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Betterman (TV)

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Alternative title:
ベターマン (Japanese)
Themes: Mecha
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: A deadly virus known as "Algernon" has attacked humanity with vicious meaning. At the forefront of the battle is the mystifying Akamatsu Industries – disguised as a heavy machine factory in Tokyo, this undercover organization uses neural enhanced weapons known as NeuroNoids to battle Algernon. Also helping with their secret efforts is the mysterious mutant who is only known as "Betterman".
Video:
User Ratings: 347 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (dub:5, sub:2, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 24 votes (dub:11, sub:10, edit.dub:2, ?:1)
 Very good: 52 votes (dub:33, sub:16, edit.dub:2, raw:1)
 Good: 85 votes (dub:56, sub:24, edit.dub:3, ?:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 54 votes (dub:36, sub:16, edit.dub:2)
 So-so: 36 votes (dub:20, sub:14, ?:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 30 votes (dub:17, sub:11, edit.dub:2)
 Weak: 30 votes (dub:19, sub:8, edit.dub:3)
 Bad: 14 votes (dub:8, edit.dub:4, sub:1, ?:1)
 Awful: 7 votes (dub:6, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (dub:3, sub:2, edit.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 928 users, rank: #647
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.9712 (Decent-.02), std. dev.: 2.2558, rank: #3199
Weighted mean: 5.8338 (Decent-.16), rank: #3209
Bayesian estimate: 5.88127 (Decent-.11), rank: #2765
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 1999-04-01 to 1999-09-30
Opening Theme:
"Yume no Kakera" by Uyontana
Ending Theme:
#1: "Chin~requiem~" by *~mai~ (eps 1-25)
#2: "Dou~revelation~" by *~mai~ (ep 26)
Official website:
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
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Related reviews:
    Betterman DVD 3
    Betterman DVD 1 - The Awakening

Related releases:
    Betterman - The Awakening (DVD 1) 2002-06-04 (from $23.99)
    Betterman - Metamorphosis (DVD 2) 2002-08-06 (from $23.99)
    Betterman - Seeds of Death (DVD 3) 2002-10-08 (from $23.99)
    Betterman (DVD 4) 2002-12-03 (from $23.99)
    Betterman (DVD 5) 2003-02-04 (from $17.99)
    Betterman - Finality (DVD 6) 2003-04-01
    Betterman - Complete Collection (DVD 1-6) 2004-09-28
    Betterman - Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (DVD 1-6) 2006-05-23

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Yoshitomo Kometani

Music: Kouhei Tanaka

Character Design: Takahiro Kimura

Art: Ariaki Okada

Mechanical design: Kunio Okawara

Producer:
Hiroyuki Orukawa
Shinichiro Kobayashi

Assistant producer: Takashi Kochiyama

Character Animation Director: Takahiro Kimura

Chief Writer: Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Color setting: Akiko Shibata

Creature Design: Takayuki Taketani

Design Work: Rei Nakahara

Filming:
Kazushi Torigoe
Yasuyuki Kuroki

Key Animation: Keiji Gotoh (ep 25)

Music producer: Shiro Sasaki

Planning Chief: Koutaro Nakayama

Sound: Sadayoshi Fujino

Special Concepts: Toru Nozaki

Theme Song Performance:
mai (ED1 & ED2)
Uyontana (OP)

 

Kappei Yamaguchi as Keita Aono

Kyoko Hikami as Hinoki Sai

Takehito Koyasu as Betterman Lamia

Chafurin as Akamatsu

Houko Kuwashima as
Chandy
Miyako Asami

Junko Iwao as Sakura

Shinichiro Miki as Shou Yanagi

Tomoko Kawakami as Seeme

Yuko Minaguchi as Kaede

Hiroaki Ishikawa as Tsuguo "Usshi" Ushiyama

Hiroki Takahashi as Cactus Prickle

Houko Kuwashima as Kazuho Heichin

Katsumi Suzuki as Chika-chan

Kazuhiro Nakata as Pakila

Kazuki Yao as Bodaiju

Kazuo Oka as Dr. Mikio Sai

Kyōko Kaneko as Laurier Noir

Maiko Itou as Mako "Hasechin" Hasegawa

Mugihito as Mugito Mamon

Naoki Bandou as Officer

Narumi Tsunoda as Nurse

Nobuyuki Tanaka as Mario Sai

Osamu Ichikawa as Umezaki

Takehito Koyasu as Yamajii

Tomoko Kawakami as Li-Chan

Umi Tenjin as
Itoshino Kaori-chan 17-sai
Yoko "Yaanto" Yamamoto

Yuusaku Yara as Yakusugi

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: Bandai Channel

Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music

Production:
Japan Victor Company
Sunrise

English staff 
English cast 

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer: Charles McCarter

Assistant Engineer:
Cam Desmond
Conor Whiteley

Production Coordination:
Diana Gage
Patricia Murray
Warren Opheim

Production Support/Translation: Tatsuhiro Nishiuchi

Re-Recording Mixing:
Jan Deny
Mark M. Pinder

Recording engineer:
Brad Belden
Ryan Manning

Voice Direction: Teri Snelgrove

 

Jonathan Love as Betterman Lamia

Mariette Sluyter as Sakura

Matthew Erickson as Keita Aona

Onalea Gilbertson as Hinoki Sai

Dave Pettitt as Shigeru Akamatsu

David Kelly as Yakusugi

Jonathan Love as Shou Yanagi

Onalea Gilbertson as Chandy

Byron Close as Mode Warp Officer

Carol-Anne Day as Hinoki's Friend

Christy Greene as Li-chan

Colleen Blackmore as Kaede

Doug McKeag as Dr. Mamon

M.J. McCann as Seeme/Lume

Mark Gatha as Cactus

Meredith Taylor-Parry as Asami

Steve Olson as Dr. Umezaki

Ben Jeffery

Dan Gascon

Mariette Sluyter

Matthew Kennedy

English companies 

Adaptation: The Ocean Group

Broadcaster: TechTV (Anime Unleashed)

Distributor: Bandai Entertainment

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

Recording Studio: Blue Water Studios

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Benjamin Rivera as Keita Aono

Martha Ceceña as Miyako Asami

Mayra Arellano as Sakura

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Televisa Canal 5 (Mexico)

Dubbing Studio: Intertrack S.A. de C.V. Mexico

 
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