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Rocket Girls (TV)

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Alternative title:
ロケットガール (Japanese)
Plot Summary: A high school girl Morita Yukari visits Axia of the Solomon Islands in order to look for her father who became lost during his honeymoon trip. There, she meets a man named Nasuda of Solomon Space Agency, and she is hired to work part-time. That job is – an astronaut.
User Ratings: 213 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Excellent: 25 votes (sub:21, dub:2, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 62 votes (sub:58, dub:4)
 Good: 68 votes (sub:67, dub:1)
 Decent: 33 votes (sub:33)
 So-so: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 377 users, rank: #2627 (of 10129)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.244 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.3415, rank: #2883 (of 10307)
Weighted mean: 7.200 (Good+), rank: #2887 (of 10307) (seen all: 7.31 / seen some: 6.21 / won't finish: 4.41)
Bayesian estimate: 7.216 (Good+), rank: #2587 (of 7756)
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2007-02-21 to 2007-05-17
2008 (USA, ImaginAsian TV - The Block)
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"RISE" by ICHIKO
Ending Theme:
"Ashite Iki no Bus ni Notte (明日行きのバスに乗って)" by misae
#2: "Waratte!" ("Smile!") by Ichiko (ep 12)
Trivia: We have 1
Review:
Rocket Girls Sub.DVD (Dec 27, 2008)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Rocket Girls - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2019-01-15 (from $19.90)
DVD (Region 1)
    Rocket Girls - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2008-10-28 (from $26.78)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroshi Aoyama
Series Composition: Rika Nakase
Script:
Kentaro Mizuno (eps 7, 11)
Makoto Nakamura (eps 4, 8)
Masashi Sogo (5 episodes
eps 2-3, 5, 10, 12
)
Rika Nakase (eps 1, 6, 9)
Storyboard:
Hiroshi Aoyama (eps 1-2, 12)
Katsumi Ono (ep 7)
Kazunori Mizuno (eps 4, 11)
Kiyotaka Isako (ep 10)
Makoto Fuchigami (ep 6)
Tomihiko Ōkubo (ep 9)
Toshiya Shinohara (eps 3, 10)
Yūzō Satō (ep 8)
Episode Director:
Hiroshi Tamada (ep 7)
Kentaro Mizuno (eps 1, 8)
Makoto Fuchigami (ep 6)
Minoru Yamaoka (eps 2, 10)
Sumio Watanabe (ep 5)
Yoshinobu Tokumoto (eps 3, 9)
Yutaka Satō (eps 4, 12)
Music: Shinkichi Mitsumune
Original creator: Housuke Nojiri
Original Character Design: Mucchiri Moony
Character Design: Kyūma Ōshita
Art Director: Takeshi Waki
Animation Director:
Aki Yamagata (eps 3, 9)
Hitoshi Haga (ep 2)
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 5)
Kiyotoshi Aoi (ep 7)
Kyūma Ōshita (ep 1)
Masahiro Sekiguchi (ep 12)
Minoru Yamazawa (ep 11)
Natsuki Watanabe (ep 5)
Seika Saruwatari (eps 6, 12)
Takako Onishi (eps 4, 6, 11-12)
Tetsurō Moronuki (eps 2, 10)
Yoshishige Kosako (eps 2, 8, 10)
Mechanical design: Atsushi Takeuchi
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Yoshihiro Sekiya
Producer:
Daisuke Katagiri (WOWOW)
Hiromi Chiba
Mariko Kusuhara
Satoshi Matsui

Color design: Eiko Sekine
In-Between Animation:
Miyuki Hara (Mook Animation; 7 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 8, 10-12
)
Susumu Watanabe (Mook Animation; 7 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 8, 10-12
)
Key Animation:
Emiko Kataoka (eps 8, 12)
Hirofumi Kashihara (Anime R; eps 2, 11)
Kenichi Shimizu (OP; eps 1, 12)
Masaya Ōnishi (OP)
Moriyasu Taniguchi (Anime R; ep 11)
Music producer: Tomoko Shibuya
Photography: Hitoshi Tamura (D's Lab; 10 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-8, 10-12
)
Publicity: Yutaka Endō (WOWOW)
Sings "Waratte!" ("Smile!"): Ichiko (ep.#12 ED song) 
Sound Effects: Hidemi Tanaka
Theme Song Composition: Kōsuke Makino (OP/ED1)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Ichiko (OP)
Yuriko Mori (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Ichiko (OP)
misae (ED)
Eri Sendai as Yukari Morita
Hitomi Nabatame as Matsuri
Shizuka Hasegawa as Akane Miura

