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Battle Athletes (OAV)

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Related anime:
    Battle Athletes Victory (TV) (alternate retelling)

Alternative title:
Battle Athletes Daiundoukai (Japanese)
バトルアスリーテス大運動会 (Japanese)
Themes: fanservice, sports
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: It is the year 4999 - mankind has long abandoned war in favor of intergalactic competition through athletic events. One of which is an all-female contest for the coveted "Cosmo Beauty" title. Akari Kanzaki has just entered the University Satellite in hopes of becoming the latest Cosmic Beauty - a title held by her mother long ago. On her first few days in the university, she meets new friends, encounters fierce rivals, and struggles to become the best of all the Battle Athletes.
User Ratings: 206 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Excellent: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:2)
 Very good: 42 votes (sub:25, dub:17)
 Good: 66 votes (sub:45, dub:20, raw:1)
 Decent: 41 votes (sub:30, dub:11)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:16, dub:4, ?:1)
 Not really good: 11 votes (sub:7, dub:4)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:10)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 506 users, rank: #1072
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.422 (Decent+.42), std. dev.: 1.6403, rank: #2570
Weighted mean: 6.429 (Decent+.42), rank: #2479 (seen all: 6.59 / seen some: 5.93 / won't finish: 3.69)
Bayesian estimate: 6.479 (Decent+.47), rank: #2144
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage:
1997-05-25 to 1998-06-25
1998 (US release)
Releases: We have 8
Ending Theme:
"胸を張ろう!(Mune wo Harou!)" by Rio Natsuki
Official website:
Links: We have 2
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Related releases:
    Battle Athletes - On Your Mark (DVD 1) 1998-12-29 (from $13.49)
    Battle Athletes - Ready (DVD 2) 1999-01-26 (from $12.98)
    Battle Athletes - Go! (DVD 3) 1999-02-09 (from $13.49)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kazuhiro Ozawa

Storyboard: Kazuhiro Ozawa

Music: Takayuki Hattori

Original Concept: Hiroki Hayashi

Character Design: Ryuichi Makino

Animation director: Shinji Ochi

Sound director: Yasunori Honda

Director of Photography: Hideo Suzuki

Design Work: Koji Watanabe

Music Director: Akira Kawase

Series Writer: Hideyuki Kurata

Theme Song Performance: Rio Natsuki (ED)

 

Rio Natsuki as Akari Kanzaki

Akemi Okamura as Mylandah Arkar Walder

Akiko Yajima as Anna Respighi

Aya Sakaguchi as Tanya Natdhipytadd

Takeshi Igarashi as Grant Oldman

Tomoko Kawakami as Kris Christopher

Yuriko Yamaguchi as Lahrri Feldnunt

Chiharu Tezuka as Student C (ep 1)

Kae Araki as Student A (ep 1)

Kouji Nakata as Prologue Narrator (ep 1)

Michiko Neya as Student B (ep 1)

Miho Yamada as Announcer

Miki Takahashi as Tomoe Midou

Shiho Niiyama as Dorm Chief

Takeshi Igarashi as Control Officer (ep 1)

Japanese companies 

Co-Production:
Doumu
GENCO

Distributor: PIONEER LDC

Music Production: Face Music Publishing

Production:
Aeon, Inc.
AIC
TV Tokyo


English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Quint Lancaster

Translation: Neil Nadelman

ADR Script: Mary Mason

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Haruyo Kanesaku
Yuji Moriya
Yutaka Maseba

Digital Tracking: Phil Brewster

DVD Engineer: Songyi Liu

Final Mix: Joe Romersa

Menu Design: Colin Petrie

Packaging Design: Biff Butler

Post Production: Jeremy Johnson

Production Coordination: Kei Onishi

Recording Facility Engineer: Les Claypool III

Subtitle Timing: Neil Nadelman

Bambi Darro as Akari Kanzaki

David Lucas as Grant Oldman

Debbie Derosa as Mylandah Arkar Walder

Dorothy Melendrez as Kris Kristopher

Julie Maddalena as Tanya Natdhipytadd

Melissa Williamson as Lahrri Feldnunt

Mimi Woods as Lahrri Feldnunt

Ruby Marlowe as Anna Resphigi

Anne Sherman as Joanne Woo

Christy Mathewson as USSA Official (ep 1)

Derek Stephen Prince as Interviewer

Diva West as
Check-in Clerk (ep 1)
Operator A (ep 3)
Upperclassman B (ep 1)

Dougary Grant as Gerard Baxton (ep 4)

George C. Cole as Narrator (ep 1)

Jane Alan as
Computer Voice
Dorm Chief

Jetta Bird as
Begginers Child (ep 6)
Child (ep 1)

Joe Romersa as
Claus (ep 4)
Hans (ep 4)

Katie Ashley as Begginers Child (ep 6)

Kim Mai Nguyen as Announcer (ep 4)

Lia Sargent as
Jessie Gartland
Operator B (ep 3)
Race Computer Announcer (eps 5-6)
Student (eps 2-3)

Marie Danielle as
Satellite Welcome Voice (ep 1)
Student (ep 3)
Super High Jump Official (ep 5)

Melissa Williamson as Mother (ep 1)

Patricia Ja Lee as
Ceremony Commentator (ep 5)
Student
Upperclassman A (ep 1)

Randy Alan as Tanya's Brother (ep 5)

Rebecca Forstadt as
Akari Kanzaki (Young)
Child (ep 1)
Student (ep 1)

Sandy Fox as Various

Tom Charles as CBX Commentator (eps 5-6)

Wendee Lee as
Doctor
Newscaster (ep 4)
Student
Student with Accent (ep 1)
Tomoe Midou

Anne Sherman

B.J. Davis

Bebe Elam

Bill Timoney

Dan Martin

David Ellenstein

David Lucas (ep 1)

Jackie Gonneau

Jonathan C. Osborne

Laoren Maxwell

Larry Coleman

Laura Mars

Lex Lang

Lois Slinkei

Mickey Miller

Reyna Romersa

Steve Areno

Susan Chavez

Susan Myers

Tiffany Roberts

English companies 

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Recording Facility: Magnitude 8 Post

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

Translation: ZRO Limit Productions


German staff 
(none)
German companies 

Distributor: Trimax

German cast 
(none)
 
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