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A-Channel (TV)

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Alternative title:
A-Channel the Animation
Aチャンネル (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Tooru takes a test so she can enter the same high school as Run, her childhood friend and the girl she likes. She passes the exam and cannot wait to break the good news to Run. However, when Tooru arrives at Run's house, she finds Run hugging a girl she's never seen before. Tooru is introduced to Run's high school friends, Yuuko and Nagi. As Run, Nagi and Yuuko begin their second year while Tooru begins her first year, their exciting high school life filled with drama and adventure begins for the four friends.
User Ratings: 467 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 21 votes (sub:19, others:2
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 53 votes (sub:50, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 112 votes (sub:105, ?:2, raw:1, dub:1, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 142 votes (sub:129, dub:6, others:7
4 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 czech subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Decent: 73 votes (sub:69, raw:1, dub:1, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 33 votes (sub:30, dub:2, raw:1)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Weak: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:1, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 954 users, rank: #1284 (of 9777)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.039 (Good), std. dev.: 1.6052, rank: #3608 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 6.920 (Good), rank: #4139 (of 9919) (seen all: 7.07 / seen some: 6.66 / won't finish: 4.05)
Bayesian estimate: 6.935 (Good), rank: #3723 (of 7496)
Running time: 24 minutes
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2011-04-07
2011-04-08 to 2011-06-24
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Morning Arch" by Marina Kawano
Ending Theme:
"Humming Girl" (ハミングガール) by Aoi Yuki, Kaori Fukuhara, Minako Kotobuki and Yumi Uchiyama
#2: "Harukaze no Kagaku" (はるかぜの化学) by Run, Tōru, Nagi, Yūko (ep 12)
Insert song:
"Gyutto Shite Hoshiinda" (ぎゅっとして欲しいんだ) by Aoi Yuki (ep 3)
"Happy Snow" by Kaori Fukuhara, Aoi Yuki, Minako Kotobuki and Yumi Uchiyama (ep 10)
"Harukaze no Kagaku" (はるかぜの化学) by Run, Tōru, Nagi, Yūko (ep 1)
"Kimi no Te" (君の手) by Daisuke Ono (ep 7)
"Kitto Zutto Motto" (きっと ずっと もっと) by Aoi Yuki (ep 11)
"Koi Ichiya Yume Ichiya" (恋一夜夢一夜) by Yumi Uchiyama (ep 7)
"Mermaid Sisters" by Minako Kotobuki (ep 5)
"Mikakuninhikou Girl" (未確認飛行ガール) by Yumi Uchiyama and Minako Kotobuki (ep 12)
"Ochamelodical Beauty Banban" (オチャメロディカルビューティバンバン) by Kaori Fukuhara (ep 7)
"Okashi na Jikan" (オカシナ時間) by Kaori Fukuhara, Aoi Yuki, Minako Kotobuki and Yumi Uchiyama (ep 9)
"Start" by Aoi Yuki, Kaori Fukuhara, Minako Kotobuki and Yumi Uchiyama (ep 2)
"Summer breeze" by Minako Kotobuki (ep 7)
"summer dream syndrome" by Kaori Fukuhara (ep 4)
"Tanken no Susume" (探検のススメ) by Yumi Uchiyama (ep 6)
"Tomodachi" (ともだち) by Aoi Yuki and Kaori Fukuhara (ep 7)
"Tsubasa wa Nai Kedo" (翼はないけど) by Aoi Yuki and Kaori Fukuhara (ep 8)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    A-Channel - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2015-01-27 (from $107.00)
DVD (Region 1)
    A-Channel - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2012-02-28 (from $23.83)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Manabu Ono
Series Composition: Tatsuhiko Urahata
Screenplay:
Tatsuhiko Urahata (eps 1-12)
Storyboard:
Fumitoshi Oizaki (ep 6)
Jin Inai (eps 3, 9)
Kenji Setō (eps 2, 11)
Manabu Ono (eps 1, 5, 12)
Masashi Ishihama (OP)
Masayuki Kojima (ep 10)
Naoto Hosoda (ED)
