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Riding Bean (OAV)

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[ adapted from Riding Bean (manga) ]

Alternative title:
ライディング・ビーン (Japanese)
Genres: action, adventure, comedy
Themes: police
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.
User Ratings: 220 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:3)
 Excellent: 16 votes (dub:8, sub:7, Por.sub:1)
 Very good: 43 votes (sub:26, dub:16, Ger.sub:1)
 Good: 79 votes (sub:52, dub:22, Ger.sub:3, ?:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 41 votes (sub:21, dub:17, Ger.sub:2, ?:1)
 So-so: 14 votes (sub:6, dub:6, Ger.sub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Not really good: 7 votes (dub:5, sub:2)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:6, Ger.sub:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:1, sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 398 users, rank: #1249
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.705 (Good-.29), std. dev.: 1.7133, rank: #2167
Weighted mean: 6.666 (Good-.33), rank: #2128 (seen all: 6.67 / seen some: 6.32)
Bayesian estimate: 6.702 (Good-.29), rank: #1816
Running time: 46 minutes
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage: 1989-02-22
Releases: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Road Buster" by Phil Perry
Ending Theme:
"Runnin' the Road" by Phil Perry
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 5
Comment:
Along with Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01, Riding Bean was AnimEigo's first anime release.
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    Riding Bean (DVD) 2002-03-22 (from $6.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yasuo Hasegawa

Storyboard:
Kenichi Sonoda
Yasunori Ide
Yasuo Hasegawa

Story: Kenichi Sonoda

Music: David Garfield

Character Design: Kenichi Sonoda

Art director: Hiroaki Sato

Animation director:
Atsushi Okuda
Hiroya Oohira
Masahiro Tanaka
Osamu Kamijō

Mechanical design:
Kenichi Sonoda
Kinji Yoshimoto
L. Lime
Satoshi Urushihara
Yoshihisa Fujita

Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Konishi

Executive producer: Junji Fujita

Producer:
Hiroshi Tazaki
Toru Miura

Artboards: Ley Yumeno

Assistant Animator:
Chizuko Nakamura
Fumiko Tateyama
Hisako Tanabe
Jun Segawa
Katsushi Sakurami
Miho Saitou
Nobuhiro Morise
Takafumi Watanabe
Yasushi Muraki
Yurie Sugihara

Audio Director: Noriyoshi Matsuura

Key Animation:
Eiji Suganuma
Eiji Yamanaka
Haruo Ogawara
Hiroki Kanno
Hiroya Oohira
Jun Okuda
Katsutoshi Tsunoda
Keiichi Nakao
Kôji Hasegawa
Nobuyuki Ikigame
Nobuyuki Kitajima
Satoshi Iwataka
Satoshi Tanaka
Takahiro Kishida
Toshifumi Hashimoto
Toshikazu Usami
Yoshiharu Shimizu
Yuzo Tomizawa

Mechanical animation director: Shinya Ohira

Planning: Toshimichi Suzuki

Supervision: Kenichi Sonoda

Technical director: Yasunori Ide

Theme Song Composition:
Larry Klimas ("Bad Girl")
Phil Perry ("Road Buster")
Ray Wolff ("King of the Road")

Theme Song Performance:
Andrea Robinson ("Bad Girl")
Phil Perry (OP, ED, "King of the Road")

 

Hideyuki Tanaka as Bean Bandit

Naoko Matsui as Rally Vincent

Chieko Honda as Chelsea Grimwood

Kei Tomiyama as Percy

Mami Koyama as Semmerling

Megumi Hayashibara as Carrie

Nobuo Tobita as Dick (Percy's Assistant)

Jun Hazumi as George Grimwood

Juurouta Kosugi as Guard

Kazumi Tanaka as Guard

Kôzô Shioya as Guard

Michitaka Kobayashi as
Morris
Robber

Tomoko Maruo as Waitress

Yuusaku Yara as Chief

Japanese companies 

Distributor: Toshiba EMI

DVD Distribution: Bandai Visual

Music Production: Toshiba EMI

Production:
AIC
ARTMIC Studios
Youmex

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Michael House

Translation:
Michael House
Shin Kurokawa

Executive producer:
Janice Hindle
Peter R. Haswell

Producer: Robert J. Woodhead

Audio Engineer:
Chuck Agresta
Randy Drew

Dialogue Editing: Roe R. Adams III

Dubbing Production:
Chuck Agresta
Randy Drew

Editing: Roe R. Adams III

Production Assistant: Nancy Powell

Production Coordination: Natsumi Ueki

Production manager:
Janice Hindle
Peter R. Haswell

Voice Direction: J. Randolph (Dubbed)

Brennan MacKenzie as Rally Vincent

J. Patrick Lawlor as Bean Bandit

Adam Guzman as Dick (Percy's Assistant)

Barbara Lewis as Semmerling

David Kraus as Percy

Mary Boucher as Chelsea Grimwood

Susan McQueen as Carrie

David Arnold as George Grimwood

Jean Hrdlicka as Waitress

John Peckham as Guard

John C. Stuart as Hick

Mark Garber as
Morris
Robber

Timothy J. Walsh as The Chief

Marc Garber

English companies 

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

Dubbing: Southwynde Studios

Licensed by: AnimEigo

Italian staff 
Italian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Dynit

Italian cast 
(none)
German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Distributor:
ACOG
OVA Films

Dubbing: Aaron Synchros

German cast 

Bruno Niederprüm as Bean Bandit

 
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