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Project ARMS (TV)

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© Ryoji Minagawa • Kyoichi Nanatsuki/Shogakukan • TMS 


 
Alternative title:
ARMS 
Проект Супер-руки (Russian) 
アームズ (Japanese) 
プロジェクトアームズ (Japanese) 
암스 (Korean) 
프로젝트 암스 (Korean) 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Ryo Takatsuki is a typical Japanese high school student, whose seemingly nondescript way of life started to unravel with the arrival of Hayato Shingu and Takeshi Tomoe, the new transfer students with a history of disciplinary problems. An unexpected chain of events that followed would change the life of Ryo and those around him, from his childhood friend Katsumi to the brash Hayato and the enigmatic Takeshi, who may yet turn out to be friends or foes. With his new found comrades, Ryo sets out to discover the secret of the mysterious A.R.M.S., which would reveal an unexpected destiny for each of them… 
User Ratings: 147 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (dub:5, sub:2, raw:1)
 Excellent: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:3)
 Very good: 41 votes (dub:20, sub:17, others:4
2 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Good: 34 votes (sub:22, dub:10, others:2
1 Italian dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:12, dub:10, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 8 votes (sub:5, dub:3)
 Not really good: 8 votes (dub:4, sub:3, others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:2, ?:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, raw:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 390 users, rank: #2564 (of 10085)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.762 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.9875, rank: #5026 (of 10238)
Weighted mean: 6.747 (Good−), rank: #4964 (of 10238) (seen all: 7.18 / seen some: 6.03 / won't finish: 3.78)
Bayesian estimate: 6.807 (Good−), rank: #4389 (of 7689)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 26 
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2001-04-07 to 2001-09-29 
2008-06-07 (Latin America - CityVibe) 
Opening Theme:
#1: "FreeBird" by New Cinema Tokage 
#2: "Breathe on Me" by New Cinema Tokage 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Just Wanna Be" by WAG 
#2: "Call my Name" by Garnet Crow (eps 14-26) 
Links: We have 1
Review:
Project ARMS DVD 6 (Jan 8, 2004)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Project ARMS - Seasons 1&2 (DVD) 2018-01-30 (from $149.00)
    Project ARMS - The Claws That Catch (DVD 1) 2002-10-08 (from $12.99)
    Project ARMS - Nice New Battle (DVD 2) 2002-12-10 (from $2.66)
    Project ARMS - Eyes of Flame (DVD 3) 2003-02-11 (from $1.99)
    Project ARMS - Tulgey Wood (DVD 4) 2003-04-22 (from $11.94)
    Project ARMS - All on A Summer's Day (DVD 5) 2003-06-10 (from $7.09)
    Project ARMS - Won't You Join the Dance (DVD 6) 2003-08-12 (from $3.96)
    Project ARMS - The Man at the Helm (DVD 7) 2003-10-21 (from $8.49)
    Project ARMS - 'Twas Brillig (DVD 8) 2004-02-24 (from $9.86)
    Project ARMS - End of the First (DVD 9) 2004-05-04 (from $5.60)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director:
Hajime Kamegaki 
Hirotoshi Takaya 
Director: Junichi Takaoka 
Series Composition: Aya Yoshinaga 
Screenplay:
Aya Yoshinaga (16 episodes
eps 1-6, 10-11, 14, 17-18, 21-23, 25-26
)
 
Junichi Miyashita (10 episodes
eps 7-9, 12-13, 15-16, 19-20, 24
)
 
Storyboard:
Hajime Kamegaki (eps 7, 17, 20) 
Hiroshi Hara (eps 12, 18, 23) 
Hiroshi Matsuzono (ep 5) 
Hirotoshi Takaya (OP 1, ED 1; 6 episodes
eps 1-3, 11, 22, 26
)
 
Isamu Imakake (ep 15) 
Katsushi Sakurabi (ep 9) 
Keiji Gotō (ep 6) 
Kyōsuke Mikuriya (eps 8, 16, 21) 
Shigeyasu Yamauchi (ep 4) 
Sōichi Masui (ep 14) 
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (ep 25) 
Yukio Nishimoto (eps 10, 24) 
Yukio Okazaki (eps 13, 19) 
Episode Director:
Eiichi Kuboyama (ep 22) 
Hajime Kamegaki (ep 17) 
Hiroshi Matsuzono (eps 9, 26) 
Hirotoshi Takaya (OP) 
Keitarō Motonaga (ep 2) 
Kyōsuke Mikuriya (eps 8, 16, 21) 
Shintarō Itoga (4 episodes
eps 3, 7, 14, 20
)
 
