The Sacred Blacksmith (TV)
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Director: Masamitsu Hidaka Series Composition: Masashi Suzuki Music: Tamiya Terashima Original creator: Isao Miura Original Character Design: Runa Character Design: Jun Nakai Art director: Michie Watanabe (GREEN) Sound director: Satoshi Yano Director of Photography: Kenji Takahashi (Asahi Production) Assistant director: Kei Tsunematsu Color design: Takahiro Mogi Editing: Emi Onodera (Jay Film) Production Design: Tsutomu Tanahashi Prop Design: Hideto Komori Theme Song Performance: | Ayumi Fujimura as Cecily Campbell Nobuhiko Okamoto as Luke Ainsworth Aki Toyosaki as Lisa Hideki Tasaka as Reginald Drummond Kazuhiko Inoue as Hugo Housman Megumi Toyoguchi as Aria Michiru Yuimoto as Patty Baldwin Ryotaro Okiayu as Siegfried Yousuke Akimoto as Hannibal Quasar | |||||||
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2009-09-25
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