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My Bride is a Mermaid (TV)

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[ adapted from Seto no Hanayome (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Seto no Hanayome (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Seto no Hanayome (Japanese)
瀨戶的花嫁 (Chinese (Taiwan))
瀬戸の花嫁 (Japanese)
세토의 신부 (Korean)
Themes: harem, mermaid, yakuza
Copyright notice: © Tahiko Kimura/SQUARE ENIX-Seto Project
Plot Summary: A young boy gets saved from drowning by a mermaid but, according to mermaid law, if a human sees a mermaid's true form, both have to be killed. The only solution to the problem is for him to marry her.
User Ratings: 1900 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 297 votes (sub:245, dub:26, raw:8, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:16
12 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 662 votes (sub:570, dub:69, raw:4, ?:3, others:16
11 Spanish subtitled
2 Korean subtitled
1 Thai language dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
)
 Very good: 431 votes (sub:349, dub:63, raw:3, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:13
4 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 263 votes (sub:220, dub:35, others:8
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Decent: 112 votes (sub:88, dub:21, raw:1, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 So-so: 48 votes (sub:40, dub:5, ?:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Not really good: 23 votes (sub:19, dub:4)
 Weak: 42 votes (sub:37, dub:2, raw:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:2, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Awful: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 3343 users, rank: #251 (of 5563)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.093 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.6822, rank: #379 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 7.938 (Very good), rank: #497 (of 5553) (seen all: 8.16 / seen some: 7.01 / won't finish: 4.39)
Bayesian estimate: 7.936 (Very good), rank: #323 (of 4226)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2007-04-01 to 2007-09-30
2010-04-16 (Singapore, Okto)
Opening Theme:
"Romantic summer" by SUN&LUNAR
Ending Theme:
#1: "Ashita e no Hikari (明日への光)" by Asuka Hinoi (eps 1-13,26)
#2: "Dan Dan Dan" by SUN&LUNAR (eps 14-)
Official website:
GONZO 作品一覧 -瀬戸の花嫁- (Japanese)
Seto no Hanayome @ TV Tokyo (Japanese)
瀬戸の花嫁 (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 19
Reviews:
My Bride Is a Mermaid: Season 1 DVD Part 2 (Sep 1, 2010)
My Bride Is a Mermaid Season 1 DVD Part 1 (Aug 2, 2010)
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DVD (Region 1)
    My Bride is a Mermaid - Part 1 (DVD) 2010-07-20 (from $24.95)
    My Bride is a Mermaid - Part 2 (DVD) 2010-09-07 (from $7.99)
    My Bride is a Mermaid - The Complete Series (DVD) 2012-01-03 (from $32.12)
    My Bride is a Mermaid - The Complete Series [S.A.V.E.] (DVD) 2013-05-14 (from $17.04)

Japanese staff
Japanese companies
Director: Seiji Kishi
Series Composition: Makoto Uezu
Music: Yasuharu Takanashi
Original creator: Tahiko Kimura
Character Design: Kazuaki Morita
Art Director: Maho Takahashi
Producer:
Hideyuki Namba
Kanji Ogo
Nobuyuki Kurashige (Square Enix)
Shinsaku Hatta (TV Tokyo)
Yasutaka Hyuuga