Shinya Hanai (4 episodes
eps 4, 12, 18, 23
)
 
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (eps 11, 25) 
Tōru Kitahata (ep 6) 
Yasuhiro Geshi (ep 15) 
Yukio Nishimoto (eps 1, 10, 24) 
Yukio Okazaki (eps 5, 13, 19) 
Music: Daisuke Ikeda 
Original creator:
Kyoichi Nanatsuki 
Ryōji Minagawa 
Character Design: Masaki Satō 
Art Director: Junichi Higashi 
Animation Director:
Chūji Nakajima (ep 13) 
Hideyuki Motohashi (ep 3) 
Ichirō Ogawa (eps 6, 14, 22) 
Mariko Aoki (ep 10) 
Masaki Hinata (4 episodes
eps 4, 12, 18, 23
)
 
Michio Satō (ep 9) 
Ryouko Ezumi (eps 5, 19) 
Seiichi Nakatani (ep 11) 
Shingo Ishikawa (ep 15) 
Takako Shimizu (4 episodes
eps 2, 7, 17, 26
)
 
Takeshi Ōsaka (eps 8, 16, 21) 
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (ep 25) 
Yôki Iwai 
Yūki Iwai (eps 1, 20, 24) 
Art design: Hideyasu Narita 
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Shirao 
Executive producer: Shunzō Katō 
Animation producer: Satoshi Yokoyama 
Color design: Shigenobu Kaihoko 
Concept Supervisor: Junichi Miyashita 
Design: Seiichi Nakatani 
Editing: Terumitsu Okada 
In-Between Animation: Kazuhiro Takamura (ep 6) 
Key Animation:
Hirotoshi Takaya (ep 26) 
Jun Nakai (eps 2, 7) 
Kyōko Sugiyama (eps 4, 18) 
Masaharu Morinaka (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 14, 20, 24
)
 
Michinori Chiba (ep 24) 
Moriyasu Taniguchi (ep 1) 
Motoki Yagi (ep 10) 
Munetaka Abe (ep 11) 
Seiichi Nakatani (ep 2) 
Tōru Yoshida (eps 1, 22) 
Wataru Abe (ep 7) 
Yoshihiko Umakoshi (ep 1) 
Yousuke Kabashima (ep 3) 
Yūichi Nakazawa (6 episodes
eps 1, 6, 11, 17, 22, 25
)
 
Literature Manager: Youko Iizawa 
Photography: Hajime Hasegawa 
Production manager: Masayuki Mochimaru 
Recording Director: Yasuo Urakami 
Series Concept: Aya Yoshinaga 
Sound Effects: Masakazu Yokoyama 
Theme Song Performance:
Garnet Crow (ED2) 
New Cinema Tokage (OP1, OP2) 
WAG (ED1) 
Minami Takayama as Kei Kuruma 
Nobutoshi Canna as Ryou Takatsuki 
Shinichirō Miki as Hayato Shinguu 
Yūji Ueda as Takeshi Tomoe 

Daiki Nakamura as Kōichi Kabuto 
Megumi Ogata as Al Bowen 
Mitsuo Iwata as Gauss Gall 
Miyuki Ichijō as Misa Takatsuki 
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Cliff Gilbert 
Show Hayami as Keith Red 
Shūichi Ikeda as Jabberwock 
Tomoko Miura as Katsumi Akagi 
Yukari Honma as Yugo Gilbert 
Yuri Shiratori as Carol 

