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Tetsujin 28 (TV 2004)

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Alternative title:
Tetsujin 28-gō (Japanese)
鉄人28号 (Japanese)
Themes: mecha, super robot
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: In post-WWII Japan, Prof. Shikishima has built up Shikishima Industries to be a technological powerhouse, working on developing robots. However, at the heart of their success lurks a dark secret from the war, something that cost the life of Prof. Kaneda, the mentor of Prof. Shikishima. Now Kaneda's son, Shoutarou, is about to learn the truth, and it will change him forever.
User Ratings: 50 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Excellent: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:2, raw:1)
 Very good: 16 votes (sub:12, dub:4)
 Good: 13 votes (sub:7, dub:5, raw:1)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 So-so: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 109 users, rank: #5025 (of 9581)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.740 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.3388, rank: #1169 (of 9703)
Weighted mean: 7.641 (Very good−), rank: #1267 (of 9703) (seen all: 7.68 / seen some: 7.98 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.605 (Very good−), rank: #1059 (of 7286)
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2004-04-07 to 2004-09-29
Opening Theme:
"Tetsujin 28-go" by Roppongi Gasshodan
Ending Theme:
"Susume Shōtarō" by Roppongi Gasshodan
#2: "Nanoni Anata wa Kyoto e Yuku no" (なのにあなたは京都へゆくの; Even so, are you still going to Kyoto) by Cherish (eps 15-16)
Insert song:
"Space Oddity" by David Bowie [TV broadcast version] (ep 11)
Trivia: We have 1
Reviews:
Tetsujin 28 DVD 5 (Nov 29, 2006)
Tetsujin 28 DVD 4 (Oct 26, 2006)
Tetsujin 28th DVD 3 (Oct 17, 2006)
Tetsujin 28th DVD 2 (Jan 24, 2006)
Tetsujin 28th DVD 1 (Oct 8, 2005)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Tetsujin 28 - The Complete 2004 TV Series (Blu-ray) 2018-09-25 (from $88.98)
DVD (Region 1)
    Tetsujin 28 - Monster Resurrected (DVD 1) 2005-09-27 (from $9.98)
    Tetsujin 28 - Monster Resurrected + Artbox (DVD 1) 2005-09-27 (from $8.11)
    Tetsujin 28 - Tetsujin vs. the Mafia (DVD 2) 2005-12-13 (from $15.37)
    Tetsujin 28 - The Phantom Thief (DVD 3) 2006-02-14 (from $23.98)
    Tetsujin 28 - Kyoto Burns (DVD 4) 2006-04-11 (from $10.89)
    Tetsujin 28 - Conspiracy (DVD 5) 2006-06-13 (from $11.00)
    Tetsujin 28 - Advance! Tetsujin (DVD 6) 2006-08-08 (from $23.98)
    Tetsujin 28 - The Complete Set (DVD 1-6) 2007-06-19
Soundtrack
    Tetsujin 28 - Music Collection (OST) 2005-09-06 (from $5.64)
    Tetsujin 28 - Music Collection 2 (OST 2) 2005-12-13 (from $4.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Series Composition: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Script:
Akemi Omode (ep 14)
Hiroaki Kitajima (eps 9-11)
Kenichi Araki (ep 12)
Ryota Yamaguchi (ep 6)
Yasuhiro Imagawa (21 episodes
eps 1-5, 7-8, 11, 13, 15-26
)

Storyboard:
Akitoshi Yokoyama (eps 10, 17, 21)
Hidehito Ueda (eps 8, 11)
Kenji Kodama (ep 14)
Kenji Yasuda (ep 6)
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (ep 5)
Masaharu Okuwaki (ep 7)
Shin Itagaki (ep 15)
Takashi Nakamura (OP; ep 16)
Takenori Mihara (ep 19)
Tatsuya Oishi (ep 3)
Toshimasa Suzuki (ep 9)
Yasuhiro Imagawa (12 episodes
eps 1-5, 13, 19-20, 22-23, 25-26
)

Yoriyasu Kogawa (eps 12, 18, 24)
Episode Director:
Jōhei Matsuura (ep 1)
Kazuo Nogami (eps 10, 22)
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (5 episodes
eps 5, 12, 14, 17, 21
)

