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Virus Buster Serge (TV)

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©1997 VIRUS PROJECT


Alternative title:
Virus
病毒 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: Mecha, Police
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Neo Hong Kong, 2097: The world has changed. Advances in genetic engineering and cybernetics have created an environment full of artificially enhanced humans and intelligent super-computers that operate using biological software. But the same technology that has allowed man & machine to merge has made both susceptible to a new kind of threat - digital viruses capable of controlling their hosts.
Video:
User Ratings: 116 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 4 votes (dub:3, raw:1)
 Very good: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:3)
 Good: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:4)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:9, dub:8)
 So-so: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:4)
 Not really good: 10 votes (dub:5, sub:3, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 Weak: 19 votes (dub:14, sub:5)
 Bad: 17 votes (dub:10, sub:5, Spa.sub:2)
 Awful: 10 votes (dub:7, edit.dub:2, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 10 votes (dub:9, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 248 users, rank: #1555
Median rating: Weak
Arithmetic mean: 4.115 (Not really good+.11), std. dev.: 2.5616, rank: #4045
Weighted mean: 3.9027 (Not really good-.09), rank: #4082
Bayesian estimate: 4.1975 (Not really good+.19), rank: #3172
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
1997-10-02 to 1997-12-19
2007-10-01 to 2007-11-19 (USA - Sci Fi Channel)
2008-02-08 to 2008-03-14 (IFC Canada - Manga Mania)
Opening Theme:
"Rainy Day and Day" by Dragon Ash
Ending Theme:
"Heavenly Blue" by Ran Takano
Trivia: We have 1
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    Virus Buster Serge (DVD 1) 2002-11-26 (from $10.49)
    Virus Buster Serge (DVD 2) 2002-02-25 (from $14.83)
    Virus Buster Serge (DVD 3) 2003-06-24 (from $10.49)
    Virus Buster Serge (DVD 1-3) 2005-08-23 (from $21.59)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Masami Obari

Screenplay:
Jiro Kaneko
Kiyotsugu Mizugami
Masami Obari
Seiji Handa
Tomoyasu Okubo

Storyboard:
Goro Taniguchi
Hideki Tonokatsu
Hitoyuki Matsui
Masami Obari

Music: Toshiyuki Omori

Character Design: Masami Obari

Art director: Shunichiro Yoshiwara

Mecha design: Natsuki Mamiya

Sound director: Toshiki Kameyama (Omnibus Productions)

Color design: Kumiko Nakayama

Ending Animation: Kazuto Nakazawa

Theme Song Performance: Dragon Ash (OP)

 

Haruna Ikezawa as Mirei

Keiichi Nanba as Macus Alexander Bogard

Mayumi Iizuka as Erika Tinen

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Jouichirou

Shinichiro Miki as Serge Train

Ai Orikasa as Donna

Akiko Hiramatsu as Yuirin

Hirotaka Suzuoki as Raven

Houko Kuwashima as Kim

Kazuki Yao as Ryuu

Michiko Neya as Lily Petri

Eiji Sekiguchi as
EXVG (ep. 10)
First Police Officer
Man B (ep. 8)
Petri's Subordinate A (ep. 9)
Subordinate B (ep. 11)

Hiroko Maruyama as Guru Mother (ep. 7)

Hisayoshi Izaki as
Scott (ep. 1)
Wong (eps. 3-4)

Kazuki Yao as
Brain Lizard (eps. 6-8)
Lyle (ep. 12)

Kenji Nomura as
Guardman (ep. 1)
Security Guard A (ep. 12)

Kyoko Tsuruno as nurse

Megumi Ogata as Leon (ep. 7)

Migimitsu Takase as Second highway police officer

Miyuki Hiragi as
Mannequin (ep. 4)
Nurse (ep. 1)

Ryusei Nakao as Dr. Milan Train

Sanryo Odaka as Chief Kizima

Takashi Yoshida as
Crewman A (ep. 4)
Male Operator (eps. 11-12)
Man C (ep. 8)
Petri's Subordinate B (ep. 9)
Second Police Officer

Tomohiro Tsuboi as
Captain (ep. 10)
First highway police officer
Man B (ep. 6)
Scientist (ep. 4)
Subordinate A (ep. 11)

Toru Ohkawa as
Captain Rick (ep. 1)
Man A (eps. 6 and 9)
Petri's Subordinate B (ep. 3)
Simon (ep. 4)

Toshihiko Nakajima as
doctor
Man A (ep. 12)
Man B (ep. 11)
Man C (ep. 9)

Unshou Ishizuka as Dixon (eps. 9-11)

Japanese companies 

Animation:
J.C. Staff
Plum

Broadcaster:
AT-X
TV Tokyo

Film Processing: J.C. Staff

Music Production: F.B.I. Japan

Production: d-rights

English staff 
English cast 

Executive producer: Marvin Gleicher

Producer: Peter Bavaro

DVD Authoring: Jay Chumley

DVD Encoding: Jay Chumley

DVD Menu Compositing: Dan Fenster

DVD Menu Design: Davi Russo

DVD Producer:
Demetre Papageorgiou
Matt Perrier
Meri Hassouni

Marketing Director: Mike Egan

Post-Production Coordinator: Christine Venturella

Production Coordination: Margo Coughlin

Recording engineer: Kevin Wilson

Script Advisor: Matt Perrier

 

Angora Deb as Mirei

Frankie Rome as Jouichirou

Joey Rapporte as Serge Train

Michael Schwartz as Macus Alexander Bogard

Vibe Jones as Erika Tinen

Frankie Rome as Raven

Jessica Calvello as Donna

Ami Shukla as Diamond Back Operator (Ep. 11)

Bill Fowler as Kijima

J. David Brimmer as Mr. Dickson

Jessica Calvello as Yui-Lin Maynus

Tom Wilson as
Brain Lizard
Narrator
Ryu Shingai

Veronica Taylor as Kim

Wayne Grayson as
Detective (Ep. 8)
Operator (Ep. 1)
Won Ronku

Ed Kissel

Holly Dow

Judy Goralnick

Keith Burgess

Socko Jones

Tom Wilson

Wayne Grayson

English companies 

ADR Production: Skypilot Entertainment

Broadcaster:
Independent Film Channel Canada
Sci Fi Channel

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (UK) (UK)

Licensed by: Manga Entertainment

Recording Facility: Matlin Recording Studios


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain)

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

Spanish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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