Machiko Toyoshima as Motoko Mihara
Mayumi Yanagisawa as Satsuki Asahikawa
Takayuki Sugō as Isao Nasuda

Chō as Onoda
Eiji Miyashita as George Grant (eps 10-12)
Fumihiko Tachiki as
Chang Tinjin
Kurose
Jin Domon as Hiroyuki Mukai
Kazunari Tanaka as Haruyuki Yasukawa
Masafumi Kimura as Air controller
Mayumi Asano as
Hideto Miura (ep 10)
Keiko Momoi (eps 5-6, 12)
Miyuki Ichijō as
Mrs. Headmaster (eps 1, 6-7, 12)
Old lady (eps 3, 10)
Naoki Makishima as Professor O'Reilly (eps 10-12)
Rio Natsuki as Hiroko Morita
Shōko Yamamoto as
Arisa (eps 1, 7)
Han Li
Sora Kuwakado as Sayuri (eps 1, 7)
Takashi Taniguchi as Professor Miyamoto (ep 7)
Takaya Kuroda as Kazuya Kinoshita
Takayasu Usui as Louis Krieger (eps 10-12)
Tarusuke Shingaki as Gordon Krenik (eps 10-12)
Yasuyuki Kase as Norman Randolph (eps 10-12)

Naoko Yamazaki (ep 7)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation: FLAME GEAR
Animation Production: Mook Animation
Backgrounds:
Feng Animation
Green
Broadcaster: WOWOW
Finish Animation:
Axis & Cats
Chaos Project
Enzo Animation
Fan Out
I Move
Studio CATS
Studio Elle
Studio Targe
In-Between Animation:
Axis & Cats
Enzo Animation
Fan Out
I Move
Tanto
The Answer Studio
Key Animation:
Anime R
Enzo Animation
GIMC
I Move
Studio Argo
Studio Giants
White Line
Music Production: Happinet Pictures
Online Editing: Q-Tec
Photography:
D's Lab
Mushi Production
Studio Wood
T. Nishimura
Planning: Happinet Pictures
Production: Happinet Pictures
Production Cooperation:
I Move (ep 4)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Mushi Production (eps 3, 9)
Studio Guts (ep 5)
Studio Wood (ep 11)
Recording Studio: Studio Gong
English staff
English cast
Executive producer:
John Ledford (Sentai release)
Ken Iyadomi

Art Manager: Larry Koteff (Sentai release)
Disc Authoring: Joel McCray (Sentai release)
Menu Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai release)
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai release)
Production:
Crystal Ruiz (Sentai release)
Janice Williams (Sentai release)
Joey Goubeaud (Sentai release)
Son Phan Le (Sentai release)
Production Assistant:
Alexandra Bedford (Sentai release)
Andy Nguyen (Sentai release)
E.W. Rector, III (Sentai release)
Luke La Padula (Sentai release)
Mariana Valverde (Sentai release)
Natalie Jones (Sentai release)
Ned Gayle (Sentai release)
Production Coordination: Janice Williams (Sentai release)
QC Manager: Crystal Ruiz (Sentai Release)
Subtitling: Jordan Hemann (Sentai release)
Supervising Translator: Javier Lopez (Sentai release)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch (Sentai release)
(none)
English companies
Blu-ray Production: Sentai Studios (Sentai release)
Broadcaster: iaTV (The Block)
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE
Viki (worldwide, except in Japan, the US and Canada.)
Licensed by:
Bandai Entertainment (Expired)
Sentai Filmworks (2018)
Production: Sentai Studios (Sentai release)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Amazon Prime Video (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)

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