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Dai-Guard (TV)

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Alternative title:
Chikyuu Bouei Kigyou Dai-Guard (Japanese)
Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp.
Earth Defence Enterprise - Dai Guard (Japanese)
地球防衛企業ダイ・ガード (Japanese)
Themes: mecha, military
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Thirteen years after their sudden disappearance, an alien race known as the Heterodyne resurface without warning. To combat the Heterodyne, three office workers from the 21st Century Security Corporation operate Dai-Guard - a giant robot no longer regarded as an oversized paperweight. Unfortunately, Dai-Guard is somewhat obsolete and in disrepair. It's a tough job, but salarymen can also save the world.
User Ratings: 255 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Excellent: 24 votes (dub:14, sub:10)
 Very good: 52 votes (dub:30, sub:20, Spa.dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 89 votes (dub:55, sub:28, ?:2, Spa.dub:1, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 42 votes (dub:25, sub:12, edit.dub:2, raw:1, Por.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:10, dub:9, ?:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 9 votes (dub:5, sub:4)
 Weak: 6 votes (dub:3, edit.dub:1, sub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (dub:4, sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 699 users, rank: #850
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.706 (Good-.29), std. dev.: 1.6884, rank: #2165
Weighted mean: 6.674 (Good-.32), rank: #2117 (seen all: 7.07 / seen some: 6.39 / won't finish: 4.56)
Bayesian estimate: 6.706 (Good-.29), rank: #1809
Running time: Half Hour per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1999-10-05 to 2000-03-28
2003-02-27 to 2003-02-28 (USA - Eps. 1-2 on Cartoon Network)
Opening Theme:
"Rojiura no Uchuu Shounen (Back Alley Space Boy)" by The Cobratwisters (eps 2-25)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Hashire Hashire (Run, Run)" by Kyoko Endou (eps 1-25)
#2: "Rojiura no Uchuu Shounen (Back Alley Space Boy)" by The Cobratwisters (ep 26)
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Related reviews:
    Dai-Guard DVD 2
    Dai-Guard DVD 1

Related releases:
    Dai-Guard - Hostile Takeover (DVD 1) 2002-09-17 (from $11.68)
    Dai-Guard - To Serve & Defend, But Not to Spend (DVD 2) 2002-11-12 (from $4.10)
    Dai-Guard - Checks and Balances of Terror (DVD 3) 2003-01-07 (from $3.00)
    Dai-Guard - Red Tape & Proud Hearts (DVD 4) 2003-02-18 (from $19.58)
    Dai-Guard - The Bottom Line (DVD 6) 2003-05-27 (from $3.00)
    Dai-Guard - Complete Collection DVD (DVD 1-6) 2005-02-01 (from $28.99)
    Dai-Guard -In the Red DVD (DVD 5) 2003-04-01 (from $3.00)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Seiji Mizushima

Series Composition: Fumihiko Shimo

Script:
Akihiro Inari
Fumihiko Shimo
Hidefumi Kimura
Hiroaki Kitazaki
Junko Okazaki
Kurou Hazuki

Storyboard:
Ken Nakatsu
Marurou Hatsuki
Seiji Mizushima
Shinichiro Kimura
Takahiro Hoshiai
Yoshiaki Iwasaki

Episode Director:
Jiro Fujimoto
Kouichi Sugitani
Makoto Sokuza
Shigeru Ueda
Shinichiro Kimura
Takashi Sudo
Yukio Suzuki

Music:
Kenji Kawai
Kouhei Tanaka

Original Character Design: Hiroshi Kanno

Character Design: Mitsuru Ishihara

Art director: Hachidai Takayama

Chief Animation Director:
Eiko Saito
Ken Ootsuka
Makoto Uno
Mitsuru Ishihara
Takashi Tomioka

Animation director:
Doutoku Chiba
Eiji Asahara
Eiko Saito
Kazuhiko Ishii
Ken Ootsuka
Makoto Uno
Michinori Chiba
Minoru Ueda
Mitsuru Ishihara
Shuichiro Matsuda
Tadashi Matsuda
Takashi Tomioka
Toshiyuki Kono

Mecha design:
Hideyasu Shimamura
Takeshi Takakura
Takeshi Takamura 

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Katsutoshi Hirose

Producer:
Makiko Iwata
Shinjiro Yokoyama

Additional Character Design: Takashi Tomioka

Animation producer: Takatoshi Chino

Arrangement: Yoko Kanno (ED)

Character Planning: Hiroshi Kanno

Color Coordination: Mitsuko Sekimoto

Conceptual Design: Hidefumi Kimura

Editing: Terumitsu Okada

Planning:
Shiro Sasaki
Toru Sato

Robot Design: Ken Ootsuka

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Theme Song Composition:
Akira Kawabata (OP)
Hiroshi Ichikura ("Rocking Horse of Stars")
Kyoko Endou (ED)
Yoko Kanno ("Rocking Horse of Stars")

Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai ("Rocking Horse of Stars")
Kyoko Endou (ED 1)
The Cobratwisters (OP/ED 2)

Vehicle Design: Shinichi Yamaoka

 

Akiko Hiramatsu as Ibuki Momoi

Kentarou Itou as Shunsuke Akagi

Shinichiro Miki as Keiichirou Aoyama

Chiharu Suzuka as Kamimura

Hiro Yuuki as Yosuke Sumida

Katsuyuki Konishi as Hirotaka Ijyuin

Kenichi Ono as Agent Shiro Shirota

Makoto Higo as Tomoru Taguchi

Marina Ono as Chiaki Nakahara

Masashi Hirose as Chief Haruo Osugi

Mayumi Shintani as Rika Domeki

Michiko Neya as Noriko Oyama

Rumi Kasahara as Shizuka Irie

Shoji Izumi as Tomoyoshi Ishizuka

Takaya Hashi as Okouchi

Yukari Tamura as Fuuka Tanigawa

Hasashi Izumi as Nishijima

Kazue Komiya as Aoyama's Mother

Kazuhiko Kishino as Busujima

Kei Hayami as Ibuki's Mother

Kitaro Yuki as Noda

Koji Yusa as Makise

Kujira as Mutou

Mako Kyoudou as Arisa

Masaharu Satou as Nishima

Masahiro Ikezumi as Matoya

Michihiro Inoue as Dr. Sakuraba

Shoji Sato as Iizuka

Susumu Chiba as Tsuge

Syunichi Sakaguchi as Ishihara

Takeshi Watanabe as Ibuki's Father

Tomomichi Shintani as Sakuraou Taikai

Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Saeki

Yasuaki Suzuki as Shimizu

Yuji Ueda as Matsutouya

Masumi Asano

Tomo Saeki

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Digital Photography:
Digimation
Media Vision
Sankou Production
Sunshine Corporation
Tokyo Kids
Trans Arts Co.
Xebec

Manga Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten

Music Production:
TV Tokyo Music
Victor Entertainment

Original story: Xebec

Production:
Sotsu Agency
Victor Entertainment
Xebec

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Lowell B. Bartholomee

Art director: Ruby Halipoto

ADR Script:
Dan Dietz
Lowell B. Bartholomee

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Sharon Papa

Producer: Lowell B. Bartholomee

ADR Engineer: Robert S. Fisher

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

DVD Graphics: Larry Koteff

DVD Producer: David Williams

Editing:
Gerald Brewer
Patrick Givens

Graphic Design: Larry Koteff

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Andrew Kent
Carl Wormley
Maki Nagano
Miyuki Kamiya

Project Translator: Beni Axia Hirayama

Sound Design: Paul Killam

Subtitle Script:
Andrew Kent
William McBee

Joey Hood as Shunsuke Akagi

Lana Lesley as Ibuki Momoi

Steve Metz as Keiichirou Aoyama

Christa Kimlicko Jones as Noriko Oyama

Corey M. Gagne as Hirotaka Ijyuuin

Dan Dietz as Shinya Yokozawa

Edwin Neal as Chief Haruo Osugi

Jennifer Haley as Rika Domeki

Lane West as Shizuka Irie

Larissa Wolcott as Fuuka Tanigawa

Martin Burke as Yosuke Sumida

Michael D'Alonzo as Tomoyoshi Ishizuka

Michael Kranes as Tomoru Taguchi

Mick D'Arcy as Shiro Shirota

Shaneye Ferrell as Chiaki Nakahara

Siân Rees-Cleland as Kamimura

Anastasia Veltri as Cynical Girl

Beau Paul as
News Director
Observatory Technician

Belinda Vaughn as Child

Bill Wise as Ookouchi

Brandon Crow as
Observatory Technician
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Brandon Flair as Child

Britt Baker as Yuka’s Father

Carie Esquenazi as Refugee Mom

Carli McGahey as Child

Catherine Berry as Ibuki’s Mother

Chris Hertzberg as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Chris Sykes as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Colin Bardfast as General

Dan Bisbee as Tsuge

David R. Jarrott as Director Nishijima

Dempsey Darrow as Director Matsuo

Dianna Dorman as Aoyama’s Mother

Don Toner as Director Watanabe

Ellen Kolstö as
Female Reporter
TV Reporter

Ellie McBride as Chief Operator

Emma Nicolas as Yuka

Ev Lunning Jr. as Ibuki’s Father

Grant James as Taikai Sakurao

Guy Harvey as Professor Shimizu

Jacques Dauphin as Cynical Boy #1

Jenny Larson as Yokozawa's Sister

Jeremy Carpenter as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Joey Hood as Computer Voices

