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Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Mahō Shōjo Pretty Sammy (Japanese)
Pretty Sammy
Tenchi Muyo! Pretty Sammy
魔法少女プリティサミー (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, fantasy
Themes: aliens, magical girl
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Tsunami, one of the two candidates for the throne of the magic kingdom Juraihelm, is chosen to acsend the throne. Though to be queen, she has to pick an idol who can represent her. Rumiya, the other candidate, despises Tsunami, even though she acts as a friend to her. Rumiya thinks that she is superior to Tsunami and tries to foil Tsunami's crowning. Tsunami's chooses the earthling Sasami as her magical warrior to bring peace and love to earth. Rumiya uses Sasami's introverted friend, Misao, and turns her into the wild warrior, Pixy Misa. Pixyy Misa causes mayhem on earth, while Sasami does not want to except the reality of magic.
User Ratings: 367 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 10 votes (dub:6, sub:3, ?:1)
 Excellent: 18 votes (sub:11, dub:7)
 Very good: 46 votes (dub:22, sub:22, ?:1, raw:1)
 Good: 101 votes (sub:62, dub:34, ?:4, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Decent: 88 votes (sub:52, dub:34, ?:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 50 votes (sub:30, dub:19, edit.dub:1)
 Not really good: 19 votes (sub:12, dub:7)
 Weak: 25 votes (sub:16, dub:9)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1055 users, rank: #1163 (of 9583)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.215 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.7686, rank: #6632 (of 9705)
Weighted mean: 6.198 (Decent+), rank: #6633 (of 9705) (seen all: 6.26 / seen some: 6.06 / won't finish: 4.72)
Bayesian estimate: 6.245 (Decent+), rank: #5930 (of 7286)
Running time: 45 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage: 1995-08-25 to 1997-08-24
Opening Theme:
"Chanto Yume wo Mimasho" by Chisa Yokoyama
"Dream Away" by Sharyn Scott
Ending Theme:
#1: "Baka" by Chisa Yokoyama (ep 1)
#1: "Money No More" by Sharyn Scott (ep 1)
#2: "Ai no Makeikusa" by Rica Matsumoto (ep 2)
#2: "Your Hiroshi" by Diane Michelle (ep 2)
#3: "Magical Door" by Sharyn Scott (ep 3)
#3: "Mahou no Tobira" by Chisa Yokoyama (ep 3)
Links: We have 1
Review:
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy DVD (Feb 23, 2003)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Magical Girl Pretty Sammy / Tenchi Muyo! Mihoshi Special (DVD) 2002-10-29
LaserDisc
    Tenchi & Friends Special Pretty Sammy - The Magical Girl (LD 1) 1995-10-31
    Tenchi & Friends Special Pretty Sammy - Revenge of The Imperial Electronic Brain (LD 2) 1997-04-01

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Kazuyuki Hirokawa (#1,2)
Takeshi Aoki (2)
Yasuhito Kikuchi (#3)
Screenplay:
Hideyuki Kurata (#2)
Yōsuke Kuroda (#1,2,3)
Storyboard: Kazuyuki Hirokawa (2)
Music: Seikou Nagaoka
Character Design: Yoshitaka Kohno (#1,2,3)
Art Director:
Hiroshi Katō (#2,3)
Masaru Satō (#1)
Yūsuke Takeda (#2)
Animation Director:
Hiroyoshi Iida (2)
Hiroyuki Ochi (2)
Koji Watanabe (2)
Makoto Bessho (2)
Naoyuki Owada (2)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (2)
Susumu Yamaguchi (3)
Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP)
Yoshiaki Subata (3)
Yoshitaka Kohno (1,3)
Supervising Director: Hiroki Hayashi (2)
Art design: Masahiro Satō
Sound Director: Yasunori Honda
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Sato
Producer:
Hiroaki Inoue
Kazuaki Morijiri
Kinya Watanabe

