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Btooom! (TV)

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[ adapted from Btooom! (manga) ]

Alternative title:
ブトゥーム (Japanese)
驚爆遊戲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Sakamoto Ryota is an unemployed 22 year old who lives with his mother and spends his days doing nothing but playing video games. In the real world, there may be nothing special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game called Btooom. One day, he awakes on what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how he got there or why. While exploring the island, Ryota runs into a mysterious being who attacks him by throwing a strange looking bomb at him. Ryota then realizes that both his life is in danger, and that he has somehow become trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game. Ryota and the other "players" must now survive through the nightmare to figure out the reason why they ended up in the game in the first place.
User Ratings: 818 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 221 votes (sub:211, raw:4, dub:3, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 100 votes (sub:91, dub:5, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Very good: 144 votes (sub:129, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:12
7 Spanish subtitled
3 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 124 votes (sub:114, dub:3, ?:1, others:6
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 69 votes (sub:69)
 So-so: 42 votes (sub:41, dub:1)
 Not really good: 32 votes (sub:32)
 Weak: 34 votes (sub:33, ?:1)
 Bad: 21 votes (sub:20, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Awful: 18 votes (sub:17, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 13 votes (sub:13)
Seen in part or in whole by 1175 users, rank: #813 (of 5563)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.389 (Good+), std. dev.: 2.5426, rank: #1372 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 6.932 (Good), rank: #2241 (of 5553) (seen all: 7.00 / seen some: 6.84 / won't finish: 4.11)
Bayesian estimate: 6.941 (Good), rank: #1965 (of 4226)
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2012-10-04
2012-10-04 to 2012-12-20
Opening Theme:
"No Pain, No Game" by Nano
#2: "Exist (エグジスト)" by Nano (ep 12)
Ending Theme:
"Aozora (Blue Skies)" by May'n
#2: "No Pain, No Game" by Nano (ep 12)
Official website:
BTOOOM! (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 2
Review:
Btooom! episodes 1-7 (Dec 19, 2012)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kotono Watanabe
Script: Yousuke Kuroda (eps 1-12)
Storyboard:
Atsuko Ishizuka (ED)
Hideki Hosokawa (eps 4, 7, 11)
Kazuo Nogami (ep 6)
Kotono Watanabe (OP; eps 1-2)
Makoto Katō (eps 3, 8)
Morio Asaka (ep 5)
Yoshiaki Kawajiri (eps 9-10, 12)
Episode Director:
Hideki Hosokawa (eps 4, 11)
Hitomi Efuku (ep 7)
Kazuo Nogami (eps 2, 6, 10)
Kotono Watanabe (eps 1, 12)
Makoto Katō (eps 3, 8)
Noriaki Saito (ep 5)
Takahiro Kawakoshi (ep 9)
Unit Director: Kotono Watanabe (OP; ED)
Music: Keiji Inai
Original Work: Junya Inoue
Character Design: Takahiro Kishida
Art Director: Anna Ooizumi
Chief Animation Director: Masaki Hyuga
Animation Director:
Geum-soo Kim (eps 4, 11)
Hirohide Shikishima (eps 2, 10)
Jeong Ri Han (ep 7)
Jin U Gwan (ep 5)
Jun Kawai (eps 3, 8)
Keizo Shimizu (ep 6)
Makoto Takahoko (ep 6)
Masaki Hyuga (OP; eps 1, 12)
Ryōta Azuma (ep 7)
Toru Yoshida (eps 5, 9)
Toyoaki Fukushima (ep 6)
Yoshinori Tokiya (ep 9)
Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
Director of Photography: Kenji Fujita
Producer:
Hitoshi Kawamura (Showgate)
Jun Fukuda (The Klockworx Co., Ltd.)
Ken Minami (Flying Dog|JVC)
Masayoshi Matsumoto (Showgate)
Takema Okamura (Sotsu)
Yasushi Tanaka
Yuki Yoshida

