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Ghost Slayers Ayashi (TV)

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Related anime:
    Ayakashi Ayashi: Ayashi Divine Comedy (OAV) (sequel)
    Ghost Slayers Ayashi (manga) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
Ayakashi Ayashi
Tenpō Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi (Japanese)
天保異聞 妖奇士 (Japanese)
Plot Summary: Feudal Japan is attacked by beasts called 'Youi'. Ryuudou Yukiatsu, a 'floater' and an employee at a bath house has the power of Ayagami ("The power to find the words behind things") which can be used in fighting against the Youi. That's why the members of a Youi-fighting group Bansha Aratamesho, called the Ayashi, are looking for Yukiatsu - they want him to become an Ayashi as well. Yukiatsu runs into a woman and a son who are chased by a Youi and has to face the past he's been running away from.
Video:
User Ratings: 215 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Excellent: 22 votes (sub:18, dub:3, raw:1)
 Very good: 57 votes (sub:51, dub:3, raw:2, ?:1)
 Good: 56 votes (sub:53, Rus.sub:1, dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 34 votes (sub:32, dub:2)
 So-so: 18 votes (sub:18)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:8, ?:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 613 users, rank: #899
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.867 (Good-.13), std. dev.: 1.7203, rank: #1956
Weighted mean: 6.7221 (Good-.27), rank: #1963
Bayesian estimate: 6.7573 (Good-.24), rank: #1691
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage:
2006-10-07 to 2007-03-31
2008-07-02 (USA - ImaginAsian TV)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Ryuusei Miracle (流星ミラクル)" by ikimonogakari (eps 1-12)
#2: "LONE STAR" by Captain Straydum (eps 13-25)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Winding Road" by Porno Graffitti (eps 1-12)
#2: "Ai Toiu Kotoba (愛という言葉)" by Saki (eps 13-25)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Ghost Slayers Ayashi - Part 1 (DVD) 2008-12-02 (from $29.99)
    Ghost Slayers Ayashi - Part 1 Limited Edition (DVD) 2009-02-03 (from $28.99)
    Ghost Slayers Ayashi - Part 2 (DVD) 2009-04-07 (from $24.79)
    Ghost Slayers Ayashi - Part 3 (DVD) 2009-07-07 (from $29.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori

Script: Shou Aikawa (ep 1-25)

Storyboard:
Akitoshi Yokoyama (ep 12)
Atsushi Yamagata (ED1)
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Jun'ichi Sakata (ep 5, 9)
Masayuki Miyaji (OP2, ep 3, 23)
Michio Fukuda (ep 7, 11, 15, 19, 22, 25)
Norimitsu Suzuki (ED2)
Shinji Ishihira (ep 10)
Tomoki Kyoda (OP1)
Tsukasa Sunaga (ep 18)
Yoshikazu Miyao
Yoshitaka Koyama (ep 6)

Episode Director:
Akira Shimizu (ep 6)
Akira Tsuchiya (ep 14, 22)
Akitoshi Yokoyama (ep 12)
Atsushi Yamagata (ED1)
Daisuke Chiba (ep 19)
Hideji Miyahara (ep 7)
Hideki Ito (ep 21)
Hiroshi Iketomi (ep 10)
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Ikuro Sato (ep 2, 13, 18, 25)
Kei Tsunematsu (ep 9)
Masayuki Miyaji (OP2, ep 3)
Michita Shiroishi (ep 23)
Norimitsu Suzuki (ED2)
Satoshi Nakagawa (ep 16)
Satoshi Toba (ep 17)
Shingo Kaneko (ep 8)
Takefumi Anzai (ep 5)
Takeyuki Yanase (ep 20)
Tomoki Kyoda (OP1)
Yoshikazu Miyao (ep 4, 15, 24)

