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Grenadier (TV)

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©2004 Sousuke Kaise / Kadokawashoten / Grenadier Project 


 
Alternative title:
Grenadier - Hohoemi no Senshi (Japanese) 
Grenadier the Smiling Senshi 
Grenadier, la Senshi Sonriente (Spanish) 
Rushuna - wystrzałowa wojowniczka (Polish) 
Гренадёр (Russian) 
グレネーダー ~ほほえみの閃士~ (Japanese) 
天才少女閃士 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Genres: action , comedy , fantasy 
Themes: ecchi , fanservice , girls with guns 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Rushuna is a blonde and very beautiful Senshi (gun expert) that travels through the world with one purpose. This is to make the world a peaceful place by instead of fighting with weapons, taking away the people´s will to fight by giving them a smile. Although she doesn´t want to fight, she is forced too and shows amazing gun skills. In this journey she meets Yajiro, a Mercenary that uses a sword to fight and joins her on her journey. 
Watch Grenadier: The Beautiful Warrior on:Tubi TVTubi TVFandango At HomeFandango At Home
User Ratings: 1237 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 45 votes (sub:33, dub:9, edit.dub:1, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Excellent: 105 votes (sub:89, dub:14, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 238 votes (sub:175, dub:54, raw:2, ?:1, others:6
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 361 votes (sub:267, dub:80, ?:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1, others:11
5 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 245 votes (sub:190, dub:46, ?:2, others:7
2 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 98 votes (sub:79, dub:17, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 55 votes (sub:45, dub:8, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Weak: 52 votes (sub:43, dub:9)
 Bad: 22 votes (sub:19, dub:3)
 Awful: 11 votes (sub:9, raw:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (sub:5)
Seen in part or in whole by 2465 users, rank: #460 (of 9903)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.643 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.8117, rank: #5436 (of 10050)
Weighted mean: 6.545 (Good−), rank: #5679 (of 10050) (seen all: 6.73 / seen some: 5.37 / won't finish: 4.13)
Bayesian estimate: 6.555 (Good−), rank: #5250 (of 7615)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 12 
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2004-10-14 to 2005-01-13 
2005-06-28 to 2005-10-25 (North America) 
2006-06-20 (Spain - Buzz) 
Release dates: We have 7
Opening Theme:
#1: "KOHAKU" by Mikuni Shimokawa 
#2: "Akatsuki no Sora wo Kakeru" by Hiromi Sato 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kanashimi ni Makenaide" by Mikuni Shimokawa 
#2: "Hana no Youni" by Hiromi Sato 
Official website:
天才少女閃士 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Trivia: We have 1
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Grenadier - Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2022-01-18 (from $31.33)
DVD (Region 1)
    Grenadier - Service With a Smile (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $4.15)
    Grenadier - Service With A Smile [w/ Figure] (DVD 1) 2005-06-28
    Grenadier - Holy Handgrenades [w/ Pillowcase] (DVD 2) delayed/cancelled
    Grenadier - Holy Handgrenades (DVD 2) 2005-08-30 (from $23.97)
    Grenadier - Touch and Go (DVD 3) 2005-10-25 (from $3.24)
    Grenadier - Touch and Go + Artbox (DVD 3) 2005-10-25 (from $118.00)
    Grenadier - Complete Collection (DVD 1-2) 2022-04-05 (from $19.99)
    Grenadier - Premium Collection (DVD 1-3) 2006-08-15
    Grenadier - Complete Collection (DVD 1-3) 2007-01-09 (from $14.87)
    Grenadier - Complete Series Litebox [Limited Edition w/Figure] (DVD 1-3) 2009-08-11
    Grenadier - Complete Series [Litebox] (DVD 1-3) 2009-08-11 (from $26.95)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroshi Kōjina 
Series Composition: Akira Okeya 
Screenplay:
Akira Okeya  (eps 1-12) 
Storyboard:
Heon Pyo Hong  (eps 5, 7) 
Hiroaki Yoshikawa  (eps 2-3, 9, 11) 
Hiroshi Kōjina  (OP1/ED1; eps 1, 12) 
Hiroshi Takeuchi (ep 10) 
Satoshi Nakagawa  (eps 4, 8) 
Satoshi Nishimura (OP2/ED2; ep 6) 
Episode Director:
Heon Pyo Hong  (eps 3, 5, 7, 10) 
Hiroaki Yoshikawa  (eps 2, 9, 11) 
Hiroshi Kōjina  (eps 1, 12) 
Satoshi Nakagawa  (eps 4, 6) 
Yoshihisa Matsumoto (ep 8) 
Unit Director:
Hiroshi Kōjina (OP1/ED1) 
Satoshi Nishimura (OP2/ED2) 
Music: Yasunori Iwasaki 
Original creator: Sousuke Kaise 
Character Design: Hideki Inoue 
Art Director: Yukio Abe 
Chief Animation Director: Hideki Inoue 
Animation Director:
Ayako Kurata  (ep 2) 
Hideki Inoue  (OP1/ED1, OP2/ED2; eps 1, 12) 
Kanae Suwa  (eps 4, 10) 
Katsumi Aoshima  (ep 7) 
Kōji Sugimoto (ep 8) 
Mika Takahashi (高橋美香)  (eps 6, 11) 
Minefumi Harada  (ep 5) 
Miwa Ōshima (ep 9) 
Toshiyuki Kanno  (ep 3) 
Director of Photography:
Akisuke Maruyama 
Tetsuyū Maruyama 
3D CG: Daisuke Sugai 
Animation Check:
Kiyomi Ishiwata 
Masako Sato 
Animation producer: Hiroshi Sakurai 
Assistant Animation Director: Toshiyuki Kanno (ep 12) 
Assistant Chief Animation Director:
Hatsue Koizumi (ep 7) 
Toshiyuki Kanno 
Audio Commentary:
Hiroshi Kōjina (eps 11-12) 
Kazuya Nakai (eps 1-4, 7-12) 
Mami Kosuge (eps 5-6) 
Mikako Takahashi (eps 1-12) 
Nobuyuki Hiyama (ep 8) 
Yuki Matsuoka (eps 5-6, 9-10) 
Color Coordination: Yoshimi Mogi 
Color setting: Kazumi Hasegawa (ep 6) 
Digital Paint:
Chiharu Hashimoto (Peacock) 
Kazumi Fujita (Studio L) 
Maki Kanamori (Peacock) 
Maya Nakamura (Angle) 
Mika Kinoshita (Studio L) 
Shinichi Kaneko (Angle) 
Tomomi Yanagida (Studio L) 
Toshimi Nishihata (Angle) 
Tsukasa Ishimura (Studio L) 
Yoko Suzuki (Peacock) 
Yoriko Matsumori (Peacock) 
Editing: Yūji Oka 
In-Between Animation:
Aika Sakuramoto (Angle) 
Ami Nagata (Studio Live) 
Atsuko Watanabe (Studio Live) 
Ayumi Fujishita (MI) 
Hayato Hashiguchi (MI) 
Kazuya Nakamura (MI) 
Kei Shimizu (Angle) 
Kiyomi Ishiwata (Studio Live) 
Makoto Makabe (Studio Live) 
Natsumi Yoshida (Angle) 
Ryoko Nakamura (Studio Live) 
Yae Tanaka (Angle) 
Yasuko Suzuki (MI) 
Yuji Ito (MI) 
Key Animation:
Ai Kikuchi 
Akira Sotoya (Studio Live) 
Atsuko Watanabe 
Ayako Kurata (Studio Live) 
Daisuke Yoshida (Studio Live) 
Emiko Miyagawa (Studio Live) 
Hatsue Koizumi 
Hideki Inoue  (OP1/ED1) 
Hideki Nagamachi 
Hiroaki Yoshikawa  (OP1/ED1) 
Hiromi Maezawa (Studio Live) 
Hiromichi Kikuchi (Studio Live) 
Hiroshi Kōjina  (OP1/ED1; ep 1) 
Hiroshi Takeuchi  (OP2/ED2) 
Jun Yukawa 
Kanae Suwa 
Kaori Takahashi 
Katsumi Aoshima (Studio Live) 
Kazuki Miura (Studio Live) 
Kazuko Hayakawa 
Kyōko Takeuchi 
Makoto Makabe 
Mariko Oka 
Masayoshi Kikuchi (ep 8) 
Mayumi Fukushi 
Mika Takahashi 
Minefumi Harada (Studio Live) 
Miwa Ōshima 
Miwa Sakai 
Nishiki Itaoka 
Noriyasu Yamauchi 
Rie Kaneko (Studio Live) 
Ryoko Nakamura 
Taiichirō Kohara (Studio Live) 
Takaaki Hirayama 
Takao Suzuki (Studio Live) 
Toshiyuki Kanno (Studio Live)  (ep 3) 
Toyoo Ashida (Studio Live) 
Yoshifumi Miyaji 
Yoshinori Deno (Studio Live) 
Yosuharu Kudō 
Yuichiro Hayashi  (Studio Live; OP, ED, eyecatch; 7 episodes
eps 1-4, 9-10, 12
)
 
