Virtua Fighter (TV)
Alternative title:
El Defensor Virtuoso (Spanish)
El Luchador Virtual (Spanish)
المقاتل النبيل (Arabic)
バーチャファイター (Japanese)
버추어 파이터 (Korean)
Objectionable content:
Mild
Plot Summary:
Based on the popular Virtua Fighter video game franchise, this series follows the adventures of Akira, a lone martial artist who has lost his ability to see the mystical constellations that reveal a truly strong man's destiny. Now, his path of wandering has forced him into the fighting ring with several martial arts champions and into an insidious international conspiracy that he must not only break out of, but find a way to destroy. With the help of Jacky, Sara, Pai, and other characters from the Virtua Fighter games, Akira must find the strength to take on greater powers than himself and regain his lost sense of destiny.
User Ratings:
71 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
35
Episode titles: We have 35
Vintage:
1995-10-02 to 1996-06-27
Release dates: We have 9
Opening Theme:
"Akira's Song" by Scott Bailey [English Version] (eps 1-24)
#1: "Wild Vision" by Kouji Hayashi (eps 1-24)
#2: "Ai ga Tarinaize" (愛がたりないぜ; Can't Love Enough) by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (eps 25-35)
Ending Theme:
"Pai's Song" by Leigh Jones [English Version] (eps 1-19, 21-24)
#1: "Kuchibiru no Shinwa" (くちびるの神話; Mythical Lips) by Vivian Hsu (eps 1-18)
#2: "Kyōhansha" (共犯者; Accomplice) by Vivian Hsu (eps 19-24)
#3: "Eien no Mannaka de" (永遠の真ん中で; In the Middle of Eternity) by Akiko Seko (eps 25-35)
Insert song:
"Ai ga Tarinaize" (愛がたりないぜ; Can't Love Enough) by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (ep 35)
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Blu-ray (Region A) |
Virtua Fighter - The Animated Series (Blu-ray) 2023-01-31 |
DVD (Region 1) |
Virtua Fighter - Round One (DVD 1-2) 2003-05-27 (from $23.28) |
Virtua Fighter - Round Two (DVD 3-4) 2003-08-19 (from $26.97) |
VHS |
Virtua Fighter - Chinatown Brawl (Dub.VHS 1) 2000-08-22 |
Virtua Fighter - Behind the Battle (Dub.VHS 2) 2000-08-22 |
Virtua Fighter - Combat to the Death (Dub.VHS 3) 2001-02-27 |
Virtua Fighter - Shadow Heart (Dub.VHS 4) 2001-02-27 (from $91.68) |
Virtua Fighter - Brotherly Love (Dub.VHS 5) 2001-04-24 |
Virtua Fighter - Ancient Masters (Dub.VHS 6) 2001-04-24 |
Chief Director: Hideki Tonokatsu Script: Katsuhiko Koide (ep 34) Kuniaki Kasahara (12 episodes eps 4-6, 10, 12-13, 17, 19, 21, 27, 29, 32 )Reiko Yoshida (5 episodes eps 9, 11, 15, 18, 22 )Ryou Tamura (ep 33) Tsutomu Kamishiro (16 episodes eps 1-3, 8-9, 14, 16, 20, 23-26, 28, 30-31, 35 )Storyboard: Hideki Tonokatsu (8 episodes eps 1, 7, 14, 20, 24-25, 30, 35 )Hiroshi Matsuzono (eps 2, 29) Michiyo Sakurai (4 episodes eps 10, 14, 17, 21 )Naoki Hishikawa (eps 28, 32) Naoto Kanda (ep 33) Shinichi Watanabe (6 episodes eps 5, 11, 16, 22, 26, 34 )Susumu Nishizawa (ep 9) Takaaki Ishiyama (9 episodes eps 4, 8, 12, 15, 18, 23-24, 27, 31 )Takahiro Okao (ep 6) Takehiro Nakayama (ep 