Airbrush:
Ryoji Sakurai (3)
Takahiro Fukuda (3)
Animation:
Hiroaki Gōda (OP)
Hirofumi Suzuki (OP)
Hiroyuki Kitazume (OP)
Kazunobu Hoshi (OP)
Kōdai Iwata (OP)
Makoto Bessho (OP)
Naoyuki Konno (OP)
Yoshitaka Kohno (ED)
Yūichi Tanaka (OP)
Animation Check:
Izumi (1)
Kim Myung Ki (1)
Masaki Tanigawa (2)
Naomi Kimura (1)
Ryozo Emoto (2)
Shim Sun Ho (1)
Takushi Yaguchi (2)
Yasumi Tanaka (2)
Yuichiro Miyake (2)
Art Setting: Akihiro Hirasawa (1,2,3)
Assistant Animation Director:
Futoshi Higashide (1)
Hideki Araki (1)
Miku Dohan (3)
Assistant Director: Hideaki Kushi (2)
Background Art:
Chieko Nezaki (1,2,3)
Hiroshi Katō (1)
Jun Okabe (3)
Ken Arai (3)
Kenichi Nakagawa (1)
Kenichi Takefuji (3)
Kentaro Mishima (1)
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya (1,2)
Koji Iwamoto (2)
Masaru Ohta (2; 1)
Masaru Satō (2,3)
Shiho Shimada (1)
Shuji Yamada (2)
Shunichiro Yoshihara (1,2)
Sohei Koizumi (1,2,3)
Takuma Anai (1)
Takuya Anai (2)
Tatsuro Iseri (1,2,3)
Tomokazu Kawamata (3)
Tomonori Katō (2,3)
Yasutaka Kondo (1,2,3)
Yoshio Kajiwara (1,2)
Yoshiyuki Koido (2)
Yugo Hanamatsu (3)
Yuichiro Sugisawa (3)
Color Key: Tamae Matsuno (3)
Color Styling: Hideo Kamiya (1,2)
Continuity: Yasuhito Kikuchi (3)
Design Association: Taraku Uon (2,3)
Design Cooperation: Hisashi Hattori (Anime Spot, 2)
Editing:
Eiko Nishide (3)
Toshio Henmi (1,2)
Yasue Funami (1,2)
In-Between Animation:
Akiko Suda (1,2)
Akiko Uesaka (1,2)
Akira Wakabayashi (1,2)
Atsushi Okita (2,3)
Daisuke Yamauchi (1,2)
Fusae Yasuda (2)
Hanamichi Rukawa (1)
Hidenori Hanesaka (1,2)
Hiromi Okazaki (1,2)
Hiroshi Koki (2)
Hiroyuki Higashiyama (1)
Izumi Hara (2)
Kanako Maru (3)
Katsuyoshi Fukamachi (2)
Katsuzo Hirata (1)
Kenji Akiba (2)
Kim Dae Suk (1)
Kyoko Hyodo (1,2)
Maki Sawai (1)
Moto Kariya (1,2)
Noriko Kashiwaya (2)
Ryo Kobayashi (1)
Ryoji Ono (3)
Sang Hee Yu (1)
Satoru Nakaya (1,2; eps 1-2)
Satoshi Takahashi (1,2)
Shin Tae Sook (1)
Shingi Nei (1)
Shinji Tanaka (1,2)
Shinmei Saito (3)
Shogo Sano (3)
Takanori Suzuki (2)
Takuya Nonaka (1)
Tsutomu Takei (1,2)
Tsuyoshi Akabori (2)
Yook Tae Whan (1)
Yoshi Katayama (2)
Yoshiko Imazato (1,2)
Yuka Hasegawa (2)
Yuu Takahata (1)
In-Between Check:
Masaki Tanigawa (3)
Yasumi Tanaka (3)
Yoshizo Enomoto (3)
Ink & Paint Check:
Akiko Kono (1,3)
Akira Shitara (3)
Aya Ouchi (2,3)
Ayami Minowa (3)
Emiko Kimura (1,2)
Eri Suzuki (3)
Hiroko Tofuya (2)
Hiromi Aoki (2)
Kiriko Kaneyama (1)
Koji Kitamura (1)
Mayumi Hariu (2)
Nanae Shinaji (1,2,3)
Naoko Satō (1,3)
Naomi Endô (1)
Noriko Abe (1,3)
Noriko Nanae (2)
Nozomi Shitara (2)
Sachiko Suzuki (2)
Takeshi Satou (1,2)
Tamae Matsuoka
Tetsuhara Eguchi (2)
Tomoko Sekiguchi (1)
Yorie Suzuki (2)
Yuka Suzuki (1,2)
Key Animation:
Akira Naito (3)
Akira Takeuchi (1,2)
Chūichi Iguchi (2)
Daisuke Yamauchi (3)
Eiji Inoue (1,2)
Fujio Inose (2)
