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Gasaraki (TV)

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Related anime:
    Gasaraki (manga) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
ガサラキ (Japanese)
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: The Gowa clan seeks to contact a force known only as Gasaraki. This is set amidst a backdrop of war where bipedal combat machines are being used for the first time. The combination of modern war with traditional Japanese values provides a great setting for the conflicts that arise and attempts to take robot animes in a new direction.
User Ratings: 498 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:9, Spa.sub:1, dub:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 53 votes (sub:31, dub:18, Spa.sub:3, ?:1)
 Very good: 96 votes (sub:46, dub:44, raw:3, ?:2, edit.dub:1)
 Good: 120 votes (sub:70, dub:45, ?:2, Spa.sub:2, Spa.dub:1)
 Decent: 76 votes (sub:52, dub:20, edit.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 50 votes (sub:26, dub:21, ?:1, raw:1, Por.sub:1)
 Not really good: 28 votes (sub:15, dub:9, ?:2, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Weak: 38 votes (sub:21, dub:15, Por.sub:2)
 Bad: 15 votes (sub:8, dub:6, Spa.sub:1)
 Awful: 7 votes (sub:5, Spa.dub:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1091 users, rank: #559
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.373 (Decent+.37), std. dev.: 2.0684, rank: #2641
Weighted mean: 6.353 (Decent+.35), rank: #2588 (seen all: 6.69 / seen some: 5.82 / won't finish: 3.29)
Bayesian estimate: 6.376 (Decent+.37), rank: #2306
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage:
1998-10-04 to 1999-03-28
2002-07-02 to 2005-05-30 (Locomotion Latin America)
2006-12-14 (Spain, Cuatroº)
Opening Theme:
"Message #9" by Tomoko Tane
Ending Theme:
"Love Song" by Tomoko Tane
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Related reviews:
    Gasaraki DVD 8 - To Be A Kai
    Gasaraki DVD 7 - In The Spider's Web
    Gasaraki DVD 6 - Fires of War

Related releases:
    Gasaraki - The Summoning (DVD 1) 2000-09-26 (from $4.00)
    Gasaraki - The Circle Opens (DVD 2) 2000-11-28 (from $23.98)
    Gasaraki - Betrayal (DVD 3) 2001-01-23 (from $4.00)
    Gasaraki - From the Ashes (DVD 4) 2001-05-01 (from $23.98)
    Gasaraki - Revelations (DVD 5) 2001-05-22
    Gasaraki - Fires of War (DVD 6) 2001-09-25 (from $23.98)
    Gasaraki - In The Spider's Web (DVD 7) 2001-11-27 (from $10.49)
    Gasaraki - To Be a Kai (DVD 8) 2002-01-29
    Gasaraki [Perfect Collection] (DVD 1-8) 2002-08-20
    Gasaraki - Fires of War (Dub.VHS 6) 2001-09-25
    Gasaraki - In The Spider's Web (Dub.VHS 7) 2001-11-27
    Gasaraki - To Be a Kai (Dub.VHS 8) 2002-01-29

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Ryousuke Takahashi

Screenplay: Toru Nozaki

Storyboard: Shukou Murase

Music: Kuniaki Haishima

Original creator:
Hajime Yatate
Ryousuke Takahashi

Character Design: Shukou Murase

Art director: Shigemi Ikeda

Animation director: Keichi Watanabe

Mecha design:
Shinji Aramaki
Yutaka Izubuchi

Sound director: Yasuo Uragami

Director of Photography: Hiroshi Toki

Producer:
Eiji Kanaoka (TV Osaka)
Fumikuni Furusawa (Sunrise)
Kazunori Takagi (Yomiko)
Tsunetoshi Koike (Bandai)

Animation:
Chizuko Iwasa
Hatsue Nakayama
Hiromi Funazu
Miiko Adachi
Shinya Yoshidome
Tomie Kamiyama

Assistant director: Goro Taniguchi

Background Art:
Eiko Shinozaki
Masaki Kato
Mayumi Okawa
Takahiro Ogura
Tetsuhito Shimono
Yasuomi Kishi
Yoichi Yajima

