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Magikano (TV)

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©2005 TAKEAKI MOMOSE • KODANSHA / MAGICANO PROJECT 


 
Alternative title:
マジカノ (Japanese) 
魔法美少女 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Genres: action , comedy , romance 
Themes: brother complex , ecchi , fanservice , harem , witches 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Ayumi Mamiya is a witch cursed to lose her powers but there is one boy who can break the spell and save her. Haruo Yoshikawa thinks he is a normal boy but unknown to him his three sisters are witches who use their magical powers to keep him protected and ignorant about the existence of magic. Now Ayumi must wake up Haruo's latent powers to save herself but his sisters will have none of that. 
User Ratings: 786 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:10)
 Excellent: 58 votes (sub:37, dub:19, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 115 votes (sub:82, dub:29, Eng:1, others:3
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 218 votes (sub:155, dub:60, ?:1, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 162 votes (sub:123, dub:33, ?:2, raw:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 81 votes (sub:58, dub:19, raw:2, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 45 votes (sub:28, dub:16, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 49 votes (sub:36, dub:11, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 21 votes (sub:17, dub:4)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:4)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 1546 users, rank: #798 (of 10086)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.327 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.9165, rank: #6672 (of 10240)
Weighted mean: 6.173 (Decent+), rank: #7066 (of 10240) (seen all: 6.34 / seen some: 5.76 / won't finish: 3.65)
Bayesian estimate: 6.194 (Decent+), rank: #6369 (of 7690)
Running time: half hour per episode 
Number of episodes: 13 
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2006-01-03 to 2006-03-28 
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Motto!" by Sakura Nogawa 
Ending Theme:
"Maji suki MAGIC" by Clover 
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 6
Reviews:
Magikano DVD 1 (Apr 10, 2008)
News: Show:
Majikano TV Series (Oct 26, 2005)
Other articles: Show:
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DVD (Region 1)
    Magikano - The Complete Series (DVD) 2009-09-15 (from $50.49)
    Magikano - The Complete Series [S.A.V.E.] (DVD) 2010-07-13 (from $18.42)
    Magikano - A New Witch in Town (DVD 1) 2007-12-04 (from $20.38)
    Magikano - Witch Hunt (DVD 2) 2008-02-05 (from $6.00)
    Magikano - Witch Hunt + Artbox (DVD 2) 2008-02-05 (from $31.98)
    Magikano - The Witch's Flight (DVD 3) 2008-05-06 (from $11.06)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Seiji Kishi 
Series Composition: Hideki Mitsui 
Script: Hideki Mitsui 
Storyboard:
Ice Mugino (ep 3) 
Kenji Kodama (eps 8-9, 11) 
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (ep 4) 
Seiji Kishi (eps 1, 10, 13) 
Shinichi Tōkairin (ep 6) 
Yoshiyuki Asai (eps 2, 7, 12) 
Yūki Kinoshita (eps 5, 10) 
Episode Director:
Hideki Takayama (ep 9) 
Kan Ogawa (ep 11) 
Seiji Kishi (eps 1, 13) 
Shigetaka Ikeda (ep 4) 
Shinichi Tōkairin (ep 6) 
Takeyuki Sadohara (eps 3, 8) 
Yoshiyuki Asai (eps 2, 7, 12) 
Yūki Kinoshita (ep 5) 
Yuuichi Tachikawa (ep 10) 
Music: Katsuyuki Harada 
Original Manga: Takeaki Momose 
Character Design: Takashi Kobayashi 
Art Director: Masakazu Miyake 
Chief Animation Director: Takashi Kobayashi 
Animation Director:
Akiko Nakano (ep 11) 
Fumiko Urawa (ep 10) 
Futoshi Higashide (ep 6) 
Nobuhiro Watanabe (eps 1, 4, 9, 13) 
Sayo Aoi (eps 2, 7, 12) 
Shingo Watanabe (ep 8) 
Tetsuya Satō (eps 3, 8) 
Yumiko Ishii (ep 5) 
Yuuko Yoshida (eps 5, 10) 
Sound Director: Satoki Iida 
Director of Photography: Hiroshi Kubo 

