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Ai Yori Aoshi (TV)

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[ adapted from Ai Yori Aoshi (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Ai Yori Aoshi [Azul] (Spanish)
Azul (Spanish)
Bleu Indigo (French)
Bluer Than Indigo
Темнее, чем индиго (Russian)
藍より青し (Japanese)
쪽빛보다 푸르게 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance, slice of life
Themes: fanservice, harem, hot girls
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in kimono at train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which looked like in his neighborhood but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for additional clue -- a photo with two children whom Kaoru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancée who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place.
User Ratings: 1936 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 172 votes (sub:113, dub:55, Spa.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Excellent: 388 votes (sub:273, dub:100, raw:5, Fre.sub:3, Spa.sub:2, ?:2, edit.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Very good: 479 votes (sub:360, dub:101, Spa.sub:5, raw:4, edit.dub:3, ?:3, Fre.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Good: 442 votes (sub:347, dub:86, ?:3, raw:3, edit.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 225 votes (sub:183, dub:31, Spa.sub:3, Fre.sub:2, raw:2, ?:2, Rus.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 So-so: 106 votes (sub:84, dub:17, raw:2, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Not really good: 42 votes (sub:32, dub:9, Spa.sub:1)
 Weak: 41 votes (sub:33, dub:5, Por.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Bad: 25 votes (sub:20, dub:3, ?:1, raw:1)
 Awful: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:3)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:5, Spa.edit.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 4046 users, rank: #95
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.422 (Good+.42), std. dev.: 1.789, rank: #1019
Weighted mean: 7.281 (Good+.28), rank: #1081 (seen all: 7.50 / seen some: 6.21 / won't finish: 3.98)
Bayesian estimate: 7.283 (Good+.28), rank: #882
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage:
2002-04-10 to 2002-09-26
2006-07-01 to 2006-12-09 (Singapore, Channel U)
Releases: We have 17
Opening Theme:
"Towa no Hana (Eternal Flower)" by Yoko Ishida
Ending Theme:
"Akai Hana" by The Indigo (ep 15)
"I'll Be Home" by Satsuki Yukino (ep 18)
"Namo Shirenu Hana" by The Indigo
"Towa no Hana (Eternal Flower)" by Yoko Ishida (ep 24)
Official website:
Ai Yori Aoshi (Japanese)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 7
In the news 24 times:
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2009-04-07   Hiroyuki Yamaga, Halko Momoi Going to Fanime (Updated)
2009-02-10   Halko Momoi to Return to Honolulu Festival in March
2008-10-09   Seto no Hanayome OVA Commercial Streamed
2008-05-22   Anime Expo to Host Anime Theme Song Singer Yoko Ishida
2008-04-17   Anime North to Host Voice Actress/Singer Halko Momoi
2008-02-18   Halko Momoi to Perform at Honolulu Festival in March
2007-03-01   Geneon Complete Editions Date Change
2005-07-08   Otakon Musical Guests
2004-07-03   Popotan & Earth Defense Family Licensed
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Related reviews:
    Ai Yori Aoshi DVD 1

Related releases:
    Ai Yori Aoshi - DVD/CD Combo Pack (DVD 1) (from $4.00)
    Ai Yori Aoshi - Faithfully Yours (DVD 1) 2003-02-25 (from $5.00)
    Ai Yori Aoshi - Faithfully Yours DVD + Artbox (DVD 1) 2003-02-25
    Ai Yori Aoshi - My Dearest (DVD 2) 2003-04-22 (from $16.91)
    Ai Yori Aoshi - Hugs & Kisses (v.3) (DVD 3) 2003-06-24 (from $16.91)
    Ai Yori Aoshi - Truly Yours (DVD 4) 2003-08-19
    Ai Yori Aoshi - With All My Heart (DVD 5) 2003-10-14 (from $4.39)
    Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ - DVD Brick Set (DVD) 2007-04-17

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Masami Shimoda

Series Composition: Masaharu Amiya

Screenplay: Kenichi Kanemaki

Storyboard: Kobun Shizuno

Episode Director:
Akira Tsuchiya (6)
Daisuke Takashima (1)
Hideki Okamoto (17)
Katsushi Sakurabi (7)
Kiyotaka Isako (8)
Kunitoshi Okajima (13)
Masahito Otani (4)
Masakazu Hashimoto (14)
Mitsutaka Noshitani (3)
Mitsutaka Notoya (5)
Setsugorou Tobari (2)
Shigeharu Takahashi (9)
Yoshitaka Koyama (21)

Music: Toshio Masuda

Original creator: Kou Fumizuki

Character Design: Kazunori Iwakura

Art director: Junichi Azuma

Chief Animation Director:
Yumi Nakayama

Sound director:
Masafumi Mima
Tsutomu Kashiwakura

Director of Photography:
Nobuo Oukouchi
Yoshio Ookouchi

Producer:
Go Haruna (Fuji TV)
Shouichi Nakazawa (Hakusensha)
Yuichi Sekido (Pioneer LDC)
Yuji Matsukura (J.C. Staff)

Chief Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki

Color Coordination: Miyuki Ishida

Design Work:
Shinya Hasegawa
Yuko Kusumoto

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Planning:
Akihiro Kawasaki (Pioneer LDC)
Masaki Sawanobori (MOVIC)
Michihisa Abe (J.C. Staff)
Osamu Sunami (Hakusensha)
Yosuke Kobayashi (PEA)

Publicity Producer: Takashi Iida (Pioneer LDC)

Recording: Makoto Uchida (Omnibus Promotion)

Series Concept: Masaharu Amiya

Series Story Editor: Saharu Amiyama

Sound Effects: Takahisa Ishino (Sound Ring)

