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Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Chōjin Gakuen Gowcaizer (Japanese)
Choujin Gakuen Gowcaizer: The Voltage Fighters
Gowcaizer
Superhuman Academy Gowcaizer
超人学園ゴウカイザー (Japanese)
초인학원 고우카이져 (Korean)
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Stones of power are given to some chosen fighters, who are being trained by a master to defeat the master's darker tendencies of destroying humanity. The fighters do not necessarily get along even as the world heads toward peril.
User Ratings: 152 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Excellent: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Very good: 10 votes (dub:7, sub:2, raw:1)
 Good: 20 votes (sub:10, dub:9, raw:1)
 Decent: 27 votes (dub:15, sub:10, ?:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:7, dub:6)
 Not really good: 18 votes (sub:10, dub:8)
 Weak: 15 votes (dub:8, sub:6, others:1
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Bad: 15 votes (sub:11, dub:4)
 Awful: 17 votes (dub:10, sub:7)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 324 users, rank: #2922 (of 10090)
Median rating: So-so
Arithmetic mean: 4.638 (So-so−), std. dev.: 2.607, rank: #9748 (of 10250)
Weighted mean: 4.539 (So-so−), rank: #9810 (of 10250) (seen all: 4.76 / seen some: 3.01 / won't finish: 2.02)
Bayesian estimate: 4.770 (So-so−), rank: #7641 (of 7728)
Running time: 45 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Vintage: 1996
Ending Theme:
"New Generation Heroes" by Masaaki Endou
Trivia: We have 1
Review:
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer DVD (Mar 29, 2004)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (DVD) 1999-05-18 (from $79.95)
    Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (DVD) 2004-01-13 (from $93.89)
Universal Media Disc
    Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer [Dub] [CD-ROM] (UMD 1-2) 1997-00-00

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Masami Ōbari
Screenplay:
Kengo Asai (eps 1-3)
Storyboard:
Masami Ōbari (eps 1, 3)
Takehiro Nakayama (eps 2-3)
Character Design: Masami Ōbari
Art Director: Hiroshi Katō
Animation Director:
Kazunori Iwakura
Masami Ōbari
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Director of Photography: Katsuyuki Ohtaki
Executive producer:
Hiroshi Yamaji
Yoshimasa Ohnishi (Big West)
Producer:
Shinichi Hirai
Tomoko Kawasaki
Yoshinori Chiba

Background Art:
Jun Okabe (Bihou)
Ken Arai (Bihou)
Kenichi Muto (Bihou)
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya (Bihou)
Masaru Satō (Bihou)
Shunichirō Yoshihara (Bihou)
Sohei Koizumi (Bihou)
Tomonori Katō (Bihou)
Yasuhiro Kondo (Bihou)
Camera:
Hiroshi Takeda
Kyoko Satō
Seiji Uchida
Yumiko Kobayashi
Yutaka Kurosawa
Chief animator:
Kazunori Iwakura
Masami Ōbari
Color design: Kumiko Nakayama
Editing: Naoyuki Masaki
Finish Animation:
Kimi Hirabayashi
Masaki Watanabe
Mayumi Tanahashi
Mieko Maruyama
Mio Takahashi
Miwako Suzuki
Ryōko Satō
Shinji Takai
In-Between Animation:
Hiroaki Ikehara
Hiroki Okamoto
Kazue Yoshida
Kazuhiro Mima
Kentarō Tanaka
Masaki Nakaya
Masayuki Nishihara
Ryūichi Baba
Tomohiro Imaizumi
Yūichirō Yamada
Yukie Harada
Key Animation:
Fumihide Sai (eps 1-3)
Fuminori Kizaki (eps 1, 3)
Hideki Kakita (eps 2-3)
Hidenori Matsubara (eps 1, 3)
Hideyuki Morioka (ep 3)
Hiroaki Gōda (ep 1)
Hirofumi Masuda (eps 1-3)
Hiroyuki Okuno (eps 1-3)
Hisashi Saito (ep 2)
Jun Nakase (ep 2)
Katsuzō Hirata (ep 1)
Kazumi Takaishi (eps 2-3)
Kazunori Iwakura (ep 2)
Kazuto Nakazawa (eps 1-2)
Keiji Gotō (Vol. 1)
Kou Yoshinari (eps 1, 3)
Mamoru Sasaki (ep 3)
Masahiko Kubo (ep 3)
Masaki Nakaya (eps 2-3)
Masami Ōbari (eps 2-3)
Masanori Nishii (eps 2-3)
Masashi Ishihama (eps 1, 3)
Michio Ito (ep 1)
Mitsuru Obunai (eps 2-3)
Naoyuki Konno (eps 1, 3)
Satoshi Ishino (ep 1)
Seiji Handa (ep 1)
Shingo Ishikawa (ep 3)
Sōichirō Matsuda (ep 1)
Tadashi Abiru (ep 1)
Takahiro Kishida (ep 1)
Takahiro Tanaka (eps 1-3)
Takashi Hashimoto (as "Masanori Kiryu"; ep 3)
Takehiro Nakayama (eps 1-2)
Takuya Suzuki (ep 3)
Tatsuya Suzuki (ep 3)
Tetsurō Aoki (ep 1)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 1)
Tsukasa Kotobuki (ep 1)
Yasuhiro Ōshima (ep 2)
Yoh Yoshinari (eps 1, 3)
Yōichi Ueda (ep 1)
Yoshimitsu Ōhashi (ep 3)
Yoshitaka Kōno (ep 1)
Yukihiro Kitano (ep 2)
Yukinori Umetsu (eps 1-2)
Planning: Yoshimasa Ohnishi (Big West)
Production Design: Seiji Handa
Theme Song Arrangement: Kiyoshi Murakami
Theme Song Performance: Masaaki Endō
Uniform Design: Atsuko Ishida
Hikaru Midorikawa as Kash Mizuntani/Hellstinger
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Isato Kaiza/Gowcaizer
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Kyosuke Shigure