Music: Kô Ôtani

Original creator: Shou Aikawa

Character Design: Toshihiro Kawamoto

Art director: Takeshi Satou

Animation director:
Akitoshi Yokoyama (ep 12)
Atsushi Hasebe (ep 8)
Bai Kin'ichi (ep 16)
Chiyoko Sakamoto (ep 23)
Eiji Nakata (ep 1)
Hideki Ito (ep 21)
Hiroaki Noguchi (ep 10)
Hiroki Kanno (ep 4, 12, 18, 24)
Hiroshi Osaka (ep 1, 25)
Hiroyuki Oda (ep 7, 13, 19)
Hisashi Yamamoto (ep 7, 13, 19, 25)
Ippei Masui (ep 6, 14, 22)
Junichiro Taniguchi (ep 3)
Koichi Horikawa
Koji Aisaka
Masaki Yamada (ep 23ast)
Masateru Tanaka (ep 15, 20)
Mayumi Oda (ep 11)
Moriyasu Taniguchi (ep 5, 11, 19)
Naoyuki Onda (ep 25)
Osamu Kamei (ep 4, 11, 18, 24)
Shinichi Machida (ep 21ast)
Toshihiro Kawamoto (OP1, OP2, ep 18ast)
Yoji Osaka (ep 7)
Yoshiya Yamamoto (ep 17, 23)
Yoshiyuki Kodaira (ep 8)
Yuka Kudo (ep 8)
Yumiko Ishii (ep 17)

Art design:
Iho Narita
Kazushige Kanehira

Character Conceptual Design:
Atsushi Yamagata
Takuhito Kusanagi

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Youichi Oogami

Producer:
Masahiko Minami
Ryo Oyama

2nd Key Animation:
Hideyuki Hamada
Hiroshi Satô
Kazuhiko Yokota

Assistant director: Yoshikazu Miyao

Background Art:
Atsushi Sato
Hiroshi Ito
Rie Oda
Wakako Hideshima

Color Inspection:
Yasuko Suenaga
Yukari Goto

Color setting:
Yasuko Suenaga
Yukari Goto

Colour Design: Reiko Iwasawa

Ending Animation:
Atsushi Takeyama
Atsushi Yamagata

In-Between Animation:
Chiharu Sato
Eriko Sakai
Iriko Kawano
Junchi Hashimoto
Kumiko Terada
Midori Yamamoto
Miyuki Yano
Satsuki Oguri
Taeko Watanabe
Yumi Masuko

In-between Inspection:
Eriko Sakai
Kumiko Terada

Key Animation:
Akihiko Uda
Ayumi Kurashima
Eiji Komatsu
Hideaki Matsuoka
Hideki Ito
Hiroki Itoh
Hironori Sawada
Hiroyuki Oda
Joji Yanagise
Junji Goto
Kaori Saito
Kazuhiko Yokota
Kenichi Yoshida (OP2)
Kenji Kuroyanagi
Koichi Horikawa
Koji Aisaka
Manami Ito
Mineko Ueda
Moriyasu Taniguchi
Naomi Kaneda
Satoshi Yamamoto
Shizuo Tanaka
Soji Ninomiya
Takeshi Akamatsu
Tatsuro Nagai
Tetsuya Kawagami
Tetsuya Wakano
Toshifumi Akai
Tsuyoshi Matsuda
Yoshiharu Fukushima
Yoshihiro Taniguchi
Youhei Sasaki

Literature: Megumi Shimizu

Opening Animation:
Haruo Sotozaki
Hideki Takahashi
Junko Sasaki
Keiji Gotoh
Reiko Iwazawa
Takahiro Komori
Takeshi Akamatsu
Tetsuya Kawagami
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Paint:
Atsuko Ito
Chizue Saitou
Emiko Okui
Junko Fujimaki
Naomi Aoki
Shiho Okamiya
Yoko Wakabayashi
Yosuke Amamoto
Yukari Goto
Yumi Miru

Photography:
Akihiko Fujino
Kaori Izawa
Shuichi Ito

Planning:
Masahiko Minami
Naoki Kitagawa
Seiji Takeda

Planning Collaboration: Kouji Taguchi

Production: Makiko Nakamura

Production Advancement: Jun'ichi Wada

Production Desk: Naoki Amano

Prop Design: Satoshi Yamamoto

Publicity: Hitomi Ando

Recording: Fujio Yamada

Setting Production: Yuki Maeda

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Sound Production Manager: Tomoko Nakashima

Special Effects: Yutaka Chiba

Theme Song Arrangement:
Porno Graffiti (ED)
Westfield (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Akihiko Okano (ED)
Ryoki Mizuno (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Akihito Okano (ED)
Ryoki Mizuno (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Captain Stridum (OP2)
Ikimono-gakari (OP1)
Porno Graffiti (ED1)
Saki (ED2)

Video Editing: Tetsuro Fujita

 

