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Iria - Zeiram the Animation (OAV)

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©1994 CROWD / BANDAI VISUAL / MITSUBISHI CORPORATION / BANPRESTO


[ adapted from Zeiram (live-action movie) ]

Alternative title:
لريا (Arabic)
イ・リ・ア ゼイラム the Animation (Japanese)
伊莉亞 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: bounty hunters
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Iria is the story of a girl and the Alien being she loves to hate. The series begins with her brother, Gren, taking a job. He is a bounty hunter, and one well known for his incredible skill. Iria, being a skilled apprentice bounty hunter herself, tags along. What is the job, one might ask. It is to find out what has happened to the crew and cargo of a Space Station. Needless to say, nothing is as it seems, and the war between Iria and Zeiram begins in earnest.
Video:
User Ratings: 484 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (dub:7, sub:6, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 62 votes (dub:36, sub:23, Spa.sub:1, ?:1, raw:1)
 Very good: 148 votes (sub:80, dub:60, ?:2, Fre.dub:2, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 127 votes (sub:74, dub:44, Fre.sub:3, Por.sub:2, Ger.sub:1, ?:1, Fre.dub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Decent: 72 votes (sub:44, dub:23, Fre.sub:2, raw:1, Ger.dub:1, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 32 votes (sub:20, dub:11, Fre.dub:1)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:3)
 Weak: 10 votes (dub:5, sub:4, Ita.dub:1)
 Bad: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 955 users, rank: #646
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.138 (Good+.13), std. dev.: 1.5453, rank: #1417
Weighted mean: 7.096 (Good+.09), rank: #1354 (seen all: 7.22 / seen some: 5.81 / won't finish: 3.86)
Bayesian estimate: 7.105 (Good+.10), rank: #1165
Running time: 35 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage:
1994-06-23
2008 (Middle East - Spacepower Broadcast)
Releases: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"Tokete Iku Yume no Hate ni" by Yayoi Goto
Ending Theme:
"Although the Dream is Far" by Mitsuko Shiramine
Official website:
Comment:
Originally Licensed & Released by Central Park Media.
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Related releases:
    Iria - Zeiram the Animation Collection (DVD) 2004-03-30 (from $26.99)
    Iria - DVD Economy Collection (DVD) 2007-06-26 (from $16.97)
    Iria - The Complete Series (R4 DVD) 2009-05-28

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tetsuro Amino

Script:
Hajime Matsumoto (eps 4-5)
Naruhisa Arakawa (ep 2)
Tetsuro Amino (eps 1, 3)
Yoshihisa Arakawa (ep 6)

Storyboard:
Gen Dojaga (eps 2, 4-5)
Naohito Takahashi (ep 3)
Tetsuro Amino (ep 1)

Music: Yoichiro Yoshikawa

Original Concept: Keita Amemiya

Original Character Design: Masakazu Katsura

Character Design: Ryunosuke Otonashi

Art director: Yoshimi Umino

Chief Animation Director: Ryunosuke Otonashi

Director of Photography: Kazunori Hashimoto

Executive producer: Masaru Umehara

Producer:
Hiroshi Kato
Masato Terada
Yasuhiro Hibi

Planning:
Ichisuke Kato
Shigeru Watanabe
Toru Sato

Recording Director: Hideyuki Tanaka

Theme Song Arrangement: Yoichiro Yoshikawa (OP)

Theme Song Composition: Yoichiro Yoshikawa (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics: Mitsuko Shiramine (END)

Theme Song Performance: Yayoi Gotou (OP)

Visual Setting: Keita Amemiya

 

Aya Hisakawa as Iria

Chika Sakamoto as Komimasa

Juurouta Kosugi as Gren

Masaru Ikeda as Bob

Mika Kanai as Kei

Shigeru Chiba as Fujikuro

Wataru Takagi as Zeiram

Akemi Shinohara as Child B (ep 2)

Fumihiko Tachiki as Jambal (eps 5-6)

Hiroshi Naka as Dounham (eps 5-6)

Hiroyuki Oshida as
Passenger (ep 1)
Soldier (ep 6)

Junichi Sugawara as Soldier A (ep 5)

Junko Sakuma as
Announcer (ep 6)
Receptionist (ep 3)

Katsumi Toriumi as Staff B (ep 3)

Ken Narita as Bandit A (ep 3)

Kyousei Tsukui as Soldier (ep 6)

Masaki Aizawa as Soldier C (ep 5)

Megumi Tano as Child A (ep 2)

Michiko Neya as Communicator (ep 5)

Momoko Ishi as Passenger (ep 1)

Mugihito as Puttubayh

Rie Iwatsubo as Child C (ep 2)

Satomi Koorogi as Sara

Sayuri Ikemoto as Announcer (ep 1)

Shinichiro Miki as Guard B (ep 5)

Shinichirou Ohta as Soldier B (eps 5-6)

Tetsuya Iwanaga as Staff A (ep 3)

Wataru Takagi as Nanpuu

Yuuichi Nagashima as
Guard A (ep 5)
Soldier (ep 6)

Yuzuru Fujimoto as Dr. Touka

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Ashi Productions

Co-Planning: Studio Hard

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Planning: Crowd

Production: d-rights


English cast 
English staff 

Translation: Neil Nadelman

Executive producer:
John O'Donnell
John Sirabella

Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

ADR Supervisor: Dave Siegel

Assistant Editor: Jason Daily

Dubbing Manager: Peter Bavaro

Dubbing supervisor: Anthony Salerno

Online Editor: Robert O'Malley

Production Coordination: Edward S. Whang

Recording engineer: Francis Fletcher

Teleplay Adaptation: Michael Alben

Stacie Lynn Renna as Iria

Andrew Thorson as Fujikuro

Chris Yates as Gren

Dave Siegel as Zeiram

Gary Suson as Bob (eps 1-3, 6)

Jason Harris as Komimasa

Al Muscari as Puttubayh

Pete Zarustica as Dr. Touka

Terri Muuss as Kai

English companies 

Audio Services: National Sound

Broadcaster: Sci Fi Channel

Distributor:
AnimeWorks
Siren Visual Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)

Licensed by: Media Blasters

Recording Studio: National Sound

Video Services: National Video Center

French staff 
(none)
French cast 

Barbara Delsol as Iria

Adrien Antoine as Glenn

Benoît Allemane as Bob

Michel Vigné as Fujikuro

Serge Blumenthal as Puttubayh

French companies 

Broadcaster:
Canal +
Mangas

Distributor: Kaze

Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: LAPTV (Cityvibe)

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

Spanish cast 
(none)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Director Of Dubbing: Raffaele Farina

 

Maddalena Vadacca as Iria

Elisabetta Spinelli as Kei

Orlando Mezzabotta as Bob

Stefano Albertini as Fujikuro

Augusto Di Bono as Puttbayar

Claudio Moneta as Glen

Davide Garbolino as Kominasa

Enrico Maggi as Dr. Tooka

Italian companies 

Distributor: Yamato Video

Dubbing: DEA Digital Editing Audio


German staff 
(none)
German companies 

Distributor: Anime-Virtual

German cast 
(none)
Arabic staff 
Arabic companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: space power

Arabic cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Hyper

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

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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