Akio Suyama as Delinquent #3 (ep 3) 
Aya Hisakawa as
Alice 
Aya  (eps 20, 22, 25) 
Chieko Honda as Bee (eps 8-11) 
Dai Matsumoto as
Colleague (ep 24) 
Cyborg D (ep 14) 
Goto (ep 1) 
Man C (ep 17) 
Pilot A (ep 12) 
Soldier (eps 21-23, 25) 
Student #7 (ep 4) 
Daisuke Gōri as Gasher (eps 8-12) 
Eisuke Yoda as Principal (ep 3) 
Hiroshi Naka as
Doctor (ep 1) 
Taxi Driver (ep 20) 
Hiroya Ishimaru as Keith Blue (eps 13, 26) 
Hisao Egawa as
Cyborg A (ep 14) 
Man B (ep 17) 
Member A (ep 13) 
Pilot B (ep 12) 
Police Officer (ep 20) 
Researcher #1 (ep 11) 
Soldier (eps 21-22) 
Issei Futamata as Face  (eps 8-10) 
Isshin Chiba as Thug (eps 7-8) 
Jōji Nakata as Ralph Coleman 
Junichi Sugawara as
Aoki (ep 9) 
Citizen (ep 21) 
Jūrōta Kosugi as
Claw (eps 1-3) 
Knight 
Katsuhisa Hōki as
Kyklops  (eps 15-16) 
Scientist (ep 15) 
Takeshi's Father  (eps 14, 26) 
Kentarō Itō as Student #5 (ep 4) 
Kinryū Arimoto as Iwao Takatsuki 
Kōsuke Okano as Classmate (ep 1) 
Kouji Nakata as White Rabbit 
Kōzō Shioya as Man (ep 1) 
Makiko Ōmoto as
Jeff Bowen (eps 3-7) 
Maya Tomoe (eps 3, 26) 
Masaaki Okabe as Shūichirō Shingū 
Masaki Aizawa as Carol's Father  (ep 16) 
Masashi Hirose as
Cyborg B (ep 14) 
Volf (eps 14-15, 19) 
Wolf 
Masaya Takatsuka as
Classmate (ep 1) 
Student #1 (ep 4) 
Minoru Inaba as Man (eps 5-6) 
Mitsuaki Madono as Lt. Karl Higgins (eps 21-23) 
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Keith Black (eps 25-26) 
Saeko Chiba as
Classmate (ep 1) 
Student #2 (ep 4) 
Shigeru Sakano as Pilot D (ep 12) 
Shigeru Shibuya as
Delinquent #1 (eps 1, 3) 
Pilot C (ep 12) 
Researcher #2 (ep 11) 
Student #3 (ep 4) 
Shinpachi Tsuji as
Citizen (ep 21) 
Mayor (ep 20) 
Member C (ep 13) 
teacher  (eps 3-4) 
Shinya Ōtaki as Yamano (eps 9, 11) 
Takayuki Inoue as
Doctor (ep 1) 
Researcher #3 (ep 11) 
Student #6 (ep 4) 
Tōru Ōkawa as
Detective #1 (ep 2) 
Gunner (ep 12) 
Superintendent (eps 8, 20) 
Teacher (eps 3-4) 
Yasuhiko Kawazu as
Aya's Father  (eps 20, 25) 
Colleague (ep 24) 
Cyborg C (ep 14) 
Man A (ep 17) 
Pilot (ep 23) 
Soldier (ep 21) 
Yasunori Matsumoto as Man in Battle Suit B (ep 8) 
Yasuyuki Kase as
Citizen (ep 21) 
Delinquent #2 (ep 3) 
Doctor (ep 1) 
Man in Battle Suit A (ep 8) 
Member B (ep 13) 
Pilot (ep 23) 
Red Cap (ep 20) 
Soldier (eps 21, 24) 
Student #4 (ep 4) 
Yō Inoue as Dr. Mary Katz (eps 10-13) 
Yumi Nakatani as Chunyan Li 
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Jūzō Shingū 

Japanese companies
Animation Assistance: Oh! Production 
Animation Check:
Phoenix Animation (eps 8, 16, 21) 
Studio Boomerang (12 episodes
eps 1-3, 6-7, 9, 11, 17, 20-26 even
)
 