Theme Song Arrangement: Toshio Masuda (OP)

Theme Song Composition: Toshio Masuda (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics: Takeshi Aida (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
The Indigo (ED)
Yoko Ishida (OP)

 

Ayako Kawasumi as Aoi Sakuraba

Souichiro Hoshi as Kaoru Hanabishi

Akiko Hiramatsu as Miyabi Kagurazaki

Halko Momoi as Chika Minazuki

Kaori Mizuhashi as Taeko Minazuki

Satsuki Yukino as Tina Foster

Sayaka Narita as Mayu Miyuki

Chiharu Suzuka as Kumi Honjo (Kaoru's Mother)

Gara Takashima as Aoi's Mother

Hiroko Suzuki as Mayu's mother (ep 12)

Junko Ishii as Mako-chan

Kan Tokumaru as Patriarch of Hanabishi (Kaoru's grandfather)

Kazumi Takahashi as Yumi

Kazutoshi Hatano as Takashi

Kazuya Nakai as Suzuki

Kenji Utsumi as Aoi's Father

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Ruka Saionji

Koichi Sakaguchi as Tanaka

Makoto Higo as
Nishida
Nishimoto
Satou

Masahiro Ogata as Uchida-kun

Mitsuru Ogata as Taiyaki Man (ep 10)

Narumi Hidaka as Kaoru (Young)

Natsumi Sakuma as Aoi's grandmother

Ryou Hirohashi as Mihori-san

Ryoukichi Takahashi as Ikeda-kun

Sayaka Narita as
Reporter (ep 10)
Tsurube (cat)

Souichiro Hoshi as Usa the Usagi (ep 12)

Sumi Shimamoto as
Taeko's grandmother (ep 16)
Taeko's mother (ep 6)

Unshou Ishizuka as Mayu's father (ep 12)

Yoshinori Sonobe as Yamada-kun

Yuka Inokuchi as
Female Salesperson
Uzume

Yuko Kaida as Miyuki

Yuuichi Nagashima as Estate Agent (ep 15)

Japanese companies 

Animation: J.C. Staff

Backgrounds: Studio Easter

Broadcaster: Fuji TV

Distributor: PIONEER LDC

Music Production: PIONEER LDC

Production:
Aiao Project
Fuji TV
Hakusensha
J.C. Staff
MOVIC
PIONEER LDC

Sound Production: Techno Sound

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Kaeko Sakamoto

Translation: Rika Takahashi

ADR Script: Clark Cheng

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Kaeko Sakamoto
Satoshi Fujii

Assistant producer: Mami Okada

Dialogue Editing: Matthew J. Mondrick

Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett (C.A.S.)

Recording engineer: Patrick Rodman

Subtitling: Clark Cheng

Supervising Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto

Trailer: Kristi Reed

 

Dave Lelyveld as Kaoru Hanabishi

Michelle Ruff as Aoi Sakuraba

Kay Jensen as Chika Minazuki

Kirsty Pape as Mayu Miyuki

Lia Sargent as Miyabi Kagurazaki

Sue Beth Arden as Taeko Minazuki

Wendee Lee as Tina Foster

Anthony Mozdy as
Fish Vendor (ep 2)
Kaoru's Grandfather

Barbara Goodson as Aoi's Mother

David Orosco as Aoi's Father

James Lyon as
Mayu's Father
Worker

Julie Ann Taylor as Taeko's Grandmother

Kaeko Sakamoto as Utsume

Kirsty Pape as Yumi

Lex Lang as
Akiko's Father
Suzuki
Takashi
TV Announcer (ep 2)

Lia Sargent as
Kumi Honjo
Maho's Mother
Student

Melissa Williamson as
Aoi's Grandmother
Mayu's Mother (ep 12)

Ron Allen as
Old Wizard
Sato
Student
Train Station Announcer

Sandy Fox as
Akiko
Chararin
Utsume

Sherry Lynn as Maho

Sue Beth Arden as
Sankaku
Tsurube

Tony Oliver as
Hotel Clerk
Student
Taiyaki Man
Yosuke

Wendee Lee as Answering Machine Voice (ep 3)

English companies 

Dubbing: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

DVD Authoring: DIVITEK

DVD Engineer: DIVITEK

DVD Menus: DIVITEK

DVD Production: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Soundtrack: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.


French staff 
(none)
French companies 

Distributor: Déclic Images

French cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Antonio Sánchez Torras (Spain dub)

Translation: Yoshihira Hioki (Spain dub)

Adaptation: Antonio Sánchez Torras (Spain dub)

 

Ana María Camps as Sakuraba Aoi (Spain dub)

Hernán Fernández as Kaoru Hanabishi (Catalan dub)

Isabel Valls as Aoi Sakuraba (Catalan dub)

Toni Mora as Hanabishi Kaoru (Spain dub)

Anna Orra as Miyabi Kagurazaki (Catalan dub)

Assumpta Navascues as Tina Foster (Spain dub)

Elisabet Bargalló as Tina Foster (Catalan dub)

Marta Estrada as Kagurazaki Miyabi (Spain dub)

Rosa Moyano as Minazuki Taeko (Spain dub)

Carlos Lladó as Sato (Catalan dub)

Francesc Rocamora as Sato (Spain dub)

Oscar Redondo as Suzuki (Spain dub)

Ramón Hernández as Suzuki (Catalan dub)

Ramon Puig as Patriarca Hanabishi (Catalan dub)

Ramón Rocabayera as Grandfather (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Buzz Channel (Spain)
K3 (Televisió de Catalunya)

Dubbing Studio:
S.I.C., S.A. (Spain Dub)
SIC (Barcelona, Spain) 

 
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