discotek DVD)
Steven Siddall (Discotek DVD)
Subtitle Editing: Logan Rebholz (Discotek Blu-ray)
Subtitle Script: Kevin McKeown
Subtitle Timing: Logan Rebholz (Discotek Blu-ray)
Voice Direction: Rob Bakewell
Andrew Francis as Kento Lei Fan
Matt Hill as Ryo Sanada
Matt Smith as Sage Date
Michael Donovan as Cye Mouri
Ward Perry as Rowan Hashiba

Chantal Strand as Suzunagi (Young)
Ellen Kennedy as Suzunagi

David Kaye as Ancient One (ep 1)
Lisa Ann Beley as Suzunagi's Mother (ep 5)
Maggie Blue O'Hara as Mia Koji (ep 5)
Trevor Devall as
Fight Announcement (ep 5)
Show Promoter (ep 4)
UN Rep (ep 5)
Ward Perry as
Actor (ep 2)
Shogunate Official (ep 4)
UN Rep (ep 5)
English companies
Additional Production: TwistyGadget (Discotek Blu-ray)
ADR Production: The Ocean Group
Distributor:
Cinedigm (USA; 2014)
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (North America; 2003)
DVD Authoring: Ascent Media DVD
DVD Menu Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Internet Streaming:
CONtv
Pluto TV
RetroCrush
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Bandai Entertainment (Expired)
Discotek Media (2014)
Packaging Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Recording Studio: Westwood Studios

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