John Dodson as
Male Reporter
Sakurada

John Paul Shephard as Major Busujima

Judson L. Jones as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Karen Kuykendall as Director Mutou

Kayla Ammann as Child

Ken Webster as Army Commander

Loren Peace as Child

Manon Wilson as Child

Margaret Cassidy as Refugee Girl

Martinique Duchene as Alert Announcer

Mical Trejo as Makise

Michael Biggerstaff as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Michael D'Alonzo as
Cynical Boy #2
Pilot
Soldier

Quinn Bedford as Observatory Supervisor

Robert Kraft as
Army Radio Voice
Nishina
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Robert Newell as Saeki

Robert S. Fisher as
Officer
Pilot
Soldier

Ron Berry as Matsutouya

Samantha Inoue-Harte as Screaming women

Shawnna Bass as Operator

Simon Blatts as Yokozawa's Father

Steve Flanagin as Director Matsushita

Taylor McGahey as Child

Tildon Westmann as Cynical Boy #3

Trevor Revock as Sakurao's Assistant

Zöe Katherine Keller as Ibuki (Young)

Carsey Walker Jr.

Cassie Fitzgerald

Christopher Loveless

Dana Huyler

Elia Nichols

Jason P. Stingley

Korey Simeone

Lana Dietrich

Lora DeBord

Mark Freeman

Mary Ellen Chilton

Monika Kappe

Russ Roten

Sterling Brucks

Weldon Phillips

English companies 

ADR Recording: Monster Island

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network (Toonami Giant Robot Week)
The Anime Network

Distributor: ADV Films (UK) (UK)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Recording Facility: Monkey Boy Studios

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Hervé Caradec

 

Brigitte Aubry as Ibuki Momoi

Bruno Magne as Shunsuke Akagi

Frederic Popovic as Keiichiro Aoyama

Bernard Demory as Okochi

Colette Noel as Noriko Oyama

Gilbert Levy as Chef Haruo Osugi

Jacques Albaret as Shiro Shirota

Christine Paris

French companies 

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network France (from 3 May 2002)
Gong (from May 2009)

Dubbing: Studio Chinkel

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Carmen Ambrós as Ibuki Momoi (Spain dub)

Nacho de Porrata as Shunsuke Akagi (Spain dub)

Ana Orra as Chiaki Nakahara (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps as Noriko Oyama (Spain dub)

Assumpta Navascues as
Fuuka Tanigawa (Spain dub)
Rika Domeki (Spain dub)

Gloria Gonzalez as
Kamimura (Spain dub)
Shizika Irie (Spain dub)

Ana Orra as Madre de Aoyama (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps as Madre de Ibuki (vieja) (Spain dub)

Assumpta Navascues as
Madre de Ibuki (joven) (Spain dub)
Madre de Ibuki (vieja) (sustitucion ; Spain dub)

Jordi Pineda as
Iizuka (Spain dub)
Padre de Ibuki (joven) (Spain dub)

Ana Orra (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps (Spain dub)

Assumpta Navascues (Spain dub)

Gloria Gonzalez (Spain dub)

Jordi Pineda (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Danilo De Girolamo

Translation: Laura Valentini

Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Dialogues: Paolo Sala

 

Nanni Baldini as Shunsuke Akagi

Stella Musy as Ibuki Momoi

Franco Zucca as Haruo Osugi

Mauro Gravina as Shirota

Oreste Baldini as Keiichiro Aoyama

Alessandro Quarta as Tsune

Alessandro Tiberi as Shinya Yokozawa

Alida Cappellini as Rika Domeki

Corrado Conforti as Matsutoya

Emanuela Amato as Ibuki's mother

Enrico Di Troia as Tomoro Taguchi

Federica De Bortoli as Fuka Tanigawa

Gaetano Varcasia as Eijiro Sakurada

Gerolamo Alchieri as Nishijima

Gio'-Gio' Rapattoni as Shizuka Irie

Graziella Polesinanti as Aoyama's mother

Ilaria Latini as Noriko Oyama

Luigi Ferraro as Hirotaka Ijyuin

Marco Vivio as Yomei Sumida

Massimiliano Alto as Makise

Michele Kalamera as Okochi

Neri Marcore' as Tomoyoshi Ishizuka

Perla Liberatori as Chiaki Nakahara

Roberta Pellini as Kamimura

Stefanella Marrama as Muto

Italian companies 

Broadcaster:
Cultoon (from May 2009)
Rai Futura (from November 2006)

Distributor: Dynamic Italia

Dubbing: CAST Doppiaggio


Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Dutch cast 
(none)
 
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