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Iria - Zeiram the Animation (OAV)

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©1994 CROWD / BANDAI VISUAL / MITSUBISHI CORPORATION / BANPRESTO


Alternative title:
IЯIÄ: ZEIЯAM THE ANIMATION
لريا (Arabic)
イ・リ・ア ZEIЯAM THE ANIMATION (Japanese)
イ・リ・ア ゼイラム the Animation (Japanese)
伊莉亞 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: bounty hunters
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Iria is the story of a girl and the Alien being she loves to hate. The series begins with her brother, Gren, taking a job. He is a bounty hunter, and one well known for his incredible skill. Iria, being a skilled apprentice bounty hunter herself, tags along. What is the job, one might ask. It is to find out what has happened to the crew and cargo of a Space Station. Needless to say, nothing is as it seems, and the war between Iria and Zeiram begins in earnest.
User Ratings: 652 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 22 votes (dub:11, sub:10, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 79 votes (dub:42, sub:34, ?:1, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 192 votes (sub:100, dub:82, ?:2, edit.dub:1, raw:1, others:6
2 French dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Good: 171 votes (sub:104, dub:56, ?:1, others:10
3 French subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 German subtitled
)
 Decent: 108 votes (sub:67, dub:33, raw:1, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:5
2 French subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
)
 So-so: 44 votes (sub:29, dub:14, others:1
1 French dubbed
)
 Not really good: 17 votes (sub:13, dub:3, ?:1)
 Weak: 14 votes (sub:7, dub:6, others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1263 users, rank: #954 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.135 (Good), std. dev.: 1.5067, rank: #3152 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.083 (Good), rank: #3163 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.20 / seen some: 5.76 / won't finish: 3.99)
Bayesian estimate: 7.091 (Good), rank: #2933 (of 7244)
Running time: 35 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage:
1994-06-23
2008 (Middle East - Spacepower Broadcast)
Release dates: We have 9
Opening Theme:
"Tokete Iku Yume no Hate ni" by Yayoi Goto
Ending Theme:
"Although the Dream is Far" by Mitsuko Shiramine
Review:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Iria Zeiram: The Animation - Master Collection (Blu-ray) 2023-07-25 (from $29.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    Iria Zeiram: The Animation - Master Collection (DVD) 2016-03-08 (from $29.27)
    Iria: Zeiram the Animation (DVD) 2000-07-14 (from $4.99)
    Iria: Zeiram the Animation - Collection (DVD) 2004-03-30 (from $14.35)
    Iria: Zeiram the Animation - Economy Collection (DVD) 2007-06-26 (from $10.00)
DVD (Region 4)
    Iria - The Complete Series (DVD) 2009-05-28
Universal Media Disc
    Iria - Zeiram The Animation [Sub] [CD-ROM] (UMD 1) 1995-00-00
    Iria - Zeiram The Animation [Sub] [CD-ROM] (UMD 2) 1996-00-00

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Tetsuro Amino
Script:
Hajime Matsumoto (eps 4-5)
Naruhisa Arakawa (eps 2, 6)
Tetsuro Amino (eps 1, 3)
Yoshihisa Arakawa (ep 6)
Storyboard:
Dojag-a-gen (eps 2, 4-5)
Naohito Takahashi (ep 3)
Tetsuro Amino (eps 1, 6)
Original Concept: Keita Amemiya
Original Character Design: Masakazu Katsura
Character Design: Ryunosuke Otonashi
Art Director: Yoshimi Umino
Chief Animation Director: Ryunosuke Otonashi
Animation Director:
Kazumi Sato (eps 4-5)
Kōji Fukazawa (eps 2-5)
Masashi Hirota (ep 2)
Nobuetsu Andō (eps 3-5)
Ryunosuke Otonashi (ep 6)
Takeshi Itou (eps 1, 3-5)
Director of Photography: Kazunori Hashimoto
Executive producer: Masaru Umehara
Key Animation: Rie Nakajima (OP)
Recording Adjustment: Yoshio Obara
Recording Director: Hideyuki Tanaka
Sound Effects: Masahiro Shoji
Special Effects: Yutaka Hoshiba
Theme Song Arrangement: Yoichiro Yoshikawa (OP)
Theme Song Composition: Yoichiro Yoshikawa (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Mitsuko Shiramine (END)
Theme Song Performance: Yayoi Gotou (OP)
Visual Setting: Keita Amemiya
Aya Hisakawa as Iria