Tetsuya Watanabe (eps 4, 8)
Yūsuke Satō (ep 7)
Episode Director:
Buhei Ishiguro (ep 4)
Fumiya Kitajou (eps 3, 7)
Hiroshi Ikehata (ep 10)
Katsuya Kikuchi (ep 12)
Kazuya Komai (ep 8)
Kenji Setō (eps 2, 5, 11)
Kyōhei Ishiguro (ep 4)
Manabu Ono (ep 1)
Masanori Takahashi (ep 6)
Masashi Ishihama (OP)
Naoto Hosoda (ED)
Naoyasu Habu (ep 9)
Original creator: bb Kuroda
Character Design: Masakatsu Sasaki
Art Director: Hiroki Matsumoto
Chief Animation Director: Masakatsu Sasaki
Animation Director:
Aki Koishi (ep 11)
Hideyuki Kataoka (eps 7, 11)
Hiroyuki Kaidou (ep 4)
Hong Shen (eps 5, 11)
Kenji Fujisaki (ep 2)
Kenji Ōta (ep 3)
Kōji Ōdate (ep 9)
Masakatsu Sasaki (OP/ED; eps 1, 12)
Rondo Mizukami (ep 10)
Satoshi Koike (ep 6)
Sayuri Sugitou (eps 4, 8, 11)
Takahiro Sakai (ep 10)
Yūma Yokomatsu (ep 10)
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Kōjirō Hayashi
2nd Key Animation:
Akiko Kuribayashi (ep 11)
Atsushi Shibata (Anime R; ep 4)
Ayu Tanaka (Anime R; ep 4)
Chang Hee Won (ep 11)
Chie Saito (Studio Hibari; ep 11)
Eri Suzuki (Studio Hibari; ep 11)
Hina Nagata (Studio Hibari; ep 11)
Hiromi Kosuda (ep 11)
Hiroya Kamakura (ep 11)
Kazumasa Takeuchi (ep 12)
Kazuya Nakanishi (ep 11)
Ken'ichi Hirata (ep 11)
Kiyomi Nanba (Studio Hibari; ep 11)
Kōji Furuya (ep 11)
Maki Ando (eps 8, 11)
Masahito Wada (ep 12)
Megumi Ueda (Anime R; ep 4)
Mineko Yagihara (ep 11)
Naoko Shōkin (ep 11)
Nobuto Miki (ep 6)
Rena Okuyama (ep 1)
Sayumi Yokoyama (Anime R; ep 4)
Takuma Iino (ep 10)
Tatsuki Kanazaki (ep 1)
Toshiharu Kumaoka (eps 11-12)
Yasunori Matsumura (ED)
Yoshihiro Yoshioka (ep 12)
Yōsuke Imakubo (ep 11)
Yūta Masaki (ep 12)
3D Layout:
Arisa Matsuura (Domerica; eps 3-12)
Kazuya Ichikawa (Domerica)
Mayumi Kamada (Domerica)
Toshiharu Yukikata (Studio Easter)
Yusa Matsuo (Domerica)
Animation producer: Tomonori Shibata
Assistant Animation Director:
Etsuko Sumimoto (ep 6)
Kazuyuki Asaka (ep 6)
Masahiro Sunaga (ep 6)
Minoru Tanaka (ep 11)
Rondo Mizukami (ep 11)
Takahiro Sakai (ep 11)
Yūma Yokomatsu (ep 11)
Yumenosuke Tokuda (ep 6)
Assistant Director: Kenji Setō
Assistant Episode Director: Shūhei Matsushita (ep 5)
Background Art:
Akiko Kikuchi (Studio Easter)
Eriko Nakamura (Studio Easter)
Etsuko Abe (Studio Easter)
Hiroki Matsumoto (Studio Easter)
Kei Ichikura (Studio Easter)
Kiwami Hatta (Studio Tenjin)
Kuniaki Nemoto (Kusanagi)
Kyo Inoue (Kusanagi)
Michiko Morokuma (Studio Tenjin)
Reimi Sonegawa (Studio Tenjin)
Sachie Endou (Studio Easter)
Shinji Takasuka (Studio Easter)
Tomoyuki Kanezawa (Kusanagi)
Tomoyuki Kato (Kusanagi)
Yoshiko Kuroda (Studio Tenjin)
Yukihiro Watanabe (Studio Easter)
CG Line Director: Garyo Tanaka
Color design:
Hitomi Ikeda
Keiko Kai
Design: Hiroshi Mimata
Editing: Akinori Mishima
Finish Animation:
Aiko Shinohara (Studio Easter)
Akihiro Nakagawa (Rising Force)
Ayaka Nagano
Chisa Maeda (Wish)
Emiko Okui (Wish)
Emiko Onodera (Studio Easter)
Hiromi Watanabe (Wish)
Hitomi Ikeda (Studio Easter)
Hitomi Yamase (Wish)
Izumi Inoue (Wish)
Keiko Kai (Studio Easter; eps 1-2, 4-5, 8)
Keita Hara (Rising Force)
Kenji Matsuo (Rising Force)
Kouta Shiraishi (Studio Easter)
Kumiko Anno (Studio Easter)
Marie Koga (Wish)
Mie Hasegawa (Wish)
Naoki Ishikawa (Wish)
Naoko Sunahara (Wish)
Noriko Arisawa
Satoko Suzuki (Rising Force)
Sayaka Yamashita (Wish)
Shinya Terashima (Wish)
Shōhei Kinoshita (Wish)
Shun Hasegawa (Studio Easter)
Takaaki Izumi (Wish)
Tomomi Muta (Wish)
Yoko Chiba (Wish)
Yosuke Amamoto (Wish)
Yue Murakami (Wish)
Yuka Funayama (Studio Easter)
Yurie Matsuura (Rising Force)
Yūta Sakaino (Studio Easter)
Finishing Supervision: Naoki Ishikawa
In-between Animation Supervision: Naoki Ishikawa
Insert Song Performance:
Aoi Yūki (eps 1-3, 7-11)
Daisuke Ono (ep 7)
Kaori Fukuhara (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 7-10
)

