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Saiyuki Reload (TV)

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[ sequel of Saiyuki (TV), adapted from Saiyuki Reload (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Saiyuki Gunlock (TV) (sequel)
    Saiyuki Reload: Burial (OAV) (prequel)

Alternative title:
Journey to the West
最遊記 RELOAD (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Priest Genjo Sanzo and companions Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku maintain their westward journey to stop the resurrection of the demon Gyoumao. As the reputation of the Sanzo Ikkou precedes them, they continue to fight demon assassins at every turn, but they must also deal with increasing tensions within their group in order to defeat a powerful enemy.
User Ratings: 474 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 41 votes (sub:29, dub:11, raw:1)
 Excellent: 84 votes (sub:59, dub:23, Spa.sub:1, Tag.dub:1)
 Very good: 108 votes (sub:69, dub:36, raw:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 114 votes (sub:83, dub:28, ?:1, Tag.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Decent: 57 votes (sub:38, dub:18, raw:1)
 So-so: 31 votes (sub:19, dub:12)
 Not really good: 15 votes (sub:8, dub:6, raw:1)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:5, dub:4, raw:1, ?:1)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:3, ?:1, edit.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1301 users, rank: #469
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.243 (Good+.24), std. dev.: 1.9033, rank: #1278
Weighted mean: 7.138 (Good+.13), rank: #1279 (seen all: 7.43 / seen some: 6.65 / won't finish: 3.68)
Bayesian estimate: 7.146 (Good+.14), rank: #1094
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage:
2003-10-02 to 2004-03-25
2005-10-30 to 2006-04-23 (Singapore, Channel U Broadcast)
2006-05-17 (Philippines, GMA 7)
2006-11-08 to 2006-11-17 (USA - Encore Action)
Opening Theme:
"Wild Rock" by BUZZLIP
Ending Theme:
#1: "ID" by flow-war (eps 01-13)
#2: "Fukisusabu Kaze no Naka de" by WAG (eps 14-25)
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Related releases:
    Saiyuki Reload - DVD Box Set (DVD) 2006-10-24 (from $119.99)
    Saiyuki Reload - DVD 1 + Artbox (DVD 1) 2005-02-08 (from $4.66)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 6) 2005-12-27 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 1) 2005-02-08 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 2) 2005-04-26 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 3) 2005-06-28 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 4) 2005-08-23 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 5) 2005-10-25 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload (DVD 7) 2006-02-28 (from $8.00)
    Saiyuki Reload - Anime Manga (GN 1) 2006-07-26

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tetsuya Endo

Scenario:
Miya Asakawa
Nobuaki Yamaguchi
Touko Machida

Storyboard:
Akira Iwanaga (ep 19)
Tetsuya Endo
Toshiyuki Shimazu (ep 18)

Episode Director:
Akira Iwanaga (ep 19)
Takeshi Yamaguchi (ep 17)

Music: Daisuke Ikeda

Original Manga: Kazuya Minekura

Character Design: Noriko Otake

Art director: Mio Ishiki

Animation director: Noriko Otake

Sound director: Tetsuya Endo

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Assistant Art Director: Norihiko Yokomatsu

Background Art:
Hideaki Kita
Hitoshi Nagasaki
Junichi Takayama
Kenta Sawatani
Mariko Nakamura
Mayu Usui
Yuko Kobayashi

Background Production Manager: Minoru Nakamura

Background Scanning:
Kaoru Nagasawa
Kimiko Kojima
Kumiko Kimura
Ruriko Ikejiri
Yuri Shimizu

Color Checker:
Izumi Murasaki
Makiko Yagihashi
Mayumi Nagashima
Tomoe Imamura
Yoshiko Shimizu

Color Coordination: Mika Iwami

Editing: Masahiro Matsumura

Ending Animation Director: Kei Imabayashi

Ending Animation Illustration: Kazuya Minekura

In-Between Animation:
Etsuko Kimura
Mifumi Tomita
Miho Inoue
Mika Ookubo

In-Between Check: Mitsuko Toshima

Key Animation:
Akemi Morita
Atsushi Komori
Atsushi Ogata
Eitaro Abe
Hidehiko Okano
Junko Matsushita
Miki Kato
Ryoji Ikematsu
Sayuri Sugitou
Shinji Saruwatari
Takaaki Chiba
Takashi Kitamura
Takato Fukuyama
Yoko Ono

Photography:
Hiroshi Yoshida
Hisayuki Sadamatsu
Katsuyoshi Kishi
Koichi Gonda
Naohisa Haijima
Norikasu Yamaguchi
Shinji Ikegami
Taro Okuzawa
Tohru Sugawara
Tomohiro Nishiyama
Toshino Yasuo
Yuji Shirai
Yuko Orikasa
Yumiko Morimoto

