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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: 207 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: 42 votes (sub:31, 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 507 users, rank: #1110
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.420 (Decent+.42), std. dev.: 1.6366, rank: #2680
Weighted mean: 6.428 (Decent+.42), rank: #2565 (seen all: 6.59 / seen some: 5.93 / won't finish: 3.70)
Bayesian estimate: 6.478 (Decent+.47), rank: #2194
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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DVD
    Battle Athletes - On Your Mark (DVD 1) 1998-12-29
    Battle Athletes - Ready (DVD 2) 1999-01-26 (from $12.98)
    Battle Athletes - Go! (DVD 3) 1999-02-09
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Director: Kazuhiro Ozawa
Storyboard: Kazuhiro Ozawa
Original Concept: Hiroki Hayashi
Character Design: Ryuichi Makino
Animation Director: Shinji Ochi
Sound Director: Yasunori Honda
Director of Photography: Hideo Suzuki

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

English cast 
English staff 
ADR Director: Quint Lancaster
Translation: Neil Nadelman
ADR Script: Mary Mason
Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
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

English companies 
Recording Facility: Magnitude 8 Post
Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

German staff 
(none)
German companies 
Distributor: Trimax
German cast 
(none)
 
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