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Kikuko Inoue
is one of the most venerable Voice Actresses in the industry having numerous titles to her
credit and is best known for her roles as Belldandy (Ah! My Goddess! OVA, TV, & Movie), Tendou Kasumi (Ranma 1/2), Lune Venus (El Hazard OVA & TV), and Panther (Saber Marionette
J), as well as making guest appearances in popular shows such as Vandread, Inu Yasha, and Gatekeepers. Ms. Inoue
currently voices the roles of Ginebia Green (Argent Soma), Melissia (Mahou Senshi Ryui), Suzuhara Higiko (Angelic Layer), and Awayuki Natsue (Shin Shirauki Hime Densetsu Pretear). She has also released her first American album, Anime Toonz, on Jellybean Records.
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Morio
Asaka joined the renowned animation studio Madhouse in 1987.
During that time, he has worked on a wide variety of genres and titles. He served as Animation Supervisor for Yawara and Azuki-chan. His directing credits include the Rumiko Takahashi OVA Mermaid's Scar and Yuugen Kaisha (Phantom Quest Corp). However, without a doubt, he will be most recognized as the chief director of the Card Captor Sakura TV series and as the director for both Card Captor Sakura movies. His most recent project is as Chief Director for the new TV series Galaxy Angel.
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Yu Watase
is a very prolific manga artist whose works include (in no particular order) Gomen Asobase!, Magical Nan, Otenami Haiken!, Suna No Tiara and Mint De Kiss Me. Some of Yu Watase's more recent works, published in Flower Comics, include Shishunki Miman Okotowari, Zoku Shishunki Miman Okotowari and Epotrans! Mai. But in the United States, Yu Watase is most known for her work in the Fushigi Yuugi manga series of which the Fushigi Yuugi anime is based from. Ms. Watase's, Ayashi no Ceres series, won the 43rd Shogakukan Manga Prize. Ms. Watase's most current series is the Imadoki manga.
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Masayuki Kojima
began working in the anime industry in 1982, and has worked on a wide variety of projects. Since joining Madhouse in 1999, he has served as animation supervisor on the Sakura Taisen TV series. He is also the Chief Director of the hit anime series Master Keaton, and the TV series Azuki-chan. Finally, he is the Chief Director for the Kero-chan ni Makase ("Leave it to Kero-chan") featurette that played with the second Card Captor Sakura movie.
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Yoshiaki Iwasaki graduated from Chiba University with a major in
Engineering before joining the anime industry. He has worked on many popular shows, and his list of credits includes Director for El Hazard 2, the Slayers TV series and Chikyu Boetai Kigyo Dai-Guard, storyboard artist for To Heart, animation director for Revolutionary Girl Utena and Turn-A Gundam. However, Mr. Iwasaki
is best-known to American fans as the director of the smash hit Love Hina.
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Hisashi Abe
of Madhouse Studios has a very diverse range of credits.
He is character designer, animation director, and director of Devil Hunter Yohko 2 and
3, and is also the character designer for Twilight of the Dark Master and character designer for Shin Kujaku-Oh. He was also the character designer and animation director for the series Petshop of Horrors and the OVA series Seebus. He worked on the X feature film as an assistant animation director and most recently served as the animation director for the Vampire Hunter D film.
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Hidenori Matsubara
has been working in the anime industry for a long time and has served as an animator on such series as Otaku no Video, Ranma 1/2, Macross II, Patlabor: The Movie and Blue Submarine No. 6. He is best-known to anime fans as the man who adapted manga artist Kosuke Fujishima's designs for animation in the original Ah! My Goddess! OVA series and the 2000 Ah! My Goddess! movie. He is also the character designer for the Sakura Taisen TV series, once again, adapting Mr. Fujishima's designs.
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Toshihiro Kawamoto
is an animation director and character designer who has worked on many well-known anime projects. He is the character designer and animation director for Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, and Golden Boy. Mr. Kawamoto is currently in production on the Cowboy Bebop feature film, which is set for release in Japan later this year.
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Noboru Ishiguro,
one of the "honored grandfathers" of Japanese animation and esteemed pillar of the anime industry, has worked in the anime industry for a very long time and
brought with him a well-known history of being Director of Spacecruiser Yamato (a.k.a. Starblazers), Legend of Galactic Heroes, Megazone 23, Macross TV series and Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie, and countless other popular anime titles.
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