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Kodocha (TV)

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©1996 Miho Obana/Shueisha • TV Tokyo • NAS.


[ alternate retelling of Kodocha (OAV) ]

Alternative title:
Child's Toy
Kodomo no Omocha (Japanese)
Rossana (Italian)
こどちゃ (Japanese)
こどものおもちゃ (Japanese)
玩偶遊戲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
아이들의 장난감 (Korean)
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Sana Kurata has a charmed life. Not only is her mother is a famous, award-winning writer, but she's the star of the hit TV comedy "Child's Toy" while still in the fifth grade. But Sana's biggest concern is Akito Hayama, a pint-sized hellion who's organized the boys in their grade-school class into a mass of unending noise and violence. With the help of Rei, her manager, chauffeur and "pimp," Sana is determined to win back control of the classroom from her new arch-enemy. But as her crusade continues, Sana moves further into Akito's life, and finds that he might not be entirely bad...or entirely safe.
Video:
User Ratings: 555 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 85 votes (sub:57, dub:23, Spa.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 165 votes (sub:117, dub:44, raw:3, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 127 votes (sub:94, dub:30, ?:1, raw:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Good: 97 votes (sub:61, dub:27, ?:4, raw:2, edit.dub:2, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 34 votes (sub:22, dub:9, raw:1, Ita.dub:1, Ita.edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 25 votes (sub:17, dub:7, Ita.dub:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:9, dub:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:2, edit.dub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1601 users, rank: #362
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.9715 (Very good-.02), std. dev.: 1.7639, rank: #521
Weighted mean: 7.8369 (Very good-.16), rank: #474
Bayesian estimate: 7.8315 (Very good-.16), rank: #316
Running time: 22 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 102
Episode titles: We have 102
Vintage: 1996-04-05 to 1998-03-27
Opening Theme:
#1: "7 O'Clock News" by Tokio (eps 1-44)
#2: "Ultra Relax" by Tomoe Shinohara (eps 45-102)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Panic" by Still Small Voice (eps 1-39)
#2: "DAIJO-BU" by Tomoko Hikita (eps 40-74)
#3: "Pinch ~Love Me Deeper~" by Rina Chinen (eps 75-102)
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 7
Comment:
Based on the Manga by Miho Obana, which was serialized in Ribbon Magazine. Kodomo no Omocha was first animated as part of Ribbon's 40th anniversary celebrations in 1995 and in 1996 it was continued as a TV series.
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Related releases:
    Kodocha - Box Set 1 (Viridian Collection) (DVD) 2008-08-05 (from $24.79)
    Kodocha - Box Set 2 (DVD) 2008-08-05 (from $23.39)
    Kodocha (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - Hayama Hijinks (DVD 2) 2005-08-23 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - Crush of Truth (DVD 3) 2005-11-15 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - Moving and Shaking (DVD 4) 2006-01-10 (from $17.99)
    Kodocha (DVD 5) 2006-03-07 (from $16.99)
    Kodocha - Sana's Bombshell (DVD 6) 2006-05-02 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - Adult Sized Secrets (DVD 7) 2006-08-22 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - Sana's Duty (DVD 8) 2006-08-22 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha (DVD 9) 2006-10-17 (from $16.99)
    Kodocha (DVD 10) 2006-12-12 (from $16.99)
    Kodocha (DVD 11) 2007-02-06 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha (DVD 12) 2007-04-03 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - That's a Wrap (DVD 13) 2007-06-05 (from $5.00)
    Kodocha - DVD Box Set 1 (DVD 1-6) 2007-02-27
    Kodocha + Artbox (DVD 7) 2006-08-08 (from $25.99)
    Kodocha DVD1 + Box (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $25.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Akira Suzuki
Akitaro Daichi
Hiroaki Sakurai

Series Composition: Miharu Hirami

Script:
Akira Okeya
Akitaro Daichi (eps 20,39,81)
Isao Shizuya (ep 80)
Miharu Hirami
Miho Maruo
Rika Nakase (eps 84,88,94,100)
Ryousuke Takahashi (ep 51)
Tomoko Konparu