Color design: Sakiko Ito
Key Animation:
Hokuto Sakiyama (eps 7, 13)
Takashi Habe (OP; eps 16, 20, 22)
Music Director: Satoki Iida
Planning:
Atsushi Suzuki (Avex Entertainment)
Hiroshi Taguchi (Square Enix)
Naoki Nakamura (TV Tokyo)
Takehiko Aoki (SOTSU)
Yasushi Uchida (Gonzo)
Sound Effects: Ijo Okuda
Theme Song Arrangement:
Halko Momoi (OP)
Shuhei Naruse (ED2)
Yugo Sasakura (ED1)
Theme Song Composition:
Halko Momoi (OP)
Shuhei Naruse (ED2)
Yugo Sasakura (ED1)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Goro Matsui (ED2)
Halko Momoi (OP)
Yugo Sasakura (ED1)
Theme Song Performance:
Asuka Hinoi (ED)
Halko Momoi (OP - SUN&LUNAR)
Sakura Nogawa (OP - SUN&LUNAR)
2nd Key Animation:
AD Cosmo (ep 13)
Studio Gash (ep 21)
Animation Production:
AIC
avex mode
Gonzo
Background Art:
Art Max (eps 3-25 odd)
G&G Entertainment (eps 3-25 odd)
Studio Tulip (15 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-14 even, 15-16, 18-26 even
)
Till Dawn Team (eps 3-25 odd)
Broadcaster:
AT-X (2007-05-10)
TV Aichi (2007-04-02)
TV Osaka (2007-04-06)
TV Setouchi (2007-04-07)
TV Tokyo (2007-04-01)
Finish Animation: AIC Takarazuka (eps 18-26)
Finish Animation Cooperation:
AD Cosmo (eps 13, 17)
Artland (ep 3)
Asahi Production (4 episodes
eps 5, 12, 19, 23
)
BJ (eps 1, 3)
Buyu (eps 1, 26)
cube A motion (19 episodes
eps 1-6, 8-13, 15-16, 19-20, 23-24, 26
)
D-COLORS (8 episodes
eps 2-5, 11-12, 14, 24
)
DEXS (5 episodes
eps 11, 18, 20, 25-26
)
FAI (9 episodes
eps 1, 7-9, 13, 17, 21, 23-24
)
Fanout (4 episodes
eps 11, 14, 18, 26
)
Front Line (18 episodes
eps 1-4, 6-11, 13-14, 16, 22-26
)
Ingressa (ep 15)
iseriA (eps 13, 21)
Jinbun (ep 26)
MSJ (12 episodes
eps 2, 4-6, 11-12, 15, 18-20, 23, 25
)
Oriental Light and Magic (ep 9)
Rising Force (ep 25)
Studio Gash (ep 7)
Studio Gimlet (eps 9, 15)
Studio Lagoon (ep 9)
Sunshine Digital (ep 9)
Tamazawa Animation House (ep 24)
Triple A (ep 21)
In-Between Animation:
AIC PLUS (eps 19-20)
AIC Spirits (ep 24)
AIC Takarazuka (9 episodes
eps 4, 9, 15, 18-21, 23, 26
)
In-Between Animation Cooperation:
AD Cosmo (eps 13, 17, 21)
AIC Spirits (5 episodes
eps 6, 8-9, 12, 18
)
Angle (eps 9, 15)
Anime R (eps 9, 15, 19)
APPP (ep 3)
Artland (ep 21)
Asahi Production (6 episodes
eps 5, 12, 19-20, 23, 26
)
AZETA PICTURES (ep 15)
Buyu (ep 13)
cube A motion (10 episodes
eps 2, 4-6, 8, 12, 19-20, 23, 26
)
DEXS (5 episodes
eps 11, 18, 20, 25-26
)
FAI (20 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-11, 13-15, 17-21, 23-24
)
Fanout (4 episodes
eps 11, 14, 18, 26
)
Front Line (21 episodes
eps 1-11, 13-16, 20, 22-26
)
Ingressa (eps 15, 23)
Jinbun (ep 26)
Mook Animation (ep 10)
MSJ (11 episodes
eps 2, 4-6, 11-12, 15, 19-20, 23, 25
)
Studio Barcelona (ep 10)
Studio DEEN (ep 3)
Studio Gash (ep 7)
Studio Gimlet (eps 3, 9, 19)
Studio Mu (ep 9)
Triple A (ep 21)
Key Animation:
AIC Takarazuka (5 episodes
eps 9, 15, 19, 23, 26
)
Toybox (ep 21)
Key Animation Cooperation:
Asahi Production (eps 10, 26)
DEXS (ep 26)
FAI (12 episodes
eps 8-11, 14, 18-20, 23-26
)
Front Line (6 episodes
eps 10-11, 14, 16, 22, 26
)
MSJ (ep 19)
Wish (ep 8)
Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music
Music Production: Regard Music
Photography: AIC Takarazuka (eps 18-26)
Production:
avex entertainment
Gonzo
Seto Project
Sotsu Agency
Square Enix
TV Tokyo
Production Collaboration: avex entertainment
Recording Studio:
B-Line
Studio Mausu
Sound Production: Dax Production
Video Editing Studio: Mitomo VTC
Japanese cast
Halko Momoi as San Seto
Takahiro Mizushima as Nagasumi Michishio

Atsushi Imaruoka as Burio
Daisuke Ono as Kai Mikawa
Keisuke Fujii as Ajitaro
Kenta Miyake as Gouzaburou Seto
Kouki Harasawa as Maguro
Rika Morinaga as Mawari Zenigata
Sakura Nogawa as Luna Edomae

Atsushi Imaruoka as Nagasumi's Father
Daisuke Namikawa as Yoshiuo Minamoto (eps 25-26)
Eri Kitamura as Akeno Shiranui
Eriko Matsushima as Nagasumi's Grandmother
Hidekatsu Shibata as General (ep 17)
Katsuki Murase as Masa
Makiko Nabei as Ren Seto
Masahito Yabe as
Hideyoshi Sarutobi
Octopus Nakajima
Natsuko Kuwatani as Maki
Noriko Namiki as Nagasumi's Mother
Noriko Rikimaru as Iinchou
Shuuichi Ikeda as Akeno's brother (ep 23)
Takehito Koyasu as Shark Fujishiro
Tesshô Genda as Luna-Papa
Vanilla Yamazaki as Narration
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Scott Sager
Script:
Blair Rowan (eps 1-2, 14)
Bonny Clinkenbeard (eps 3-13, 15)
Sean Whitley (eps 16-26)
Translation: Sarah Alys Lindholm
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
Producer:
Carly Hunter
Justin Cook

