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Welcome to Irabu's Office (TV)

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Alternative title:
Die seltsamen Methoden des Dr. Irabu (German)
Flying Trapeze
Kūchū Buranko (Japanese)
Trapeze
空中ブランコ (Japanese)
變態怪醫Dr.伊良部 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Eleven people, each of them suffering from apparently groundless physical symptoms, land at psychiatrist Dr. Ichirō Irabu's consulting room, in the hope of finding there a sympathetic doctor, who listens to their troubles, gives them some pills, and with this, solves their problems once and for all. Instead, they find that Irabu is an eccentric person, with childish features and with little or no sympathy. He employs drastic and unheard-of treatments, and instead of counselling, he prefers to look at his patients' background personally. Despite his strange behavior and methods, he can always help his patients find the real causes behind their symptoms, while being amused at the awkward situations, which the patients get into by following his advice.
User Ratings: 212 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 19 votes (sub:19)
 Excellent: 58 votes (sub:52, raw:1, dub:1, others:4
3 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 59 votes (sub:56, dub:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 38 votes (sub:36, dub:1, others:1
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Decent: 18 votes (sub:18)
 So-so: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 368 users, rank: #2650 (of 9777)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.707 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7072, rank: #1268 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 7.668 (Very good−), rank: #1245 (of 9919) (seen all: 7.89 / seen some: 6.52 / won't finish: 4.98)
Bayesian estimate: 7.657 (Very good−), rank: #973 (of 7496)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage:
2009-10-15 to 2009-12-24
2010-01-30 (Ep. 1-3, Italy - Future Film Festival)
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Upside Down" by Denki Groove
Ending Theme:
"Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel)" by Denki Groove
Links: We have 1
Review:
Welcome to Irabu's Office DVD (May 10, 2011)
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DVD (Region 4)
    Welcome to Irabu's Office (DVD) 2011-02-18

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kenji Nakamura
Series Composition: Manabu Ishikawa
Script:
Isao Murayama (eps 2, 4-5, 8-9)
Manabu Ishikawa (Tatsunoko Pro.; eps 1, 6, 10-11)
Tomoko Taguchi (eps 3, 6)
Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Kakudō (eps 1, 8)
Kenji Nakamura (ep 1)
Kiyotaka Suzuki (ep 5)
Masatoshi Chioka (eps 3-4)
Takayuki Chiba (ep 4)
Yukio Kaizawa (ep 9)
Episode Director:
Hidehito Ueda (eps 2, 7)
Hiroyuki Kakudō (ep 6)
Kenji Nakamura (ep 11)
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (eps 3, 8)
Kōhei Hatano (eps 1, 10)
Kouji Ogawa (eps 4, 9)
Masatoshi Chioka (ep 11)
Yukio Kaizawa (ep 11)
Music: Hideharu Mori
Original creator: Hideo Okuda
Character Design: Takashi Hashimoto
Art Director: Shoji Tokiwa
Chief Animation Director: Takashi Hashimoto
Animation Director:
Akira Takata (ep 5)
Hideoki Kusama (eps 1, 10)
Megumi Ishihara (ep 6)
Natsuki Watanabe (eps 3, 8)
Sayuri Sugitou (eps 2, 7)
Shinichi Sakuma (eps 4, 9)
Takashi Hashimoto (eps 1, 11)
Tatsuya Oka (assist. Ep. 11; eps 2, 7)
Toshinori Watanabe (eps 2, 7)
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Cgi Director: Nobuhiro Morita
Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada
Producer:
Kōji Yamamoto (Fuji TV)
Masato Seino (Fuji TV)
Takashi Washio

