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Yamibo - Darkness, the Hat, and the Travelers of the Books (TV)

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Alternative title:
Darkness, the Hat, and the Travelers of the Books
Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito (Japanese)
Yamibō (Japanese)
ヤミと帽子と本の旅人 (Japanese)
闇與帽子與書的旅人 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: yuri
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Eve is one of the caretakers of the Great Library, a repository containing all of the worlds in the universe within books. Each episode of "Yamibou" details another one of Eve's lives among the many worlds and follows the adventures of Hatsuki, Lilith, Gargantua and others in search of the girl whom they've known by different names.
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User Ratings: 737 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 55 votes (sub:52, raw:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 158 votes (sub:151, dub:2, raw:1, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Very good: 174 votes (sub:167, raw:3, dub:1, ?:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
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 Good: 112 votes (sub:103, raw:2, dub:1, others:6
2 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 100 votes (sub:95, raw:1, dub:1, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 51 votes (sub:50, dub:1)
 Not really good: 33 votes (sub:32, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Weak: 26 votes (sub:25, dub:1)
 Bad: 15 votes (sub:14, ?:1)
 Awful: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:6, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 1223 users, rank: #988 (of 10072)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.122 (Good), std. dev.: 2.097, rank: #3373 (of 10256)
Weighted mean: 7.061 (Good), rank: #3420 (of 10256) (seen all: 7.26 / seen some: 5.57 / won't finish: 3.79)
Bayesian estimate: 7.068 (Good), rank: #3232 (of 7745)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2003-10-02 to 2003-12-25
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Hitomi no Naka no Meikyū" (瞳の中の迷宮) by Aiko Kayo
Ending Theme:
#1: "Eien no Inori o Sasagete" (永遠の祈りを捧げて) by Sanae Kobayashi (eps 1-12)
#2: "Hitomi no Naka no Meikyū" (瞳の中の迷宮) by Aiko Kayo (ep 13)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Based on an adventure videogame.
Review:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Yamibo - Darkness, the Hat, and the Travelers of the Books - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2019-03-26 (from $28.90)
DVD (Region 1)
    Yamibo - Darkness, the Hat, and the Travelers of the Books: Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2016-03-31 (from $22.20)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yuji Yamaguchi
Series Composition: Tomomi Mochizuki
Script:
Hideki Shirane (eps 5, 8-9)
Rika Nakase (eps 3-4, 9-12)
Tomomi Mochizuki (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6-7, 11, 13
)
Toshifumi Kawase (eps 1-2)
Storyboard:
Harume Kosaka (eps 3-4)
Hideyo Yamamoto (eps 6, 12)
Hirofumi Ogura (ep 9)
Hisashi Tokushima (ep 5)
Itsurō Kawasaki (eps 7, 10-11)
Junji Nishimura (eps 1-2)
Kooji Kobayashi (eps 8-9)
Toshifumi Kawase (ep 13)
Toshiya Niidome (eps 10-11)
Yasuhiro Minami (eps 3, 8)
Yuji Yamaguchi (eps 1, 3, 10-11)
Episode Director:
Harume Kosaka (ep 4)
Hideki Okamoto (eps 7, 13)
Satoshi Toba (ep 10)
Shunji Yoshida (ep 5)
Teruo Sato (eps 2, 6, 11)
Yasuhiro Minami (eps 3, 8, 12)
Yuji Yamaguchi (ep 1)
Music: Akifumi Tada
Original Character Design: Carnelian (ROOT)
Character Design: Asako Nishida
Art Director:
Shin Watanabe
Toshihisa Koyama
Chief Animation Director: Asako Nishida
Animation Director: Kyuta Sakai
Sound Director: Kōji Tsujitani
Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondō
Producer:
Nobumitsu Urasaki (Studio DEEN)
Yoshito Takaya (avex)
Yūichirō Takahata (avex)

