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The Skull Man (TV)

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[ adapted from (The) Skull Man (manga by Ishinomori) ]

Alternative title:
الرجل الجمجمة (Arabic)
スカルマン (Japanese)
Plot Summary: Set in an alternate history of Japan, freelance photographer Minagami Hayato returns to his hometown of Ootomo to investigate rumors of a man wearing a skull mask committing murders there. Once in the city, he discovers connections between the victims and a local pharmaceutical company, a new religious sect, and strange half human, half animal creatures. Along with a young photographer, he decides to find out who the Skull Man really is.
User Ratings: 171 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Excellent: 23 votes (sub:21, raw:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 39 votes (sub:36, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 Good: 47 votes (sub:44, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 32 votes (sub:29, Spa.sub:2, raw:1)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:12, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 316 users, rank: #1371
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.9422 (Good-.05), std. dev.: 1.7227, rank: #1872
Weighted mean: 6.8357 (Good-.16), rank: #1803
Bayesian estimate: 6.87358 (Good-.12), rank: #1530
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2007-04-21 (episode 0: Skullman - Yami no Joshou)
2007-04-28 (Original Japanese broadcast)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Hikari no Machi" by TOKIO
Ending Theme:
"Ashita wa Ashita no Kimi ga Umareru (明日は明日の君が生まれる)" by Chocolove from AKB48
Official website:
The Skullman (Japanese)
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takeshi Mori

Series Composition: Yutaka Izubuchi

Script:
Hiroshi Ohnogi (ep 3, 4, 8, 11)
Seishi Minakami (ep 2, 5, 7, 12)
Shingo Takeba (ep 10)
Yutaka Izubuchi (ep 1, 6, 9, 13)

Storyboard:
Katsumi Teratou (ep 6)
Rokuro Niga (ep 9)
Shigehito Takayanagi (ep 4)
Shinji Higuchi (OP)
Takeshi Mori (ep 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13)
Tomoki Kyoda (ED)
Toshiyuki Kato (ep 3)
Yasuhiro Minami (ep 7)

Episode Director:
Hirokazu Yamada (ep 3, 9)
Junichi Yokoyama (ep 8)
Katsumi Teratou (ep 1, 6, 12)
Keisuke Onishi (ep 11)
Satoshi Nakagawa (ep 10)
Shigeru Ueda (ep 4)
Tomoki Kyoda (OP, ED)
Yasuhiro Minami (ep 7)
Yasushi Muroya (ep 2, 5, 13)

Music: Shiro Sagisu

Original creator: Shotaro Ishinomori

Character Design: Jun Shibata

Animation director:
Hikari Takanashi (ep 8)
Jun Shibata (OP, ep 1, 6, 13)
Masaki Yamada (ep 11)
Satoru Nakaya (ep 3)
Shiryou Kouda (ep 7, 12)
Tetsuya Sato (ep 8)
Toshiaki Iino (ep 10)
Toshiyuki Fujisawa (ep 2, 5, 9, 12)
Yasushi Shingou (ep 4)

Mechanical design: Yoshinori Sayama

Director of Photography: Susumu Fukushi

Conceptual Design: Yutaka Izubuchi (Skull Man & GRO)

Design Work: Shingo Takeba

Editing: Kengo Shigemura

Set Design:
Masanori Kikuchi
Takuhito Kusanagi

Theme Song Performance: Tokio (OP)

VFX Director: Yasushi Muraki

 

Hiroshi Tsuchida as Skull Man

Ayako Kawasumi as Kiriko Mamiya

Fumiko Orikasa as Maya Kuroshio

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Akira Usami

Makoto Yasumura as Hayato Minagami 

Masayuki Katou as Yoshio Kanzaki

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Masaki Kumashiro

Chafurin as Sirks 02 (eps 10-11)

Akeno Watanabe as Nurse (ep 5)

Akio Ohtsuka as Sirks 05 (ep 10)

Atsushi Imaruoka as DJ "Jin" (eps 6-7)

Hideki Tasaka as Tetsurou Shingyouji

Hisako Kyouda as Old lady at Restaurant (Nami's aunt)

Houchu Ohtsuka as Kanji Isurugi

Katsuhisa Houki as Takeumi Kusaka (eps 3-6)

Katsunosuke Hori as Kyouichirou Tachigi

Kazue Komiya as Sara Kuroshio

Kenjiro Tsuda as Yamaki

Kikuko Inoue as Nami Kisaragi (eps 6-9)

Kouji Tsujitani as Ryuuji Kirishima

Michiko Neya as Reina Shingyouji

Mitsuo Iwata as Sirks (ep 10)

Nobuo Tobita as Sirks 04 (ep 10)

Norio Wakamoto as
Brain Gear commander (eps 10-13)
Scarl (ep 13)

Osamu Saka as Gouzou Kuroshio

Satsuki Yukino as Helen (eps 7-13)

Sayaka Ohara as Yui Onizuka (eps 1-3)

Shinpachi Tsuji as Gisuke Haniwa

Showtaro Morikubo as Sirks 01 (eps 10-11)

Tomokazu Seki as Tsuyoshi Shinjou

Unshou Ishizuka as Alucard van Bogeuto (eps 7-13)

Yousuke Akimoto as Eimei Funakoshi

Yumi Kakazu as Sayoko Karasuma (eps 1-3)

Yuri Nakatani as Byakureikai reception desk (ep 6)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: BONES

Broadcaster:
BS 2 (ep 1 only 03-27-2008)
BS Fuji (2007-07-23)
Fuji TV
Kansai TV (2007-07-03)

Production:
BONES
Geneon Entertainment, Inc.
Ishimori Entertainment Inc.
Toyokasei Co. Ltd.

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Mark Muñoz as Hayato Mikogami

Yvette Tagura as Kiriko Mamiya

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: Hero

 
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