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The Legend of Black Heaven (TV)

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Alternative title:
Black Heaven
Kacho-Ohji - HARD ROCK save the SPACE (Japanese)
課長王子 (Japanese)
Themes: music
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Oji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. But life wasn't dull for him to begin with; 15 years ago, he was known as "Gabriel", leader of a short-lived heavy metal band called Black Heaven. Oji's life gets a sudden change in direction when he is invited by a mysterious blonde woman named Layla to pick up his Gibson Flying V and once again display his "legendary" guitar skills, not knowing that his music generates power for a massive weapon in an intergalactic war.
User Ratings: 260 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:2)
 Excellent: 50 votes (sub:35, dub:12, edit.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 57 votes (sub:38, dub:18, Spa.dub:1)
 Good: 66 votes (sub:42, dub:22, Fre.sub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 40 votes (sub:30, dub:9, Por.sub:1)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:4, dub:3, Por.sub:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 599 users, rank: #942
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.985 (Good-.01), std. dev.: 1.9334, rank: #1786
Weighted mean: 6.956 (Good-.04), rank: #1685 (seen all: 7.22 / seen some: 6.35 / won't finish: 3.16)
Bayesian estimate: 6.977 (Good-.02), rank: #1399
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 1999-07-08 to 1999-10-07
Opening Theme:
"Cautionary Warning" by John Sykes
Ending Theme:
"Yappari Onna no Hoga Iiya (I Like To Be A Woman After All)" by Riyu Konaka
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
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Related releases:
    Legend of Black Heaven - Rock Bottom (DVD 1) 2000-10-31
    Legend of Black Heaven - Space Truckin (DVD 2) 2000-12-26 (from $19.99)
    Legend of Black Heaven - Into the Arena (DVD 4) 2001-04-24 (from $26.99)
    The Legend of Black Heaven - DVD Box Set (DVD) 2005-01-11 (from $24.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Yasuhito Kikuchi

Director:
Kazunari Kume (ED)
Shinji Hashimoto (OP)
Yasuhito Kikuchi

Screenplay: Mizuhiro Yamada

Storyboard:
Kazunari Kume (ED)
Shinji Hashimoto (OP)
Takehiro Nakayama

Episode Director: Katsuhito Akiyama

Music: Koichi Korenaga

Original Concept: Hiroki Hayashi

Character Design: Kazuto Nakazawa

Art director: Satoshi Kuwahara

Animation director:
Akio Shimotsukasa (ep 4)
Keiji Tani (ED)
Shinji Hashimoto (OP)
Tomo Saeki

Mechanical design: Gorou Murata

Sound director: Kazuya Tanaka

Director of Photography: Hideo Okazaki

Producer:
Hiroaki Inoue
Kazuaki Morijiri
Kinya Watanabe
Mie Ide

Coordination: Kenji Miyashita (OP)

Design Work:
Hideki Nimura
Keiichi Sasajima

Key Animation:
Hideki Hamasu (OP)
Keiji Tani (ED)
Mieko Seki
Osamu Tanabe (OP)
Shinji Hashimoto (OP)

Music producer: Yasuyuki Ueda

Musical Instrument Design: Koudai Iwata

Planning: Toru Miura

Program Promotion:
Michiko Suzuki (WOWOW)
Takashi Iida

Series Creation: Naruhisa Arakawa

Theme Song Performance:
John Sykes (OP)
Riyu Konaka (ED)

 

Kouji Ishii as Oji Tanaka

Miho Yamada as Layla

Atsuko Enomoto as Kotoko

Ayako Kawasumi as Rinko

Kae Araki as Yoshiko Tanaka

Miwa Yanagihara as Eriko

Rica Fukami as Hamil

Rikako Aikawa as Gen Tanaka

Chafurin as Music Store Owner

Atsushi Murai as Watanabe (Joseph)

Hidenari Ugaki as Yamada (Luke)

Hiromi Tsuru as Female FBI Agent (ep 10)

Jouji Nakata as Fomalhaut

Kazuhiko Inoue as
Male FBI Agent
Oden Stand Owner

Konami Yoshida as Fortune

Kouji Takahashi as Eva

Ryuuzou Ishino as Suzuki (Raphael)

Shinichi Chiba as Tokusatsu

Shoji Nakata as Fomalhaut

Takashi Taniguchi as Sawazora

Yuji Ueda as Sato (Michael)

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: WOWOW

Music Production: PIONEER LDC

Production:
AIC
PIONEER LDC
Studio A.P.P.P.

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Jenny Haniver

Translation: Rika Takahashi

ADR Script: Mary Mason

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Haruyo Kanesaku
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Yutaka Maseba

Assistant producer: Taku Otsuka

Digital ADR Engineer:
Michael McCarty
Phil Brewster

Final Mix: Les Claypool III

Online Editor: CP Booth

Production Coordination: Sawako Furuya

Recording Facility Engineer: Les Claypool III

Subtitle Timing: Dana Weaver

Diva West as Layla Yuki

John Billingslea as Oji Tanaka

Bambi Darro as Rinko

Emily Brown as Kotoko

Ian Hawk as Gen Tanaka

Katie Ashley as Eriko

Marie Downing as Kotoko

Melissa Williamson as Hamil

Michelle Ruff as Yoshiko Tanaka

Anthony Mozdy as FBI Agent

Barbara Goodson as Mother

Dan Martin as Raphael Suzuki

David Lucas as
Crewmember
Joseph Watanabe

Dorothy Melendrez as
Office Woman
Waitress

Gil Starberry as
Commander Nakamurabashi
Music Store Owner
Odenya Owner

James Lyon as TV Soap Actor

Joe Romersa as Luke Yamada

John Billingslea as American

John Smallberries as Manager Sawazora

Lia Sargent as Female FBI Agent

Melissa Charles as Psychic Bell Ringer

Michelle Ruff as Student

Ruby Marlowe as Luke's Wife

Steve Bulen as Fomalhaut

Steve Cannon as
Blue Saucer
Taro Bando

Tom Charles as Michael Sato

Wendee Lee as Sato's Wife

Bill Timoney

Debbie Derosa

Gary Michaels

Heidi Wilbur

Howard Muckle

Jack Kinch

Jean Howard

Josh Gerhardt

Kim Nguyen

Melvin Mann

Naomi Jones

P.J. Lee

Ramona Lee

Reba West

Richard Hayworth

Richard Plantagenet

Syd Fontana

Tony Ricci

English companies 

ADR Production:
Animaze
ZRO Limit Productions

Broadcaster: AXN-Asia (SE Asia)

DVD Menus: Nightjar, LLC

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Online Editing Facility: VDI Multimedia West

Recording Facility: Magnitude 8 Post

Subtitles:
AXN-Asia (SE Asia)
Captions, Inc.

Translation: ZRO Limit Productions

French staff 
French cast 

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

 (none)
French companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel

Spanish cast 
(none)
Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Producteur Executif: Carlo Levy

 (none)
Dutch companies 

DVD Distribution: Dybex

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

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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