Chika Sakamoto as Komimasa
Jūrōta Kosugi as Gren
Masaru Ikeda as Bob
Mika Kanai as Kei
Shigeru Chiba as Fujikuro
Wataru Takagi as Zeiram

Akemi Shinohara as Child B (ep 2)
Fumihiko Tachiki as Jambal (eps 5-6)
Hiroshi Naka as Dounham (eps 5-6)
Hiroyuki Oshida as
Passenger (ep 1)
Soldier (ep 6)
Junichi Sugawara as Soldier A (ep 5)
Junko Sakuma as
Announcer (ep 6)
Receptionist (ep 3)
Katsumi Suzuki as Officer in Charge of Taowajan (ep 2)
Katsumi Toriumi as Staff B (ep 3)
Ken Narita as Bandit A (ep 3)
Kyousei Tsukui as Soldier (ep 6)
Masaki Aizawa as Soldier C (ep 5)
Megumi Tano as Child A (ep 2)
Michiko Neya as Communicator (ep 5)
Momoko Ishi as Passenger (ep 1)
Mugihito as Puttubayh
Rie Iwatsubo as Child C (ep 2)
Ryūzō Ishino as Company Man (ep 3)
Satomi Koorogi as Sara
Sayuri Ikemoto as Announcer (ep 1)
Shinichirō Miki as Guard B (ep 5)
Shinichirō Ōta as Soldier B (eps 5-6)
Tetsuya Iwanaga as Staff A (ep 3)
Tohru Furusawa as Taowajan Subordinate (ep 2)
Wataru Takagi as Nanpuu
Yasuhiro Takato as Slum Man (ep 2)
Yūichi Nagashima as
Guard A (ep 5)
Soldier (ep 6)
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Dr. Touka
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Ashi Productions
Backgrounds: Production ai
Co-Planning: Studio Hard
Distributor: Bandai Visual
Film Developing: Imagica
Key Animation: Studio Giants
Lith Work: Maki Production
Music Production: Victor Entertainment
Photography: Studio Partner
Photography Assistance:
Falcon, Inc.
Studio Cosmos
Planning: Crowd
Recording Studio: Toei Audio Visual Art Center
Sound Production: Audio Tanaka
Titles: Maki Production
English staff
English cast
Art Director: Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Translation:
Ikoi Hiroe (Media Blasters)
Nagisa Wada (Media Blasters; DVD extras)
Neil Nadelman
Noelle Siddall (Discotek Blu-ray)
Yuki Urakawa (Media Blasters)
Executive producer:
John O'Donnell
John Sirabella
Producer:
Brady Hartel (Discotek)
Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Stephanie Shalofsky