Minako Kotobuki (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 5, 7, 9-10, 12
)

Yumi Uchiyama (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 6-7, 9-10, 12
)

Key Animation:
Ai Okabayashi (eps 5, 8)
Ai Yukimura (ep 9)
Aimei Sugai (ep 11)
Aki Nishizaki (eps 5, 8)
Akihiro Gotō (ep 9)
Akiko Itagaki (eps 4, 8)
Akio Hata (ep 10)
Akio Kitahara (ep 3)
Akio Watanabe (ep 10)
Akira Ono (ep 10)
Atsushi Kasano (Studio Angle; ep 11)
Atsushi Nikaidō (Studio Angle; eps 3, 7, 11)
Atsushi Usui (ep 4)
Aya Kubota (ep 12)
Ayako Suzuki (ep 6)
Ayumi Namiki (ep 10)
Ayumu Kotake (ep 10)
Chang Hee Won (ep 2)
Chie Hashimoto (AIC; ep 5)
Chūji Nakajima (eps 2, 7)
Daisuke Agata (ep 6)
Eiji Kaneda (ep 6)
Eri Osada (ep 2)
Eriko Iida (ep 5)
Fujio Inose (ep 4)
Fumihide Sai (ep 12)
Fumika Hasegawa (ep 3)
Haruka Sanefuji (ep 8)
Haruna Katsu (eps 7, 11)
Hayato Hashiguchi (ep 4)
Hibari Suginami (ep 10)
Hideki Ito (ep 8)
Hideo Maru (ep 2)
Hideyuki Kataoka (eps 1, 12)
Hirofumi Nakata (ep 12)
Hiroki Moritomo (ep 3)
Hiromi Funatsu (ep 3)
Hiromi Higuchi (Studio Hibari; ep 12)
Hiromi Nanbe (ep 9)
Hironori Tanaka (eps 1, 4-5)
Hiroshi Kosuga (ED; eps 1, 4, 8, 12)
Hiroshi Mimata (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 7, 12
)

