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Toward the Terra (TV)

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©Keiko Takemiya/MBS•Sky Perfect Well Think•Aniplex 

 
Alternative title:
Terra e... (Japanese) 
To Terra… 
地球へ… (Japanese) 
Themes: bishounen , esp powers , espers , space , superpowers 
Plot Summary: In the far future, humanity has left behind an environmentally destroyed Terra and began colonization in order to reproduce their home. Humanity, now ruled by a super computer that controls the birth of children, sees the emergence of a new race called the "Mu". The Mu, now hidden from the rest of humanity, have one dream, to return home, to Terra... 
User Ratings: 656 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 128 votes (sub:117, dub:6, raw:1, others:4
2 Italian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 166 votes (sub:151, dub:6, raw:3, others:6
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 158 votes (sub:143, dub:5, ?:1, others:9
5 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 95 votes (sub:89, dub:3, raw:2, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 43 votes (sub:39, dub:2, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 24 votes (sub:23, dub:1)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:14, dub:2)
 Weak: 15 votes (sub:14, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 1100 users, rank: #1119 (of 10083)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.930 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.8809, rank: #814 (of 10235)
Weighted mean: 7.890 (Very good), rank: #797 (of 10235) (seen all: 8.03 / seen some: 7.48 / won't finish: 4.37)
Bayesian estimate: 7.882 (Very good), rank: #536 (of 7688)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 24 
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage:
2007-04-07 to 2007-09-22 
2008 (USA, ImaginAsian TV - The Block) 
Opening Theme:
#1: "endscape" by UVERWorld (eps 1-13) 
#2: "JET BOY JET GIRL" by Hitomi Takahashi (eps 14-) 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Love is..." by Miliyah Kato (eps 1-13) 
#2: "This Night" by CHEMISTRY (eps 14-) 
Official website:
地球へ・・・ (Japanese) 
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
Reviews:
Toward the Terra Part 3 (Feb 21, 2009)
Toward the Terra Sub.DVD 3-4 (Dec 26, 2008)
Toward The Terra DVD 1-2 (Aug 16, 2008)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 1) 2008-07-15 (from $9.99)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 2) 2008-07-15 (from $9.99)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 3) 2008-10-07 (from $6.00)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 4) 2008-10-07 (from $19.98)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 5) 2008-12-02 (from $39.97)
    Toward the Terra (Sub.DVD 6) 2008-12-02 (from $29.92)
    Toward the Terra - Part 1 (Sub.DVD 1-2) 2008-07-15 (from $8.48)
    Toward the Terra - Complete Collection [Anime Legend] (Sub.DVD 1-6) 2009-12-01 (from $100.00)
    Toward the Terra - Part 2 (Sub.DVD 3-4) 2008-10-07 (from $5.98)
    Toward the Terra - Part 3 (Sub.DVD 5-6) 2008-12-02 (from $39.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Osamu Yamasaki 
Script:
Akemi Omode (eps 2-3, 5-6) 
Dai Satō (eps 12, 16-17) 
Hiroshi Ōnogi (4 episodes
eps 11, 13, 23-24
) 
Mitsuyasu Sakai (ep 4) 
Osamu Yamasaki (eps 5-6, 24) 
Satoru Nishizono (ep 1) 
Shigeru Morita (eps 15, 20-21) 
Toshizo Nemoto (7 episodes
eps 7-9, 14, 18-19, 22
) 
Yutaka Izubuchi (ep 10) 
Storyboard:
Hidetoshi Yoshida (eps 4, 8) 
Hiroyuki Kitakubo (OP 2) 
Kōhei Hatano (ep 7) 
Nobuyoshi Habara (ep 6) 
Osamu Tsuruyama (5 episodes
eps 2-3, 5-6, 10
) 
Osamu Yamasaki (ep 1) 
Rion Kujo (ED 2; ep 24) 
Yūji Yanase (ep 9) 
Episode Director:
Hirosuke Kobayashi (eps 3, 7) 
Kōsuke Kobayashi (4 episodes
eps 3, 7, 15, 21
) 
Makoto Hoshino (ep 5) 
Masaru Kawashima (ep 4) 
Satoshi Shimizu (ep 1) 
Yūji Yanase (eps 2, 9) 
Unit Director:
Hiroyuki Kitakubo (OP 2) 
Rion Kujo (OP 1, ED 2) 
Music: Yasuharu Takanashi 
Original creator: Keiko Takemiya 
Character Design: Nobuteru Yūki 
Art Director:
Shunichirō Yoshihara  
Animation Director:
Kazuo Takigawa (ep 5) 
Nobuhiro Watanabe (ep 3) 
Ryōko Nakano (ep 4) 
Shinichi Miyamae (ep 7) 
Tateru Namikaze (ep 1) 
Yōko Kōjō (eps 2, 9) 
Mecha design:
Hideyuki Matsumoto 
Takayuki Yanase 
Yasushi Ishizu 
Cgi Director: Tatsuo Hayasaki 
Director of Photography: Takeshi Hirooka 
Producer:
Ai Abe 
Hiroshi Morotomi 
Norihiro Hayashida 