Kooji Kobayashi (4 episodes
eps 13, 19, 23-24
)

Mihiro Yamaguchi (eps 6, 9, 11)
Osamu Sekita (ep 15)
Tatsuya Oishi (ep 3)
Tomio Yamauchi (5 episodes
eps 2, 7, 16, 20, 25
)

Yoriyasu Kogawa (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 18, 26
)

Unit Director:
Akitoshi Yokoyama (OP)
Yasuhiro Imagawa (ED)
Music: Akira Senju
Original Manga: Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Character Design: Takashi Nakamura
Art Director: Junichi Azuma
Animation Director:
Akitoshi Yokoyama (ep 23)
Hideyuki Morioka (ep 3)
Ichiro Hattori (ep 15)
Itaru Saito (ep 22)
Kenji Hattori (4 episodes
eps 5, 12, 14, 21
)

Kunihiko Sakurai (5 episodes
eps 1, 7, 13, 20, 26
)

Minoru Tanaka (ep 6)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 11)
Shingo Ishikawa (OP; eps 4, 8, 16)
Shinichi Yoshikawa (5 episodes
eps 2, 10, 15, 18, 25
)

Takahito Katayama (eps 19, 24)
Yūichi Nakazawa (ep 9)
Sound Director: Yasunori Honda
Director of Photography: Eiji Tsuchida
Animation Check: Kazuya Uzuki
Art Setting: Hiroki Matsumoto
Background Art: Shinji Kimura (OP)
Color Assignment: Tomoe Takaya
Color Check: Tomoe Takaya
Color design: Kazuko Kikuchi
Editing: Takeshi Seyama
Recording: Chikako Abe
Recording Assistant: Satoru Matsuda
Sound Effects: Naoto Kobayashi
Special Effects: Jin Hibino
Theme Song Arrangement:
Akira Senju (OP, ED1)
Shunichi Makaino (ED2)
Theme Song Composition:
Nobuyoshi Koshibe (ED1)
Tetsuro Fujita (藤田哲朗; ED2)
Toriro Miki (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Akira Itō (ED1)
Naomi Wakita (ED2)
Toriro Miki (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Cherish (End eps 15-16)
Roppongi Men's Choir
Video Editing: Masahiro Ogami
Motoko Kumai as Shōtarō Kaneda

Minoru Inaba as Chief Ōtsuka
Norio Wakamoto as Ryūsaku Murasame
Rie Ishizuka as Miss Takamizawa
Shigeru Ushiyama as Professor Shikishima
Shōzō Iizuka as Professor Kaneda
Tadashi Nakamura as Dr. Bigfire
Tomokazu Seki as Tatsu
Yūji Mikimoto as Kenji Murasame

Ben Takada as
Bank President (ep 14)
Pilot (ep 22)
Eiji Hanawa as
Colleague B (ep 13)
Crucifix Gang Member A (ep 1)
Hidenari Ugaki as Gang Leader (ep 1)
Hiroaki Hirata as Kagero Arimoto/Black Mask (ep 14)
Hiroko Suzuki as
Landlady (ep 21)
Narrator
Iemasa Kayumi as Dr. Black (ep 12)
Junpei Takiguchi as Professor Arimoto (ep 14)
Kan Tanaka as Colleague A (ep 13)
Katsumi Suzuki as
Politician B (ep 21)
Secretary (ep 1)
Kazuhiro Nakata as
Ohara (eps 15-16)
Professor Makimura (ep 9)
Kazuo Oka as Doctor (ep 12)
Kazuyuki Ishikawa as Kawarazaki (ep 16)
Kenichi Mochizuki as PX Member (ep 20)
Kenichi Sakaguchi as Policeman A (ep 6)
Kenji Utsumi as Velanade (eps 17, 21-26)
Kinryuu Arimoto as Professor Dragnet (eps 9-10, 18)
Kishō Taniyama as Worker A (ep 3)
Kunihiko Yasui as Ginji Tachibana (ep 12)
Kyousei Tsukui as Rock'n'Roll (eps 6-8)
Masaaki Yajima as Katsuhiro Yagi (ep 13)
Masato Amada as Tetsugoro Hazama (ep 12)
Michiko Neya as Tetsuo Shikishima (eps 18, 24)
Mitsuaki Madono as Foreman (ep 1)
Mugihito as Yamagishi (ep 13)
Nanako Fukushima as Landlord (eps 22-23)
Nobuaki Fukuda as Col. Spencer (eps 7-8)
Osamu Hosoi as Colleague C (ep 13)
Rie Ishizuka as Nurse (ep 12)
Ryūji Nakagi as Detective Teramachi (eps 15-16)
Shiho Kawaragi as
Kid (ep 6)
Nurse (ep 7)
Shinji Kawada as
Hayashiba (ep 7)
Monk (ep 4)
Shintarō Ōhata as
PX Member 1 (ep 26)
PX Member 2 (ep 24)
Sumi Shimamoto as Shikishima's Wife (ep 18)
Takayasu Usui as
PX Chief (4 episodes
eps 20-21, 25-26
)

