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Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- (TV)

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Alternative title:
Bakumatsu Rock (Japanese)
幕末Rock (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy
Themes: historical, music
Plot Summary: In the Bakumatsu era, at the end of the shoguns' rule over Japan in the middle of the 19th century: the Tokugawa shogunate uses the brainwashing Heaven's Songs by the top idols in Shinsengumi to subjugate the country and its people. In this Japan, writing or singing any songs besides the Heaven's Songs is a capital offence. Sakamoto Ryouma and the other rockers rise up and change the world with rock 'n' roll for freedom and justice.
User Ratings: 49 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Good: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Decent: 11 votes (sub:10, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:5, raw:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 140 users, rank: #4529 (of 9508)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.367 (So-so+), std. dev.: 1.9866, rank: #8479 (of 9647)
Weighted mean: 5.386 (So-so+), rank: #8474 (of 9647) (seen all: 5.63 / seen some: 7.00 / won't finish: 4.01)
Bayesian estimate: 5.851 (Decent), rank: #6644 (of 7268)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2014-07-02 to 2014-09-17
Opening Theme:
#1: "Jack" by vistlip
Ending Theme:
#1: "Zetchō DAYBREAK" by Ultra-Souls.
Insert song:
"Hachinoji Distortion" (ハチノジディストーション) by Showtaro Morikubo
"Hikari no Genseki" (光の原石) by Keiji Fujiwara
"INTERSECT -Tenka Version" by Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kensho Ono
"INTERSECT" by Kishô Taniyama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, & Kensho Ono
"Kyōmei Suzumu Uta" (共鳴進歌) by Kensho Ono
"Over Mirage" (非常幻想(オーバーミラージュ)) by Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kensho Ono
"REACTION" by Suzuki Tatsuhisa (ep 4)
"Rolling Thunder" by Kishô Taniyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, & Showtaro Morikubo
"What's this?" by Ultra Souls
"Zankyō - feedback -" (残響 -feedback-) by Kensho Ono
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2015-10-13 (from $13.10)
DVD (Region 1)
    Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2015-10-13 (from $3.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
Series Composition: Mitsutaka Hirota
ADR Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
Script:
Megumu Sasano (eps 4-5, 8)
Mitsutaka Hirota (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 11-12
)

Yoshiko Nakamura (eps 3, 7, 9-10)
Storyboard:
Hidetoshi Namura (eps 5-6)
Itsuro Kawasaki (OP; ED; eps 1-3, 12)
Nobukage Kimura (ep 11)
Ryōji Fujiwara (ep 4)
Takayuki Inagaki (eps 8, 10)
Tetsuhito Saito (斉藤哲人; ep 9)
Yoshikazu Miyao (ep 7)
Unit Director:
Itsuro Kawasaki (OP; ED)
Mitsutoshi Satō (ep 3)
Naoki Murata (eps 2, 6)
Nobukage Kimura (ep 11)
Shunji Yoshida (eps 1, 5, 9)
Taro Kubo (eps 7, 12)
Tomoe Makino (ep 8)
Music: Tomoki Kikuya
Character Design: Akiharu Ishii
Art Director: Tsutomu Nishikura
Animation Director:
Akiharu Ishii (OP; ED; ep 12)
Akihito Asai (eps 1, 6, 11)
Akio Hirakawa (ep 5)
Akira Takeuchi (竹内アキラ; ep 10)
Atsushi Aono (ep 5)
Daisuke Takemoto (武木大介; ep 7)
Hajime Yoshida (ep 10)
Hirofumi Morimoto (eps 1, 6, 11)
Hironori Hano (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Kamura (ep 10)
Hitoshi Kamata (eps 3, 8)
Ikuko Matsushita (ep 5)
Kōdai Kitahara (eps 3, 6, 9, 12)
Masayuki Fujita (eps 5, 8-9)
Mizue Ogawa (ep 9)
Norie Kanekubo (ep 4)
Tomomi Kimura (eps 2, 7, 12)
Toshiyuki Yoshioka (ep 4)
Yae Ōtsuka (ep 5)
Yōichi Ishikawa (eps 2, 7, 11)
Yoshiko Nakajima (eps 3, 8)
Yoshinori Deno (ep 8)
Art design: Tsutomu Nishikura
3D Director: Kana Imagaki
Sound Director: Shōji Hata
Director of Photography:
Shigemitsu Hamao
Shinyo Kondo
Executive producer:
Haruki Nakayama
Shuichi Kyoda
2nd Key Animation: Aki Nakagawa (eps 7, 9)
Assistant Animation Director:
Akihito Asai (ep 12)
Emi Kojima (eps 7-9)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 12)
Ryūji Watarai (eps 3, 9)
Yōichi Ishikawa (ep 12)
Assistant Unit Director:
Naoki Murata (ep 12)
Tomoe Makino (eps 2, 12)
Color design: Ayako Suenaga
Editing: Rie Matsubara
Editing Assistant:
Hiromi Itō
Megumi Kiryu
Key Animation:
Akihiko Mamashita (ep 4)
Akiko Kawazoe (eps 3, 5, 12)
Akiko Tanada (ep 8)
Akira Kasahara (6 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 9-10, 12
)

