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Hand Shakers (TV)

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©GoHands,Frontier Works,KADOKAWA/Project-HS


Alternative title:
ハンドシェイカー (Japanese)
Themes: ecchi, magical girl
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In Osaka in the year "AD20XX," Hand Shakers are partners who can summon "Nimrodes," weapons born from their deep psyche by joining hands. In order to grant the pair's wish, the Hand Shakers compete with and fight other Hand Shaker pairs. The top pair will then meet and challenge "God."
User Ratings: 80 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (raw:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Decent: 18 votes (sub:13, dub:4, others:1
1 Indonesia subtitled
)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 Awful: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:5, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 157 users, rank: #4284 (of 9535)
Median rating: Weak
Arithmetic mean: 4.025 (Not really good), std. dev.: 2.5148, rank: #9374 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 3.821 (Not really good−), rank: #9449 (of 9642) (seen all: 4.59 / seen some: 3.40 / won't finish: 2.06)
Bayesian estimate: 4.366 (Not really good+), rank: #7200 (of 7243)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2017-01-10
Opening Theme:
"One Hand Message" by OxT
Ending Theme:
"Yumemiru Ame" (ユメミル雨; Dream of Rain) by Akino Arai
Insert song:
"Koi chuu LetterーNo.1" (恋 ちゅ レッターNo.1) by Mikako Komatsu as Kodama (eps 8-10)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Hand Shakers - The Complete Series [Essentials] (Blu-ray) 2019-12-17 (from $34.95)
Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Hand Shakers - The Complete Series (BD+DVD) 2018-03-20 (from $28.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Composition: Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Script:
Hiromitsu Kanazawa (eps 1-12)
Tamazo Yanagi (eps 1-12)
Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Shimazu (eps 1-12)
Shingo Suzuki (OP,ED; eps 1-12)
Episode Director:
Hiromitsu Kanazawa (eps 4, 10)
Katsumasa Yokomine (eps 1-2, 6, 9)
Masayuki Tachibana (eps 5, 8, 11)
Tetsukazu Yamagishi (eps 3, 7, 12)
Unit Director:
Shingo Suzuki (ED)
Takanori Kikuchi (OP)
Character Design: Takayuki Uchida
Art Director: Ken Naito
Chief Animation Director:
Makoto Furuta
Takayuki Uchida
Animation Director:
Daiki Takemoto (6 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-5, 7, 10
)

Keiji Tani (ep 4)
Makoto Furuta (eps 1-12)
Masayuki Tachibana (ep 2)
Naoki Okada (OP; eps 1, 6)
Rina Ueki (OP; eps 2-3, 8-9)
Shōhei Adachi (eps 1, 5, 7, 12)
Takayuki Uchida (OP,ED; eps 1-12)
Tomomi Ishida (eps 3, 6, 12)
Mechanical design: Hiroshi Okubo
Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka
Director of Photography: Yuichiro Tozawa
Animation producer: Takanori Kikuchi
Background Art Manager: Yoshika Matsushita
CGI Manager: Tomohiro Maeda
Insert Song Performance: Mikako Komatsu (as Kodama; eps 8-10)
Motion Graphics: Tomohiro Maeda
Online Editor: Saori Tadokoro
Planning Cooperation: Masahito Ikemoto
Production Affairs: Shizuka Misawa
Production Chief: Hirokazu Hayashi
Production Desk: Seiki Mune
Prop Design: Takahiro Kishida
Publicity Cooperation: Masahito Ikemoto
Recording Adjustment: Masato Muto
Recording Assistant: Rio Mitsuyama
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Sound Production Manager: Tōru Kanegae
Theme Song Composition: Tom-H@ck (OP; as OxT)
Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai (ED)
Masayoshi Ōishi (OP; as OxT)
OxT (OP)
Sōma Saitō as Tazuna
Sumire Morohoshi as Koyori

Ai Kayano as Riri
Ayumu Murase as Masaru
Jun Fukuyama as Break
Kaito Ishikawa as Hayate
Kenjiro Tsuda as Daichi Nagaoka
Mikako Komatsu as Kodama
Showtaro Morikubo as Makihara
Sora Amamiya as Musubu Takatsuki
Sumire Uesaka as Chizuru
Tomokazu Sugita as Hibiki
Yōko Hikasa as Bind
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Tomoki Tachibana