3D Animation:
Miki Komata (Studio Twinkle)
Nozomi Harayama (Studio Twinkle)
Ryō Kawamura (Studio Twinkle)
Tomohiro Muranaka (Studio Twinkle)
Tsukasa Saitō (ED)
Animation producer: Kenji Nakamoto
Art Setting: Kazushige Kanehira
Assistant Animation Director:
Kazuhiro Hotchi (ep 8)
Saya Takamatsu (ep 8)
Assistant producer:
Ayuri Taguchi (MADHOUSE)
Shoichi Horita
Background Art:
Asuka Komiyama (Kusanagi)
Atsushi Yokoyama (Kusanagi)
Eiji Wakabayashi (Kusanagi)
Geki Katsumata (Cosmo Arts)
Hai Nguyen (Nam Hai)
Hatsumi Kumano (Kusanagi)
Hiromichi Itou (Kusanagi)
Hironori Ishikawa (Cosmo Arts)
Hiroshi Itō (Kusanagi)
Ji Ryun Kim (Studio Daiyo)
Junki Nakata (Kusanagi)
Kunihiro Shinoda (Studio Daiyo)
Kyo Inoue (Kusanagi)
Kyoko Kitano (Cosmo Arts)
Maho Uemori (Kusanagi)
Manabu Otsuzuki (Kusanagi)
Miwa Yoshida
Motonaga Kaneda (Cosmo Arts)
Rie Oda (Kusanagi)
Sadahiko Tanaka
Shingo Kanai (Kusanagi)
Shiori Shiwa (Kusanagi)
Takanori Fujimura (Kusanagi)
Tran Nguyen (Nam Hai)
Tuyet Nguyen (Nam Hai)
Vuong Vu (Nam Hai)
Xuan Le (Nam Hai)
Yuji Kimura (Kusanagi)
Yukie Katsumata (Cosmo Arts)
Yusuke Ikeda (Nam Hai)
Color design: Yukie Noguchi
End Card Illustration: Junya Inoue (eps 1-2)
Finish Animation:
Ami Kutsuna (Madhouse)
Aya Senna (Magic Bus)
Bo Ran Lee (Hyoin Entertainment)
Chikako Kamata (Madhouse)
Hanako Nakamura (Magic Bus)
Kazumi Sakurai (Magic Bus)
Kumi Kanezawa (Magic Bus)
Nami Inomata (Magic Bus)
Yukari Ando (Magic Bus)
In-Between Animation:
Ai Takimoto (Husio Studio)
Akari Takagaki (Madhouse)
Anri Yamazaki (Madhouse)
Ayumi Ishii (Magic Bus)
Chikako Takahashi (Magic Bus)
Eiko Mishima (Madhouse)
Fūka Aieda (Husio Studio)
Fumi Saraya (Madhouse)
Juri Hirosawa (Husio Studio)
Kaori Matsushima (Madhouse)
Kaori Yoshikawa (Husio Studio)
Kaoru Higashiya (Madhouse)
Kazuto Wakayama (Madhouse)
Kyung Min Kim (Husio Studio)
Megumi Tonegawa (Madhouse)
Mei Yamaguchi (Magic Bus)
Miyuki Nagata (Madhouse)
Mutsumi Sasano (Magic Bus)
Naoko Minai (Madhouse)
Nozomu Kuwashima (Magic Bus)
Risae Fujita (Madhouse)
Sai Yamaguchi (Madhouse)
Sayo Endo (Magic Bus)
Shiomi Yamada (Madhouse)
Taihei Nagai (Magic Bus)
Tetsu Chuumei (Magic Bus)
Yui Akiyama (Husio Studio)
Yuki Sato (Madhouse)
Key Animation:
Ah Ra Joe (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 3)
Ai Ishimori (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Ai Yamazaki (eps 2, 6, 10)
Ai Yokoyama (OP)
Akane Ōguchi (ep 11)
Akihiro Fukui (ep 2)
Akiko Asaki (OP; ep 7)
