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Hakuōki: A Memory of Snow Flowers (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Hakuōki Sekkaroku (Japanese)
薄桜鬼 雪華録 (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, comedy, drama
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Takes place in-between episodes 8 and 9 of the first season of Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan. Chizuru Yukimura goes on a reconnaissance mission in Shimabara, as a geiko, for the Shinsengumi. Each episode unfolds the events of the days leading up to, during, and after the operation. It intermittently reveals each captain's involvement; as well as that of a few demons, in the affair through the perspectives of: Sōji Okita, Hajime Saitō, Sanosuke Harada, Heisuke Tōdō, Toshizō Hijikata, and Chikage Kazama.
User Ratings: 122 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Excellent: 15 votes (sub:12, dub:3)
 Very good: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 25 votes (sub:19, dub:6)
 Decent: 22 votes (sub:19, dub:3)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:8, dub:2)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 249 users, rank: #3408 (of 9857)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.213 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.5583, rank: #6862 (of 10009)
Weighted mean: 6.044 (Decent), rank: #7262 (of 10009) (seen all: 6.94 / seen some: 5.55 / won't finish: 3.10)
Bayesian estimate: 6.182 (Decent+), rank: #6267 (of 7550)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage: 2011-08-05
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Yume no Ukifune" (夢ノ浮舟) by Aika Yoshioka
Ending Theme:
"Mugen - a true love tale- (夢幻 -a true love tale-)" by Maon Kurosaki (ep 1)
#2: "Fuuka -The whisper of snow falling- (風花 -The whisper of snow falling-)" by Maon Kurosaki (ep 2)
#3: "Ran -The end of struggle- (蘭 -The end of struggle-)" by Maon Kurosaki (ep 3)
#4: "Hikari -I promise you- (光 -I promise you-)" by Maon Kurosaki (ep 4)
#5: "Shinjitsu -The light lasting- (真実 -The light lasting-)" by Maon Kurosaki (ep 5)
#6: "Hiyoku-Contract with you-" by Maon Kurosaki
Review:
Hakuōki: A Memory of Snow Flowers DVD 1-2 (May 21, 2013)
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Press Releases:
Hanabee Entertainment Licenses Hakuoki - A Memory of Snow Flowers OVA (Hakuoki Sekkaroku OVA|薄桜鬼 雪華録) (Mar 26, 2013)
Section23 Films Announces April Slate (Jan 16, 2013)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Hakuōki: A Memory of Snow Flowers - OVA Set (DVD 1-2) 2013-04-23 (from $19.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Osamu Yamasaki
Script:
Megumu Sasano (eps 2, 4)
Mitsutaka Hirota (ep 3)
Yoshiko Nakamura (eps 1, 5)
Storyboard:
Atsuko Nakajima (ED)
Hidetoshi Namura (ep 2)
Masami Ōbari (OP)
Masashi Kojima (ep 4)
Osamu Yamasaki (ep 1)
Sōjirō Oka (ep 3)
Tetsuhito Saito (ep 5)
Tsutomu Naniwa (ep 4)
Episode Director:
Atsuko Nakajima (ED)
Daisuke Takashima (ep 2)
Masahiro Sekino (ep 1)
Taro Kubo (ep 5)
Tatsuya Abe (ep 4)
Yūta Takamura (ep 3)
Unit Director: Masami Ōbari (OP)
Music: Kō Ōtani
Original Concept: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa
Original Character Design: Yone Kazuki
Character Design: Atsuko Nakajima
Animation Director:
Atsuko Nakajima (OP)
Hisashi Nakamoto (ep 5)
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 2)
Keiji Tani (ep 1)
Kenichi Ōnuki (ep 2)
Maki Fujioka (ep 1)
Masahiro Yamane (ep 4)
Youki Ebisu (ep 3)
Yūko Yamada (ep 3)
Yumi Nakayama (ep 5)
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

