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Arakawa Under the Bridge (TV)

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Alternative title:
Под мостом над Аракавой (Russian)
荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ (Japanese)
荒川爆笑團 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: comedy, romance
Themes: absurdity, homeless
Plot Summary: Kou Ichinomiya has always lived according to the creed of his wealthy, successful family: never be in debt to anyone. But one day, under the Arakawa Bridge, his life is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. In order to pay her back, Kou promises to be her boyfriend; and thus begins his new life under the bridge.
User Ratings: 1144 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 72 votes (sub:64, dub:3, others:5
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Excellent: 227 votes (sub:204, dub:5, raw:2, ?:1, others:15
10 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Very good: 369 votes (sub:336, dub:10, raw:4, ?:2, others:17
9 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Czech subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 262 votes (sub:230, dub:16, ?:1, raw:1, others:14
8 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 101 votes (sub:91, dub:3, raw:1, others:6
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Chinese mandarin subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 65 votes (sub:60, dub:1, others:4
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 Weak: 22 votes (sub:21, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2335 users, rank: #487 (of 9789)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.536 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5624, rank: #1721 (of 9926)
Weighted mean: 7.440 (Good+), rank: #1895 (of 9926) (seen all: 7.66 / seen some: 6.50 / won't finish: 4.50)
Bayesian estimate: 7.440 (Good+), rank: #1600 (of 7497)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2010-04-04 to 2010-06-27
Opening Theme:
#1: "Venus to Jesus" (ヴィーナスとジーザス) by Etsuko Yakushimaru
#2: "Title Nante Jibun de Kangaenasai na" (タイトルなんて自分で考えなさいな) by Miyuki Sawashiro (ep 5)
Ending Theme:
"Sakasama Bridge" (逆様ブリッジ) by Suneohair
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Review:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Arakawa Under the Bridge Season 1 (Sub.Blu-ray) 2013-01-29 (from $50.99)
    Arakawa Under the Bridge Season 1 [Premium Edition] (Sub.Blu-ray + DVD) 2011-07-05 (from $253.98)
DVD (Region 1)
    Arakawa Under the Bridge Season 1 (Sub.DVD) 2013-01-29 (from $69.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director: Akiyuki Simbo
Series Composition: Deko Akao
Script:
Deko Akao (eps 1-13)
Storyboard:
Hisatoshi Shimizu (ep 4)
Kiyoko Sayama (eps 8, 11)
Naoyuki Tatsuwa (ED; ep 7)
Satoshi Kuwabara (ep 13)
Sayo Yamamoto (OP)
Shinichi Omata (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 5, 11, 13
)

Shinji Satō (ep 12)
Tomoyuki Itamura (ep 9)
Toshimasa Suzuki (ep 6)
Toshinori Narita (eps 3, 10)
Yoshihiro Mori (eps 4, 7, 11)
Yusuke Kamata (ep 7)
Episode Director:
Nobukage Kimura (eps 5, 12)
Shinichi Omata (eps 2, 11)
Susumu Endō (eps 4, 10)
Tomoyuki Itamura (ep 9)
Toshinori Narita (eps 3-4)
Yoshihiro Mori (ep 8)
Yoshito Mikamo (eps 6, 13)
Yukihiro Miyamoto (ep 1)
Yusuke Kamata (ep 7)
Unit Director:
Naoyuki Tatsuwa (OP; ED)
Original creator: Hikaru Nakamura
Character Design: Nobuhiro Sugiyama
Art Director: Kohji Azuma
Chief Animation Director: Nobuhiro Sugiyama
Animation Director:
Akihisa Takano (eps 9, 12)
Joji Yanagise (ep 5)
Kazuhiko Tamura (ep 5)
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 10)
Kazuyuki Yamayoshi (ep 3)
Kōsuke Murayama (ep 12)
Mamoru Yokota (ep 11)
Masaichi Ishikawa (eps 2, 5)
Megumi Noda (eps 7, 10)
Michio Hasegawa (eps 3, 7)
Natsuko Suzuki (ep 3)
Nobuhiro Sugiyama (ep 1)
Satomi Matsuura (ep 10)
Yasutoshi Iwasaki (ep 9)
Yoshino Honda (5 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6, 11, 13
)