2nd Key Animation: Akiko Matsuo (ep 9) 
Editing: Takashi Sakurai 
In-Between Animation: Takeshi Moriyama (Yuhodo; ep 2) 
Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (eps 2, 5, 7, 12) 
Jong Ki Choi (PAK PRODUCTION; eps 5, 10) 
Manabu Kawada (eps 7, 12) 
Photography: Asami Maruyama (ep 9) 
Theme Song Arrangement: Yukari Hashimoto (OP/ED) 
Theme Song Composition:
Hironobu Kageyama (OP) 
Tomoki Kikuya (ED) 
Theme Song Lyrics:
Aki Hata (ED) 
Hitomi Mieno (OP) 
Theme Song Performance:
Momoko Saito (Clover - ED) 
Nana Inoue (Clover - ED) 
Sakura Nogawa (OP) 
Ui Miyazaki (Clover - ED) 
Yui Shoji (Clover - ED) 
Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Haruo Yoshikawa 
Sakura Nogawa as Ayumi Mamiya 

Halko Momoi as Marin Nijihara 
Kanako Sakai as Chiaki Yoshikawa 
Mai Nakahara as Maika Yoshikawa 
Nana Inoue as Rika Anju 
Natsuko Kuwatani as Michiru Mamiya 
Noriko Namiki as Yuri Kurosu 
Noriko Rikimaru as Tetsuko Hondo 
Tomoko Kaneda as Fuyuno Yoshikawa 

Ai Iura as Haruo's Mother (ep 3) 
Ai Lura as Haruo's Mother (ep 3) 
Eiji Yanagisawa as Doctor (ep 7) 
Hiroomi Sugino as Principal 
Hiroya Ishimaru as Cat Panties (eps 10, 13) 
Katsuhiro Harasawa as Hajime Hario 
Katsuki Murase as
Ayumi's Father 
Infomercial Announcer (eps 2-8 even, 9) 
Narration 
Kazuya Tatekabe as Aijan (ep 4) 
Kei Shindō as
Girl A (ep 1) 
Little Haruo (ep 2) 
Receptionist (ep 8) 
Masaaki Ishikawa as
Member A (ep 9) 
Osugi (ep 2) 
Masahiro Yamanaka as
Boy A (ep 1) 
Policeman A (ep 4) 
Masanori Katsuragi as
Male Student (ep 2) 
Male Student A (ep 6) 
Member B (ep 9) 
Megumi Nasu as Ghost Girl (ep 6) 
Michiaki Kubota as Boy B (ep 5) 
Noriko Namiki as
Soccer Club Member (ep 8) 
Table Tennis Club Member (ep 8) 
Volleyball Club Member (ep 8) 
Remi Kawashima as Female Student (ep 2) 
Satoshi Okada as Boy A (ep 5) 
Satoshi Shimizu as
Boy B (ep 1) 
Eel (ep 7) 
Male Student B (ep 6) 
Policeman B (ep 4) 
Vice-Principal 
Shizuka Arai as Queen Of Hearts (ep 9) 
Takako Uemura as Umi Fujiwara 
Wataru Hatano as Shinichi (ep 11) 
Yoshiya Sakurada as Boy C (ep 5) 
Yūko Gotō as Ran (ep 11) 
Japanese companies
Animation: Tokyo Kids 
Animation Production Cooperation:
Studio Guts (ep 9) 
Yuhodo (eps 2, 5, 7, 10) 
Backgrounds:
Team Till Dawn  (ep 2) 
Key Animation:
arp Japan (ep 9) 
E-cho (ep 11) 
Eagle Nest (ep 9) 
Pak Production (4 episodes
eps 5, 7, 10, 13
)
 
Studio Graffiti (eps 2, 5, 10) 
Studio Wanpack (ep 5) 
T&B (ep 3) 
Yuhodo (ep 5) 
Photography: Tokyo Kids 
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Chris Ayres 
Translation: Kaoru Bertrand 
ADR Script: Josh Grelle 
Executive producer:
Joey Goubeaud 
John Ledford 
Producer: Scott McClennen 

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami 
Media Coordinator: Sarah Alys Lindholm 
Packaging Design: Hiroko Fukumori 
Production Assistant:
Maki Nagano 
Miyuki Kamiya 
Paul Mericle 
Production manager: Shelly Thomas 
Sound Design: Christopher Bourque 
Subtitle Script & Timing: Dwayne Jones 
Translation Proofer: Amy Forsyth 
Clint Bickham as Haruo Yoshikawa 
Jessica Boone as Ayumi Mamiya 

