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Arc the Lad (TV)

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©1999 Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.


[ part of [Anime Complex] ]

Alternative title:
アークザラッド (Japanese)
아크 더 래드 (Korean)
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: The story follows Elk, a bounty hunter in some strange futuristic world. On this world archaic but advanced technology exists side by side with primitive attitudes, beasts and magic. In other words it's got a bit of everything. It also has an evil conspiracy who are able to produce powerful monsters called chimera, who can also appear as human. Naturally it is not long before Elk has rescued a young female beast-master and gained himself some serious enemies.
User Ratings: 309 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Excellent: 26 votes (sub:11, dub:11, Spa.dub:2, raw:2)
 Very good: 52 votes (sub:27, dub:22, Spa.sub:2, edit.dub:1)
 Good: 88 votes (dub:50, sub:31, Spa.dub:2, ?:2, raw:1, Por.sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Decent: 56 votes (sub:33, dub:20, ?:2, Spa.dub:1)
 So-so: 25 votes (dub:12, sub:10, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Not really good: 24 votes (sub:12, dub:10, ?:2)
 Weak: 20 votes (dub:11, sub:8, Spa.dub:1)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:7, dub:2, Rus.dub:1, raw:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 865 users, rank: #719
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.301 (Decent+.30), std. dev.: 1.9115, rank: #2819
Weighted mean: 6.282 (Decent+.28), rank: #2758 (seen all: 6.58 / seen some: 5.86 / won't finish: 3.12)
Bayesian estimate: 6.320 (Decent+.32), rank: #2423
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1999-04-05 to 1999-10-11
2001-10-15 to 2001-11-13 (Spain - Catalunya)
Opening Theme:
"Arc the Lad ~Main Theme~" by Masahiro Andou
Ending Theme:
#1: "Happy Tomorrow" by NiNa (eps 01-12)
#2: "Rest in Peace" by NiNa (eps 13-26)
Official website:
Trivia: We have 1
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Reviews:
    Arc the Lad DVD 2 - Fireball
    Arc the Lad DVD 1 - Hunters and Monsters

DVD
    Arc the Lad - Complete Collection (DVD) 2003-10-21
    Arc the Lad - Hunters and Monsters (DVD 1) 2001-04-17
    Arc the Lad - Fireball (DVD 2) 2001-06-12 (from $21.29)
    Arc the Lad - Wanted (DVD 3) 2001-07-24 (from $21.29)
    Arc the Lad - Alliance (DVD 4) 2001-09-04 (from $21.29)
    Arc the Lad - Oath of Vengeance (DVD 5) 2001-10-16 (from $16.99)
    Arc the Lad - Day of Reckoning (DVD 6) 2002-01-22 (from $23.98)
VHS
    Arc the Lad - Hunters and Monsters (Dub.VHS 1) 2001-04-17
    Arc the Lad - Fireball (Dub.VHS 2) 2001-06-12
    Arc the Lad - Wanted (Dub.VHS 3) 2001-07-24 (from $2.03)
    Arc the Lad - Alliance (Dub.VHS 4) 2001-09-04
    Arc the Lad - Oath of Vengeance (Dub.VHS 5) 2001-10-16
    Arc the Lad - Day of Reckoning (Dub.VHS 6) 2002-01-22
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Screenplay: Akemi Omode

Character Design: Yoko Kikuchi

Art director: Toshihisa Koyama

Animation director:
Yoko Kikuchi
Yoshiaki Tsubata

Mecha design: Kenji Teraoka

Director of Photography: Shigekazu Morishita

Executive producer:
Ryuzo Shirakawa
Yukio Nagasaki

Producer: Hideo Katsumata

Animation:
Takaaki Chiba
Takato Nakajima

Animation Check: Takato Nakajima

Animation Continuity: Itsuro Kawasaki

Assistant director: Kanami Sekiguchi

Background Art:
Fumie Kawai
Hachidai Takayama
Harue Iwai
Katsuhiro Yamada
Kuniko Miyake
Megumi Ogawa
Shin Watanabe
Wakaba Okamoto
Yasunori Hishinuma
Yoshimi Umino
Yukiko Ogawa
Yumiko Katayama

