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Starship Operators (TV)

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Alternative title:
スターシップ・オペレーターズ (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: For the 73rd class of cadets of the Defense University of the small planet Kibi, a shakedown cruise on the fleet's new starship "Amaterasu" is a fitting lead-up to graduation. As they are returning to their home planet, however, they are shocked to hear news of a declaration of war by the aggressive Kingdom against Kibi. When their planetary government surrenders without a struggle, the cadets decide to launch their own war, aboard the "Amaterasu". To gain funding, they make a deal with a galactic news network—and find themselves the "stars" of their own "reality show". Unfortunately, this is the kind of reality show that can get you killed...
User Ratings: 408 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 22 votes (sub:18, dub:4)
 Excellent: 65 votes (sub:43, dub:21, raw:1)
 Very good: 118 votes (sub:81, dub:36, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 88 votes (sub:51, dub:31, ?:2, raw:2, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Decent: 60 votes (sub:39, dub:21)
 So-so: 29 votes (sub:21, dub:7, raw:1)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:2, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:1, ?:1, dub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 781 users, rank: #1540 (of 10068)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.245 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.6416, rank: #2875 (of 10252)
Weighted mean: 7.202 (Good+), rank: #2871 (of 10252) (seen all: 7.37 / seen some: 6.65 / won't finish: 5.07)
Bayesian estimate: 7.210 (Good+), rank: #2596 (of 7734)
Running time: Half Hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2005-01-05 to 2005-03-30
Release dates: We have 11
Opening Theme:
#1: "radiance" by Mami Kawada
Ending Theme:
#1: "Chi ni Kaeru ~on the Earth~" by KOTOKO
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Reviews:
Starship Operators Collection (Dec 10, 2008)
Starship Operators DVD 3 (May 19, 2006)
Starship Operators DVD 2 (May 18, 2006)
Starship Operators DVD 1 (Jan 5, 2006)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Starship Operators - Revolution (DVD 1) 2005-12-26 (from $24.00)
    Starship Operators - Memories (DVD 2) 2006-03-07 (from $4.48)
    Starship Operators - Truth (DVD 3) 2006-05-02 (from $10.49)
    Starship Operators - Truth + Artbox (DVD 3) 2006-05-02 (from $49.00)
    Starship Operators - Box Set (DVD 1-3) 2006-11-28 (from $143.84)
DVD (Region 2)
    Starship Operators - Complete Collection (DVD) 2009-05-11
    Starship Operators - Complete Collection (DVD) 2011-07-11
DVD (Region 4)
    Starship Operators Collection (DVD) 2008-07-23
Soundtrack
    Starship Operators (OST) 2006-03-07 (from $29.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Screenplay: Yoshihiko Tomizawa
Music: Kenji Kawai
Original Work: Ryo Mizuno
Character Design: Fumio Matsumoto
Art Director: Shinichi Tanimura
Mechanical design: Kimitoshi Yamane
Sound Director: Tōru Nakano
Director of Photography:
Jun Shiota
Shingo Fukuyo

Color design: Yukiko Itō
Color setting: Kyōsuke Ishikawa (ep 7)
Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
Finish Animation: Kyōsuke Ishikawa (eps 1-2)
Finish Check: Kyōsuke Ishikawa (ep 7)
General Producer: Masahito Arinaga
Key Animation:
Emiko Abe (ep 11)
Satoshi Sakai (ep 7)
Music Performance: Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute)
Recording: Nobuhiro Negishi
Recording Adjustment: Masanori Tsuchiya
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Sound Producer: Hiroki Urakari
SSO Project: Akihiro Kawamura
Theme Song Arrangement:
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (Op)
Yoichi Shimada (End)
Theme Song Composition:
KOTOKO (End)
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (Op)
Theme Song Lyrics:
KOTOKO (Op/End)
Mami Kawada (Op)
Theme Song Performance:
KOTOKO (End)
Mami Kawada (Op)
Akeno Watanabe as Arei Hisaka
Masumi Asano as Miyuri Akisato
Shizuka Itō as Sinon Kouzuki

