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Figure 17 (TV)

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©Genco • OLM/Figure 17 Committee.


Related anime:
    Figure 17 (manga) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
Figure 17 - Tsubasa and Hikaru
フィギュア17(セブンティーン)つばさ&ヒカル (Japanese)
Genres: action, drama, science fiction, slice of life
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Tsubasa Shiina is a 10-year-old girl who recently moved to Hokkaido to live with her father. In school, she is very quiet and unsociable with her classmates. Then one night, she witnesses a UFO crash in the forest near her home. She rushes to the scene and finds the pilot, codenamed "D.D.", in a barely stable condition. Also in the scene is a Maguar, a hideous alien that hatched aboard D.D.'s ship. As the Maguar is close to taking Tsubasa's life, an alien lifeform fuses with her body to form the Riberus battle armor Figure 17, which shortly destroys the alien threat. The life form takes the name Hikaru and turns into an identical twin of Tsubasa. As time passes, Tsubasa becomes more open to everyone around her, thanks to her new twin sister Hikaru. However, with Maguar eggs scattered all over Hokkaido, their ability to form Figure 17 is needed to eliminate all hatched Maguars until backup from D.D.'s home planet arrives on Earth.
Video:
User Ratings: 243 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 38 votes (sub:22, dub:12, raw:3, ?:1)
 Excellent: 71 votes (sub:48, dub:19, Por.sub:2, raw:2)
 Very good: 47 votes (sub:26, dub:21)
 Good: 48 votes (sub:30, dub:17, raw:1)
 Decent: 14 votes (sub:9, dub:4, ?:1)
 So-so: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:2, ?:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Weak: 8 votes (dub:4, sub:4)
 Bad: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 492 users, rank: #986
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.8471 (Very good-.15), std. dev.: 1.8512, rank: #596
Weighted mean: 7.8116 (Very good-.18), rank: #496
Bayesian estimate: 7.80094 (Very good-.19), rank: #336
Running time: 46 minutes
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2001-05-27 to 2002-05-26 (Original AT-X Broadcast - 13 Episodes)
2002-01-11 to 2002-06-26 (TV Tokyo Broadcast - 24 Episodes)
Releases: We have 14
Opening Theme:
"BOY" by THE ALFEE
Ending Theme:
"Fairy Dance" by THE ALFEE
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
In the news 6 times:
2002-06-11   Top Anime in Japan
2002-04-24   Sakura Con Guests
Comment:
The 13-episode series originally ran on AT-X on a monthly basis at 46 minutes per episode. When it played on TV Tokyo on a weekly basis, episodes 1 and 13 ran in their entirety, while episodes 2-12 were individually split into two-parts, extending the run to 24 episodes.
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    Figure 17 - Soul Mirror (DVD 1) 2003-09-30 (from $18.36)
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    Figure 17 - Valiant Duet (DVD 3) 2004-01-27 (from $18.85)
    Figure 17 - Forever Close (DVD 5) 2004-05-25 (from $19.75)
    Figure 17 - Little Secret (DVD 4) 2004-03-30 (from $20.69)
    Figure 17 - Memories Remain (DVD 6) 2004-07-13 (from $20.69)
    Figure 17 - DVD Collection (DVD 1-6) 2005-01-12 (from $48.31)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Chief Director: Naohito Takahashi

Screenplay: Shoji Yonemura

Storyboard:
Hatsuki Tsuji (Eps. 5,8,9,12)
Hirofumi Yano (Eps. 2,4)
Hiroyuki Yano (Ep. 7)
Kazuya Murata (Eps. 3,6,11)
Naohito Takahashi (Eps. 1,2,13)
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (Eps. 10,13)

Episode Director:
Hiroyuki Yano (Ep. 1)
Kazuya Murata (Eps. 1,3,6,7,9,11-13)
Kiyotaka Itani (Ep. 5)
Kouji Fukazawa (Eps. 2,4-6,8,9,11,13)
Naohito Takahashi (Ep. 13)
Norihiko Sudo (Eps. 3,4)
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (Eps. 7-8,10,12)
Yoshiko Seharu (Ep. 10)