Keiji Fujiwara as Yukiatsu Ryuudou

Fumiko Orikasa as Atoru

Michi Niino as Saizou

Norio Wakamoto as Youzou Torii

Rikiya Koyama as Abi

Shinichiro Miki as Genbatsu Edo

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Houzaburo Ogasawara

Yuji Ueda as Kumoshichi

Aya Hisakawa as Tae

Chinami Nishimura as Outa

Daisuke Namikawa as Masurao

Eiji Miyashita as Drifter (ep 1)

Eisuke Asakura as Souta's father (ep 2)

Emi Shinohara as Oiran Ureshino

Harumi as Younger brother (ep 1)

Kanako Omura as Drifter (ep 1)

Kenji Hamada as Masahiro Abe

Kenta Miyake as Kanousei no shin

Kikuko Inoue as Oshino

Kinryuu Arimoto as Yataro Uchida

Kiyotaka Furushima as Villager (ep 1)

Masaharu Satou as Doi (eps 11,12,23,25)

Masako Katsuki as Toyokawa (eps 8-10,22)

Masako Nozawa as Saizou Tsuchigata (eps 19,20)

Masaya Onosaka as Shinza

Mikako Takahashi as Girl (older sister) (ep 1)

Minami Takayama as Kyousai Kawanabe (young)

Mitsuaki Hoshino as Kyousai Kawanabe (ep 13)

Naomi Shindoh as Souya (young Yukiatsu) (ep 19)

Saeko Chiba as Kiyohana (ep 14)

Seiji Sasaki as Shinsuke Honjou

Shoji Izumi as Tamahei (ep 1)

Shoko Tsuda as Sote Matsue

Takahiro Fujimoto as Drifter (ep 1)

Takaya Hashi as Yoshisuke Atobe

Tetsuo Sakaguchi as Bathhouse owner (ep 1)

Tomoe Hanba as Younger brother (ep 1)

Tomomichi Nishimura as Toraichi Hanai

Vanilla Yamazaki as Fox

Yoshihisa Kawahara as Mingaku

Yuka Okada as Younger brother (ep 1)

Japanese companies 

2nd Key Animation:
Anime Aru
Dogakobo

Animation Production: BONES

Background Art: Kusanagi

Broadcaster:
Mainichi Broadcasting
TBS

In-Between Animation:
AI
Brains Base
Dogakobo
Dr. Movie
FAI
Frontline
GALLOP
Mark Animation
SHAFT
Studio DEEN
Studio Gimlet
Studio Mu
Studio Takuranke
Studio Wonbat
Triple A

Music Production: Aniplex

Paint: Wish

Photography: Anime Film

Production:
Aniplex
BONES
Mainichi Broadcasting

Recording Studio: Studio Aoi

Sound Production: Techno Sound

Video Editing: Q Tech

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Kristi Reed

Translation: Shoko Oono

ADR Script: Kristi Reed

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman (Bang Zoom!)
Kaeko Sakamoto (Bang Zoom!)
Toshifumi Yoshida

Assistant Engineer: Jeff Prosser

Assistant producer:
Charles Ohta (Ep. 1-10)
Kevin Chu

Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada

Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto

Chief Producer: Nobuo Masuda

Co-Producer: Mami Okada

Dialogue Editing:
Jillinda Palmer (Ep. 11-)
Marco Bustos (Ep. 1-10, 16-)

Operations Assistant: Joseph Chung

Post-Production Assistant:
Barry Weir (Ep. 1-10)
Chris Greenwood (Ep. 11-)
Jessica Silva (Ep. 11-)
Sarah Reno (Ep. 11-)

Production Assistant:
Brian Cutts
David Beltier (Ep. 1-10)
Emily Nicholas (Ep. 1-10)
Jasmin Hernandez (Ep. 11-)
Joanna Romer (Ep. 16-)
Kanako Otomo (Ep. 11-)

Production Coordination: Emily Nicholas (Ep. 11-)

Production manager:
Charles Ohta (Ep. 11-)
Megumi Kunisada (Ep. 1-10)

Re-Recording Engineer: Michael Brooks

Recording engineer:
Marco Bustos (Ep. 1-10, 16-)
Ollin Saurez (Ep. 11-)