Production manager: Yasushi Akimoto

Series Story Editor: Tetsuya Endo

Sound Adjustment: Hitoshi Yamada

Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa

Sound Production Manager: Masahiro Tsukada

Sound Recording:
Hiroyuki Shibue
Ryo Tanaka

Special Effects: Kenji Ikeda

Theme Song Arrangement:
Akihito Tokunaga (ED2)
BUZZLIP (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Akihito Tokunaga (ED2)
BUZZLIP (OP)
Showtaro Mitsuzono (ED1)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Shinpei Nozaki (ED1)
U-ka Saegusa (ED2)

Theme Song Performance:
BUZZLIP (OP)
flow-war (ED 1)
WAG (ED2)

 

Akira Ishida as Cho Hakkai

Hiroaki Hirata as Sha Gojyo

Souichiro Hoshi as Son Goku

Toshihiko Seki as Genjo Sanzo

Eisuke Kotanizawa as Hakuryuu (12 episodes

eps 2-8, 10-12, 14-15
)

Juurouta Kosugi as Dokugakuji

Shinobu Satou as
Damaomo-hime
Gyokumen Koushu

Shouto Kashii as Insect-user (ep 2)

Tae Okajima as Hakuryuu (13 episodes

eps 1, 9, 13, 16-25
)

Takeshi Kusao as Kou Gaiji

Tomoko Kawakami as Lirin

Yuko Minaguchi as Yaone

Akimitsu Takase as Father (ep 13)

Atsu Gotou as Souryuu (ep 9)

Atsushi Goto as Soryu

Daisuke Kirii as townsperson (ep 3)

Daisuke Namikawa as Kami-sama (eps 19-25)

Daisuke Ono as Demon (ep 18)

Eiji Hanawa as Giko (ep 11)

Eizou Tsuda as Uncle (ep 1)

Emi Shinohara as Suika (ep. 5- 6)

Haruhi Terada as Minto (ep 13)

Hideo Watanabe as
Ginkaku (eps 17-18)
Youkai (ep 20)

Hiroko Taguchi as Shion (ep 12)

Hiroshi Tsuchida as Barei (ep 3)

Houchu Ohtsuka as
Narrator
Nii Jienyi 
Ukoku, The Sanzo Monk (ep 24)

Ikue Ohtani as Seika

Jun Sagawa as Shunto & Rikito Mother (ep 11)

Junichi Endou as Boss (ep 13)

Juurouta Kosugi as Sha Jien

Kahoru Sasajima as Kouryu (eps 5, 22, 24)

Kan Tanaka as Meichin (ep 8)

Kazumi Okushima as Kensei (ep 9)

Keiji Okuda as Master (ep 17)

Keiko Aizawa as Dr. Huang

Keiko Sonoda as Gojyo's Stepmother (eps 5, 21)

Kenichi Mochizuki as townsperson (ep 3)

Kenji Okuda as Bar Owner (eps 19, 22)

Kiyomi Asai as Yunfa (ep 13)

Masanori Takeda as onsen worker (ep 10)

Masayo Hosono as
Sha Gojyo (child) (eps 5, 21)
young hostess (ep 3)

Mayumi Asano as Anyou (ep 7)

Mayumi Yanagisawa as Seira

Michiko Neya as Kanan (eps 5, 7)

Mie Odagi as Mother (ep 13)

Misato Eguchi as Front Desk Clerk (ep 13)

Mitsuru Miyamoto as Koumiyou Sanzou (eps 5, 22)

Nobuyuki Furuta as Shion's Father (ep 12)

Rei Igarashi as
Kanzeon Bosatsu
Kwannon Bodhisattva

Rumi Ochiai as Kourei (ep 8)

Ruri Asano as
Lin Lan (ep 4)
Suzuran

Sachiko Kojima as Kon

Sanae Kobayashi as
Ginkaku (ep 19)
Kinkaku (eps 17-19)

Shinpachi Tsuji as Instructor Wang

Tae Okajima as
Child (ep 10)
villager (ep2)

Taiki Matsuno as Syotyu

Takao Ishii as Jiroushin

Takashi Mito as Henchman (ep 17)

Takashi Onozuka as Iwayoukai (Rock Demon) (ep 12)

Takio Matsuno as Rampa (ep 4)

Tarusuke Shingaki as Demon (ep 18)

Tomo Shigematsu as Shion's Mother (ep 12)

Tomoyuki Kouno as Thief (ep 13)

Toshihiko Fujita as Wong

Toshiko Fujita as Won (ep 13)

Yayoi Kuroda as Rikito (ep 11)

Youhei Oobayashi as townsperson (ep 3)

Yuko Kaida as Shunto (ep 11)

Yuuji Kishi as Mud User

Yuuko Satou as Kami (as child) (eps 22, 24)

Japanese companies 

Background Art: Studio Wyeth

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Editing Studio: Q Tech

Music: DIMENSION

Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music

Music Production: ZET

Photography: Studio Cosmos

Production:
Dentsu Inc.
Studio Pierrot

Recording Studio:
AMG Studio
KSS Studio

Sound Effects: Sound Box

Sound Production: KSS

English staff 
English cast 

Translation: Shoko Oono

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Kaeko Sakamoto
Sawako Furuya

