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Golden Boy (OAV)

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©1995-1996 Tatsuya Egawa / Shueisha • Softgarage.


[ adapted from Golden Boy (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Золотой парень (Russian)
ゴールデンボーイ (Japanese)
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, romance
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Kintarou Oe doesn't look like it, but he is a genius who completed all his university courses and then quit before graduating. He becomes a wandering student, going from place to place on his bicycle, seeking to learn what he can about life, the world, and women. He is willing and able to do any job he has to prove himself. His travels take him to a variety of locations and a variety of women, each who learns to love the hardworking guy, but not before he can run off.
User Ratings: 1538 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 221 votes (sub:114, dub:92, Spa.sub:4, Por.sub:2, Ita.dub:2, Ger.dub:2, Ita.edit.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, Spa.dub:1, Fre.edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 382 votes (sub:229, dub:132, Spa.sub:4, Por.sub:4, ?:3, Ger.dub:2, Ita.dub:2, Pol.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Por.dub:1, Swe.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 427 votes (sub:240, dub:152, Por.sub:8, Ger.dub:7, Spa.sub:5, Spa.dub:4, raw:3, Ita.dub:2, ?:2, Swe.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, Ger.edit.dub:1)
 Good: 288 votes (sub:181, dub:80, Ger.dub:4, ?:3, Spa.dub:3, Pol.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, raw:2, Por.sub:2, Spa.sub:2, Spa.edit.dub:2, Ita.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ger.sub:1, Por.dub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Decent: 107 votes (sub:62, dub:34, Ger.dub:3, Fre.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, ?:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 52 votes (sub:24, dub:19, Ger.dub:5, ?:2, Ger.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 20 votes (dub:10, sub:10)
 Weak: 24 votes (sub:15, dub:8, ?:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Awful: 8 votes (sub:3, dub:3, Ger.dub:1, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (raw:1, sub:1, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2819 users, rank: #165
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.9232 (Very good-.07), std. dev.: 1.6517, rank: #552
Weighted mean: 7.8134 (Very good-.18), rank: #504
Bayesian estimate: 7.8117 (Very good-.18), rank: #327
Running time: 25 minutes
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage:
1995
1995-10-27 to 1996-06-28
2001-03-28 to 2001-06-09 (Germany, MTV)
2002-05-31 (France)
Ending Theme:
"Study A Go! Go!" by Golden Girls
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 6
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Related releases:
    Golden Boy (DVD) 2007-11-06 (from $14.96)
    Golden Boy - Treasure Hunt (DVD 1) 2002-04-23
    Golden Boy - Bound for Glory (DVD 2) 2002-06-18
    Golden Boy - Anime Essentials (DVD 1-2) 2004-05-25

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Screenplay: Tatsuya Egawa

Storyboard: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Music: Joyo Katayanagi

Original creator: Tatsuya Egawa

Character Design: Toshihiro Kawamoto

Art director: Tatsuya Kushida

Chief Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto

Animation director: Toshihiro Kawamoto (eps 1, 6)

Director of Photography: Hideo Okazaki

Producer:
Kazufumi Kitakubo
Kazufumi Nomura
Youichi Ishikawa
Yukiro Asaga
Yuriko Asaga

Advertising:
Toshiharu Sugizaki
Yoko Aoyama

Animation:
Kazuhiro Sato
Kazuya Ishizaki
Masaki Tanigawa
Mitsumi Shitani
Rieko Nakai
Ryota Niino
Yasumi Tanaka
Yuko Koyama

Animation Check: Koichi Iwanaga

Assistant Animation Checker:
Ryoji Enomoto
Takashi Yaguchi
Yuichiro Miyake

Assistant producer: Hideaki Fujii

Background Art:
Chieko Nezaki
Hiroshi Kato
Jun Okabe
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya
Masako Sato
Masaru Ohta
Shunichiro Yoshihara
Yusuke Takeda

Chief animator: Toshihiro Kawamoto

Color Coordination: Yuko Kanemaru

Design Work: Shigeru Obata

Editing: Eiko Nishide

Finish Check:
Hiroko Kochiya
Kazunori Suzuki
Mayumi Hario

Key Animation:
Akiko Nagashima
Katsutoshi Tsunoda
Kayoko Nabeta
Kengo Inagaki
Kiichi Takaoka
Koji Oisaka
Masahiro Sekino
Norimoto Tokura
Shigenori Kurii
Shinsuke Terasawa
Takahiro Kimura
Toshihiro Kawamoto (eps 6)
Yuriko Ikehara

Music producer: Sohichiro Harada

Photography:
Akifumi Shoji
Masaki Nakamura
Mayumi Kawamoto
Mizue Motomiya
Motomitsu Hoshino

