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Zipang (TV)

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Alternative title:
ジパング (Japanese)
次元艦隊 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Mirai, an improved Kongou-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most advanced ships in the entire Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF). Her crew, also one of the newest, is lead by Capt. Umezu Saburo and Executive Officer Kadomatsu Yosuke. While running scheduled training exercises one day, Mirai encounters a fierce storm that throws their navigation systems into temporary disarray. After a few minutes of recovery, the crew is shocked to discover that they've been transported back in time to June 4, 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, during World War II. Letting history take its course for this battle, they manage to avoid the conflict firsthand and make a vow to remain annonymous, changing history as little as possible. However, when the crew comes across the dying Lt. Commander Kusaka Takumi, XO. Kadomatsu's instincts to save lives takes over, changing the course of history more than he could've imagined.
User Ratings: 236 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:2, raw:1)
 Excellent: 49 votes (sub:41, dub:5, raw:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
)
 Very good: 84 votes (sub:72, dub:11, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 49 votes (sub:43, dub:5, raw:1)
 Decent: 20 votes (sub:15, dub:3, edit.dub:1, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 So-so: 9 votes (sub:8, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:2, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
Seen in part or in whole by 434 users, rank: #2343 (of 9535)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.576 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.6463, rank: #1557 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.596 (Very good−), rank: #1360 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.80 / seen some: 7.61 / won't finish: 4.65)
Bayesian estimate: 7.590 (Very good−), rank: #1092 (of 7243)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2004-10-07 to 2005-03-31
Release dates: We have 16
Opening Theme:
"Rashinban" by AUDIO RULEZ
Ending Theme:
"Kimi wo Miteiru" by BEGIN
Official website:
Reviews:
Zipang DVD 7 (Dec 17, 2007)
Zipang DVD 4 (May 13, 2007)
Zipang DVD 3 (Mar 14, 2007)
Zipang DVD 2 (Jan 26, 2007)
Zipang DVD 1 (Sep 18, 2006)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Zipang - Future Shock (DVD 1) 2006-09-05 (from $13.47)
    Zipang - Future Shock + Artbox (DVD 1) 2006-09-05 (from $21.22)
    Zipang - The Ghosts Of History (DVD 2) 2006-11-07 (from $7.15)
    Zipang - A Time For War (DVD 3) 2007-01-02 (from $93.91)
    Zipang - Attack on G Island (DVD 4) 2007-03-27 (from $28.49)
    Zipang - Friend or Foe (DVD 5) 2007-05-15 (from $29.81)
    Zipang - Target: Mirai (DVD 6) 2007-07-03 (from $289.99)
    Zipang - Return to the Future (DVD 7) 2007-09-04 (from $248.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Series Composition: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Script:
Kazuhiro Furuhashi (eps 6-15, 17-23)
Yuichiro Takeda (9 episodes
eps 1-5, 16, 24-26
)

Storyboard:
Eiji Yamanaka (eps 14, 20)
Hiromichi Matano (eps 11-12, 16)
Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 15)
Katsuyuki Kodera (eps 9, 17, 24)
Kazuhiro Furuhashi (eps 1-5, 22, 26)
Kazuhiro Soeta (ep 8)
Shinobu Tagashira (eps 19, 25)
Shunji Yoshida (eps 6, 10)
Yasushi Muraki (ep 21)
Yukihiro Matsushita (4 episodes
eps 7, 13, 18, 23
)

Unit Director:
Daisuke Tsukushi (ep 9)
Hayato Goda (4 episodes
eps 14, 18, 21, 26
)

Hideki Okamoto (ep 25)
Hiromichi Matano (eps 11, 16, 22)
Makoto Sokuza (4 episodes
eps 1, 5, 12, 20
)

Shunji Yoshida (6 episodes
eps 2, 6, 10, 15, 19, 23
)

Takashi Yamana (4 episodes
eps 3, 8, 17, 24
)

Tomoko Hiramuki (ep 4)
Yukihiro Matsushita (eps 7, 13)
Original Work: Kaiji Kawaguchi
Character Design: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Art Director: Nobuto Sakamoto
Animation Director:
Akira Kasahara (5 episodes
eps 6, 10, 14, 18, 23
)