Color design: Yūko Kanemaru 
Key Animation:
Aika Kawasaki (ep 1)  (ep 4) 
Akihiko Mamashita (ep 1)  (ep 10) 
Akiko Isohata (ep 18) 
Akio Uchino (OP 1) 
Akira Takata (OP 2) 
Asami Endō (ep 5) 
Atsushi Sekiguchi (ep 16) 
Aya Takano (asread; eps 11, 24) 
Chie Mishima (ep 22) 
Chiyuki Tanaka (OP 1; ep 17) 
Cindy H. Yamauchi (ep 16) 
Emi Tezuka (ep 20) 
Etsushi Mori (ep 24) 
Genichi Murakami (ep 3) 
Hajime Yoshida (ep 16) 
Hatsumi Takahashi (ep 22) 
Hidenori Miyahara (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Hikaru Takanashi (eps 2, 9) 
Hiroki Moritomo (eps 16, 24) 
Hiroki Saitō (ep 16) 
Hiroko Shigekuni (eps 5, 13) 
Hiromi Yoshinuma (6 episodes
eps 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 20
) 
Hisashi Ishii (ep 22) 
Jouji Sawada (OP 1; ep 21) 
Junichi Kigawa (eps 5, 13) 
Kaori Ogawa (ep 10) 
Kayo Nomichi (eps 5, 13, 19) 
Kazuhiro Miwa (ep 24) 
Kazuya Hirata (ep 19) 
Keiichi Ishida (eps 5, 13, 21) 
Keiko Ishii (ep 22) 
Keiko Nagamine (ep 21) 
Kentarō Fujita (5 episodes
eps 3, 5, 9, 17, 23
) 
Koichi Yagami (OP 1) 
Kōta Michishita (ep 1)  (6 episodes
eps 4, 6, 14, 16, 20, 24
) 
Kumiko Harushita (ep 1) 
Kumiko Kakoi (eps 5, 15, 19) 
Kumiko Kasuga (eps 6, 21) 
Kumiko Matsushita (ep 10) 
Makoto Shimomura (OP 2) 
Mamiko Mizutani (OP 2) 
Manabu Morishige (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Manami Itō (ep 11) 
Mariko Takahashi (eps 17, 21) 
Masaaki Yamano (Last House; ep 7) 
Masahiro Kase (ep 7) 
Masaki Miyauchi (eps 4, 16) 
Masanori Nishii (ep 24) 
Masaru Kawashima (ep 4) 
Mayuko Kato (eps 17, 21) 
Mayumi Okamoto (OP 1) 
Mayumi Yamamoto (ep 6) 
Megumi Satou (4 episodes
eps 2, 9, 15, 21
) 
Michiko Takahashi (ep 1)  (eps 5, 13, 19) 
Michio Yamamoto (ep 4) 
Michiyo Hirabayashi (Studio Create; ep 7) 
Mika Yamamoto (ep 20) 
Mikio Fujiwara (ep 18) 
Minefumi Harada (ep 18) 
Mineko Ueda (eps 14, 24) 
Minoru Yamazawa (ep 11) 
Mitsuru Nakata (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Miyuki Goto (ep 1)  (4 episodes
eps 4, 14, 20, 24
) 
Mizue Ogawa (ep 4) 
Momoko Kawai (Last House; eps 7, 19) 
