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Nighthead Genesis (TV)

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[ alternate retelling of Night Head (live-action TV) ]

Related anime:
    Night Head Genesis (manga) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
ナイトヘッドジェネシス (Japanese)
暗夜第六感 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: espers
Plot Summary: 'It is said that 70% of human brain capacity is unused. If human posses incredible power, it is strongly believed to be lying dormant within this region. This unused 70% brain capacity is known as "Night Head".' The famous work 'NIGHT HEAD' is going to break the silence... They were abandoned by their parents because of the psychic power they possess. They are the Kirihara brothers, who lived in a labatory within a barrier-protected forest. They have escaped from the labatory, and a new wave of 'Revolution' is about to arise... A new "Night Head" is about to awaken.
User Ratings: 408 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 18 votes (sub:16, dub:2)
 Excellent: 47 votes (sub:42, dub:3, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 86 votes (sub:80, dub:5, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 95 votes (sub:87, dub:2, ?:1, others:5
3 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 48 votes (sub:46, dub:1, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 39 votes (sub:37, dub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 24 votes (sub:24)
 Weak: 27 votes (sub:27)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:10, dub:1)
 Awful: 10 votes (sub:10)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:1, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 913 users, rank: #1045 (of 5564)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.490 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.194, rank: #3249 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 6.438 (Decent+), rank: #3280 (of 5553) (seen all: 6.69 / seen some: 6.60 / won't finish: 3.76)
Bayesian estimate: 6.467 (Decent+), rank: #2926 (of 4228)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage: 2006-07-29
Ending Theme:
"言葉 (Kotoba)" by Under Graph
#2: "Nemutte Ita Kimochi, Nemutte Ita Kokoro" by Aya Kamiki
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Reviews:
Night Head Genesis Sub.DVD 5 (Jul 13, 2009)
Night Head Genesis DVD 4 (May 23, 2009)
Night Head Genesis DVD 3 (Apr 20, 2009)
News: Show:
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Retailer: Media Blasters Lists Fall Releases, Date Changes (Jul 19, 2012)
North American Stream List: October 10-16 (Oct 16, 2011)
Diamond Cancels Some March Anime/Manga Related Orders (Feb 20, 2009)
New York Comic Con - Del Rey Manga (Feb 7, 2009)
Del Rey Adds Night Head, Four-Eyed Prince, Only 1 Wish (Feb 7, 2009)
Media Blasters Delays Voltron to March, Others to Later (Feb 5, 2009)
Media Blasters Indicates License of Night Head Genesis (Feb 14, 2008)
New Anime in Japan Update (May 7, 2006)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Nighthead Genesis - Reminiscence (Sub.DVD 1) 2008-10-28 (from $1.99)
    Nighthead Genesis - Regret (Sub.DVD 2) 2008-12-23 (from $1.99)
    Nighthead Genesis - Disturbance (Sub.DVD 3) 2009-02-17 (from $1.99)
    Nighthead Genesis - Conciliation (Sub.DVD 4) 2009-04-07 (from $1.99)
    Nighthead Genesis - Hope (Sub.DVD 5) 2009-05-12 (from $1.99)
    Nighthead Genesis - Complete Collection [Litebox] (Sub.DVD 1-5) 2010-01-05 (from $22.39)
    Nighthead Genesis - Complete Collection [AnimeWorks Classics] (Sub.DVD 1-5) 2012-08-14 (from $10.30)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yoshio Takeuchi
Scenario: George Iida
Storyboard: Masahiko Murata
Music: Shigeru Umebayashi
Original creator: George Iida
Original Character Design: You Higuri
Art Director:
Hiroshi Kato
Toshihiro Kohama
Animation Director:
Noboru Furuse
Yasuyuki Ebara
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Director of Photography: Yasuhiko Abe
Executive producer: Keisuke Goto