Yuka Takemori (eps 3, 7, 10)
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Shouhei Uchimura
Producer: Gou Shukuri

2nd Key Animation:
Asami Nakatani
Aya Miyajima (ep 11)
Chie Tanaka (eps 1, 3, 12)
Hideaki Onishi (ep 12)
Hiroyuki Saita (ep 11)
Hiroyuki Saitō (ep 13)
Kaoru Sekiya (ep 11)
Kōji Sasaki (ep 9)
Mami Nakazawa
Masaaki Nibe (ep 13)
Masahiro Hashio (eps 2, 11)
Masahito Okata (eps 9, 12)
Masato Anno
Mayuko Matsumoto
Miho Ayabe (ep 12)
Miho Sekimoto (ep 12)
Misako Izumi (eps 9, 12)
Motohiro Taniguchi (ep 3)
Nozomu Fujii (ep 12)
Reina Tsuchiya (eps 9, 12)
Shinji Abe (ep 2)
Taro Aoba (ep 9)
Yōsuke Imakubo (eps 2, 11)
Yuko Kimura (ep 3)
Yūta Itō (eps 3, 10)
Animation producer: Mitsutoshi Kubota
Color design:
Izumi Takizawa
Kanako Satō (eps 3, 5, 7)
Color Inspection:
Izumi Takizawa
Kanako Satō (eps 3, 5, 7)
Editing: Rie Matsubara
Editing Assistant: Hiromi Sasaki
Finish Animation:
Mami Hirai (ep 10)
Rieko Ishii (eps 9, 12)
Yasuko Watanabe (ep 10)
Finish Check: Rieko Ishii
In-Between Animation:
Aiko Utsumi (eps 3, 7, 10)
Ayako Kobayashi (eps 7, 10)
Chikako Ueki (eps 8, 11, 13)
Hitomi Yamashita (eps 8, 13)
Keiko Fujii (eps 7, 10)
Maiko Shibata (ep 3)
Masaaki Nibe (eps 8, 11, 13)
Masahiro Hashio (eps 8, 11)
Masaki Furukawa (eps 7, 10)
Minao Otsuki (eps 3, 7, 10)
Mitsuru Chiba (eps 8, 11, 13)
Takanori Yonekura (eps 3, 7, 10)
Tamae Iwabe (eps 3, 7, 10)
Yamato Ouchi (eps 3, 7, 10)
Yasue Katori (ep 1)
Yu Kuramoto (eps 7, 10)
Yuichiro Mizutani (eps 8, 11, 13)
Yuki Sawairi (eps 3, 10)
Yūsuke Tomita (ep 7)
Yūta Takahashi (eps 3, 10)
In-Between Check:
Masahiro Hashio (ep 13)
Miyuki Nakajima
Key Animation:
Aki Kumada
Aki Yamauchi
Akihisa Takano (ep 9)
Akiko Kumada (ep 11)
Ani Katō (ep 6)
Asami Nakatani (eps 11, 13)
Atsuko Yamazaki (ep 12)
Aya Yoshioka (eps 1, 9)
Chie Ōtsuki (eps 1, 5, 9)
Chie Yoshimoto (eps 7, 10)
Dai Kanzaki (ep 6)
Daisuke Kurose (eps 3, 7, 10)
Daisuke Takemoto (ep 2)
Eiji Inoue (ep 12)
Eiji Kaneda (eps 2, 6)
Eri Fujii (ep 2)
Erika Arakawa (ep 1)
Etsuko Yokoyama (ep 9)
Fumio Matsumoto (ep 9)
Futoshi Suzuki (eps 3, 10)
Fuyumi Toriyama (ep 5)
Genichirō Abe (ED; ep 1)
Genki Matsumoto (ED; ep 1)
Haruka Satō (ep 9)
Hayaka Ikeda (ep 13)
Hideo Amemiya
Hidetoshi Ōmori (eps 8, 12)
Hiroaki Iwata
Hiroko Yamada (ep 8)
Hiroko Yoshida (eps 3, 7, 10)
Hiromi Ishigami (ep 1)
Hiromi Sakamoto (ep 5)
Hironori Sawada (ep 3)
Hiroyuki Sekigawa (eps 6, 11, 13)
Hitoshi Kagiyama (ep 9)
Joji Yanagise (ep 5)
Kaoru Maehara (eps 3, 7, 10)
Kaoru Sekiya (ep 13)
Kaoru Tabe (ep 6)
Katsuyuki Yamazaki (ep 5)
Kazuhiko Tamura (ep 5)
Kazuko Tsujimura (eps 8, 12)
Kazuyuki Fujita (ep 6)
Keiichi Sugiura
Keiji Shigesawa (ep 6)
Ken Takahashi (ep 10)
Kenji Fukazawa (eps 3, 10)
Kiyoshi Matsushita (ep 5)
Kōhei Yamazaki (ep 10)
Kōsuke Murayama (OP)
Kumiko Kitano
Kyohei Kogura (ep 9)
Mai Otsuka (ep 2)
Majiro (OP; ep 10)
Maki Fujita (ep 12)
Makiko Uemura (ep 11)
Marina Sato (eps 6, 13)
Masaaki Takiyama (ep 9)
Masaaki Yamamoto (ep 2)
Masafumi Tayori (ep 12)
Masahiro Andō (ep 9)
Masao Kane (ep 5)
Masayuki Hiraoka (ED; ep 9)
Mayuko Matsumoto (eps 8, 11, 13)
Megumi Imai (ep 9)
Megumi Ueda (ep 13)
Mihoko Hosoi (ED)
Misako Izumi (eps 1, 13)
Miyuki Honda
Miyuki Nakamura
Moeka Hosoda (ep 8)
Motohiro Taniguchi (eps 7, 10)
Naomi Ide (4 episodes
eps 2, 6, 11, 13
)

