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Daicon films (special)

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Themes: superpowers
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: A girl is visited by two men from a space ship. They give her water she needs to water her daicon (radish). On her journey to deliver the water, this girl has to fight demons and giant robots.
User Ratings: 223 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 46 votes (sub:29, raw:10, ?:5, dub:2)
 Excellent: 47 votes (sub:34, raw:7, ?:3, dub:2, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Very good: 61 votes (sub:44, raw:10, dub:4, ?:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 47 votes (sub:38, raw:5, dub:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 14 votes (sub:10, dub:2, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 389 users, rank: #2521 (of 9583)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.143 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.4415, rank: #430 (of 9705)
Weighted mean: 8.060 (Very good), rank: #478 (of 9705) (seen all: 8.05 / seen some: 8.40)
Bayesian estimate: 8.026 (Very good), rank: #352 (of 7286)
Running time: 6 minutes
Vintage:
1981-08-22 (Daicon III)
1983-08-20 (Daicon IV)
Insert song:
"Hold On Tight" by Electric Light Orchestra (ep 2)
"Noah's Ark" by Kitaro (ep 2)
"Runaway" by Bill Conti (ep 1)
"Twilight" by Electric Light Orchestra (ep 2)
Official website:
Gainax Net: Daicon 3 & 4 Opening Anime (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 8
Comment:
A series of two animated short films for the 1981 (Daicon III) and 1983 (Daicon IV) Nihon SF Taikai (Japan Science Fiction Conventions) by Daicon Film, which would go on to become Gainax. Aside from featuring cameos by dozens of anime and science fiction characters, the Daicon IV opening sequence features the unauthorized use of the Playboy Bunny uniform and the Electric Light Orchestra song "Twilight".
Because 8mm film copies of Daicon III were sold at the convention, it can be argued that the short film predated Dallos by two years as the first OAV release.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
Music:
Bill Conti ("Runaway"; ep 1)
Kitaro ("Noah's Ark"; ep 2)
Kōichi Sugiyama ("Life or Death"; ep 1)
Yuji Ohno ("Cosmos Prologue, Epilogue"; ep 1)
Character Design: Takami Akai
Art: Toru Saegusa
Animation Director:
Hideaki Anno
Takami Akai
Producer:
Toshio Okada
Yasuhiro Takeda

Additional Animation:
Ichirō Itano
Kazutaka Miyatake
Narumi Kakinouchi
Sadami Morikawa
Tōru Yoshida
Toshihiro Hirano
Animation:
Mahiro Maeda
Norifumi Kiyozumi
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Key Animation:
Hideaki Anno (ep 1)
Kayoko Nakafuji (ep 2)
Mahiro Maeda (ep 2)
Norifumi Kiyozumi (ep 2)
Takami Akai (ep 1)
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (ep 2)
Songwriting: Jeff Lynne ("Twilight", "Hold On Tight")
Theme Song Performance: Electric Light Orchestra
(none)
Japanese companies
Planning:
DAICON 3 Jikkou Iinkai (Daicon III)
DAICON 4 Jikkou Iinkai (Daicon IV)
Production:
DAICON 3 Jikkou Iinkai (Daicon III)
DAICON 4 Jikkou Iinkai (Daicon IV)
Daicon Film (now GAINAX)

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