Sound Supervisor: Patrick Rodman

Subtitling: Andrew Kent

Steven Blum as Ryuudou Yukiatsu

Cindy Robinson as Sote Matsue

Crispin Freeman as Genbatsu Edo

Doug Stone as Kumoshichi

Jamieson Price as Abi

Julie Ann Taylor as Atl

Kyle Hebert as Hozaburo Ogasawara

Mona Marshall as Kyosai Kawanabe

Richard Epcar as Tatsusuke Honjo

Stephanie Sheh as Saizo

Steve Kramer as Yozo Torii

Barbara Goodson as Toshizo Hijikata (Ep. 19-20)

Beau Billingslea as
Carpenter (Ep. 8)
Yataro Uchida (Ep. 10)

Brianne Siddall as Soya Ryudo (Ep. 19)

Bridget Hoffman as Tae (Ep. 1-3)

Christopher Smith as
Bodyguard (Ep. 18)
Gorota (Ep. 9, 16)
Man (Ep. 17)
Masahiro Abe
Master (Ep. 20)
Namigoro Nankai (Ep. 7)
Ronin (Ep. 19)

Cindy Robinson as
Fox (Ep. 9)
Ota (Ep. 1-3)

Dan Woren as Kenryo Ichino (Ep. 14-15)

David Earnest as Masurao (Ep. 16-18)

David Lodge as
Dice Roller (Ep. 5)
Inoue's Steward (Ep. 3)
Master of Public Bath (Ep. 1)
Toraichi Hanai (Ep. 4, 6-7, 11-12)
Wholesaler (Ep. 10)

Doug Stone as
Master (Ep. 14)
Yukiwa (Ep. 16)

Erika Weinstein as Divine Goddess

Gina Bowes as
Shinzo (Ep. 13)
Woman (Ep. 14)

Karen Strassman as
Fan Peddler (Ep. 20)
Ninai (Ep. 17)

Keith Silverstein as
Master (Ep. 14-15)
People (Ep. 11)

Lex Lang as
Apprentice (Ep. 8)
Seinoshin Kano (Ep. 10-12)

Mari Devon as
Boy (Ep. 10)
Old Woman (Ep. 8)
Shino (Ep. 4-7)
Vagrant (Ep. 1)

Megan Hollingshead as
Kiyohana (Ep. 14-15)
Mistress (Ep. 3)
Shinzo (Ep. 13)
Sister (Ep. 1)
Woman (Ep. 14, 16)

Mela Lee as
Girl (Ep. 8)
Shinzo (Ep. 13)
Ureshino-Oiran (Ep. 7, 15)
Woman (Ep. 11)

Merrilyn Crouch as Toku (Ep. 19-20)

Michael Forest as Doi-Oiokami-Toshitsura (Ep. 11-12, 23, 25)

Michael McConnohie as
Man (Ep. 14)
Samurai (Ep. 11)
Yonekichi's Father (Ep. 18)
Yoshisuke Atobe
Yukiatsu's Father (Ep. 19)

Michael Sorich as
Bodyguard (Ep. 17-18)
Man (Ep. 10)
Merchant (Ep. 16)
Tamahei

Peggy O'Neal as Oiran (Ep. 13)

Peter Spellos as Yoshinobu Narikawa (Ep. 16-18)

Richard Epcar as
Bodyguard (Ep. 17-18)
Relative (Ep. 20)
Ronin (Ep. 19)
Samurai (Ep. 20)
Vagrant (Ep. 1)

Sam Regal as Yonekichi (Ep. 17-18)

Steve Kramer as
Ryudo's Employee (Ep. 19)
Vassal (Ep. 16)

Steve Staley as
Bodyguard (Ep. 18)
Samurai (Ep. 20)
Shinzaburo Murasawa (Ep. 9-10, 15)

Tony Oliver as
Akamatsu (Ep. 11-12)
Gyosai Kawanabe (Ep. 13)
Ichino's Colleague (Ep. 14-15)

Vic Mignogna as
Master of Arms Shop (Ep. 3)
Namigoro Nankai (Ep. 4)
Townsman (Ep. 1)

Wendee Lee as Toyokawa (Ep. 8-10, 22)

William Frederick Knight as
Gambling House Guard (Ep. 5)
Hikoharu Inoue (Ep. 3)
Vagrant (Ep. 1)

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Animax India > Broadcaster: Animax India

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
iaTV

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

 
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