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The Girl in the Shell (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Kara no Shōjo (Japanese)
The Girl of the Shell
殻ノ少女 (Japanese)
Genres: erotica
Objectionable content: Pornography
Plot Summary: 10 years after losing the war, the city of Tokyo is still in the midst of being rebuilt. Within that city, strange recurrent incidents are occurring. Several students from the Sakuraba Private School for Girls have gone missing. Private detective Tokisaka Reito is called in to help with the investigation by childhood friend and former coworker Uozumi Kyozo. One day, Akito receives a strange request from student Kuchiki Toko: "Please find the real me." In the midst of that, yet another Sakuraba student goes missing.
User Ratings: 25 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Good: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:6)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:4, raw:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 47 users, rank: #6961 (of 10139)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.760 (Decent−), std. dev.: 1.8608, rank: #8353 (of 10315)
Weighted mean: 5.842 (Decent), rank: #8180 (of 10315) (seen all: 5.84 / seen some: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.400 (Decent+), rank: #5866 (of 7757)
Running time: 28 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 2
Vintage: 2010-01-15
Release dates: We have 4
Ending Theme:
"Ruri no Tori" by Haruka Shimotsuki
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    The Girl in the Shell (Blu-ray) 2023-02-28 (from $27.12)
DVD (Region 1)
    The Girl in the Shell (DVD) 2023-02-28 (from $17.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Ran Misumi
Script: Taifu Sekimachi
Storyboard: Ran Misumi
Unit Director: Ran Misumi
Character Design: Keiji Ishihara
Animation Director: Keiji Ishihara
Sound Director: Makoto Toguchi
Producer: Daigo Hamasaki

Animation producer: Jin Harukura
Color Coordination: Shōgo Nishimura
Color design: Satomi Hino
Editing: Kōki Shinkai
Production manager: Satoru Kawahara
Sound Effects: Moriji Fujiwara
Theme Song Performance: Haruka Shimotsuki (ED)
Hikaru Isshiki as Natsume Takashiro
Junichi Suwabe as Reiji Tokisaka
Kei Maeda as Touko Kuchiki
Shiho Kawaragi as Kyōko Hazuki

Jun Ozaki as Kyōzō Uozumi (as Atsuya Takizawa)
Kei Mizusawa as Tokisaka Yukari
Mio Yasuda as Maris Stella

Daisuke Yagami as Shinji Mamiya
Hikaru Isshiki as Yukiko Miyama
Iroha Haruyama as Girl B
Mimi Yoshida as Touko Mizuhara
Yuzuki as Girl A
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Flavors Soft
Original Work: Innocent Grey
Production: MS Pictures (milky)
Sound Production: T Project Studio
English staff
English cast
Executive producer: Gary Sierra
Producer: Count Cagliostro

Adaptation: Count Cagliostro
Casting: Yara Naika
Remote Direction: Yara Naika
Bakusatsuho as Touko Kuchiki
Randy Lupin as Reiji Tokisaka

Diana Lockhart as Touko Mizuhara
Lance Hall as Kyozo Uozumi
Venus LeMay as Kyouko Hazuki
Yara Naika as
Maris Stella
Yosomiya Tsuzuriko
Zaya Davies as Yukari Tokisaka

Isaiah Williams as Museum Guy (Shinji Mamiya)
Tempty as Yukiko Miyama
Yara Naika as Victims
English companies
Distributor: Kitty Media
Licensed by: Media Blasters
Recording Studio: Fever Dreams Sound Factory (New Jersey, U.S.A.)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Marie Cherie as Kyouko Hazuki (ep 1)

Marie Cherie as Yukiko Miyama (ep 2)
German companies
Distributor: Trimax
Internet Streaming: MyHentai

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