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Witch Hunter Robin (TV)

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Alternative title:
ウィッチハンターロビン (Japanese)
Themes: police, superpowers
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Witches are individuals with special powers like ESP, telekinesis, mind control, etc. (not the typical hogwart and newt potions). Robin, a craft user, arrives from Italy to Japan to work for an organization named STN Japan Division (STN-J) as a replacement for one of STN-J's witch hunters who was recently killed. Unlike other divisions of STN, STN-J tries to capture the witches alive in order to learn why and how they became witches in the first place.
Video:
User Ratings: 2603 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 155 votes (sub:92, dub:59, ?:3, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 560 votes (sub:292, dub:243, ?:10, edit.dub:7, raw:3, Spa.sub:2, Por.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 770 votes (sub:414, dub:319, edit.dub:16, Spa.sub:7, ?:6, raw:2, Por.sub:2, Fre.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Dut.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Good: 569 votes (sub:296, dub:248, edit.dub:10, Fre.sub:3, ?:2, Spa.sub:2, Ger.dub:2, Por.sub:1, Tag.dub:1, Ita.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Decent: 257 votes (sub:134, dub:112, edit.dub:6, raw:2, Ita.sub:1, ?:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 134 votes (dub:70, sub:60, edit.dub:3, ?:1)
 Not really good: 56 votes (sub:29, dub:25, Rus.dub:1, ?:1)
 Weak: 56 votes (dub:30, sub:26)
 Bad: 25 votes (dub:15, sub:8, raw:1, edit.dub:1)
 Awful: 11 votes (dub:7, sub:3, Spa.sub:1)
 Worst ever: 10 votes (dub:5, sub:4, edit.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 5000 users, rank: #62
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.452 (Good+.45), std. dev.: 1.7061, rank: #986
Weighted mean: 7.382 (Good+.38), rank: #963 (seen all: 7.60 / seen some: 6.68 / won't finish: 4.19)
Bayesian estimate: 7.382 (Good+.38), rank: #760
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2002-07-02 to 2002-12-24
2004-02-17 to 2004-03-31 (USA)
2004-09-10 to 2005-03-04 (Canada, YTV - Bionix)
2006-03-17 to 2006-05-17 (Singapore, Arts Central Broadcast)
Opening Theme:
"Shell" by Bana
Ending Theme:
#1: "Half Pain" by Bana (eps 01-14,16-25)
#2: "Shell (instrumental)" by Bana (eps 15,26)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 5
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Related reviews:
    Witch Hunter Robin DVD 1

Related releases:
    Witch Hunter Robin - DVD Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (DVD) 2006-10-24 (from $28.99)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Arrival (DVD 1) 2003-10-07 (from $20.99)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Limited Edition + CD Soundtrack (DVD 1) 2003-10-07
    Witch Hunter Robin - Belief (DVD 2) 2003-12-02 (from $3.00)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Inquisition (DVD 3) 2004-02-17 (from $18.36)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Fugitive (DVD 4) 2004-04-27 (from $20.99)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Determination (DVD 5) 2004-06-08 (from $20.99)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Vengeance (DVD 6) 2004-08-10 (from $16.99)
    Witch Hunter Robin - Complete Collection (DVD 1-6) 2004-10-26 (from $94.43)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Shukou Murase

Screenplay:
Aya Yoshinaga (5 episodes

eps 1-2, 5, 10, 16
)
Hiroaki Kitajima (eps 4, 8, 17)
Kenichi Araki (eps 3, 7)
Shin Yoshida (eps 6, 9, 19)
Shukou Murase (ep 1)
Toru Nozaki (13 episodes
eps 11-15, 18, 20-26
)

Storyboard:
Eiji Yamanaka (4 episodes

eps 8, 13, 17, 23
)
Hitoyuki Matsui (ep 9)
Kou Matsuo (4 episodes
eps 11, 16, 21, 24
)

Manjiro Oshio (ep 5)
Naoyuki Onda (ep 10)
Shukou Murase
Tadashi Hiramatsu (eps 15, 26)
Tomoaki Kado (eps 3, 7)
Tomohiro Takayama (eps 4, 12, 18)
Toru Yoshida (ep 20)
Yoshimitsu Ohashi (5 episodes
eps 2, 6, 14, 19, 25
)

