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Magikano (TV)

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©2005 TAKEAKI MOMOSE • KODANSHA / MAGICANO PROJECT


Alternative title:
マジカノ (Japanese)
魔法美少女 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, comedy, romance
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Ayumi Mamiya is a witch cursed to lose her powers but there is one boy who can break the spell and save her. Haruo Yoshikawa thinks he is a normal boy but unknown to him his three sisters are witches who use their magical powers to keep him protected and ignorant about the existence of magic. Now Ayumi must wake up Haruo's latent powers to save herself but his sisters will have none of that.
User Ratings: 784 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:10)
 Excellent: 58 votes (sub:37, dub:19, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 115 votes (sub:82, dub:29, Eng:1, others:3
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 217 votes (sub:155, dub:59, ?:1, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 161 votes (sub:122, dub:33, ?:2, raw:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 81 votes (sub:58, dub:19, raw:2, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 45 votes (sub:28, dub:16, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 49 votes (sub:36, dub:11, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 21 votes (sub:17, dub:4)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:4)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 1543 users, rank: #797 (of 9508)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.327 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.9188, rank: #6311 (of 9647)
Weighted mean: 6.173 (Decent+), rank: #6672 (of 9647) (seen all: 6.34 / seen some: 5.76 / won't finish: 3.65)
Bayesian estimate: 6.196 (Decent+), rank: #6030 (of 7268)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2006-01-03 to 2006-03-28
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Motto!" by Sakura Nogawa
Ending Theme:
"Maji suki MAGIC" by Clover
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 6
Reviews:
Magikano DVD 1 (Apr 10, 2008)
News: Show:
ADV Films (Dec 9, 2007)
Majikano TV Series (Oct 26, 2005)
Other articles: Show:
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DVD (Region 1)
    Magikano - The Complete Series (DVD) 2009-09-15 (from $21.00)
    Magikano - The Complete Series [S.A.V.E.] (DVD) 2010-07-13 (from $13.59)
    Magikano - A New Witch in Town (DVD 1) 2007-12-04 (from $9.42)
    Magikano - Witch Hunt (DVD 2) 2008-02-05 (from $5.99)
    Magikano - Witch Hunt + Artbox (DVD 2) 2008-02-05 (from $10.99)
    Magikano - The Witch's Flight (DVD 3) 2008-05-06 (from $5.86)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Seiji Kishi
Series Composition: Hideki Mitsui
Script: Hideki Mitsui
Storyboard:
Ice Mugino (ep 3)
Kenji Kodama (eps 8-9, 11)
Kiyoshi Fukumoto (ep 4)
Seiji Kishi (eps 1, 10, 13)
Shinichi Tōkairin (ep 6)
Yoshiyuki Asai (eps 2, 7, 12)
Yuki Kinoshita (eps 5, 10)
Episode Director:
Hideki Takayama (ep 9)
Kan Ogawa (ep 11)
Seiji Kishi (eps 1, 13)
Shigetaka Ikeda (ep 4)
Shinichi Tōkairin (ep 6)
Takeyuki Sadohara (eps 3, 8)
Yoshiyuki Asai (eps 2, 7, 12)
Yuki Kinoshita (ep 5)
Yuuichi Tachikawa (ep 10)
Original Manga: Takeaki Momose
Character Design: Takashi Kobayashi
Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
Chief Animation Director: Takashi Kobayashi
Animation Director:
Akiko Nakano (ep 11)
Fumiko Urawa (ep 10)
Futoshi Higashide (ep 6)
Nobuhiro Watanabe (eps 1, 4, 9, 13)
Sayo Aoi (eps 2, 7, 12)
Shingo Watanabe (ep 8)
Tetsuya Satō (eps 3, 8)
Yumiko Ishii (ep 5)
Yuuko Yoshida (eps 5, 10)
Sound Director: Satoki Iida
Director of Photography: Hiroshi Kubo