Hideki Sadai (3)
Hiroaki Abe (1)
Hiroshi Yoneda (1,2)
Hiroyasu Suzuki (3)
Hiroyuki Takiba (1)
Hiroyuki Uchida (1)
Hisashi Hattori (2)
Hisashi Shimokawa (1)
Katsumasa Ito (1)
Katsunobu Ito (2)
Kazuho Takahashi (2)
Kazuko Kodama (1)
Kenji Kodama (2)
Kōji Itō (1,2)
Kouji Yanagisawa (1,2)
Masaharu Morinaka (2)
Masaki Tamakoshi (2)
Masumi Hattori (2)
Michio Satō (3)
Miho Okiayu (2)
Mitsuru Abunai (3)
Motoki Yagi (ep 2)
Naoki Aisaka (2)
Naoya Horikawa (1)
Naoyuki Owada (3)
Satoru Iida (3)
Satoshi Kubo (3)
Shigemi Aoyagi (2)
Shigenori Taniguchi (3)
Shinichi Shigematsu (2)
Susumu Yamaguchi (3)
Tadashi Oppata (3)
Takehiro Nakayama (2)
Tatsumori Imoto (3)
Tetsuya Fujieda (3)
Toshiya Washida (1)
Tsutomu Ōno (1)
Yasuhara Hoda (2)
Yasunori Saiki (3)
Yoko Sano (3)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (3)
Yoshikazu Tomita (1,2)
Yu Kaido (3)
Yūichi Nakazawa (2)
Yūji Yanase (1)
Machine Trace: Kuoji Ootsuki (3)
Music producer: Akira Kawase
Paint:
Aya Ohuchi (1)
Ayami Minowa (2)
Chung Myung Hee (1)
Eri Nakamura (3)
Eri Suzuki (1)
Haruko Tadenuma (1,2)
Haruko Tadeshina (3)
Hiroko Nakazawa (1)
Hiromi Higashi (1)
Hong Mi Hyang (1)
Jin Kim (1)
Kawai Kojima (2)
Kim Ok Hyung (1)
Kinuko Tawara (1,2,3)
Kiyomi Yamaguchi (1,2,3)
Masayuki Hano (1)
Megumi Satou (2)
Mineyo Oonishi (3)
Motoko Ito (1)
Na Mi Youn (1)
Sachiko Suzuki (1)
Sakiko Ito (3)
Sayuri Okada (2,3)
Takayuki Miyake (2)
Terumi Ito (3)
Paint Production Manager:
Choi Mi Jin (1)
Jin Won Ko (1)
Photography:
Hiroshi Tanigaki (1,2,3)
Jiro Hosokawa (1)
Kazunori Ōta (3)
Masato Yamaga (2)
Masato Yamazaki (3)
Shota Yamauchi (1,2,3)
Takeru Yamamoto (2)
Takeshi Yamamoto (3)
Tomoharu Ohi (1)
Toshiyuki Yasuhara (1,2,3)
Yasuhiko Abe (2,3)
Yasunori Ota (2)
Planning:
Taro Maki
Tōru Miura
Production Assistant:
Ritoku Kozai (1,2)
Ryou Shimamura (2)
Yasuyuki Tago (2,3)
Yoshihide Ando (2)
Production manager:
Kenji Miyashita (2)
Takahiro Asada (2,3)
Tsunemitsu Hirai (1)
Production producer: Naoto Nakamura
Production Supervision: Hisato Nakamura (1)
Recording: Yukio Abe
Recording Assistant:
Emi Otsubo (2)
Nobutaka Hirooka (3)
Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki (Anime Sound Production)
Sound Production: Keiko Terao (2,3)
Special Effects:
Ryoji Sakurai (1)
Takahiro Fukuda (1)
Story Concept: Hiroki Hayashi
Supervising Animation Director: Yoshitaka Kohno (#1,2,3)
Theme Song Arrangement:
Ikuro Fujiwara (OP/ED1)
Shinji Miyazaki (ED2)
Takashi Kudoh (ED3)
Theme Song Composition:
Kaoru Ito (ED2)
Katsuki Maeda (ED1/ED3)
Kyōko Matsumiya (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Natsuko Karedo (OP/ED1/ED2)
Yuho Iwasato (ED3)
Theme Song Performance:
Chisa Yokoyama (OP/ED1/ED3)
Rica Matsumoto (ED2)
Tracing Machine: Young Eun Lee (1)
Chisa Yokoyama as Sasami Kawai/Pretty Sami
Rumi Kasahara as Misao Amano/Pixy Misa

