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Karas (OAV)

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©2005 TATSUNOKO Pro / KARAS Committee


Alternative title:
Karas the prophecy
The Karas
Карас (Russian)
鴉 -KARAS- (Japanese)
Plot Summary: The old Karas is dead, killed by an evil ex-Karas who now named himself Ekou. He started a series of murders against humanity by making his loyal youkai drain the body fluids from humans. Otoha ,a young man who just woke from a coma, is chosen to be the new Karas. Him and his trainer, Yurine, start the fight against the evil forces of darkness that are triyng to conquer the city of Shijuku. 
Video:
User Ratings: 838 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 116 votes (sub:84, dub:24, Spa.sub:5, Kor.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 215 votes (sub:155, dub:55, raw:3, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, English:0)
 Very good: 210 votes (sub:133, dub:69, Spa.sub:5, Fre.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, edit.dub:0)
 Good: 146 votes (sub:91, dub:50, raw:2, edit.dub:2, Pol.sub:1)
 Decent: 63 votes (sub:39, dub:20, Dut.sub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 43 votes (sub:25, dub:18)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:8, dub:4, Spa.sub:1)
 Weak: 20 votes (sub:12, dub:8)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (dub:2, raw:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1656 users, rank: #341
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.8106 (Very good-.18), std. dev.: 1.8281, rank: #649
Weighted mean: 7.6568 (Very good-.34), rank: #640
Bayesian estimate: 7.65525 (Very good-.34), rank: #453
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage: 2005-02-07 (TAF Pre-Event in Hollywood)
Releases: We have 10
Ending Theme:
"Selenite" by Rurutia
#2: "Under Fire" by Sasha Antonice 
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
"鴉" is the Japanese character for Karas, so the full Japanese title, "鴉 -KARAS" works out to "Karas -KARAS-" however it is not referred to in this way. It is simply called "KARAS" or "The KARAS."
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Related reviews:
    Karas: The Revelation DVD 2

Related releases:
    Karas V2 (R4 DVD 2) 2008-03-19
    Karas - The Prophecy (DVD 1) 2006-04-25 (from $8.32)
    Karas - The Prophecy [Essence of Anime] (DVD 1) 2007-09-04 (from $8.67)
    Karas - Complete DVD Box Set (DVD 1-2) 2007-11-20 (from $13.49)
    Karas: The Revelation (DVD 2) 2007-04-03 (from $9.49)
    The Karas (UMD) 2006-04-25 (from $12.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Keiichi Satou

Script:
Masaya Honda
Shin Yoshida

Storyboard:
Keiichi Satou
Kenji Nakamura
Shigeki Takagi

Music: Yoshihiro Ike (Composer)

Original Concept: Keiichi Satou

Character Design: Kenji Hayama

Art director: Hajime Satou

Animation director:
Akira Takata
Kenji Hayama
Osamu Kobayashi
Takashi Hashimoto (Special Guest)

Mechanical design: Kenji Andou (Monster & Mecha)

Sound director: Jin Aketagawa

Executive producer: Keiichi Satou

Action Animation Director: Shigeki Kuhara

Chief Writer: Shin Yoshida

Editing: Hirofumi Okuda

Layout Director: Kenichi Ishimaru

Monster Design: Kenji Andou

Planning: Keiichi Satou

Sound Effects: Yasuyuki Konno

Theme Song Performance: Rurutia (ED1)

 

Asuka Shibuya as Hinaru

Kasumi Suzuki as Yurine

Keiji Fujiwara as Nue

Toshihiro Wada as Otoha

Hiroto Torihata as Kure Narumi

Hitomi Nabatame as Homura

Kiyoyuki Yanada as Suiko

Mai Nakahara as
Chizuru
Mery (ep 2)

Rokuro Naya as Chief

Saeko Chiba as Sagizaka Yoshiko

Takahiro Sakurai as Houshun'in Ekou

Tetsuo Goto as Minoru Sagisaka

Makoto Yasumura as DJ (ep 2)

Japanese companies 

Production: Tatsunoko

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Eric P. Sherman

Translation: Shoko Oono

Executive producer: Kaoru Mfaume

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Kaeko Sakamoto
Margo Coughlin Zimmerman

ADR Writer:
Kirk Thornton
Wendee Lee

Assistant Engineer:
Jeff Prosser
Kevin Patzelt

Assistant producer: Mami Okada

Assistant Production Coordinator: Christen Bennett

Casting Director:
Kaeko Sakamoto
Ruth Lambert

Casting Supervisor: Marc Frankowski

Dialogue Editing:
Kevin Patzelt
Patrick Rodman
Sean Thomas Foye

Post-Production Assistant:
Barry Weir
Peter Mullen
Tara Navarro

Production Assistant:
Charles Ohta
David Beltier
Kathy Li
Kim Bui
Mark Fujita
Sara Swieca