Yūji Tanaka (Studio Live) 
Yukiko Saitou (Studio Live) 
Layout Supervision: Daisuke Yoshida 
Music producer: Takashi Watanabe 
Production Committee:
Atsushi Isoyama (Pony Canyon) 
Izumi Yamashita (Pony Canyon) 
Jin Kawamura (Toshiba Entertainment) 
Shinji Tanaka (Toshiba Entertainment) 
Tadashi Miyamoto (Shochiku) 
Takao Minegishi (Hakuhodo Media Partners) 
Toshio Iizuka (Shochiku) 
Production Cooperation: Daisuke Katagiri (WOWOW) 
Production manager: Akiko Matsumoto (Studio Live) 
Publicity: Yuka Nakai (WOWOW) 
Recording engineer: Tohru Kumakura 
Setting Manager: Tomoaki Shimamura 
Setting Production: Takumi Yamamura 
Sound Effects: Masahiro Shōji (Fizz Sound Creation) 
Sound Supervision: Toshiki Kameyama 
Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda 
Theme Song Arrangement: Junpei Fujita (Op & Ed) 
Theme Song Composition:
Junpei Fujita (Op) 
Masami Okui (OP lyrics) 
Toshiro Yabuki 
Theme Song Performance:
Hiromi Sato (OP 2/ED 2) 
Mikuni Shimokawa (OP 1/ED 1) 
Title Logo Design: Kazunori Tanaka 
Video Format Editing:
Masami Suzuki 
Rie Kasahara 
Chieko Honda as Tenshi 
Kazuya Nakai as Yajiro Kojima 
Mikako Takahashi as Rushuna Tendo 