Akiko Imano (ep 4)
Asami Aida (Anitus Kobe; eps 3, 8)
Asuka Kurokawa (eps 2, 6, 10)
Atsuko Abe (Anitus Kobe; ep 3)
Atsuko Yamazaki (eps 4, 12)
Atsushi Shibata (ep 9)
Aya Sonoda (ep 6)
Ayako Karatani (ep 4)
Ayumi Ishii (eps 2, 6, 10)
Chiaki Abe (ep 10)
Chuji Nakajima (eps 5-6, 9)
Emi Honda (ep 7)
Emi Sakamoto (eps 4, 7, 11-12)
Eri Tokugawa (ep 2)
Eriko Haga (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Erina Oshima (ep 2)
Etsuko Kawano (ep 11)
Geum-soo Kim (OP; eps 1, 4, 11)
Hajime Matsuzaki (eps 3, 8)
Hanae Uraoka (Anitus Kobe; eps 3, 8)
Hayato Torii (Anitus Kobe; ep 3)
Hidehiko Sawada (ep 1)
Hideyuki Sugiura (eps 5, 9)
Hirohide Shikishima (eps 2, 10)
Hirokazu Ishino (ep 3)
Hiromi Nanbe (eps 4, 7, 12)
Hiroshi Okubo (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Hiroyoshi Iida (eps 3, 8)
Hiroyuki Terada (ep 9)
Ikumi Oka (eps 1, 7)
Ippei Masui (eps 6, 10)
Jae Ho Lee (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 3)
Jeong Ri Han (eps 4, 11-12)
Jun Kawai (ep 3)
Junpei Matsumoto (ep 9)
Kahoru Hirata (ep 11)
Kanade Watanabe (ep 4)
Katsumasa Yokomine (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Katsuyuki Sato (eps 3, 8)
Kazumasa Takeuchi (ep 3)
Kazunori Shibata (ep 5)
Kazuya Miyoshi (OP; ep 12)
Keiichi Honda (ep 12)
Keiko Kitayama (eps 6, 10)
Keiko Tomita (ep 7)
Kenji Shibata (ep 5)
Kim Pil-Gang (eps 1, 7)
Kōji Ōdate (OP; eps 1, 12)
Kōta Sera (eps 5, 9)
Kunihiko Hamada (OP)
Kyohei Ohyabu (eps 5, 9)
Kyong Woon Kim (eps 2, 6)
Mai Sakamoto (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Makoto Takahoko (eps 2, 6)
Mami Takino (eps 1, 4, 11)
Mariko Iwasaki (ep 7)
Masahiko Sasaki (eps 11-12)
Masahiro Shigemoto (eps 3, 8)
Masahiro Yoshisaki (ep 9)
Masakazu Yamazaki (ep 2)
Masaki Hyuga (ep 1)
Masao Ohashi (eps 5, 9)
Masaru Kanemori (ep 5)
Masayasu Yoshida (ep 5)
Maya Uenishi (eps 5, 9)
Mei Yamaguchi (ep 6)
Michiko Takahashi (ep 7)
Michinori Shiga (ep 7)
Michio Satô (eps 11-12)
Miho Kato (OP; eps 4, 7, 11-12)
Miho Kawasaki (eps 2, 6, 10)
Minami Yoshida (ep 1)
Minefumi Harada (eps 2, 6, 10)
Mitsuki Kosaka (ep 10)
Momoka Komatsu (ep 5)
Momoko Maehara (ep 1)
Momoko Nagakawa (ep 10)
Motoaki Satou (ep 10)
Mutsumi Sasahara (ep 10)
Nahoko Takada (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Naoki Okada (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Noboru Kawamori (ep 9)
Nobuhiro Mutō (ep 1)
Nobuko Sugino (OP; 5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 7, 11-12
)

