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Blade of the Immortal (TV)

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[ adapted from Blade of the Immortal (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Mugen no Jūnin (Japanese)
無限の住人 (Japanese)
Genres: action
Plot Summary: Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his ruthless deeds, he has grown weary of his ageless life. The only way to lift the curse is to slay 1,000 evil men. So Manji wanders Japan, shedding the blood of the wicked on his quest to finally die.
Video: ,
User Ratings: 240 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 10 votes (sub:9, dub:1)
 Excellent: 21 votes (sub:19, Por.sub:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 67 votes (sub:62, Spa.sub:2, dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Good: 61 votes (sub:58, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 39 votes (sub:37, dub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:17)
 Not really good: 5 votes (sub:4, raw:1)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:10, ?:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 609 users, rank: #930
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.825 (Good-.17), std. dev.: 1.8604, rank: #2005
Weighted mean: 6.702 (Good-.29), rank: #2081 (seen all: 7.00 / seen some: 6.55 / won't finish: 3.68)
Bayesian estimate: 6.734 (Good-.26), rank: #1774
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-07-13 to 2008-12-28
Releases: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"Akai Usagi (赤井ウサギ)" by Makura no Sōshi
Ending Theme:
"Wants" by GRAPEVINE
Official website:
Links: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Blade of the Immortal (DVD 1) 2009-09-29 (from $13.85)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Koichi Mashimo

Series Composition: Hiroyuki Kawasaki

Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Kawasaki (1-9, 12-13)
Kenichi Kanemaki (10, 11)

Storyboard:
Hiroshi Morioka (OP, 4, 8, 12)
Koichi Mashimo (1)
Koji Sawai (ED, 2, 7, 11, 12, 13)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (5, 9)
Yuki Arie (3, 6, 10)

Episode Director:
Hiroshi Morioka (4, 8, 12)
Koji Sawai (2, 7, 10, 11)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (1, 5, 9, 13)
Yuki Arie (3, 6)

Music: Kô Ôtani

Original creator: Hiroaki Samura

Character Design: Yoshimitsu Yamashita

Art director: Yoshimi Umino

Animation director:
Yoshiaki Tsubata
Yoshimitsu Yamashita (OP/ED, )

Sound director: Toru Nakano

Director of Photography:
Jin Saito
Shinichi Igarashi

Executive producer:
Masayuki Haryu
Michiru Ishikawa

Producer:
Katsushi Morishita
Noboru Yamada
Takuya Matsushita
Tetsuya Kinoshita

Animation Check:
Miho Imoto (OP)
Satomi Naitou (ED)

Animation producer:
Hideaki Muraoka
Kenichiro Tanaka
Ryoji Maru
Takayasu Shimizu

Assistant producer: Nakuru Yamatani

Background:
Fumie Kawai
Hachidai Takayama
Haruka Ozawa
Junko Nagasawa
Megumi Ogawa
Naoki Aoyama
Shin Watanabe
Yasunori Hishinuma
Yukiko Nakayama

Closing Director: Koji Sawai

Color design: Makiko Kojima

Key Animation:
Daisuke Endo (ED, 1)
Emi Honda (ED)
Hitomi Tsuruta (OP)
Jun Nakai (OP)
Kaori Higuchi (OP)
Kumiko Katou (ED)
Kyoko Kotani (OP)
Makoto Sawazaki (OP)
Shingo Ogiso (OP)
Shinsuke Yanagi (OP)
Takayuki Noguchi (OP)
Tatsuya Oka (OP)
Tomoaki Kado (ED)
Tomoko Ishida (OP)
Tomomi Ishikawa (OP)
Yasuhiro Saiki (OP)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (1, 4)
Yukiko Ban (OP)
Yuko Iwaoka (OP)

Music producer:
Masashi Saito
Takeshi Watanabe

Opening Director: Hiroshi Morioka

Photography:
Daisuke Kikuchi
Hiroshi Sawada
Katsuaki Kamata
Satoshi Morimoto
Takashi Aoki

Planning:
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Naoki Nakamura
Yoko Furukawa
Yoshio Irie

Planning Cooperation: Shohei Yoshida

Publicity: Mika Saiki

Sound Effects: Masaru Urahata

Sound Mixing: Kenji Hoshino

Sound Producer: Akiko Fujita

Special Effects: Ayumi Kamo

Theme Song Performance: GRAPEVINE (ed)

 