Screenplay:
Miho Maruo
Ryusuke Takahashi
Tomoko Konparu

Music:
Hiroshi Koga
Jun Abe
Keiichi Tomita
Seiji Muto

Original creator: Miho Obana

Character Design: Hajime Watanabe

Art director:
Katsuhiro Hashi
Kyouko Nakayama

Animation director: Nobuyuki Tokinaga

Director of Photography:
Kenji Akazawa
Yasunori Hayama

Producer:
Noriko Kobayashi (TV Tokyo)
Yoko Matsushita (NAS)

Direction Support: Ryousuke Takahashi

Key Animation:
Keiji Gotoh (ep 90A)
Tatsuo Yamada
Yasuomi Umetsu

Sound Effect Director:
Naoko Asari
Tomoaki Yamada

Theme Song Performance:
Still Small Voice (ED)
Tokio (OP)
Tomoe Shinohara (OP 2)
Tomoko Hikita (ED 2)

 

Shizue Oda as Sana Kurata

Tatsuya Nakazaki as Akito Hayama

Hana Kino as Misako Kurata

Harumi Ikoma as Fuuka Matsui (ep 52-102)

Mayumi Misawa as Tsuyoshi Ohki

Ryo Naitou as Rei Sagami

Tomoko Hikita as Babbit

Ai Satou as Sumire Ando

Akemi Okamura as
Ishida
Natsumi Hayama

Akiko Kikuchi as Aya Sugita

Akiko Nakagawa as
Mako (ep 57)
Yui (ep 21)

Ayaka Saito as Mariko Sakai

Azusa Nakao as
Asako Kurumi
Mami Suzuki
Mitsuya-sensei

Daiki Nakamura as
doctor (ep 68)
policeman (ep 75)

Hinako Saeki as Hinako-chan (ep 98)

Hiroko Konishi as
Shouta Nakao
white dolphin (ep 102)

Junko Okada as Rumiko Yokota (ep 88)

Kae Araki as
Shiori Daichi (ep 28)
Shizu (ep 57)

Kaori Asou as Mayu Tobita

Kaori Yuasa as girl (ep 98)

Keiko Amano as Shimura-san

Makoto Tsumura as Atsushi (ep 21)

Masaaki Ishikawa as Onda-san

Masahiro Matsuoka as Special Guest (TOKIO, ep 1)

Masanobu Hirota as Shinichi Gomi

Masashi Ebara as Rick

Mayumi Shou as Miyoko (ep 97)

Miki Nagasawa as
Kouji (ep 21)
secretary (ep 27)

Minako Takenouchi as Chris (ep 84)

Mitsuo Iwata as
Suzy
Tanaka-sensei

Miwa Matsumoto as
Aono Ohki
girl (ep 98)

Mizue Nishimori as Yukihiro Yasuda

Naoki Bandou as Maeda-san

Naoko Ishii as
Ayumi (ep 21)
Uchiyamada-kun
Yasuko Sasaki

Omi Minami as
Koharu Hayama (ep 28)
Kumi (ep 57)
Naozumi Kamura
Sachiko Kurosaki (ep 31)

Rie Iwatsubo as
Chisato
Nakao's mother
Ozaki Riho

Ryo Naitou as Scott

Saori Higashi as buchou (ep 63)

Satomi Koorogi as Sisil

Shiho Kikuchi as
english teacher (ep 63)
Mika (ep 21)

Takashi Matsuyama as
Mr. Hayama
Nakao's father

Tsutomu Kashiwakura as
Mizoguchi
Nishikawa (ep 98)

Yoshikazu Nagano as Director

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Michelle

Yuji Ueda as Takuya Kimuchi (ep 30)

Yukiko Matsuura as Tatsuya Kurosaki (ep 31)

Yumiko Kikuchi as Hisae Kamayai

Yuri Amano as Yuko

Zenjiro as Zenjiro

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio Gallop

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Distributor: Sony

Production:
NAS
Pony Canyon
Studio Gallop
TV Tokyo

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director:
Chris Cason
Christopher R. Sabat
Colleen Clinkenbeard
Laura Bailey

ADR Script:
Bruce Lewis (ep. 32)
David Haynes (eps 2-3)
Eric Vale (ep 1)
John Burgmeier
Mike McFarland