Additional Translation: Steven Siddall (Discotek DVD)
ADR Supervisor: Dave Siegel
Audio Restoration:
Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Elaine Morland (Discotek Blu-ray)
Blu-Ray Authoring:
David Miranda (Discotek Blu-ray)
Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Blu-Ray Compression:
David Miranda (Discotek Blu-ray)
Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray)
Design Director: Brady Hartel (Discotek DVD)
Dubbing Manager: Peter Bavaro
Dubbing Supervision: Anthony Salerno
DVD Authoring: Stephen Poole (Media Blasters)
Editing:
Justin Kim (Media Blasters)
Naneen Paglieri (Media Blasters)
Scott Marchfeld (Media Blasters)
Editing Assistant: Jason Daily
Interview:
Keita Amemiya (Media Blasters; DVD extra)
Masakazu Katsura (Media Blasters; DVD extra)
Interviewer: Takashi Sakuda (Media Blasters; DVD extras)
Menu Breakdown: Gary Swarer (Discotek Blu-ray)
Menu Design: Gary Swarer (Discotek Blu-ray)
Online Editor: Robert O'Malley
Packaging Design:
Alissyn Brock (Media Blasters)
Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Stephanie Shih (Discotek Blu-ray)
Production Assistant:
Ashley Goodheart (Discotek Blu-ray)
Elaine Morland (Discotek Blu-ray)
Ian Wright (Discotek)
Kaelan Ramos (Discotek; Blu-ray)
Logan Rebholz (Discotek Blu-ray)
Reed Nelson (Discotek DVD)
Steven Siddall (Discotek DVD)
Production Coordination:
Edward S. Whang
Frank Pannone (Media Blasters)
Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux (Media Blasters)
Quality Control: Marc Levy (Discotek Blu-ray)
Recording engineer: Francis Fletcher
Special Thanks To:
Adam Morland (Discotek DVD)
Arin Hanson (Discotek)
Jason Lamey (Discotek)
Mike Toole (Discotek)
Subtitle Editing:
Brady Hartel (Discotek Blu-ray)
Noelle Siddall (Discotek Blu-ray)
Subtitle Styling: Ian Wright (Discotek Blu-ray)
Subtitle Timing: Ian Wright (Discotek)
Supplement Producer: William Hellfire (Media Blasters; DVD extras)
Teleplay Adaptation: Michael Alben
Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto (Media Blasters)
Video Restoration: David Miranda (Discotek Blu-ray)

Andrew Thorson as Fujikuro
Chris Yates as Gren
Dave Siegel as Zeiram
Gary Suson as Bob (eps 1-3, 6)
Jason Harris as Komimasa

Al Muscari as
Myce Officer (uncredited; ep 4)
Puttubayh
Andrew Thorson as
Civilian Walla (uncredited; ep 5)
Jambal (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Paranoid Soldier (uncredited; ep 6)
Bill Timoney as
Civilian Walla (uncredited; ep 5)
Council Member C (uncredited; ep 5)
Ghomvak Security Receptionist (uncredited; ep 3)
Male Passenger (uncredited; ep 1)
Narration (uncredited; eps 2, 4)
Officer in Charge of Taowajan (uncredited; ep 2)
Patrolling Guard A (uncredited; ep 5)
Puttubayh's Aide A (uncredited; ep 1)
Radio Voice (uncredited; ep 1)
Soldier A (uncredited; ep 5)
Taowajan Evacuation Announcer (uncredited; ep 4)
Taowajan Guard A (uncredited; ep 4)
TransSembler Soldier C (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Brian O'Neill as
Taowajan Guard B (uncredited; ep 4)
TransSembler Soldier B (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Dave Siegel as
Dounham (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Grocer (uncredited; ep 2)
Hefty Orphan (uncredited; ep 2)
Lead Hijacker (uncredited; ep 4)
Male Operator (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Patrolling Guard B (uncredited; ep 5)
Puttubayh's Aide B (uncredited; ep 1)
Taowajan Subordinate (uncredited; ep 2)
Tedan Tippedai Soldier B (uncredited; ep 3)
Debora Rabbai as
Child Walla (uncredited; ep 2)
Hostage Girl B (uncredited; ep 1)
Elisa Wain as Taowajan Receptionist (uncredited; ep 2)
Greg Wolfe as Nanpuu (uncredited; ep 1)
Jacques LeCan as TransSembler Squad Leader (uncredited; eps 5-6)
James Carter Cathcart as
Robots (uncredited; ep 3)
Small Orphan (uncredited; ep 2)
Tedan Tippedai Soldier A (uncredited; ep 3)
Jason Harris as
Council Member A (uncredited; ep 5)
Soldier B (uncredited; ep 5)
TransSembler Soldier A (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Karen Smith as
Female Passenger (uncredited; ep 1)
News Anchor (uncredited; ep 1)
Kira Burke as
Child Walla (uncredited; ep 2)
Hostage Girl A (uncredited; ep 1)
Tedan Tippedai Receptionist (uncredited; ep 3)
Nicole D'Incecco as
Female Operator (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Hunter Alert Voice (uncredited; ep 5)
Pete Zarustica as
Dr. Touka
Goggles Orphan (uncredited; ep 2)
Man with Gun (uncredited; ep 2)
Tedan Tippedai Officer (uncredited; ep 3)
TransSembler Soldier D (uncredited; eps 5-6)
Rome Elliot as
TransSembler Lookout (uncredited; ep 5)
Young Adult (uncredited; ep 4)
Sondra James as
Child Walla (uncredited; ep 2)
Sara (uncredited; eps 2, 4)
Terri Muuss as Kai
English companies
Audio Services: National Sound
Broadcaster: Sci-Fi Channel
Distributor:
AnimeWorks (2004)
Cinedigm (USA)
Image Entertainment
MVM (UK)
Siren Visual (Australia & New Zealand)
Software Sculptors (CD-ROM)
U.S. Manga Corps (formerly)
DVD Menu Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Licensed by:
Central Park Media (expired)
Discotek Media (2014)
Media Blasters (Expired; 2004)
Packaging Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Post Production: TwistyGadget (Discotek Blu-ray)
Recording Studio: National Sound
Video Services: National Video Center
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Michel Tureau
Barbara Delsol as Iria

