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Welcome to Irabu's Office (TV)

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Alternative title:
Die seltsamen Methoden des Dr. Irabu (German) 
Flying Trapeze 
Kūchū Buranko (Japanese) 
Trapeze 
空中ブランコ (Japanese) 
變態怪醫Dr.伊良部 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Objectionable content: Intense 
Plot Summary: Eleven people, each of them suffering from apparently groundless physical symptoms, land at psychiatrist Dr. Ichirō Irabu's consulting room, in the hope of finding there a sympathetic doctor, who listens to their troubles, gives them some pills, and with this, solves their problems once and for all. Instead, they find that Irabu is an eccentric person, with childish features and with little or no sympathy. He employs drastic and unheard-of treatments, and instead of counselling, he prefers to look at his patients' background personally. Despite his strange behavior and methods, he can always help his patients find the real causes behind their symptoms, while being amused at the awkward situations, which the patients get into by following his advice. 
User Ratings: 212 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 19 votes (sub:19)
 Excellent: 58 votes (sub:52, raw:1, dub:1, others:4
3 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 59 votes (sub:56, dub:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 37 votes (sub:35, dub:1, others:1
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Decent: 18 votes (sub:18)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:9, dub:1)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 368 users, rank: #2676 (of 10084)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.698 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7166, rank: #1307 (of 10238)
Weighted mean: 7.659 (Very good−), rank: #1290 (of 10238) (seen all: 7.88 / seen some: 6.52 / won't finish: 4.98)
Bayesian estimate: 7.648 (Very good−), rank: #1000 (of 7689)
Running time: half hour per episode 
Number of episodes: 11 
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage:
2009-10-15 to 2009-12-24 
2010-01-30 (Ep. 1-3, Italy - Future Film Festival) 
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Upside Down" by Denki Groove 
Ending Theme:
"Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel)" by Denki Groove 
Links: We have 1
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Welcome to Irabu's Office DVD (May 10, 2011)
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DVD (Region 4)
    Welcome to Irabu's Office (DVD) 2011-02-18

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kenji Nakamura 
Series Composition: Manabu Ishikawa 
Script:
Isao Murayama (eps 2, 4-5, 8-9) 
Manabu Ishikawa (Tatsunoko Pro.; eps 1, 6, 10-11) 
Tomoko Taguchi (eps 3, 6) 
Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Kakudō (eps 1, 8) 
Kenji Nakamura (ep 1) 
Kiyotaka Suzuki (ep 5) 
Masatoshi Chioka (eps 3-4) 
Takayuki Chiba (ep 4) 
Yukio Kaizawa (ep 9) 
Episode Director:
Hidehito Ueda (eps 2, 7) 
Hiroyuki Kakudō (ep 6) 
