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Grenadier (TV)

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©2004 Sousuke Kaise / Kadokawashoten / Grenadier Project


[ adapted from Grenadier (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Grenadier , la Senshi Sonriente (Spanish)
Grenadier - Hohoemi no Senshi (Japanese)
Grenadier the Smiling Senshi
Rushuna - wystrzałowa wojowniczka (Polish)
Гренадёр (Russian)
グレネーダー ~ほほえみの閃士~ (Japanese)
天才少女閃士 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, adventure, comedy
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Rushuna is a blonde and very beautiful Senshi (gun expert) that travels through the world with one purpose. This is to make the world a peaceful place by instead of fighting with weapons, taking away the people´s will to fight by giving them a smile. Although she doesn´t want to fight, she is forced too and shows amazing gun skills. In this journey she meets Yajiro, a Mercenary that uses a sword to fight and joins her on her journey.
Video:
User Ratings: 942 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 35 votes (sub:27, dub:5, edit.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Excellent: 88 votes (sub:79, dub:8, Ita.sub:1)
 Very good: 178 votes (sub:132, dub:39, Por.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, Ger.sub:1, ?:1, raw:1)
 Good: 282 votes (sub:217, dub:55, Spa.sub:3, Por.sub:3, raw:1, edit.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 179 votes (sub:153, dub:22, Spa.sub:2, Fre.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 78 votes (sub:62, dub:13, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 33 votes (sub:29, dub:4)
 Weak: 42 votes (sub:39, dub:3)
 Bad: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:7, dub:1, raw:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 1842 users, rank: #320
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.687 (Good-.31), std. dev.: 1.809, rank: #2196
Weighted mean: 6.574 (Good-.42), rank: #2266 (seen all: 6.80 / seen some: 5.34 / won't finish: 4.16)
Bayesian estimate: 6.584 (Good-.41), rank: #1981
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2004-10-14 to 2005-01-13
2005-06-28 to 2005-10-25 (North America)
Releases: We have 7
Opening Theme:
#1: "KOHAKU" by Mikuni Shimokawa
#2: "Akatsuki no Sora wo Kakeru" by Hiromi Sato
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kanashimi ni Makenaide" by Mikuni Shimokawa
#2: "Hana no Youni" by Hiromi Sato
Official website:
天才少女閃士 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Grenadier - Holy Handgrenades with Pillowcase (DVD) 2005-08-30
    Grenadier - Premium DVD Collection (DVD) 2006-08-15 (from $48.66)
    Grenadier - DVD Economy Collection (DVD) 2007-01-09 (from $23.77)
    Grenadier - Complete Series Litebox (DVD) 2009-08-11 (from $16.99)
    Grenadier - Complete Series Litebox Limited Edition + Figure (DVD) 2009-08-11 (from $20.40)
    Grenadier - Service With a Smile (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $19.99)
    Grenadier - Holy Handgrenades (DVD 2) 2005-08-30 (from $19.99)
    Grenadier - Touch and Go (DVD 3) 2005-10-25 (from $19.35)
    Grenadier - Vol 3 + box (DVD 3) 2005-10-25 (from $23.05)
    Grenadier (Vol. 1 With Box) (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $23.05)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroshi Koujina

Series Composition: Akira Okeya

Screenplay: Akira Okeya

Storyboard:
Heon Pyo Hong
Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Hiroshi Koujina
Satoshi Nakagawa

Episode Director:
Heon Pyo Hong
Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Hiroshi Koujina
Satoshi Nakagawa

Music: Yasunori Iwasaki

Original creator: Sousuke Kaise

Character Design: Hideki Inoue

Art director: Yukio Abe

Art: Aiichiro Hirose

Chief Animation Director: Hideki Inoue

Animation director:
Ayako Kurata
Hideki Inoue
Kanae Suwa
Katsuki Aoshima
Mika Takahashi
Minefumi Harada
Toshiyuki Kanno

Director of Photography: Akisuke Maruyama

Producer:
Hitoshi Kawamura
Toyoo Ashida
Yutaka Ohashi

3DCGI: Daisuke Sugai

Animation Check:
Kiyomi Ishiwatari
Masako Sato

Animation producer: Hiroshi Sakurai

Background Art:
Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Junichi Takayama
Maki Yoshikawa
Osamu Tayama
Toshiaki Mitsunaka
Yuichiro Nakajima

