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A Spirit of The Sun (special)

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Alternative title:
Taiyō no Mokushiroku (Japanese)
太陽の黙示録 (Japanese)
Themes: politics
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: On August 10 2002, the eruption of Mount Fuji, as well as a series of large-scale earthquakes and tsunamis, inflicts tremendous damage to Japan, sending the country into a state of emergency. Furthermore, another massive earthquake hits Japan on August 15, splitting the country into two. While Japanese refugees are taken in by various countries, the Japanese government accepts aid from China and the United States, which eventually causes China to govern the North, and the USA to govern the South. 15 years later, Japanese refugees residing in Taiwan and native Taiwanese citizens find themselves clashing with one another, due to job competition and the unimproved conditions of the Japanese refugees. Genichiro Ryu is a survivor of the catastrophic events that took place in Japan, but was raised in Taiwan by a couple who adopted him. He gets himself involved in the situation between the Taiwanese and the Japanese, hoping that the two parties will be able to coexist with one another.
User Ratings: 56 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Very good: 11 votes (sub:6, raw:2, dub:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 13 votes (sub:9, dub:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Italian dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 9 votes (sub:9)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 85 users, rank: #5508 (of 9585)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.161 (Good), std. dev.: 1.8495, rank: #3061 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.318 (Good+), rank: #2303 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.37 / seen some: 8.00 / won't finish: 4.14)
Bayesian estimate: 7.350 (Good+), rank: #1925 (of 7289)
Running time: 77 minutes
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 2006-09-17 to 2006-09-18
Ending Theme:
"The Power" by Kanon
Official website:
太陽の黙示録 (Japanese)
Press Release:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Masayuki Kojima
Screenplay: Tatsuhiko Urahata
Storyboard:
Kōjirō Tsuruoka (ep 1)
Masayuki Kojima (eps 1-2)
Ryosuke Nakamura (ep 1)
Taro Matsudo (ep 1)
Tōru Takahashi (ep 2)
Episode Director: Rokou Ogiwara (ep 2)
Original creator: Kaiji Kawaguchi
Character Design: Takashi Saijō
Art Director: Toshiharu Mizutani
Chief Animation Director: Takashi Saijō
Animation Director: Gi Du Kim (ep 2)
Sound Director: Youji Shimizu
Executive producer:
Fumio Ueda (Shogakukan)
Jungo Maruta (Madhouse)
Masahiro Fukushima (Tohokushinsha)
Nobuhiro Mizuno (WOWOW)
Takuo Minegishi (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Producer:
Hiroyuki Kitaura (WOWOW)
Osamu Hosokawa (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Reiko Takano (Tohokushinsha)
Toyohiko Okuyama (Shogakukan)

Color Check: Hong Li Xu (eps 1-2)
Color design: Satoko Kimura
Key Animation:
Jin Hee Song (ep 2)
Min Sun Kim (ep 2)
Production Committee: Junrou Minezaki (WOWOW)
Publicity: Tatsuya Wada (WOWOW)
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
Theme Song Performance: Kanon (ED)
Yōji Matsuda as Genichirō Ryū

Rikiya Koyama as Zhang Zongyuan
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ryōtarō Hata

Akio Ōtsuka as Yang
Akira Igarashi as Chen Chun
Atsushi Goto as Zhou
Jin Yamanoi as Ye
Katashi Ishizuka as Shūichirō Morimura
Masanori Takeda as Jing Ming
Masaru Ikeda as Shinsuke Ishikura
Miru Hitotsuyanagi as Cai Qing-Ling
Naoya Uchida as Gorō Sakamaki
Robert Baldwin as US President
Sachiko Kojima as Chen Li-Chun
Shōtarō Ōkubo as Genichirō Ryū (young)
Shunsuke Sakuya as Kurofuji
Takashi Inagaki as Takuma Ryū
Tamie Kubota as Shu Qin
Tōru Ohkawa as Takashi Ryū
Umeji Sasaki as Ozu
Yasuyoshi Hara as Ikuo Jimichi
Yū Shimaka as Huang
Yukari Nozawa as Xia Taitai
Yurika Hino as Natsue Ryū
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Madhouse
Animation Production Cooperation: Tama Production
Background Scan: Scan-ya
Backgrounds:
Atelier BWCA (ep 2)
DR Movie (ep 2)
Kaieisha (eps 1-2)
Kusanagi (eps 1-2)
Moon Flower (eps 1-2)
Studio Daiyo (eps 1-2)
Studio Homare (ep 2)
Finish Animation:
DR Busan (ep 1)
Studio Malvine (ep 2)
HD Editing: Q-Tec
In-Between Animation:
DR Busan (eps 1-2)
Golden Bell (eps 1-2)
Hanjin Animation (ep 1)
Studio Elle (eps 1-2)
Studio Malvine (eps 1-2)
Photography:
Studio Wood (ep 1)
T. Nishimura (ep 1)
Yumeta Company (ep 2)
Recording Studio: Omnibus Japan
Sound Effects: Sound Box
English staff
English cast
Director: John Swasey
Project Translator: Neil Nadelman
Executive producer:
Matt Greenfield
Toru Iwakami

Audio Engineer: Patrick Marrero
Disc Authoring: Joel McCray
Menu Design: Crista Faith Castro
Mixing: Bryan Leach
Packaging Design: Crista Faith Castro
Production Coordination: Janice Williams
Production manager: Son Phan Le
Subtitling: Nathan Lopez
Supervising Translator: Jennifer Challenger
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Adam Gibbs as Genichiro

Avery Smithhart as Li-Jun (ep 2)
David Wald as Goro (ep 1)
Jason Douglas as Zhang
John Gremillion as Jimichi
Josh Morrison as Ozu
Shelley Calene-Black as Cai Qing-Ling (ep 2)

Adam Noble as Yee (ep 2)
Blake Shepard as Miyamoto (ep 2)
Brittney Karbowski as Yao (ep 1)
Bryson Baugus as Chen Chun
Carli Mosier as Xia Tai-Tai
Christopher Patton as Takashi (ep 1)
Courtland Johnson as Jing Ming
David Matranga as
Kurofuji (ep 2)
Natsuki (ep 1)
George Manley as Ishikura (ep 1)
Greg Cote as
Huang (ep 1)
Security Minister (ep 2)
Houston Hayes as Hong (ep 2)
James Belcher as Takuma (ep 1)
Jay Hickman as Yang
Joanne Bonasso as Shu Qin
John Swasey as Takanashi (ep 1)
Luci Christian as Natsue (ep 1)
Mark X Laskowski as
Bureaucrat (ep 1)
Murakoshi (ep 2)
Marty Fleck as Chairman (ep 1)
Mike Haimoto as Zhou
Patricia Duran as Mio (ep 1)
Philip Hays as Qin's Husband
Rob Mungle as Morimura (ep 1)
Scott Gibbs as Sakuma (ep 2)
Shelley Calene-Black as Tami (ep 1)
Ty Mahany as Yui

Bryson Baugus (ep 2)
Heath Morrow (ep 2)
John Swasey (ep 2)
Philip Hays (ep 2)
English companies
Distributor: Section23 Films
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE
Licensed by: Maiden Japan
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor: OVA Films
German cast
(none)

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