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SaiKano (TV)

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[ adapted from SaiKano (manga) ]

Related anime:
    SaiKano: Another Love Song (OAV) (side story)

Alternative title:
Larme Ultime (French)
Lei, l'arma finale (Italian)
Mi novia el Arma Definitiva (Spanish)
Saishuu Heiki Kanojo (Japanese)
Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet (Japanese)
She, The Ultimate Weapon
Моя девушка - совершенное оружие (Russian)
最終兵器彼女 (Japanese)
최종병기 그녀 (Korean)
Themes: angst, military
Objectionable content: Intense (graphic depictions of sex, drug use, or bloodshed)
Plot Summary: Shuji and Chise are two Hokkaido high school students barely starting a relationship with each other. Then, with no warning, a squadron of bombers from an unknown country destroy the city of Sapporo. All hope is lost when suddenly, the bombers are destroyed by a small red light floating across the sky. At this point, Shuji finds out that the one responsible for eliminating the enemy forces is Chise, who reveals herself as a cyborg engineered for mass-destruction.
User Ratings: 1824 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 427 votes (sub:326, dub:71, raw:2, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:25
17 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Excellent: 376 votes (sub:298, dub:57, raw:4, ?:1, others:16
7 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Portuguese dubbed
2 Polish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 374 votes (sub:294, dub:60, raw:5, ?:3, others:12
4 Spanish subtitled
3 French subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 257 votes (sub:199, dub:39, raw:2, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:15
7 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 German subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Decent: 132 votes (sub:99, dub:22, raw:3, ?:2, others:6
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 75 votes (sub:56, dub:13, others:6
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Not really good: 48 votes (sub:37, dub:8, ?:1, others:2
2 Spanish dubbed
)
 Weak: 61 votes (sub:45, dub:12, others:4
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Bad: 22 votes (sub:18, dub:1, others:3
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Awful: 18 votes (sub:12, dub:4, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Worst ever: 34 votes (sub:25, dub:6, others:3
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 3152 users, rank: #176
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.702 (Very good-.29), std. dev.: 2.2852, rank: #777
Weighted mean: 7.604 (Very good-.39), rank: #782 (seen all: 7.78 / seen some: 6.54 / won't finish: 3.54)
Bayesian estimate: 7.604 (Very good-.39), rank: #535
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2002-07-02 to 2002-09-24
2006-05-10 to 2006-08-02 (Animax Latin America)
Releases: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Koisuru Kimochi" by Yuria Yato (eps 2-12)
Ending Theme:
"Sayonara" by Yuria Yato
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
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Reviews:
    SaiKano
    My Girlfriend, The Ultimate Weapon

DVD
    SaiKano - Girlfriend (DVD 1) 2004-04-27 (from $0.01)
    SaiKano - Break Up (DVD 2) 2004-07-06 (from $3.22)
    SaiKano - Changes (DVD 3) 2004-09-07 (from $1.01)
    SaiKano - Love Song (DVD 4) 2004-11-09 (from $5.99)
    SaiKano - Complete Collection (DVD 1-2) 2005-11-15 (from $33.66)
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Director: Mitsuko Kase
Script: Itaru Era
Original Manga: Shin Takahashi
Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa
Chief Animation Director: Masayuki Sato
Mechanical design: Hiroyuki Kanbe
3D Director: Hiroaki Matsuura
Sound Director: Keiichiro Miyoshi
Director of Photography: Haruhide Ishiguro
2D CGI: Yousuke Nanjou (OP)
Choreography: Koh Yuh (OP/ED)
Color Coordination: Eri Suzuki
Compositing: Atsushi Takeyama (OP)
Digital Director: Mitsuhiro Karato
Monitor Graphics: Yousuke Nanjou
Music Editing: Yutaka Gouda
Music Production: Takeshi Ando
Production Assistant:
Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu
Yasuki Hori
Production Desk: Eiji Sumitomo
Production Office Manager: Koji Kajita
Publicity Producer: Nobuyuki Iinuma
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Texture: Shin Inoie
Theme Song Composition: Yuria Yato
Theme Song Performance: Yuria Yato
 