Hirofumi Morimoto (Character; 7 episodes
eps 1, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24
)

Kazuhiro Soeta (Mechanical; ep 22)
Kazuo Noguchi (ep 13)
Masashi Matsumoto
Shinobu Tado
Shinobu Tagashira (Character; ep 19)
Shogo Morishita (4 episodes
eps 3, 7, 11, 15
)

Shōhei Kohara (Mechanical; 8 episodes
eps 17-19, 21-23, 25, 26c
)

Takako Shimizu (Character; ep 17)
Tateru Namikaze (Character; eps 2, 5, 9, 21)
Yoshihiko Umakoshi (OP, ED; ep 26)
Art design: Takashi Hiruma
3D Director: Naruhiro Baba
Sound Director: Takuya Hiramitsu
Director of Photography: Masayuki Kawaguchi
Assistant Animation Director:
Akira Kasahara (ep 26)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 26)
Shogo Morishita (ep 26)
Color design: Shinji Matsumoto
Digital Effects: Chieko Suzuki
Key Animation:
Akira Kasahara (ep 23)
Eiichi Endō (ep 24)
Eiji Komatsu (ep 26)
Fumino Fujii (ep 25)
Hideaki Tsukioka (ep 26)
Hidenori Miyahara (ep 23)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 25)
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (ep 26)
Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 26)
Kimiko Yamauchi (ep 23)
Kōji Miura (ep 25)
Kumi Hirai (ep 23)
Kumiko Kasuga (eps 25-26)
Kyoko Sugiyama (ep 25)
Manami Hattori (eps 23, 26)
Masahiro Furihata (ep 24)
Masakatsu Sasaki (OP)
Mayumi Oda (OP; eps 24, 26)
Mayumi Yamamoto (eps 25-26)
Mitsuru Nakata (ep 23)
Miwako Yamamoto (ep 25)
Miyako Tsuji (OP)
Natsuki Egami (OP; ep 26)
Ryoko Nakamura (Studio Live; ep 24)
Shigeru Kimishima (ep 25)
Shinobu Tagashira (OP)
Takako Shimizu (eps 23, 25-26)
Yoshitaka Sato (eps 25-26)
Yūichirō Yamada (ep 25)
Yumie Wada (ep 23)
Yūya Furuta (ep 23)
Music producer: Hiroyuki Asada
Recording: Hitoshi Yamada
Sound Design: Minoru Yamada
Sub-Character Design: Hirofumi Morimoto
Theme Song Performance:
AUDIO RULEZ (OP)
BEGIN (ED)
Hiroki Tōchi as Lt. Commander Takumi Kusaka
Takanori Hoshino as Gunnery Officer Masayuki Kikuchi
Tetsu Inada as Executive Officer Yosuke Kadomatsu
Yūji Ueda as Navigation Officer Kouhei Oguri
Yūsaku Yara as Captain Saburo Umezu

Eiji Takemoto as Petty Officer Kazunobu Yanagi
Kazunari Kojima as Yasushi Asou
Kenji Nojima as Kazuma Tsuda
Masami Iwasaki as Atsushi Oume
Naru Kawamoto as Katagiri
Ryō Naitō as Hideyuki Kashiwabara
Yoshiko Iseki as Sachiko Momoi