Production Assistant:
Hiroaki Urano
Kenji Miyashita

Sound Direction: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Sound Effects: Yasu Konno

Sound Effects Producer: Kouichi Iizuka

Special Effects: Yutaka Hoshiba

Theme Song Arrangement: Mitsuhiro Tada

Theme Song Lyrics: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Theme Song Music: Kanji Saito

Video Editing: Koutaro Muranaka

 

Mitsuo Iwata as Kintarou Oe

Hiromi Tsuru as Female president

Junko Iwao as Employee B

Junko Shimakata as Employee D

Juurouta Kosugi as Hiroshi Kogure

Kenichi Ogata as Animator D (Ep6)

Kikuko Inoue as
Ayuko
Employee A

Megumi Tano as Child

Michiko Neya as Instructor C

Mika Kanai as
Chie
Employee E

Miki Takahashi as employee C

Ryuuzou Ishino as
Animator
Animator B (Ep 6)

Sakiko Tamagawa as Reiko Terayama

Tatsuya Egawa as Engawa, Tatsuya (Ep6)

Wataru Takagi as Office worker

Yoko Asada as Ayuko (Young)

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kogure's girl

Yuka Koyama as Yuka Kanzaki

Yuko Minaguchi as Naoko Katsuda (Ep2)

Yuko Mizutani as Instructor A

Yuri Shiratori as Noriko

Japanese companies 

Animation:
DAST Corporation
Hana Production
Leo Production
Production I.G
Wombat

Backgrounds: Studio Bihoh

Film Processing: Tokyo Laboratory

Finish Animation: AIC

Music Production: Razz Office

Original Titles: Maki Productions

Photography: IMG

Production: Studio A.P.P.P.

Recording Studio: Abaco Creative Studio

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Matt Greenfield

Art director:
John Siers (Re-release)
Ruby Halipoto

Translation:
Dan Kanemitsu (eps 4-6)
Ichiro Arakaki

ADR Script: Matt Greenfield

Executive producer:
John Ledford
John Sirabella (Re-release)
Sharon Papa

Producer: Matt Greenfield

Additional Translation: Shoko Oono

DVD Author: Dave Beinlich (Re-release)

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

DVD Graphics: Chris Hawley

DVD Producer: David Williams

Editing:
David Grundy
Derek Lieu (Re-release)
Gerald Brewer
Joey Goubeaud
Robbie Stevens

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Packaging Design: Jason Remmert

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant: Andrew Kent

Production Supervision:
Richard York (Re-release)
Sean Molyneaux (Re-release)

Recording engineer:
Charles Campbell
Dan Rockwell

Sound Design: Paul Killam

Subtitle Timing: Neal Barnes

Doug Smith as Kintaro Oe

Allison Keith as
Employee A
Naoko Katsuda

Amanda Winn Lee as
Girl A
Producer

Carol Amerson as Yuka

Carolyn Boone as Mother

Charles Campbell as
Animation Checker
Animator C
Father
Narrator
Track Announcer

Curtis Billings as
Animator B
Instructor A

Erin Rosaire as
Colorist
Instructor C

Jan Angus as Noriko Katsuda

Jason Lee as
Narration
Yakuza A

John Swasey as Director

Kim McGraw as Instructor B

Kim Sevier as Noriko

Laura Chapman as Reiko Terayama

Lew Temple as Animator E

Lorraine Reyes as Girl B

Marcie Corder as
Maid
Wife

Marcy Rae as Bicycle Shop Woman

Mary Lou Reyes as Employee E

Matt Greenfield as
Animator D
Porche Driver
Sakata
Thug A
Thug B
Yakuza B

Phil Ross as Owner

Renee Foresman as Employee D

Robert Peeples as Bicycle Shop Man

Spike Spencer as Maid

Stuart Krohn as Animator A

Sue Ulu as Ayuko Hayamizu

Tiffany Grant as
Kogure's Girlfriend
Madame President

Traci Shannon as Employee B

Tristan MacAvery as
Boss
Butler
Hiroshi Kogure
Juzo Katsuda

Wendy Hughes as Employee C

Yvonne Aguirre as Chie

Andy Orjuela

Brenda Mikeska

Craig Stewart

Dan Rockwell

Jennifer Rutherford

Julio Rodriguez

Rod Peters

English companies 

Broadcaster:
MTV
The Anime Network

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by:
ADV Films
Media Blasters (2007 license renewal)

French staff 
French cast 

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

Production Coordination: Pierre Giner

 

Olivier Korol as Kintaro Oe

Christine Paris as Mme la présidente (ep.1)

Colette Noel as Reiko Takayama (ep.5)