Kenji Nakamura (ep 11) 
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (eps 3, 8) 
Kōhei Hatano (eps 1, 10) 
Kouji Ogawa (eps 4, 9) 
Masatoshi Chioka (ep 11) 
Yukio Kaizawa (ep 11) 
Music: Hideharu Mori 
Original creator: Hideo Okuda 
Character Design: Takashi Hashimoto 
Art Director: Shoji Tokiwa 
Chief Animation Director: Takashi Hashimoto 
Animation Director:
Akira Takata (ep 5) 
Hideoki Kusama (eps 1, 10) 
Megumi Ishihara (ep 6) 
Natsuki Watanabe (eps 3, 8) 
Sayuri Sugitō (eps 2, 7) 
Shinichi Sakuma (eps 4, 9) 
Takashi Hashimoto (eps 1, 11) 
Tatsuya Oka (assist. Ep. 11; eps 2, 7) 
Toshinori Watanabe (eps 2, 7) 
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki 
Cgi Director: Nobuhiro Morita 
Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada 
Producer:
Kōji Yamamoto (Fuji TV) 
Masato Seino (Fuji TV) 
Takashi Washio 

Art Advancement: Maoki Sawada 
Assistant Director: Masatoshi Chioka 
Assistant Episode Director:
Hiroya Takahashi (ep 6) 
Masatoshi Chioka (eps 1, 3-11) 
Satoru Misawa (ep 2) 
Yasunori Koyama (eps 1, 4) 
CG Producer: Yukiya Imamura 
Color design: Rumiko Nagai 
Color Key: Asami Maruyama (eps 2, 7) 
Digital Art Director:
Mio Nakayama 
Saki Hayashi 
Finishing Advancement: Shō Kaneko 
In-Between Animation:
Haruna Akechi (eps 4, 9) 
Hiroko Onodera (eps 4, 9) 
Nozomi Tanaka (eps 4, 9) 
In-Between Check:
Mariko Kiyota 
Reiko Saito 
Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (ep 5) 
Akiko Mori (eps 5, 10) 
Akira Takahashi (eps 4, 9) 
Atsushi Okuda (ep 11) 
Ayaka Shimoji (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Azusa Ochiai (ep 6) 
Biku Kamiho (ep 11) 
Chūichi Iguchi (eps 2, 7, 10) 
Hidemi Yamashita (eps 5, 10) 
Hideoki Kusama (eps 1, 11) 
Hideyuki Hirai (acca effe; ep 6) 
Hiroshi Watanabe (Studio Kyuma; ep 6) 
Hisao Ishii (acca effe; eps 6, 11) 
Hyun Ju Lee (eps 4, 9) 
Isamu Fukushima (eps 5, 10) 
Jun Nakase (acca effe; ep 6) 
Junichi Yokoyama (eps 5, 10) 
Katsunori Enokimoto (eps 4, 9) 
Kazuhiro Taga (eps 2, 7) 
Kazumasa Takeuchi (acca effe; ep 6) 
Kazuya Morimae (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Ken Ōtsuka (ep 11) 
Kenichi Fujisawa (eps 3, 8) 
Kenji Hayama (eps 5, 10) 
Kenji Miuma (eps 6, 10-11) 
Kiichi Suzuno (eps 3, 8) 
Kiko Hashimoto (eps 3, 8) 
Kōichi Hayami (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Kumiko Shishido (eps 5, 10) 
Manabu Nakatake (ep 5) 
Masahiko Kubo (ep 11) 
Masahiro Okamura (ep 2) 
Masashi Kudo (ep 11) 
Mayu Saitō (ep 10) 
Mayu Yoshida (ep 3) 
Megumi Ishihara (ep 11) 
Megumi Koyama (acca effe; ep 6) 
Miho Kaneshiro (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Misao Abe (ep 1) 
Momoko Nagakawa (eps 5, 10) 
Motoki Yagi (eps 6, 11) 
Naoaki Hōjō (eps 7, 11) 
Naoko Igarashi (ep 11) 
Natsue Chibayama (ep 10) 
Natsuki Watanabe (eps 3, 8) 
Nobuaki Tanaka (eps 1, 6, 10-11) 
Nobuyoshi Sasakado (eps 1, 6, 10-11) 
Retsu Ohkawara (ep 5) 
Rie Saitou (eps 1, 5) 
Saori Koike (eps 6, 11) 
Satomi Kani (eps 5, 10) 
Shigeki Kuhara (eps 5, 10) 
Shingo Ogiso (eps 1, 6, 11) 
Shūji Ono (eps 5, 10) 
