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Mao-chan (TV)



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© KEN AKAMATSU · KODANSHA / XEBEC · PROJECT MAO 

 
Alternative title:
Earth Defender Mao-chan 
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan 
Rikujō Bōeitai Mao-chan (Japanese) 
陸上防衛隊まおちゃん (Japanese) 
Genres: science fiction 
Themes: military 
Objectionable content: None 
Plot Summary: Mao Onigawara is a happy 8-year-old grade-schooler and the granddaughter of Chief of Staff of Ground Defense Force. Equipped with her cloverleaf-shaped badge which enables her to transform (but gives her no special power whatsoever), Mao and her best friends (granddaughters of Chief of Staff of Air and Marine Defense Force, respectively) will defend Japan against the invasion from "cute aliens," who are way too cute to be dealt with regular armed forces. 
Ratings: 163 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Excellent: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:3)
 Very good: 19 votes (sub:12, dub:5, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 46 votes (sub:31, dub:15)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:20, dub:2, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 27 votes (sub:21, dub:5, raw:1)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:5, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:12, dub:1)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 401 s, rank: #2502 (of 9996)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.840 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.1189, rank: #8058 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 5.867 (Decent), rank: #7975 (of 10154) (seen all: 6.61 / seen some: 5.49 / won't finish: 3.01)
Bayesian estimate: 5.986 (Decent), rank: #6751 (of 7635)
Running time: 12 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 26 
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2002-07-03 to 2002-12-25 (Japan) 
Release dates: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"All My Love" by Yui Horie 
#2: "Brand new day" by Aice5 
Ending Theme:
"It's My Style" by Yui Horie 
#2: "Eternity" by Aice5 
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Comment:
New opening and ending themes, Brand new day and Eternity, respectively, are introduced in reruns in April 2007. 
Review:
Mao-chan DVD 1 (Jan 14, 2004)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Mao-chan - I Will Protect the Peace of Japan! (DVD 1) 2003-10-28 (from $10.98)
    Mao-chan - Go! Unified Defense Force (DVD 2) 2004-01-06 (from $7.00)
    Mao-chan - Song of Defense (DVD 3) 2004-02-24 (from $7.00)
    Mao-chan - Let's Defend Happiness! (DVD 4) 2004-04-20 (from $23.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yoshiaki Iwasaki 
Series Composition: Yōsuke Kuroda 
Screenplay:
Yōsuke Kuroda  (eps 1-21, 23-26) 
Storyboard:
Takaaki Ishiyama (7 episodes
eps 3, 9, 13, 15, 18, 21, 23
)Yoshiaki Iwasaki (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 10, 20, 26
)Yuu Kou (ep 4) 
Episode Director:
Hideki Hiroshima (6 episodes
eps 9-10, 17-18, 23-24
)Jun Takahashi (8 episodes
eps 2, 5-6, 13-14, 21-22, 25
)Shintaro Itoga (4 episodes
eps 11-12, 19-20
)Yoshio Suzuki (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 7-8, 15-16
) 
Music: Takayuki Hattori 
Original Concept: Ken Akamatsu 
Character Design: Masahide Yanagisawa 
Art Director: Chitose Asakura 
Animation Director:
Taketomo Ishikawa (6 episodes
eps 7, 13-14, 20, 25-26
)Yoshio Suzuki 
Art design: Junko Nagasawa 
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta 

Color design: Mitsuko Sekimoto 
Digital Photography: Kenichi Dai (eps 2-26 even) 
Key Animation:
Tetsuya Takeuchi (eps 4, 8) 
Program : Tomoko Gushima (TV Tokyo) 
Program Publicity:
Tatsuya Yamaga (TV Tokyo; eps 1-4) 
Theme Song Composition:
Yuki Matsuura (ED) 
Theme Song Lyrics:
Yuki Matsuura (ED) 
Theme Song Performance: Yui Horie (OP/ED) 
Kimiko Koyama as Mao Onigawara 
Yui Horie as Silvia Maruyama 
Yuuya Yoshikawa as Misora Tsukishima 

Ai Iura as Chinami Noki 
Akio Nojima as Rikushirou Onigawara 
Kiyonobu Suzuki as Sorajirou Tsukishima 
Machiko Toyoshima as
Emi Uehara 
Shouko Akasaka 
Masayo Kurata as Carol Cameron (ep 21) 
Miki Nagasawa as Kagome Mishima 
Takashi Taniguchi as Adalbert von Maruyama 
Yukiko Mannaka as Yuriko Oozora 

 
 
Kangaroo alien 
Maiko Mita 
 
 
Chiaki Takahashi as
Mio Nanba 
Officer (eps 2, 5) 
 
 
 