2nd Key Animation:
Chikai Okado (ep 3)
Hijiri Satō (A.P.P.P.; ep 1)
Hiromi Nakagawa (ep 4)
Hiroyuki Itai (eps 2, 4)
Kaoru Hokiyama (ep 1)
Kaoru Nagakawa (eps 2, 4)
Kayoko Suzuki (eps 3, 5)
Kazue Aoki (ep 5)
Megumi Tonegawa (ep 3)
Satomi Yamanaka (ep 2)
Tatsuya Takahashi (APPP; ep 1)
Tomomi Kosakai (ep 4)
Tooru Sawamura (ep 1)
Yu Imai (APPP; ep 1)
Yūta Masaki (ep 4)
3D Animation: Kiyono Watanabe
Assistant Animation Director:
Aimi Ishida (ep 3)
Hiromi Maezawa (ep 4)
Hisashi Nakamoto (ep 3)
Keiji Tani (ep 5)
Masami Nagata (eps 2, 4)
Mika Takazawa (ep 4)
Yumi Nakayama (ep 3)
Assistant producer: Keitarō Sunohara (Geneon Universal)
Background Art:
Ayami Ōkushi (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Chieko Hanada (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Fumika Tamura (Studio Easter)
Kōichirō Bizen (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Maki Takano (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Megumi Hirata (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Minami Usui (Studio Easter)
Ōnoo Fujii (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Sang Ha Yoo (Korea Easter Studio)
Serina Yamamoto (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Shin Hyo Lee (Korea Easter Studio)
So Young Kim (Korea Easter Studio)
Takamasa Honma (Studio Easter)
Takumi Yanagihara (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Tomonori Kuroda (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Yoshino Kobayashi (J.C. Staff Art Dept.)
Young Dan Heo (Korea Easter Studio)
Young Un Bae (Korea Easter Studio)
Color Key: Eiko Kitazume
Finish Animation:
Chisato Tsumotani
Kozue Arai
Saori Yoshida
In-Between Animation:
Ai Asari
Asuna Imahashi
Ayaka Shibamoto
Chie Iwasa
Kōji Nobuhara
Megumi Tonegawa
Mutsumi Omote
In-Between Check:
Aki Nakagawa (eps 1-6)
Hiroyuki Saitō
Key Animation:
Aimi Ishida (ep 3)
Akiko Furuzumi (ep 5)
Atsuko Nakajima (ED)
Atsuko Watanabe (OP)
Atsushi Kasano (ep 2)
Ayako Nozawa (ep 1)
Chie Hashimoto (ep 2)
Daisuke Takemoto (ep 3)
Etsushi Mori (eps 2, 4)
Fumie Muroi (OP; ep 5)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 3)
Hiromi Maezawa (eps 3, 5)
Hiromi Okazaki (ep 4)
Hiroshi Kawashima (ep 3)
Kaoru Hokiyama (OP)
Kayoko Suzuki (ep 3)
Kazuma Uike (ep 5)
Kazuto Nakazawa (ep 5)
Kazuyuki Matsubara (ep 5)
Keiichirō Honjō (ep 2)
Keita Hagio (ep 4)
Ken Obata (APPP; ep 1)
Ken Ōtsuka (OP)
Kenichi Ōki (ep 5)
Kimiko Yashiro (APPP; ep 1)
Kōdai Kitahara (OP)
Kōichi Hayami (eps 2, 4)
Maki Fujioka (ep 1)
Mamiko Nakanishi (ep 5)
Maria Ichino (APPP; ep 1)
Masahiro Emoto (ep 5)
Masahiro Yamane (OP)
Masaki Hinata (ep 3)
Masami Nagata (ep 4)
Masanobu Aoyama (ep 4)
Mayumi Oda (ep 5)
Mayumi Tomiie (ep 2)
Megumi Tonegawa (ep 5)
Miho Kawasaki (ep 2)
Mika Takazawa (eps 1, 3)
Miki Okabana (ep 2)
Misa Matsuoka (ep 2)
Moe Miyazaki (OP; ep 1)
Mutsuaki Murata (ep 5)
Naoko Imaizumi (ep 1)
Naoko Nakamoto (OP)
Natsuko Suzuki (ep 4)
Nobuyoshi Souzaki (ep 5)
Rie Nakajima (OP; eps 3, 5)
Seika Saruwatari (ep 2)
Shinichi Suzuki (Basara; eps 3, 5)
Shinichi Wada (eps 2, 4)
Shinichirō Hayashi (eps 2, 4)
Shōko Maruyama (ep 2)
Shōsuke Shimizu (ep 5)
Shōta Ihata (ep 6)
Shunryō Yamamura (ep 3)
Shusuke Aizawa (APPP; ep 1)
Takaaki Fujikura (ep 1)
Takashi Nagayoshi (APPP; ep 1)
Takenori Tsukuma (ep 3)
Takuji Abe (ep 5)
Tatsuya Yoshihara (OP)
Tetsuhito Saito (OP; ep 5)
Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP)
Tomoaki Sakiyama (ep 3)
Tomohiro Kamitani (ep 4)
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (eps 2, 4)
Tomoyo Masuda (ep 1)
Tomoyuki Munehiro (APPP; ep 1)
Toshinori Watanabe (ep 3)
Tsune Wada (Basara; ep 3)
Yasuko Miyazaki (ep 2)
Yasuyuki Noda (OP)
Yoshio Mizumura (eps 1, 3, 5)
Yousuke Kabashima (OP)
Yūichi Nakazawa (ep 1)
Yuji Mukoyama (ep 4)
Yukari Watabe (ep 2)
Yūki Iwai (OP; ep 3)
Yukiko Ban (OP)
Yutaka Kamogawa (ep 4)
Yutaka Matsubara (ep 4)
Photography:
Asahiko Koshiyama
Maiko Nakai
Takashi Honda
Tamami Arai
Production Advancement:
Masashi Tanaka (eps 1, 3, 5)
Norio Yoshida (eps 2, 4)
Seiji Makino (ep 2)
Special Effects: Shouichi Uehara
Theme Song Performance:
Aika Yoshioka (OP)
Maon Kurosaki (ED)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Heisuke Tōdō
Houko Kuwashima as Chizuru Yukimura
Kenjirō Tsuda as Chikage Kazama
Kōji Yusa as Sanosuke Harada
Kōsuke Toriumi as Hajime Saitō
Shinichirō Miki as Toshizō Hijikata
Showtaro Morikubo as Sōji Okita