Music: Taku Iwasaki

Original Concept:
Hajime Yatate
Shukou Murase

Character Design: Kumiko Takahashi

Animation director:
Arashi Gotou (eps 16, 22)
Hiromitsu Morishita (5 episodes

eps 1, 7, 13, 17, 25
)
Iwao Teraoka (7 episodes
eps 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 20, 24
)

Kumiko Takahashi (ep 26)
Masashi Kudo (eps 4, 9, 18)
Naoyuki Onda (eps 6, 12, 19)
Shinji Takeuchi (ep 23)
Toshihiro Nakajima (5 episodes
eps 3, 10, 15, 21, 26
)

Sound director: Sadayoshi Fujino (Cruise)

Director of Photography:
Hisao Shirai (Studio Cosmos)
Katsutoshi Sugai (Studio Ipse)

Producer:
Kenichi Matsumura (Sunrise)
Tsutomu Sugita (Bandai Visual)

3D Background Director: Yohei Miyahara

Art Board:
Masaru Ohta (Biho)
Shinji Takasuka (Biho)

CG Animation: KONKON (END)

CG Supervisor: KONKON

Character Animation Director: Kumiko Takahashi (OP)

Chief Writer: Aya Yoshinaga

Color design: Takako Suzuki

Color setting:
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Keiko Yamashita
Reiko Iwasawa
Rika Nishio
Yuichi Kuboki

Conceptual Design: Yoshinori Sayama

Design Work:
Shinji Aramaki
Toshihiro Nakajima

Editing:
Chieko Takayama
Seiji Morita
Yukie Oikawa

Key Animation:
Asako Nishida (OP)
Eiji Komatsu (OP)
Hatsue Nakayama (OP)
Kazushi Takano (OP)
Koichi Horikawa (OP)
Masahiko Itojima (OP)
Norimitsu Suzuki (OP)
Shuuji Sakamoto (OP)
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Takahiro Komori (OP)
Takuya Suzuki (OP)
Tatsuya Suzuki (OP)
Tomohiro Takayama (OP)
Toshihiro Kawamoto (OP)
Yoshiko Imasato (OP)

Layout: Norio Matsuda

Main Title: Eiichi Hagiwara (big body)

Mechanical animation director: Morifumi Naka (OP)

Mix Engineer:
Megumi Kato
Norio Nishizawa

Music producer: Keiichi Nozaki

Production Cooperation:
Norihiro Yamada (Dentsu)
Shinjiro Yokoyama (Dentsu)

Scheduling: Shinsaku Hatta (TV Tokyo)

Score Mix: Yoshi Tamura (Tokyo)

Set Design:
Hajime Satou
Michiaki SATO

Sound Effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura

Sound Production: Keiko Senda (Cruise)

Special Concepts: Toru Nozaki

Special Effects: Mutsuko Shibata

Theme Song Arrangement:
Hideyuki Daichi Suzuki (OP; Victor Entertainment)
Taku Iwasaki (ED; Victor Entertainment)

Theme Song Composition:
Hideyuki Daichi Suzuki (OP; Victor Entertainment)
Takao Asami (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics: Hitomi Mieno

Theme Song Performance: Bana

Unit Director:
Akira Yoshimura (ep 18)
Hirofumi Ogura (ep 11)
Hiroshi Ishiodori (eps 16, 22)
Masashi Umekawa (ep 24)
Masato Miyoshi (END; eps 3, 8, 13)
Rion Kujo (ep 5)
Ryo Miyata (ep 4)
Satoshi Toba (eps 9, 15, 20)
Shukou Murase (ep 26)
Tatsuyuki Nagai (5 episodes

eps 2, 7, 12, 17, 21
)
Yoshimitsu Ohashi (6 episodes
eps 1, 6, 10, 14, 19, 25
)

Yoshiyuki Takei (OP)

Video Editor:
Takashi Kubota (Q-TEC, Inc.)
Tetsuro Tsukada (Q-TEC, Inc.)