Ai Kakuma as Mari Akutagawa (eps 11-12)
Akira Sekine as Woman (ep 5)
Arisa Nakatake as
Companion (ep 5)
Cook (ep 7)
Aya Kawakami as Woman (ep 7)
Daisuke Namikawa as Voice of God
Emiri Katō as Mrs. Akutagawa (ep 11)
Fumie Mori as Cook (ep 3)
Haruka Shiraishi as Customer (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Kagura as
Boy (ep 5)
Man (ep 6)
Junichi Yanagita as
Audience (ep 5)
Riri's Father (ep 6)
Juri Akatsuki as
Cook (ep 7)
Woman (ep 5)
Karin Matoba as Karin Matoba (ep 10)
Kenshirō Usuki as Man (ep 7)
Kenta Tanaka as Male Student (ep 2)
Kentarō Tone as Mr. Akutagawa (ep 11)
Kentarō Yamada as
Male Student (ep 7)
Man (ep 5)
Kōichi Sōma as Staff (ep 2)
Konami Saitou as Woman (ep 8)
Kosuke Miyoshi as Salesperson (ep 10)
Mari Hino as Girl (ep 5)
Masaaki Yano as School Staff (ep 3)
Masamichi Kitada as School Staff (ep 3)
Minami Iinuma as Woman (eps 6, 8)
Mitsuki Nakae as Woman (ep 4)
Mitsuki Nakaw as Female Student (ep 7)
Mutsuki Iwanaka as Man (eps 4, 8)
Rei Shinkawa as Man (ep 4)
Risa Taneda as Female Student (ep 2)
Ryō Nishitani as Man (ep 8)
Saori Hayami as Shigure Hanasaki (ep 11)
Satomi Satou as Tazuna's Mother
Shintarō Asanuma as Tazuna's Father
Shinya Takahashi as School Staff (ep 3)
Shō Okumura as Man (ep 4)
Shōta Chōnan as Male Student (ep 7)
Takahiro Miwa as Salesperson (ep 10)
Takaki Ōtomari as Man (ep 11)
Taku Yashiro as Male Student (ep 2)
Tsubasa Onoue as Man (eps 6-7)
Wakana Kowaka as
Nurse (ep 11)
Riri's Mother (ep 6)
Wataru Komada as Enemy Hand Shaker (ep 11)
Yukako Yoneyama as
Female Student (ep 7)
Salesperson (ep 10)
Woman (ep 11)
Yurina Watanabe as Woman (ep 4)

Japanese companies
3DCGI: GoHands
Animation Production: GoHands
Finish Animation:
GoHands
Jumondo
In-Between Animation:
GoHands
Jumondo
Music: GOON TRAX
Original Planning: GoHands
Photography:
GoHands
Graphinica
Production: Frontier Works
Production Cooperation: JOYSOUND
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Jerry Jewell
Script: Monica Rial
Translation:
Adam Lensenmayer
Angela Liu (Additional Home Video Translation)
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
ADR Engineer: Michael Trotzig
ADR Supervisor: Peter Hawkinson
Assistant producer:
Samantha Herek
Zach Bolton
Editing: Narelle Battersby (Subtitles)
Head Writer: John Burgmeier
Language Asset Coordinator: Kaitlan Estes
Language Asset Manager: Sarah Alys Lindholm
Mix Engineer:
Adrian Cook (eps 4-7, 9-10)
Andrew Tipps (6 episodes
eps 1-3, 8, 11-12
)

Gino Palencia (ep 3)
Neal Malley
Quality Check: Zachary Carlysle (Subtitles)
Senior Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez
Special Thanks To: Gregory Lanson
Subtitle Timing: Krzysztof Kunc (Crunchyroll)
Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams
Translation Check: Michelle Tymon
Video Engineer: Jason Weems
Video Post-Production Director: Clarine Harp
English companies
Broadcaster: Animax Asia
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll

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