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Carol (OAV)

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Genres: magic

Themes: isekai, magical girl

Objectionable content: None

Plot Summary: Living in London with her family, Carol is the daughter of a famous musician, Lionel Mudagolas. While he is currently having difficulties playing his cello, she occasionally starts to listen an unfamiliar voice calling her name. Wondering if her father's situation might be connected to the bad phase of her favorite band, Gable Screen, and the inexplicable silence of the Big Ben, Carol is suddenly transported to another world. There she finds out that she might be the girl predestined to fight Gigantica, a demon lord who recently brought chaos to this strange land.

User Ratings: 20 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: -

Excellent: -

Very good: -

Good: 3 votes (sub:3)

Decent: 1 vote (sub:1)

So-so: 1 vote (raw:1)

Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)

Weak: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)

Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)

Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)

Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 33 users, rank: #7494 (of 10052)
Median rating: Weak
Arithmetic mean: 3.450 (Weak+), std. dev.: 2.0609, rank: #10071 (of 10227)
Weighted mean: 3.417 (Weak+), rank: #10070 (of 10227) (seen all: 3.58 / seen some: 1.00)
Bayesian estimate: 5.015 (So-so), rank: #7565 (of 7683)

Running time: 60 minutes

Number of episodes: 1

Vintage: 1990-03-21

Release dates: We have 6

Ending Theme:

"Just One Victory ~Tatta Hitori no Shouri~" (Just One Victory~たったひとつの勝利) by TM NETWORK

Insert song:

"A Day In The Girl's Life" by TM NETWORK

"Carol" by TM NETWORK

"Chase in Labyrinth" by TM NETWORK

"Come On Everybody" by TM NETWORK

"Dawn Valley" by TM NETWORK

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Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director:
Satoshi Dezaki
Tsuneo Tominaga

Screenplay: Tomoya Miyashita

Storyboard: Tsuneo Tominaga

Music: Tetsuya Komuro

Original story:
Naoto Kine (novel)

Character Design:
Nobuaki Takahashi
Toshiki Yoshida
Yun Kouga

Art Director: Tsutomu Ishigaki

Animation Director: Yukari Kobayashi

Sound Director: Noriyoshi Matsuura

Director of Photography: Akihiko Takahashi

Producer: Naoto Kine

Adaptation: Yun Kouga

Assistant Animation Director:
Hideki Takahashi
Setsuko Shibuichi
Shinichi Yoshino
Taku Ito
Yoshiaki Matsuda
Yūji Ikeda

Editing: Harutoshi Ogata

Planning: Masaki Sawanobori

Sound: Daisuke Hinata

Aya Hisakawa as Carol

Eiko Yamada as Domos

Hideyuki Tanaka as Rymon

Hiroko Suzuki as Student

Kaneto Shiozawa as Clark

Kazue Ikura as Eddie

Masaru Ikeda as Tios

Masashi Hirose as U4

Michitaka Kobayashi as Rydah

Mika Doi as Reet

Miki Itō as Prof. Therese

Nobuo Tobita as Tico

Sakiko Tamagawa as Fairy

Show Hayami as Queprri

Takashi Utsunomiya as Flash

Tomoko Maruo as Alice

Japanese companies

Production:
Animate Film
Magic Bus

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