Candidate for Goddess (OAV)
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Director: Shinichi Yamaoka Script: Music: Tomoyuki Asakawa Original Manga: Yukiru Sugisaki Character Design: Shinichi Yamaoka Art director: Toshihisa Koyama Mechanical design: 3D Director: Tokumitsu Kifune Sound director: Masafumi Mima Producer: Cgi supervisor: Shinji Takagi Color design: Yuko Kanemaru Editing: Makiko Asano Music producer: Special Effects: Akitoshi Maeda | Yukimasa Obi as Zero Enna Hiroyuki Yoshino as Clay Cliff Fortran Akira Ishida as Yu Hikura Ayako Kawasumi as Hikura Kazuhi Keiji Fujiwara as Azuma Hijikata Kouichi Toochika as Rioroute Vilgyna Mami Koyama as Miki Nagasawa as Kizna Towryk Rie Kugimiya as Ikhny Allecto Susumu Chiba as Hiead Gner Tomoe Hanba as Phil-Phleira Deed Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Earnest Cuore Wataru Takagi as Gareas Elidd Yuko Minaguchi as Elia Yumi Kakazu as Yuri Amano as Yuri Shiratori as | |||||||
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2009-09-25
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