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Zegapain (TV)

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Alternative title:
ZEGAPAIN -ゼーガペイン- (Japanese)
Themes: Mecha
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Kyo, an avid swimmer tries his best to keep the high school swimming club going, which is pretty hard when he's the only member. Facing the prospect of the club being closed by the student council, he tries to enlist beautiful Misaki to act in a promo video, shot by his good friend Ryoko, in a bid to start a recruitment drive. She agrees but only if he pilots a mecha under the wing of Celebrum, a resistance organisation fighting to destroy Deutera Areas formed on Earth by the aliens Gards-orm. He agrees but finds it all strangely familiar as if he's done it before....
User Ratings: 344 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 38 votes (sub:37, dub:1)
 Excellent: 89 votes (sub:78, dub:8, Por.sub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 97 votes (sub:79, dub:14, Ita.sub:2, Rus.edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 69 votes (sub:59, dub:5, Fre.sub:3, Por.sub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:13, dub:3, raw:1)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:19, dub:2)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 683 users, rank: #843
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.903 (Very good-.09), std. dev.: 1.615, rank: #584
Weighted mean: 7.6556 (Very good-.34), rank: #625
Bayesian estimate: 7.65218 (Very good-.34), rank: #450
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2006-04-06 to 2006-09-28
Releases: We have 9
Opening Theme:
"Kimi e Mukau Hikari" by Akino Arai
Ending Theme:
#1: "Little Goodbye" by ROCKY CHACK
#2: "and you" by ROCKY CHACK (ep 10)
#3: "Last Blue" by ROCKY CHACK (ep 22)
Official website:
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Related reviews:
    Zegapain DVD 1

Related releases:
    Zegapain - Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (DVD) 2009-05-05
    Zegapain (DVD 1) 2007-10-02 (from $17.99)
    Zegapain - Special Edition + Artbox (DVD 1) 2007-10-02 (from $27.19)
    Zegapain (DVD 2) 2007-12-04 (from $17.99)
    Zegapain (DVD 3) 2008-02-05 (from $17.99)
    Zegapain (DVD 4) 2008-04-15 (from $22.49)
    Zegapain (DVD 5) 2008-06-03 (from $17.21)
    Zegapain (DVD 6) 2008-08-05 (from $16.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Masami Shimoda

Series Composition: Mayori Sekijima

Script:
Katsuhiko Takayama (ep 9, 15, 18, 23)
Ken Oketani (ep 2, 8, 12, 13, 19, 24)
Masashi Kubota (ep 4, 7, 12, 17, 22)
Mayori Sekijima (ep 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26)
Sadayuki Murai (ep 3, 5, 10, 20, 25)

Storyboard:
Fuyu Kuroki (ep 21, 24)
Iwao Teraoka (ep 6)
Katsuichi Nakayama (ep 3, 25)
Kou Matsuo (ep 22)
Kouichi Takada (ep 12)
Kunihisa Sugishima (ep 8, 15, 18, 20)
Masami Shimoda (ep 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 20, 26)
Masamitsu Hidaka (ep 5, 13)
Masayuki Rinrin (ep 4, 9, 14, 19)
Naomichi Yamato (ep 17)
Rei Nakahara (ep 23)
Susumu Nishizawa (ep 16)

Episode Director:
Akira Yoshimura (ep 18)
Hiroaki Kudou (ep 6, 10, 16, 21, 26)
Junichi Watanabe (ep 1)
Katsuichi Nakayama (ep 3, 25)
Masahito Otani (ep 2, 7, 11, 15, 20, 24)
Masato Miyoshi (ep 5, 8)
Masayuki Rinrin (ep 4, 9, 14)
Naomichi Yamato (ep 13, 17, 22)
Shinya Watada (ep 19, 23)
Tomoki Takuno (ep 12)