Art Advancement: Maoki Sawada
Assistant Director: Masatoshi Chioka
Assistant Episode Director:
Hiroya Takahashi (ep 6)
Masatoshi Chioka (eps 1, 3-11)
Satoru Misawa (ep 2)
Yasunori Koyama (eps 1, 4)
CG Producer: Yukiya Imamura
Color design: Rumiko Nagai
Color Key: Asami Maruyama (eps 2, 7)
Digital Art Director:
Mio Nakayama
Saki Hayashi
Finishing Advancement: Shō Kaneko
In-Between Animation:
Haruna Akechi (eps 4, 9)
Hiroko Onodera (eps 4, 9)
Nozomi Tanaka (eps 4, 9)
In-Between Check:
Mariko Kiyota
Reiko Saito
Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (ep 5)
Akiko Mori (eps 5, 10)
Akira Takahashi (eps 4, 9)
Atsushi Okuda (ep 11)
Ayaka Shimoji (eps 2, 7, 11)
Azusa Ochiai (ep 6)
Biku Kamiho (ep 11)
Chūichi Iguchi (eps 2, 7, 10)
Hidemi Yamashita (eps 5, 10)
Hideoki Kusama (eps 1, 11)
Hideyuki Hirai (acca effe; ep 6)
Hiroshi Watanabe (Studio Kyuma; ep 6) 
Hisao Ishii (acca effe; eps 6, 11)
Hyun Ju Lee (eps 4, 9)
Isamu Fukushima (eps 5, 10)
Jun Nakase (acca effe; ep 6)
Junichi Yokoyama (eps 5, 10)
Katsunori Enokimoto (eps 4, 9)
Kazuhiro Taga (eps 2, 7)
Kazumasa Takeuchi (acca effe; ep 6)
Kazuya Morimae (eps 2, 7, 11)
Ken Ōtsuka (ep 11)
Kenichi Fujisawa (eps 3, 8)
Kenji Hayama (eps 5, 10)
Kenji Miuma (eps 6, 10-11)
Kiichi Suzuno (eps 3, 8)
Kiko Hashimoto (eps 3, 8)
Kōichi Hayami (eps 2, 7, 11)
Kumiko Shishido (eps 5, 10)
Manabu Nakatake (ep 5)
Masahiko Kubo (ep 11)
Masahiro Okamura (ep 2)
Masashi Kudo (ep 11)
Mayu Saito (ep 10)
Mayu Yoshida (ep 3)
Megumi Ishihara (ep 11)
Megumi Koyama (acca effe; ep 6)
Miho Kaneshiro (eps 2, 7, 11)
Misao Abe (ep 1)
Momoko Nagakawa (eps 5, 10)
Motoki Yagi (eps 6, 11)
Naoaki Hōjō (eps 7, 11)
Naoko Igarashi (ep 11)
Natsue Chibayama (ep 10)
Natsuki Watanabe (eps 3, 8)
Nobuaki Tanaka (eps 1, 6, 10-11)
Nobuyoshi Sasakado (eps 1, 6, 10-11)
Retsu Ohkawara (ep 5)
Rie Saitou (eps 1, 5)
Saori Koike (eps 6, 11)
Satomi Kani (eps 5, 10)
Shigeki Kuhara (eps 5, 10)
Shingo Ogiso (eps 1, 6, 11)
Shūji Ono (eps 5, 10)
Shuuichirou Manabe (eps 2, 7, 11)
Sōichi Seguchi (acca effe; ep 6)
Sōichirō Matsuda (ep 11)
Takanori Suzuki (ep 11)
Takashi Hashimoto (ep 11)
Takayuki Manaka (eps 1, 6, 11)
Takayuki Murakami (eps 3, 8)
Takeshi Honda (ep 11)
Takeshi Yoshioka (ep 11)
Takeyo Sumomo (Studio Kyuma; ep 6)
Tatsuya Oka (eps 2, 7)
Tatsuya Tomaru (ep 11)
Tetsuya Ishii (eps 3, 8)
Tomomi Ueda (ep 3)
Tomoya Takahashi (ep 8)
Tomoya Takayama (ep 3)
Tomoyuki Kojima (eps 5, 10)
Toshinori Watanabe (eps 2, 7, 11)
Toshiyuki Satō (eps 2, 7)
Tsuyoshi Kakihara (eps 2, 7)
Yoshiaki Wada (eps 4, 9)
Yoshihiro Nagata (eps 5, 10)
Yoshitaka Yashima (ep 1)
Young Mi Joung (eps 4, 9)
Yui Ushio (ep 10)
Yūichirō Yamada (eps 2, 7)
Yuki Hayashi (eps 10-11)
Yūki Sumiya (ep 6)
Yukihiro Urata (eps 3, 10)
Yukiko Kobayashi (ep 5)
Yukiko Nakatani (ep 5)
Yūko Yamamoto (eps 2, 7, 11)
Yūsuke Isōchi (eps 3, 8)
Yuuko Yoshida (eps 5, 10)
Music producer: Hiroaki Sano
Planning: Yōko Matsuzaki (Fuji TV)
Production:
Kazuhiko Yusa
Kōzō Morishita
Naoki Kitagawa
Yoshio Takada
Production Advancement:
Masae Sano (eps 5, 10)
Takuya Naitō (eps 1-3, 6, 11)
Tomoaki Okumura (eps 5, 10)
Yūsuke Hata (eps 4, 9)
Production manager: Yoshiaki Yanagi
Theme Song Performance: Denki Groove (OP\ED)
Title Logo: Daisuke Umino
Romi Park as Ichirō Irabu (young)
Yūji Mitsuya as Ichirō Irabu

Daisuke Namikawa as Shin'ichi Bandō (eps 3-4, 7)
Hiroaki Hirata as Tatsurō Ikeyama (eps 4-5)
Hiroki Takahashi as Seiji Ino (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 6-7, 10
)
Kenji Fukui as Fukuicchi
Mitsuo Iwata as Yoshio Iwamura (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 6-8, 10
)
Miyu Irino as Yūta Tsuda (eps 2, 5-6, 11)
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Mitsuo Tanabe (eps 9-10)
Shinichirō Miki as Jun'ichi Hoshiyama (eps 1-3)
Takahiro Sakurai as Tetsuya Taguchi (eps 1-2, 4, 6)
Tōru Furuya as Hideo Tsuda (eps 6, 10-11)
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kōhei Yamashita (eps 1, 7-8)
Wataru Hatano as Hiromi Yasukawa (eps 8-9)
Yumi Sugimoto as Mayumi