Color design: Yumiko Katayama

Editing: Seiji Morita

Key Animation:
Eiji Suganuma
Hironori Yamamoto
Kanami Sekiguchi
Kazuya Morimae
Kazuyuki Ikai
Kenji Yokoyama
Koji Taniguchi
Manabu Yasumoto
Mariko Aoki
Mariko Emori
Masahiro Sato
Minako Shiba
Satoshi Ohsawa

Mecha Director: Kenji Teraoka

Music Composition: Michiru Oshima

Music Supervisor: Takashi Kodama

Photography:
Hitoshi Saito
Katsuaki Kamata
Katsumi Ota
Katsutoshi Ohi
Kenji Takehara
Kouhei Konishi
Kouji Aoki
Misaki Touma
Shigekazu Morishita
Shinichi Igarashi
Tatsushi Fukumoto
Tetsu Morimoto
Tomomi Yokota
Yuji Sawada

Planning: Miki Sato

Production manager: Ryou Shimamura

Recording: Shoji Hata

Series Structure:
Akemi Omode
Itsuro Kawasaki

Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa

Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami

Supervision: Shunsuke Tada

Theme Song Composition: Masahiro Ando (OP)

Theme Song Performance: NiNa (ED1&2)

 

Daisuke Namikawa as Elk

Yui Horie as Lieza

Hiro Yuuki as Arc

Yuko Mizutani as Kukuru

Chie Kisono as Meril

Chie Sueno as Meril

Chizu Yonemoto as TV announcer (ep 10)

Eiji Yanagisawa as Elk's father

Fumihiko Tachiki as Quote

Fumiko Oosaka as Celendia

Hiroshi Iwasaki as Galuano

Hiroshi Naka as Gorgon

Hiroshi Ootaki as
Gulugu
Robby

Hiroyuki Yokoo as Jack

Izumi Ohira as Elk's mother

Katsuhisa Houki as Andel

Kazuhiro Oguro as Cougar

Ken Narita as Kelbe

Kôzô Shioya as Demitas

Kyoko Minami as Announcer (ep 4)

Manabu Ino as Gene

Masahiko Tanaka as Gequbec

Masuo Amada as Dain

Megumi Kubota as Young Elk

Naoki Makishima as Hunter (eps 2, 4)

Nobuo Tobita as Clive

Nobutaka Masutomi as Yagun

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Toshu

Reiko Kondou as Gene (Young)

Rika Sugimura as Chante

Ryuichi Horibe as Dr. Vilmer

Shinpachi Tsuji as
Chongala
Spirit of Flame

Shuuichi Ikeda as Shu

Takayuki Inoue as Hunter (eps 2, 4)

Takeshi Uchida as Pandit

Umeji Sasaki as Bibiga

Wasabi Mizuta as Poco

Wataru Takagi as Alfred

Yoshito Ishinami as Zarbado

Yumi Touma as Iris

Yuri Shiratori as Lia

Yutaka Shibata as Eega

Japanese companies 

Animation:
Office AO
Production I.G
SHAFT
Studio Mu
Xebec

Background Art: Production AI

Broadcaster: WOWOW

Film Processing: Imagica

Finish Animation:
JC Staff
Production I.G
Studio Mu
Tatsunoko Color Center

Key Animation: Angel

Negative Editing: Morita Editing Room

Photography: Studio Twinkle

Planning: Arc Entertainment

Production:
Bee Train
Sony
SPE Visual

Recording: Omnibus Japan

Sound Production: SPE Visual Works

Titles: Maki Productions

Video Editing: Imagica

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Eric P. Sherman

ADR Director: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Art director:
Andy Orjuela
Ruby Halipoto

ADR Script:
Clark Cheng
Eric P. Sherman
John Truitt
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Sharon Papa

Producer: Eric P. Sherman

ADR Script Editor:
Eric P. Sherman
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Associate producer: John M. Cusimano

Associate Re-recording Mixer: Scott Favorite

Co-Producer: Kaeko Sakamoto

Dialogue Editing:
Jeremy Pitts
Patrick Rodman

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

DVD Menu Design: Larry Koteff

DVD Producer:
David Williams
Sharon Papa

Editing:
David Grundy
Joey Goubeaud
Robbie Stevens

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Packaging Design: Larry Koteff