Music: Toshihiko Takamizawa

Character Design: Yuriko Chiba

Art director:
Akio Shimada
Shichiro Kobayashi

Chief Animation Director: Yuriko Chiba

Animation director:
Eiko Saito (Eps. 1-6,8-13)
Kazumi Sato (Eps. 8-13)
Masahito Sawada (Eps. 1-13)
Shoji Hara (Eps. 1-3)
Taka Sato (Eps. 1-13)
Toshiyuki Fujisawa (Eps. 3-13)

Mechanical design: Yasuhiro Nishinaka

Director of Photography:
Hajime Noguchi
Toshiyuki Fukushima

Executive producer:
Kazumi Kawashiro
Takayuki Yanagisawa
Tatsuo Sato
Yoichi Machino

Producer:
Nobuhiro Osawa
Shukichi Kanda

Animation Check: Noriaki Saito

Color Coordination: Aki Watanabe

Creature Design: Yasuhiro Nishinaka

Editing: Toshio Henmi

Final Line:
Hiroyo Yamamoto (Anime World Osaka)
Isako Higashino (Kyoto Animation)
Kaori Yoshikawa (Kyoto Animation)
Koichi Hayami (Anime World Osaka)
Kouji Konno (Nakamura Production)
Masashi Matsuya (Seigasha)
Miki Kuribayashi
Namiko Ebihara (Nakamura Production)
Ryuji Iwase (Nakamura Production)
Satoyuki Hashimoto (Anime World Osaka)
Shinako Okayama (Nakamura Production)
Shinya Yamada (Seigasha)
Shuko Wataya (Kyoto Animation)
Soji Ninomiya
Takako Uetake
Takashi Tsuge
Takeyasu Watanabe (Kyoto Animation)
Tatsuya Uetsu (Nakamura Production)
Tetsuji Kato (Nakamura Production)
Tomofumi Koizumi (Anime World Osaka)
Tomoyuki Tajima (Nakamura Production)
Yoko Takada (Kyoto Animation)
Yuki Hayashiya (Kyoto Animation)
Yukihiro Miyaji (Nakamura Production)

Key Animation:
Eiko Saito
Gaku Akamatsu
Hajime Yoshida
Haruhito Takada
Kana Ishida
Kazuhisa Kosuge
Kenji Akiba
Kenji Ota
Kenji Uchinou
Konomi Sakurai
Masahito Sawada
Masaru Yoshioka
Mikio Fujiwara
Seijuro Kato
Shintaro Muraki
Shoji Hara
Takaaki Wada
Takashi Honda
Toshiharu Kumaoka
Toshiharu Matsuno
Yasukazu Shoji
Yoko Iizuka
Yoko Ikekawa
Yukiko Miyamoto
Yuri Inoguchi

Music producer: Toru Kizaki

Original Music Composition: Johann Sebastian Bach ("Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude")

Planning:
Kazuto Imanishi
Takashi Suno
Taro Maki

Production Design: Eiko Saito

Sound director: Jun Watanabe

Technical director: Kentaro Takahashi

Theme Song Composition: Toshihiko Takamizawa

Theme Song Performance: THE ALFEE

 

Akiko Yajima as Tsubasa Shiina

Fumiko Orikasa as Hikaru Shiina

Houchu Ohtsuka as Isamu Kuroda

Kikuko Inoue as Orudina

Kyoko Tsuruno as Sho Aizawa

Masamichi Sato as Hideo Shiina

Naoko Takano as Noriko Itou

Rie Kugimiya as Mina Sawada

Rikiya Koyama as D.D. / Daisuke Domoto

Ryoka Yuzuki as Asuka Karasawa

Takako Honda as Shinji Ogawa

Yuko Kato as
Akiko Hibino
Kenta Hagiwara

Ai Satou as Rin Ibaragi

Akira Muroi as Maki Murata

Asami Imai as Nanami Nakajima

Chigusa Ikeuchi as Naoki Yamauchi

Eiji Maruyama as Rokuro Ibaragi

Hiroshi Matsumoto as Sho's Father (Ep. 10)

Hiroshi Yanaka as Saito (Ep. 12)

Jun Mizuki as
Airport Announcer (Ep. 13)
Junko Murakami
Store Clerk (Ep. 2)
Student (Ep. 10)
Takuya Suzuki
Tomoyo

Kazuo Oka as Seismological Observer (Ep. 10)

Kenta Miyake as Policeman (Eps. 2,11)