An Katsuragi (eps 1, 11)
Asuka Shimizu (eps 1, 6, 11)
Aya Maeda (eps 1, 5-6)
Ayako Nozawa (ep 5)
Ayako Tanaka (ep 7)
Ayano Fujii (藤井あや乃; eps 6, 11)
Ayano Uejima (ep 8)
Chikai Okado (eps 2, 8-9)
Chinami Kudou (ep 4)
Chūji Nakajima (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-7, 11
)

Daiki Niyanagi (eps 4, 10)
Daisuke Takemoto (ep 12)
Eikichi Takahashi (eps 6, 11)
Emi Kojima (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6-7, 12
)

Emi Nakai (ep 2)
Emi Ōta (eps 1, 3, 8, 12)
Emi Sakamoto (ep 5)
Emi Satō (eps 1, 6, 11)
Erina Kojima (ep 8)
Fumiko Kon (昆冨美子; ep 3)
Goro Taki (Art Base Ban; eps 4, 10)
Haruka Sanefuji (賽藤晴香; eps 1, 6)
Hideaki Tsukioka (eps 2, 7)
Hideo Amemiya (ep 10)
Hidetoshi Namura (OP)
Hideyuki Sugiura (ep 6)
Hirofumi Morimoto (ep 1)
Hirokazu Kikuchi (ep 7)
Hiroko Shigekuni (eps 3, 8, 12)
Hirotaka Tokuda (OP)
Hiroyoshi Iida (eps 7, 12)
Hiroyuki Kamura (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Terada (eps 6, 11)
Hisae Ikezu (eps 3, 8, 12)
Hitoshi Kamata (ep 8)
Jin Yoshida (ep 8)
Junichi Hayama (ep 11)
Junichi Yokose (横瀬順一; ep 4)
Junko Matsushita (ep 8)
Junko Yoshigai (eps 3, 5)
Kanako Baba (ep 8)
Kaori Saito (eps 2, 7)
Kaori Yamada (ep 5)
Kazuhiro Sasaki (佐々木一浩; ep 8)
Kazutoshi Inoue (ep 6)
Keiji Kawakubo (ep 8)
Keiji Shigesawa (eps 1, 6, 9, 11)
Keika Otsuka (eps 3, 8)
Keita Watabe (eps 2, 7, 12)
Ken Takahashi (高橋健; ep 3)
Kenji Sawada (OP)
Kentarō Minaguchi (ep 4)
Kōdai Kitahara (OP)
Kōichi Takai (eps 5, 7, 9)
Konomi Satō (ep 3)
Kumiko Kasuga (ep 8)
Kumiko Onaga (OP; ep 5)
Kyoko Kotani (ep 9)
Kyōko Nakajima (ep 6)
Kyoko Sugiyama (ep 2)
Maki Ando (eps 6, 11)
Mamoru Abiko (eps 1, 8, 11)
Manabu Shioda (ep 9)
Manami Hattori (eps 2, 7)
Mari Asada (ep 8)
Mariko Inagaki (ep 5)
Masaharu Morinaka (Art Base Ban; ep 10)
Masahiro Furihata (eps 7, 12)
Masahito Wada (Art Base Ban; eps 4, 10)
Masato Okada (eps 6, 9, 11)
Masayuki Fujita (eps 1-2, 8, 12)
Maya Uenishi (ep 9)
Mayumi Hidaka (ep 8)
Mina Itou (ep 3)
Mitsuteru Kubo (eps 1, 12)
Miyako Kamiya (ep 3)
Miyuki Honda (eps 2, 5, 12)
Mizue Ogawa (eps 9, 12)
Mizuho Fukuda (ep 5)
Motonori Nishibe (ep 10)
Nao Takano (eps 1, 6, 11)
Naoko Imaizumi (ep 5)
Naomi Okita (ep 3)
Naomi Shimura (志村直美; ep 7)
Natsuki Orikasa (折笠なつき; ep 4)
Norie Kanekubo (ep 4)
Noriko Hatta (Art Base Ban; ep 10)
Noriko Tejima (ep 6)
Ryoko Kawamura (eps 3, 8)
Ryouichi Kaida (OP)
Ryuji Tokai (ep 8)
Saiji Kawanishi (ep 10)
Satomi Matsuura (ep 11)
Satoru Yamashita (eps 6, 11)
Sawako Shigematsu (eps 3, 12)
Sayuri Ōsato (ep 9)
Setsuko Unno (Art Base Ban; ep 10)
Shigeru Uchihara (Art Base Ban; eps 4, 10)
Shinichi Iimura (eps 5, 11)
Shōji Endō (ep 7)
Shōta Yoshida (ep 2)
Shū Sugita (9 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-9, 11-12
)