Adrien Antoine as Glenn
Hervé Grull as Kei
Michel Vigné as Fujikuro
Serge Blumenthal as Puttubayh
French companies
Broadcaster:
AB 1 (from 2 January 2004)
Canal + (from 24 October 1997)
Mangas
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: Libra Films
Spanish cast
Spanish staff
Translation:
Jesús Vallejo (Media Blasters release)
Marta E. Gallego (Spain dub)
Executive producer: Jorge Gabarró Frau (Selecta Visión)
Carmen Calvell as Iria (Spain dub)

Antonio García Moral as Fujikuro (Spain dub)
Ariadna Giménez as Kei (Spain dub)
Joan Massotkleiner as Bob (Spain dub)
Oscar Muñoz as Glen (Spain dub)

Maria Rosa Guillén as Komimasa (Spain dub)
Ramón Rocabayera as Jambal (Spain dub)
Tasio Alonso as Dr. Touka (Spain dub)
Vicente Gil as
Dounham (Spain dub)
Puttubayh (Spain dub)

Angel del Río (Spain dub)
Daniel Albiac (Spain dub)
Eva Ordeig (Spain dub)
Gloria Garcia (Spain dub)
Jordi Nogueras (Spain dub)
Maria Rosa Guillén (Spain dub)
Ramón Rocabayera (Spain dub)
Vicente Gil (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
8 Madrid TV (Spain)
LAPTV (Cityvibe)
DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión
Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Spain)
Translation:
Arvintel Media Productions (Media Blasters release)
Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Spain dub)
TV Distribution: Selecta Visión
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Raffaele Farina

Stefano Albertini as Fujikuro

Andrea De Nisco as
Guard (ep 5)
Kidnapper (ep 4)
Soldier (eps 5-6)
Augusto Di Bono as Puttbayar
Claudio Moneta as
Glen
Soldier (eps 5-6)
Davide Garbolino as Kominasa
Enrico Maggi as Dr. Tooka
Flavio Arras as Guard (ep 4)
Mario Zucca as Counselor (eps 5-6)
Nicola Bartolini Carrassi as Counselor (eps 5-6)
Simone D'Andrea as
Guard (ep 4)
Kidnapper (ep 1)
Receptionist (ep 3)
Stefano Albertini as Counselor (ep 5)
Italian companies
Distributor: Yamato Video
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
Kazé Germany (now)
German cast
(none)
Arabic staff
Arabic cast
Translation: Fadi Tonji

Montage: Samer Abu Hamad
Production manager: Radwan Hijazi
Supervision: Ziad Al-Rifai
Arabic companies
Broadcaster: Space Power
Dubbing: Al Zahra Centre - VENUS (Syria)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Hyper
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Portugal)
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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