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Knight Hunters (TV)

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[ adapted from Weiss Kreuz (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Knight Hunters Eternity (TV) (sequel)
    Weiß Kreuz (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Weiß Kreuz (German)
White Cross 
ヴァイスクロイツ (Japanese)
白色十字架 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: adventure, drama
Themes: bishounen
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: These four men, Omi Tsukiyono, Ken Hidaka, Yohji Kudoh, and Aya Fujimiya, are a group of assassins called "Weiß." They cover their operations by working at a flower shop during the day and the basement is their hideout. This is no ordinary group: they kill the murderers, big businessmen, and other assassins that the law cannot touch. Each one is fighting for their own reasons, whether it is revenge or to help a loved one. But they soon realize that there are connections between some of their cases and try to find out what is really going on. They use whatever they can to complete their missions and kill the people that are targeted by Weiß's leader.
Video:
User Ratings: 459 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 28 votes (sub:15, dub:12, ?:1)
 Excellent: 37 votes (sub:29, dub:7, ?:1)
 Very good: 69 votes (sub:50, dub:15, raw:2, ?:1, Por.sub:1)
 Good: 115 votes (sub:84, dub:22, ?:2, Tag.dub:2, raw:2, Fre.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Decent: 68 votes (sub:50, dub:15, Rus.sub:2, ?:1)
 So-so: 38 votes (sub:29, dub:7, Ger.sub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 30 votes (sub:25, dub:4, raw:1)
 Weak: 26 votes (sub:23, dub:1, Rus.sub:1, raw:1)
 Bad: 24 votes (sub:15, dub:8, ?:1)
 Awful: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:2, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 10 votes (sub:8, dub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 1241 users, rank: #496
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.161 (Decent+.16), std. dev.: 2.401, rank: #2904
Weighted mean: 6.075 (Decent+.07), rank: #2934 (seen all: 6.72 / seen some: 4.99 / won't finish: 2.96)
Bayesian estimate: 6.105 (Decent+.10), rank: #2622
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage: 1998-04-09 to 1998-09-30
Opening Theme:
#1: "Velvet Underworld" by Weiß (eps 1-15)
#2: "Piece of Heaven" by Weiß (eps 16-25)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Beautiful Alone" by Weiß (eps 1-15)
#2: "It's too Late" by Weiß (eps 16-25)
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Weiß Kreuz contains 25 normal length episodes, however the last two were broadcast in Japan back to back. Many people consider episodes 24 & 25 to be a single 1-hour episode (meaning that there were only 24 episodes in that case). Media Blasters' US release of Weiß Kreuz treated it as 25 standalone episodes.
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Related releases:
    Knight Hunters - Complete Set Litebox (DVD) 2009-09-22 (from $36.94)
    Weiß Kreuz - Dead Ringer (DVD 1) 2001-10-30 (from $19.99)
    Weiß Kreuz - Lost Boys (DVD 2) 2002-03-26 (from $19.99)
    Weiß Kreuz - Lonely Heart? (DVD 3) 2002-06-25 (from $19.99)
    Weiß Kreuz - Shining Cross (DVD 4) 2002-08-27 (from $19.99)
    Weiß Kreuz - Midnight Finale (DVD 5) 2002-10-29 (from $19.99)
    Weiß Kreuz - Complete DVD Box Set (DVD 1-4) 2003-05-27 (from $60.01)
    Weiß Kreuz - Dead Ringer (Dub.VHS 1) 2001-10-30
    Weiß Kreuz - Lost Boys (Dub.VHS 2) 2002-03-26
    Weiß Kreuz - Lonely Heart? (Dub.VHS 3) 2002-06-25
    Weiß Kreuz - Shining Cross (Dub.VHS 4) 2002-08-27
    Weiß Kreuz - Midnight Finale (Dub.VHS 5) 2002-10-29
    Weiß Kreuz - Dead Ringer (Sub.VHS 1) 2001-10-30
    Weiß Kreuz - Lost Boys (Sub.VHS 2) 2002-03-26
    Weiß Kreuz - Lonely Heart? (Sub.VHS 3) 2002-06-25
    Weiß Kreuz - Shining Cross (Sub.VHS 4) 2002-08-27
    Weiß Kreuz - Midnight Finale (Sub.VHS 5) 2002-10-29

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Kazutoku Tanahashi (ep.17 - 24)
Kiyoshi Egami

Script:
Isao Shizuya
Shigeru Yanagawa
Sukehiro Tomita
Yuji Kawahara

Music:
Kishow Yamanaka
Norimasa Yamanaka

Original author: Takehito Koyasu

Character Design: Tetsuya Yanagisawa

Art director: Takeshi Waki

Director of Photography: Hideo Okazaki

Producer:
Kazuhiko Inomata
Koichi Kikuchi
Tetsuya Watanabe

Animation: Masami Obari (OP)

Editing: Kazuo Inoue

Recording Director: Hiromi Kikuta

Theme Song Performance:
Hiro Yuuki
Shinichiro Miki
Takehito Koyasu
Tomokazu Seki

 

Hiro Yuuki as Omi Tsukiyono

Shinichiro Miki as Youji Kudou

Takehito Koyasu as Ran/Aya Fujimiya

Tomokazu Seki as Ken Hidaka

Hikaru Midorikawa as Schuldig

Nozomu Sasaki as Nagi Naoe

Ryotaro Okiayu as Brad Crawford

Ryusei Nakao as Farfarello

Akemi Okamura as Michiru (ep 1)

Ayako Kawasumi as Sayaka (ep 8)