Executive producer:
Cindy Brennan Fukunaga
Gen Fukunaga

Producer:
Barry Watson
Carly Hunter
Daniel Cocanougher
Justin Cook

ADR Engineer:
Tyler Walker
Zach Bolton

Assistant Talent Coordinator: Scott Garner

Assistant Video Editor:
Jessie Mancilla
Shane Ray

Audio Mixing Engineer: Evan Jones

Episodes 15, 19, 28, 24, 31, 33, 34,35,: Spencer Prokop 

Japanese Translations: Steven J. Simmons

Line Producer: Justin Cook

Post-Production Assistant: Anthony Benavides (V.7-12)

Production Assistant:
Chase Landerman
Clarine Harp
Diane Fonner
Duane Deering
Jayme Westman
Jeffrey Miller (1-47)

Production Coordination: Neil Weathersbee

Rotoscoping: Jeffrey Miller (1-47)

Script Supervisor: Jeremy Carlile

Talent Coordinator: Tara Williams

Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez

 

Jerry Jewell as Akito Hayama

Laura Bailey as Sana Kurata

Chris Cason as Babbit

Chris Patton as Naozumi Kamura

Colleen Clinkenbeard as Misako Kurata

Greg Ayres as Tsuyoshi Ohki

John Burgmeier as Rei Sagami

John Gremillion as Takeshi Gojo

Juli Erickson as Shizuka Kurata

Alison Retzloff as boy on stage (ep16)

Amy Rosenthal as Keiko

Ashley Gonzales as Miss Mitsuya

Bill Jenkins as Tomomi's Manager

Brandon Potter as Kunisada (Ep. 36)

Brina Palencia as
Pippi
Tomomi

Caitlin Glass as Natsumi Hayama

Chris Burnett as Sashuka

Christopher R. Sabat as Naru Naru

Chuck Huber as Tanaka

Cindy Mayfield as TV Mom

Cynthia Cranz as Hisae Kumagai

Daniel Penz as Doctor (Ep. 11)

David Brown as O'Brian

Eric Vale as Sensei (Ep. 21)

Jamie Marchi as Ayumi (Ep. 26)

Jeff Johnson as Mitokouman (Ep. 22)

Jim Foronda as Onda

Juli Erickson as Ms. Sasaki (Ep. 35)

Julie Mayfield as Sumire Ando

Justin Cook as Mr. Ohki

Justin Pate as Mamo

Kate Borneman as Mami Suzuki

Kate Oxley as Mami

Kent Williams as Shinichi Gomi

Kevin Connoly as Manager

Kevin M. Connolly as Naozumi's Manager

Kyle Hebert as
Ice Cream Guy (Ep. 11)
Sensei (Ep. 22)

Leah Clark as Mayu Tomita

Luci Christian as Asako Kurumi

Lydia Mackay as Obana

Maria Vu as Mika and {unlisted credits}

Mark Stoddard as Tsu

Melanie Mason as Shimura

Meredith McCoy as Jackie O

Michael Pandolfo as Koji

Mike McFarland as
Misako's Ex
Suji

Monica Rial as Aya Sugita

Nicole Leigh as Yui (Ep. 26)

R Bruce Elliott as Sanzou (Ep. 36)

Randy Tallman as Mr. Hayama

Reese Rios as Manager (Ep. 8)

Shannon McGrann as Ms. Kamura

Sonny Strait as Zenjiro

Stephanie Young as Mrs. Tomita

Steven Walters as Mr. Sakai (Ep. 22)

Tierney Titus as Mariko

Troy Baker as Hiroshi

Z. Charles Bolton as Sanekichi

Ace Winn

Aleisha Force

Alison Viktorin

Amber Cotton

Anthony Bowling

Avery Rice-Williams

Ben Hales

Bill Townsley

Carrie Savage

Carrie Slaughter

Christopher Bevins

Dana Schultes

Daniel Katsük

David Stroh

David Trosko

David Wilson-Brown

Emily Hornsby

Evan Gamble

Frank Ford

Greg Burton

Gwendolyn Lau

James Nelson

James Norris

Jamie Perez

Jeffrey Miller

Jennifer Seman

Kate Bristol

Kevin M. Connolly

Larry Brantley

Lauren Goode

Linda Leonard

Lucy Small

Maeghan Albach

Majken Kunishima

Mark Harbor

Mark Lancaster

Markus Lloyd

Matt Moore

Matthew Gray

Matthew Thompkins

Orion Pitts

Paul Logsden

Paul Taylor

R Joseph Vano

Reese Rios

Richie DeMeglio

Robert Colin

Sarah Slaughter

Scarlett McAlister

Shane Ray

Shannon McGrann

Stephanie Nadolny

Stephanie Young

Steven Morris

Susan Poore

Sydney Winn

Travis Willingham

Trina Nishimura

Troy Baker

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Anime Selects
Colours TV
FUNimation Channel