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Akiko Yoshii
Andrew Kent
Maki Nagano
Masami Takahashi
Miyuki Kamiya

Production Coordination: Janice Williams

Production Secretary: Anna Bechtol

Project Translator:
Chris Hutts
Masako Arakawa

Re-Recording Mixing:
Ken Dahlinger
Thomas J. Maydeck

Studio Administration:
Kendra Doherty
Tracy Clark

Subtitle Script: Andrew Kent

Dorothy Melendrez as Lieza

Joshua Seth as Elk

Steve Cannon as Arc

Wendee Lee as Kukuru

Abe Lasser as
Andel
Chongara
Hunter A

Anthony Mozdy as Mayor Galuano

Barbara Goodson as
Boy
Boy B
Nurse
Old Woman
Waitress

Bob Bobson as
Commander
Man A
Scientist C

Bob Johnson as Guluga

Chuck Farley as
Alfred
Hunter C

Dave Mallow as
Shu
Soldier

David Lucas as
Bartender
Chimera
Communications Officer
Couple in Next Room
Darkness
Eega
Elk's Father
Henchman
Leader
Pandit
Village Scout

David Orozco as
Ambassador
Demitas
George
Soldier

David Umansky as
Gene
Hunter B

Debra Cunningham as Robby

Ethan Murray as Clive

Francis Cherry as
Guard
Man B
Radar Operator

G. Gordon Baer as
Guard B
Yagun

George C. Cole as
Gorgon
Quote
Soldiers

Georgette Rose as
Boy
Boy B
Boy C
Meril
Puppy

Ian Hawk as
Boy
Elk (Young)
Sister
Village Boy
Village Kid

Jackson Daniels as Cougar

James Lyon as Zarbado

Joey Lotsko as Kelbe

John Billingslea as Spirit of Flame

John Smallberries as Dain

Karen Woods as Iris

Lee Loopers as Chimera

Lex Lang as Jack

Love-chan Looping as Chimera

Marvin Lee as Jeweler

Melissa Charles as
Boy A
Chante
Woman

Melissa Williamson as
Announcer
Boy
Celinda
Couple in Next Room
Elk's Mother
Gene (Young)
Woman

Mona Marshall as
Monkey
Poco

Ray Michaels as Bibiga

Richard Barnes as Gorgon

Sparky Thornton as
Dr. Vilmer
Soldier C
Toshu

Steve Kramer as
Chimera
Operative
Soldier

Terrence Stone as
Chimera
Gequbec
Hunter B
Monster
Soldier
Wounded Soldier

Wendee Lee as
Boy
Boy A
Lia
Reporter

Zan as Announcer

Love-chan Looping

English companies 

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Mixing Studio: Monterey Post Studio

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

Recording Studio: Monterey Post Studio

French staff 
French cast 

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

 (none)
French companies 

Distributor: DYBEX S.A.

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Translation:
Marc Bernabé (Catalan dub)
Verónica Calafell (Catalan dub)

 

Ana María Camps as Lieza (Catalan dub)

Assumpta Navascues as Lieza (Spain dub)

Carlos Lladó as Elk (Spain dub)

Hernán Fernández as Elk (Catalan dub)

Cristina Serra as Kukuru (Catalan dub)

Germán José as Arc (Catalan dub)

Susana Damas as Kukuru (Spain dub)

Enrique Hernández as Clive (Spain dub)

Francesc Belda as Galuano (Spain dub)

Francesc Rocamora as Bibiga (Spain dub)

Joan Massotkleiner as Alcalde Galuano (Catalan dub)

Joan Pera as Shu (Spain dub)

Jordi Vila as Shu (Spain dub)

Lluís Grau as Shu (Catalan dub)

Nacho de Porrata as Cougar (Spain dub)

Oscar Redondo as Alfred (Spain dub)

Susana Damas as Chante (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Buzz Channel (Spain)
Canal Sur (Spain)
Canal Sur 2
K3 (100%)

Distributor: Selecta Visión (Spain)

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain)

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión


Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Dutch cast 
(none)
 
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