Shirou Ishimoda as Shuuji

Miki Itou as Fuyumi
Tetsu Shiratori as Atsushi
Yuu Sugimoto as Akemi

Atsushi Ii as Kawahara
Gou Aoba as Soldier D (ep 6)
Hideaki Tezuka as Staff A (ep 3)
Hiroaki Ishikawa as Customer B (ep 11)
Hiroshi Naka as Old man (ep 11)
Hiroshi Yanaka as Soldier C (eps 7-8)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as
Customer D (ep 11)
Shingo (ep 9)
Iho Hayakawa as Woman (ep 2)
Jiro Saito as Soldier B (eps 3, 6)
Jun Fukuyama as Ground staff 1 (ep 2)
Kazuhiko Inoue as Shuuji's Father
Kazuhiro Nakata as Soldier B (ep 10)
Keiji Okuda as Staff B (ep 3)
Kentaro Honda as Ground staff 2 (ep 2)
Kishô Taniyama as
Takamura (eps 4-5)
Take (eps 1-2)
Kiyomi Asai as Seiko
Mai Nakahara as Iku (ep 10)
Makoto Aoki as Soldier C (ep 3)
Masakazu Suzuki as Soldier C (ep 5)
Mika Doi as Shuuji's Mother
Norihiro Inoue as Schooler (ep 12)
Rintarou Nishi as Soldier A (eps 7-9)
Sachiko Kojima as Yukari
Sousuke Komori as Masa (ep 11)
Taiki Matsuno as Ryouhei (ep 4)
Takahiro Mizushima as Soldier A (ep 6)
Takashi Inagaki as Akemi's father (ep 10)
Takashi Nagasako as Soldier B (eps 7-9)
Takehiro Koyama as Language teacher (ep 5)
Tomoyuki Shimura as Gorou (ep 11)
Toshiharu Sakurai as Customer C (ep 11)
Yasunori Masutani as Escaping soldier (ep 8)
Yuka Shioyama as Chise's younger brother
Yukari Hirano as Mother (ep 12)
Yumi Kakazu as Satomi
Yuria Yato as Female student A (ep 10)
Yutaka Aoyama as Soldier C (ep 10)
Yutaka Nakano as Staff (ep 7)
Yuuji Kishi as
Kazu
Soldier A (ep 3)
Yuuto Kazama as Soldier B (ep 5)
Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Gonzo
Broadcaster: Family Gekijou
In-Between Animation:
Dr. Movie
Studio Easter
Paint: Dr. Movie
Photography: Gonzo
Planning Assistance: Family Gekijou
Production Assistance: Palm Studio (ep 8)
Recording Studio: Omnibus Japan
English staff 
Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi
Adaptation: Toshifumi Yoshida
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Escott
Recording engineer: Mark Escott
Subtitle Script: Peter Makepeace
Voice Direction: Elaine Clark
English cast 
Mark Atherlay as Shuji

Elaine Clark as Fuyumi
Joe Wyka as Atsushi

David Arendash as Mr. Kawahara
Elaine Clark as Shuji's Mother
Jesse Spencer as Shuji's Father
Nicole Emi as Yukari
English companies 
ADR Production: Voice One
Distributor: Manga Entertainment (UK) (UK)
DVD Production: Video Arts, Inc.
Recording Studio: Robert Berke Studio
Video Post Production: Video Arts, Inc.
French staff 
French cast 
Translation: Nicolas Priet

Artistic Direction: Valérie Uzan
Digital Art: François Uzan
 (none)
French companies 
Distributor: Manga Distribution
Publisher: Déclic Images
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Spanish companies 
Dubbing Producer: Intertrack TV Producciones (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Dubbing Studio: Doblajes Paris S.A de C.V. (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 
Dubbing Director: Gualtiero Cannarsi

Scriptwriting: Gualtiero Cannarsi
 
Eva Padoan as Chise
Marco Vivio as Shuji

Debora Magnaghi as Fuyumi

Dario Penne as Kawahara
Gianluca Iacono as
Nakamura
Take
Graziella Porta as Madre di Shuji
Marco Balzarotti as Scienzato (ep 12)
Maurizio Scattorin as Padre di Akemi
Omar Vitelli as Nori
Raffaele Farina as Padre di Shuji
Veronica Puccio as Satomi
Italian companies 
Distributor: Shin Vision

Portuguese staff 
Dubbing Director: Angelica Santos
Portuguese cast 

Figueira Júnior as Nakamura
Lene Bastos as Akemi
Portuguese companies 
Dubbing Studio: Álamo
Translation: JBC
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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