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Starship Operators (TV)

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Alternative title:
スターシップ・オペレーターズ (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: For the 73rd class of cadets of the Defense University of the small planet Kibi, a shakedown cruise on the fleet's new starship "Amaterasu" is a fitting lead-up to graduation. As they are returning to their home planet, however, they are shocked to hear news of a declaration of war by the aggressive Kingdom against Kibi. When their planetary government surrenders without a struggle, the cadets decide to launch their own war, aboard the "Amaterasu". To gain funding, they make a deal with a galactic news network - and find themselves the "stars" of their own "reality show". Unfortunately, this is the kind of reality show that can get you killed...
User Ratings: 290 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 15 votes (sub:12, dub:3)
 Excellent: 50 votes (sub:37, dub:12, raw:1)
 Very good: 92 votes (sub:63, dub:28, Por.sub:1)
 Good: 62 votes (sub:41, dub:18, raw:1, ?:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 33 votes (sub:23, dub:10)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:17, dub:4)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:7, dub:2)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 557 users, rank: #994
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.345 (Good+.34), std. dev.: 1.6055, rank: #1106
Weighted mean: 7.288 (Good+.28), rank: #1070 (seen all: 7.55 / seen some: 6.66 / won't finish: 4.88)
Bayesian estimate: 7.295 (Good+.29), rank: #860
Running time: Half Hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2005-01-05 to 2005-03-30
Releases: We have 11
Opening Theme:
#1: "radiance" by Mami Kawada
Ending Theme:
#1: "Chi ni Kaeru ~on the Earth~" by KOTOKO
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
In the news 5 times:
2005-12-22   Release List Catch Up
2005-07-02   Geneon Anime Licenses
2005-04-30   Geneon Licenses
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    Starship Operators - Truth + Artbox (DVD 3) 2006-05-02 (from $12.25)
    Starship Operators - DVD Box Set (DVD 1-3) 2006-11-28 (from $44.99)
    Starship Operators Collection (R4 DVD) 2008-07-23
    Starship Operators (OST) 2006-03-07 (from $5.00)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takashi Watanabe

Screenplay: Yoshihiko Tomizawa

Music: Kenji Kawai

Original Work: Ryo Mizuno

Character Design: Fumio Matsumoto

Art director: Shinichi Tanimura

Mechanical design: Kimitoshi Yamane

Sound director: Toru Nakano

Director of Photography:
Jun Shiota
Shingo Fukuyo

Color design: Yukiko Itou

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Recording: Nobuhiro Negishi

Recording Adjustment: Masanori Tsuchiya

Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama

Sound Producer: Hiroki Urakari

Theme Song Arrangement:
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (Op)
Yoichi Shimada (End)

Theme Song Composition:
KOTOKO (End)
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (Op)

Theme Song Lyrics:
KOTOKO (Op/End)
Mami Kawada (Op)

Theme Song Performance:
KOTOKO (End)
Mami Kawada (Op)

 

Akeno Watanabe as Arei Hisaka

Masumi Asano as Miyuri Akisato

Shizuka Itou as Sinon Kouzuki

Atsuko Enomoto as Akiho Maya

Ayako Kawasumi as Rio Mamiya

Mamiko Noto as Sanri Wakana

Masayuki Katou as Takai Kiryuu

Satomi Arai as Yukino Nanase

Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shinto Mikami

Yukimasa Obi as Cisca Kanzaki

Yuko Kaida as Imari Kamiya

Yuu Asakawa as Renna Satomi

Daisaku Shinohara as Kawaji

Daisuke Ono as Gotou (ep 1)

Hidetoshi Nakamura as Vice-captain (eps 7-8)

Hirokazu Miura as Joseph Meyer (ep 2)

Hiroshi Ito as President Lao (eps 5-6, 8)

Hiroshi Matsumoto as Admiral Dul Elroy

Hitomi Nabatame as Dita Mirkob

Kan Tanaka as Hans Georg Hermann

Kaori Shimizu as Sei Ogino

Kazuya Kobayashi as Policeman (ep 5)

Kenta Miyake as Aide (eps 5-6)

Kinryuu Arimoto as Tatsuma Mamiya

Kunihiko Yasui as Ricardo Fares (eps 3-4)

Masaru Motegi as MP Commanding Officer (ep 5)

Mitsuru Ogata as
Connery (ep 12)
Lewis Belmont

Miyu Irino as Shimei Yuuki

Ryuji Nakagi as Captain Wong

Saburo Kamei as Truman (ep 13)

Sayaka Ohara as Isabel

Shinji Kawada as
Brian (eps 11-13)
Kouki Sakakibara

Takafumi Kawakami as
Coup soldier (ep 6)
Tokiya Sanada

Takaya Kuroda as Lee Young Sook (eps 3, 7-8)

Takayuki Kondou as
Coup soldier (ep 6)
Hide Chiba (eps 3, 13)
Soldier (ep 5)

Takayuki Yamaguchi as Taishi Kase

Takuma Suzuki as Hernal Nadja (eps 7-8, 11)

Tetsuharu Ohta as Iriki Kanno (eps 1-2)

Tomoyuki Shimura as
Hopkins (ep 12)
Peter Spikes

Toshitaka Hirano as Tito Langar (ep 3)

Wataru Hatano as Defense official (ep 1)

