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Mao-chan (TV)

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© KEN AKAMATSU · KODANSHA / XEBEC · PROJECT MAO

Alternative title:
Earth Defender Mao-chan
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan
Rikujō Bōeitai Mao-chan (Japanese)
陸上防衛隊まおちゃん (Japanese)
Themes: military
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: Mao Onigawara is a happy 8-year-old grade-schooler and the granddaughter of Chief of Staff of Ground Defense Force. Equipped with her cloverleaf-shaped badge which enables her to transform (but gives her no special power whatsoever), Mao and her best friends (granddaughters of Chief of Staff of Air and Marine Defense Force, respectively) will defend Japan against the invasion from "cute aliens," who are way too cute to be dealt with regular armed forces.
User Ratings: 163 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Excellent: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:3)
 Very good: 19 votes (sub:12, dub:5, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 46 votes (sub:31, dub:15)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:20, dub:2, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 27 votes (sub:21, dub:5, raw:1)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:5, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:12, dub:1)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 401 users, rank: #2485 (of 9777)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.840 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.1189, rank: #7854 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 5.867 (Decent), rank: #7795 (of 9919) (seen all: 6.61 / seen some: 5.49 / won't finish: 3.01)
Bayesian estimate: 5.986 (Decent), rank: #6621 (of 7496)
Running time: 12 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2002-07-03 to 2002-12-25 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"All My Love" by Yui Horie
#2: "Brand new day" by Aice5
Ending Theme:
"It's My Style" by Yui Horie
#2: "Eternity" by Aice5
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Comment:
New opening and ending themes, Brand new day and Eternity, respectively, are introduced in reruns in April 2007.
Review:
Mao-chan DVD 1 (Jan 14, 2004)
News: Show:
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DVD (Region 1)
    Mao-chan - I Will Protect the Peace of Japan! (DVD 1) 2003-10-28 (from $6.00)
    Mao-chan - Go! Unified Defense Force (DVD 2) 2004-01-06 (from $7.00)
    Mao-chan - Song of Defense (DVD 3) 2004-02-24 (from $7.00)
    Mao-chan - Let's Defend Happiness! (DVD 4) 2004-04-20 (from $23.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Series Composition: Yōsuke Kuroda
Screenplay:
Hideki Shirane (ep 22)
Hiroyuki Nakamura (ep 20)
Makoto Uezu (eps 18, 21)
Yōsuke Kuroda (eps 1-21, 23-26)
Storyboard:
Hideaki Oba (ep 7)
Masayuki Hiraoka (eps 5, 12, 16)
Naoyuki Kuzuya (ep 11)
Takaaki Ishiyama (7 episodes
eps 3, 9, 13, 15, 18, 21, 23
)
Tamaki Nakatsu (ep 24)
Tsuneo Tominaga (eps 14, 19, 22)
Yoshiaki Iwasaki (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 10, 20, 26
)
Yoshio Suzuki (eps 17, 25)
Yūji Mutō (ep 8)
Yusaku Saotome (ep 6)
Yuu Kou (ep 4)
Episode Director:
Hideki Hiroshima (6 episodes
eps 9-10, 17-18, 23-24
)
Jun Takahashi (8 episodes
eps 2, 5-6, 13-14, 21-22, 25
)
Shintaro Itoga (4 episodes
eps 11-12, 19-20
)
Yoshiaki Iwasaki (eps 1, 22, 26)
Yoshio Suzuki (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 7-8, 15-16
)
Music: Takayuki Hattori
Original Concept: Ken Akamatsu
Character Design: Masahide Yanagisawa
Art Director: Chitose Asakura
Animation Director: Yoshio Suzuki
Art design: Junko Nagasawa
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta

Color design: Mitsuko Sekimoto
Digital Photography: Kenichi Dai (eps 2-26 even)
Key Animation:
Emiko Kataoka (ep 12)
Miyako Yatsu (Production I.G; ep 24)
Tetsuya Takeuchi (eps 4, 8)
Program Contact: Tomoko Gushima (TV Tokyo)
Program Publicity:
Shouko Morimura (eps 5-26)
Tatsuya Yamaga (TV Tokyo; eps 1-4)
Theme Song Composition:
Chika Itô (OP)
Yuki Matsuura (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Chika Itô (OP)
Yuki Matsuura (ED)
Theme Song Performance: Yui Horie (OP/ED)
Kimiko Koyama as Mao Onigawara
Yui Horie as Silvia Maruyama
Yuuya Yoshikawa as Misora Tsukishima

Ai Iura as Chinami Noki
Akio Nojima as Rikushirou Onigawara
Kiyonobu Suzuki as Sorajirou Tsukishima
Machiko Toyoshima as
Emi Uehara
Shouko Akasaka
Masayo Kurata as Carol Cameron (ep 21)
Miki Nagasawa as Kagome Mishima
Takashi Taniguchi as Adalbert von Maruyama
Yukiko Mannaka as Yuriko Oozora

Akeno Watanabe as Dragon alien (ep 19)
Akira Tomisaka as
Female student A (ep 4)
Kangaroo alien
Maiko Mita
Asami Imai as
Female student B (ep 4)
Reporter C (ep 13)
Ben Takada as Attendant (ep 13)
Chiaki Takahashi as
Mio Nanba
Officer (eps 2, 5)
Dai Matsumoto as
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Observer (ep 6)
Hirofumi Nojima as Ichiro Suteki (ep 22)
Hitoshi Horimoto as Staff (eps 3, 11)
Junichi Sugawara as Prime Minister
Junko Minagawa as Female teacher (ep 9)
Kanako Hattori as
Class representative (4 episodes
eps 5, 15-16, 25
)
Female student C (ep 5)
Keiichi Sonobe as
Galaxy the Great
Male caster (eps 15-16)
Keiji Hirai as Politician
Kouji Haramaki as Rikukichi Onigawara
Kujira as Mandarin Queen (ep 25)
Kurumi Mamiya as Small King (ep 26)
Machiko Toyoshima as Operator (eps 1-10, 12)
Mai Kadowaki as Bear alien (ep 18)
Maiko Toda as Ikumi Aikawa (Mechanic A)
Makoto Aoki as Defense member C (ep 17)
Makoto Yasumura as Reporter B (ep 13)
Mami Kosuge as Guard A (ep 15)
Naoki Bandō as Tokusaburo Tokugawa
Ryoukichi Takahashi as Crew Member
Satoshi Katōgi as Ground crew
Satsuki Yukino as Kuniko Onigawara
Takahiro Suzuki as
Father (ep 7)
Politician (ep 1)
Takayasu Usui as Whale alien (ep 23)
Takuo Kawamura as Security guard (ep 14)
Tamotsu Nishiwaki as Monkey alien (ep 20)
Tomoe Hanba as Kuko Tsukishima
Toshihiro Nakamura as Defense member B (ep 17)
Yasuhiro Fujiwara as Man (ep 10)
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Teacher (ep 4)
Yui Horie as Naru Narusegawa (unnamed) (ep 20)
Yūji Ueda as Keinosuke Urashima
Yuri Shiratori as Kiku Ichimonji the Third
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Xebec
Backgrounds: Production ai
Broadcaster:
Aichi Television Broadcasting (2007-04-09)
Chiba Television (2007-04-08)
KBS Kyoto (2007-04-11)
Sun TV (2007-04-09)
Television Kanagawa (2007-04-07)
Television Saitama Co., Ltd. (2007-04-08)
Tokyo MX (2007-04-09)
TV Tokyo
Digital Photography: Trans Arts Co.
In-Between Animation:
Actas (eps 3-4, 6, 23)
APPP (5 episodes
eps 2, 7, 10, 13, 23
)
Buyuu (eps 8-9)
Delta Peak (eps 21-22)
Hal Film Maker (eps 1-2)
K-Production (12 episodes
eps 1-3, 7, 16-19, 23-26
)
Kagura (eps 9-10)
Last House (eps 13, 21)
Light House (11 episodes
eps 1, 4-8, 12, 19-20, 25-26
)
M.S.C (eps 5-6)
Magic Bus (6 episodes
eps 1, 5, 15, 21, 25-26
)
MI (ep 2)
Mouse (6 episodes
eps 5, 10, 13-14, 19, 21
)
Noside (ep 24)
Production I.G (eps 6, 23)
Production I.G Niigata (eps 17-18)
Seigasha (8 episodes
eps 11-13, 15-17, 22, 25
)
Studio Boomerang (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 13, 20, 22
)
Studio Cockpit (ep 22)
Studio Mark (eps 16, 22)
Studio Takuranke (4 episodes
eps 3, 21, 25-26
)
Studio Zaendou (eps 16-17, 22)
Sunshine Corporation (ep 16)
Tamazawa Dogasha (4 episodes
eps 10, 13, 15, 24
)
Tanto (6 episodes
eps 14-15, 21, 23, 25-26
)
Tokyo Animation Center (4 episodes
eps 6, 8, 12, 25
)
Uni Animation (11 episodes
eps 1-3, 7, 9-11, 13-15, 24
)
Key Animation:
Anime R (ep 4)
Production I.G (4 episodes
eps 14-15, 20, 24
)
Production I.G Niigata (eps 14-15)
Seigasha (eps 17, 21)
Studio Wanpack (5 episodes
eps 3, 6, 10, 17, 19
)
Tsuburaya Productions (ep 26)
Uni Animation (9 episodes
eps 5, 7-10, 12, 14-16
)
Windou (eps 18, 22, 25)
Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music
Music Production: King Records
Paint:
K-Production (9 episodes
eps 1-3, 19-20, 23-26
)
Kagura (ep 10)
M.S.C (eps 3-5, 21, 25)
Mouse (6 episodes
eps 3-5, 19, 25-26
)
Studio Elle (eps 1-20, 23-26)
Studio Peacock (5 episodes
eps 6, 11, 17-18, 23
)
Studio Step (16 episodes
eps 5-8, 11-13, 16-18, 20-21, 23-26
)
Sunshine Digital (11 episodes
eps 2-4, 9-10, 13, 15-16, 19, 21-22
)
Tamazawa Dogasha (4 episodes
eps 10, 13, 15, 24
)
Tanto (6 episodes
eps 4, 14-15, 23, 25-26
)
Uni Animation (10 episodes
eps 1-3, 9-11, 13-15, 24
)
Production:
Kodansha
Xebec
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Wendee Lee
Translation: Yurika Araki-Dennis
ADR Script: Wendee Lee
Executive producer:
Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Maki Terashima-Furuta
Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Kaeko Sakamoto
Yukio Kusumoto