CG Production:
Hiroshi Furuhashi
Makoto Takakura
Masayoshi Morita
Michiko Toda

Character Animation Director: Tatsufumi Tamagawa

Color Coordination: Reiko Iwasawa

Color setting: Junko Sasaki

Design Work:
Katsutoshi Sugai
Shingo Takeba
Takashi Hyoudo
Takuya Suzuki
Tatsuya Suzuki

Digital Painting:
Akiko Doi
Yoshiki Ito

Editing: Tomoaki Tsurubuchi

Ending Animation Director: Tsukasa Dokite

Ending Animation Storyboards: Tsukasa Dokite

Ending Key Animation: Tsukasa Dokite

Finishing:
Keiichi Funada
Makiko Kawabata
Shizuka Ishitoya
Tomoko Saito
Yuko Ota

Guest Character Design: Atsushi Yamagata

Key Animation:
Hiromi Naganawa
Kazufumi Takano
Ken Ootsuka
Seiichi Nakatani
Sumishi Aran
Takashi Hyoudo
Takuya Suzuki
Tatsufumi Tamagawa
Tatsuya Suzuki
Tomoaki Kado
Toru Yoshida
Yasushi Muraki

Main Title Logo Design: Yoko Shindo

Mechanical animation director: Satoshi Shigeta

Music Composition: Kuniaki Haijima

Opening Animation Director:
Hideki Okamoto
Takuya Suzuki
Tatsuya Suzuki

Opening Animation Storyboards:
Satoshi Shigeta
Shinji Aramaki

Opening Key Animation:
Satoshi Shigeta
Seiichi Nakatani
Shinji Takeuchi
Shukou Murase
Toru Yoshida
Yooichi Ueda

Photography:
Hidekatsu Ooishi
Hiroshi Fukuda
Mitsugu Hatori
Nobumasa Hanai
Satoru Ichikawa
Takushi Kawashima

Planning Manager: Koutaro Nakayama

Planning Producer:
Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Shinichiro Kobayashi

Production Assistant: Keiji Shimonura

Production Coordination: Katsuyoshi Kishi

Production Office Manager: Toshiko Kurosawa

Publicity Manager:
Hiroshi Oike
Shin Sasaki

Setting Production: Seigo Nogiwa

Sound Editor: Hiroaki Uchiyama

Sound Effects: Masahiro Shoji

Sound Producer: Yuko Sakurai

Special Effects: Yutaka Hoshiba

Theme Song Composition:
Akino Arai (ED)
Hisaaki Hogari (OP)

Theme Song Performance: Tomoko Tane

Video Editing: Minoru Yamate

 

Mami Kingetsu as Miharu

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Yushiro Gowa

Aya Hisakawa as Newscaster

Hirohiko Kakegawa as Yorimitsu Minamoto

Hiroshi Naka as
Kou
Shibasaki Major

Issei Miyazaki as
Einyo
F

Isshin Chiba as Kiyoharu Gowa

Junichi Sugawara as Nozomi Takayama

Kazuhiro Nakata as Takuma Tokudaiji

Kenichi Ogata as bonze

Kinryuu Arimoto as
elder
Yoshitake Gowa

Kouichi Toochika as
Journalist A
Symbol operator

Kunihiko Yasui as Tamotsu Hayakawa

Masaharu Satou as Krause

Minami Takayama as Rin Ataka

Narumi Hidaka as
Kahoru Kaburagi
Mitomi Watanabe

Natsuo Tokuhiro as Shoukan

Nobuo Tobita as Journalist C

Nobutoshi Hayashi as
Newscaster
Takurou Suemi

Sakura Tange as Sunao Murai

Satomi Koorogi as Misuzu Gowa

Seiko Fujiki as Yukino Gowa

Shingo Hiramori as Akihiro Hirokawa

Shinpachi Tsuji as Ronald Feigan

Sho Hayami as Kiyotsugu Gowa

Takehiro Koyama as Daizaburo Gowa

Tetsuo Komura as US President

Tetsuya Iwanaga as
follower
Journalist B
Kazushi Kitazawa
Speaker

Tokuhiro Natsuo as Meth

Toru Ohkawa as
Gowa operator
Kiou Watanabe
Kiyomu Yonetani
Takeharu Gowa
Tatsumi Wakisaka