PX Member 1 (ep 24)
Takeharu Ōnishi as Worker C (ep 3)
Takehiro Murozono as Longrun (eps 6-8)
Takeru Miyashita as Jilba (eps 6-8)
Takkō Ishimori as Chief Secretary
Takuma Suzuki as
Monster (eps 4-5)
Morinuma (ep 7)
Tomohisa Asō as
Kogarashi (ep 7)
Scientist (ep 4)
Tomokazu Seki as
Captain (ep 7)
Detective Seki (5 episodes
eps 13, 17-18, 25-26
)

Man in Black (6 episodes
eps 3-5, 15, 24-25
)

Politician A (eps 2, 21)
Sara (ep 12)
Worker A (ep 11)
Tomomichi Nishimura as Chief Chloroform (eps 17-24)
Toshitaka Hirano as Reporter 1 (ep 23)
Toshitaka Shimizu as Crucifix Gang Member B (ep 1)
Toshitsugu Takashina as Reporter A (ep 14)
Wataru Takagi as Sukagawa (eps 15-16)
Yasuhiro Fujiwara as
Reporter 2 (ep 23)
Worker B (ep 3)
Yasuyoshi Hara as Kelly/Johnson (eps 9-11)
Yōichi Nishijima as
PX Brigade Pilot (ep 20)
PX Member (ep 21)
Reporter B (ep 14)
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Worker D (ep 3)
Yousuke Akimoto as Thrill Suspense (eps 6-7)
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Old Man from South Seas (ep 23)

Japanese companies
Animation Production: Palm Studio
Broadcaster: TV Tokyo
Digital Paint:
Frontline (ep 6)
Hayashi (eps 6, 9)
MI
Pak Production (ep 9)
SHAFT (eps 6, 9)
Studio Targe (eps 18-19, 24)
Distributor: King Records
In-Between Animation:
Anime House (ep 26)
Anime R (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 7, 9, 11, 18, 25-26
)

Anime Roman (eps 1-4, 7-9)
Ashi Productions (ep 10)
BONES (eps 1, 4, 8)
Dicell
Double R (ep 4)
FAI (eps 3, 6)
Frontline
Hayashi (eps 3, 9)
JEM (5 episodes
eps 2, 7-8, 22-23
)

Last House (eps 2, 10, 26)
MI
Mouse (eps 8, 25)
Nakamura Production
Oh! Production (eps 11, 25-26)
Pak Production (eps 3, 9)
Radix (ep 22)
SHAFT (eps 3, 6, 9)
Shindo Production (eps 8, 10)
Studio Boomerang (eps 1, 7-8)
Studio Cockpit (5 episodes
eps 4, 16, 23, 25-26
)

Studio Gash
Studio Mark
Studio Wanpack (ep 25)
VENET (eps 13, 16)
Yuhodo (eps 8, 20)
Key Animation:
Anime R (eps 6, 9)
Anime Roman (eps 1, 22, 25)
Last House (ep 8)
Neox (eps 5, 12, 14)
Studio Mark (ep 8)
Studio Takuranke (eps 16, 20, 22)
Studio Wanpack (4 episodes
eps 12, 14, 21, 25
)

Synod (ep 22)
Music Production: King Records
Production Cooperation:
Hikari Productions
SHAFT (eps 3, 6, 9)
VENET (4 episodes
eps 5, 12, 14, 21
)