Ai Orikasa as Ryoko
Etsuko Kozakura as Ryououki
Masami Kikuchi as Tenchi Kawai
Maya Okamoto as Ramia
Mifuyu Hiiragi as Rumiya
Yūko Kobayashi as Washu Fitzgeral Kobayashi
Yūko Mizutani as Mihoshi Mizutani
Yumi Takada as Aeka
Yuri Amano as Kiyone Amayuri

Chisa Yokoyama as Tsunami
Hiroshi Kamiya as Makoto Mizushina (ep 3)
Hiroshi Naka as Sam (ep 2)
Ikuya Sawaki as Priest (ep 1)
Rica Matsumoto as Chihiro Kawai
Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Biff Standard (ep 2)
Taiki Matsuno as Hiroshi (ep 3)
Takehiro Murozono as
Priest (ep 1)
Shigeki Amano

Keiichi Sonobe (ep 3)
Masamichi Ōta (ep 2)
Miho Yamada (ep 3)
Tomoko Kawakami (ep 2)
Yukari Tamura (ep 3)
Yumi Fukamizu (ep 2)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: AIC
Backgrounds: Bihou, Inc.
Co-Production:
APPP (2,3)
Oniro
St. Hakk
Editing: Jay Film
Inbetweener:
APPP (2)
D.A.S.T Corporation (3)
Hana Production (1,2)
Lee Production (2,3)
St. Live (1)
St. Wonbat (3)
Studio Echo (3)
Studio Junio (1)
Unimation World (3)
Key Animation:
Anime R (2)
Ripple Film (2)
Studio Mark (2)
Tamazawa Dogasha (3)
Yanagisawa Jimusho (2)
Laboratory: Imagica
Music Production: Arcadia Studio
Paint:
Hana Production (1,2)
Lee Production (2,3)
Studio Echo (3)
Studio PIA (1,2,3)
Unimation World (3)
Photography:
ACC Tanihara Studio (2)
Adlib (2)
Studio Cavern (2)
Trans Arts Co. (2)
Presented By: Pioneer LDC
Production: AIC
Recording Studio: AVACO Creative Studios
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production
Sound Production: Arts Production
Soundtrack: Pioneer LDC
Title Logo: Maki Production
English cast
English staff
ADR Script: Marc Handler (eps 2-3)
Executive producer:
Hideki 'Henry' Goto (ep 3)
Naoju Nakamura (Pioneer)
Producer:
Hiroe Tsukamoto (ep 3)
Miyoko Miura (Network)
Yuji Moriya (ep 2)

Associate producer: Jessica Miller
Dialogue Polish: Jack Fletcher (ep 1)
DVD Executive Producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Production Assistant: Yuji Moriya (ep 1)
Promotion: Tod Harrick (ep 2)
Recording & Mixing: Ernie Sheesley (eps 2-3)
Theme Song Performance:
Diane Michelle (ED2)
Sharyn Scott (OP/ED1/ED3)
Vocals Executive Producer: Naoju Nakamura
Vocals Producer: Kit Thomas
Voice Direction:
Doug Stone (eps 2-3)
Jack Fletcher (ep 1)
Debi Derryberry as
Misao Amano / Pixy Misa (eps 2-3)
Ryo-Ohki
Sherry Lynn as Sasami Kawai / Pretty Sammy
Sue Turner-Cray as Misao Amano / Pixy Misa (ep 1)

Diane Michelle as Chihiro Kawai (Singing Voice)
Ellen Gerstell as
Chihiro Kawai (ep 1)
Mihoshi Mizutani (ep 1)
Jennifer Darling as Ayeka Takada
Kate T. Vogt as Washu Kobayashi
Lara Cody as Tsunami (eps 2-3)
Matthew K. Miller as Tenchi Kawai
Petrea Burchard as Ryoko Orikasa
Rebecca Forstadt as Mihoshi Mizutani (eps 2-3)
Sherry Lynn as
Tsunami (ep 1)
Yuri Kiyone (ep 1)
Susan Brecht as
Ramia
Rumiya
Wendee Lee as Yuri Kiyone (eps 2-3)

