Read or Die (OAV)
Alternative title:
R.O.D
Прочти или умри (Russian)
إقرأ أو مت (Arabic)
リード・オア・ダイ (Japanese)
Themes:
secret agents,
superpowers
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
Yomiko Readman is "The Paper" a secret underground operative for the British Library with the inredible power of complete control over paper, including the ability to make it solid as steel. She is called to duty when a book that could spell the end of the world is stolen, and she must take it back. Going with two other operatives, she attempts to take it back and save the world.
User Ratings:
3542 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
29 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
3
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage:
2001-05-23
2004-10-24 (USA TV)
2007-09-07 to 2007-09-09 (Germany - Animax)
Release dates: We have 3
Opening Theme:
"R.O.D Theme" by Taku Iwasaki
Ending Theme:
#1: "Those Who Love Books to Insanity Say, 'Paper Is Always with Us'" by Taku Iwasaki (ep 1)
#2: "Subete no Eichi o Eikoku e!" (すべての叡知を英国へ!; Bring All the Wisdom to Great Britain!) by Taku Iwasaki (eps 2-3)
Official website:
Read or Die (Sony Japanese Website) (Japanese)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
This OVA series is often incorrectly referred to as a "Read or Die Movie."
Review:
Read or Die DVD (Jul 5, 2003)
News: Show:
New Anime Project for Read or Die Novels Considered (Aug 24, 2016)
Read or Die's Final 2 Novel Volumes Scheduled After 10 Years (Jun 24, 2016)
North American Anime, Manga Releases: January 16-22 (Jan 18, 2011)
R.O.D. TV box details (Mar 26, 2004)
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Blu-ray (Region A) |
R.O.D The TV - Complete Collection + OVA (Blu-ray) 2011-01-18 |
DVD (Region 1) |
Read or Die (DVD) 2003-05-27 (from $73.94) |
Read or Die [CA] (DVD) 2003-05-27 |
Read or Die [The Essence of Anime] (DVD) 2007-09-04 (from $24.95) |
Fanbook |
R.O.D Official Archive (Fanbook) 2013-01-02 (from $37.98) |
Soundtrack |
Read or Die (OST) 2004-06-08 (from $58.28) |
Director: Koji Masunari Script: Hideyuki Kurata Storyboard: Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP) Unit Director: Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP) Music: Taku Iwasaki Original creator: Hideyuki Kurata Original Character Design: Taraku Uon (Studio Orphee) Character Design: Masashi Ishihama Art Director: Kazuo Ogura Art design: Hideyasu Narita Mecha design: Eiji Suganuma 3D Cooperation: Shingo Suzuki (ep 3) Assistant Animation Director: Hideki Tachibana (ep 1) Kenichi Ishimaru (ep 3) Takahiro Chiba (eps 2-3) Tetsuhito Saitō (ep 3) Character Animation Director: Masashi Ishihama Color design: Shinji Matsumoto Development: Ryūzō Shirakawa (SME Visual Works) In-Between Animation: Hiroaki Tomita (eps 2-3) Key Animation: Akira Matsushima (ep 2) Chikara Sakurai (eps 1-2) Eiji Suganuma (eps 1-3) Fujio Suzuki (ep 2) Fumihide Sai (ep 3) Haruo Sotozaki (ep 2) Hideki Inoue (ep 1) Hideki Nagamachi (ep 3) Hideki Tachibana (eps 1-3) Hidenori Fukuoka (eps 2-3) Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 2) Hirofumi Suzuki (eps 1-3) Hiroko Kazui (eps 1-2) Hiromi Oikawa (ep 2) Hitoshi Ueda (ep 3) Kaori Takahashi (ep 3) Kazuhiko Abe (ep 2) Keiji Gotō (ep 3) Keiko Shimizu (ep 3) Kenichi Ishimaru (eps 1-2) Kenichi Yamaguchi (ep 3) Kōji Shinaki (ep 3) Kōji Watanabe (eps 2-3) Masahiro Sekiguchi (ep 3) Masaru Hyodo (eps 1-3) Masashi Ishihama (eps 1-3) Miyako Tsuji (ep 3) Nobutoshi Ogura (ep 3) Noriaki Tetsura (ep 3) Sanae