Shuuichirou Manabe (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Sōichi Seguchi (acca effe; ep 6) 
Sōichirō Matsuda (ep 11) 
Takanori Suzuki (ep 11) 
Takashi Hashimoto (ep 11) 
Takayuki Manaka (eps 1, 6, 11) 
Takayuki Murakami (eps 3, 8) 
Takeshi Honda (ep 11) 
Takeshi Yoshioka (ep 11) 
Takeyo Sumomo (Studio Kyuma; ep 6) 
Tatsuya Oka (eps 2, 7) 
Tatsuya Tomaru (ep 11) 
Tetsuya Ishii (eps 3, 8) 
Tomomi Ueda (ep 3) 
Tomoya Takahashi (ep 8) 
Tomoya Takayama (ep 3) 
Tomoyuki Kojima (eps 5, 10) 
Toshinori Watanabe (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Toshiyuki Satō (eps 2, 7) 
Tsuyoshi Kakihara (eps 2, 7) 
Yoshiaki Wada (eps 4, 9) 
Yoshihiro Nagata (eps 5, 10) 
Yoshitaka Yashima (ep 1) 
Young Mi Joung (eps 4, 9) 
Yui Ushio (ep 10) 
Yūichirō Yamada (eps 2, 7) 
Yuki Hayashi (eps 10-11) 
Yūki Sumiya (ep 6) 
Yukihiro Urata (eps 3, 10) 
Yukiko Kobayashi (ep 5) 
Yukiko Nakatani (ep 5) 
Yūko Yamamoto (eps 2, 7, 11) 
Yūsuke Isōchi (eps 3, 8) 
Yuuko Yoshida (eps 5, 10) 
Music producer: Hiroaki Sano 
Planning: Yōko Matsuzaki (Fuji TV) 
Production:
Kazuhiko Yusa 
Kōzō Morishita 
Naoki Kitagawa 
Yoshio Takada 
Production Advancement:
Masae Sano (eps 5, 10) 
Takuya Naitō (eps 1-3, 6, 11) 
Tomoaki Okumura (eps 5, 10) 
Yūsuke Hata (eps 4, 9) 
Production manager: Yoshiaki Yanagi 
Theme Song Performance: Denki Groove (OP\ED) 
Title Logo: Daisuke Umino 
Romi Park as Ichirō Irabu (young) 
Yūji Mitsuya as Ichirō Irabu 

Daisuke Namikawa as Shin'ichi Bandō (ep 4)  (eps 3, 7) 
Hiroaki Hirata as Tatsurō Ikeyama (ep 4)  (ep 5) 
Hiroki Takahashi as Seiji Ino (ep 7)  (eps 1, 4, 6, 10) 
Kenji Fukui as Fukuicchi 
Mitsuo Iwata as Yoshio Iwamura (ep 8)  (5 episodes
eps 3-4, 6-7, 10
) 
Miyu Irino as Yūta Tsuda (ep 6)  (eps 2, 5, 11) 
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Mitsuo Tanabe (ep 9)  (ep 10) 
Shinichirō Miki as Jun'ichi Hoshiyama (ep 3)  (eps 1-2) 
Takahiro Sakurai as Tetsuya Taguchi (ep 2)  (eps 1, 4, 6) 
Tōru Furuya as Hideo Tsuda (ep 10)  (eps 6, 11) 
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kōhei Yamashita (ep 1)  (eps 7-8) 
Wataru Hatano as Hiromi Yasukawa (ep 8)  (ep 9) 
Yumi Sugimoto as Mayumi 

Ami Michizoe as Child (ep 1) 
Ayaka Yamashita as Taxi Driver (ep 2) 
Chado Horii as Isao (eps 4, 7-8, 10) 
Daisuke Endō as Yūta's friend (ep 2) 
Daisuke Kishio as Fukumoto (ep 8) 
Eiji Takemoto as Yasu (ep 7) 
Fuko Saito as
AD (ep 9) 
Reporter (ep 10) 
Fumiko Orikasa as Atsuko (ep 9) 
Ginpei Sato as Yousuke (ep 6) 
Haruhi Terada as Mrs. Ikeyama (ep 5) 
Issei Futamata as Homeless Poet (eps 6, 8) 
Junko Ueda as
Announcement (ep 10) 
Clerk (ep 6) 
Hostess (eps 4, 7) 
Nurse (ep 2) 
Jūrōta Kosugi as Professor Nomura (eps 5, 10) 
Kaori Yamagata as Kumagaya (ep 2) 
Katsuhisa Hōki as Film Director (ep 9) 
Katsuyuki Konishi as Arai (eps 3, 8) 
Kazunari Kojima as Reporter (eps 3, 10) 
Kazunari Tanaka as Reporter (ep 10) 
Keiko Han as Mrs Nomura (ep 5) 
Kenichi Ono as Urologist (ep 2) 
Kenji Matsuda as Kouji (ep 6) 
Kenji Nojima as Naoya (ep 6) 
Kenji Nomura as Yazaki (ep 4) 
Kikuko Inoue as
Hisako Tsuda (eps 6, 11) 
Mrs. Tsuda (ep 6) 
Kimiko Saitō as Kanno (ep 5) 