Nobuyoshi Souzaki (ep 5)
Norifumi Kugai (ED; eps 1, 4)
Noriko Ōnishi (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 7, 11-12
)

Noriko Shibata (ep 5)
Nozomi Tachibana (Anitus Kobe; ep 8)
Osamu Nuita (ep 5)
Rie Harada (ep 3)
Rie Ikegami (eps 5, 9)
Rie Tamaki (ep 12)
Rika Satou (ep 2)
Ryōko Tateishi (eps 3, 8)
Ryōta Azuma (OP; eps 1, 7, 12)
Ryuichi Saito (ep 5)
Saeko Ozawa (ep 7)
Sakurako Sagano (eps 2, 6)
Sato Nishina (ep 11)
Satoyuki Hashimoto (ep 4)
Saya Takamatsu (ep 3)
Sayaka Kawai (OP; eps 1, 4, 7, 12)
Sayo Endo (ep 10)
Se-Kwan Choi (eps 4, 11-12)
Shingo Suzuki (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Shinichi Iimura (eps 4-6, 9)
Shinichi Suzuki (ep 6)
Shinichi Wada (ep 5)
Shoji Matsumoto (ep 10)
Shōtarō Shimoda (eps 4, 12)
Shun Takeda (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Takayuki Uchida (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Takuji Yoshimoto (ep 9)
Tatsuya Takahashi (ep 10)
Tetsu Chuumei (ep 10)
Tetsuya Hasegawa (ep 5)
Tomoaki Mimiura (eps 7, 12)
Tomofumi Sakai (ep 2)
Tomoko Sato (eps 6, 10)
Tomoko Sugidomari (ep 11)
Tomomi Yabuki (eps 1, 4, 12)
Tomoyuki Niho (ep 7)
Toru Yoshida (ep 5)
Toshiya Kawano (ep 2)
Wataru Takayasu (ep 3)
Yasue Sosogi (ep 4)
Yasuhiro Aoki (OP)
Yasuhiro Ito (ep 9)
Yasuhiro Saiki (ep 4)
Yoshihiro Maeda (ep 1)
Yoshihiro Nagata (ep 2)
Yoshihiro Taniguchi (ep 5)
Yoshiko Imasato (eps 4, 7, 11)
Yuichi Hirano (ep 4)
Yuji Ito (ep 5)
Yuji Mukoyama (eps 6, 10)
Yūji Wada (eps 6, 9)
Yuka Koiso (eps 1, 11)
Yukari Kobayashi (ep 10)
Yukari Takeuchi (ep 10)
Yuki Kawamura (ep 9)
Yuki Yabuta (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Yukiko Akiyama (OP)
Yukinori Kawamura (ep 9)
Yūko Hariba (GoHands; eps 11-12)
Yumiko Komiyama (ep 6)
Yūri Ichinose (ep 6)
Yuri Takasaki (ep 5)
Yusuke Kamata (ep 5)
Yūsuke Sōen (Anitus Kobe; ep 3)
Yuta Ito (ep 9)
Yutaka Kawai (eps 3, 8)
Yuu Takahashi (eps 1, 7)
Literature Assistance: Hitoshi Nagai
Paint: Hideaki Yanagida (ED)
Photography:
Ayumi Yamaguchi (MAD BOX)
Hiroshi Inoue (MAD BOX)
Minoru Fujita (MAD BOX)
Yasuhiro Asaki (MAD BOX)
Yuki Maruo (MAD BOX)
Yūta Todaka (MAD BOX)
Production Advancement:
Aya Kobayashi (eps 1, 7, 12)
Hiroshi Yonezuka (eps 2, 6, 10)
Midori Kosonoi (ep 11)
Rika Matsushita (ep 5)
Ryō Nishimura (ep 9)
Shōgo Sugano (ep 8)
Yuki Nishibata (ep 4)
Yuki Saito (ep 3)
Production Desk: Takuya Ogawa
Production manager: Emiko Uchimura
Recording Adjustment: Naoya Tanaka
Recording Assistant: Naoki Okabe
Setting Production: Keiko Kose
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Sound Production: Yasuto Nozoe
Special Effects:
Chiyoko Okabe
Kazuhiro Hotchi (eps 3, 8)
Theme Song Composition: Powerless (OP 2)
Theme Song Lyrics: Powerless (OP 2)
Theme Song Performance:
May'n (ED)
Nano (OP)
Kanata Hongou as Ryōta Sakamoto
Suzuko Mimori as Himiko