Naomi Nakazawa (ep 11)
Naoto Takemoto (ep 1)
Natsue Chibayama
Nobuhiko Kawagami (ep 13)
Nobuhiro Sugiyama (ep 1)
Reiko Nozaki (ep 1)
Reina Tsuchiya (eps 1, 13)
Rie Kaneko (ep 12)
Rika Kanno (eps 3, 10)
Ryo Imamura (ep 1)
Ryohei Aoyanagi (eps 8, 12)
Saori Sakiguchi (ep 12)
Satomi Kurita (eps 1, 9)
Satomi Matsuura (eps 7, 10)
Sawa Fukami
Seiko Sakai (eps 3, 7, 10)
Shigeki Satō (ep 3)
Shigeki Sunada (ED; ep 1)
Shigenori Taniguchi (eps 5, 7, 10)
Shigeyuki Suga (ep 9)
Shinji Abe (ep 6)
Shinsuke Kasahara (ep 5)
Shintaro Tsubota (eps 3, 7, 10)
Shinya Sasaki (ep 7)
Shoko Nakao (ep 1)
Shōta Iwasaki (ep 1)
Sōya Hara (4 episodes
eps 2, 8, 11, 13
)

Takafumi Hino (ep 8)
Takahiro Yoshimatsu (OP)
Takahito Fukuyama (ep 5)
Takanori Suzuki (5 episodes
eps 3, 6-7, 11, 13
)