Toshihiko Nakajima as
Colonel Stilbanov
Lee

Toshiyuki Morikawa as
Colonel Ohkawa
General Kuwajima
Operator
Won

Unshou Ishizuka as Prime Minister

Wakana Yamazaki as Ishtar pilot (ep 10)

Wataru Takagi as Symbol chief researcher

Yoshino Takamori as Empress

Yousuke Akimoto as Sorachi Genjyo

Yukimasa Kishino as
defense official (ep 3)
Kei Nishida

Yukitoshi Hori as Brigadier General Dole

Yuuji Takada as
Kazukiyo Gowa
Tsuna Watanabe

Yuzuru Fujimoto as Giichirou Gowa

Japanese companies 

Backgrounds: Atelier Musa

Broadcaster: Animax

CG Production: MI

Film Processing: Tokyo Laboratory

Finish Animation:
Hoshiyama Planning
Studio Bogy
Studio Om

Opening Key Animation: AD Cosmo

Photography: Asahi Production

Planning: Sunrise

Production:
Bandai Visual
Sunrise
TV Osaka
Yomiko Advertising, Inc.

Recording Studio: A.P.U Studio

Sound Production: Audio Planning U

special effects: Sunrise D.I.D.

Titles: Maki Productions

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Matt Greenfield

Art director:
Andy Orjuela
Laura Attwell
Ruby Halipoto

Translation: Dan Kanemitsu

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Sharon Papa

Producer: Matt Greenfield

ADR Recording Engineer: Christopher Bourque

Editing:
David Grundy
Jay Charean
Joey Goubeaud

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Logo Design:
Hiroko Fukumori
Jason Remmert

Production Assistant:
Akiko Yoshii
Andrew Kent
Hiroko Fukumori
Kelly Beard
Maki Nagano
Masami Takahashi
Miyuki Kamiya
Shoko Oono

Production Coordination: Janice Williams

Production manager: Lisa J. Miller

Production Secretary: Anna Bechtol

Promotion: Rod Peters

Sound Design:
Brent Marshall
Paul Killam

Subtitle Script & Timing: William McBee

Chris Patton as Yushiro Gowa

Monica Rial as Miharu

Andrew Klimko as
Gowa Operator
Jun Kitazawa
Kiyouwakai Traitor
Monk
US Fake Pilot 2
Watanabe Clan

Andy McAvin as
Kazukiyo Gowa
Watanabe

Bill Ross as Newscaster

Bob Biggerstaff as
Anchorman A
Gowa Operator
Journalist
Major Shibasaki
Newscaster
Taniguchi
Watanabe Clan

Bob Elliot as
Man In Suit 4
Old Husband
Prime Minister
Tank Crew

Brett Weaver as Kiyoharu Gowa

C. Markham Anderson as
Kiyomu Yonetani
Symbol Commander
Symbol Operator

Carol Matthews as
Journalist
News Anchor
Newscaster

Chris Hawley as
Belgistan Soldier
Tank Crew

Christine M. Auten as
Empress
Symbol Pilot

David LeMaster as
Gowa Scientist
Man In Uniform 1
PM Secretary
Special Services
Staff Officer Hoightman
Symbol Officer
Symbol Sub Captain
Watanabe Clan

Dean Turner as
Lee
Secretary of Commerce

Donnie Marion as
General Krause
Gowa Operator

Heather Bryson as
Kahoru Kaburagi
Mitomi Watanabe

Hilary Haag as Misuzu Gowa

Hunter Stuart as Battalion Commander

Illich Guardiola as
Einyo
F/Phantom
Journalist

James Bates as
Belgistan Soldier
Tank Crew

James Marshall as
Butler
Controller
Crew Leader
Driver
Gowa Man In Black
Gowa Operator
Gowa Operator A
Operator A
Platoon Commander
TA Pilot
Tank Crew
Watanabe Clan

