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Read or Die (OAV)

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©2001 STUDIO ORPHEE / Aniplex


[ related to Read or Die (manga) ]

Related anime:
    R.O.D -The TV- (sequel)

Alternative title:
Leer o Morir (Spanish)
R.O.D.
Прочти или умри (Russian)
إقرأ أو مت (Arabic)
リード・オア・ダイ (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Yomiko Readman is "The Paper" a secret underground operative for the British Library with the inredible power of complete control over paper, including the ability to make it solid as steel. She is called to duty when a book that could spell the end of the world is stolen, and she must take it back. Going with two other operatives, she attempts to take it back and save the world.
User Ratings: 2710 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 321 votes (sub:196, dub:117, ?:3, edit.dub:2, Spa.edit.dub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Excellent: 875 votes (sub:503, dub:336, edit.dub:9, ?:6, Spa.sub:6, Por.sub:4, Fre.sub:3, Ger.dub:2, raw:2, Ger.sub:1, Fre.edit.dub:1, English:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 784 votes (sub:472, dub:281, edit.dub:12, ?:6, Spa.sub:5, raw:2, Ger.dub:2, Por.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 448 votes (sub:263, dub:168, Spa.sub:4, edit.dub:4, raw:3, ?:3, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1, Kor.sub:1)
 Decent: 155 votes (sub:86, dub:60, ?:4, Spa.dub:1, Dut.sub:1, raw:1, Swe.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 67 votes (sub:42, dub:16, ?:3, Pol.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 23 votes (sub:15, dub:8)
 Weak: 23 votes (sub:13, dub:8, raw:2)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:3, ?:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 4637 users, rank: #71
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.097 (Very good+.09), std. dev.: 1.3975, rank: #327
Weighted mean: 8.042 (Very good+.04), rank: #301 (seen all: 8.07 / seen some: 7.25 / won't finish: 5.16)
Bayesian estimate: 8.040 (Very good+.03), rank: #210
Running time: 29 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Vintage:
2001-05-23
2004-10-24 (USA TV)
2007-09-07 to 2007-09-09 (Germany - Animax)
Releases: We have 3
Opening Theme:
"R.O.D Theme" by Taku Iwasaki
Ending Theme:
#1: "Those Who Love Books to Insanity Say, 'Paper Is Always with Us'" by Taku Iwasaki (ep 1)
#2: "すべての叡知を英国へ! (Bring All the Wisdom to Britain!)" by Taku Iwasaki (eps 2-3)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
This OVA series is often incorrectly referred to as a "Read or Die Movie."
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Related reviews:
    Read or Die DVD

Related releases:
    Read Or Die - Essence of Anime (DVD) 2007-09-04 (from $9.78)
    Read or Die (DVD) 2003-05-27 (from $8.05)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Koji Masunari

Script: Hideyuki Kurata

Music: Taku Iwasaki

Original creator: Hideyuki Kurata

Original Character Design: Taraku Uon (Studio Orphee)

Character Design: Masashi Ishihama

Art director: Kazuo Ogura

Art design: Hideyasu Narita

Mecha design: Eiji Suganuma

Director of Photography:
Mitsuyu Kondo
Shinyo Kondo

Producer:
Keiichi Matsuda (Studio DEEN)
Masatoshi Fujimoto (SME Visual Works)

Assistant Animation Director:
Hideki Tachibana (ep 1)
Kenichi Ishimaru (ep 3)
Takahiro Chiba (eps 2-3)
Tetsuto Saitoo (ep 3)

Character Animation Director: Masashi Ishihama

Color design: Shinji Matsumoto

Development: Ryuzo Shirakawa (SME Visual Works)

Key Animation:
Akira Matsushima (ep 2)
Chikayoshi Sakurai (eps 1-2)
Eiji Suganuma (eps 1-3)
Etsutaka Kawano (ep 2)
Fujio Suzuki (ep 2)
Fumihide Sai (ep 3)
Haruo Sotozaki (ep 2)
Hideki Inoue (ep 1)
Hideki Nagamachi (ep 3)
Hideki Tachibana (eps 1-3)
Hidenori Fukuoka (eps 2-3)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 2)
Hirofumi Suzuki (eps 1-3)
Hiroko Kazui (eps 1-2)
Hiromi Oikawa (ep 2)
Hitoshi Ueda (ep 3)
Kaori Takahashi (ep 3)
Kazuhiko Abe (ep 2)
Keiji Gotoh (ep 3)
Keiko Shimizu (ep 3)
Kenichi Ishimaru (eps 1-2)
Kenichi Yamaguchi (ep 3)
Kōji Shinaki (ep 3)
Koji Watanabe (eps 2-3)
Masahiro Sekiguchi (ep 3)
Masaru Hyodo (eps 1-3)
Masashi Ishihama (eps 1-3)
Miyako Tsuji (ep 3)
Nobutoshi Ogura (ep 3)
Noriaki Tetsura (ep 3)
Noriyuki Matsutake (eps 1, 3)
Sanae Narazaki (eps 1-3)
Satoru Kobayashi (ep 1)
Seiichi Nakatani (eps 1-2)
Shingo Suzuki (ep 3)
Shinobu Tagashira (ep 1)
Shinpei Tomooka (ep 3)
Shinya Harii (ep 3)
Shinya Hasegawa (ep 3)
Shogo Morishita (ep 3)
Shunji Murata (ep 2)
Taiki Shibuya (eps 1-3)
Takaaki Sekizaki (ep 3)
Takahiro Chiba (eps 1-3)
Takashi Sasaoka (ep 3)
Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 3)
Takuji Abe (ep 2)
Takuya Saito (eps 1, 3)
Tatsuya Oishi (ep 2)
Tetsuya Kumatani (ep 1)
Toshiyuki Tsuru (ep 3)
Yasuhiro Aoki (ep 3)
Yasuomi Umetsu (ep 3)

