Lost Chapter of the Stars - Birth (special)
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Director: Screenplay: Hiroaki Murakami Storyboard: Osamu Nabeshima Music: Katsuhisa Hattori Original story: Hiroyuki Morioka Character Design: Keisuke Watabe Art director: Tomoaki Okada Mechanical design: Masanori Shino Sound director: Katsuyoshi Kobayashi Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai Producer: CG Supervisor: Takayuki Furukawa Color Coordination: Sayoko Yokoyama Editing: Takeshi Seyama Planning: Series supervisor: Yasuchika Nagaoka Sound Effects: Special Effects: Yutaka Hoshiba Visual Concept: | Gara Takashima as Plakia Lexshue Hirotaka Suzuoki as Dubus Abriel Ayako Kawasumi as Lafiel Abriel Haruhiko Jo as Narrator Mitsuki Saiga as Computer Voice | |||||||
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Translation: Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi Producer: Miho Kinoshita Assistant Engineer: Troy Laboucane Chief Producer: Charles McCarter Dialogue Editing: Jason Cushing Production Assistant: Tatsuhiro Nishiuchi Production Coordination: Warren Opheim Re-Recording Mixing: Jan Deny Recording engineer: Brad Belden Script Adaptation: Ian Farthing Subtitle Script: Kevin McKeown Video Post-Production: | Meredith Taylor-Perry as Plakia Lexshue Roger Rhodes as Dubus Abriel Jessica Yow as Lafiel Abriel | |||||||
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