Color Coordination: Shinji Matsumoto
Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
General Producer: Takayuki Nagasawa
Key Animation:
Junko Matsushita (eps 7, 11)
Kyōko Sugiyama (ep 4)
Masaharu Morinaka (ep 9)
Motoki Yagi (eps 3, 9)
Ryuji Tsuzuku (eps 8, 12)
Takeshi Yoshioka (eps 8, 13)
Tetsuya Takeuchi (eps 3, 8)
Yoshiaki Taniguchi (eps 1, 4, 9)
Planning: Takayuki Nagasawa
Production Supervision: Hiroshi Hasegawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Orie Kajiyama (ED)
Sho Goshima (ED)
Theme Song Composition:
ats- (OP)
Cher Watanabe (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Keiko Kimoto (ED)
Kenn Kato (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Aiko Kayo (OP)
Sanae Kobayashi (ED)
Ai Shimizu as Hatsumi Azuma
Mamiko Noto as Hazuki Azuma
Reiko Takagi as Ken-chan
Sanae Kobayashi as Lilith

Ai Shimizu as
Fuji-Hime (eps 8-9)
Jill (ep 3)
Kogechibi
Aiko Kayo as Layla Mars (eps 10-11)
Fumihiko Tachiki as Nyuruju
Hideyuki Tanaka as Kazuo Saiga (eps 1-2)
Hiroko Kasahara as
Mariel-hime (ep 4)
Mau (eps 10-12)
Jun Fukuyama as
Aya
Narration
Kikuko Inoue as Ritsuko
Kyōko Hikami as
Meirin (eps 8-9)
Tamamo no Mae (eps 10-12)
Maria Yamamoto as Kuiru (ep 5)
Miyu Matsuki as Milka (eps 6-7)
Rie Kanda as Seiren
Romi Park as Gargantua (young)
Sayaka Ōhara as Yoko Sumeragi (eps 1-2)
Shinichirō Miki as Gargantua
Tadahisa Saizen as Gorilla
Takashi Nagasako as Buran

Akeno Watanabe as Kunoichi Suzaku (eps 8-9)
Ako Mayama as Susanna (ep 3)
Eriko Kawasaki as Layla's mother (eps 10-11)
Fumihiko Tachiki as
Jinnai Kuroda (eps 8-9)
Yuri Nasduskii (eps 1-2)
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Dadan Vartaniev (eps 1-2)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kohtaro Nanbu (eps 1-2)
Ikuya Sawaki as Deputy intelligence director (ep 1)
Jun Fukuyama as Ryuken Kishima (eps 8-9)
Junko Noda as Ramuro Rain (eps 10-11)
Mari Yokoo as Nanny (ep 4)
Masaru Ikeda as King (ep 4)
Megumi Nasu as
Ei Eden (eps 10-11)
Emilia (ep 3)
Maid (ep 8)
Mikako Takahashi as Voice of the letter (ep 7)
Osamu Ichikawa as Retsudou Shiranui (eps 8-9)
Ritsuo Sawa as Elder (ep 5)
Tadahisa Saizen as
Baro (ep 3)
Doctor (ep 4)
Military police soldier (ep 1)
Yatarou Akaishi (eps 8-9)
Takashi Nagasako as
Conductor (eps 1-2)
Kansuke Yatsushiro (eps 8-9)
Yukana as Lalah (eps 10-11)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Background Art: Production ai
Broadcaster: Mainichi Broadcasting System
Finish Animation: E-cho
In-Between Animation:
Dōga Kōbō
E-cho
Key Animation:
AD Cosmo (ep 9)
Anime House (ep 12)
Last House (ep 6)
Mook Animation (ep 3)
Nakamura Production (6 episodes
eps 2, 4-5, 7, 10, 12
)
Satelight (ep 6)
Studio Liberty (eps 4, 9)
Studio Wanpack (eps 2, 7, 11)
Original Creator: Orbit Co., Ltd.
Photography: Megumi
Production:
avex entertainment
Studio DEEN
English staff
English companies
(none)
Broadcaster: TOKU (US - subtitled)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (US and Canada)
Hoopla
Pluto TV (via RetroCrush)
RetroCrush
Tubi TV
Licensed by: Media Blasters
English cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: WAN-MI AV-Arts
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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