Mechanical animation director:
Eiji Suganuma
Hirofumi Suzuki (ep 1)

Music Director: Takashi Kodama (SME Visual Works)

Planning:
Takamitsu Shirakawa
Tomiyo Hiruta (SME Visual Works)

Post-Production Engineer: Takuya Hiramitsu

Production Design: Noriyuki Shinguji

Prop Design: Hideki Tachibana

Set Design: Iho Narita

 

Michiko Neya as Nancy "Miss Deep" Makuhari

Rieko Miura as Yomiko "The Paper" Readman

Bunmei Tobayama as Gentleman

Hozumi Gôda as Joker

Konta as Ikkyu

Masami Iwasaki as Drake Anderson

Mika Sakenobe as Wendy Earhart

Ryousuke Ohtani as Gennai Hraga

Daisuke Ishikawa as Mark

Eiji Takemoto as
Alex
Crew
Paul

Harî Kaneko as Otto Lilienthal

Hirofumi Shitamoto as Pilot

Hiroki Takahashi as Genjo Sanzo

Junko Takeuchi as Fabre (Boy)

Katashi Ishizuka as Arias

Koushi Shitazaki as SP

Kunihiko Takani as Fabre

Naoki Izumi as President Cole

Rei Naitou as Frankie

Yoshikazu Nagano as Malone

Yuki Nakao as
Female Staff
Marianne

Japanese companies 

Animation: Studio DEEN

Broadcaster: Animax

Key Animation:
Hal Film Maker (ep 2)
Jec.E (ep 2)

Production:
Aniplex
Studio Orphee

Production Studio: SME Visual Works

Recording Facility: Sanbunzaka Studio

Sound Production: SME Visual Works

Titles: Maki Productions

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Amanda Winn Lee

Translation: Al Kennedy

ADR Script: Taliesin Jaffe

Executive producer: Marvin Gleicher

Producer:
Amanda Winn Lee
Jason Lee

Additional Scripting:
Amanda Winn Lee
Amy Seeley
Michael John Ross
Sean Vahle

Assistant director:
Amy Seeley
Michael John Ross

Line Producer: Margo Coughlin

Recording engineer: Sean Vahle

Script Advisor:
Keith Burgess
Matt Perrier

Sound Mixing: Sean Vahle

Special Thanks To:
Eric Lichtenfeld
Glen Matisoff
Lily Rodriguez
Marco Bustos
Ryan Reilly
Taliesin Jaffe

Subtitling: Brett Jacobsen

Amanda Winn Lee as Nancy "Miss Deep" Makuhari

Kimberly Yates as Yomiko "Agent Paper" Readman

Crispin Freeman as Joker

Daniel Raymont as Ikkyu

Dean Haglund as Gennai Hiraga

Douglas Rye as Mr. Gentleman

Jason Lee as Drake Anderson

Tricia Dickson as Wendy Earhart

Chad Fifer as Genjo Sanzo

Dave Herbelin as President Cole

Douglas Rye as Jean-Henri Fabre

Hal Lublin as
Eliot
Otto Lilienthal

Jason Miller as Steven Wilcox

Michael John Ross as Paul

Ryan Abraham as Alex

Scott MacDonnell as Recovery Agent

Sue Cremlin as Yoko

Adam Harrington

Brooke Cadorette

Douglas Rye

Robert Peterson

English companies 

5.1 Surround Mix: The Post Office Broadcast Services LLC

Broadcaster:
Adult Swim
Animax Asia
Animax India
Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)
Sci Fi Channel (Ani-Tuesday)

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (UK) (UK)

Dubbing: Gaijin Productions

Licensed by: Manga Entertainment

Recording Facility: The Post Office Broadcast Services LLC

Soundtrack: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

French staff 

ADR Director: Thierry Kazazian

French cast 

Isabelle Volpe as Yomiko " The paper " Readman

Bruno Magne as Gennai Hiraga

Bruno Magne as Genjo Sanzo

French companies 

ADR Production: Studio Chinkel

DVD Distribution: Dybex (France)

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Executive producer:
Federico Anceri
Frederic Cegüi

Producer: Miguel Petriotti

Licensing Manager: Liliana Silveira

 (none)
Spanish companies 

Distributor: Fantasy Entertainment

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión

Producer: Fantasy Entertainment

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Susanne Hermann as Yomiko Readman

Tanja Geke as Nancy Makuhari

Eberhard Prüter as Ikkyu

Katja Primel as Wendy Earhart

Reinhard Scheunemann as Gentlemen

Sebastian Jacob as Joker

Tilo Schmitz as Drake Anderson

Eberhard Prüter as Präsident

Jan Spitzer as Otto Lilienthal

Tim Moeseritz as David

German companies 

Broadcaster: Animax Germany (2007-09-07 to 2007-09-09)

Distributor: Anime-Virtual

Dubbing: Elektrofilm


Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Dutch cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
 
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