Hiroyuki Kaidou (ED; ep 4)
Hiroyuki Oshima (ep 2)
Hiroyuki Shimizu (ep 2)
Hisao Muramatsu (ep 6)
Hisashi Higashijima (ep 9)
Hisashi Samejima (eps 2, 7, 11)
Hitoshi Morikawa (ep 1)
Hokuto Sakiyama (ep 10)
Jun Kawai (ep 10)
Jun Mori (eps 1, 5)
Jun Nakagawa (ep 12)
Jung Yi Han (ep 9)
Kaisen (ep 10)
Kanako Ōyabu (ep 3)
Kaori Urata (ep 12)
Katsuya Kikuchi (ep 1)
Katsuyuki Sato (ep 10)
Kazuya Nakanishi (ep 7)
Kazuyuki Ueda (ep 10)
Keiji Gotō (OP)
Keiko Kitayama (ep 10)
Kenichi Kutsuna (ep 10)
Kenji Fujisaki (OP; ep 12)
Kenji Fukuyama (ep 6)
Kenji Ōta (ep 3)
Kiyoshi Komatsubara (ep 12)
Koji Nagatomi (ep 5)
Kōta Sera (eps 1, 5, 12)
Kunio Takahide (ep 9)
Kyouhei Tezuka (eps 2, 12)
Maki Ando (ep 12)
Maki Fujita (ep 3)
Makito Uehara (eps 4, 8, 12)
Manabu Murota (ep 5)
Mariko Iwazaki (ep 10)
Masaaki Sakurai (ED)
Masaaki Susowake (eps 2, 5)
Masahiro Sunaga (ep 6)
Masakatsu Sasaki (ep 1)
Masatsugu Yamamoto (ep 3) 
Michiyo Hirabayashi (ep 4)
Miho Katō (ep 9)
Minoru Tanaka (ep 1)
Misa Matsuoka (AIC; ep 5)
Mitsuaki Takabe (eps 4, 8, 12)
Miyuki Goto (ep 1)
Miyuki Matsumoto (ep 6)
Miyuki Oshiro (ep 3)
Motoki Yagi (ep 10)
Naoaki Hōjō (ep 11)
Naoki Suehiro (ep 4)
Naoki Yamauchi (ep 3)
Naoko Shōkin (ep 7)
Noriko Sato (ep 3)
Nozomi Ushijima (ep 1)
Pei Qi Peng (ep 6)
Rena Okuyama (eps 5, 12)
Rie Tamaki (ep 9)
Rumi Abe (ep 6)
Ryōta Azuma (ep 9)
Ryōtarō Akao (ep 7)
Ryūhei Aoyagi (6 episodes
eps 2, 4, 7-8, 11-12
)