Color Coordination: Yoshimi Motegi

Composite:
Kanae Saito
Keiko Ōtsubo
Kumiko Narai
Mayo Suzuki
Yukiyo Kajiwara

Digital Paint:
Chiharu Hashimoto (Peacock)
Kazumi Fujita (Studio L)
Maki Kanamori (Peacock)
Maya Nakamura (Angle)
Mika Kinoshita (Studio L)
Shinichi Kaneko (Angle)
Tomomi Yanagida (Studio L)
Toshimi Nishibata (Angle)
Tsukasa Ishimura (Studio L)
Yoko Suzuki (Peacock)
Yoriko Matsumori (Peacock)

Editing: Yuuji Oka

In-Between Animation:
Aika Sakuramoto (Angle)
Ami Nagata (Studio Live)
Atsuko Watanabe (Studio Live)
Ayumi Fujishita (MI)
Hayato Hashiguchi (MI)
Kazuya Nakamura (MI)
Kei Shimizu (Angle)
Kiyomi Ishiwatari (Studio Live)
Makoto Makabe (Studio Live)
Natsumi Yoshida (Angle)
Ryoko Nakamura (Studio Live)
Yae Tanaka (Angle)
Yasuko Suzuki (MI)
Yuji Ito (MI)

Key Animation:
Ai Kikuchi
Akira Sotoya (Studio Live)
Atsuko Watanabe
Ayako Kurata (Studio Live)
Daisuke Yoshida (Studio Live)
Emiko Miyagawa (Studio Live)
Hatsue Koizumi
Hideki Inoue
Hideki Nagamachi
Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Hiromi Maezawa (Studio Live)
Hiromichi Kikuchi (Studio Live)
Hiroshi Koujina
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Jun Yukawa
Kanae Suwa
Kaori Takahashi
Katsuki Aoshima (Studio Live)
Kazuki Miura (Studio Live)
Kazuko Hayakawa
Kyouko Takeuchi
Makoto Makabe
Mariko Oka
Mayumi Fukushi
Mika Takahashi
Minefumi Harada (Studio Live)
Miwa Oshima
Miwa Sakai
Nishiki Itaoka
Noriyasu Yamauchi
Rie Kaneko (Studio Live)
Ryoko Nakamura
Taiichiro Kohara (Studio Live)
Takaaki Hirayama
Takao Suzuki (Studio Live)
Toshiyuki Kanno (Studio Live)
Toyoo Ashida (Studio Live)
Yoshifumi Miyaji
Yoshinori Deno (Studio Live)
Yosuji Kudo
Yuichiro Hayashi
Yuji Tanaka (Studio Live)
Yukiko Saitou (Studio Live)

Layout Supervision: Daisuke Yoshida

Music producer: Takashi Watanabe

Planning:
Hiroki Yoshiki
Hisato Usui
Takeshi Yoshida
Youko Furugawa

Production Committee:
Atsushi Isoyama (Pony Canyon)
Hisao Iizuka (Shochiku)
Izumi Yamashita (Pony Canyon)
Jin Kawamura (Toshiba Entertainment)
Shinji Tanaka (Toshiba Entertainment)
Tadashi Miyamoto (Shochiku)
Takao Minegishi (Hakuhodo Media Partners)

Production Cooperation: Daisuke Katagiri (WOWOW)

Production manager: Akiko Matsumoto (Studio Live)

Publicity: Yuka Nakai (WOWOW)

Recording engineer: Tohru Kumakura

Setting Manager: Tomoaki Shimamura

Setting Production: Takumi Yamamura

Sound Effects: Masahiro Shoji (Fizz Sound Creation)

Sound Supervision: Toshiki Kameyama

Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda

Theme Song Arrangement: Junpei Fujita (Op & Ed)

Theme Song Composition:
Junpei Fujita (Op)
Masami Okui (OP lyrics)
Toshiro Yabuki

Theme Song Performance:
Hiromi Satou (OP 2/ED 2)
Mikuni Shimokawa (OP 1/ED 1)

Title Logo Design: Kazunori Tanaka

Video Format Editing:
Masami Suzuki
Rie Kasahara

 

Chieko Honda as Tenshi

Kazuya Nakai as Yajiro Kojima

Mikako Takahashi as Rushuna Tendo

Fumihiko Tachiki as Sanzou Kurama (ep 7)

Kazuhiro Nakata as Clown

Mami Kosuge as Touka Kurenai

Naoko Suzuki as Fuuka Shirato (ep 9)

