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Takegami - Guardian of Darkness (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Ankoku Shinden Takegami (Japanese)
Guardian of Darkness
暗黒神伝承 武神 ～十六夜情話～ (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Three evil dragons from ancient times arise to earth to destroy the land and devour the souls of the weak. Only Koichi, with the power of the ancient warrior-god Takegami residing within him can fulfill the prophecy and defeat the growing evil. There is only one problem, Koichi may not be willing to fight.
User Ratings: 66 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Very good: 9 votes (dub:4, sub:4, raw:1)
 Good: 9 votes (dub:5, sub:4)
 Decent: 15 votes (sub:8, dub:7)
 So-so: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:4)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 137 users, rank: #3387 (of 6572)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.652 (Decent−), std. dev.: 2.0997, rank: #5373 (of 6573)
Weighted mean: 5.644 (Decent−), rank: #5419 (of 6573) (seen all: 5.63 / seen some: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 5.933 (Decent), rank: #4415 (of 5018)
Running time: 45 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Vintage:
1990
1990-03-23 to 1992-01-24
Release dates: We have 3
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DVD (Region 1)
    Guardian of Darkness (DVD) 2003-07-29

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Osamu Yamasaki
Script: Osamu Yamasaki
Music: Seikou Nagaoka
Character Design:
Kenichi Ohnuki
Masami Obari 
Art Director: Chisato Sunagawa
Animation Director:
Kenichi Ohnuki (eps 1-3)
Masami Obari (eps 1-3)
Sound Director: Yasunori Honda
Director of Photography: Takashi Azuhata
Executive producer:
Makoto Hasegawa
Tomoyuki Miyata
Producer:
Nobuhisa Abe
Shigeaki Komatsu

Assistant Animation Director: Masanori Nishii (eps 1-3)
Key Animation:
Akira Inoue (ep 3)
Akira Oguro (ep 1)
Eiichi Akiyama (ep 3)
Hidehiko Okano (ep 3)
Hidenori Matsubara (ep 1)
Hidetoshi Yoshida (ep 1)
Hiroaki Gohda (ep 1)
Hiroaki Oogami (ep 1)
Hitoshi Haga (ep 3)
Kazuhiro Ochi (ep 2)
Kazuto Nakazawa (ep 1)
Kenji Teraoka (ep 2)
Koichi Usami (eps 1-3)
Kunihiro Abe (eps 2-3)
Masahiro Okamura (ep 3)
Masami Obari (ep 1)
Masanori Nishii (ep 1)
Masashi Yanagishita (ep 2)
Miho Nakata (ep 1)
Misao Abe (ep 3)
Misao Nakano (ep 2)
Mitsuharu Kajitani (ep 2)
Miyuki Inoue (ep 3)
Motoko Hiraishi (eps 2-3)
Nobuyoshi Habara (ep 1)
Osamu Tsuruyama (eps 1-3)
Osamu Yamasaki (ep 3)
Ryoichi Oki (ep 2)
Satoshi Shigeta (eps 2-3)
Shin Matsuo (eps 1-2)
Shinji Hashimoto (ep 1)
Shinsuke Terasawa (ep 3)
Takashi Wada (ep 2)
Takeyuki Mizumura (ep 3)
Tomoaki Kado (ep 3)
Tooru Misaka (ep 1)
Toru Yoshida (ep 2)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 2)
Toshimitsu Kobayashi (eps 1, 3)
Yasuhiro Seo (ep 1)
Yasushi Muraki (ep 2)
Yoshie Kawamura (ep 1)
Yukio Okano (ep 3)
Yumi Nakayama (ep 2)
Monster Design: Masami Obari
Special Effects: Satoru Abe
Kazuhiko Inoue as Koichi
Noriko Hidaka as Terumi Amano

Norio Wakamoto as Susanoh
Yoshiko Sakakibara as Sayoko Matsuura

Kazuhiko Inoue as Buckingham
Rei Sakuma as Motoko Takara
Shinji Ogawa as Ryujin
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Unkei
Wataru Takagi as Rago
Yumi Touma as Satsuki
Japanese companies
Production:
J.C. Staff
JVC
Production Assistance: Minamimachi Bugyousho
English staff
English cast
Director: Jim Malone
Dubbing Director: Peter Bavaro
Translation: Kevin McKeown
Executive producer: John O'Donnell
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Dubbing Supervision: Anthony Salerno
DVD Coordination: Karel Havle
Editing Assistant: Mark Smith
On-Line Assistant: Dean Raimondo
Online Editor:
Guy Federico
Phil Poli
Lisa Ortiz as Terumi
Ted Lewis as Koichi

David Moo as Jiunbo
Melanie Jones as Sayoko
Ross Charap as Head Priest
Ted Gregory as Susanoo

George Leaver as Dragon
Rachael Lillis as Satsuki
Sharon Becker as Motoko

Asia
Ed Kissel
Frank Popler
English companies
Digital Download: Direct2Drive
Distributor: ADV Films (UK)
DVD Menu Design: Crush Digital Video
DVD Premastering: Crush Digital Video
Editing Facility: Chromavision
Licensed by: Central Park Media
Recording Facility: Sonomat, Inc.
Recording Studio: Taj Studios Inc.
Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

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