Animation producer: Masakazu Yoshimoto
Assistant Director: Tetsuya Kobayashi
Background Art:
Kumiko Ono
Masaru Sato
Megumi Kato
Michie Suzuki
Misao Takimoto
Shuichi Tsuji
Shunichiro Yoshihara
Tomoe Morikawa
Toshihiro Kohama
Tsubasa Matsumoto
Color design:
Sachiko Harada
Yoshitaka Kato
Color setting: Yoshitaka Kato
Editing: Jun Takuma
Editing Assistant: Ayako Nakagawa
Key Animation:
Chika Ueno
Shin Tosaka (4 episodes
eps 1, 8, 19, 22
)
Takuya Hirata
Yumiko Kinoshita
Music producer: Shigeru Umebayashi
Opening Key Animation:
Kazuyuki Igai
Takashi Ito
Yukihiro Kobayashi
Photography: Yasuhiko Abe
Planning: Shinya Kawai
Planning Producer: Kenichi Takashima
Production manager: Kumiko Sekiguchi
Recording Adjustment: Satoshi Yano
Recording Assistant: Kanami Mitani
Sound Coordination: Tsutomu Satomi
Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawada
Sound Production Manager: Nobuhiro Ogawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Masanori Shimada (ED)
Under Graph (ED)
Theme Song Performance: Under Graph (ED)
Akira Ishida as Naoya Kirihara
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Naoto Kirihara

Akeno Watanabe as Shouko Futami
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Kyoujiro Mikuriya

Atsuko Yuya as Yamashita (ep 6)
Atsushi Kakehashi as Daigo (ep 6)
Chie Matsuura as Megumi Murakami (ep 6)
Chihiro Suzuki as Alpha
Daisuke Matsuoka as Yousuke Tagawa (ep 2)
Daisuke Ono as Beta
Eri Kitamura as Yoshimi Taniguchi (eps 6-7)
Eri Sendai as Sakie Amamoto
Eriko Kigawa as Natsuko Toono (ep 17)
Hideo Ishikawa as Jin Tanaka (ep 2)
Hiroko Nishi as Yasue Hanaoka (ep 5)
Hiroshi Yanaka as Michio Sonezaki
Junichi Suwabe as Mikumo
Kaya Miyake as Akemi (ep 6)
Kazuya Kobayashi as Kenji Taniguchi (ep 2)
Kei Shindou as Tomomi Amamoto (ep 20)
Koji Yusa as Kamiya Tsukasa
Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Doctor (ep 1)
Master (ep 2)
Madoka Kimura as Miki Tachibana
Masaya Onosaka as Yoshiki Futami
Masumi Asano as Mihoko (ep 19)
Miho Miyagawa as Rie (ep 19)
Misa Kobayashi as
Hitomi (ep 19)
Mariko Tomoeda (ep 6)
Natsuki Mori as Hitomi Tanaka (ep 2)
Sayaka Kinoshita as Hiroko Satou (ep 12)
Shigeru Shibuya as Osamu Sakaguchi
Shinji Takeda as Opening Narration
Takashi Matsuyama as Matsuo Hanaoka (ep 5)
Tetsuharu Ohta as Yoshio Yasukawa (ep 2)
Tomoko Miyadera as Akiko Okuhara
Tsuguo Mogami as Mitsuo Yokota (ep 2)
Wataru Hatano as Yukio Izumi (eps 6-7)
Yasunori Masutani as Yukihiko Kirihara
Youji Ueda as Misaki
Yui Kano as Sanae Hanaoka (ep 5)
Yuka Inokuchi as Ayane (ep 5)
Yuki Masuda as
Gamma
Naoya Kirihara (young; ep 1)
Yuki Tashiro as Noriko (ep 19)
Yuko Kaida as Mayumi (ep 13)
Yuko Nagashima as Reiko Hirose (ep 2)
Yuuko Nitou as Naomi Kirihara
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Bee Media
Broadcaster:
Animax (2006-08-17)
BS Japan (2006-07-29)
GyaO (2006-07-30)
In-Between Animation:
Muses
VISTA
Key Animation:
Studio Cockpit
Studio Mark
Paint:
D Colors
Muses
VISTA
Production:
Foursome Co., Ltd.
NIGHT HEAD GENESIS Production Committee
Production Collaboration: Holy Pro
Sound Production: Jinnan Studio
Sound Studio: Omnibus Japan
Special Thanks: Kodansha
English staff
English companies
(none)
Licensed by: Media Blasters
English cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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