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Big Wars (OAV)

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©1993 Yoshio Aramaki, Tokuma Japan Communications Co., Ltd.

Alternative title:
Big Wars: Kami Utsu Akaki Kōya ni (Japanese)
ビッグ・ウォーズ 神撃つ朱き荒野に (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: At the dawn of the 21st century, war rages on Mars. Captain Akuh and his crew are on a top secret mission to destroy an enemy warship when an officer is stricken with an alien mind control plague. As the plague spreads, inciting madness and treason, Akuh must complete his mission, annihilate the alien battleship, and save the fate of the human race.
User Ratings: 111 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
 Very good: 11 votes (sub:7, dub:4)
 Good: 16 votes (dub:8, sub:7, raw:1)
 Decent: 29 votes (sub:18, dub:9, ?:2)
 So-so: 15 votes (dub:9, sub:5, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 11 votes (dub:6, sub:4, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Weak: 9 votes (dub:5, sub:4)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:1, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Awful: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 246 users, rank: #3430 (of 9777)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.387 (So-so+), std. dev.: 2.3023, rank: #8673 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 5.373 (So-so+), rank: #8704 (of 9919) (seen all: 5.41 / won't finish: 3.64)
Bayesian estimate: 5.594 (Decent−), rank: #7059 (of 7496)
Running time: 70 minutes
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage: 1993-08-06
Release dates: We have 4
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DVD (Region 1)
    Big Wars (DVD) 1998-10-14 (from $24.95)
    Big Wars (DVD) 2003-04-08 (from $88.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Toshifumi Takizawa
Screenplay: Kazumi Koide
Storyboard: Toshifumi Takizawa
Music: Michiaki Katō
Character Design: Satomi Mikuriya
Art Director: Nobutaka Ike
Animation Director: Keizō Shimizu
Original Novel: Yoshio Aramaki
Mechanical design: Kow Yokoyama
Sound Director: Noriyoshi Matsuura
Executive producer: Tatsumi Yamashita
Producer:
Satoshi Dezaki
Yukio Kikukawa

Additional Assistant Director: Yorihisa Hanyu
Animation:
Chihiro Washio
Hiroki Abe
Kazuhiro Taga
Kazunori Iwakura
Kazuya Komai
Kiyotaka Nakahara
Kōji Kataoka
Kumiko Kakoi
Masaharu Tomoda
Masakazu Kawazoe
Masami Goto
Masami Nagata
Michiko Noda
Michinori Shirato
Motoki Yagi
Nobuyasu Murakami
Osamu Satō
Shigeki Satō
Shigemi Aoyagi
Shūji Sakamoto
Tamaki Kanbe
Tomokazu Kōgo
Toyomi Sugiyama
Yoshiaki Mizuno
Yoshihiro Nagamori
Yoshihisa Sakurai
Yūji Shigekuni
Yukimaro Ōtsubo
Art Coordinator: Yoshie Murakami
Artist Coordination: Hiroaki Inoue
Artwork Coordinator: Shuichi Kamikawabata
Assistant Mechanical Designer:
Hideki Takahashi
Kazunori Iwakura
Assistant producer: Shigeharu Sekiguchi
Background Art:
Eiko Sawada
Masao Kajitani
Masaru Ohta
Nozomi Saito
Rumiko Minemura
Shinichi Tanimura
Yōko Ichihara
Background Layout: Nobutaka Ike
Cinematography: Hideo Okazaki
Editing:
Naotoshi Ogata
Satoshi Terauchi
Yukiko Itō
In-Between Animation:
Fusae Sato
Hideya Kan
Hisashi Ishii
Kazuko Maejima
Keisuke Hamada
Masako Onozawa
Michiko Kumasaka
Nobuyuki Kamata
Reiko Ikebe
Shino Takada
Yasuhiro Takafuji
In-Between Check: Sayuri Tsuruyama
Ink & Paint Check:
Emiko Kikuchi
Hiroko Ito
Hiromi Ida
Kazuko Omura
Kazumi Murashima
Kikuko Kato
Mieko Hiruma
Miho Takada
Takashi Tomihata
Tomoko Kuroyanagi
Yuko Takarada
Mechanical animation Director: Hideki Takahashi
Music producer: Hiroyuki Kamii
Photography:
Mayumi Kawamoto
Motomitsu Hoshino
Yoko Takiguchi
Planning: Hideo Ogata
Production Assistant: Yasuhiro Inoue
Production Coordination: Shinobu Tsunaki
Production manager: Yoshiyuki Matsuzaki
Public Relations: Masanori Manjo
Recording engineer: Mitsuyoshi Maruyama
Sound Effects: Katsumi Itō
Special Effects: Takashi Maekawa
Storyboard S: Toshifumi Takizawa
Hideyuki Tanaka as Captain Kanki Akuh

Hirohiko Kakegawa as Yamamoto
Hiroko Emori as Darsa
Ikuya Sawaki as Coleman
Kouji Tsujitani as Dalton
Masaharu Satō as Bruce
Shinya Ohtaki as Todoroki
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Hijikata
Yumi Touma as Dr. Lee
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Mikawa

Isshin Chiba as Operator

Michiko Neya
Michitaka Kobayashi
Omi Minami
Sanshirō Nitta
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Translation:
William Flanagan
Yuuko Satou
Executive producer: John O'Donnell
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Chyron Graphics:
Miguel Guadalupe
Wayne Vollweiler
Dubbing Manager: Peter Bavaro
Dubbing Supervision: Anthony Salerno
DVD Coordination: Eric Thomann
Editing: Paul Collins
In-House Production: Justin Sevakis
In-House Production Manager: Tim Werenko
Production Coordination: Edward S. Whang
Re-Write: Jay Parks
B.H. O'Neill as Captain Kanki Akuh

Cynthia DeMoss as Doctor Lee
Dale Oliverio as Takeshi Hijikata
David Stuart as J. Dalton
Michael William as Yutaka Todoroki
Sharon Becker as Lieutenant Darsa Keligan

Barry Chiate as Colonel Coleman
Bob Heitman as Admiral Mikawa

Frank Senger
Jason Candler
Jason Schuler
Jason Sinopoli
Socko Jones
Stacy Dawson
William Gorman
English companies
Broadcaster:
SPACE
Teletoon
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
U.S. Manga Corps
Dubbing: Sound Dimensions, NY
DVD Menu Design: Eaglevision, Inc.
DVD Premastering: Eaglevision, Inc.
DVD Production: Image Entertainment
Licensed by: Central Park Media
Mixing: Sound Dimensions, NY
Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

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