Music: Ayako Otsuka

Original creator:
Hajime Yatate
Takehiko Ito

Original Character Design: Hiroyuki Hataike

Character Design: Akihiko Yamashita

Animation director:
Hideki Fukushima (ep 1, 5 mecha)
Hiroshi Arisawa (ep 2, 6, 9, 15, 20, 24,25mecha)
Hiroshi Matsuda (ep 4, 8, 13, 18, 23 mecha)
Kenichi Ohnuki (ep 3, 7, 11, 16, 21, 26)
Kenichi Takase (ep 14, 19 mecha)
Kohei Yoneyama (ep 12, 17, 22)
Masanori Nishii (ep1, 3, 7, 8,11,16,21,26mecha)
Takao Maki
Takuro Shinbo (ep 14, 19)
Tamotsu Ikeda (ep 12, 17, 22, 25 mecha)
Tetsuya Matsukawa (ep 8, 13, 18, 23)
Yoshikazu Samura (ep 4)
Yusuke Kamata (ep 2, 6, 10, 15, 20, 25)

Mechanical design:
Noriyuki Jinguji
Rei Nakahara (Main Mecha)
Takayuki Yanase

Sound director: Jin Aketagawa

Chief animator: Takao Maki

Colour Design: Akiko Shibata

Editing: Yukiko Nojiri

Planning Manager: Shunsuke Ikuchi

Theme Song Arrangement: Hisaaki Hogari (OP/ED)

Theme Song Composition: Akino Arai (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics: Akino Arai (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai (OP)
ROCKY CHACK (ED)

 

Ayako Kawasumi as Shizuno Misaki

Kana Hanazawa as Ryoko Kaminagi

Shintaro Asanuma as Kyo Sogoru

Akeno Watanabe as
May-Yen
Tomigai

Hiroshi Yanaka as Chris

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kawaguchi

Marina Inoue as Minato

Masayuki Katou as Ushio

Romi Paku as Lu Sheng

Ryoko Ono as Irie

Takanori Ohyama as Kuroshio

Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shima

Yui Makino as May-Yu

Yukana as Mizuki

Aya Endo as Misaki Sogoru

Aya Hisakawa as Arque

Daisuke Kirii as Narration

Eri Nakao as Dita

Fumihiko Tachiki as Talbo

Hiromi Ohtsuda as Kouji Kaminagi

Hiroshi Kamiya as Hayase

Junko Okada as Fosetta/Fosetta II

Kazusa Murai as Izola

mai as Zega AI

Mai Kadowaki as Ricerca

Masayuki Katou as Abyss

Miki Nagasawa as Sarah

Omi Minami as Meivelle Transferre

Rina Satou as Mizusawa

Shinpachi Tsuji as Lemures

Susumu Chiba as Sou

Takahiro Sakurai as Toga Dupe

Yasunori Matsumoto as Kurashige

Yui Horie as Mio Readiness

Yukana as Shin

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2006-05-18)
BS Japan (2006-04-07)
TV Aichi (2006-04-06)
TV Osaka (2006-04-06)
TV Setouchi (2006-04-06)
TV Tokyo (2006-04-06)

Production:
Sunrise
Zega Project

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Marcus Junkin

Translation: Neil Nadelman

ADR Script: Patrick Seitz

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer:
Mike Eckart
Richard Noboru Kekahuna
Rod Boaz

Pre-Production Video: Trent Noller

Re-Recording Mixing: John Heirsekorn

Recording engineer: Nels Jensen

Special Thanks To: Brian Cutts

Subtitling: Neil Nadelman

Bill Lemas as Kyo Sogoru

Sandra Jacobs as Shizuno Misaki

Tiffany Barrett as Ryoko Kaminagi

Beth Ginnett as May-yen

Chris Ogden as Kawaguchi

Doug Berholt as Chris

Doug Erholtz as Chris Avenir

Jennifer Sekiguchi as Mizuki

Jenny Powell as May-yu

Julie Ann Taylor as Tomagai

Lisa Enochs as Minato

Michael Irish as Lu-Suen

Patrick Seitz as Shima

Ryan Coughlin as Ushio

Sarah Sido as Arque

C. David Fries as
Kurashige
Tarbo

Hayden Rhone as Koji

Jeni Good as Computer

Jessica Straus as Shizuno

Julie Ann Taylor as Fosetta

Marcus Junkin as Hayase

Natasha Baker as Dita

Rachel Kempel as Ricerca

Sandra Jacobs as Mizusawa

Tom Shelton as Lemures

English companies 

ADR Production: Elastic Media Corporation

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

 
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