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Tokyo Babylon (OAV)

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©1992 CLAMP / Shinshokan / MOVIC / Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

©1992 CLAMP/SHINSHOKAN/MOVIC/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (JAPAN) INC.


[ adapted from Tokyo Babylon (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Tokyo Babylon 2 (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
東京BABYLON (Japanese)
Themes: Shounen-Ai
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Subaru Sumeragi is the 13th head of the Sumeragi Clan and a most powerful onmyouji. Subaru is hired to exorcise a construction sight, but his employer mysteriously died. The only suspect is a man who repeatedly walks away from situations in which he should have died. Then Subaru meets a young women intent upon cursing the man, saying that he killed her brother. Subaru must figure out how his employer died and fight the evil spirits that are protecting the man with the help of his friend and twin sister, Seishirou Sakurazuka and Hokuto Sumeragi.
Video:
User Ratings: 470 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 13 votes (sub:8, dub:3, ?:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 38 votes (sub:24, dub:13, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 78 votes (sub:46, dub:27, Por.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, raw:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 133 votes (sub:85, dub:39, edit.dub:3, ?:3, raw:1, Fre.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Decent: 119 votes (sub:75, dub:41, Fre.sub:1, ?:1, Rus.dub:1)
 So-so: 33 votes (sub:21, dub:11, ?:1)
 Not really good: 28 votes (sub:20, dub:6, ?:2)
 Weak: 20 votes (sub:12, dub:6, raw:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (dub:3, ?:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (raw:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1000 users, rank: #590
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.5794 (Good-.42), std. dev.: 1.6942, rank: #2362
Weighted mean: 6.4946 (Decent+.49), rank: #2311
Bayesian estimate: 6.51631 (Good-.48), rank: #2052
Running time: 50 minutes
Number of episodes: 1
Episode titles: We have 1
Vintage:
1992-10-21
1999-04-28 (France - Canal+)
Releases: We have 5
Ending Theme:
"Kiss Kiss" by Hideaki Matsuoka
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Tokyo Babylon is a predessor to CLAMP's X series, both featuring the characters Subaru, Seishiro and Hokuto. The events of Tokyo Babylon happen about 9 years before X.
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Related releases:
    Tokyo Babylon - (DVD) 2003-04-08
    Tokyo Babylon (DVD) 2005-01-18

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Koichi Chigira

Script: Yoshihiko Urahata

Music: Toshiyuki Honda

Original creator: CLAMP

Character Design: Kumiko Takahashi

Art director: Masuji Ikeda

Art:
Mamoru Kurozawa
Nobuhiro Seikino
Yuriko Ikebara

Director of Photography: Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Executive producer:
Megumi Sugiyama
Yutaka Takahashi

Producer:
Kasuhiko Ikeguchi
Yumiko Mashushima

Animation:
Hideji Ito
Kazuo Shimizu
Michiko Hayashi
Osamu Kobayashi

Background Art:
Emiko Koizumi
Sachiko Takagi

Editing: Yukiko Itou

Music Director: Jun Watanabe

Music Effects: Daisuke Jinbo

Music producer: Mineyuki Kugisaki

Planning:
Masaki Sawanori
Nagateru Kato
Teruhisa Hida

Production:
Satoshi Sugiyama
Yutaka Takahashi

Production Director: Kumiko Takahashi

Production producer: Masao Maruyama

Theme Song Performance: Yoshiaki Matsuoka

 

Kappei Yamaguchi as Subaru Sumeragi

Miki Itou as Hokuto Sumeragi

Shuuichi Ikeda as Shinji Nagumo

Takehito Koyasu as Seishirou Sakurazuka

Hiromi Tsuru as Kazami Asou

Kouichi Yamadera as Yamagawa

Sayuri Ikemoto as Yukari-chan

Tomomichi Nishimura as Enterprise President

Japanese companies 

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Animation Assistance: Dr. Movie

Original Creator: CLAMP

Production:
ANIMATE
MOVIC
Sony Music Entertainment

Production Assistance: Madhouse Studios

Publicity Producer: CLAMP

English staff 
English cast 

Dubbing Director: Michael Bakewell

Translation:
Pamela Parks
William Flanagan

Executive producer:
John O'Donnell
Laurence Guinness

Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Casting Director: Jill Wilmot

Dubbing Mixer: Richard King

DVD Coordination: Eric Thomann

In House Production: Justin Sevakis

In House Production Manager: Tim Werenko

ReRecording Engineer: Clive Mitchison

Rewrite: Jay Parks

Script Adaptation: George Roubicek

 

Ben Fairman as Subaru Sumeragi

Dean Fenton as Seishiro Sakurazuka

Jenny Baker as Hokuto Sumeragi

Claire Harper as Kazami

Garrick Hagon as Nagumo

Vernon Miller as Yamagana

English companies 

Broadcaster: Encore Action

Distributor: U.S. Manga Corps

Distributor, Recording Studio: Manga Entertainment (UK, Australia)

Licensed by: Central Park Media

French cast 
French staff 
(none)

Hervé Caradec as Shinji Nagumo

Odile Schmitt as Hokuto Sumeragi

Patrice Baudrier as Seishirô Sakurazuka

Stéphane Marais as Subaru Sumeragi

Catherine Privat as
Kazami Asou
Mirei

Hervé Caradec as Miyataké

Michel Tureau as
Kawano
Yamagawa

French companies 

Broadcaster:
Canal +
Canal+ (1999-04-28)

Distributor: Manga Video

Dubbing: S.T.A.R.T.


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish cast 

Albert Trifol as Subaru Sumeragi (Spain dub)

Ana Pallejà as Hokuto Sumeragi (Spain dub)

Luis Posada as Shinji Nagumo (Spain dub)

Maria Luisa Rosello as Kazami Asou (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 
(none)
 
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