Recording Studio: Toei Audio Visual Art Center
Sound Production: Arts Production
Video Editing: Data Art
English staff
English cast
Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Dialogue Editing:
Aaron MacDonald (eps 1-5, 11-18)
Chris Cleator (eps 6-10)
Cisco McLaren
Marc Matsumoto (8 episodes
eps 11-14, 23-26
)

Ryan Nowak (eps 11-22)
Timur Kalyuzhnyy (eps 1-5)
Production Coordination: Mai Mizuta
Production manager: Diana Gage
Re-Recording Mixing:
Keith A. Goddard (eps 6-10)
Timur Kalyuzhnyy (eps 1-5, 11-26)
Recording engineer:
Ryan Olszewski
Timur Kalyuzhnyy (eps 1-14)
Script Adaptation: Mike Bridges
Subtitle Script: Karen Chrcek
Translation Script: Kevin McKeown
Video Post-Production:
Elisa Chee (eps 1-10)
Jodi Peterson (eps 11-26)
Michael Hey
Sean McConkey
Voice Direction: Rob Bakewell
Brian Drummond as Kenji Murasame
Michael Kopsa as Professor Shikishima
Nathan Tipple as Shotaro Kaneda (eps 6-26)
Reece Thompson as Shotaro Kaneda (eps 1-5)

Don Brown as Chief Ootsuka
Doug Abrahams as Dr. Bigfire
French Tickner as Dr. Furanken
Jason Simpson as Chief Chloroform
Mark Gibbon as Velanade
Maryke Hendrikse as Miss Takamizawa
Philip Pacaud as Detective Seki

Aidan Drummond as Tetsuo Shikishima (eps 18, 24)
Alec Willows as Detective Teramachi (eps 15-16)
Alison Matthews as Narrator
Alistair Abell as Crucifix Gang (ep 1)
Andrew Toth as Tatsu Murasame (ep 1)
Brendan Van Wijk as Coworker 2 (ep 13)
Brian Dobson as
Absorbed Man (ep 13)
Coworker 1 (ep 13)
Launch Controll (ep 11)
Brian Drummond as Kenji
Cathy Weseluck as
Mrs. Shikishima
Robby
Colin Murdock as
Katsuhiro Yagi (ep 12)
Patient A
Reporter 3
Dale Wilson as
Arimoto (ep 14)
Doctor (ep 12)
Eli Gabay as Colonel Spencer (eps 7-8)
Fred Keating as Dr. Yamagishi (ep 12)
James Blight as Ginji
Jennifer Copping as Etsuko (ep 17)
Jerry Rector as Longrun (eps 6-8)
John Novak as Bartender (ep 6)
Kathy Morse as Mrs. Takamizawa (ep 14)
Lee Tockar as Tilba (eps 6-8)
Mackenzie Gray as Black Hat (ep 14)
Michael Dobson as Ryu Murasame
Michael Kopsa as Nikkoponski (eps 18-20, 22)
Nicole Leroux as Miss Takamizawa
Patricia Drake as Ayako Umenokoji (eps 15-16)
Richard Newman as Chief Secretary
Robert O. Smith as Politician A (eps 1-2, 21)
Ron Halder as Thrill Suspense (eps 6-8)
Ross Douglas as Ohara (eps 15-16)
Scott McNeil as Dr. Black (ep 12)
Shawn MacDonald as Longroll (eps 6-8)
Tony Alcantar as Tetsugoro Hazama (ep 12)
Trevor Devall as Professor Kaneda
Ward Perry as American Captain (ep 8)

English companies
Associate Producer: The Ocean Group
Distributor: Manga Entertainment
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll
RetroCrush
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Discotek Media (2018)
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (expired)
Recording: Westwood Studios
French staff
French companies
(none)
Distributor: Dybex
French cast
(none)
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
Dubbing Director: Montreal Repuyan
Filipina Pamintuan as Shoutarou Kaneda
Gerald Narciso as Shoutarou Kaneda (QTV Dub)

Don Sanmaniego as Kenji Murasame (QTV Dub)
Ed Belo as Professor Shikishima (QTV Dub)
Gigi Medina as Miss Takamizawa (QTV Dub)
Roger Aquino as Chief Ootsuka (QTV Dub)

Montreal Repuyan as Narrator
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster:
HERO TV
QTV Channel 11 (May 13, 2006)
Dubbing: ABS-CBN

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