Atsuko Enomoto as Akiho Maya
Ayako Kawasumi as Rio Mamiya
Mamiko Noto as Sanri Wakana
Masayuki Katō as Takai Kiryū
Satomi Arai as Yukino Nanase
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shinto Mikami
Yukimasa Obi as Cisca Kanzaki
Yūko Kaida as Imari Kamiya
Yuu Asakawa as Renna Satomi

Dai Matsumoto as Admiral Dul Elroy
Daisaku Shinohara as Kawaji
Daisuke Ono as Gotou (ep 1)
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Vice-captain (eps 7-8)
Hirokazu Miura as Joseph Meyer (ep 2)
Hiroshi Ito as President Lao (eps 5-6, 8)
Hitomi Nabatame as Dita Mirkob
Kan Tanaka as Hans Georg Hermann
Kaori Shimizu as Sei Ogino
Kazuya Kobayashi as Policeman (ep 5)
Kenta Miyake as Aide (eps 5-6)
Kinryū Arimoto as Tatsuma Mamiya
Kunihiko Yasui as Ricardo Fares (eps 3-4)
Masaru Motegi as MP Commanding Officer (ep 5)
Mitsuru Ogata as
Connery (ep 12)
Lewis Belmont
Miyu Irino as Shimei Yuuki
Ryūji Nakagi as Captain Wong
Saburō Kamei as Truman (ep 13)
Sayaka Ōhara as Isabel
Shinji Kawada as
Brian (eps 11-13)
Kouki Sakakibara
Takafumi Kawakami as
Coup soldier (ep 6)
Tokiya Sanada
Takaya Kuroda as Lee Young Sook (eps 3, 7-8)
Takayuki Kondō as
Coup soldier (ep 6)
Hide Chiba (eps 3, 13)
Soldier (ep 5)
Takayuki Yamaguchi as Taishi Kase
Takuma Suzuki as Hernal Nadja (eps 7-8, 11)
Tetsuharu Ōta as Iriki Kanno (eps 1-2)
Tomoyuki Shimura as
Hopkins (ep 12)
Peter Spikes
Toshitaka Hirano as Tito Langar (ep 3)
Wataru Hatano as Defense official (ep 1)
Yū Kobayashi as Minase Shinohara
Japanese companies
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Backgrounds: Kusanagi (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-6, 9, 11
)
Broadcaster: TV Tokyo
Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music
Production:
Geneon Entertainment, Inc.
MediaWorks
SSO Production Committee
TV Tokyo
Recording Studio: Procen Studio
Sound Production: HALF H·P STUDIO
English staff
English cast
Script: Mariko Summers
Translation: Paul Baldwin
Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Producer: Satoshi Fujii

ADR Producer: Diana Gage
Casting Director: Randi Riediger
Dialogue Editing:
Aaron MacDonald (4 episodes
eps 1, 8, 10, 12
)
Cisco McLaren (ep 9)
Marc Matsumoto (eps 2, 5-6)
Ryan Nowak (5 episodes
eps 3-4, 7, 11, 13
)
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark M. Pinder
Recording engineer: Mike Iske
Senior Production Coordinator: Geoffrey A. Rosen
Soundtrack Executive Producer: Nobu Yamamoto (Soundtrack CD)
Soundtrack Producer: Terry Ho (Soundtrack CD)
Subtitling: Amy Lipkowitz
Talent Coordination: Sabrina Pitre
Video Post-Production:
Jodi Peterson
Mike Hey
Sean McConkey
Voice Direction:
James Corrigall (eps 9-13)
Karl Willems (eps 1-13)
Kelly Sheridan as Sinon Kouzuki
Nicole Bouma as Miyuri Akisato
Paula Lindberg as Alley Hisaka

Ashleigh Ball as Sanri Wakana
Holly Eccleston as Renna Satomi
Kirby Morrow as Takai Kiryu
Laura Drummond as Imari Kamiya
Leah Breen as Akiho Maya
Paul Dobson as Peter Spikes
Tabitha St. Germain as Yukino Nanase

