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SaiKano: Another Love Song (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Saishū Heiki Kanojo: Another Love Song
She, the Ultimate Weapon: Another Love Song
Моя девушка - совершенное оружие OAV (Russian)
最終兵器彼女 Another Love Song (Japanese)
Themes: military, war
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Every weapon must have a prototype. For the ultimate weapon, career soldier Lt. Mizuki is that prototype. As she comes to the limit of her powers as a weapon, she must watch the unfolding of Chise's growth into the final weapon.
User Ratings: 590 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 43 votes (sub:34, dub:8, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 84 votes (sub:67, dub:9, raw:1, others:7
6 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 153 votes (sub:110, dub:32, raw:1, others:10
6 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 152 votes (sub:119, dub:22, ?:1, others:10
4 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 70 votes (sub:57, dub:10, raw:2, others:1
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
)
 So-so: 42 votes (sub:34, dub:4, raw:1, ?:1, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Not really good: 18 votes (sub:16, dub:2)
 Weak: 21 votes (sub:16, dub:4, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1047 users, rank: #1178 (of 9958)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.200 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.7565, rank: #3006 (of 10113)
Weighted mean: 7.111 (Good), rank: #3190 (of 10113) (seen all: 7.11 / seen some: 7.54 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.119 (Good), rank: #2959 (of 7623)
Running time: 30 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 2
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 2005-08-05
Release dates: We have 3
Ending Theme:
"Mayonaka no Niji" by Akira Asakura
Official website:
Saikano OAV Website (Japanese)
最終兵器彼女 @ Studio Fantasia (Japanese)
Review:
SaiKano: Another Love Song DVD (May 24, 2006)
News: Show:
Studio Fantasia's New Work Green-Lit for Production (Mar 25, 2009)
9th Japanese Media Arts Festival Winners (Dec 22, 2005)
Saikano Trailer (Mar 10, 2005)
Saikano OAV Images (Dec 14, 2004)
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DVD (Region 1)
    SaiKano: Another Love Song (DVD) 2006-02-14 (from $5.75)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Mitsuko Kase
Script: Itaru Era
Music: Kei Yoshikawa
Original Manga: Shin Takahashi
Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa
Art Director: Masanori Kikuchi
Animation Director: Taka Satō
Mechanical design: Tomohiro Kawahara
3D Director: Hiroaki Matsuura
Sound Director: Keiichirō Miyoshi
Director of Photography: Tōru Fukushi

2D CGI: Kanetake Ebikawa
3D CG Supervision: Tomohiro Kawahara
Animation Check:
Miyuke Abe
Sanae Nakashima (ep 2)
Assistant Sound Engineer: Fumiaki Tanaki
Background Art:
Fei Liu
Hai Po Tang
Lu Jian Wen
Mai Cui Yun
Qiu Yi Bo
Song Kai (ep 2)
Tokunori Nakanishi
Wang Kui
Wang Yanning (ep 2)
Xingning Zhao
Zhang Yong (ep 2)
Color setting: Eiko Inoue
Digital Color Painting:
Emiko Okada
Junko Kitagawa
Kaori Seki
Noriko Kamada
Yuka Nakatsuji (ep 2)
Editing: Kengo Shigemura
Key Animation:
Atsushi Aono (ep 2)
Atsushi Itagaki
Chieko Miyakawa
Chinatsu Ueno (ep 2)
Etsushi Mori
Fumie Muroi
Hisashi Kagawa
Keiichi Masunaga (ep 2)
Kiminori Nishio
Koji Haneda
Kunio Katsuki
Mariko Fujita (ep 2)
Masato Kato
Miki Yoshikawa (ep 2)
Mitsuko Baba
Miyuki Abe
Morotsune Nishibe
Naotaka Hayashi
Noaki Murakami
Noriyasu Yamauchi
Satoru Kiyomaru
Shūjirō Hamakawa
Taka Satō
Takanori Nishimura
Takayoshi Hashimoto (ep 1)
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (ep 2)
Teruii Nisii (ep 2)
Tomohiro Kawahara
Tomomi Mizuno
Tomonori Sudō
Tsuyoshi Sakai
Yōko Kikuchi
Yoshihiko Umakoshi (ep 2)
Yoshiko Imoto (ep 2)
Yosuke Yabumoto
Yūji Tanaka
Music Performance: Ken'ichi Tsujimoto (Trumpet)
Photography:
Akiko Shimizu (ep 2)
Jae-Youp Sang
Jin-Hee Kim
Susumu Fukushi
Teruhisa Mizuhara
Photography Assistant:
Hideki Sato
Katsuya Suda
Sachi Suzuki
Syunichi Kakiuchi
Publicity Manager:
Ryosuke Teshima
Takeharu Katsuyama
Tomoko Uraki
Yuka Koguchi
Publicity Producer: Motohiro Oda
Sound Effects:
Shizuo Kurahashi
Takuya Hasegawa
Sound Engineer: Satoshi Yano
Special Effects:
Rumiko Nagai (ep 1)
Toyohiko Sakakibara (ep 2)
Theme Song Performance: Akira Asakura (END)
Ai Orikasa as Mizuki
Fumiko Orikasa as Chise
Shinichirō Miki as Tetsu