Dominique Vallee as Ayuko Hayami (ep.4)

Laurence Bréheret as Noriko (ep.3)

Marjolaine Poulain as Naoko Katsuda (ep.2)

Christine Paris as
employée (ep.5)
monitrice (ep.4)
Noriko Katsuda (ep.2)

Colette Noel as
adjointe (ep.1)
animatrice (ep.6)
intendante (ep.2)

Dominique Lelong as productrice (ep.6)

Dominique Vallee as Baby Doll (ep.3)

Jacques Albaret as Tetsuya Egawa (ep.6)

Laurence Bréheret as monitrice (ep.4)

Marjolaine Poulain as employée (ep.1)

Michel Tureau as
animateur (ep.6)
Mr Katsuda (ep.2)
narrateur (ep.1)
père d'Ayuko (ep.4)
père de Noriko (ep.3)

Philippe Roullier as
employé (ep.4)
Hiroshi Kogure (ep.3)

Yann Pichon as
moine (ep.5)
patron (ep.6)
Yakusa (ep.2)
Yakusa (ep.1)

French companies 

Broadcaster: Paris Première (2002)

Dubbing: Studio Chinkel

Released by: Dybex

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Nacho de Porrata as Kintarou Oe (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps as Noriko (Spain dub)

Carmen Ambrós as Naoko Katsuda (Spain dub)

Mayte Supervia as Madame Presidenta (Spain dub)

Assumpta Navascues as Empleada C (Spain dub)

Tasio Alonso as Hiroshi Kogure (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Distributor: Selecta Visión (Spain)

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain)

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión


Italian staff 

Script: Anna Grisoni

Art director: Gualtiero Cannarsi

Translation: Sabuko Murakami

Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Director Of Dubbing:
Fabrizio Mazzotta
Paolo Cortese
Patrizia Salmoiraghi

Editorial Coordination:
Caterina Mallimaci
Cinzia Muttarini
Cristina Minoja
Cristina Zanchetta
Emanuela Mastromattei
Margherita Mazzuccato
Simona Mascheroni
Titti Matera

Mixing: Luca Porro

RVM Operator: Paolo Quadrelli

Script Supervisor: Gualtiero Cannarsi

Sound: Alessandro Frustaci

Synchronization: Luca Porro

Italian cast 

Davide Lepore as Kintaro Oe

Alessandra Karpoff as Ayuko (eps 4, 6)

Antonio Paiola as Juzo Katsuda (ep 2)

Cinzia De Carolis as Presidente (eps 1, 6)

Cinzia Massironi as Naoko Katsuda (eps 2, 6)

Claudio Moneta as Kogure Hiroshi (ep 3)

Dania Cericola as Reiko (eps 5, 6)

Elisabetta Cesone as Governante (eps 2, 5)

Elisabetta Spinelli as
Chie (ep 6)
Programmatrice (ep 1)

Emanuela Pacotto as Programmatrice (ep 1)

Enrico Maggi as Capo animatore (ep 6)

Fabrizio Mazzotta as Wakamoto (ep 6)

Federica De Bortoli as Noriko (eps 3, 6)

Flavio Arras as Animatore (ep 6)

Gianmarco Ceconi as Animatore (ep 6)

Ivo De Palma as Regista (ep 6)

Loredana Nicosia as Istruttrice (ep 4)

Lorella De Luca as Produttrice (ep 6)

Manuela Scaglione as Istruttrice (ep 4)

Marco Balzarotti as Sakada (ep 3)

Massimiliano Lotti as Istruttore (ep 4)

Paolo Buglioni as Narratore

Patrizia Mottola as Yuka (ep 6)

Patrizio Prata as Egawa (ep 6)

Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Programmatrice (ep 1)

Simone D'Andrea as Animatore (ep 6)

Italian companies 

Broadcaster:
Cultoon (from March 2009)
MTV Italia (2000)

Distributor: Dynamic Italia

Dubbing:
Cooperativa Eddy Cortese
Studio PV

German staff 
German cast 

Executive Producer (german Version): Carlo Levy

Main Theme: Computerjockeys (My Golden Boy)

 

Timmo Niesner as Kintaro Oe

Berenice Weichert as Chie

Christin Marquitan as Ausbilderin 1 (ep. 4)

Diana Borgwardt as Reiko Terayama

Erich Räuker as Erzähler

Michael Telloke as Sakata

German companies 

Broadcaster:
MTV (Germany) (2001-03-28)
MTV2 Pop

Distributor: Dynamic (germany)

DVD Distribution: Dybex


Dutch cast 
Dutch staff 

Producteur Executif: Carlo Levy

(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

 
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