Ayano Ishikawa as Senhime
Nobuo Tobita as Keisuke Sannan (eps 2, 5)
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shinpachi Nagakura
Tōru Ohkawa as Isami Kondō

Akane Sanada as Geisha (ep 5)
Akiko Katsuta as Kimigiku
Fumihide Ise as Ronin (eps 2, 6)
Hasumi Itō as Kaoru Nagumo (ep 6)
Hiroaki Tajiri as
Common Soldier (ep 3)
Ronin (eps 2, 6)
Hiroaki Yoshida as Kyō Shiranui (eps 3, 6)
Jun Kamei as Man (ep 4)
Manabu Sakamaki as A Playful Man (ep 3)
Minami Nakanishi as Geisha (eps 3, 5)
Minoru Hirota as Ronin (ep 2)
Nobunaga Shimazaki as
Ronin (eps 2, 6)
Soldier (ep 1)
Norio Kobayashi as Genzaburō Inoue
Ryū Yamaguchi as Kyūju Amagiri
Ryūsaku Chijiwa as Kashitarō Itō
Saeko Zōgō as Child (ep 1)
Shinobu Matsumoto as Townspeople (ep 3)
Takayuki Suzuki as Susumu Yamazaki
Takeshi Ohba as Kai Shimada (ep 5)
Toshiharu Nakanishi as Ronin (eps 2, 6)
Yūki Ono as
Shogunate Official (ep 3)
Soldier (ep 1)
Yuko Gibu as Child (ep 1)

Saeko Zōgō
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
APPP
Ginga-ya
Rising Force
Satelight
Wao World
Yuhodo
3D Graphics: Umidori
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Backgrounds:
E-cho
J.C. Staff Art Dept. (eps 3-5)
Korea Easter Studio
Studio Easter
Finish Animation: E-cho
In-Between Animation:
Basara
E-cho
Studio MAT
Studio Mu
Studio Takuranke
Yuhodo
Key Animation:
APPP (ep 1)
Basara (ep 3)
Music Production: Geneon Universal Entertainment
Original Creator: Idea Factory
Photography: Megumi
Production:
AT-X
Frontier Works
Geneon Universal Entertainment
Hakuoki A Memory of Snow Flowers Production Committee
Production Assistance: BLADE (eps 2, 4)
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Christopher Ayres
Script: Christopher Ayres
Translation: Jackie McClure
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford

Audio Engineer: Brent Marshall
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Mixing: Brent Marshall
Packaging Design:
Kris Saltiel
Larry Koteff
Production Assistant:
E.W. Rector, III
Jessica Williams
Kayla King
Production manager: Joey Goubeaud
Sound Design: Brent Marshall
Subtitle Timing: Christopher Williams
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Andrew Love as Toshizo Hijikata
Blake Shepard as Souji Okita
Brittney Karbowski as Chizuru Yukimura
Greg Ayres as Heisuke Toudou
Illich Guardiola as Sanosuke Harada
Leraldo Anzaldua as Hajime Saito

David Matranga as Keisuke Sannan
David Wald as Isami Kondou
Hilary Haag as Princess Sen
Kalob Martinez as Shinpachi Nagakura

Carli Mosier as
Geisha
Kimigiku
Christopher Ayres as Regimental Soldier
Clint Bickham as
Kashitaro Itou
Soldier
Connor Leach as
Soldier
Susumu Yamazaki
Corey Hartzog as Chikage Kazama
David Wald as Shogunate Official
Emily Neves as
Child
Geisha
George Manley as
Kai Shimada
Ronin
Houston Hayes as Kyo Shiranui
John Swasey as
Ronin
Townsperson
Kalin Coates as
Child
Geisha
Kurt Bauer as Genzaburo Inoue
Mark X Laskowski as
Pickpocket
Ronin
Rob Mungle as Ronin
Shannon Emerick as
Child
Geisha
Kaoru Nagumo
Steve Fenley as
Kyuju Amagiri
Ronin

Brent Marshall
Roxanne Terrell
Savannah Ober
English companies
Distributor:
MVM (UK & Ireland)
Section23 Films (North America)
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Subtitled & Dubbed)
The Anime Network
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Seraphim Digital

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