Moriyasu Taniguchi (OP 1) 
Naoko Tanaka (ep 10) 
Osamu Tsuruyama (ep 14) 
Rieko Akasaka (ep 3) 
Riki Matsuura (ep 1) 
Rion Kujo (ED 2) 
Risako Yoshida (ep 1)  (eps 14, 20, 24) 
Ryōko Nakano (OP 1; eps 4, 10, 24) 
Sachiyo Takada (ep 1) 
Satoru Minowa (eps 15, 19) 
Satoshi Sakai (ep 11) 
Setsuko Unno (ep 1) 
Shigemi Aoyagi (4 episodes
eps 5, 9, 15, 19
) 
Shinichi Miyamae (ep 3) 
Shuji Morimoto (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Tadashi Fukuda (ep 3) 
Takaaki Izumo (ep 1) 
Takao Ozone (eps 3, 7) 
Takashi Abe (Snow Light Staff; eps 7, 19) 
Takashi Hirabayashi (Studio Create; ep 7) 
Takeshi Matsuura (ep 24) 
Takeshi Yoshioka (OP 1) 
Tetsuya Matsukawa (OP 1) 
Tetsuya Satō (eps 2, 9) 
Tomokazu Shimabukuro (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Tomoyuki Abe (ep 22) 
Toshinari Yamashita (eps 22, 24) 
Usaku Myouchin (ep 1) 
Yasushi Muraki (OP 2) 
Yōko Iizuka (ep 2) 
Yōko Ono (ep 18) 
Yoshiaki Izumo (6 episodes
eps 4, 6, 10, 16, 20, 24
) 
Yoshihiro Nishikawa (ep 11) 
Yoshiko Nakajima (OP 1; ep 17) 
Yoshiko Shimizu (ep 4) 
Yoshimi Saito (ep 22) 
Yoshitaka Kōno (OP 2) 
Yukari Watanabe (ep 24) 
Yukiko Kawakita (5 episodes
eps 9, 15, 17, 19, 23
) 
Yūko Fujii (5 episodes
eps 2, 7, 13, 17, 21
) 
Yumie Wada (Nakamura Production; ep 11) 
Yumiko Ishii (ep 21) 
Yumiko Tomiki (ep 3) 
Yuriko Ishii (OP 1-2; eps 3, 7) 
Music producer:
Hirohito Shinohara 
Tadahito Kimura 
Original Mechanical Design: Yutaka Izubuchi 
Planning:
Kōichirō Natsume 
Noriyasu Kamiki 
Seiji Takeda 
Sound Effects: Minoru Yamada 
Theme Song Arrangement:
Satoru Hiraide (OP1) 
TAKUYA (OP2) 
Tomokazu “T.O.M” Matsuzawa (ED2) 
UVERworld (OP1) 
Theme Song Composition:
Miliyah Kato (as Miliyah; ED1) 
Naohisa Taniguchi (ED2) 
TAKUYA (OP2) 
UVERworld (OP1) 
Theme Song Lyrics:
Hitomi Takahashi (OP2) 
mavie (OP2) 
Miliyah Kato (as Miliyah; ED1) 
Naohisa Taniguchi (ED2) 
TAKUYA∞ (OP1) 
Theme Song Performance:
Chemistry (ED2) 
Hitomi Takahashi (OP2) 
Miliyah Kato (ED1) 
UVERworld (OP1) 
Mitsuki Saiga as Jomy Marquis Shin 