Carli Mosier as Yuri Kurosu 
Christine Auten as Tetsuko Hongo 
Hannah Alcorn as Marin Nijihara 
Hilary Haag as Fuyuno Yoshikawa 
Kira Vincent-Davis as Maika Yoshikawa 
Luci Christian as Chiaki Yoshikawa 
Monica Rial as Michiru Mamiya 
Tiffany Grant as Rika Anju 

Blake Shepard as Delinquent B (ep 1) 
Brittney Karbowski as Umi Fujiwara 
Charles Campbell as
Announcer (ep 1) 
Giant (ep 9) 
Narrator (ep 9) 
Principal (eps 2, 10, 13) 
Santa Claus (ep 11) 
Christopher Ayres as Infomercial Announcer (ep 9) 
Christopher Patton as
Delinquent A (ep 1) 
Osugi 
Soccer boy (ep 8) 
Wolf 3 (ep 9) 
David Devaney Jr. as
Osune (ep 4) 
Shinichi (ep 11) 
Greg Ayres as Hajime Hario 
John Swasey as
Announcer (ep 2) 
Ayumi's Father (eps 1, 12-13) 
M.C. (ep 2) 
Narrator (eps 6, 10) 
Wolf 1 (ep 9) 
Josh Grelle as
Hikono 
Ping Pong Boy (ep 8) 
Wolf 2 (ep 9) 
K.C. Jones as Vice Principal (eps 2, 10, 13) 
Matt Greenfield as Infomercial Announcer (ep 6) 
Natalie Nassar as Queen of Hearts (ep 9) 
Rob Mungle as Cait Sith 
Shannon Emerick as Volleyball Girl (ep 8) 
Stephanie Wittels as Ran (ep 11) 
Tiffany Terrell as
Ghost (ep 6) 
Train Announcer (ep 13) 
Witch (ep 9) 

English companies
Broadcaster:
Animax Asia 
Animax India 
Distributor: ADV Films (UK) 
Licensed by:
ADV Films  (Expired) 
FUNimation Entertainment  (2008) 
Production: Amusement Park Media 
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Screen Inserts: Susana Damas (Spain dub) 
Pilar Mora as Ayumi Mamiya (Spain dub) 
Sergio Mesa as Haruo Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 

Ariadna Giménez as Michiru Mamiya (Spain dub) 
Carmen Calvell as Yuri Kurosu (Spain dub) 
Lidia Camino as Fuyuno Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 
Mar Nicolas as Marin Nijihara (Spain dub) 
Maria Rosa Guillén as Rika Anju (Spain dub) 
Pilar Morales as Maika Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 
Sofia Garcia as Chiaki Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 
Susana Damas as Tetsuko Hondo (Spain dub) 

Angel del Río as Hikono (Spain dub) 
Daniel Albiac as Cait Sith (Spain dub) 
Esperança Domènech as
Haruo's Mother (Spain dub) 
Madre de los Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 
Francesc Rocamora as Vice-Principal (Spain dub) 
Isabel Muntané as
Ran (Spain dub) 
Umi Fujiwara (Spain dub) 
Ivan Canovas as Osugi (Spain dub) 
Jesús López as
Hajime Hario (Spain dub) 
Shinichi (Spain dub) 
Juan José Moscoso as Ayumi's Father (Spain dub) 
Maria Rosa Guillén as Ghost Girl (Spain dub) 
Victor Iturrioz as
Infomercial Announcer (Spain dub) 
Narrator (Spain dub) 
Principal (Spain dub) 

Angel del Río (Spain dub) 
Ariadna Giménez (Spain dub) 
Daniel Albiac (Spain dub) 
Esperança Domènech (Spain dub) 
Francesc Rocamora (Spain dub) 
Isabel Muntané (Spain dub) 
J. Ignacio Latorre (Spain dub) 
Jesús López (Spain dub) 
Juan José Moscoso (Spain dub) 
Lidia Camino (Spain dub) 
Mar Nicolas (Spain dub) 
Oriol de Balle (Spain dub) 
Susana Damas (Spain dub) 
Victor Iturrioz (Spain dub) 
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel 
Dubbing: Cristal Media (Barcelona - Spain) 
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Spain dub) 
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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