Chieko Honda as Setsuna Oomido 
Fumihiko Tachiki as Sanzou Kurama (ep 7) 
Hajime Iijima as
General (ep 1) 
Official (ep 7) 
Storekeeper (eps 2-3) 
Underling (eps 5-6) 
Kanae Abe as
Student (ep 8) 
Tenshi's Aide (ep 2) 
Kaori Mizuhashi as Teppa Aizen (young; ep 8) 
Kazuhiro Nakata as Clown 
Kazuki Yao as Shinnosuke Hakubi / Suiro (ep 10) 
Keiji Hirai as
Farmer (ep 2) 
Hashimoto (ep 5) 
Kanetsugu (lord; ep 1) 
Mr. Hatagoya (ep 4) 
Ken Uo as
Aide (ep 11) 
Elder (ep 2) 
Soldier (eps 1, 10, 12) 
Underling (eps 4-6) 
Villager (ep 3) 
Kiyoyuki Yanada as Demon Nago (ep 1) 
Kumi Sakuma as Kasumi 
Mahiru Konno as
Mrs. Hatagoya (ep 4) 
Tokaro Woman (ep 5) 
Mami Kosuge as Touka Kurenai 
Mina Tomizawa as Woman (ep 10) 
Motoki Takagi as Furon (eps 2-3) 
Naoko Suzuki as
Fuuka Shirato (ep 9) 
Tokaro Woman (ep 5) 
Noa Nagai as
Ai Hatagoya (ep 4) 
Koto 
Tokaro Woman (ep 5) 
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Aizen Teppa (eps 8-12) 
Nozomi Masu as
Student (ep 8) 
Tokaro Woman (ep 5) 
Sayaka Kinoshita as Student (ep 8) 
Susumu Akagi as
Mountain Bandit (ep 2) 
Official (ep 7) 
Soldier (eps 1, 10-12) 
Underling (eps 4-6) 
Villager (ep 3) 
Tadahisa Saizen as Ganzo Tenma (eps 5-7) 
Takashi Kondō as
Gate Keeper (ep 2) 
Soldier (ep 1) 
Takashi Matsuyama as Teppa's Father (ep 8) 
Takayuki Suzuki as
Mountain Bandit (ep 2) 
Official (ep 7) 
Soldier (ep 1) 
Swordsman (ep 10) 
Underling (eps 5-6) 
Villager (eps 3-4) 
Tomohiro Nishimura as Banmaru Zoshi (eps 6-7) 
Tomomichi Nishimura as Tengu (ep 4) 
Yuki Matsuoka as Mikan Kurenai 
Japanese companies
Animation Assistance: Ehrgeiz 
Animation Production:
Group TAC 
Studio Live 
Backgrounds: Tokyo Kids 
Broadcaster: WOWOW 
Key Animation: Studio Live 
Music Co-Production: IMAGINE 
Music Production:
Flight Master (OP 1/ED 1) 
Pony Canyon 
Recording Studio: OP Requiem Studio 
Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion 
English cast
English staff
Director: Wendee Lee 
Script: Wendee Lee 
Art Director: Merideth Mulroney 
Executive producer: John Sirabella 

Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Ramos 
Dialogue Editing:
John Train (eps 9-12) 
Kevin Patzelt (eps 9-12) 
DVD Authoring: Justin Kim 
Editing:
Justin Ramos (Blu-ray) 
Naneen Paglieri 
Engineering Assistant: Gretchen Sherwood (eps 9-12) 
Production Assistant:
Hopsing (eps 9-12) 
Margaret Boyd 
Production Coordination:
Frank Pannone 
Margaret Boyd (eps 9-12) 
Production Supervision:
Maniela Tunes 
Sean Molyneaux 
Re-Recording Mixing: Rod Fitzpatrick 
Recording engineer:
John Train (eps 9-12) 
Justin Laughlin 
Midge Mayes as Tenshi 
Sam Regal as Yajiro Kojima 
Wendee Lee as Rushuna Tendo 