Production Coordination:
Megumi Kunisada
Zaida Rodriguez

Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett

Recording engineer:
Marco Bustos
Patrick Rodman
Sean Thomas Foye

Spotting: Clark Cheng

Subtitling: Clark Cheng

Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman

Cree Summer as Yurine (Volume 2)

Jay Hernandez as Nue

Matthew Lillard as Eko

Piper Perabo as Yurine

Steve Staley as Karas/Otoha

Dave Wittenberg as Detective Narumi Kure

Doug Stone as Detective Minoru Sagisaka

Julie Ann Taylor as Hinaru

Kate Higgins as Homura

Keith Burgess as Suiko

Melissa Fahn as Chizuru

Michael McConnohie as Chief of Police

Sandy Fox as Amefuriko

Tony Oliver as Detective Sawada

Barbara Goodson as Tsuruta

Dave Mallow as Kamaitachi

David Lodge as Governor of Tokyo

Dorothy Fahn as Yoshiko Sagisaka

Doug Erholtz as Ikeda

Hynden Walch as Little Girl

Johnny Yong Bosch as Reiji

Kaiji Tang as Gangster

Kim Strauss as
Nurse
Security Guard

Kirk Thornton as Karakasa

Lex Lang as
Announcer
Monster
Shako

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Tsuchigumo

Paul St. Peter as Wanyudo

Tony Oliver as Doctor

Wendee Lee as
Mary
Ohkubo Hospital Director

Yuri Lowenthal as Ken

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster: Sci Fi Channel (Ani-Monday)

Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

Licensed by: Manga Entertainment

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Thierry Kazazian

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

Producer: Christophe Gouveia Roberto

 

Bruno Magne as Nue

Martial Leminoux as Ekou

Sybille Tureau as Yurine

Thierry Kazazian as Karas/Otoha

Bernard Demory as Commissaire de police

Constantin Pappas as Kure Narumi

Daniel Beretta as Détective Minoru Sagisaka

Mylène Jampanoi as Hinaru

Patricia Legrand as Amefurikozo

Susan Sindberg as Chizuru

Marie Chevalot

French companies 

ADR Production: Studio Chinkel

Distributor: Dybex

Dubbing: Chinkel

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Ariadna Jiménez as Hinaru (Spain dub)

Daniel Albiac as Ekô Hôshun´in (Spain dub)

Jesús López as Nue (Spain dub)

Pilar Morales as Yurine (Spain dub)

Sergio Mesa as Otoha (Spain dub)

Esperanza Doménech as
Mery (ep 2 - Spain dub)
Tsuchigumo (Spain dub)

Maria Rosa Guillén as
Chizuru (ep 1 - Spain dub)
Homura (Spain dub)

Oscar Redondo as Kure Narumi (Spain dub)

Victor Iturrioz as Kamaitachi (Spain dub)

Carmen Ambrós (Spain dub)

Esperanza Doménech (Spain dub)

Ivan Canovas (Spain dub)

María Rosa Gil (Spain dub)

Tasio Alonso (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)

German staff 
German cast 

Dubbing Director: Richard Westerhaus (eps 1-6)

Dialogbuch: Fritz Rott

Disposition: Martina Eckert

Mixing And Postproduction Engineer: Willi Grossmann

Recording Engineers:
Laura Nover
René Hoppe
Thomas Gesell
Thomas Hirsch

 

Corinna Dörenkamp as Hinaru

Gabi Wienand as Yurine

Heiko Obermüller as Nue

Simon T. Roden as Otoha

Stephan Schleberger as Eko

Demet Fey as Chizuru

Detlef Bierstedt as Sawada

Hans-Gerd Kilbinger as Minoru Sagisaka

Lars Schmidtke as Narumi Kure

Maxi Häcke as Amefurikozou

Reinhard Schulat as Suiko

René Dawn-Claude as Reiji (Ep. 4)

Silke Linderhaus as Homura

Dieter Maise as Ken

Gregor Höppner as Polizeidirektor

Hans Bayer as Gouverneur

Ilya Welter as Tsuchigumo

Karl-Heinz Tafel as Kamaitachi

Luise Charlotte Brings as Tsuruta

Michael Che Koch as Shako

Sarah Brückner as Yoshiko Sagisaka

Thomas Krause as Vize-Gouverneur

Volker Wolf as Wanyuudou

German companies 

Distributor: Panini Video

Dubbing: G&G; Tonstudios


Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish cast 

Translation:
Małgorzata Gajderowicz
Paweł Musiałowski

 

Paweł Straszewski as Lektor

Polish companies 

Distributor: Vision Film Distribution Sp. z o.o.

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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