ADR Writer: Clark Cheng

Assistant Engineer:
Deb Munini
Kevin Patzelt

Assistant producer:
Mami Okada
Sawako Furuya

Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto

Dialogue Editing:
Deb Munini
Patrick Rodman
Sean Thomas Foye

Menu Design: Alexander Blanco

Post-Production Assistant:
Akiteru Adachi
Brent Findley
Brian Becker
Dean Ray Johnson

Production Assistant:
Amy Hirschman
Kristal Harwood
Mark Fujita
Megumi Kunisada
Stephanie Takemoto
Yoshihiro Watanabe

Production Coordination: Megumi Kunisada

Re-Recording Mixing:
Mark Rozett
Patrick Rodman

Recording engineer:
Deb Munini
Jeremy Pitts
Justin Laughlin
Patrick Rodman
Sean Thomas Foye

Spotting:
Addie Akemi Kohzu
Clark Cheng
Tetsuya Fujita

Subtitling:
Craig Walker
Jerome Halligan
May Chan

Supervising Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto

Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman

Voice Direction: Kristi Reed

 

Jimmy Benedict as Son Goku

Lex Lang as Genjo Sanzo

Steve Cannon as Cho Hakkai

Tony Oliver as Sha Gojyo

Yuri Lowenthal as Son Goku

Dave Mallow as Narrator

Kirk Thornton as Ni Jyeni 

Mela Lee as Yaone

Terrence Stone as Kougaji

Wendee Lee as Gyukumen Koushu

Dave Mallow as
Demon
Shikigami User
Thug C

David Orosco as Souryu

David Vincent as Thug

Dorothy Fahn as Stuffed Animal (ep 24)

Doug Erholtz as
Demon
God
Thug (ep 17)

Ethan Murray as Insect User (ep 2)

Francis C. Cole as Dokugakuji

G. Gordon Baer as
Innkeeper
Old Man
Painter
Rock Demon

Ian Hawk as Kensei

Jack Bauer as
Car Thief B
Mud Demon

Jane Alan as
Dr. Huang
Waitress

Joey Capps as
Koumyou Sanzo
Meichin

John Smallberries as Boss

Johnny Yong Bosch as Rampa (ep 4)

Julie Ann Taylor as
Gojyo (Young)
Kanan
Rinlan

Karen Thompson as Lady Suika

Kate Davis as Kinkaku

Liam O'Brien as
Barkeep
Demon
Thug (ep 17)

M.A. Lovestedt as Lirin

Melodee M. Spevack as Merciful Goddess

Michelle Ruff as
Embarassed Mother
Shunto
Shunto's Mother

Mona Marshall as
Ginkaku
Gojyo's Mother
Kouryu
Meimei's Owner

Sam Carr as Kourei

Sam Regal as
Gate Guard
Impostor Demon (ep 11)
Mob Leader

Sandy Fox as Shion

Steve Kramer as
Demon
Jiroshin
Servant
Tech

Taylor Henry as Bug Demon (ep 2)

Therese Nguyen as Yunhua

Todd Crump as
Dr. Ni Jenyi
Jiroshin (ep 25)

Wendee Lee as
Rikito
Seira

Adam Nagata

Akira Fujita

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Animax India
Animax South Asia
Encore Action

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
MVM (UK)

DVD Authoring: Ascent Media DVD

Licensed by:
Dark Horse Comics (Ani-manga)
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Subtitles: Animax Asia (Philippines)

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Martial Leminoux

Adaptation: Catherine Konetsky

Theme Song Performance:
Ace ("Wild Rock")
Antoine Blanc ("ID" & "Sans un regret")

 

Alexandre Aubry as Son Goku

Martial Leminoux as Sha Gojyo

Patrick Bethune as Genjo Sanzo

Stéphane Ronchewski as Cho Hakkai

Brigitte Guedj as Guyokumen

Cyrille Artaux as Ni

François Creton as Kogaiji

Magali Barney as Yaone

Nathalie Bleynie as Ririn

Cyrille Monge as Dieu

Emmanuel Gradi as Dokugakuji

Jessie LAMBOTTE as Ginkaw

Magali Barney as Kanzenon

Pascale Chemin as Kinkaku

Serge Thiriet as monstres

Sylvain Lemarié as monstres

Marie Zidi

Serge Thiriet

Sylvain Lemarié

French companies 

ADR Production: Studio Lincoln

Distributor: Déclic Images

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Fourth Lee as Son Goku

Louie Paraboles as Cho Hakkai

maynard llames as Genjo Sanzo

Vincent Gutierrez as Sha Gojyo

Dada Carlos as Yaone

Louie Paraboles as Kougaiji

Rowena Benavidez as Lirin

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster:
GMA Network
HERO TV
QTV Channel 11

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

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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