Ai Orikasa as Mother Computer 
Marina Inoue as Seki Leigh Shiroei 
Motoki Takagi as Jonah Matsuka 
Norio Wakamoto as Narration 
Sanae Kobayashi as Physis 
Takehito Koyasu as Keith Anyan 
Tomokazu Sugita as Soldier Blue 
Wataru Hatano as Sam Houston 

Ai Orikasa as
Grandmother 
Tardyon 
Terraz No. 5 
Aki Unone as Shiroe's mother (ep 5) 
Atsushi Imaruoka as
Helman 
Romero 
Ayahi Takagaki as Altera 
Daisuke Matsuoka as
Elder Ados 
Instructor (ep 8) 
Daisuke Namikawa as Leo 
Eiko Honda as Female student (ep 7) 
Eri Kitamura as Tony (young) 
Fumi Oda as Ella 
Fumie Mizusawa as
Communications soldier (ep 13) 
Female student (ep 9) 
Mahiru 
Male student (ep 7) 
Ruri 
Tachyon (young) 
Toki 
Hiroki Yasumoto as
Ataraxia mayor (eps 1, 4) 
Commanding Officer 
Guard (eps 8-9) 
Male voice (ep 20) 
Sid Johan 
Toki (ep 11 and after) 
Junko Noda as
Boy (ep 9) 
Male student (eps 7-8) 
Jūrōta Kosugi as Harley 
Kanako Ida as Female student (ep 7) 
Kazutoshi Hatano as
Aihara 
Yuui 
Keiichi Takahashi as Controller (ep 6) 
Ken Narita as Grave Murdock 
Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Elder Wong 
Harold 
Instructor (ep 6) 
Pascal Wogg 
Professor (eps 7-8) 
Reborn (ep 23) 
Scientist (ep 9) 
Universal bureau chief (ep 1) 
Mai Hashimoto as Female student (ep 6) 
Manami Komori as Nakinezumi 
Masashi Hirose as Shiroe's father (ep 5) 
Minako Ichiki as Burau 
Mitsuaki Madono as Guidance (ep 6) 
Naoki Koshida as
Male student (ep 7) 
Pilot (ep 9) 
Natsuko Tauchi as Female student (ep 8) 
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Serge Starjon 
Noriaki Sugiyama as Toni 
Rei Nakatsuka as
Michelle Piper 
Yogi 
Sanae Kobayashi as Letitia Shin 
Satoshi Tsuruoka as Doctor (ep 1) 
Sayaka Narita as
Announcer (ep 6) 
Female student (ep 9) 
Nina 
Pestazio 
Sayuri Kubo as Karina 
Taketoshi Kawano as Scientist (ep 8) 
Takuma Terashima as
Alfred 
Sean 
Tachyon 
Tetsuharu Ōta as Male student (ep 8) 
Tetsuya Kakihara as Kim 
Yasunori Matsumoto as Jomy's father 
Yoshihisa Kawahara as
Male student (ep 6) 
Operator (ep 8) 
Yōsuke Akimoto as Zel 
Yukana as Jomy's mother 
Yuki Masuda as
Swena Dalton 
Twellen 
Yae 
Yūki Ono as
Dr. Nordy 
Male student (ep 7) 
Operator (ep 9) 
Japanese companies
Animation Direction: Studio Wanpack (eps 16, 24) 
Animation Production:
Minamimachi Bugyōsho 
Tokyo Kids 
Broadcaster:
Animax (2007-05-012) 
Kids Station (2007-05-14) 
Mainichi Broadcasting System (2007-04-07) 
RCC Chugoku Broadcasting (2007-04-14) 
Shizuoka Broadcasting System (2007-04-14) 
Tokyo Broadcasting System (2007-04-07) 
In-Between Animation:
AIC 
Anime R 
Anime Roman 
Asahi Production 
asread 
CCOMA Animation 
cube A motion 
Digital Network Animation 
drop 
E-cho 
FAI International 
Frontline 
GK Entertainment 
Hayashi 
I Move 
I&S Factory 
Kyung Kang ANIA 
Mouse 
SHAFT 
Studio Add 
studio BABEL 
Studio Gash 
Studio Jungle Gym 
Studio Kuma 
Studio Mu 
Sunshine Corporation 
Tokyo Kids 
Triple A 
VISTA 
Key Animation:
Asahi Production (eps 4, 10) 
asread (ep 24) 
CCOMA Animation (ep 8) 
E-cho (4 episodes
eps 6, 12, 14, 20
) 
GK Entertainment (eps 6, 14, 20) 
HEBARAKI (eps 12, 14) 
Last House (eps 7, 11) 
Nakamura Production (ep 11) 
Snow Light Staff (eps 3, 7, 15) 
studio BABEL (ep 16) 
Studio Create (ep 7) 
Team SB (ep 19) 
Tokyo Animation Center (ep 3) 
Music Cooperation: Sony Music Entertainment 
Photography: Production I.G (OP 2) 
Production:
Aniplex 
Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) 
SKY Perfect Well Think Co., Ltd. 
Production Cooperation:
asread (ep 11) 
Digital Network Animation (ep 22) 
J.C.F. (ep 8) 
Marvy Jack (ep 18) 
studio BABEL (ep 16) 
Theme Song Arrangement: 3rd Productions (ED1) 
English staff
English cast
Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi 
Producer:
Diana Gage 
Jiro Okada (extras) 
Richard Noboru Kekahuna 

