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Murder Princess (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Смертоносная принцесса (Russian)
マーダープリンセス (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the land of Foreland a coup d'état has occurred and the princess, after witnessing the death of the King, is on the run. She meets with battle-hungry bounty hunter Falis, and with a twist of fate they both switch souls, making Alita the maid of the now princess Falis. Named for her bravery in confronting the enemy as ‘Murder Princess’, Falis must continue to be the princess as well as confronting any new opponent that comes her way.
User Ratings: 894 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 40 votes (sub:31, dub:6, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 104 votes (sub:77, dub:25, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 206 votes (sub:149, dub:51, others:6
5 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 247 votes (sub:181, dub:60, raw:1, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 167 votes (sub:118, dub:43, raw:1, others:5
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 65 votes (sub:47, dub:15, ?:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Not really good: 32 votes (sub:21, dub:9, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Weak: 27 votes (sub:22, dub:4, ?:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1630 users, rank: #760 (of 9583)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.001 (Good), std. dev.: 1.605, rank: #3644 (of 9705)
Weighted mean: 6.901 (Good), rank: #4118 (of 9705) (seen all: 6.96 / seen some: 6.66 / won't finish: 4.51)
Bayesian estimate: 6.910 (Good), rank: #3739 (of 7286)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage: 2007-03-28 to 2007-08-29
Release dates: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"Hikari Sasuhou (Metal Version)" by BACK-ON
"Hikari Sasuhou (ヒカリサスホウ; The Lights Shinin' My Rhyme So Tight)" by BACK-ON
"Hikari Sasuhou ヒカリサスホウ (FK Metal ver.)" by BACK-ON
Ending Theme:
"Naked Flower" by Romi Paku
Links: We have 2
Review:
Murder Princess DVD (Jun 18, 2009)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Murder Princess - The Complete Series (DVD) 2009-05-12 (from $9.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Tomoyuki Kurokawa
Series Composition: Tatsuhiko Urahata
Screenplay: Tatsuhiko Urahata
Storyboard:
Hideyo Yamamoto (3)
Hiroshi Morioka (ep 5) 
Shinya Kawatsura (eps 2, 4)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (1, 6)
Yuuta Takamura (4)
Episode Director:
Shinya Kawatsura (eps 2, 4)
Tomoaki Ohta (3, 5)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (1, 6)
Music: Yasufumi Fukuda
Original creator: Sekihiko Inui
Character Design: Yoshimitsu Yamashita
Art Director:
Shin Watanabe
Yoshimi Umino
Animation Director:
Manamu Amasaki (3)
Mutsumi Sasaki (2)
Takashi Maruyama (4)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita
Yukiko Ban (5)
Sound Director: Hajime Takakuwa
Director of Photography: Shinichi Igarashi
Executive producer:
Yoshiaki Matsumoto
Yoshiro Kataoka
Producer:
Hajime Maruyama
Shinji Horikiri

Advertising:
Nobuaki Suzuki
Sam Kondu
Tomoko Hasegawa
Animation Coordination:
Fumie Matsuhita (3)
Ryoji Maru
Tatsuya Hamamoto
Animation producer:
Ryoji Maru
Tatsuya Hamamoto
Assistant Animator:
Mutsumi Sasaki (4, 5)
Tomoko Ishida (4, 5)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita (4, 5)
Yuichi Mari (4)
Associate producer:
Hiroji Ooko
Toshihisa Yoshii
Background Art:
Fumie Kawai
Shin Watanabe
Yoshimi Umino
Background Art Coordinator: Naoki Aoyama
Color design: Makiko Kojima
Cooperation:
Atsushi Umezawa
Masaki Imnari
Design:
Masashi Koizuka
Yuichi Mari
Digital Composite:
Daiji Kawakami
Hiroaki Tanaka
Katsutoshi Ooi
Koji Sawada
Kouji Aoki
Digital Work:
Ayumi Kamo
Misaki Horiuchi
Shuichi Akui
Yasuyo Yaegashi
Editing: Masayuki Kurosawa
In-Between Check:
Asuka Shinbo (5)
Noriko Tsutsumiya (2)
Saori Tomita (OP/ED, 1, 3, 4)
Key Animation:
Akio Shimotsukasa (6)
Akira Takeuchi (6)
Akira Wakabayashi (3, 6)
Asami Watanabe (1)
Asuka Shimizu (5)
Atsuko Takahashi (3, 6)
Chūji Nakajima (3, 5, 6)
Daisuke Endō (OP/ED, 1, 3)
Emi Honda (OP/ED, 4, 6)
Emiko Matsuno (2, 3, 4, 6)
Hidemi Yamashita (1)
Hiroko Kamiyama (1, 5, 6)
Hiroko Saito (1)
Hirotaka Nii (2, 4, 6)
Junko Kameda (2)
Junko Nakamura (3, 6)
Kaori Higuchi (1)
Kaori Ikeda (5)
Kaori Nakamura (2, 4, 5, 6)
Katsuyuki Tsubouchi (6)
Kazuhiko Yano (1, 5)
Kazuyuki Takayama (2)
Keiichi Ishida (2, 5)
Keiko Nagamine (3)
Kenji Yokoyama (1)
Kumiko Katō (OP/ED, 1)
Maiko Ikegaki (1, 3)
Manamu Amasaki (OP/ED, 6)
Mariko Sugimoto (1, 3, 5)
Masashi Koizuka (OP/ED)
Mi Young Lee (OP/ED, 1, 6)
Miai Kanzawa (1)
Mika Shirota (4)
Miki Kamata (1)
Mutsumi Sasaki (OP/ED)
Nobuaki Yanagi (OP/ED, 6)
Noriko Tsutsumiya (1, 3, 6)
Osamu Kurosawa (5)
Rie Kaneko (2, 3, 4)
Rie Maehara (6)
Ryōtarō Akao (6)
Sadatoshi Matsuzuka (3)
Saori Tomita (OP/ED, 2)
Satoshi Kitahara (3)
Shinmei Saito (1)
Shōta Ihata (2, 6)
Shu Hirayama (2, 4, 6)
Shu Yamamoto (OP/ED)
Takashi Iwao (1, 6)
Tomoaki Kado (6)
Tomoaki Ohta (5)
Tomoko Ishida (1, 6)
Toshimitsu Takechi (2)
Toshiya Washida (OP/ED)
Tsutomou Kikuchi (1)
Tsuyoshi Konakawa (1)
Wakako Yoshida (1)
Yasuhiro Saiki (OP/ED)
Yoshiaki Honda (2, 4)
Yoshiaki Tomita (2)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita (4)
Yukiko Ban (OP/ED)
Paint Check:
Kayo Otani (2)
Makiko Yamanaka (5)
Naomi Nakano
Planning:
Atsushi Suzuki
Haruki Nakayama
Kōichi Mashimo
Sound Coordination: Shuhei Abe
Sound Effects: Azusa Ishikawa
Sound Mixing: Yoshio Obara
Special Effects: Ayumi Kamo
Theme Song Arrangement:
Atsushi Umebori (ED)
Back-On (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Back-On (OP)
Kazumi Mitome (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Kenji03 (OP)
Teeda (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Back-On (OP)
Romi Park (ED)
Ami Koshimizu as Mirano Entolasia / Alita Forland
Romi Park as Alita Forland / Falis