Yu Kobayashi as Minase Shinohara

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music

Production:
Geneon Entertainment, Inc.
MediaWorks
SSO Production Committee
TV Tokyo

Recording Studio: Prosen Studio

Sound Production: Half H-P Studio

English staff 
English cast 

Script: Mariko Summers

Translation: Paul Baldwin

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer: Satoshi Fujii

ADR Producer: Diana Gage

Casting Director: Randi Riediger

Dialogue Editing: Ryan Nowak

Re-Recording Mixing: Mark M. Pinder

Recording engineer: Mike Iske

Senior Production Coordinator: Geoffrey A. Rosen

Subtitling: Amy Lipkowitz

Talent Coordinator: Sabrina Petrie

Video Post-Production:
Jodi Peterson
Mike Hey
Sean McConkey

Voice Direction: Karl Willems

 

Kelly Sheridan as Sinon Kouzuki

Nicole Bouma as Miyuri Akisato

Paula Lindberg as Alley Hisaka

Ashleigh Ball as Sanri Wakana

Holly Eccleston as Renna Satomi

Kirby Morrow as Takai Kiryu

Laura Drummond as Imari Kamiya

Leah Breen as Akiho Maya

Paul Dobson as Peter Spikes

Tabitha St. Germain as Yukino Nanase

Alec Willows as Hans George Hermann

Alistair Abell as
Brian
Guest Laiaison
Reporter

Andy Toth as Cisca Kanzaki

Anna Cummer as Rio Mamiya

Brent Miller as Connery

Brian Drummond as
Adm. Lewis Belmont
Conquistador Operator
Koki Sakakibara
Newscaster
Security Guard
Shu Official

Chris Jacot as
Iriki Kanno (ep 2)
Tokiya Sanada

Don Brown as
Gent Wakana (ep 3)
Joseph Meyer (ep 2)

Doug Abrahams as Cpt. Josef Truman

Fred Henderson as
Hopkins
President Lau

Fred Keating as
Hermann Ricardo Farez
Kawaji

Kirby Morrow as EA Operator

Mark Gibbon as Hernal Nadja

Michael Coleman as Shinto Mikami

Michael Dobson as
Amateras Captain
Dure Elroy
Kingdom Soldier
Reporter
UN Trooper

Michael Kopsa as
Captain Wong
Shu Soldier

Paul Dobson as
Conquistador Communications
Dragonfly XO
Levant Captain
Navigation Officer
Reporter
Security Guard
Tito Langar (ep 3)

Rebecca Shoichet as
Dita Mirkov
Minase Shinohara

Ron Halder as Tatsuma Mamiya

Samuel Vincent as
Adm. Lee Young Sook
Newscaster
Officer
Shimei Yuki

Simon Hayama as Taishi Kase

Sylvia Zaradic as
Reception Announcer
Sei Ogino

Tony Sampson as Hide Chiba

English companies 

Casting: Interpacific Productions

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
MVM (UK)
Tokyo Night Train (Australia & New Zealand)

Dubbing: The Ocean Group

DVD Menu Design: NightJar, LLC.

DVD Production: SpeeDVD

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Alexander Doering as Cisca Kanzaki

Angela Wiederhut as Rio Mamiya

Claudia Schmidt as Alley Hisaka

Claus Brockmeyer as
Admiral Dul Elroy
Ausbilder

Claus-Peter Damitz as
Empfangschef
Sicherheitsbeamter 2

Crock Krumbiegel as Peter Spikes

Dirk Meyer as Takai Kiriyu

Gabriele Pietermann as Miyuri Akisato

Gerhard Jilka as
Admiral Lee
Gent Wakana

John-Alexander Döring as Cisca Kanzaki

Kai Taschner as Captain Wong

Kathrin Gaube as Dita Mirkov

Manfred Trilling as Hans George Hermann

Marieke Oeffinger as Sinon Kouzuki

Norbert Gastell as Tatsuma Mamiya

Patrick Schröder as Koki Sakakibara

Philipp Brammer as
Adjütant von Belmont
Iriki Kanno
Sergeant

Shandra Schadt as Renna Satomi

Ulf Söhmisch as Admiral Ricardo Farez

Veronika Neugebauer as
Sekretärin
Werbesprecherin

Walter von Hauff as Captain Joseph Meyer

Willi Röbke as Admiral Belmont

German companies 

Distributor: SP Vision

Dubbing: GÜLO Film- und Tontechnik GmbH

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 

Dubbing Director: Danny Mandia

Script: Sherwin Revestir (Scriptwriter)

ADR Supervisor: Sherwin Revestir

 

AJ Constantino as Dure Elroy

Benjie Dorango as
Peter Spikes
Takai Kiryu

Irene Tolentino as Akiho Maya

Kathyin Masilungan as Dita Mirkov

Lovely as Sanri Wakana

Margo Borgona as Imari Kamiya; Rio Mamiya

Margo Borgonia as
Imari Kamiya
Rio Mamiya

Noel Escondo as
Cisca Kanzaki
Shinto Mikami

Pinky Rebucas as Sei Ogino/Yukino Nanase

Ryan Ang as Shimei Yuki

Sherwin Revestir as Sinon Kouzuki

Tagalog companies 

Dubbing: HERO TV

 
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