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment 
Animation Production Cooperation:
Ariel (eps 5, 19) 
Artland (eps 18, 23) 
Plum (ep 10) 
Studio PAL-PAL (eps 8, 16, 21) 
Backgrounds: Studio Easter 
Broadcaster: TV Tokyo 
Digital Paint:
Light Foot 
TMS Photo 
Digital Photography: TMS Photo (T.D.I) 
Key Animation:
E&G Films (ep 5) 
Frontline (ep 5) 
Nakamura Production (eps 22, 24) 
Pak Production (eps 5, 19) 
Key Animation Assistance: Studio MAT (ep 25) 
Lith Work: Maki Production 
Photography: TMS Photo 
Sound Effects: Sound Effects, Inc. 
English cast
English staff
Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi 
Producer: Trish Ledoux 

Adaptation:
Amanda Winn Lee 
Fred Burke 
Engineering Assistant: John Duncan 
Production Coordination:
Diana Gage 
Travis Fraser 
Re-Recording Mixing: Keith A. Goddard 
Recording engineer: Jeremy Butler 
Senior Producer: Toshifumi Yoshida 
Video Post-Production:
Barbara Allen 
Heather Nevin 
Leland Miller 
Voice Direction: Rob Bakewell 
Brad Swaile as Takeshi Tomoe 
Brian Drummond as Hayato Shingu 
Kirby Morrow as Ryo Takatsuki 
Nicole Oliver as Kei Kuruma 

Cathy Weseluck as Misa Takatsuki 
Kelly Sheridan as Maya Tomoe 
Venus Terzo as Katsumi Akagi 

Adam Henderson as Gance Gall 
Alexandra Carter as Keith Alice 
Andrew Robb as Jeff 
Brenna O'Brien as Aya 
Brian Dobson as
Kondo 
Kyklops 
Newscaster 
White Rabbit 
Chantal Strand as Carol 
David Kaye as
Chief Yamaga 
Evil Scientist 
Newscaster 
Thug 
Farrell Spence as Li Chunyan 
Jenn Forgie as
Aya's Mom 
Reporter 
Jillian Michaels as Al Bowen 
John Novak as
Agent on Bus 
Gasher 
Lee Tockar as
Bus Driver 
Face 
Matt Hill as Keith's Aide 
Michael Dobson as
Claw's Henchman 
Goto 
Papa 
Police Chief 
White Knight 
Michael Kopsa as Kabuto 
Paul Dobson as Jabberwock 
Richard Newman as
Juzo Shingu 
Teacher 
Ron Halder as
Official 
Professor 
Ross Douglas as Keith Blue 
Samuel Vincent as Keith Black 
Sylvia Zaradic as Wasp 
Tabitha St. Germain as Alice 
Ted Cole as Keith's Aide 
Teryl Rothery as Dr. Mary Katz 
Tony Sampson as Lt. Karl Higgins 
Trevor Devall as
Claw 
Mr. Tomoe 
Viv Leacock as Ralph 'Monty' Coleman 
Ward Perry as
Keith 
Mayor 
Willow Johnson as Yugo Gilbert 

English companies
Adaptation: The Ocean Group 
Distributor:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Vols. 1-3) 
Ventura Distribution (2003) 
Internet Streaming: Hulu 
Licensed by:
Discotek Media  (2017) 
Viz Media  (Expired) 
Recording Studio: Westwood Studios 
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: LAPTV (subbed english audio version) 
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Aldo Stella 

Dialogues: Valerio Manenti 
Massimo Di Benedetto as Takeshi Tomoe 

Alessandro Rigotti as Ryo Takatsuki 
Lorenzo Scattorin as Hayato Shingu 

Alessandra Karpoff as Kei Kuruma 
Benedetta Ponticelli as Jeff Bowen 
Emanuela Pacotto as Katsumi Akagi 
Enrico Maggi as Jabberwock 
Giorgio Bonino as Keith 
Irene Scalzo as Al Bowen 
Italian companies
Broadcaster:
Hiro (from 24 August 2009) 
Man-Ga (from 4 July 2011) 
Distributor: Yamato Video 
Dubbing: Raflesia srl 
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Vincent Gutierrez as Hayato Shinguu 

Dada Carlos as Al Bowen 
Grace Cornel as Katsumi 
Montreal Repuyan as Keith Red 

Tagalog companies
Broadcaster:
ABS-CBN 
Studio 23 (2004) 
Dubbing: ABS-CBN 

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