Noa Nagai as Koto

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Aizen Teppa (ep 8+)

Yuki Matsuoka as Mikan Kurenai

Japanese companies 

Animation Assistance: Ehrgeiz

Animation Production:
Group TAC
Studio Live

Backgrounds: Tokyo Kids

Broadcaster: WOWOW

Digital Paint:
Angle
Digital Engine
Muses
Peacock
Studio Cj
Studio L

In-Between Animation:
Angle
AZETA PICTURES
Digital Engine
EASIA
Front Line
Hayashi
Last House
MI
Mouse
Muses
Project Team Sara
Studio Cj

Key Animation: Studio Live

Music Co-Production: Imagine

Music Production:
Flight Master (OP 1/ED 1)
Pony Canyon

Production:
Grenadier Production Project
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
Kadokawa Shoten
Pony Canyon
Shochiku Co. Ltd.
Toshiba Entertainment

Recording Studio: OP Requiem Studio

Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Wendee Lee

Script: Wendee Lee

Art director: Merideth Mulroney

Executive producer: John Sirabella

Assistant Engineer: Gretchen Sherwood (eps 9-12)

Dialogue Editing:
John Train (eps 9-12)
Kevin Patzelt (eps 9-12)

DVD Authoring: Justin Kim

Editing: Naneen Paglieri

Production Assistant:
Hopsing (eps 9-12)
Margaret Boyd

Production Coordination:
Frank Pannone
Margaret Boyd (eps 9-12)

Production Supervision:
Maniela Tunes
Sean Molyneaux

Re-Recording Mixing: Rod Fitzpatrick

Recording engineer:
John Train (eps 9-12)
Justin Laughlin

Midge Hayes as Tenshi

Sam Regal as Yajiro Kojima

Wendee Lee as Rushuna Tendo

Barbara Goodson as Teppa Aizen (boy) (ep 8)

Mia Bradly as Fuuka Shirato (ep 9)

Midge Hayes as Tenshi's Double/Setsuna Onmidoh (eps 11-12)

Cindy Robinson as Touka Kurenai

Dave Mallow as Teppa's Father

Doug Erholz as Teppa Aizen

Doug Stone as Hage's Thug

Edward Villa as
Ai's Father
Shinnoshin Hakubi
Soldier (ep 10)

G. Gordon Baer as Souma Sanzo

Jack Lehman as Ai's Father

Jackson Daniels as
Hashimoto
Teacher
Tenmatoh

Jennifer Sekiguchi as Koto

John Smallberries as
Akki Nago
Ganzo Tenma

Julie Ann Taylor as
Ai's Mother
Mikan Kurenai

Kate Davis as
Ai
Aide (ep 8)

Kim Strauss as Clown/Kaizen Doushi

Sean Roberts as
Banmaru Zoushi
Hage Tengu

Steve Cannon as Soldier (ep 1)

Taylor Henry as General (ep 1)

Terry Stone as Leader

Yuri Lowenthal as Furon

Doug Stone

Francis C. Cole

G. Gordon Baer

Steve Cannon

English companies 

ADR Production: Anime-Ya

Broadcaster: Too Much For TV

Distributor: AnimeWorks

Licensed by: Media Blasters

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Jordi Navarro (Spain dub)

 

Mar Nicolas as Rushuna Tendou (Spain dub)

Oriol de Balle as Yajirou Koujima (Spain dub)

Pilar Mora as Tenshi (Spain dub)

Ariadna Jiménez as Mikan Kurenai (Spain dub)

Esperanza Doménech as Tôka Kurenai (Spain dub)

Joaquín Gómez as Clown (Spain dub)

Jordi Navarro as Aizen Teppa (Spain dub)

Lidia Camino as
Sacerdotisa falsa (Spain dub)
Setsuna Omido (Spain dub)

Pilar Morales as Koto (Spain dub)

Angel del Río (Spain dub)

Vicente Gil (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)

Dubbing: Cristal Media (Barcelona - Spain dub)

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Uschi Hugo as Rushuna Tendo

Gerald Paradies as Nago

Giuliana Wendt as Tenshi

Ilona Otto as Koto

Jan Spitzer as Wirt

Konrad Bösherz as Furon

Peter Flechtner as Clown

Tommy Morgenstern as Yajiro Kojima

German companies 

Distributor: Tokyopop Germany

Dubbing: TV Synchron Berlin


Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Vision Film Distribution Sp. z o.o.

Polish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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