3) Yoshihiro Oda (ep 19) Episode Director: Akihiko Nishiyama (eps 25, 30) Akira Mano (eps 25, 27) Atsuko Tanaka (ep 17) Hideki Tonokatsu (eps 1, 20, 35) Hiroshi Ishiodori (ep 31) Hiroshi Matsuzono (ep 2) Hitoyuki Matsui (ep 3) Keitarō Motonaga (eps 4, 9, 14) Kenichirō Watanabe (ep 15) Masahito Otani (eps 26, 29, 34) Masami Furukawa (eps 27, 32) Masami Shimoda (eps 12, 18) Naoki Hishikawa (eps 21, 24, 28) Naoto Kanda (ep 33) Shinichi Watanabe (4 episodes eps 5, 7, 16, 22 )Takahiro Okao (ep 6) Yasuchika Nagaoka (ep 11) Yoshihiro Oda (ep 19) Yoshio Suzuki (ep 23) Yūichirō Yano (eps 8, 10, 13) Music: Kaoru Ōhori Original creator: Yū Suzuki Character Design: Ryō Tanaka Animation Director: Akio Kawamura (ep 2) Daijirō Sakamoto (ep 3) Hideyuki Motohashi (ep 19) Hiroyuki Aoyama (eps 8, 13) Hroyuki Aoyama Katsutoshi Kobayashi (ep 15) Kazuo Takigawa (ep 6) Kenji Hachizaki (ep 10) Masafumi Yamamoto (eps 12, 18) Masanori Shino (5 episodes eps 4, 9, 14, 20, 24 )Michiyo Sakurai (eps 5, 7, 22) Rie Nakajima (eps 11, 16, 21) Ryō Tanaka (5 episodes eps 1, 7, 16, 28, 35 )Sawako Miyamoto (ep 17) Seiji Muta (5 episodes eps 23, 25, 27, 30, 34 )Shinsuke Terasawa (ep 29) Takashi Tomioka (eps 26, 28, 31) Takeo Kitahara (ep 32) Toshiharu Sato (ep 33) Yūki Kinoshita (5 episodes eps 25-26, 28-29, 31 )Director of Photography: Motoaki Ikegami Producer: Hirokazu Ige (Yomiko Advertising) Keisuke Iwata (TV Tokyo) Yasumichi Ozaki (Tokyo Movie Shinsha; / Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie) Background Design: Hiroshi Ōno Ending Animation: Ryō Tanaka (ED 2) Key Animation: Akio Kawamura (ep 2) Akira Matsushima Eiji Nakada (ep 20) Emiko Momose (ep 20) Hidetsugu Itō (ep 9) Hideyuki Motohashi (eps 7, 21) Hiroaki Akagi Hiroshi Kugimiya (ep 13) Hiroyuki Mori (ep 20) Hitoshi Kamata (8 episodes eps 1, 9, 16, 20-21, 24, 31, 35 )Junichi Yokoyama (5 episodes eps 12, 18, 21-22, 29 )Kazuhiko Ishii (ep 2) Kazunori Ōta (ep 20) Kazuya Miura (ep 20) Keiichi Sasajima (ep 3) Ken Ōtsuka (ep 20) Kohei Yoneyama (ep 20) Kumiko Shishido (ep 2) Mamoru Hoshino (ep 32) Masaharu Morinaka (Studio Wave; ep 3) Masanori Shino (eps 1, 21, 24) Michiyo Sakurai (ep 20) Motoki Yagi Naoyuki Konno (ep 6) Noboru Jitsuhara (ep 16) Noriko Gotō (ep 20) Rie Nakajima (6 episodes eps 1, 5, 16, 21-22, 24 )Ryō Tanaka Sawako Miyamoto Seiji Muta (8 episodes eps 1, 5, 11, 14, 19, 21, 24, 35 )Takashi Kawaguchi Takeshi Baba (eps 8, 17) Tamotsu Tomaru (eps 3, 26, 28) Teruhiko Yamazaki (ep 3) Wataru Abe Watashi Morika (ep 2) Yasuhisa Katō (ep 20) Yuji Hosogoe (eps 27, 32) Key-animation: Fuminori Kizaki (OP 1) Music producer: Junji Fujita Music Selection: Yutaka Gōda Opening Animation: Ryō Tanaka (OP 2) Planning: Minoru Ohno Recording Director: Satoshi Katō Script Supervision: Tsutomu Kamishiro Sound Effects: Masakazu Yokoyama Special Effects: Yoshimi Hayashi Story Supervisor: Masahiro Muto Theme Song Performance: Akiko Seko (ED3) Kōji Hayashi (OP1) Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (OP2) Vivian