 

Akeno Watanabe as Robin Sena

Takuma Takewaka as Amon

Hiro Yuuki as Michael Lee

Hirotaka Nagai as Master/Yuji Kobari

Jin Yamanoi as Nagira

Jun Fukuyama as Haruto Sakaki

Kaho Kouda as Miho Karasuma

Kyoko Hikami as Yurika Dojima

Masaaki Ohkura as Hattori

Michihiro Ikemizu as Takuma Zaizen

Akemi Kanda as Minori Nakayama

Chiharu Tezuka as
Eiko Yano (ep 6)
Mika Hanamura

Hiroaki Ishikawa as Hiroshi Honma

Hiromi Sugino as Bishop

Hironori Miyata as Ikeuchi

Hiroshi Naka as Inquisitor CAUTION

Hitoshi Kamibeppu as Sastre

Junko Hagimori as Hitomi Kannosaki

Kanako Tateno as Risa Kagawa (ep 8)

Kazuya Ichijou as Kazuya Misawa (ep 2)

Kouji Ishii as Kazuma Kurata (ep 3)

Mahito Ohba as Akio Kurosawa (ep 8)

Makoto Tsumura as Chie (ep 6)

Mami Nakajima as Touko

Masane Tsukayama as Juliano

Masashi Yabe as Gambler

Masaya Takatsuka as
Willem
Witch (ep 1)

Miho Yamada as Keiko Muramatsu

Minoru Inaba as The Professor

Moriya Endou as Kazuhiro Kirihara

Naoki Bandou as Institute Head

Naoki Imamura as Corneli

Naoya Uchida as Toudo

Natsumi Sakuma as Methuselah

Nobuaki Fukuda as Seiichiro Aramune

Reiko Takagi as Mamoru Kudo (ep 7)

Shigeru Shibuya as Yutaka Kobari

Shinpachi Tsuji as Kosaka

Shoko Kikuchi as Sayoko (ep 4)

Subaru Tanaka as Suzuki

Tadahisa Saizen as Driver

Takayuki Fujimoto as Shiro Masuda (ep 13)

Takeharu Onishi as Tsuneo Tazawa (ep 7)

Tomoko Kawakami as Saiki Yoshioka

Tomomi Nakamura as Kumi Mizutani (ep 8)

Toshihide Tsuchiya as Kiyoshi Matsunaga

Yasuhiko Kawazu as
Custodian (ep 1)
Morie

Yasunori Masutani as Tomokazu Kannosaki (ep 19)

Yuji Ueda as Juuzou Narumi (ep 11)

Yuka Komatsu as Hanamura

Yuko Goto as Methuselah (young)

Yumi Fukami as Jeanne

Yuri Tabata as Toudou's Mother

Japanese companies 

Animation Production:
Bandai Visual
Sunrise

Broadcaster:
Bandai Channel
TV Tokyo

Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Planning: Sunrise

Recording Studio: Seion Studio

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Eric P. Sherman

Translation: Rika Takahashi

ADR Script:
Crispin Freeman
Kristi Reed
Tony Oliver

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Kaeko Sakamoto

Assistant producer: Mami Okada

Chief Producer: Charles McCarter

Dialogue Editing:
Justin Kohler
Patrick Rodman

Managing Producer: Taku Otsuka

Post-Production Assistant: Deb Munini

Production Assistant: Tatsuhiro Nishiuchi

Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett

Recording engineer:
Justin Kohler
Patrick Rodman

Score Mix: Alan Meyerson (Los Angeles)

Spotting: Tetsuya Fujita

Subtitling: David Fleming (Bang Zoom! Ent.)

Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman

Crispin Freeman as Amon

Kari Wahlgren as Robin Sena

Dave Wittenberg as Michael Lee

Jamieson Price as Takuma Zaizen

Johnny Yong Bosch as Haruto Sakaki

Lex Lang as Nagira 

Michelle Ruff as Yurika Dojima

Wendee Lee as Miho Karasuma

Barbara Goodson as Toudo's Mother

Barry Stigler as
Mafia Member #2 (ep 8)
Old Man at Bar (ep 10)

Beau Billingslea as
Chisai
Nagira's 2nd Informant
Willem Hasselbyke

Catherine Battistone as Methuselah

Dave Mallow as Hattori

Dorothy Fahn as Sayoko

Doug Stone as
Muroi
Shintaro Kosaka

Jerry Gelb as Yuji "Master" Kobari 

Jessica Strauss as Hitomi (ep 19)

Julianne Grossman as Keiko Muramatsu (ep 17)

Julie Maddalena as Methuselah (young)

Julie Ann Taylor as
Eiko Yano (ep 6)
Mika Hanamura

Karen Strassman as Chie (ep 6)

Kirk Thornton as
Ikeuchi
Kazuya Misawa
Sastre (ep 20)
Shirou Masuda
Single Eye (ep 5)
Technical Officer