2nd Key Animation: Akiko Matsuo (ep 9)
Editing: Takashi Sakurai
In-Between Animation: Takeshi Moriyama (Yuhodo; ep 2)
Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (eps 2, 5, 7, 12)
Jong Ki Choi (PAK PRODUCTION; eps 5, 10)
Photography: Asami Maruyama (ep 9)
Theme Song Arrangement: Yukari Hashimoto (OP/ED)
Theme Song Composition:
Hironobu Kageyama (OP)
Tomoki Kikuya (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Aki Hata (ED)
Hitomi Mieno (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Momoko Saito (Clover - ED)
Nana Inoue (Clover - ED)
Sakura Nogawa (OP)
Ui Miyazaki (Clover - ED)
Yui Shoji (Clover - ED)
Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Haruo Yoshikawa
Sakura Nogawa as Ayumi Mamiya

Halko Momoi as Marin Nijihara
Kanako Sakai as Chiaki Yoshikawa
Mai Nakahara as Maika Yoshikawa
Nana Inoue as Rika Anju
Natsuko Kuwatani as Michiru Mamiya
Noriko Namiki as Yuri Kurosu
Noriko Rikimaru as Tetsuko Hondo
Tomoko Kaneda as Fuyuno Yoshikawa

Ai Iura as Haruo's Mother (ep 3)
Ai Lura as Haruo's Mother (ep 3) 
Eiji Yanagisawa as Doctor (ep 7)
Hiroomi Sugino as Principal
Hiroya Ishimaru as Cat Panties (eps 10, 13)
Katsuhiro Harasawa as Hajime Hario
Katsuki Murase as
Ayumi's Father
Infomercial Announcer (eps 2-8 even, 9)
Narration
Kazuya Tatekabe as Aijan (ep 4)
Kei Shindō as
Girl A (ep 1)
Little Haruo (ep 2)
Receptionist (ep 8)
Masaaki Ishikawa as
Member A (ep 9)
Osugi (ep 2)
Masahiro Yamanaka as
Boy A (ep 1)
Policeman A (ep 4)
Masanori Katsuragi as
Male Student (ep 2)
Male Student A (ep 6)
Member B (ep 9)
Megumi Nasu as Ghost Girl (ep 6)
Michiaki Kubota as Boy B (ep 5)
Noriko Namiki as
Soccer Club Member (ep 8)
Table Tennis Club Member (ep 8)
Volleyball Club Member (ep 8)
Remi Kawashima as Female Student (ep 2)
Satoshi Okada as Boy A (ep 5)
Satoshi Shimizu as
Boy B (ep 1)
Eel (ep 7)
Male Student B (ep 6)
Policeman B (ep 4)
Vice-Principal
Shizuka Arai as Queen Of Hearts (ep 9)
Takako Uemura as Umi Fujiwara
Wataru Hatano as Shinichi (ep 11)
Yoshiya Sakurada as Boy C (ep 5)
Yuko Goto as Ran (ep 11)
Japanese companies
Animation: Tokyo Kids
Animation Production Cooperation:
Studio Guts (ep 9)
Yuhodo (eps 2, 5, 7, 10)
Backgrounds:
Team Till Dawn (ep 2)
Key Animation:
arp Japan (ep 9)
E-cho (ep 11)
Eagle Nest (ep 9)
Pak Production (4 episodes
eps 5, 7, 10, 13
)

Studio Graffiti (eps 2, 5, 10)
Studio Wanpack (ep 5)
T&B (ep 3)
Yuhodo (ep 5)
Photography: Tokyo Kids
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Chris Ayres
Translation: Kaoru Bertrand
ADR Script: Josh Grelle
Executive producer:
Joey Goubeaud
John Ledford
Producer: Scott McClennen

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami
Media Coordinator: Sarah Alys Lindholm
Packaging Design: Hiroko Fukumori
Production manager: Shelly Thomas
Sound Design: Christopher Bourque
Subtitle Script & Timing: Dwayne Jones
Translation Proofer: Amy Forsyth
Clint Bickham as Haruo Yoshikawa
Jessica Boone as Ayumi Mamiya