Jason Douglas as
Kiyotsugu Gowa
Watanabe Clan

Jason Remmert as
Belgistan Soldier
Tank Crew

Jay Hickman as
Akihiro Hirokawa
Gowa Operator
Guide
Journalist
News Anchor
Tank Crew
Tank Gunner
Watanabe Clan

Jennifer K. Earhart as Sunao Murai

John Gremillion as
Captain Raiko
Tamotsu Hayakawa

John Kaiser as
Elder Fan
General Wayne
Journalist
Man in Uniform 2
Secretary of Defense
Symbol Leader
Tank Crew

John Swasey as
Colonel Stilbanov
General
IFV Platoon Commander
Kei Nishida
Man In Suit 2
Older Cop
Ronald Feigan
Transport Pilot
Watanabe Clan
Yoshitake Gowa

Kelly Manison as
Journalist
Rin Ataka
Watanabe Clan

Kevin Charles as
Newscaster
Takuma Tokudaiji
Watanabe Clan

Kevin Hinnant as Belgistan Soldier

Kevin Honig as Kuwajima

Larry Koteff as Belgistan Soldier

Laura Chapman as Yukino Gowa

Lew Temple as Crew

Marcy Bannor as Old Wife

Mark X. Laskowski as
Battalion Executive Officer
Cameraman
Gowa Operator

Matt Greenfield as
Belgistan Soldier
Gowa Operator B
Newscaster
Recovery Team
Symbol Operator
TA Pilot
Tank Crew
Watanabe Clan

Melinda DeKay as Mrs. Lee

Mike Honig as Kuwajima (eps 10-12)

Mike Kleinhenz as
Meth
Nozomi Takayama
Regent

Mike MacRae as
Helicopter Pilot
US Fake Control
USSF Commander

Mike Vance as
U.S. President
Won

Nathan Segrest as US Fake Control

Phil Ross as
Master Sorachi
Minister Of Justice
News Anchor
Newscaster
Watanabe Clan

Ralph Ehntholt as
Brigadier General Dole
Colonel Stilbanov II
Giichirou Gowa
Gunther
Symbol Chief Researcher
Watanabe Clan

Randy Sparks as
Symbol Support
Takuro Suemi
US Fake Tech
Watanabe Clan
Younger Cop

Rick Peeples as Tatsumi Wakisaka

Rob Bundy as
Kiou Watanabe
News Director
Operative

Rob Mungle as Takeharu Gowa

Robert Anderson as US Fake Control

Shelton Alsup as US Base Commander

Stacey Tate as
CC Operator
US Fake Control

Sue Ulu as Secretary

Ted Pfister as
Daizaburo Gowa
Elder
Tank Crew

Tiffany Grant as Reporter

Vic Mignogna as
Colonel Okawa
Engineer
Ishtar Pilot
US Fake Pilot 1
Watanabe Clan

Victor Carsrud as
Geki Shimomura
Man In Suit 1
MARS - Alpha 8
News Anchor
Presidential Aide
Right Wing Radical
Symbol Branch Officer
Symbol Co-Pilot
Symbol Operator
Watanabe Clan

Adam Taylor

Brian Thornton

Darien Lynx

David Williams

Don'l Johnson

James Burke

Paul Locklear

Robert Vellani

Rod Peters

The Foley Gang

English companies 

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor:
ADV Films (UK) (UK)
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

DVD Authoring:
Cinram/POP DVD Center
ImageSource

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

Recording Studio: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors


French staff 
(none)
French companies 

Distributor: Dybex

French cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster:
Cuatro (Spain)
Locomotion

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

Spanish cast 
(none)
Portuguese staff 
Portuguese companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Locomotion Brazil (Subbed)

Portuguese cast 
(none)
 
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