Lex Lang as Juzo Narumi (ep 11)

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as
Jeanne
Mamoru Kudo
Old Lady

Mela Lee as Toko Masaki

Michael Forest as Inquisitor Cortion

Michael McConnohie as
Cornelli (ep 21)
Kazuma Kurata
Professor

Paul St. Peter as
Chisai's Underling (ep 20)
Police Commissioner

Richard Cansino as Yutaka Kobari (ep 10)

Richard Epcar as Kannosaki (ep 19)

Steve Kramer as
Syndicate Gunman #3 (ep 11)
Thug (ep 13)

Steven Blum as Akio Kurosawa (ep 8)

Therese Nguyen as Minori Nakayama

Tom Wyner as Father Juliano Colegui (ep 25)

Tony Oliver as
Custodian
Todo (ep 26)
Witch

Tony Pope as Suzuki

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn 

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster:
Adult Swim
Animax Asia
Animax India
Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)
YTV (Canada) (Bionix)

Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

Soundtrack: Bandai Entertainment

Subtitles: Animax Asia (SEAsia)

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Benoit Du Pac

Translation: Jun-Ichi Takeda

 

Marie Millet as Robin Sena

Vincent Ribeiro as Amon

Chantal Baroin as Miho Karasuma

Stéphane Ronchewski as Takuma Zaizen

Yannick Debain as Michael Lee

Benoit Dupac as Haruto Sakaki

Benoit Du Pac as Haruto Sasaki

Eric Missoffe as Yuji Kobari (Patron)

Gilbert Levy as Shintaro Kosaka

Laurent Ledoyen as Hattori

Nathalie Bleynie as Tôko Masaki

Victoire Theismann as Yurika Dôjima

Benjamin Pascal

Dominique Vallee

Luc Boulad

French companies 

Broadcaster: Mangas

Distributor: Beez

Dubbing: Midisync

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Dania Cericola

 

Debora Magnaghi as Robin Sena

Luca Bottale as Amon

Loredana Nicosia as Miho Karasuma

Marco Balzarotti as Takuma Zaizen

Patrizio Prata as Michael Lee

Dania Cericola as Toko Masaki

Emanuela Pacotto as Yurika Dojima

Mario Scarabelli as Kosaka

Massimo Di Benedetto as Haruhito Sakaki

Italian companies 

Distributor: Terminal Video (2005)

Dubbing: Raflesia srl

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Claus-Peter Damitz as Amon

Shandra Schadt as Robin Sena

Dirk Meyer as Michael Lee

Dominik Auer as Shohei Hattori

Kathrin Gaube as Miho Karasuma

Leoni Oeffinger as Yurika Doujima

Ole Pfennig as Master/Yuji Kobari

Randolf Kronberg as Takuma Zaizen

Anke Kortemeier as
Chie
Jeanne

Claudia Schmidt as Empfangsdame

Claus Brockmeyer as Suzuki

Crock Krumbiegel as Kazuya Misawa

Florian Bauer as Boy C

Gerd Potyka as Direktor

Gerd Rigauer as Wache

Gerhard Jilka as Kannosaki

Jana Kilka as Sayoko

Johannes Raspe as Haruto Sakaki

Julian Manuel as Boy B

Kai Taschner as Inquisitor Koushon Sastre

Manuel von Radvanyi as Boy A

Margit Weinert as Alte Frau

Maria Böhme as Hitomi Kannosaki

Matthias Klie as
Kazuma Kurata
Tech

Michaela Geuer as Keiko Muramatsu

Miriam Mnakri as Minori Nakayama

Mogens von Gadow as Shintaro Kosaka

Niko Macoulis as Mann

Norbert Gastell as Inquisitor Cortion

Simone Brahmann as Touko Shinzaki

Stephan Hoffmann as Shunji Nagira

Thomas Rauscher as Muroi

Tobias Lelle as Shiro Masuda

Tolilah Jolas as Erzählerin

Ulf Söhmisch as Priester

Ulla Wagener as Mika Hanamura

Veronika A. Neugebauer as Eiko Yano

German companies 

Dubbing: Circle of Arts

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Translation:
Aleksandar Jankovic
Jelle de Swert

Script Check: Willem Keessen

 (none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Nekotachi Entertainment

Subtitles: TVS - Titra Film

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Jimmy Manalo

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: GMA Network (2004)

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Animax Latin America

Portuguese cast 
(none)
 
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