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Stratos 4 (TV)

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Related anime:
    Stratos 4 (OAV) (sequel)
      Stratos 4 Advance (OAV) (sequel)
        Stratos 4 Advance Kanketsuhen (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
ストラトス・フォー (Japanese)
星空防衛隊 (Chinese (Taiwan))
스트라토스 4 (Korean)
Themes: military
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary:
The Earth has a defense system against large meteorites that are in collision course to it. This protection system has the Comet Blasters based in space stations as a 1st line of defense, using nuclear warheads lauched by spaceships. The 2nd line of defense are the Meteor Swepers based on ground airbases using hipersonic planes with special missiles to deal with the resulting debris from the 1st blasts. Mikaze is a troubled girl that is a trainee pilot for Meteor Sweper team that dreams to become a prestigious Comet Blaster pilot. Stratos 4 turns around Mikaze's and her teammates' challenge to become real pilots, while the Earth faces its threats that comes from outerspace.
The Earth has a defense system against large meteorites that are in collision course to it. This protection system has the Comet Blasters based in space stations as a 1st line of defense, using nuclear warheads launched by spaceships. The 2nd line of defense are the Meteor Sweepers based on ground airbases using hypersonic planes with special missiles to deal with the resulting debris from the 1st blasts. Mikaze is a troubled girl that is a trainee pilot for Meteor Sweeper team that dreams to become a prestigious Comet Blaster pilot. Stratos 4 turns around Mikaze's and her teammates' challenge to become real pilots, while the Earth faces its threats that comes from outer space.
User Ratings: 325 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (dub:4, sub:3, raw:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Excellent: 22 votes (sub:12, dub:10)
 Very good: 73 votes (sub:43, dub:25, Spa.dub:2, Dut.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Por.dub:1)
 Good: 107 votes (sub:67, dub:32, Spa.dub:5, Por.dub:1, ?:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 58 votes (sub:45, dub:9, Por.dub:2, Spa.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 20 votes (sub:10, dub:7, Rus.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:10, dub:4, Por.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:2, Spa.dub:1)
 Bad: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:3)
 Awful: 1 vote (Spa.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (dub:2, edit.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 653 users, rank: #882
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.692 (Good-.30), std. dev.: 1.7499, rank: #2185
Weighted mean: 6.612 (Good-.38), rank: #2204 (seen all: 6.94 / seen some: 5.85 / won't finish: 3.94)
Bayesian estimate: 6.638 (Good-.36), rank: #1910
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2003-01-05 to 2003-03-30
2005-08-02 to 2005-09-13 (Latin America Broadcast)
2007-01-06 (Animax Latin America)
Opening Theme:
"1st Priority" by Melocure [Ritsuko Okazaki & Megumi Hinata]
Ending Theme:
#1: "向日葵 (Himawari; Sunflower)" by Melocure (eps 01-12)
#2: "So far, so near" by Melocure (ep 13)
Trivia: We have 11
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Related releases:
    Stratos 4 - Complete Collection (DVD) 2006-03-14 (from $35.98)
    Stratos 4 - Blast Off (DVD 1) 2004-07-27 (from $16.99)
    Stratos 4 - Blast Off + Artbox (Limited) (DVD 1) 2004-07-27 (from $6.00)
    Stratos 4 - Turbulence (DVD 2) 2004-09-28 (from $21.59)
    Stratos 4 - Contact (DVD 3) 2004-10-26 (from $17.06)
    Stratos 4 - Interception (DVD 4) 2004-12-14 (from $17.68)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takeshi Mori

Script: Katsuhiko Takayama

Music: Masamichi Amano

Character Design: Noriyasu Yamauchi

Chief Animation Director: Noriyasu Yamauchi

Mechanical design:
Noriyasu Yamauchi
Tomohiro Kawahara

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Toru Fukushi

3D CG Supervision:
Hiroaki Matsuura
Tomohiro Kawahara

Color Coordination: Osamu Mikasa

Planning:
Hiro Maeyama
Kazumi Kawashiro
Tomohisa Itsuka

Series Story Editor: Katsuhiko Takayama

Theme Song Arrangement: Junjirou Seki (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Megumi Hinata
Ritsuko Okazaki (ED2)

Theme Song Performance:
Megumi Hinata (Melocure)
Ritsuko Okazaki (Melocure)

 

Fumiko Orikasa as Karin Kikuhara

Kaori Shimizu as Shizuha Doi

Shiho Kikuchi as Ayamo Nakamura

Yumi Kakazu as Mikaze Honjo

Hideki Tasaka as Tsubasa Miyazaki

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Sora Ikeda

Kouji Tsujitani as Kazuma Iwasaki

Mitsuo Iwata as Kouichirou Sako

Sayaka Ohara as Sayaka Kisaragi

Tomokazu Seki as Kei Fujitani

Akeno Watanabe as ST operator C

Akiko Hiramatsu as Chizuru Kubo

Akio Ohtsuka as Inquisitor

Fumihiko Tachiki as Shizuha's father (ep 8)

Haruhi Terada as ST operator B

Hikaru Miyata as Ayamo's father (ep 8)