Rina Satou as Rin Asano

Tomokazu Seki as Manji

Daisuke Namikawa as Araya Kawakami

Hirofumi Nojima as Kagehisa Anotsu

Katsuyuki Konishi as Eiku Shizuma

Kazuya Nakai as Taito Magatsu

Mamiko Noto as Makie Otono-Tachibana

Masashi Ebara as Sabato Kuroi

Megumi Toyoguchi as Hyakurin

Shinichiro Miki as Shira

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Giichi

Yuya Uchida as Shinriji

Daisaku Shinohara as Takayuki Asano

Hisako Kyouda as Yaobikuni

Kan Tanaka as Kuzuya (ep 5)

Kana Asumi as Teahouse Girl (eps 6-8)

Keiko Nemoto as Kagehisa Anotsu (child)

Kentarou Itou as Hishiyasu Shido (ep 1)

Kohei Kiyasu as Johnnie Gyobutsu (ep 1)

Koichi Sakaguchi as Nagasakiya (ep 4)

Kousei Yagi as Takahide Asano

Maaya Sakamoto as Machi

Ryoko Shiraishi as Tatsu (eps 4, 13)

Saeko Chiba as Ren

Takashi Kondo as Tatsumasa Saitou

Takaya Kuroda as Nisaburou Tsuchimochi

Takayuki Sugo as Kagimura Habaki

Takuma Suzuki as Ashiya (ep 5)

Tetsu Inada as Ken'ei Sumino (ep 6)

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Takayoshi Asano

Tomoyuki Shimura as Togishi (ep 5)

Toru Ohkawa as Saburou Anotsu

Toshihiko Seki as Souri (eps 4, 13)

Wataru Hatano as Makoto

Yoshinori Sonobe as Chougo Morozumi (ep 6)

Yuka Komatsu as Toki Asano

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Bee Train

Backgrounds:
Production AI
Production Eye

Broadcaster: AT-X

Digital Paint:
Aniade
M.S.C.
Studio Road
Studio Step
Tatsunoko Production
union CHO

In-Between Animation:
AIC PLUS
Aniade
Bee Train
Frontline
GAINAX
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
JC Staff
M.S.C.
MSJ
P.A. Works
Production I.G
Studio DEEN
Studio Gimlet
Studio Mark
Studio MAT
Tamazawa Animation
Xebec

Key Animation: P.A. Works

Music Production: Pony Canyon

Photography: Studio Twinkle

Production:
Asano Dojo Fukkokai
Bee Train
Production I.G

Recording Studio: Half HP Studio

Sound Production: Half HP Studio

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Kristi Reed

Translation: Midori Maejima

ADR Script: Kristi Reed

Executive producer: John Sirabella

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Kaeko Sakamoto

Acquisition Liaison:
Megumi Kikuraku
Yoko Hayama

Adaptation:
Anna Yamamoto
Derek Lieu
Duane Johnson
Sean Molyneaux

Assistant Engineer: Tracy Popenhagen

Casting Director: Mami Okada

Co-Producer: Mami Okada

Dialogue Editing: Marco Bustos

DVD Author: Dave Beinlich

Editing: Derek Lieu

Graphic Design: Merideth Mulroney

Jr. Assistant Producer: Ritsuko Nagakura

Post-Production Assistant:
Ricardo Watson
Timothy Chiodo

Post-Production Supervisor: Christian Moran

Production Assistant:
Amanda Waddell
Caitlin Klein
Sean Castle
Victor Sgroi

Production Coordination: Emily Nicholas

Production Supervision:
Richard York
Sean Molyneaux

Re-Recording Mixing: Patrick Rodman

Recording engineer: Marco Bustos

Sound Supervisor: Patrick Rodman

Special Thanks To:
Nick McWhorter
Yuki Urakawa

Subtitling: Clark Cheng

 

Keith Silverstein as Manji

Mela Lee as Rin Asano

Artt Butler as Sabato Kuroi

David Vincent as Giichi

Derek Stephen Prince as Taito Magatsu

Ethan Murray as Kagehisa Anotsu

Liam O'Brien as Araya Kawakami

Alfred Thor as Asana

Cristina Vee as Machi

Dave Mallow as Sori (eps 4, 13)

James Hoover as Tatsumasa Saitou

Jason Wishnov as Makoto

Joe J. Thomas as Rin's Father

Julie Ann Taylor as Otatsu (eps 4, 13)

Karen Strassman as Oren

Kirk Thornton as Kagimura Habaki

Kyle Hebert as Hishiyasu Shido (ep 1)

Louise Chamis as Yaobikuni

Tim Powers as Weapon Shop Clerk

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Licensed by: Media Blasters

Special Thanks To: Dark Horse Comics

 
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