Junichi Sugawara as Prime Minister 
 
Kanako Hattori as
Class representative (4 episodes
eps 5, 15-16, 25
) 
Female student C (ep 5) 
 
Keiji Hirai as Politician 
Kouji Haramaki as Rikukichi Onigawara 
 
 
Machiko Toyoshima as Operator (eps 1-10, 12) 
 
Maiko Toda as Ikumi Aikawa (Mechanic A) 
 
 
 
Naoki Bandō as Tokusaburo Tokugawa 
 
Satoshi Katōgi as Ground crew 
Satsuki Yukino as Kuniko Onigawara 
 
 
 
 
Tomoe Hanba as Kuko Tsukishima 
 
 
 
Yui Horie as Naru Narusegawa (unnamed) (ep 20) 
Yūji Ueda as Keinosuke Urashima 
Yuri Shiratori as Kiku Ichimonji the Third 
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Xebec 
Backgrounds: Production ai 
Broadcaster:
TV Tokyo 
Digital Photography: Trans Arts Co. 
In-Between Animation:
APPP (5 episodes
eps 2, 7, 10, 13, 23
) 
K-Production (12 episodes
eps 1-3, 7, 16-19, 23-26
) 
Light House (11 episodes
eps 1, 4-8, 12, 19-20, 25-26
) 
Magic Bus (6 episodes
eps 1, 5, 15, 21, 25-26
) 
Mouse (6 episodes
eps 5, 10, 13-14, 19, 21
) 
Seigasha (8 episodes
eps 11-13, 15-17, 22, 25
) 
Studio Boomerang (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 13, 20, 22
) 
Studio Takuranke (4 episodes
eps 3, 21, 25-26
) 
Tamazawa Dōgasha (4 episodes
eps 10, 13, 15, 24
) 
Tanto (6 episodes
eps 14-15, 21, 23, 25-26
) 
Tokyo Animation Center (4 episodes
eps 6, 8, 12, 25
) 
Uni Animation (11 episodes
eps 1-3, 7, 9-11, 13-15, 24
) 
Key Animation:
Production I.G (4 episodes
eps 14-15, 20, 24
) 
Studio Wanpack (5 episodes
eps 3, 6, 10, 17, 19
) 
Uni Animation (9 episodes
eps 5, 7-10, 12, 14-16
) 
Windou (eps 18, 22, 25) 
Music Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music 
Music Production: King Records 
Paint:
K-Production (9 episodes
eps 1-3, 19-20, 23-26
) 
Mouse (6 episodes
eps 3-5, 19, 25-26
) 
Studio Peacock (5 episodes
eps 6, 11, 17-18, 23
) 
Studio Step (16 episodes
eps 5-8, 11-13, 16-18, 20-21, 23-26
) 
Sunshine Digital (11 episodes
eps 2-4, 9-10, 13, 15-16, 19, 21-22
) 
Tamazawa Dōgasha (4 episodes
eps 10, 13, 15, 24
) 
Tanto (6 episodes
eps 4, 14-15, 23, 25-26
) 
Uni Animation (10 episodes
eps 1-3, 9-11, 13-15, 24
) 
Production:
Xebec 
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Wendee Lee 
Translation: Yurika Araki-Dennis 
ADR Script: Wendee Lee 
Executive producer:
Maki Terashima-Furuta 
Producer:
Yukio Kusumoto 

Assistant producer: Mami Okada 
Dialogue Editing:
Justin Kohler (eps 8-14, 21-26) 
Post-Production Assistant: Deb Munini 
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett 
Recording engineer:
Rick Tetzlaff (eps 1-7) 
Spotting:
Yuka Juta (eps 8-26) 
Subtitling: David Fleming 
Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman 
Julie Maddalena as Silvia Maruyama 
Kay Jensen as Misora Tsukishima 
Sandy Fox as Mao Onigawara 

Anthony Mozdy as Sorajirou Tsukishima 
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Kagome Mishima 
Kay Jensen as Chinami Noki 
Michael McConnohie as Rikushirou Onigawara 
Michelle Ruff as Carol Cameron 
Ron Allen as Adalbert von Maruyama 
Wendee Lee as Yuriko Ozora 

Dave Mallow as Male TV Announcer 
David Orosco as
Galaxy the Great 
Prime Minister 
David Umansky as
Defense Force Member (eps 23-26) 
Ichiro Suteki (ep 22) 
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Naru Narusegawa 
Julie Ann Taylor as Operator 
Lynn Fischer as Female Mechanic 
Michelle Ruff as Female Mechanic 
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment 
Casting: Love-Chan Casting 
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc.  (Expired) 
Packaging Design: Art Transplant, Inc. (Uncredited) 
Production: Production I.G. USA 
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd. 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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