Andrew Philpot as Makoto Mizushina
Jack Kandel as High Priest
John Demita as Biff Standard (ep 2)
Lara Cody as
Mulligan (ep 2)
Panther Patty (ep 2)
Yuma (ep 3)
Matthew K. Miller as Male Scientist (ep 3)
Rebecca Forstadt as Chihiro Kawai (eps 2-3)
Sherry Lynn as Yuri (ep 3)
Steven Jay Blum as
Digital Agents (ep 2)
Underground Software Dealer (ep 2)
Voltaic Vacuum Boy (ep 2)
Tony Oliver as
Digital Agent
SynchroniCity Programmer
West Wing
Wendee Lee as
Female Scientist (ep 3)
Mach 12 Monkey Monster (ep 2)
Queen (ep 3)
Tony (ep 2)
Yuka (ep 3)
English companies
DVD Authoring: SpeeDVD
DVD Menus: Koyo Graphic International, Inc.
DVD Production: Geneon Entertainment Inc.
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Recording Facility: Screenmusic Studios
Recording Studio: Network
Subtitles: New Generation Pictures
Translation: New Generation Pictures
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Executive producer: Luis de Val

ADR Engineer: Marc Arambudo
Screen Inserts:
Oriol Rafel (Spain dub; title)
Ramon Canals (Spain dub)
Nuria Doménech as Misao Amano/Pixy Misa (Spain dub)
Núria Trifol as Sasami Kawai/Pretty Sammy (Spain dub)

Albert Trifol Segarra as Tenchi Kawai (Spain dub)
Ana Pallejà as Ramia (Spain dub)
Cristina Fargas as Chihiro Kawai (Spain dub)
Elisa Beuter as Ryoko Orikasa (Spain dub)
Maria Moscardó as Yuri Kiyone (Spain dub)
María Pilar Quesada as Washu Kobayashi (Spain dub)
Marta Barbará as Ayeka Takada (Spain dub)
Marta Ullod as Rumiya (Spain dub)
Montse Moreno as Mihoshi Mizutani (Spain dub)
Neus Sendra as Tsunami (Spain dub)
Sílvia Gómez as Ryo-Ohki (Spain dub)

Alfonso Vallés as Biff Standard (Spain dub)
Claudi Domingo as Makoto Mizushima (Spain dub)
Eduard Itchart as Hiroshi (Spain dub)
José Antequera as Sam (Spain dub)
Marta Ullod as Yuka (Spain dub)
Miryam Guilimany as Yuma (Spain dub)
Neus Sendra as Yuri (Spain dub)
Ramon Canals as Misao's Father (Spain dub)
Sílvia Gómez as Misao's Mother (Spain dub)

Hernán Fernández (Spain dub)
Mario Arpal (Spain dub)
Marta Ullod (Spain dub)
Miryam Guilimany (Spain dub)
Neus Sendra (Spain dub)
Oriol de Balle (Spain dub)
Ramon Canals (Spain dub)
Sílvia Gómez (Spain dub)
Tommy Salau (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Dario De Santis

Dialogues:
Dario De Santis
Emanuela Amato
Dubbing Assistant: Alida Brandi
Monica Vulcano as Sasami Kawai / Pretty Sammy
Perla Liberatori as Misao Amano / Pixy Misa

Alessio De Filippis as Rumiya
Domitilla D'Amico as Ramia
Fabrizio Mazzotta as Ryo-Oki

Barbara Pitotti as Kiyone
Daniele Raffaeli as Kenji Oyamada
Elio Marconato as Preside Miura
Emanuela Amato as Mihoshi Mizutani
Gemma Donati as Konoha Haida
Ilaria Latini as Washu Fitzgerald
Maria Teresa Cella as Honoka Kawai
Micaela Incitti as Emi Sakura
Milvia Bonacini as Kotoe Amano
Paolo Vivio as Hiroto Majima
Raffaella Castelli as Tsunami
Roberto Certoma' as Ginji Kawai
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Super 3
Distributor: Mondo Home Entertainment
Dubbing: DIGIDUB

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