Ami Michizoe as Child (ep 1)
Ayaka Yamashita as Taxi Driver (ep 2)
Chado Horii as Isao (eps 4, 7-8, 10)
Daisuke Endō as Yūta's friend (ep 2)
Daisuke Kishio as Fukumoto (ep 8)
Eiji Takemoto as Yasu (ep 7)
Fuko Saito as
AD (ep 9)
Reporter (ep 10)
Fumiko Orikasa as Atsuko (ep 9)
Ginpei Sato as Yousuke (ep 6)
Haruhi Terada as Mrs. Ikeyama (ep 5)
Issei Futamata as Homeless Poet (eps 6, 8)
Junko Ueda as
Announcement (ep 10)
Clerk (ep 6)
Hostess (eps 4, 7)
Nurse (ep 2)
Jūrōta Kosugi as Professor Nomura (eps 5, 10)
Kaori Yamagata as Kumagaya (ep 2)
Katsuhisa Hōki as Film Director (ep 9)
Katsuyuki Konishi as Arai (eps 3, 8)
Kazunari Kojima as Reporter (eps 3, 10)
Kazunari Tanaka as Reporter (ep 10)
Keiko Han as Mrs Nomura (ep 5)
Kenichi Ono as Urologist (ep 2)
Kenji Matsuda as Kouji (ep 6)
Kenji Nojima as Naoya (ep 6)
Kenji Nomura as Yazaki (ep 4)
Kikuko Inoue as
Hisako Tsuda (eps 6, 11)
Mrs. Tsuda (ep 6) 
Kimiko Saitō as Kanno (ep 5)
Kokoro Kikuchi as Hironori (eps 1, 4, 10-11)
Kōzō Shioya as Okabata (ep 3)
Masaharu Miyake as Baseball Commentator (5 episodes
eps 4-5, 8, 10-11
)
Masaki Izawa as Hiromi Yasukawa (young; ep 9)
Masami Kikuchi as Kuramoto (ep 5)
Masaya Matsukaze as Shinpei (ep 6)
Mayu Isshiki as Nurse (ep 11)
Mikako Fujita as
Kouji's mother (ep 6)
Matsubara (ep 2)
Misa Watanabe as Kazumi (eps 4, 7)
Nobuo Tobita as Kinoshita (ep 10)
Rie Kugimiya as Reina (ep 3)
Satoshi Tsuruoka as
Doctor (ep 11)
Sho (ep 9)
Sayaka Ōhara as Sayoko (ep 2)
Sayuri Furukawa as Yuri (eps 2-4, 6-8)
Shigeru Ushiyama as Niwa (eps 1, 7)
Shinji Kawada as Doctor (ep 11)
Shintaro Nakano as Doctor (ep 11)
Shintarō Ōhata as Fukuhara (ep 4)
Shinya Fukumatsu as Alumni Association Secretary (ep 5)
Taiten Kusunoki as TV Drama Director (ep 9)
Takashi Hikida as
Kengo (ep 9)
Yūta's friend (ep 2)
Takuya Eguchi as Yūta's friend (ep 2)
Tomoaki Maeno as Suzuki (ep 4)
Toshinobu Iida as
Child (ep 7)
Yūta's friend (ep 2)
Youhei Oobayashi as
Child (ep 7)
Station Attendant (ep 5)
Yukana as Midori (ep 2)
Yukiko Hanioka as
Child (ep 1)
Nurse (ep 2)
Yumiko Kobayashi as Takuya Ikeyama (ep 5)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Toei Animation
Broadcaster:
Fuji Television Network (2009-10-15, Noitamina)
Noitamina
Digital Art:
MADBOX
Production I.G
Digital Paint:
A-Line
AIM Entertainment
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
Hiwa
Kagura
M.S.J Musashino Production
Synod
Toei Animation Philippines
Digital Photography: Asahi Production
In-Between Animation:
A-Line
AIM Entertainment
Ashi Productions
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
Kagura
M.S.J Musashino Production
Meta Studio
Synod
Tatsunoko Animation Room
Toei Animation Philippines
In-between Check: M.S.J Musashino Production (ep 8)
Key Animation:
acca effe
Doga Kobo
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd.
HEBARAKI
I&S Factory
Kagura
Kino Production
Meta Studio
Mutsu Planning
Nakamura Production
Neo Media
Seigasha
Shanghai Dove
Studio Graffiti
Studio Kuma
Studio Liberty
Studio Mark
Synod
Tatsunoko Production
TNK
Trans Arts Co.
Production:
Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc.
Bunshun
Dentsu Inc.
Fuji Television Network
Sony Music Entertainment
Toei Animation
Production Assistance:
A-Line (eps 2, 7)
Ark Creation (eps 4, 9)
Studio Dub (eps 4, 9)
Studio Guts (eps 3, 8)
Tatsunoko Production (eps 5, 10)
Script: Tatsunoko Production (eps 1, 7, 10-11)
English staff
English companies
Translation: Sam Pinansky
Distributor: Siren Visual (Australia & New Zealand)
Internet Streaming:
Viewster (Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, United States)
English cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
Translation: Xavier Fleury
(none)
French companies
Broadcaster: Wakanim
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: AnimeOnegai (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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