Narazaki (eps 1-3) Satoru Kobayashi (ep 1) Seiichi Nakatani (eps 1-2) Shingo Suzuki (ep 3) Shinobu Tagashira (ep 1) Shinpei Tomooka (ep 3) Shinya Harii (ep 3) Shinya Hasegawa (ep 3) Shōgo Morishita (ep 3) Taiki Shibuya (eps 1-3) Takaaki Sekizaki (ep 3) Takahiro Chiba (eps 1-3) Takashi Sasaoka (ep 3) Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 3) Takuji Abe (ep 2) Takuya Saitō (eps 1, 3) Tatsuya Oishi (ep 2) Tetsuya Kumagai (ep 1) Tokuyuki Matsutake (eps 1, 3) Toshiharu Murata (ep 2) Toshiyuki Tsuru (ep 3) Yasuhiro Aoki (ep 3) Yasuomi Umetsu (ep 3) Yoshitaka Kōno (ep 2) Music Director: Takashi Kodama (SME Visual Works) Post-Production Engineer: Takuya Hiramitsu Production Design: Noriyuki Shinguji Prop Design: Hideki Tachibana Recording Assistant: Yuki Ikeda Set Design: Hideyasu Narita | Michiko Neya as Rieko Miura as Bunmei Tobayama as Hozumi Gōda as Konta as Masami Iwasaki as Mika Sakenobe as Ryōsuke Ōtani as Daisuke Ishikawa as Hirofumi Shitamoto as Hiroki Takahashi as Holly Kaneko as Junko Takeuchi as Katashi Ishizuka as Koushi Shitazaki as Kunihiko Takani as Naoki Izumi as Ryō Naitō as Yoshikazu Nagano as | |||
Animation: Studio DEEN Backgrounds: Kusanagi Broadcaster: Animax Production Studio: SME Visual Works Recording Facility: Omnibus Japan Sanpunzaka Studio Sound Production: SME Visual Works Titles: Maki Production | ||||
ADR Director: Amanda Winn Lee Translation: Al Kennedy ADR Script: Taliesin Jaffe Executive producer: Marvin Gleicher Line Producer: Margo Coughlin Recording engineer: Sean Vahle Sound Mixing: Sean Vahle Subtitling: Brett Jacobsen | Amanda Winn Lee as Kimberly Yates as Crispin Freeman as Daniel Raymont as Dean Haglund as Douglas Rye as Jason Lee as Tricia Dickson as Chad Fifer as Dave Herbelin as Douglas Rye as Michael John Ross as Ryan Abraham as Scott MacDonnell as Sue Cremlin as | |||
5.1 Surround Mix: The Post Office, LLC Broadcaster: Adult Swim Animax Asia Animax India Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) Sci-Fi Channel (Ani-Tuesday) Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia) Manga Entertainment (UK) Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) Dubbing: Gaijin Productions Recording Facility: The Post Office, LLC Soundtrack: Geneon Entertainment Inc. | ||||
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ADR Director: Thierry Kazazian | Isabelle Volpe as Olivia Dutron as Bruno Magne as Martial Leminoux as Nathalie Homs as Patrick Bethune as Patrick Pellegrin as Thierry Kazazian as Bruno Magne as | |||
ADR Production: Studio Chinkel DVD Distribution: Dybex (France) | ||||
Translation: Bárbara Pesquer (Spain dub) Licensing Manager: Liliana Silveira Screen Inserts: Rafael Ordonez (Spain dub) | Carmen Calvell as Pilar Morales as Antonio Pujós as Joan Zanni as Olga Supervia as Rafael Ordonez as Joan Zanni as Olga Supervia as Antonio Pujós Francesc Rocamora Marc Zanni Nacho de Porrata Olga Supervia | |||
Dubbing Studio: Media Arts Studio (Spain dub) DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Spain) Producer: Fantasy Entertainment | ||||
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Broadcaster: Animax Germany (2007-09-07 to 2007-09-09) Dubbing: Elektrofilm | ||||
(none) | Distributor: Dybex | |||
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(none) | Distributor: MC Entertainment | |||
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(none) | Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Portugal) | |||
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