ADR Engineer: Joseph Tompkins
Assistant producer: Michael Harcourt
Character Insert Songs: Alexis Tipton (vocals)
Digital Video Coordinator: Jeff Yale
DVD Authoring:
John Andreas
Matthew O'Hara
Trace Furniss
DVD Compression:
Duncan Yan
Jacob Martin
DVD Editing: Jeremy Jimenez
DVD Menu Audio: Gino Palencia
DVD Menu Design: Cate Ferman
DVD Producer: Clarine Harp
DVD Quality Control:
Caesar Lopez
Christine Bertolino
DJ Fonner
Jason Gee
Kris Bryan
Head Writer: John Burgmeier
Lead Video Engineer: Sarah Mueller
Line Producer: Mike McFarland
Mix Engineer: Andrew Tipps
Post-Production Assistant:
Ashley Rosse
Aya Spann (eps 14-26)
Casey Barteau
Niki Cooper
Production Assistant:
Gino Palencia
Trenton Jons
Production Supervision: Susie Nixon
Senior Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez
Subtitling:
Ashley Hayward
Ben Phillips
Rob Schindlbeck
Talent Coordination: Tara Williams
Video Editing:
Ashley Rosse (eps 14-26)
Christopher Bryan (eps 14-26)
Jessie Mancilla
Josh Tyler
Robert Bell
Video Engineer: Michael Rivas
Video Post-Production Director: Brandon Tyler
Alexis Tipton as Sun Seto
Todd Haberkorn as Nagasumi Michishio

Anthony Bowling as Hideyoshi "Chimp" Sarutobi
Caitlin Glass as Mawari Zenigata
Cherami Leigh as Lunar Edomae
Chris Cason as Maguro
Eric Vale as Kai Mikawa
John Swasey as Gouzaburou Seto
Josh Grelle as Ajitaro
Kate Bristol as Class Rep
Sonny Strait as Burio
Trina Nishimura as Akeno Shiranui

Amber Barnes as Merfolk
Andy Mullins as Nagasumi's Father
Barry Yandell as Kamata (ep 7)
Bob Carter as Bob (ep 7)
Brett Weaver as Shibasaki (ep 5)
Bryan Massey as Shark Fujishiro
Chris Cason as Octopus Nakajima
Chris Patton as Yoshiuo Minamoto (eps 25-26)
Christopher Bevins as Thug A (ep 4)
Christopher R. Sabat as Masa
Grant James as
Nagasumi's Grandfather
Toshi (ep 2)
Greg Ayres as Announcer (ep 7)
J. Michael Tatum as Lunar's Papa
Jamie Marchi as Isono Clinic Nurse (uncredited; ep 24)
Jason Douglas as Swordmaster (eps 19, 26)
Jeremy Inman as Michael (ep 7)
Juli Erickson as Nagasumi's Grandmother
Justin Cook as Dynamite Ginji (ep 13)
Kent Williams as Narrator (eps 21-23)
Kim Whalen as Narrator (ep 2)
Linda Young as Narrator
Lydia Mackay as Nagasumi's Mother
Maxey Whitehead as Bully A (ep 23)
Micah Solusod as Sun Fanboy (ep 8)
Monica Rial as Maki
R. Scott Cantrell as Washio (ep 18)
Robert McCollum as Yoshiuo Squad Leader (ep 26)
Stephanie Young as Ren Seto
English companies
Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
Internet Streaming:
Anime News Network
FUNimation Entertainment
Hulu
Madman Screening Room (Australia & New Zealand)
YouTube
Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: TV3 (Spain)
Distributor: Arait Multimedia (Spain)
Spanish cast
(none)
Tagalog cast
Tagalog staff
Dubbing Director: Pinky Rebucas
Christian Velarde as Nagasumi Michishio
Hazel Hernan as San Seto

Bryan Homecillo as Kai Mikawa
Noel Magat as Gouzaburou Seto
Rona Aguilar as Mawari Zenigata
Sherwin Revestir as Luna Edomae

AJ Constantino as Shark Fujishiro
Alexx Agcaoili as Nagasumi's dad
Hazel Hernan as Maki
Pinky Rebucas as
Akeno Shiranui
Nagasumi's grandmother
Rafael Miranda as Hideyoshi Sarutobi
Rona Aguilar as
class president
Nagasumi's mom
Sherwin Revestir as
Devil Maki
Ren Seto
Tagalog companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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