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Shoka (special)

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Alternative title:
Calligrapher 
書家 (Japanese) 
Genres: action , fantasy 
Objectionable content: Intense 
Plot Summary: In the time of the shoganate someone is causing trouble. The city is being attacked by giant creatures and the shoganate's forces are not up to the task. It is the work of a calligrapher, someone who can bring creatures to life from kanji and artwork , and it is up to the art clan to put a stop to this rampage. The clan sends three of its best warriors, each with their own art combat specialty which will come in handy as the warriors find that the calligrapher is someone they know, someone with a grudge and he has monstrous plans for vengeance. 
User Ratings: 48 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Very good: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Good: 22 votes (sub:22)
 Decent: 10 votes (sub:8, raw:1, dub:1)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 1 vote (others:1
1 German subtitled
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 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 80 users, rank: #5871 (of 10059)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.438 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.4564, rank: #6258 (of 10234)
Weighted mean: 6.515 (Good−), rank: #5864 (of 10234) (seen all: 6.51)
Bayesian estimate: 6.719 (Good−), rank: #4700 (of 7688)
Running time: 24 minutes 
Vintage: 2010-03-27 
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Makoto Yamada 
Screenplay: Kenji Saidō 
Storyboard: Makoto Yamada 
Music: Kenji Kawai 
Original creator: Kenji Saidō 
Character Design: Hirokazu Kojima 
Art Director: Hiroshi Itō 
Animation Director: Hirokazu Kojima 
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi 
Director of Photography: Eiji Arai 
Executive producer:
Masao Takiyama 
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa 
Advertising Producer:
Eriya Kawauchi (assistant) 
Sōtarō Sugimoto 
Art Setting: Kazushige Kanehira 
Associate producer: Ryuji Miki 
Color design: Youko Watanabe 
Color Key:
Yuka Takeda 
Yūko Fujita 
Editing: Junichi Uematsu 
Finish Check: Katsumi Oshima 
In-Between Check: Tomoko Sugata 
Line Producer: Maiko Kasumi 
Planning:
Akira Sasaki 
Masato Oda 
Production Advancement: Miho Hora 
Publicity Assistance: Yōko Ueda 
Recording engineer: Takayuki Yamaguchi 
Sound Effects: Mitsuru Kageyama 
Akiyoshi Nakao as Sumiya Shiro 
Daisuke Namikawa as Shimaki Makihei 
Sayuri Furukawa as Ena Gakuno 

Akemi Okamura as Tsukikage 
Haruo Satō as Yoriki 
Masaharu Satō as Kyuu Hajino 
Ryūzō Ishino as Daruma 
Seizō Katō as Publisher 
Takashi Matsuyama as Gen Kurozome 

Daisuke Endō as subordinate 
Manabu Sakamaki as rifleman A 
Mariko Nakatsu as village woman 
Ryōta Takeuchi as triangle 
Yōhei Ōbayashi as rifleman B 
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Bee Train 
Wish 
Animation Production: Production I.G 
Backgrounds: Kusanagi 
Broadcaster: Animax (2010-03-27) 
Key Animation Assistance: Silver 

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