Ai Orikasa as Omni Exist
Hideo Ishikawa as Ryo Asahina
Makiko Ōmoto as Kubira
Show Hayami as Shizuru Ozaki
Tomo Sakurai as Karin Son
Yoshiyuki Kōno as Ball Boy
Yūko Nagashima as Suzu Asahina
Yumi Touma as Shaia Hishizaki

Daisuke Ishikawa as Randy Riggs / Captain Atlantis
Hideo Ishikawa as Ikki Tachibana / Brider #1
Hideyuki Hori as Rampou Fudo
Houko Kuwashima as Necrocaizer
Yoshiyuki Kōno as Saburo Jumonji / Brider #2
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Director: Peter Cascone
Translation: Kevin McKeown
Executive producer: John O'Donnell
Producer:
George San Roman
Stephanie Shalofsky

ADR Engineer: Adam Charity
Associate producer: Peter Bavaro
Dubbing Manager: Peter Bavaro
Dubbing Supervision: Anthony Salerno
DVD Coordination: Eric Thomann
Editing: Nigel Kettle
In-House Production: Justin Sevakis
In-House Production Manager: Tim Werenko
Mix Engineer: Bill Donnelly
Joseph Morgan as Kyosuke Shigure
Ted Lewis as Isato Kaiza/Gowcaizer
Vinnie Penna as Kash Mizutani/Hellstinger

Apollo Smile as Karin Son
Billy Regan as Ryo Asahina / Prato (Male)
Carla Hall as Suzu Asahina / Prato (Female)
Debora Rabbai as Shaia Hishizaki
K.B. Nau as Shizuru Ozaki
Marc Garber as Ball Boy
Rachael Lillis as Omni Exist
Tracy Poverstein as Kubira
Wayne Grayson as Kash Gyustan/Hellstinger (under the name of Vinnie Penna)

Alex West as
Fudomaru
Narrator
Prof. Ranpo Fudo
K.B. Nau as Master Ohga

Ed Kissel
Frank P. Popler
Jeffrey Zitomer
Jonathan Lupo
Karel Havle
Sandee Gilman
Tracy Lynn Johnson
English companies
Audio Post Production: Laughing Dog Studios
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Software Sculptors (CD-ROM)
U.S. Manga Corps
DVD Menu Design: Cinemagnetics
DVD Premastering: Cinemagnetics
Licensed by: Central Park Media
Post Production: Skyhigh Productions
Video Post Production: Skypilot Entertainment

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