Final Countdown
Series title: 星方武侠アウト
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc., Sotsu Eizo.
English Adaptation by: Bandai Entertainment, Inc., ZRO Limit Productions, Animaze.
Characters
Gene, Jim, Melfina, Suzuka, Aisha, Gilliam, Fred, Harry, Ron
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Mitsuru Hongo
- Director, English Version
- Wendee Lee
Producing
- Producer
- Yutaka Maseba, Haruyo Kanesaku (English Version)
- Co-Producers, English Version
- Charles McCarther, Jerry Chu, Osamu Maseba
Writing
- Writer
- Katsuhiko Chiba
Animation
- Animator
- Hiroyuki Hataike
- Animation Director
- Takuya Saitou (Takuya Saito)
Voices
- Voice
- Shigeru Shibuya (Gene), Rika Matsumoto (Jim), Ayako Kawasumi (Melfina), Sayuri (Suzuka), Yuko Miyamura (Aisha), Takaya Hashi (Gilliam), Toshihiko Seki (Fred), Tsutomu Kashikura (Harry), Kazunori Nakata (Ron)
- Vocal Talent, English Version
- John Billingslea, Robert Wicks, Abe Lasser, Richard Hayworth, Michael McConnohie, Ethan Murray, Dave Mallow, Gene Holiday, Steve Cannon, Richard Barnes, Zan, Ruby Marlowe, Ian Hawk, Brett Radford, G. Gordon Baer, Wendee Lee, Gil Starberry, Sparky Thornton, H. Murphy, Barbara Goodson, Dylan Tully, Katie Ashley, Billy Regan, Carol Stanzione, Christy Mathewson, Heather Ashton, Jack Emmet, George C. Cole, John Billingslea
Music
- Music
- Kou Ohtani (Ko Otani)
Editing
- Editor
- Kazuhiko Seki, Youko Kobayashi
Crew
- Created by
- Takehito Ito
- Serialized in
- Shueisha Ultra Jump
- Original Story
- Hajime Yatate, Takehito Ito
- Original Concept of Main Character
- Hiroyuki Hataike
- Character Design
- Takuya Saito
- Mechanical Design
- Junya Ishigaki
- Animation Director
- Takuya Saitou, Takuya Saito
- Art Director
- Tohihisa Koyama
- Animation Produced by
- Shinjiro Yokoyama, Naotake Furusato
- Color Designed by
- Noriko Kuroyanagi
- Director of Photography
- Hitoshi Torikoshi, Haruhiko Tsumura
- Ending Illustration by
- Hikaru Tanaka
- Designers
- Manabu Ono, Hiroshi Okubo, Misturu Tanaka, Yoshinori Sayama
- Titling
- Maki Pro
- Background
- Kiyoko Kanno, Yoshimi Unna, Wakaba Okamoto, Fumie Kawaii, Megumi Ogawa, Yukiko Ogawa, Saori Ishibiki, Hachidai Takayama
- Assistant Art Director
- Hachidai Takayama
- Laboratory
- Tokyo Laboratory
- Video Editing Facility
- Q-TEC
- Video Editor
- Kazunori Okada
- Sound Effects
- Shizuo Kurahashi (Sound Box)
- Audio Mixer
- Fujio Yamada
- Recording Assistant
- Yuji Tagami
- Sound Produced By
- Takeshi Takadera (Techno Sound)
- Key Animators
- Hiroshi Okubo, Tsutomu Suzuki, Manabu Ono, Kazuhiro Soeta, Toshihisa Kaiya, Morifumi Naka, Takuya Saito, Asako Nishida, Yoshinori Sayama, Susumu Yamaguchi
- Unit Director
- Mitsuru Hongo
- Setting Production
- Masakazu Ohara
- Production Desk
- Kyoko Oyama
- Crew
- English Version Crew
- Production Coordinators
- Osamu Maseba, Kei Onishii
- Production Assistants
- Richard Kekahuna, Kevin Hale
- Translation/Subtitle Timing
- David Fleming
- ADR Script Writers
- Carol Stanzione, Lia Sargent
- ADR Engineers
- Paul Andris, Dan Cubert, Ernie Sheesley, Gordon Suffield
- Mixer
- Mike Draghi
- Assistant Engineers
- David Beron, Brett Radford
- Subtitled by
- Captions
- Online Facility
- VDI Multimedia West
- Online Editor
- C.P. Booth
Companies and other credits
- Planned by: Sunrise Inc
- Background: Production Ai
- Recording Studio: Aoi Studio
- Opening Animation
- Animation Co-Produced by: XEBEC
- A Production of: SOTSU AGENCY
- SUNRISE
- INC
- Translation/Subtitle Timing: ZRO Limit Productions
- Recording Facility: Screenmusic Studio
- Subtitled by: Inc
Production notes
Originally released in 1997 in Japan; first aired on January 15, 2001 in the US (on Cartoon Network).
Adapted by Hajime Yadate (Sunrise's pseudonym for its in-house talent) and Takehiko Ito from Ito's 1988 manga in "Space Hero Tales."
The series ran for 24 episodes on TV Tokyo's late-night timeslot. When broadcast on the Cartoon Network, it was edited to remove scenes of nudity, sex, violence, drinking and gambling.
Adapted by Hajime Yadate (Sunrise's pseudonym for its in-house talent) and Takehiko Ito from Ito's 1988 manga in "Space Hero Tales."
The series ran for 24 episodes on TV Tokyo's late-night timeslot. When broadcast on the Cartoon Network, it was edited to remove scenes of nudity, sex, violence, drinking and gambling.