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Spirit of Wonder (OAV)

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© Kenji Tsuruta/Kodansha • Toshiba EMI


Alternative title:
El anillo de la señorita China (Spanish)
Spirit of Wonder: Miss China's Ring
ザスピリットオブワンダー - チャイナさんの憂鬱 (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Miss China, a young Chinese girl, runs a restaurant in England. Dr Breckenridge and Jim are boarders that live upstairs. Unfortunately, Miss China has a problem with getting the rent from them because they spend all their money on wild inventions. The latest one allows people to travel to the moon. No one believes them, so they devise a way to prove it.
User Ratings: 139 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:2)
 Excellent: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:2)
 Very good: 25 votes (sub:18, dub:6, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 44 votes (sub:31, dub:11, others:2
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Decent: 26 votes (sub:22, dub:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 So-so: 15 votes (sub:13, edit.dub:1, dub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (raw:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 237 users, rank: #3555 (of 10146)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.892 (Good), std. dev.: 1.6608, rank: #4563 (of 10324)
Weighted mean: 6.860 (Good), rank: #4515 (of 10324) (seen all: 7.01 / seen some: 5.26 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.913 (Good), rank: #3943 (of 7760)
Running time: 42 minutes
Vintage: 1992-06-03
Ending Theme:
"Yume no Tobira" by Noriko Hidaka
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Review:
Spirit of Wonder DVD (Jan 1, 1970)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Spirit of Wonder - Miss China's Ring (DVD) 2001-01-10
LaserDisc
    Spirit of Wonder - Miss China's Ring (LD) 1996-02-14

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Mitsuru Hongō
Screenplay: Michiru Shimada
Music: Kōhei Tanaka
Original Manga: Kenji Tsuruta
Character Design: Yoshiaki Yanagida
Art Director:
Hiromasa Ogura
Yoshiaki Yanagida 
Animation Director: Yoshiaki Yanagida
Sound Director: Akira Ōkuma
Director of Photography: Akio Saitō
Producer:
Kiyoshi Sugiyama
Masahiro Okamura

Background Art:
Junko Ina
Kenichi Takahashi
Kyoko Daiki
Yoshinori Hirose
Yukihiro Shibutani
Color design: Miyoko Ichinose
Design:
Hiroyuki Nishimura
Toshihisa Kaiya
Editing:
Yoko Ando
Yukiko Nojiri
Yumiko Fuse
In-Between Animation:
Eiko Tajima
Hidekazu Oka
Kazuhiro Satō
Mitsuyuki Mutsuzaki
Noriko Kadoya
Sachiko Yuminamochi
Satoe Nakazato
Tetsuo Hara
Yasuo Mito
Yukie Kawauchi
In-Between Supervision: Yūichi Nakajima
Key Animation:
Akihiro Shibata
Futoshi Fujikawa
Hiroyuki Nishimura
Marisuke Eguchi
Masaya Fujimori
Mitsunori Murata
Takao Yoshino
Tetsuhito Saitō
Yasushi Ohara
Yoshihiko Takakura
Photography:
Gyousuke Kaneko
Kenichi Itou
Planning: Fuminori Shishido
Production manager: Ryūichirō Matsuyama
Sound Effects: Akihiko Matsuda
Special Effects: Makoto Nishiyama
Theme Song Arrangement: Masami Kishimura (ED)
Theme Song Composition: Kōhei Tanaka (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Kōichirō Maeda (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Noriko Hidaka (ED)
Hiroyuki Shibamoto as Jim Freud
Noriko Hidaka as Miss China

Michio Hazama as Dr. Breckenridge

Akiko Hiramatsu as Nancy
Chafūrin as Man A
Chisa Yokoyama as Robin
Ikuya Sawaki as Paul
Rin Mizuhara as Joan
Shōzō Iizuka as Rock
Tamao Hayashi as Titi
Yuriko Fuchizaki as Lily
Yutaka Shimaka as shop owner
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
Art Director: Luray Carroll
Translation: Shin Kurokawa
Executive producer:
Janice Hindle
Peter R. Haswell

Associate producer: Natsumi Ueki
Audio Engineer: Nick Stuteville
Dialogue Checker: Natsumi Ueki
Dialogue Editing: Roe R. Adams III
Dialogue Mixer: Ron Abfalter
Production Coordination: Natsumi Ueki
Script Supervision: William Bailey
Subtitling: Saori Tauchi
Subtitling Director: Robert J. Woodhead
Voice Direction: Scott Houle
David Bjorkback as Jim
Pamela Weidner as Miss China

Mike Way as Dr. Breckenridge

Bob Weidner as Evans
Chuck Denson Jr. as Rock
Dave Underwood as Policeman
Eric Paisley as Jim's Boss
Erica Shaffer as Lily
Gertrude Weidner as Marketwoman
Jim Clark as Thief
John Paul Houle as Jon
Kevin Greenway as Gentleman 2
Lanelle Markgraf as Lily
Lisa Gattis as Titi
Mark Matney as Gil
Norm Shore as Narrator
Rachael Seidman as Nancy
Robert Boucher as Gentleman 1
Scott Bailey as Paul
Sean P. O'Connell as Kelly
Shawn Ernie as Robin

Elmo Jones
Nick Manatee
Patrick Humphrey
William Brenton
English companies
Licensed by: AnimEigo (Expired)
Recording Studio: Coastal Carolina Sound Studios
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Benoit Du Pac
Translation: Arnaud Delage (French Subtitles as part of Sanjûshi)

Adaptation: Sabrina Boyer
French companies
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Silvia Castelló (Spain dub)
Executive producer: Jorge Gabarró Frau (Selecta Visión)
Ariadna Giménez as Miss China (Spain dub)
Daniel Albiac as Jim (Spain dub)

David Navarro Rebés as Paul (Spain dub)
Maria Rosa Guillén as Lily (Spain dub)
Silvia Castelló as Nancy (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)
DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión
TV Distribution: Selecta Visión
Italian staff
Italian cast
(none)
Antonello Governale as Sig. Cooper
Debora Magnaghi as Windy
Jasmine Laurenti as Lily 
Marco Balzarotti as Sig. Gordon
Massimo Di Benedetto as Jim
Patrizio Prata as Jack
Rita Baldini as Mrs. China
Italian companies
Distributor: Panini Video Italia
German staff
German cast
(none)
Claudia Urbschat-Mingues as China
Matthias Hinze as Jim Floyd

Hans Teuscher as Dr. Breckenridge

Dennis Schmidt-Foß as Jack
Gerhard Paul as Cooper
Kaspar Eichel as Shepard
Michael Christian as Carl Sagan
Rainer Fritzsche as Frank
Reinhard Scheunemann as Moderator
Roland Hemmo as Gordon
Schaukje Könning as Windy
Silvia Mißbach as Lily
Uwe Büschken as Arthur
German companies
Distributor: Panini Video

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