Associate producer: Jiro Okada 
Audio Post-production:
Derek Simpson (extras) 
Masako Uchiura (extras) 
Camera: Corey Fischer (extras) 
Chief Producer: Nobuo Masuda 
Interview: Keiko Takemiya 
Menu Design: Katherine Schroeder 
Operations Assistant: Joseph Chung (eps 1-16) 
Production Assistant: Brian Cutts 
Special Thanks To:
Sopana Sann 
Stephen Prat (eps 17-24) 
Subtitle Script:
Kevin McKeown (extras) 
Kim Wishart Goddard 
Video Post-Production:
Gabriella Cheung (extras; eps 1-8) 
Jiro Okada (extras) 
Robinder Uppal (eps 9-24) 
Sean McConkey 
Shannon Lum 
Jess Reyes as Keith Anyan (Animax dub) 

Charmaine Cordoviz as Seki Leigh Shiroei (Animax dub) 
Dada Carlos as Mother Eliza (Animax dub) 
Jess Reyes as Soldier Blue (Animax dub) 
Mitchiko Azarcon-Tiongson as Physis (Animax dub) 

Mitchiko Azarcon-Tiongson as
Michelle (Animax dub) 
Nina (Animax dub) 
English companies
Animax India > Broadcaster: Animax India 
Associate Producer: The Ocean Group 
Broadcaster:
Animax Asia 
Animax India 
iaTV (The Block) 
DVD Authoring: SpeeDVD 
Internet Streaming: The Anime Network 
Licensed by:
Bandai Entertainment  (Expired) 
Production: The Ocean Group (extras) 
Korean cast
Korean staff
(none)
Jae-Ho Choi as Jomy Marquis Shin 

Chan-Hui Park as Sam Houston 
Eun-Jin Ha as Jonah Matsuka 
Hui-Yeong Kim as
Physis 
Seki Leigh Shiroei 
Hyeon-Jeong Yun as Mother Computer 
Won-Chan Lee as
Keith Anyan 
Soldier Blue 

Chan-Hui Park as
Helman 
Toni 
Eun-Jin Ha as
Ella 
Karina 
Gi-Hyeung Kim as Toki 
Gye-Hyeon No as
Dr. Nordi 
Kim 
Leo 
Hyeon-Jeong Yun as
Burau 
Yae 
Jae-Ho Choi as Grave Murdock 
Ji-Yun Park as
Nina 
Ruri 
Swena Dalton 
Man-Yeong Park as Harley 
Won-Chan Lee as Zel 
Korean companies
(none)

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