Ken Narita as Masahito Date
Miyuki Sawashiro as Kōsuke Kira
Rica Fukami as Shiki Murasaki
Toru Ohkawa as Kiyoshi Taira
Yūichi Nakamura as Nobutaka Oda

Ayumi Kida as Yukie Sakamoto
Eiji Miyashita as 04 (Teammate)
Hiroyuki Iwasaki as Yoshioka
Hisao Egawa as Yoshihisa Kira
Issei Futamata as Souchi Natsume
Junji Majima as Hitoshi Kakimoto
Junpei Asashina as Tsuneaki Iida
Mai Toudou as Misako Houjou
Masayoshi Sugawara as 04 (Teammate)
Meijin Takahashi as Takanohashi
Mitsuaki Madono as Hisanobu Sakamoto
Noriko Ueda as Arisa
Sakura Nakamura as Woman (ep 3)
Takaya Kuroda as Masashi Miyamoto
Tooru Nara as Yoshiaki Imagawa
Toru Nakane as Chief Detective (ep 4)
Toshiaki Kageyama as Detective (ep 4)
Yasuhiro Mamiya as Mitsuo Akechi
Yasumichi Kushida as Isamu Kondou
Yōko Hikasa as Hidemi Kinoshita
Yoshihiro Koyanagi as Man (ep 3)
Yukiyo Fujii as Yuki
Yumi Uchiyama as Woman (ep 3)
Yuu Matsumoto as Man (ep 3)
Japanese companies
3D Graphics: Studio Twinkle
Animation Production: Madhouse Studios
Animation Production Assistance:
Husio Studio (eps 3, 8)
Magic Bus (eps 2, 6, 10)
Studio Hibari (eps 5, 9)
Internet Streaming: Niconico
Key Animation:
AI (ep 9)
Anitus Kōbe (eps 3, 8)
ARCTURUS (eps 1, 4)
Big Owl (ep 4)
Def.c (eps 3, 8)
Dr. Movie (eps 1, 4, 7, 11)
drop (ep 9)
GoHands (eps 11-12)
HEBARAKI (ep 4)
Husio Studio (eps 3, 8)
Hyoin Entertainment (eps 3, 8)
J-Cube (ep 2)
Kyung Kang ANIA (eps 1, 7)
Magic Bus Niigata (ep 2)
Meta Studio (ep 6)
Mouse (6 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 7-8, 12
)

Nakamura Production (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 6-7, 10-12
)

Pioneer Production (ep 6)
Seigasha (ep 4)
Studio Cockpit (eps 7, 11)
Studio Hibari (eps 5, 9)
Studio Liberty (eps 6, 10)
Studio Mark (eps 2-8 even)
Synod (ep 10)
TAP (eps 7, 11-12)
Triple A (ep 9)
Wao World (ep 1)
YABES (eps 2, 6, 10)
Literature Assistance: Studio Orphee
Music Production: Flying Dog
Music Production Assistance: Imagine
Photography: MADBOX
Sound Production: Studio Mausu
Title Logo Design: Stereotype
Video Editing: Q-Tec
English staff
English companies
Subtitle Editor: Laura Wyrick
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll (United States, Canada, UK & Eire, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Scandinavia, South Africa)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
English cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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