Akimitsu Takase as Pete Armstrong
Chiwa Saito as
Ana
Yuna
Daisuke Namikawa as Dark Knight
Hiroshi Tsuchida as Akamashi
Kazuki Yao as Dominikov
Megumi Toyoguchi as Cecilia
Takkō Ishimori as Jodu Entolasia

Daiki Matsubayashi as Guitano (ep 5)
Hiroshi Tsuchida as Knight (ep 6)
Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Citizen (ep 3)
Resident (ep 2)
Mayuko Takahashi as Mirano (ep 1)
Mayumi Yanagisawa as Fenella (ep 5)
Minori Chihara as Girl (ep 2)
Mitsuaki Hoshino as King Forland (ep 1)
Mitsuteru Nagato as Knight (ep 6)
Susumu Akagi as
Citizen (ep 3)
Knight (ep 1)
Priest (ep 2)
Tadashi Mutou as
Andre (ep 5)
Kleiveldt (ep 4)
Yasuhiro Mamiya as Knight (eps 1, 6)
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Caitlin Glass
Script:
Alex Muniz (eps 3-4)
Jared Hedges (eps 1-2, 5-6)
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
Producer:
Carly Hunter
Justin Cook

ADR Engineer:
Gino Palencia
Nick Parker
Assistant ADR Director: Jeremy Inman
Assistant producer: Michael Harcourt
Commentary:
Caitlin Glass (ep 6)
Colleen Clinkenbeard (ep 6)
Monica Rial (ep 6)
Head Writer: Jared Hedges
Line Producer: Mike McFarland
Mix Engineer: Neal Malley
Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams
Video Editing:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez
Robert Bell
Video Post-Production Coordinator: Margaret Yabs
Video Post-Production Director: Brandon Tyler
Colleen Clinkenbeard as Alita Forland / Falis
Monica Rial as Milano Entolasia / Alita Forland

Ben Phillips as Pete Armstrong
Carrie Savage as
Ana
Yuna
Chuck Huber as Dominikov
Mark Stoddard as Dr. Akamashi
Patrick Seitz as Kaito
R Bruce Elliott as Jodu Entolasia
Wendy Powell as Cecilia

Bob Carter as Narrator
Brittney Karbowski as Milano (ep 1)
Cris George as Guitano (ep 5)
Daniel Drumm as Jitterbug (ep 1)
Grant James as Priest (ep 2)
J. Michael Tatum as Kleiveldt (ep 4)
Jeremy Inman as Roderim (ep 1)
John Swasey as King Forland (ep 1)
Leah Clark as
Fenella (ep 5)
Girl (ep 2)
Todd Haberkorn as Andre (ep 5)
Tyler Walker as Frankenstein (eps 2-3)
Vic Mignogna as Falis' Father (ep 5)
English companies
Internet Streaming:
Anime News Network
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand)
Crackle (Expired)
Crunchyroll (expired)
FUNimation Entertainment
Hulu
Viewster
YouTube
Licensed by:
ADV Films (Unannounced; Dropped)
FUNimation Entertainment
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Anne Lucie Domange
French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: Nao !
German staff
German cast
Dubbing Director: Peer Pfeiffer
Script: Peer Pfeiffer
Sarah Riedel as Alita

Christian Gaul as Dominikov
Maria Koschny as Anna/Yuna
Tilo Schmitz as Pete Armstrong

Gerald Schaale as Jodu Entolasia
Jörg Döring as Dr. Akamashi
Josephine Schmidt as Milano
Mathias Kunze as King Forland
Peter Lontzek as Rodrigo
Rubina Kuraoka as Cecilia
Sven Gerhardt as Schwarzer Ritter
German companies
Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
Kazé Germany (now)
Dubbing: VSI Berlin
Internet Streaming: Anime on Demand
Dutch staff
Dutch cast
Translation: Niels Viveen
(none)
Dutch companies
Distributor: Kaze Animation S.A. (Netherlands)

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