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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom - Dawn of the Shinsengumi (TV)

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Alternative title:
Hakuōki Reimeiroku (Japanese)
Hakuoki ~ Dawn of the Shinsengumi
薄桜鬼 黎明録 (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy, drama
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The beginning of Hakuouki Series. Foretells the story Ryunosuke Ibuki, a boy who is a son of a samurai, yet hates a samurai. He was pick up by Roshigumi (later Shinsengumi) other leader Kamo Serizawa, when he was robbed and left to die on his way to the Capital (Kyoto). After being rescued, he was forced to become Serizawa's dog, and slowly, the mystery of "Water of Life" is starting to unfold.
User Ratings: 161 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Excellent: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 25 votes (sub:22, dub:3)
 Good: 38 votes (sub:28, dub:10)
 Decent: 24 votes (sub:21, dub:3)
 So-so: 18 votes (sub:16, dub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 328 users, rank: #2833 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.043 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.3094, rank: #7034 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 5.953 (Decent), rank: #7361 (of 9642) (seen all: 6.69 / seen some: 5.67 / won't finish: 2.75)
Bayesian estimate: 6.075 (Decent), rank: #6254 (of 7243)
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2012-07-09
Opening Theme:
"Reimei -reimei-" by Maon Kurosaki
Ending Theme:
"Hana No Atosaki" by mao
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom - Dawn of the Shinsengumi (Blu-ray) 2013-10-01 (from $55.98)
DVD (Region 1)
    Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom - Dawn of the Shinsengumi (DVD) 2013-10-01 (from $78.21)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Osamu Yamasaki
Storyboard: Masami Ōbari (OP; ep 12)
Unit Director: Masami Ōbari (OP; Studio G-1 NEO)
Music: Kō Ōtani
Original Concept: Tsunekiyo Fujisawa
Original Character Design: Yone Kazuki
Character Design: Atsuko Nakajima
Animation Director: Atsuko Nakajima (OP)
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Producer:
Asuka Yamazaki (AT-X)
Atsushi Iwasaki (Frontier Works)
Mitsutoshi Ogura (Geneon Universal Entertainment)
Youhei Hayashi (Movic)

2nd Key Animation: Aki Nakagawa (ep 6)
Theme Song Performance:
Mao (ED)
Maon Kurosaki (OP)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Heisuke Tōdō
Jōji Nakata as Kamo Serizawa
Kōji Yusa as Sanosuke Harada
Kōsuke Toriumi as Hajime Saitō
Shinichirō Miki as Toshizō Hijikata
Showtaro Morikubo as Sōji Okita
Tomokazu Seki as Ryūnosuke Ibuki

Nobuo Tobita as Keisuke Sannan
Ryuugo Saito as Kōdō Yukimura
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shinpachi Nagakura
Tōru Ohkawa as Isami Kondō

Amika Takahashi as Aguri (ep 9)
Chihiro Aikawa as Ryūnosuke's mom
Kazuya Murakami as Toshio Tonōchi 
Kenjiro Tsuda as Chikage Kazama
Naomi Iida as
Oka
Sōji Okita (child)
Norio Kobayashi as Genzaburō Inoue
Reiko Fujita as Yuubou
Saya Shinomiya as Oume
Shinsaku Kōchi as Iesato
Takayuki Suzuki as Susumu Yamazaki
Takeshi Ohba as Kai Shimada
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Original Creator: Idea Factory
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Christopher Ayres
Translation: Jackie McClure
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford

BD Authoring: David Williams
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Mixing: Brent Marshall
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff
Production manager: Joey Goubeaud
Sound Design: Brent Marshall
Subtitle Formatting: Christopher Williams
Subtitle Script & Timing: Christopher Williams
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Adam Gibbs as Ryunosuke Ibuki
Andrew Love as Toshizo Hijikata
Blake Shepard as Soji Okita
Greg Ayres as Heisuke Todo
Illich Guardiola as Sanosuke Harada
Leraldo Anzaldua as Hajime Saito

Brett Weaver as Kamo Serizawa
David Matranga as Keisuke Sannan
David Wald as Isami Kondo
John Swasey as Nimi
Kalob Martinez as Shinpachi Nakagura 
Mark X Laskowski as Kodo Yukimura

Beth Lazarou as Mother (ep 1)
Brent Marshall as Aizu Official (eps 5, 10-11)
Brittney Karbowski as Chizuru Yukimura (ep 12)
Christopher Ayres as
Iesato (ep 6)
Tonouchi (eps 3-4)
Connor Leach as Susumu Yamazaki
Corey Hartzog as Chikage Kazama
George Manley as Kai Shimada
John Daugherty as Kawashima (ep 6)
Kalin Coates as Child Okita (ep 4)
Kurt Bauer as Genzaburo Inoue
Margaret McDonald as Kosuzu
Mike Yager as Hirama
Molly Searcy as Oume (eps 8, 10-12)

English companies
Distributor:
MVM (UK & Ireland)
Section23 Films (North America)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.)
HIDIVE (Subtitled & Dubbed)
The Anime Network (North America)
Licensed by:
Hanabee Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Sentai Filmworks
Production: Seraphim Digital
Tagalog staff
Tagalog companies
(none)
Broadcaster: HERO TV
Tagalog cast
(none)

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