Carli Mosier as Yuri Kurosu
Christine Auten as Tetsuko Hongo
Hannah Alcorn as Marin Nijihara
Hilary Haag as Fuyuno Yoshikawa
Kira Vincent-Davis as Maika Yoshikawa
Luci Christian as Chiaki Yoshikawa
Monica Rial as Michiru Mamiya
Tiffany Grant as Rika Anju

Blake Shepard as Delinquent B (ep 1)
Brittney Karbowski as Umi Fujiwara
Charles Campbell as
Announcer (ep 1)
Giant (ep 9)
Narrator (ep 9)
Principal (eps 2, 10, 13)
Santa Claus (ep 11)
Christopher Ayres as Infomercial Announcer (ep 9)
Christopher Patton as
Delinquent A (ep 1)
Osugi
Soccer boy (ep 8)
Wolf 3 (ep 9)
David Devaney Jr. as
Osune (ep 4)
Shinichi (ep 11)
Greg Ayres as Hajime Hario
John Swasey as
Announcer (ep 2)
Ayumi's Father (eps 1, 12-13)
M.C. (ep 2)
Narrator (eps 6, 10)
Wolf 1 (ep 9)
Josh Grelle as
Hikono
Ping Pong Boy (ep 8)
Wolf 2 (ep 9)
K.C. Jones as Vice Principal (eps 2, 10, 13)
Matt Greenfield as Infomercial Announcer (ep 6)
Natalie Nassar as Queen of Hearts (ep 9)
Rob Mungle as Cait Sith
Shannon Emerick as Volleyball Girl (ep 8)
Stephanie Wittels as Ran (ep 11)
Tiffany Terrell as
Ghost (ep 6)
Train Announcer (ep 13)
Witch (ep 9)

English companies
Distributor: ADV Films (UK)
Licensed by:
ADV Films (Expired)
FUNimation Entertainment (2008)
Production: Amusement Park Media
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Screen Inserts: Susana Damas (Spain dub)
Pilar Mora as Ayumi Mamiya (Spain dub)
Sergio Mesa as Haruo Yoshikawa (Spain dub)

Ariadna Giménez as Michiru Mamiya (Spain dub)
Carmen Calvell as Yuri Kurosu (Spain dub)
Lidia Camino as Fuyuno Yoshikawa (Spain dub)
Mar Nicolas as Marin Nijihara (Spain dub)
Maria Rosa Guillén as Rika Anju (Spain dub)
Pilar Morales as Maika Yoshikawa (Spain dub)
Sofia Garcia as Chiaki Yoshikawa (Spain dub)
Susana Damas as Tetsuko Hondo (Spain dub)

Angel del Río as Hikono (Spain dub)
Daniel Albiac as Cait Sith (Spain dub)
Esperança Domènech as
Haruo's Mother (Spain dub)
Madre de los Yoshikawa (Spain dub) 
Francesc Rocamora as Vice-Principal (Spain dub)
Isabel Muntané as
Ran (Spain dub)
Umi Fujiwara (Spain dub)
Ivan Canovas as Osugi (Spain dub)
Jesús López as
Hajime Hario (Spain dub)
Shinichi (Spain dub)
Juan José Moscoso as Ayumi's Father (Spain dub)
Maria Rosa Guillén as Ghost Girl (Spain dub)
Victor Iturrioz as
Infomercial Announcer (Spain dub)
Narrator (Spain dub)
Principal (Spain dub)

Angel del Río (Spain dub)
Ariadna Giménez (Spain dub)
Daniel Albiac (Spain dub)
Esperança Domènech (Spain dub)
Francesc Rocamora (Spain dub)
Isabel Muntané (Spain dub)
J. Ignacio Latorre (Spain dub)
Jesús López (Spain dub)
Juan José Moscoso (Spain dub)
Lidia Camino (Spain dub)
Mar Nicolas (Spain dub)
Oriol de Balle (Spain dub)
Susana Damas (Spain dub)
Victor Iturrioz (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel
Dubbing: Cristal Media (Barcelona - Spain)
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Spain dub)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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