Eriko Kawasaki as Mika (ep 16)

Fumihiko Tachiki as Botan (eps 16-17)

Hiroko Kasahara as Sakura Tomoe

Junichi Sugawara as
Masatada Kusonoki (ep 3)
Shouta's Father (ep 7)

Juurouta Kosugi as Persia

Keiji Fujiwara as Masafumi Takatori

Kikuko Inoue as
Birman
Kyoko Takaoka

Kotono Mitsuishi as
Asuka Murase
Kyouko (ep 16)

Kouji Ishii as Michio Katou (ep 7)

Mami Horikoshi as Manx

Masaki Aizawa as Hirofumi Takatori

Masako Katsuki as Chizuru Aoi/Hell

Mayumi Iizuka as Kaori

Michiko Neya as Yuriko (ep 5)

Miho Yoshida as Nurse

Miki Itou as
Karen Kitaura
Schoen

Mitsuaki Madono as Akihiko (ep 1)

Naoko Watanabe as Mie Yamada (ep 2)

Norio Wakamoto as Reiji Takatori

Omi Minami as Shouta Sakuma (ep 7)

Rio Natsuki as Maki (ep 3)

Ryûzaburô Ôtomo as Shigemi Yokoo (ep 6)

Shinpachi Tsuji as Midori Hazuki's Father (ep 20)

Takashi Nagasako as Okubo (ep 20)

Takehito Koyasu as Party Guest (ep 11)

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Tetsuya Asada (eps 8-9)

Wataru Takagi as Isao Kawaji (ep 19)

Yasuyuki Kase as
Masato (ep 1)
Shinjiro Yamagami (ep 7)

Yoko Asada as Midori Hazuki (ep 20)

Yui Horie as Aya Fujimiya

Yuji Ueda as Kase Kouichiro

Yuko Mizutani as
Nanami Hibino
Tot

Yuuichi Nagashima as Kondou (ep 10)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Presented By: TMS-Kyokuchi

Production:
ANIMATE
Polygram Japan
TV Tokyo

English staff 
English cast 

Director:
Alexa Zimmerman
Chris Bertolotti
Michael Sinterniklaas

Translation: Julia Rose

Executive producer: John Sirabella

Adaptation:
Alexa Zimmerman
Michael Sinterniklaas

Casting: Jamie McGonnigal

Editing: Beth Salem

Graphic Design: Merideth Mulroney

Mixing:
Chris Bertolotti
Michael Sinterniklaas

Pre-production Assistant: Alexa Zimmerman

Production Assistant: Anna Yamamoto

Production manager: Scott Marchfeld

Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux

 

Brian Morey as Ken Hidaka

Jamie McGonnigal as Omi Tsukiyono

Marc Diraison as Youji Kudou (2nd Voice)

Paul Juhn as Ran/Aya Fujimiya

Robert Larkin as Youji Kudou

Jeff Swarthout as Schuldig

Michael Tremain as Brad Crawford

Patrick Lanczki as Hirofumi Takatori

Rick Mann as Falfarello

A.J. Triano as Akihiro Kimura (ep 1)

Abigail Campbell as
Girl
Mother

Alexa Zimmerman as Person (ep 11)

Alissa Gordon as Ouka

Carolyn Baumler as Hell

Chris Fuller as
Cop
Nagi

Chris Yates as Yamakami

Christopher Yates as Persia

Dannyelle Zywan as Michiru's Girlfriend (ep 1)

David Bruinara as Hiroshi Hirooka

Deborah S. Craig as Shizuka

Dick Bunting as Dr. Yokata

Doug Bost as Katoh

Eva Van Dol as Sayaka

Frank Dowd as
Fisherman
Man

Izetta Fang as Nurse

Jeff Swarthout as
Bad Guy
Specialist

Jeff Ward as
Nakazawa
Newscaster
Sano

John Boy as Jun Yamada (ep 2)

Kaitelin O'Neal as Asuka

Kaitlin O'Neal as
Asuka
Omi (Young)

Katie Adams as Sakura Tamara

Kevin T. Collins as Masafumi Takatori

Martina Vidmar as
Masaya Hikage
Tamaki Nambara

Michael Pollock as Hiroshi Maeda

Michelle Newman as Shota

Mike Pollock as
Father
Reiji Takatori

Patirck Tansor as Hohara

Patrick Lanczki as Takeda (ep 1)

Patrick Tansor as Commander

Rachael Lillis as
Aya Fujimiya
Michiru Hayasaka (ep 1)
Miyu Yamada (ep 2)
Momoe
Teppei
Tot
Woman

Rachael Lilllis as Girl

Rick Mann as
Cop
Newscaster

Robert Larkin as
Bad Guy
Newscaster

Rutledge Varley as Kase

Shannon Conley as
Maki
Shoen

Sue Gilad as Manx

Suzanne Gilad as Girl

Terri O'Neil as Yuriko Asakawa

Todd Aikens as
Genji Koga
Hisao Katusno
Masataka Kusunoki

Vince Gatton as Masato (ep 1)

English companies 

Distributor: AnimeWorks

Licensed by: Media Blasters

Recording Studio: NYAV Post


German staff 

Translation: Hanne Linde

Executive producer: Marco Stäuble

Editorial:
Marcus Tieschky
Marianne Yamahata
Tobias Hössl

German cast 
(none)
German companies 

Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
IKASU

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Charmaine Cordoviz as Omi Tsukiyono (English Dub)

Montreal Repuyan as Aya Fujimiya

Charmaine Cordoviz as Manx (English Dub)

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster:
GMA Network
Hero

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

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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