Takeo Yoshioka (ep 12)
Takeshi Morita (ep 3)
Takeshi Okada (eps 6, 8)
Takuya Yamamoto (ep 6)
Taro Aoba (eps 10, 12)
Tatsuyuki Maeda (eps 6, 8, 12)
Tetsuo Morita (OP)
Tetsurō Yamada (ep 9)
Tomokazu Sugimura (ep 11)
Tomoko Hamanaka (ep 12)
Tomomi Kumata (eps 3, 10)
Tomoyo Sawada (ep 12)
Tomoyuki Arai (ep 3)
Tsukasa Sakurai (ep 2)
Tsuyoshi Sasaki (ep 12)
Yasuko Chiba (eps 3, 10)
Yasutoshi Iwasaki (ep 9)
Yasuyuki Kai (ep 9)
Yayoi Kamigaki (ep 6)
Yōko Asanuma (ep 8)
Yoshihiro Matsumoto (eps 3, 10)
Yoshihito Narimatsu (ep 12)
Yoshikatsu Inoue (ep 3)
Yoshiki Mizuno (eps 7, 10)
Yoshiyuki Funatsu (eps 8, 12)
Yōsuke Imakubo (eps 6, 13)
Yūichi Dan
Yūichi Hisagi (OP)
Yūichirō Yamada (eps 6, 8, 12)
Yūji Shibata (ep 12)
Yuka Kudō (ED)
Yuka Takemori (eps 3, 10)
Yūki Kawamura (eps 4, 13)
Yuki Koike (ep 1)
Yūki Morikawa (ep 3)
Yukinori Kawamura (ep 13)
Yukiyo Komito (eps 1, 9)
Yuko Kimura (eps 7, 10)
Yurie Amano
Yuta Shiraishi (eps 3, 10)
Yuuka Tanaka (ep 3)
Yūya Kumagai (eps 7, 10)
Recording: Yasunori Ebina
Recording Assistant: Mai Sunaba
Sound Effects: Hiroki Nozaki
Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Special Effects: Kensuke Katsu
Theme Song Arrangement:
Kenji Kondou (OP)
SuneoHair (ED)
Theme Song Composition: Kenji Watanabe (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Kenji Watanabe (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Etsuko Yakushimaru (OP)
Miyuki Sawashiro (OP ep 5)
SuneoHair (ED)
Hiroshi Kamiya as Kou "Riku" Ichinomiya
Maaya Sakamoto as Nino

Chiaki Omigawa as P-ko
Chiwa Saitō as
Kou "Riku" Ichinomiya (young)
Stella
Chō as Terumasa Takai
Fumihiko Tachiki as Billy
Hōchū Ohtsuka as Toru "Shiro" Shirai
Keiji Fujiwara as Village Chief
Miyuki Sawashiro as Maria
Rie Tanaka as Shimazaki
Rikiya Koyama as Seki Ichinomiya
Ryoko Shintani as Tetsuro
Takehito Koyasu as Sister
Tomokazu Sugita as Hoshi
Yūichi Nakamura as Last Samurai
Yūko Gotō as Jacqueline
Yūko Sanpei as Tetsuo

Binbin Takaoka as Minister of Land and Infrastructure (ep 12)
Fumihiko Tachiki as Narrator
Kyosuke Suzuki as Worker A (ep 11)
Naomi Kusumi as Suzuki (ep 10)
Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Construction Company President Shimamoto (ep 11)
Ryō Iwasaki as Minister's Secretary (ep 12)
Tomokazu Sugita as Shimamoto
Youhei Nishina as Worker D (ep 11)
Yū Kobayashi as Amazoness (ep 13)
Yuka Saitō as Girl (ep 1)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: SHAFT
Background Art: Studio Tulip
Broadcaster:
Aichi Television Broadcasting (2010-04-07)
AT-X (2010-04-10)
TV Hokkaido (2010-04-09)
TV Osaka (2010-04-06)
TV Setouchi (2010-04-08)
TV Tokyo (2010-04-04)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2010-04-05)
Key Animation: A.C.G.T (ep 9)
Music Production: King Records
Production Cooperation: Marvy Jack (ep 5)
Recording Studio: Studio 2010
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
special effects: DIGITAL@SHAFT
English companies
English staff
(none)
Distributor: MVM (UK & Ireland)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll
FUNimation Entertainment (via NIS America)
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Hanabee Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
NIS America
English cast
(none)
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Louie Paraboles as Kou "Riku" Ichinomiya

Anthony Steven San Juan as Village Chief (Sonchou)
Candice Arellano as Stella
Christian Velarde as Tetsuro
Mark Muñoz as Hoshi
Sherwin Revestir as
Maria
P-ko
Steven Bontogon as Tetsuo
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: HERO TV
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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