Alec Willows as Hans George Hermann
Alistair Abell as
Brian
Guest Laiaison
Reporter
Andy Toth as Cisca Kanzaki
Anna Cummer as Rio Mamiya
Brent Miller as Connery
Brian Drummond as
Adm. Lewis Belmont
Conquistador Operator
Koki Sakakibara
Newscaster
Security Guard
Shu Official
Chris Jacot as
Iriki Kanno (ep 2)
Tokiya Sanada
Don Brown as
Gent Wakana (ep 3)
Joseph Meyer (ep 2)
Doug Abrahams as Cpt. Josef Truman
Fred Henderson as
Hopkins
President Lau
Fred Keating as
Hermann Ricardo Farez
Kawaji
Kirby Morrow as EA Operator
Mark Gibbon as Hernal Nadja
Michael Coleman as Shinto Mikami
Michael Dobson as
Amateras Captain
Dure Elroy
Kingdom Soldier
Reporter
UN Trooper
Michael Kopsa as
Captain Wong
Shu Soldier
Paul Dobson as
Conquistador Communications
Dragonfly XO
Levant Captain
Navigation Officer
Reporter
Security Guard
Tito Langar (ep 3)
Rebecca Shoichet as
Dita Mirkov
Minase Shinohara
Ron Halder as Tatsuma Mamiya
Samuel Vincent as
Adm. Lee Young Sook
Newscaster
Officer
Shimei Yuki
Simon Hayama as Taishi Kase
Sylvia Zaradic as
Reception Announcer
Sei Ogino
Tony Sampson as Hide Chiba

Jan Bos
English companies
Casting: Interpacific Productions
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
MVM (UK)
Tokyo Night Train (Australia & New Zealand)
Dubbing: The Ocean Group
DVD Menu Design: Nightjar, LLC
DVD Production: SpeeDVD
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Mastering: mediaHYPERIUM Studios (Soundtrack CD)
Packaging Design: Koyo Graphic International, Inc. (Soundtrack CD)
Soundtrack: Geneon Entertainment Inc.
German staff
German cast
ADR Director: Stefan Kolo
Alexander Doering as Cisca Kanzaki
Angela Wiederhut as Rio Mamiya
Claudia Schmidt as Alley Hisaka
Claus Brockmeyer as
Admiral Dul Elroy
Ausbilder
Claus-Peter Damitz as
Empfangschef
Sicherheitsbeamter 2
Crock Krumbiegel as Peter Spikes
Dirk Meyer as Takai Kiriyu
Gabrielle Pietermann as Miyuri Akisato
Gerhard Jilka as
Admiral Lee
Gent Wakana
John-Alexander Döring as Cisca Kanzaki
Kai Taschner as Captain Wong
Kathrin Gaube as Dita Mirkov
Manfred Trilling as Hans George Hermann
Marieke Oeffinger as Sinon Kouzuki
Norbert Gastell as Tatsuma Mamiya
Patrick Schröder as Koki Sakakibara
Philipp Brammer as
Adjütant von Belmont
Iriki Kanno
Sergeant
Shandra Schadt as Renna Satomi
Ulf Söhmisch as Admiral Ricardo Farez
Veronika Neugebauer as
Sekretärin
Werbesprecherin
Walter von Hauff as Captain Joseph Meyer
Willi Röbke as Admiral Belmont
German companies
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
Dubbing Director: Danny Mandia
Script: Sherwin Revestir (Scriptwriter)

ADR Supervisor: Sherwin Revestir
Sherwin Revestir as Sinon Kouzuki

Benjie Dorango as Takai Kiryu
Irene Tolentino as Akiho Maya
Lovely as Sanri Wakana
Margo Borgona as
Imari Kamiya
Rio Mamiya
Noel Escondo as
Cisca Kanzaki
Shinto Mikami
Pinky Rebucas as Yukino Nanase

AJ Constantino as Dure Elroy
Benjie Dorango as Peter Spikes
Kathyin Masilungan as Dita Mirkov
Margo Borgona as Imari Kamiya; Rio Mamiya 
Margo Borgonia as
Imari Kamiya
Rio Mamiya
Pinky Rebucas as Sei Ogino
Ryan Ang as Shimei Yuki
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: HERO TV
Dubbing: HERO TV

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