Atsushi Ii as Kawahara
Iemasa Kayumi as Minamoto
Jin Urayama as Deputy minister
Jun Fukuyama as Ryouhei
Kishō Taniyama as Nakamura
Manabu Muraji as Itou
Noboru Yamaguchi as Toshi
Takayuki Sasada as Kazu
Takayuki Sugō as Wada
Yōsuke Akimoto as General

Eisuke Asakura as Soldier A (ep 1)
Georg Eschert as Enemy Soldier B (ep 1)
Hiromi Konno as Female Operator (eps 1-2)
Jack Woodyard as Enemy Soldier D (ep 1)
Masayuki Katō as Soldier B (ep 1)
Matthew Barron as Enemy Soldier C (ep 1)
Natsuki Mori as News Announcer (ep 2)
Robert Baldwin as Enemy Soldier A (ep 1)
Shinji Kawada as Male Operator (eps 1-2)
Japanese companies
3D Graphics: SANZIGEN
Animation Production: Studio Fantasia
Digital Paint:
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
Kyung Kang ANIA (ep 2)
R.I.C
Distributor: Toei Animation
In-Between Animation:
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
Kyung Kang ANIA (ep 2)
R.I.C
Key Animation:
ACCEL (ep 2)
AD Cosmo (ep 1)
Kyung Kang ANIA
Music Production: Miracle Bus Co., LTD
Photography: T2 Studio
Photography Assistance: w-sky
Post Production: Studio Gong
Production:
Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Recording Studio: Studio Gong
Video Works: Q-Tec
English staff
English cast
Executive producer:
Hidemi Fukuhara
John Easum

Production Associate: Hiromi Makepeace
Production manager: Miho Suzuki
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Escott
Recording engineer: Mark Escott
Voice Direction: Elaine Clark
Abie Hadjitarkhani as Tetsu
Brooke Campanelli as Mizuki
Melissa Hutchison as Chise

Darrel Clay as Minamoto
David Arendash as Kawahara
Jason Sowell as Wada
John Wenman as Ito
M.J. Reynolds as
Kazu
Nakamura

Bob Shapona as Vice-Director
Elaine Clark as Female Operator
Matt Mumper as Officer
Tony Azzolino as Male Operator
English companies
ADR Production: Voice One
DVD Production: Video Arts, Inc.
Licensed by:
Viz Media (Expired)
Recording Studio: Robert Berke Studio
Video Post Production: Video Arts, Inc.
Korean staff
Korean cast
(none)
Hui-Seon Gang as Mizuki
Jeong-Mi Bae as Chise
Song Junseok as Tetsu

Gu-Han Gang as Minamoto
Gye-Hyeon No as Kawahara
Im Chaeheon as Itou
Jae-Heon Jeong as Ryouhei
Lee Sangbeom as Nakamura
Min Sook Kim as Wada
Korean companies
Distributor: Premier Global Mind
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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