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Explorer Woman Ray (OAV)

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Alternative title:
The Explorer
エクスプローラーウーマン・レイ (Japanese)
Genres: adventure
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Professor and archeologist Rayna Kizuki holds an ancient artifact of the Ords given to her by her grandfather to protect. Two young girls, Mai and Mami, try to steal it from her in the hopes the artifact will lead them to treasure. But Rieg, a man who used to work with her grandfather, is also trying to get his hands on it, knowing the artifact actually holds the key to the ancient power of the Ords - a power of the light that not even the ancient people could control.
User Ratings: 43 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: -
 Very good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Decent: 9 votes (sub:9)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:6, raw:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 80 users, rank: #5636 (of 9585)
Median rating: So-so
Arithmetic mean: 5.116 (So-so), std. dev.: 1.7146, rank: #8803 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 5.030 (So-so), rank: #8888 (of 9708) (seen all: 5.09 / seen some: 3.02)
Bayesian estimate: 5.632 (Decent−), rank: #6842 (of 7289)
Running time: 29 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 2
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 1989-05-26 to 1989-06-23
Release dates: We have 2
Ending Theme:
"Lights Of Love" by Tamaki Sato
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LaserDisc
    Explorer Woman Ray [Sub] (LD) 1993-08-04

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Haruhisa Okamoto (ep 2)
Hiroki Hayashi
Masato Sato (ep 2)
Script: Mayori Sekijima
Storyboard:
Hiroki Hayashi (ep 2)
Toshiaki Hontani (ep 1)
Yasuo Hasegawa (ep 1)
Original Manga: Takeshi Okazaki
Character Design: Hiroyuki Ochi
Art Director: Junichi Higashi
Chief Animation Director: Hiroyuki Ochi
Animation Director:
Atsushi Okuda (ep 1)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (ep 1)
Jōji Kikuchi (ep 2)
Kumiko Shishido (ep 2)
Masahiro Tanaka (ep 1)
Masaki Kajishima (ep 1)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 1)
Osamu Kamijō (ep 1)
Yutaka Arai (ep 2)
Sound Director: Fusanobu Fujiyama
Director of Photography:
Akihiko Takahashi (ep 2)
Kazuhiro Konishi (ep 1)
Executive producer: Tōru Miura
Producer:
Kazuhiko Inomata
Nagateru Kato
Ritsuko Kakita

Airbrush Work: Toyohiko Sakakibara (Right Magic)
Animation Check:
Hisako Tsuji
Kazuhisa Takeda
Assistant producer: Misuzu Kubo
Background Art:
Eiko Hamada (Studio Eater)
Harumi Kitagawa (Studio Eater)
Ritsuko Murakami (Studio Eater)
Sadako Minamisawa (Studio Eater)
Tomoko Takahashi (Studio Eater)
Color design: Yurie Ōtsuki
Color setting: Kayo Asai
Editing: Eiko Nishide
Finish Check:
Hiromi Anzai
Kouji Ootsuki
Takayuki Nishida
Yuko Kanemaru
Finishing:
Hiroko Tofuya
Ikuo Yamada
Ritsuo Toyokawa
Satoshi Tsuchiya
Shūji Miyahara
Takuya Kawami
Key Animation:
Akihiro Kanayama (ep 1)
Akio Kawamura (ep 2)
Akira Fukuda
Akira Takeuchi (ep 1)
Chikae Kuwahara (ep 2)
Genki Horiguchi (ep 2)
Hideo Kawaguchi (ep 2)
Kazuhiro Sasaki (ep 2)
Kazuo Ohara (ep 1)
Kazuyoshi Yaginuma (ep 1)
Kei Hyōdō (ep 2)
Ken Ueno (ep 1)
Kiyomu Fukuda (ep 2)
Masaki Kajishima (ep 1)
Masami Ohta (ep 1)
Masato Kimura (ep 1)
Mitsuo Iso (ep 1)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 1)
Norio Hirayama (ep 2)
Osamu Tsuruyama (ep 1)
Shigemi Aoyagi (ep 2)
Shigetaka Kiyoyama (ep 1)
Suguru Iijima (ep 1)
Tadashi Hasegawa (ep 1)
Takashi Kitamura (ep 2)
Takeshi Okazaki (ep 1)
Takuji Kitamura
Tatsuyuki Tanaka (ep 1)
Toshimitsu Kobayashi (ep 1)
Toyoaki Fukushima (ep 2)
Yasunori Kamii (ep 2)
Yoshiharu Shimizu (ep 1)
Yoshitaka Koyama (ep 2)
Music Composition: Norimasa Yamanaka
Photography:
Daisuke Owada (ep 1)
Hideo Tazawa (ep 1)
Hiroshi Tanigaki (ep 1)
Hitoshi Sato (ep 1)
Housaku Miura (ep 2)
Katsuhiro Tezuka (ep 1)
Katsuyuki Ohtaki (ep 2)
Osamu Kubota (ep 1)
Takashi Azuhata (ep 2)
Toshiyuki Yasuhara (ep 1)
Planning: Kuniyoshi Matsuhashi
Production Advancement: Toshikatsu Tokoro (ep 2)
Production manager: Kinya Watanabe
Recording Adjustment: Toshiaki Hoshino
Sound Effects:
Junichi Sasaki (Anime Sound Production)
Supervision: Yasuo Hasegawa
Theme Song Lyrics: Kaori Saiki
Theme Song Performance: Tamaki Sato (END)
Mika Doi as Rayna "Ray" Kizuki

Katsunosuke Hori as Rig Veda / Robert A. Lambert
Miki Itō as Mai Tachibana
Minami Takayama as Mami Tachibana

Hajime Koseki as Johnson
Tesshō Genda as Head Leader

Atsushi Anbe
Kyousei Tsukui
Japanese companies
Airbrush Work: Light Magic
Animation Production:
AIC
Animate
Backgrounds:
Clover Art (ep 1)
Studio Easter
Distributor: Toshiba Eizo Soft
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finish Animation:
K-Production
Next-One Seoul
Office Next-One
Young Woo Production (ep 1)
In-Between Animation:
K-Production
Next-One Seoul
Office Next-One
Studio Wombat
Young Woo Production (ep 1)
Key Animation:
St. Hakk
Studio Emu
Studio Hakk
Studio Outside
Studio Pylon
Lith Work:
AZ Staff (ep 2)
Maki Production (ep 1)
Photography:
AIC
AIC Photography Dept.
Studio Boston
Production:
AIC
Animate
Toshiba EMI
Production Cooperation: Big Bang
Recording Studio: Central Recording
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production
Sound Production:
81 Produce
E&M Planning Center
Titles: Maki Production
English cast
English staff
Translation:
Pamela Ferdie
William Flanagan
Executive producer: John O'Donnell
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Rewrite: Jay Parks
(none)
English companies
Distributor:
Image Entertainment (LaserDisc)
U.S. Manga Corps
Licensed by: Central Park Media (License Expired)
Subtitles: Studio Nemo

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