Shunryō Yamamura (eps 5-6, 11)
Sonoka Kuroiwa (OP; eps 2, 6-7, 12)
Tadashi Aizawa (eps 7, 9)
Takahito Sakazume (OP; ep 2)
Takuma Komata (eps 4, 10)
Tatsuya Abe (eps 11-12)
Teruo Takahashi (eps 3, 8)
Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP)
Tomoe Nishio (ep 3)
Tomomi Kimura (ED; eps 1, 7)
Tomonori Mine (ep 8)
Tomoyuki Munehiro (ep 12)
Yasuhiko Akiyama (OP)
Yasuhiro Saiki (ep 3)
Yasunori Aoki (ep 11)
Yasuyuki Ebara (eps 1, 12)
Yayoi Komine (ep 9)
Yōichi Ishikawa (ep 2)
Yōko Nomura (eps 3, 8)
Yoshiko Minamihara (ep 8)
Yoshiko Takemoto (eps 2, 5, 12)
Yoshimi Shizuka (ep 4)
Yoshio Chizaki (eps 2, 7, 12)
Yoshitaka Sato (eps 2, 7, 12)
Yoshito Narimatsu (ep 9)
Yui Kinoshita (eps 2, 12)
Yūki Iwai (eps 2, 7)
Yūki Morikawa (OP)
Yukihiro Kobayashi (eps 3, 8)
Yukimasa Shijō (ep 8)
Yumiko Ōmae (eps 1-2, 7)
Yusuke Adachi (eps 3, 8)
Zenjirō Ukulele (eps 3, 8)
Prop Animation Director: Chikai Okado
Recording Adjustment: Shōji Hata
Recording Assistant: Haruka Matsushita
Sound Effects: Toshiya Wada
Theme Song Performance:
Kenshō Ono (ED; as Ultra-Souls)
Kishō Taniyama (ED; as Ultra-Souls)
Showtaro Morikubo (ED; as Ultra-Souls)
Tatsuhisa Suzuki (ED; as Ultra-Souls)
Toshiyuki Morikawa (ED; as Ultra-Souls)
vistlip (OP)
Kenshō Ono as Sōji Okita
Kishō Taniyama as Ryōma Sakamoto
Showtaro Morikubo as Kogorō Katsura
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Shinsaku Takasugi
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Toshizō Hijikata

Hiroki Yasumoto as Naosuke Ii
Keiji Fujiwara as Isami Kondō
Kenji Nomura as Otose
Mitsuki Saiga as Yoshinobu Tokugawa
Noriaki Sugiyama as Yataro Iwasaki
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Heisuke Todo (eps 1, 3-4, 11)
Wataru Hatano as Sanosuke Harada (eps 4, 11)

Eriko Matsui as Eri
Haruhisa Suzuki as Justice Squad (ep 10)
Hiroki Yasumoto as Narration (ep 3)
Junichi Suwabe as Matthew Calbraith Perry Jr. (ep 12)
Kanami Satou as Manager (ep 8)
Kei Shindō as The King (ep 8)
Keiko Kobayashi as Okei
Masashi Ebara as Kaishu Katsu
Megumi Toyoguchi as Oryū (ep 8)
Ryūsei Nakao as Shoin Yoshida (eps 1, 5, 7)
Sachika Misawa as Ikumatsu (ep 8)
Sōma Saitō as Justice Squad (ep 10)
Takuma Nagatsuka as Genzui Kusaka (ep 10)
Tasuku Hatanaka as Justice Squad (ep 10)
Yukitoshi Kikuchi as Justice Squad (ep 10)

Ayano Shibuya (ep 12)
Eriko Matsui (ep 3)
Haruhisa Suzuki (ep 11)
Hirosato Amano (ep 12)
Iori Kagawa (ep 12)
Kazuma Yanagida (ep 12)
Misaki Ikeda (ep 12)
Momoko Takasato (ep 12)
Nodoka Hasegawa (ep 12)
Rikako Aida (ep 12)
Shōhei Komatsu (ep 12)
Sōma Saitō (eps 11-12)
Taishi Murata (eps 7-8)
Toshiyuki Hara (ep 12)
Yoshiaki Hasegawa (eps 7, 9)
Yoshihito Sasaki (eps 1, 6)
Yukitoshi Kikuchi (eps 11-12)
Yūta Odagaki (ep 4)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Key Animation:
Art Base Bam (eps 4, 10)
HEBARAKI (ep 8)
Original Creator: Marvelous AQL
Photography: Studio Twinkle
Production Cooperation: Studio Fantasia (eps 4, 10)
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Jackie McClure
Yuki Urakawa (Daisuki stream)
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Menu Design: Larry Koteff
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff
Production Coordination: Janice Williams (Home Video)
Production manager: Luke Patterson
Subtitle Timing: Brittany Monroe
Subtitling: J. Collis (Daisuki stream)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
(none)
English companies
Broadcaster: Animax Asia
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll
HIDIVE (Subtitled)
The Anime Network
Viewster (AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, NL, NO, SE, UK; expired)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Seraphim Digital
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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