Kyoko Tsuruno as Kyoko Ibaragi

Masaru Motegi as Nature Conservation Inspector (Ep. 7)

Miki Itou as Narrator (behind-the-scenes featurette)

Misa Watanabe as Sho's Mother (Ep. 10)

Mitsuru Ogata as Reporter (Ep. 6)

Rie Kanda as Minoru Kaneko

Satohiko Nakajima as Haruo Taki

Shinji Kawada as
Mr. Hayashi
Toru

Takeharu Onishi as Magnetic Field Observer (Ep. 11)

Toru Ohkawa as Shinichi Ibaragi

Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruo Taki

Toshitaka Hirano as Used Car Shop Owner (Ep. 2)

Unshou Ishizuka as Desk Staff (Ep. 12)

Yoshiko Kamei as Tokio Aoyama

Yui Horie as Sakura Ibaragi

Yukimasa Obi as Atsushi

Yuko Kato as Store Guest (Ep. 5)

Yumiko Kobayashi as
Student (Ep. 11)
Yudai Igarashi (Ep. 12)

Asami Katsura (behind-the-scenes segment)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Oriental Light and Magic

Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production

Broadcaster:
AT-X
TV Tokyo

Digital Coloring: T2 Studio

Distributor: Bandai Visual

Finish Animation:
Anime World Osaka
Kyoto Animation
Peacock

In-Between Animation:
Angle
Anime World Osaka
Kyoto Animation
MSJ
Nakamura Production
Seigasha

Laboratory: Imagica

Music Production:
Daily Planets
Lantis
Project Three
Toshiba EMI (OP/ED)

Photography: Takahashi Production

Production:
AT-X
Figure 17 Committee
GENCO
MediaWorks
TV Tokyo

Recording Facility: Sanpunzaka Studio

Sound Production: Half H-P Studio

Titles: Maki Productions

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Dave Wittenberg

Art director: John Siers

Translation:
Julia Rose
Masumi Doeda

ADR Script:
Dave Wittenberg
Stephanie Sheh

Executive producer: John Sirabella

Producer: Eric P. Sherman

Assistant producer: Mami Okada

Co-Producer: Kaeko Sakamoto

Dialogue Editing:
Humberto Zamores
Rick Tetzlaff

DVD Authoring: Stephen Poole

Editing:
Justin Kim
Scott Marchfeld

Post-Production Assistant: Deb Munini

Production manager:
Kelvin Walker
Scott Marchfeld

Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux

Re-Recording Mixing:
Humberto Zamores
Rick Tetzlaff

Recording engineer:
Humberto Zamores
Justin Kohler
Rick Tetzlaff

Sound Supervisor: Patrick Rodman

Spotting:
Addie Akemi Kohzu
Aya Morozumi
Mami Okada
Tetsuya Fujita
Yuka Juta

Subtitling: Nagisa Wada

Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto

 

Kay Jensen as Tsubasa Shiina

Willow Armstrong as Hikaru Shiina

Dave Lelyveld as Shinji Ogawa

David Duncan McNeill as Sho Aizawa

Jeff Garcia as Kenta Hagiwara

Julie Ann Taylor as Asuka Karasawa

Lex Lang as D.D. / Daisuke Domoto

Lynn Fischer as Ms. Akiko Hibino

Mia Bradly as Orudina

Olivia O'Conner as Noriko Itou

Ron Allen as Hideo Shiina

Steve Kramer as Isamu Kuroda

Sue Beth Arden as Mina Sawada

Barbara Goodson as Rin Ibaragi

Cristopher O'Brien as Toru

Dave Lelyveld as Atsushi

David Orozco as Sho's Father (Ep. 10)

David Duncan McNeill as Tokio Aoyama

Doug Erholtz as Haruo Taki

Julie Maddalena as Sakura Ibaragi

Julie Ann Taylor as Narrator

Liam O'Brien as Toru

Michael McConnohie as Shinichi Ibaragi

Steve Kramer as Principal Hayashi

Sue Beth Arden as Kyoko Ibaragi

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster: iaTV

Casting: Love-Chan Casting

Distributor: AnimeWorks

Licensed by:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia/New Zealand)
Media Blasters

French staff 
French companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Dybex

French cast 
(none)
 
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