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Freedom (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Свобода (Russian)
Themes: motorcycle, space
Plot Summary: In the year 2041, mankind created their first space colony on the moon. But after a freak cataclysm devastated human civilisation on Earth, the republic of the moon built a domed megalopolis known as Eden. Now in the year 2267, a boy called Takeru spends his time engaging in hover-craft races against rival street gangs, unaware that he is about to embark in the journey of unearthing Eden's origin.
User Ratings: 159 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 20 votes (sub:15, dub:3, Ita.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Excellent: 48 votes (sub:44, dub:4)
 Very good: 41 votes (sub:36, Spa.sub:2, Rus.sub:1, dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 26 votes (sub:22, Pol.sub:2, dub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Decent: 11 votes (sub:10, dub:1)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 336 users, rank: #1372
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.868 (Very good-.13), std. dev.: 1.7984, rank: #569
Weighted mean: 7.835 (Very good-.16), rank: #502 (seen all: 7.96 / seen some: 8.09 / won't finish: 3.46)
Bayesian estimate: 7.815 (Very good-.18), rank: #342
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 6 
Episode titles: We have 8
Vintage:
2006-10-27
2009-02-01 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Releases: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"This Is Love" by Hikaru Utada
Official website:
Freedom Project (Japanese)
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Related reviews:
    Freedom Sub.DVDs 1-3

Related releases:
    Freedom - Box Set (Blu-Ray) 2008-11-11 (from $80.24)
    Freedom - Complete Collection (DVD) 2009-04-07 (from $22.81)
    Freedom - Part 1 (DVD) 2009-07-07 (from $14.99)
    Freedom - Part 2 (DVD) 2009-09-01 (from $14.99)
    Freedom (Sub.DVD 3) 2007-12-11 (from $29.99)
    Freedom (Sub.DVD 4) 2008-02-26 (from $26.00)
    Freedom (Sub.DVD 5) 2008-04-22
    Freedom (Sub.DVD 6) 2008-06-24 (from $29.99)
    Freedom (Sub.DVD 2) 2007-09-25 (from $29.99)
    Freedom (HDDVD+DVD) (Sub.DVD 1) 2007-06-26 (from $24.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Shuhei Morita

Series Composition:
Dai Sato
Katsuhiko Chiba

Scenario:
Dai Sato
Katsuhiko Chiba
Yuuichi Nomura

Storyboard:
Hiroaki Ando (ep 5)
Hirotaka Endo (ep 6)
Hitoyuki Matsui (eps 2-3)
Katsuhiro Otomo
Kazuyoshi Katayama (ep 1)
Kou Matsuo (ep 7)
Shuhei Morita (ep 4)

Episode Director:
Hiroaki Ando (ep 5)
Hirotaka Endo (ep 6)
Hitoyuki Matsui (eps 2-3)
Kazuyoshi Katayama (ep 1)
Kôji Yamazaki (ep 7)
Kou Matsuo (ep 4)

Music: Yoshihiro Ike

Character Design: Katsuhiro Otomo

Art director: Kei Ichikura

Animation director:
Atsushi Irie (eps 4, 7)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (eps 2, 5)
Kouichi Arai (ep 1)
Takao Maki (eps 3, 6)

Mechanical design: Yasumitsu Suetake

Mecha design: Katsuhiro Otomo

Sound director: Keiichi Momose

Cgi director: Kodai Sato

Executive producer:
Atsushi Sugita
Kenji Uchida
Wataru Tanaka

Background Art:
Kazuo Ogura
Takashi Watabe
Yasumitsu Suetake

CG: Shuhei Morita

Colour Design: Nagisa Abe

Effects:
Akiyo Yamaura
Takashi Hashimoto

Mecha Concemptual Design:
Kazuo Ogura
Takashi Watabe
Yasumitsu Suetake

Original Plan: Satoshi Takamatsu

Planning: Satoshi Takamatsu

Theme Song Performance: Hikaru Utada

 

Daisuke Namikawa as Takeru

Showtaro Morikubo as Kazuma

Dai Matsumoto as Junk shop guy

Eri Sendai as Chiyo

Kappei Yamaguchi as Bis

Kazunari Tanaka as Dorowa

Kouhei Fukuhara as Goshu

Sanae Kobayashi as Ao

Seizo Katou as Alan

Takuya Kirimoto as Taira

Yumiko Kobayashi as Ricky

Kiyomi Yazawa as Moonshine member

Kouichi Yamada as Moonshine member

Masaaki Kouda as Moonshine member

Riki Kitazawa as Moonshine member

Sayaka Ohara as Voice from bracelet

Takahiro Fukushima as Moonshine member

Taketora as Volunteer leader

Takuya Desaki as Moonshine member

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Sunrise

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Michael Sinterniklaas

Script:
Marc Handler
Michael Sinterniklaas
Stephanie Sheh

Translation:
Brian Gray
Lynn Robson
Ryan Morris

Executive producer:
Ken Iyadomi
Masaki Kaifu
Shinsuke Hori

Producer:
Masami Tokunaga
Toshifumi Yoshida

ADR Engineer:
Anthony Tortorici
Michael Sinterniklaas

Assistant ADR Director:
Carrie Keranen
Stephanie Sheh

Casting Director: Stephanie Sheh

Mixing: Mark Ettel

Production Assistant:
Scott Sizemore
Shinsuke Tabuchi

Production manager: K. Yukon

Project Management:
Kengo Watanabe
Lynn Robson
Yuka Tero

Script Supervisor: K. Yukon

Special Thanks To: Ryan Morris

 

Johnny Yong Bosch as Kazuma

Michael Sinterniklaas as Takeru

Greg Abbey as Taira

Kyle Hebert as Gosche

Marc Thompson as Drowa

Robbie Sharp as Biz

Robert O'Gorman as Narrator

Stephanie Sheh as Ao

William Frederick Knight as Alan

Abbey Normle as Anna Marie

David Wills as James

DNA-1 as Michael

Marc Diraison as David

Michael Alston Baley as Bluearth

Steve Kramer as Chimpster

Brandon Potter

Dan Green

Eileen Stevens

Jason Griffith

K. Yukon

Lucy Todd

Victorio Cole

English companies 

Distributor:
Beez (UK)
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Licensed by: Bandai Visual USA

Mixing: STUDIOPOLIS, Inc.

Project Management: frognet ltd.

Translation: frognet ltd.

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Jacques Albaret

 

Cédric Barbereau as Kazuma

Vincent De Bouard as Kateru

Alexandre Aubry as Biz

Fabrice Lelyon as Bluearth

Nathalie Bienaime as Ao

Renaud Heine as Kaira

Serge Noël as Alan

Susan Sindberg as Anna Marie

French companies 
(none)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Stefano Brusa

Dubbing Assistant: Rossana Mortara

Encoding And Authoring: Luca Franciosi

Graphic Project:
Alex Corazza
Ivan Murgia

IVTC: Luca Franciosi

Mix: Davide Sgorlon

Post-production: Luca Franciosi

Quality Control: Luca Franciosi

 

Andrea Mete as Taira

Davide Perino as Biz

Emanuela Damasio as Chiyo

Flavio Aquilone as Kazuma

Gianluca Crisafi as Dorowa

Lorenzo De Angelis as Takeru

Stefano Santerini as Gosshu

Italian companies 

Distributor: Dynit

Dubbing: Videodelta

DVD Authoring: Vegas Multimedia S.r.l.

Translation: Ad Libitum

 
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