Assistant producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing:
David Barr (eps 1-7, 15-20)
David Walsh (eps 8-14)
Justin Kohler (eps 8-14, 21-26)
Post-Production Assistant: Deb Munini
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett
Recording engineer:
David Walsh (eps 8-14)
Justin Kohler (eps 8-26)
Rick Tetzlaff (eps 1-7)
Spotting:
Addie Akemi Kohzu (eps 15-20)
Stephanie Sheh (eps 1-7)
Yuka Juta (eps 8-26)
Subtitling: David Fleming
Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman
Julie Maddalena as Silvia Maruyama
Kay Jensen as Misora Tsukishima
Sandy Fox as Mao Onigawara

Anthony Mozdy as Sorajirou Tsukishima
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Kagome Mishima
Kay Jensen as Chinami Noki
Michael McConnohie as Rikushirou Onigawara
Michelle Ruff as Carol Cameron
Ron Allen as Adalbert von Maruyama
Wendee Lee as Yuriko Ozora

Dave Mallow as Male TV Announcer
David Orosco as
Galaxy the Great
Prime Minister
David Umansky as
Defense Force Member (eps 23-26)
Ichiro Suteki (ep 22)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Naru Narusegawa
Julie Ann Taylor as Operator
Lynn Fischer as Female Mechanic
Michelle Ruff as Female Mechanic
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Casting: Love-Chan Casting
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Packaging Design: Art Transplant, Inc. (Uncredited)
Production: Production I.G. USA
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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