Hsu (ED #1 & 2) | Maya Okamoto as Naoko Matsui as Shinichirō Miki as Yasunori Matsumoto as Akio Ōtsuka as Asako Dodo as Atsuko Tanaka as Kaneto Shiozawa as Kiyoyuki Yanada as Kōichi Kitamura as Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Shigeru Chiba as Taiten Kusunoki as Tetsuya Iwanaga as Toshiyuki Morikawa as Unshō Ishizuka as Akemi Okamura as Akimitsu Takase as Aruno Tahara as Ayumi Kida as Dai Matsumoto as Daisuke Gōri as Eiji Maruyama as Eiji Sekiguchi as Eriko Kawasaki as Hiro Yuuki as Hiromi Ishikawa as Hiroshi Yanaka as Ikuo Nishikawa as Isshin Chiba as Junichi Sugawara as Kaho Kōda as Kan Tokumaru as Katsuhisa Hōki as Kazuo Hayashi as Kazusa Murai as Kenichi Ono as Kinryū Arimoto as Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Kōzō Shioya as Kyōko Minami as Masaharu Satō as Masashi Sugawara as Masayuki Nakata as Masuo Amada as Michiko Satō as Minoru Inaba as Miyuki Tanaka as Motomu Kiyokawa as Naoki Bandō as Nobuyuki Furuta as Osamu Saka as Osamu Sakuta as Rie Iwatsubo as Sachi Asakura as Satomi Koorogi as Sayuri Ikemoto as Shigeru Chiba as Shinpachi Tsuji as Shunsuke Sakuya as Takashi Irie as Takumi Yamazaki as Takurō Kitagawa as Tamio Ōki as Tarō Arakawa as Tōru Furusawa as Urara Takano as Yoshiko Suzuki as Yoshiko Takeda as Yutaka Shimaka as | |||
Animation: Tokyo Movie Shinsha Animation Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha Backgrounds: Studio Uni Broadcaster: TV Tokyo Distributor: Taki Corporation Editing: Jay Film Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory Finish Animation: Mizo Planning In-Between Animation: Anime R Anime World Osaka Far Eastern Animation MI Mizo Planning Nakamura Production Studio Boomerang Studio Egg Studio Wanpack Tokyo Animation Center Music Production Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music Original Concept: Sega Photography: Studio Cosmos Production: Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie Sega ![]() TMS Entertainment Tokyo Movie Shinsha TV Tokyo Yomiko Advertising, Inc. Sales Agency: Sega Sound Effects: Sound Effects, Inc. Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation Titles: Maki Production | ||||
Script: Scott Simpson Executive producer: John Sirabella Associate Director: Pamela Weidner Audio Engineer: Nick Stuteville Blu-Ray Authoring: David Miranda (Discotek) Commentary: Audi Sorlie (Discotek; 6 episodes eps 1, 3, 5, 13, 23, 35 )John Linneman (Discotek; 6 episodes eps 1, 3, 5, 13, 23, 35 )Dialogue Mixer: Ron Abfalter FX Designer: Skip Bowerman Menu Design: Gary Swarer (Discotek) Production manager: Amy Tipton Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux Quality Control: Marc Levy (Discotek) Subtitle Editor: Logan Rebholz (Discotek) Subtitling: Anna Yamamoto Supervising Producer: Justin Sevakis (Discotek) Theme Song Performance: Amy Tipton (OP; Background Vocals) Leigh Jones (ED; Lead Vocals) Pamela Weidner (OP; Background Vocals) Scott Bailey (OP; Lead Vocals) Voice Direction: Scott Houle | Amy Tipton as Tony Schnur as Geoff Whitesell as Jonathan Frappier as Alex Wharff as Boise Holmes as Chip Straka as Chris Hill as Chris MacPherson as Chris Nubel as Daniel Richani as Dave Underwood as Deborah Spoto as Drew Stinnett as Gabrielle Gibbs as Heather Hamilton as J.P. Houle as Jordan Rhodes as Juliet Cesario as Katherine Vernon as Kirby Heffner as Marc Matney as Megan Hancock as Michael Granberry as Michael Langley as Paul Johnson as Richard Prather as Rob Zapple as Scott Simpson as Sheila Brothers as Steven Stokes as Steven Tylor as Thomas Bruning as Tony Schnur as Traci Dinwiddie as | |||
Distributor: AnimeWorks Theme Song Lyrics: Coastal Carolina Sound Studios | ||||
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Dubbing Director: Roberto Colucci Opening Song: "Wild Vision": Carlos Carrillo | Elisabet Bargalló as Ivette Gonzalez as Jordi Pons as José Javier Serrano as Nuria Doménech as Alfonso Vallés as José Antonio Jiménez as Mario Arpal as Rafael Ordonez as Adrià Frías as Aleix Estadella as Andres Esparza as Angel de Gracia as Angelines Santana as Carlos Carrillo as Elisabet Bargalló as Enrique Hernández as Francisco Garriga as Gloria Gonzalez as José Antonio Jiménez as Luis Espinosa as Luis Grau as Marc Zanni as Pep Ribas as Santiago Cortés as Tasio Alonso as | |||
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain) Canal C (Spain) ETC...TV (Chile) Magic Kids (Latin America) Megavision (Chile) Televisa Canal 5 (México) Distributor: Cloverway (Latin America; expired) Lain International, Inc. (Latin America; expired) Manga Films (Spain) Producer: TMS Entertainment USA | ||||
Dubbing Supervision: Tiziana Valenti Sound Technician: Sergio Viscardi | Alessandro Quarta as Barbara De Bortoli as Federica De Bortoli as Vittorio Guerrieri as Andrea Ward as Dario De Grassi as Diego Reggente as Giorgio Locuratolo as Maurizio Reti as Pierluigi Astore as Stefano Crescentini as Vittorio Battarra as Christian Iansante as Giorgio Borghetti as Laura Lenghi as Luciano Roffi as Massimo Rinaldi as Maurizio Romano as Oliviero Dinelli as Vittorio Battarra as | |||
Distributor: Hobby & Work Dubbing: PIM | ||||
Assistant Director: Bilal Shartouh Mixage: Samer Abu Asali Montage: Samer Abu Hamad Preparation: Ammar Shikh Gabr Production manager: Radwan Hijazi Sound: Ghassan Harfush Supervision: Louis Abu Asali | Adel Abu Hassoon as Amal Omran as Hazar Al-Hrk as Iyas Abu Ghazala as Mansour Al-Salaty as Muhammad Haddaki as Adel Abu Hassoon as Hanan Shokeir as Muhammad Kharmasho as Muhammad Mustafa as Muhammad Kheir Abu Hassoon as Rafat Bazoo as | |||
Broadcaster: Spacetoon Distributor: Animation International Dubbing: Al Zahra Centre - VENUS (Syria) Internet Streaming: Spacetoon Go Production: Animation International | ||||
Script: Francis Ibanez | Lloyd Navera as Rose Barin as Rowena Raganit as Vincent Gutierrez as Francis Ibanez as | |||
Broadcaster: GMA Network | ||||
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