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Spider Riders (TV)

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Related anime:
    Spider Riders: Yomigaeru Taiyou (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Spider Riders ~the heroes of Oracle~
スパイダーライダーズ ~オラクルの勇者たち~ (Japanese)
Plot Summary: While on a hiking trip with friends, 11-year old Hunter is sucked into the fantastic subterranean world of Arachnia, where the insects have become the dominant – and giant – species. Hunter is welcomed by an elite warrior team, The Spider Riders, with whom he must fight to defeat the evil Invectid, and ultimately, find his way home.
User Ratings: 45 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (raw:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Very good: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Good: 9 votes (dub:5, edit.dub:2, Fre.dub:1, sub:1)
 Decent: 11 votes (dub:4, edit.dub:3, sub:2, ?:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Not really good: 6 votes (dub:4, edit.dub:2)
 Weak: 4 votes (dub:4)
 Bad: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (dub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 162 users, rank: #1912
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 4.889 (So-so-.11), std. dev.: 2.5142, rank: #3942
Weighted mean: 4.947 (So-so-.05), rank: #3899 (seen all: 6.91 / seen some: 4.79 / won't finish: 4.05)
Bayesian estimate: 5.412 (So-so+.41), rank: #3060
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage:
2006-03-25 (Canada, Teletoon - Special 90-minute Presentation)
2006-04-05 (Japan air date)
2006-05-07 to 2007-04-29 (Canada, Teletoon - Official Premiere)
2006-06-17 (USA - Kids WB)
2008-10-06 (Italy)
Opening Theme:
"ALRIGHT" by Japanese Geronimo & Love Guerilla Experience
#1: "Calling All Spider Riders" by ???
Ending Theme:
#1: "Twilight Time" by MCU (eps 1-13)
#2: "Koi no Keshiki" by Tamaru Yamada (eps 14-26)
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Spider Riders - Season 1 DVD Set (Dub.DVD) 2007-09-11 (from $8.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Koichi Mashimo
Takaaki Ishiyama

Script:
Hideki Shirane
Noboru Kimura
Yousuke Kuroda

Storyboard:
Hideki Shirane (ep 6)
Jun'ichi Sakata (ep 5)
Koji Sawai (6 episodes

eps 1, 4, 7, 10-11, 18
)
Masaki Watanabe (eps 15, 17)
Masayuki Kurosawa (ep 3)
Naoyuki Kuzuya (eps 9, 14, 16)
Shinji Ishihira (ep 21)
Shintaro Itoga (ep 20)
Takaaki Ishiyama (5 episodes
eps 6, 8, 12, 15, 20
)

Tomoyuki Kurokawa (eps 13, 22)
Yuki Arie (eps 2, 22)
Yutaka Hirata (ep 19)

Episode Director:
Hiroshi Morioka (ep 7)
Naoyuki Kuzuya (ep 23)
Shintaro Itoga (5 episodes

eps 5, 10, 14, 17, 20
)
Takaaki Ishiyama (ep 12)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (5 episodes
eps 4, 8, 13, 21, 26
)

Yuki Arie (eps 1-3, 6)
Yutaka Hirata (4 episodes
eps 9, 16, 19, 25
)

Music:
Fumitaka Anzai
Nobuhiko Nakayama

Character Design: Yuko Iwaoka

Art director: Toshihisa Koyama

Animation director:
Kousuke Kawazura (5 episodes

eps 3, 7, 11, 15, 19
)
Shinichi Miyamae (ep 23)
Shinichiro Minami (ep 21)
Tatsuya Oka (eps 4, 10, 20)
Tomoaki Kado (5 episodes
eps 2, 8, 12, 17, 25
)

Tomoko Ishida (ep 22)
Tsutomu Kikuchi (ep 16)
Yoshiaki Kameda (ep 14)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (ep 6)
Yuko Iwaoka (7 episodes
eps 1, 5, 9, 13, 18, 22, 26
)

Mecha design: Kenji Teraoka

Sound director: Toru Nakano

Director of Photography: Kenji Takehara

Co-production Manager: Mike Wrenn

Colour Design: Makiko Kojima

Editing: Masayuki Kurosawa

Key Animation:
Akihito Aoki (ep 5)
Chuuichi Iguchi (ep 5)
Daisuke Agata (ep 5)
Daisuke Endo (ep 5)
Hitomi Tsuruta (ep 5)
Kazuya Nakanishi (ep 5)
Rie Kobayashi (ep 5)
Shinya Yamada (ep 5)
Tamotsu Ogawa (ep 5)
Tomoko Ishida (ep 5)

Recording Adjustment: Masanori Tsuchiya

Sound Effects: Masaru Urahata

Special Effects:
Masahiro Murakami
Sumie Murakami

Spider & Insect Design: Tomoaki Kado

Supervision: Kazunori Takagi

Theme Song Arrangement: CMJK (ED 1)

Theme Song Composition:
CMJK (ED 1)
Tamaru Yamada (ED 2)

Theme Song Performance:
MCU (ED 1)
Tamaru Yamada (ED 2)

Visual Effects:
Masashi Saito
Shinichi Igarashi

 