Barbara Goodson as Teppa Aizen (boy) (ep 8) 
Mia Bradly as Fuuka Shirato (ep 9) 
Midge Mayes as Tenshi's Double/Setsuna Onmidoh (eps 11-12) 

Cindy Robinson as Touka Kurenai 
Dave Mallow as Teppa's Father 
Doug Erholtz as Teppa Aizen 
Doug Stone as Hage's Thug 
Edward Villa as
Ai's Father 
Shinnoshin Hakubi 
Soldier (ep 10) 
Francis C. Cole as Shop Owner (eps 2-3) 
G. Gordon Baer as Souma Sanzo 
Jack Lehman as Ai's Father 
Jackson Daniels as
Hashimoto 
Teacher 
Tenmatoh 
Jennifer Sekiguchi as Koto 
John Smallberries as
Akki Nago 
Ganzo Tenma 
Julie Ann Taylor as
Ai's Mother 
Mikan Kurenai 
Kate Davis as
Ai 
Aide (ep 8) 
Kim Strauss as Clown/Kaizen Doushi 
Sean Roberts as
Banmaru Zoushi 
Hage Tengu 
Steve Cannon as Soldier (ep 1) 
Taylor Henry as General (ep 1) 
Terry Stone as Leader 
Yuri Lowenthal as Furon 

English companies
Broadcaster: Too Much For TV 
Distributor: AnimeWorks 
Internet Streaming:
Tubi TV 
Viki 
Licensed by: Media Blasters 
French staff
French companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Wakanim (online streaming) 
Internet Streaming: Gong 
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Script: Jordi Naro (Spain dub) 

Screen Inserts: Victor Iturrioz (Spain dub) 
Mar Nicolas as Rushuna Tendou (Spain dub) 
Oriol de Balle as Yajirou Koujima (Spain dub) 
Pilar Mora as Tenshi (Spain dub) 

Manel Català as Clown (Spain dub) 

Albert Socias as Souma Sanzo (Spain dub) 
Ariadna Giménez as
Furon (Spain dub) 
Mikan Kurenai (Spain dub) 
Carmen Calvell as Fuuma Shirato (Spain dub) 
Eduardo Soler as Tengu (Spain dub) 
Esperança Domènech as
Ai's Mother (Spain dub) 
Tôka Kurenai (Spain dub) 
Francesc Rocamora as Banmaru Zoshi (Spain dub) 
Isabel Muntané as Kasumi (Spain dub) 
Ivan Canovas as
Ai's Father (Spain dub) 
Hashimoto (Spain dub) 
Jordi Navarro as Teppa Aizen (Spain dub) 
Lidia Camino as
Ai Hatagoya (Spain dub) 
Setsuna Omido (Spain dub) 
Manel Català as Kanetsugu (Spain dub) 
Pep Gaya as
Nago (Spain dub) 
Teppa's Father (Spain dub) 
Pilar Morales as Koto (Spain dub) 
Victor Iturrioz as
Ganzo Tenma (Spain dub) 
General (Spain dub) 
Storekeeper (Spain dub) 

Angel del Río (Spain dub) 
Daniel Albiac (Spain dub) 
Francesc Rocamora (Spain dub) 
Isabel Muntané (Spain dub) 
Ivan Canovas (Spain dub) 
J. Ignacio Latorre (Spain dub) 
Juan José Moscoso (Spain dub) 
Lidia Camino (Spain dub) 
Pep Gaya (Spain dub) 
Pilar Mora (Spain dub) 
Victor Iturrioz (Spain dub) 
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain) 
Dubbing: Cristal Media (Barcelona - Spain dub) 
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Spain dub) 
German staff
German cast
(none)
Uschi Hugo as Rushuna Tendo 

Anja Rybiczka as Kasumi 
Diana Borgwardt as Touka Kurenai 
Elmar Gutmann as Senshi-sama 
Melanie Hinze as Setsuna Oomido 
Rubina Kuraoka as Mikan Kurenai 
Tilo Schmitz as Ganzou Tenma 

Gerald Paradies as Nago 
Giuliana Wendt as Tenshi 
Ilona Otto as Koto 
Jan Spitzer as Wirt 
Konrad Bösherz as Furon 
Peter Flechtner as Clown 
Tommy Morgenstern as Yajiro Kojima 
German companies
Distributor: Tokyopop Germany 
Dubbing: TV+Synchron Berlin 
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Distributor: MC Entertainment 
Russian cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Polish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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