Distributor: MVM (UK)

Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Script:
Achille Brambilla
Cristiana Rossi
Luisella Sgammeglia

Executive producer: Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Dialogues:
Lucio Battaglia (ep.1-50)
Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Director Of Dubbing: Guido Rutta

Mixing:
Ignazio Giardina
Moreno Grossi Pometti

Publisher: Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Synchronization:
Giancarlo Martino
Lucio Battaglia

Theme Song Performance:
Cristina D'Avena
Giorgio Vanni

Transcription:
Marco Sestan
Stefano Di Modugno

Video Postproduction: Tiziano Pellegris

 

Marcella Silvestri as Rossana

Renata Bertolas as Rossana (Singing Voice)

Alessandra Karpoff as Alyssa

Anna Bonel as Peggy (Keiko), vera madre di Rossana

Anna Maria Tulli as Charles

Caterina Rochira as Nonna Rosemary

Cinzia Massironi as
George (Gomi Shin'ichi)
Tomomi / Tamara (ep.34, 80)

Claudio Moneta as
Ex-marito della sig. Smith
Prof. Stewart

Dania Cericola as
Ivan
Michelle Hamilton

Daniela Fava as
Christian
Melly (1st voice)

Daniela Trapelli as Madre di George

Davide Garbolino as
Brad
Nakao (Souta Nakao)

Debora Magnaghi as Fanny

Diego Sabre as
Gerard
Oliver (2nd voice)

Elda Olivieri as Alicia (Asako Kurumi)

Elisabetta Spinelli as Melly (2nd voice)

Emanuela Pacotto as Marine (Mami Suzuki)

Federica Valenti as Margareth (Hisae Kumagai)

Flavia Fantozzi as Yuko

Gianfranco Gamba as Padre di Eric (1st voice)

Gianluca Machelli as Robby (Rei Sagami) (singing voice)

Giorgio Bonino as Thaddeus Green (Take)

Grazia Migneco as Patricia (Shimura), la governante (2nd voice)

Guido Rutta as Padre di Eric (2nd voice)

Irene Scalzo as Eric (2nd voice)

Ivo De Palma as
Professor Sengoku
Rick

Loredana Nicosia as Prof.Ssa Miles (Mitsuya-Sensei)

Luca Bottale as Bob

Luca Sandri as Kobayakawa

Marco Balzarotti as
Padre di Fanny
Preside dell'istituto

Maria Grazia Errigo as Madre di Fanny

Marisa Della Pasqua as Bunny

Massimo Di Benedetto as
Maeda (2nd voice)
Shini

Monica Bonetto as Eric (1st voice)

Nadia Biondini as Camilla, madre di Eric

Nicola Bartolini Carrassi as Oliver (Onda)

Paolo Sesana as Padre di Terence (Mr. Ohki)

Patrizia Scianca as Terence (1st voice)

Patrizio Prata as
Maeda (1st voice)
Prof. Zed (Tanaka-Sensei)
Professor Stewart

Renata Bertolas as Marika (Mariko)

Riccardo Lombardo as Mcgavan

Riccardo Rovatti as Gary Hamilton

Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Mayu / Marilla (ep.34, 80)

Rosalba Bongiovanni as Sig.Na Andrews

Simone D'Andrea as Robby (speaking voice)

Stefania Buzzetti as Jeremy (Takaishi)

Stefania Patruno as Catherine Smith

Stella Bevilacqua as Cicyl

Tullia Piredda as Patricia (Shimura), la governante (1st voice)

Italian companies 

Broadcaster:
Italia 1 (from July 2000)
Italia Teen Television (from February 2004)

Distributor: Yamato Video (Italy)

Dubbing: Merak Film


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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