Kokoro Kikuchi as Hironori (eps 1, 4, 10-11) 
Kōzō Shioya as Okabata (ep 3) 
Masaharu Miyake as Baseball Commentator (5 episodes
eps 4-5, 8, 10-11
) 
Masaki Izawa as Hiromi Yasukawa (young; ep 9) 
Masami Kikuchi as Kuramoto (ep 5) 
Masaya Matsukaze as Shinpei (ep 6) 
Mayu Isshiki as Nurse (ep 11) 
Mikako Fujita as
Kouji's mother (ep 6) 
Matsubara (ep 2) 
Misa Watanabe as Kazumi (eps 4, 7) 
Nobuo Tobita as Kinoshita (ep 10) 
Rie Kugimiya as Reina (ep 3) 
Satoshi Tsuruoka as
Doctor (ep 11) 
Sho (ep 9) 
Sayaka Ōhara as Sayoko (ep 2) 
Sayuri Furukawa as Yuri (eps 2-4, 6-8) 
Shigeru Ushiyama as Niwa (eps 1, 7) 
Shinji Kawada as Doctor (ep 11) 
Shintaro Nakano as Doctor (ep 11) 
Shintarō Ōhata as Fukuhara (ep 4) 
Shinya Fukumatsu as Alumni Association Secretary (ep 5) 
Taiten Kusunoki as TV Drama Director (ep 9) 
Takashi Hikida as
Kengo (ep 9) 
Yūta's friend (ep 2) 
Takuya Eguchi as Yūta's friend (ep 2) 
Tomoaki Maeno as Suzuki (ep 4) 
Toshinobu Iida as
Child (ep 7) 
Yūta's friend (ep 2) 
Yōhei Ōbayashi as
Child (ep 7) 
Station Attendant (ep 5) 
Yukana as Midori (ep 2) 
Yukiko Hanioka as
Child (ep 1) 
Nurse (ep 2) 
Yumiko Kobayashi as Takuya Ikeyama (ep 5) 
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Toei Animation 
Broadcaster:
Fuji Television Network (2009-10-15, Noitamina) 
Noitamina 
Digital Art:
MADBOX 
Production I.G 
Digital Paint:
A-Line 
AIM Entertainment 
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd. 
Hiwa 
Kagura 
M.S.J Musashino Production 
Synod 
Toei Animation Philippines 
Digital Photography: Asahi Production 
In-Between Animation:
A-Line 
AIM Entertainment 
Ashi Productions 
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd. 
Kagura 
M.S.J Musashino Production 
Meta Studio 
Synod 
Tatsunoko Animation Room 
Toei Animation Philippines 
In-between Check: M.S.J Musashino Production (ep 8) 
Key Animation:
acca effe 
Dōga Kōbō 
Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd. 
HEBARAKI 
I&S Factory 
Kagura 
Kino Production 
Meta Studio 
Mutsu Planning 
Nakamura Production 
Neo Media 
Seigasha 
Shanghai Dove 
Studio Graffiti 
Studio Kuma 
Studio Liberty 
Studio Mark 
Synod 
Tatsunoko Production 
TNK 
Trans Arts Co. 
Production:
Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. 
Bunshun 
Dentsu Inc. 
Fuji Television Network 
Sony Music Entertainment 
Toei Animation 
Production Assistance:
A-Line (eps 2, 7) 
Ark Creation (eps 4, 9) 
Studio Dub (eps 4, 9) 
Studio Guts (eps 3, 8) 
Tatsunoko Production (eps 5, 10) 
Script: Tatsunoko Production (eps 1, 7, 10-11) 
English staff
English companies
Translation: Sam Pinansky 
Distributor: Siren Visual (Australia & New Zealand) 
Internet Streaming:
Viewster  (Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, United States) 
English cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
Translation: Xavier Fleury 
(none)
French companies
Broadcaster: Wakanim 
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: AnimeOnegai (Latin America) 
Spanish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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