Akimitsu Takase as Gunichi Mikawa
Akiyo Kanada as Boy (ep 8)
Azusa Nakao as Teruko (ep 7)
Bin Sasaki as Mitsumasa Yanai
Bon Ishihara as
Noise 
Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes
Bunmei Tobayama as Isoroku Yamamoto
Hidekatsu Shibata as Major General Alexander Vandegrift
Hiroshi Shimozaki as
Captain Yonekura (ep 4)
Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Holly Kaneko as General Richmond Turner
Jūrōta Kosugi as Gray
Katashi Ishizuka as Tokunaga Okamura
Kenji Nomura as Yokichi Kadomatsu
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Chris Evans (eps 3-4)
Kōji Ishii as Admiral Victor Crutchley
Makoto Aoki as Kazushi Enomoto
Makoto Tomita as Mori (ep 5)
Mamoru Miyano as Katsutoshi Hayashibara
Masaki Horiuchi as
Military police (ep 7)
Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Masashi Hirose as Samuel D. Hatton
Miyu Irino as Yosuke (young)
Naoki Bandō as Matome Ugaki
Naoki Tatsuta as Kanji Ishiwara
Shinobu Matsumoto as Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Shōichirō Akaboshi as Kameto Kuroshima
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Masanobu Tsuji
Takahiro Hirano as
Military police (ep 7)
Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Takashi Matsuyama as
Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Vice-captain
Takehiro Hasu as Shopkeeper (ep 7)
Tōru Takahashi as Mirai Crew (ep 1)
Tsuyoshi Koyama as Captain Shimamoto (eps 19-23)
Unshō Ishizuka as Eiichiro Taki
Yoshiaki Matsumoto as
Bungen You (ep 7)
Yang Wen-yuan (ep 7)
Yoshikazu Nagano as Chief Warrant Officer Kawamoto (eps 8-11)
Yūto Uemura as Yousuke (Child)
Japanese companies
3d Animation:
E-cho
ImageShock Co.
Animation Production:
Robot (OP)
Studio DEEN
Animation Tools: Animo
Backgrounds:
BIC Studio
Team's Art
Finish Animation: E-cho
In-Between Animation: E-cho
Key Animation:
Anime R (ep 8)
E-cho (10 episodes
eps 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20-22, 24
)

Garan (ep 19)
Mito Animation (5 episodes
eps 7, 10, 14, 18, 24
)

Mook Animation (9 episodes
eps 5, 7-9, 17-18, 24-26
)

Nakamura Production (14 episodes
eps 7-9, 11-13, 16-17, 19, 21-23, 25-26
)

Music Production: Marvelous Music Publishing
Sound Production: Jinnan Studio
English cast
English staff
Translation: Bai Ling

Production Assistant:
Lim Fung Leng
Rebecca Chee
Production Coordination:
Go Wei Ho
Sing Xing Yang
Re-Recording Mixing:
Aktar Khan
Ameer Fuad
Scripting Editing: Jeremy Craig
Video Technical Operations: Lawrence Tay
Voice Direction: Paul John Pistore
Curran Shane Mardjuki as Yosuke Kadomatsu (eps 24-26)
Edward Choy Keng Choong as Takumi Kusaka
Jamie Meldrum as Kohei Oguri
Joe Murray as Captain Saburo Umezu
Mark R. Kaufmann as Yosuke Kadomatsu (eps 1-23)
Paul Pistore as Masayuki Kikuchi

Chio Su Ping as Sachiko Momoi
Darryl Ervin as Isshin Yanagi
George N. Cahill III as Lt. Commander Yosuke Kadomatsu ** (eps 24-26)
James Lawrence Andrews as Crewmember
Jamie Meldrum as Kameto Kuroshima
Jamie Ross Meldrum as
Kameto Kuroshima
Kohei Oguri
Jeremy Craig as Kashiwabara
Jerry Szombathy as Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes
Joe Murray as
Kanji Ishiwara
Kaoru Yonakura
Major General Alexander Vandegrift
Saburo Umezu
Paul Pistore as Lt. Kazuma Tsuda
Paul John Pistore as Masayuki Kikuchi
RayRay as Kazuma Tsuda
Sean David Nerney as Malay boy
Terry Lee as Mamoru Satake
William Gary Ladick as
Kawamoto
Yoh
English companies
ADR Production: Odex Private Ltd.
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Packaging Design: Art Transplant, Inc.
Recording Studio: Voiceovers Unlimited Pte. Ltd.
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
Dubbing Director: Jing M. Lanzona (GMA7-QTV11)
Ed Belo as Yosuke Kadomatsu

Angelo Crisolo as KATAGIRE - YANAGI (QTV11)
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster:
QTV
QTV Channel 11 (Official, 2 times)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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