Sachiyo Matsubayashi (eps 5, 8)
Sakae Shibuya (ep 6)
Sakurako Mitsuhashi (ep 8)
Satoru Fujimoto (ED; ep 4)
Satoshi Harayama (eps 5, 11)
Satoshi Imura (ep 5)
Satoshi Kimura (ep 5)
Sayuri Sugitou (OP; eps 1, 12)
Seiji Masuda (ep 3)
Shigenori Taniguchi (ep 1)
Shingo Nakamura (ep 3)
Shinichi Iimura (eps 1, 4, 8)
Shinichi Miyamae (ep 9)
Shinji Yamamoto (ep 3)
Shunryō Yamamura (ep 2)
Shuuji Miyazaki (ep 1)
Taisuke Iwasaki (ep 10)
Takafumi Hoshikawa (ED)
Takao Takegami (eps 1, 5)
Takashi Hirabayashi (ep 4)
Takayuki Gorai (ep 1)
Takayuki Hanyuu (ep 4)
Takayuki Kitagawa (ep 10)
Takehiro Nakayama (ep 3)
Takenori Tsukuma (ep 4)
Takeshi Kusaka (eps 5-6)
Tatsuki Kanazaki (eps 5, 7-8)
Tatsuya Abe (ep 7)
Tatsuya Ikeda (ep 6)
Tatsuya Yoshihara (OP; ep 10)
Tetsurō Nireki (ep 8)
Tetsuya Satō (ep 10)
Tomoe Nishio (eps 2, 7)
Tomoko Nitta (eps 7, 11)
Toshiko Inada (ep 6)
Toshinari Yamashita (ep 3)
Toshiyuki Anzai (ep 6)
Yasuhito Murakami (ep 10)
Yasuko Miyazaki (ep 10)
Yasunori Matsumura (eps 3, 5, 11)
Yōko Ikekawa (ep 3)
Yoshuharu Kudō (ep 8)
Yōsuke Kobashi (ep 7)
Young-Rae Cho (ep 9)
Yūdai Suzuki (ep 1)
Yūgo Mizutani (ep 12)
Yuichi Hirano (ep 9)
Yūichirō Fukaya (eps 4, 8, 12)
Yuki Komatsu (OP; ep 10)
Yukiko Akiyama (ep 12)
Yukitaka Kimura (eps 2, 7, 11)
Yumiko Nakamura (ep 9)
Yuta Yamazaki (ep 10)
Yuya Iwashita (ep 6)
Music Performance: Tomoki Iwanaga (Cello)
Music producer: Shinji Yamauchi
Planning Assistant: Yumiko Kobayashi
Production Advancement:
Isao Ueno (eps 4, 8, 12)
Joe Ōtani (eps 2, 7, 11)
Kazumasa Fukuda (ep 3)
Kei Nakatsuka (eps 1, 5)
Kentaro Hashimoto (ep 9)
Ryūji Matsuoka (ep 6)
Sōichirō Miyano (ep 6)
Yoshinobu Kasai (ep 10)
Production Desk: Shinnosuke Wakushima
Setting Production: Yoroshi Hida
Theme Song Performance:
Aoi Yūki (ED)
Kaori Fukuhara (ED)
Marina Kawano (OP)
Minako Kotobuki (ED)
Yumi Uchiyama (ED)
Aoi Yūki as Tōru
Minako Kotobuki as Yūko
Yumi Uchiyama as Nagi

Ai Matayoshi as Yutaka
Daisuke Ono as Satō-sensei
Minori Chihara as Kitō-sensei
Miyuki Sawashiro as Kamate-sensei
Momoko Saito as Miho

Ai Orikasa as Tooru's mother (eps 5, 11-12)
Daisuke Ono as Male student A
Kōsuke Toriumi as Male student B
Mako as Hira-chan (ep 11)
Yūko Mizutani as Run's mother
Japanese companies
3DCGI: SANZIGEN
Animation Production: Studio Gokumi
Backgrounds:
Kusanagi (eps 3, 8)
Studio Easter
Studio TENJIN
Photography: Graphinica
Photography Assistance: Scan-ya
Production Assistance:
Encourage Films (ep 6)
Madhouse (ep 9)
Nomad (ep 3)
Picture Magic (ep 10)
English staff
English cast
Translation: Javier Lopez
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Producer:
David Del Rio (Blu-ray)
John Ledford (Blu-ray)

BD Authoring: Joel McCray
Blu-Ray Menu Design: Andrea Rodriguez
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Packaging Design:
Andrea Rodriguez (Blu-ray)
Larry Koteff
Production:
Janice Williams (Blu-ray)
Joey Goubeaud (Blu-ray)
Luke Patterson (Blu-ray)
Roxanne Terrell (Blu-ray)
Production Assistant:
Cameron Hohle (Blu-ray)
Dwayne Jones
E.W. Rector, III (DVD, Blu-ray)
Jose DeArmas (Blu-ray)
Kayla King
Kjell Doucet (Blu-ray)
Ned Gayle (Blu-ray)
Shannon Reed (Blu-ray)
Production Coordination: April Walker (Blu-ray)
Production manager:
Joey Goubeaud
Luke Patterson (Blu-ray)
Subtitle Formatting:
Dwayne Jones (Blu-ray)
Jessica Kim (Blu-ray)
Subtitle Timing: Dwayne Jones
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
(none)
English companies
Additional Translation: JN Productions
Distributor: Section23 Films
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Subtitled)
Hulu
The Anime Network
Licensed by:
Sentai Filmworks (Expired)
Post Production: Seraphim Digital
Production: Sentai Filmworks (Blu-ray)

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