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Judge (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Judge: El juez de las tinieblas (Spanish) 
Magistrate of Darkness: Judge 
Yami no Shihōkan Judge (Japanese) 
闇の司法官ジャッジ (Japanese) 
Genres: horror , supernatural 
Objectionable content: Intense 
Plot Summary: Hoichiro Ohma works in an office. Everybody knows him as a silent, humble man. Even his girlfriend, Nanase, doesn't suspect that he could be something more, but he is. When a person dies as a victim of murder; when someone kills himself with a curse on his lips; when someone's death needs to be judged, he is there, for he is a Judge Of Darkness. Following the Laws Of Darkness, with a book made of human skin and an unusual parrot, he pronounces judgement over living criminals that would otherwise go free. 
User Ratings: 117 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Very good: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Good: 22 votes (sub:17, dub:5)
 Decent: 33 votes (dub:16, sub:16, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:9, dub:8)
 Not really good: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:3)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:4, dub:4)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:4, dub:4)
 Awful: 1 vote (?:1)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 197 users, rank: #3952 (of 10084)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.513 (Decent−), std. dev.: 2.2057, rank: #8735 (of 10238)
Weighted mean: 5.521 (Decent−), rank: #8747 (of 10238) (seen all: 5.55 / seen some: 1.00)
Bayesian estimate: 5.716 (Decent−), rank: #7165 (of 7689)
Running time: 45 minutes 
Number of episodes: 1 
Vintage: 1991-06-15 
Release dates: We have 4
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DVD (Region 0)
    Judge (DVD) 1999-03-16 (from $3.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    Judgment Day Pack - Judge + Cybernetics Guardian (DVD) 2002-05-28
VHS
    Judge (Dub.VHS) 1996-10-08 (from $9.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroshi Negishi 
Screenplay: Katsuhiko Chiba 
Music: Toshiro Imaizumi 
Original Work: Fujihiko Hosono 
Character Design: Shin Matsuo 
Art Director: Tetsunori Ōyama 
Animation Director: Shin Matsuo 
Art design: Chisato Sunagawa 
Sound Director: Noriyoshi Matsuura 
Director of Photography: Akihiko Takahashi 
Executive producer:
Mitsuhisa Hida 
Yutaka Takahashi 
Animation Check:
Hiromi Sakai 
Nobuko Ogino 
Assistant producer: Natsuko Satō 
Assistant Sound Director: Jun Watanabe 
Background Art:
Tetsunori Ōyama 
Yukio Suzuki  
Finish Check:
Shinji Takai 
Takao Yoshikawa 
Line Producer: Michihisa Abe 
Music producer: Toshio Oguri 
Photography Assistant: Takashi Azuhata 
Planning: Masaki Sawanobori 
Production Desk: Tadashi Watanabe 
Recording: Yoshio Obara 
Sound Effects: Daisuke Jinbo 
Special Effects: Gō Abe 
Supervision: Kōji Shimano (Futabasha) 
Kaneto Shiozawa as Hōichirō Ōma 

Daisuke Gōri as Enma Ō 
Hideyuki Hori as Ryūichi Murakami 
Issei Futamata as Kōji Kawamata 
Junko Asami as Keiko Yamamoto 
Miki Itō as Nanase 
Shinya Ōtaki as Susumu Yamanobe 
Tomomichi Nishimura as Hiromi Shimon 
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Parrot 

Akiko Sekine as Sachiko Yamanobe 
Eiji Maruyama as General Manager 
Issei Futamata as Byōdō Ō 
Junko Hagimori as female employee 
Michitaka Kobayashi as
Godō Tenrin Ō 
Gushōjin 
Rihoko Nagao as female employee 
Wataru Takagi as
Henjō Ō 
male employee 
Yūichi Nagashima as Guerrilla 
Yuri Amano as female employee 
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Animate 
Co-Production: J.C. Staff 
Editing: Jay Film 
Film Processing: Tokyo Laboratory 
Music Production: From East 
Photography: Studio Boston 
Photography Assistance: Azuhata Production 
Sound Production: Gen 
special effects: Gureru Kōbō 
Titles: Maki Production 
English staff
English cast
Director: Michael Bakewell 
Executive producer:
John O'Donnell 
Laurence Guinness 
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky 

Casting: Jil Wilmot 
Dubbing Mixing: Richard King 
DVD Coordination: Eric Thomann 
Re-Recording Engineer: Clive Mitchison 
Rewrite: Jay Parks 
Script Adaptation: Greta Mitchell 
Ian Tyler as Hoichiro Ohma 

Barbara Barnes as Nanase 
Harry Ditson as Parrot (uncredited) 
Nigel Anthony as Shimon 
Peter Whitman as Kawamata 

Colin Bruce as
Coworker (uncredited) 
Mourner (uncredited) 
Harry Ditson as Boss (uncredited) 
Laurel Lefkow as Yamamoto 
Michael Morris as Coworker (uncredited) 
Shelly Thompson as Yamanobe's Wife 
Steven Crossley as Yamanobe 
Tony Sibbald as Yama 
William Dufris as Murakami 
English companies
Distributor:
Manga Entertainment  (UK) 
U.S. Manga Corps 
DVD Menu Design: Crush Digital Video 
DVD Premastering: Crush Digital Video 
Licensed by: Central Park Media 
Translation: New Generation Pictures 
Spanish cast
Spanish staff
Executive producer: Luis de Val 
Oriol Rafel as Hoichiro Ohma (Catalan dub) 
Ricky Coello as Hoichiro Ohma (Spain dub) 

Adrià Frías as Koji Kawamata (Catalan dub)  (Spain dub) 
Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Parrot (Spain dub) 
Juan Antonio Bernal as Ryuichi Murakami (Catalan dub)  (Spain dub) 
Mercè Segarra as Nanase (Catalan dub) 
Miryam Guilimany as Nanase (Spain dub) 
Oriol Rafel as Susumu Yamanobe (Spain dub) 
Rosalia Baños as Keiko Yamamoto (Catalan dub) 
Salvador Vives as Susumu Yamanobe (Catalan dub) 
Xavier Fernández as Hiroshi Shimon (Catalan dub)  (Spain dub) 

Alfonso García Zambrano as King Enma (Spain dub) 
Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Lloro (Catalan dub) 

Alex Meseguer (Catalan dub) 
Angel de Gracia (Spain dub) 
Enrique Encarnación (Spain dub) 
Joaquim Sota (Catalan dub) 
José Javier Serrano (Spain dub) 
Lola Oria (Spain dub) 
Mercedes Domingo (Spain dub) 
Sílvia Bel (Catalan dub) 
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya) 
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain dub) 
Dubbing Studio:
Q.T. Lever (Spain dub)  (Catalan dub) 

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