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Zipang (TV)

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[ adapted from Zipang (manga) ]

Alternative title:
ジパング (Japanese)
次元艦隊 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: historical, military
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Mirai, an improved Kongou-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most advanced ships in the entire Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF). Her crew, also one of the newest, is lead by Capt. Umezu Saburo and Executive Officer Kadomatsu Yosuke. While running scheduled training exercises one day, Mirai encounters a fierce storm that throws their navigation systems into temporary disarray. After a few minutes of recovery, the crew is shocked to discover that they've been transported back in time to June 4, 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, during World War II. Letting history take its course for this battle, they manage to avoid the conflict firsthand and make a vow to remain annonymous, changing history as little as possible. However, when the crew comes across the dying Lt. Commander Kusaka Takumi, XO. Kadomatsu's instincts to save lives takes over, changing the course of history more than he could've imagined.
User Ratings: 159 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:2, raw:1)
 Excellent: 37 votes (sub:34, dub:2, raw:1)
 Very good: 53 votes (sub:46, dub:7)
 Good: 31 votes (sub:28, dub:3)
 Decent: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:6, Tag.dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:1, Tag.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 300 users, rank: #1445
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.560 (Very good-.44), std. dev.: 1.7068, rank: #844
Weighted mean: 7.576 (Very good-.42), rank: #729 (seen all: 7.85 / seen some: 7.62 / won't finish: 4.55)
Bayesian estimate: 7.572 (Very good-.42), rank: #542
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2004-10-07 to 2005-03-31
Releases: We have 9
Opening Theme:
"Rashinban" by AUDIO RULEZ
Ending Theme:
"Kimi wo Miteiru" by BEGIN
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Related releases:
    Zipang - Future Shock (DVD 1) 2006-09-05 (from $6.00)
    Zipang - Future Shock + Artbox (DVD 1) 2006-09-05 (from $10.00)
    Zipang - The Ghosts Of History (DVD 2) 2006-11-07 (from $6.00)
    Zipang - A Time For War (DVD 3) 2007-01-02 (from $6.00)
    Zipang - Attack on G Island (DVD 4) 2007-03-27 (from $6.00)
    Zipang - Friend or Foe (DVD 5) 2007-05-15 (from $6.00)
    Zipang - Return to the Future (DVD 7) 2007-09-04 (from $22.49)
    Zipang - Target: Mirai (DVD 6) 2007-07-03

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Script:
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Yuichiro Takeda

Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 15)
Katsuyuki Kodera
Takashi Watabe
Yasushi Muraki
Yukihiro Matsushita (ep 7)

Episode Director:
Daisuke Tsukushi (ep 10)
Hideki Okamoto
Hiromichi Matano
Miho Kuriyama
Takashi Yamana
Yukihiro Matsushita

Music: Toshihiko Sahashi

Original Work: Kaiji Kawaguchi

Character Design: Yoshihiko Umakoshi

Animation director:
Akira Kasahara
Hirofumi Morimoto
Masashi Matsumoto
Shinobu Tado
Takako Shimizu
Yoshihiko Umakoshi

Mechanical design:
Shohei Kohara
Shouhei Ohara
Yasuhiro Nishinaka

Sound director: Takuya Hiramitsu

Director of Photography: Masayuki Kawaguchi

Editing: Masahiro Matsumura

Theme Song Performance:
AUDIO RULEZ (OP)
BEGIN (ED)

 

Hiroki Touchi as Lt. Commander Takumi Kusaka

Takanori Hoshino as Gunnery Officer Masayuki Kikuchi

Tetsu Inada as Executive Officer Yosuke Kadomatsu

Yuji Ueda as Navigation Officer Kouhei Oguri

Yuusaku Yara as Captain Saburo Umezu

Eiji Takemoto as Petty Officer Kazunobu Yanagi

Kazunari Kojima as Yasushi Asou

Kenji Nojima as Kazuma Tsuda

Masami Iwasaki as Atsushi Oume

Naru Kawamoto as Katagiri

Ryo Naitou as Hideyuki Kashiwabara

Yoshiko Iseki as Sachiko Momoi

Akimitsu Takase as Gunichi Mikawa

Akiyo Kanada as Boy (ep 8)

Azusa Nakao as Teruko (ep 7)

Bin Sasaki as Mitsumasa Yanai

Bon Ishihara as Noise

Bunmei Tobayama as Isoroku Yamamoto

Harî Kaneko as General Richmond Turner

Hidekatsu Shibata as Major General Alexander Vandegrift

Hiroshi Shimozaki as Captain Yonekura (ep 4)

Juurouta Kosugi as Gray

Katashi Ishizuka as Tokunaga Okamura

Kenji Nomura as Yokichi Kadomatsu

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Chris Evans (eps 3-4)

Kouji Ishii as Admiral Victor Crutchley

Makoto Aoki as Kazushi Enomoto

Makoto Tomita as Mori (ep 5)

Mamoru Miyano as Katsutoshi Hayashibara

Masaki Horiuchi as Military police (ep 7)

Masashi Hirose as Samuel D. Hatton

Miyu Irino as Yosuke (young)

Naoki Bandou as Matome Ugaki

Naoki Tatsuta as Kanji Ishiwara

Shoichiro Akaboshi as Kameto Kuroshima

Sukekiyo Kameyama as Masanobu Tsuji

Takahiro Hirano as Military police (ep 7)

Takashi Matsuyama as Vice-captain

Takehiro Hasu as Shopkeeper (ep 7)

Tsuyoshi Koyama as Captain Shimamoto (eps 19-23)

Unshou Ishizuka as Eiichiro Taki

Yoshiaki Matsumoto as Bungen You (ep 7)

Yoshikazu Nagano as Chief Warrant Officer Kawamoto (eps 8-11)

Japanese companies 

3d Animation:
Echo
ImageShock Co.

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Animation Tools: Animo

Backgrounds:
BIC Studio
Team's Art

Broadcaster:
Animax
TBS

Music Production: Marvelous Music Publishing

Production:
Marvelous Entertainment
Studio DEEN

Sound Production: Jinnan Studio

English staff 
English cast 
(none)
 

Curran Shane Mardjuki as Yosuke Kadomatsu (eps 24-26)

George N. Cahill III as Lt. Commander Yosuke Kadomatsu ** (eps 24-26)

English companies 

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 

Dubbing Director: JING M. LANZONA (GMA7-QTV11)

 

Ed Belo as Yosuke Kadomatsu

Angelo Crisolo as KATAGIRE - YANAGI (QTV11)

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster:
QTV
QTV Channel 11 (Official, 2 times)

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

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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