Kaori Shimizu as Princess Sparkle 

Motoko Kumai as Hunter

Takashi Kondo as Shadow

Yuu Asakawa as Beerain 

Hiroshi Yanaka as Mantid

Kenta Miyake as Stags

Kinya Kotani as Magma

Kumiko Higa as Prince Lumen

Saeko Chiba as Corona

Sanae Kobayashi as
Aqune
Venus

Shigeru Chiba as Grasshop

Takehito Koyasu as Igneous

Toshihiko Seki as Baggus 

Anri Katsu as Grey

Atsuko Enomoto as Emerald (ep 9)

Hideki Nakanishi as Theatrical company member (ep 20)

Hiroshi Tsuchida as Insector Captain (ep 7)

Kana Uetake as Woman

Kiyonobu Suzuki as Chairman (ep 20)

Kiyoyuki Yanada as Gold beetle (ep 25)

Kumiko Higa as Portia

Masaki Yamamoto as Theatrical company member (ep 20)

Maya Okamoto as Sina (ep 16)

Megumi Toyoguchi as Lemin

Naoko Matsui as Melissa (ep 5)

Noboru Yasui as Theatircal company member (ep 20)

Rei Nakatsuka as Woman (ep 20)

Ryusei Nakao as God officer (ep 18)

Sanae Kobayashi as Child A (ep 6)

Sara Nakayama as Mina (ep 16)

Shigenori Sôya as Insector Captain (ep 17)

Shigeru Chiba as
Brutus
Grasshop's Wife (ep 23)
Jump (ep 23)
Step (ep 23)

Shiho Hisajima as Villager (ep 16)

Takafumi Kawakami as
Assistant Commander (ep 7)
Villager (ep 17)

Takako Honda as Lily

Takashi Mito as Commander (ep 1)

Takuma Suzuki as
Celpido (ep 10)
Shinkan

Wataru Hatano as
Insector Captain
Soldier (ep 13)
Villager (ep 16)

Youhei Nishina as Soldier (ep 4)

Yui Makino as Village girl (ep 7)

Yuka Takakura as Noia (ep 19)

Yukito Souma as Theatrical company member (ep 20)

Yuko Kobayashi as Elma (ep 24)

Yuu Asakawa as Hotarla

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Bee Train

Art Direction: Production AI

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo (2006-04-05)

Production: Cookie Jar Entertainment

Visual Effects: Studio Twinkle

English staff 
English cast 

Music: David Shaw

Executive producer:
Kouji Kumode
Lesley Taylor
Michael Hirsh
Patsy Cameron
Tedd Anasti
Yasuharu Iwakiri

Coordinator:
Evelyn Antosz
Marie-Claude Langlois
Rolando Chiarullo

Line Producer: Diane Dallaire

Offline Editor:
Brian Reid
Ed Ham

Online Editor: Ed Ham

Post-Production Coordinator:
Drew Chilvers
Michelle Diamond
Mireille Osbourne

Post-Production Director: Joey Vekteris

Production Accountant: Derek Moser

Production Business Affairs: Carrie Dumont

Production Executive:
John Vandervelde (Cookie Jar Entertainment)
Mark Chernin (Cookie Jar Entertainment)

Re-Recording Engineer: Jamie Sulak

Recording engineer: Laura Davies

Script Adaptation:
Robert Pincombe
Shelley Hoffman

Sound Editor: Timothy Muirhead

Supervising Sound Editor: Craig Marshall

Technical director: Matthew Skal

Voice Direction: Melodie Vaughan

 

Ellen Ray Snow as Beerain 

Joseph Motiki as Shadow

Julie Lemieux as Hunter Steele

Melanie Tonello as Princess Sparkle 

Ron Parod as Narrator 

Alyson Court as Aqune

Cardly Larson as Venus

Carman Melville as Grasshop

Colleen Clinkenbeard as Venus 

Jack Langendijk as Buguese

Lawrence Bayne as Mantid

Lyon Smith as Magma

Stacey Depass as Corona

Tim Hamaguchi as Igneous 

Cameron Ansell as Prince Lumen 

Dan Petronijevic as Slate

Darren Frost as Brutus

Grace Fulliton as Hotarla

Julie Lemieux as
Lily
Queen Illuma (eps 24, 36-40)
Spirit Oracle

Megan Fahlenbock as Lady Noia Lya (ep 19)

Peter Capllan as Flame

English companies 

Broadcaster: KIDS' WB

Distributor:
FUNimation Entertainment
Vivendi Entertainment Canada (Canada)

Dubbing: Cookie Jar Entertainment

Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment

French staff 
French companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Teletoon (Canada) (French)

French cast 
(none)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Pino Pirovano

Dialogues:
Anna Grisoni
Dominique Evoli
Francesca Bielli

Mixing: Moreno Grossi Pometti

Synchronization: Giancarlo Martino

Theme Song Performance: Antonio Divincenzo

 

Diego Sabre as Grasshop

Emanuela Pacotto as Aqune

Federica Valenti as Princess Sparkle

George Castiglia as Hunter Steele

Gianluca Iacono as Igneo

Giorgio Bonino as Buguese

Lorenzo Scattorin as Magma

Marcella Silvestri as Corona

Marco Balzarotti as Shadow

Pietro Ubaldi as Lord Mantid

Renato Novara as Prince Lumen

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Italia 1 (from 6 october 2008)

Dubbing: LOGOS srl

 
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