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Mania #1

Hisako Kyouda as Rin Mikuriya

Houchu Ohtsuka as Inspector (eps 12-13)

Kaho Kouda as Sayaka's mother (ep 8)

Kaori Mizuhashi as ST operator A

Keiko Konno as Ayamo's mother (ep 8)

Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as
Mania #3
Mikaze's father

Kujira as
Boss cat (ep 6)
Chief chef (ep 6)

Kunihiko Yasui as PR officer (ep 10)

Masato Amada as Mania #2

Mayumi Asano as
Alice Mikuriya
Mikaze's mother

Megumi Toyoguchi as Annette Kerry

Michihiro Ikemizu as Inquisitor

Michiko Neya as Ran Mikuriya

Misa Kimura as Shimojijima operator (Touko Mukai)

Satsuki Yukino as Betty Bozeman

Sawa Ishige as Kitten (Shougun "General" Iwasaki)

Tetsuo Mizutori as Patrol boat captain (ep 12)

Tomohisa Asou as Inquisitor

Toshiyuki Takahashi as Mania #4

Yasuyuki Kase as Tsubasa's father (ep 8)

Yoko Sasaki as Ayamo's brother (ep 8)

Yoko Soumi as Miharu Ohzora

Yousuke Akimoto as Robert Reynold

Yuji Mikimoto as Examiner (ep 12)

Yuki Masuda as Mikaze's sister (ep 8)

Yuu Asakawa as Chris Calman

Japanese companies 

3D Graphics: SANZIGEN Animation Studio

Broadcaster:
Bandai Channel
TV Saitama

Production:
Bandai Visual
Columbia Music Entertainment
Studio Fantasia


English staff 

Translation: Lucan Duran

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer:
Mike Eckart
Rod Boaz

5.1 Surround Mix:
Bobby Owsinski
Mike Eckart

Associate producer: Grant Yamagashi

Cheif Producer: Charles McCarter

Dialogue Editing: Mike Eckart

Production Assistant:
Stephanie Fernandez
Tatsuhiro Nishiuchi

Production manager: Elisa Dease

Re-recording:
Bobby Owsinski
Mike Eckart

Recording engineer:
Daniel Powell
John Heirsekorn
Marcus Junkin

Script Adaptation: Steve Ohno

Series Producer: Richard Noboru Kekahuna

Subtitling: Riki Le Cotey

Voice Direction: Steve Ohno

English cast 

Elisa Fiorillo as Ayamo Nakamura

Lisa Enochs as Shizuha Doi

Rachel Kempel as Mikaze Honjyo

Stacey Q as Karin Kikuhara

Greg Lastrapes as Kazuma Iwasaki

Michael-Ann Rowe as Sayaka Kisaragi

Thomas Scofield as Kei Fujitani

Alla Kardot as Betty Boozeman

Carrie Goldon as Ran Mikiura 

Carrie Gordon as Ran Mikuriya

Chris Ogden as Sora Ikeda

Debbie Grattan as Rin Mikiura

Devin Kamin as Tsubasa Miyasawa

Jimmy Keegan as Otaku #2

Laurel Hatfield as Annette Keily

Leisa Jo Waller as Miharu Ohzora

Lou Savage as Commander

Mayumi Asano as Alice Mikuriya/Admiral

Melissa Saltzman as Chris Calman

Milton Lawrence as
Kouichiro Sako
Otaku #4

Ronnie Rowe as Otaku #3

Sara Sido as Chizuru Ookubo 

Sarah Sido as Chizuru Ookubo

Thomas Shelton as Otaku #1

Tiffany as Mikaze's Sister

English companies 

ADR Production: Elastic Media Corporation

Broadcaster: Animax Asia

Distributor: Beez (UK)

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

Korean staff 
Korean companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Animax Korea

Korean cast 
(none)

Spanish cast 
Spanish staff 
(none)

Anabella Silva as Karin Kikuhara

Yensi Rivero as Shizuha Doi

Citlalli Godoy as Commander

Maite Guedes as Ayamo Nakamura

Melanie Henriquez as Mikaze Honjo

Mercedes Prato as Operator

Nour Da Silva as Ran Mikuriya

Rolman Bastidas as Student

Ruben Leon as Kouichirou Sako

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Animax Latin America


Dutch staff 

Translation:
Aleksandar Jankovic
Jelle de Swert

Script Check: Willem Keessen

Dutch cast 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Nekotachi Entertainment

Subtitles: TVS - Titra Film

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 
(none)
 

Fátima Silva as Ayamo Nakamura

Luciana Baroli as Shizuha Doi

Tânia Gaidarji as Karin Kikuhara

Tatiane Keplermaier as Mikaze Honjo

Hermes Baroli as Kazuma Iwasaki

Márcio Araújo as Tsubasa Miyazaki

Marli Bortoleto as Sayaka Kisaragi

Ulisses Bezerra as Sora Ikeda

Afonso Amajones as Kouichirou Sako

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax (Brasil)
Animax Brazil (Dubbed)

Dubbing Studio: Álamo


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

Licensed by: Power International Multimedia Inc.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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