Challenge From Faust
- Studio
- Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo, Sotsu Eizo
- Animation studio
- Studio Juno
- Distributor
- Bandai Entertainment, AnimeVillage (US)
Synopsis
The leader of Gartlant has made his intentions clear that he wants to conquer more of Terra II. Now Japoness is up at arms if he will attack them next. But Faust has other ideas as he learns Japoness has Saber Marionettes like the three he has. Their new mission, take out the Shogun.
Characters
Otaru, Hanagata, Lime, Gennai, Obiichi, Tamasaburo, Baiko, Bloodberry, Faust, Hess
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Masami Shimoda, Koji Masunari
Producing
- Producer
- Noriko Kobayashi, Shinjuro Yokoyama
- Co-Producer
- Tsutomu Sugita
- Animation Producer
- Katsunori Haruta
- Executive Producer, Bandai US
- Ken Iyadomi
Writing
- Writer
- Mayori Sekishima, Kenichi Kanemaki
- Story Editor
- Mayori Sekishima
- Created By
- Satoru Akahori
Voices
- Voice
- Yuka Imai (Mamiya Otaru), Yuri Shiratori (Cherry), Megumi Hayashibara (Lime), Akiko Hiramatsu (BloodBerry), Yuuko Mizutani (Luchs), Kikuko Inoue (Panther), Ai Orikasa (Baiko), Maria Kawamura (Tamasaburo), Hikaru Midorikawa (Faust), Takehito Koyasu (Hanagata), Urara Takano (Tiger), Kenichi Ogata (Tokugawa Ieyasu)
- Vocal Talent, English Version
- Brad Swaile (Mamiya Otaru), Maggie Blue O'Hara (Lime), Erin Fitzgerald (Cherry), Saffron Henderson (Bloodberry), Donald Brown (Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa), Paul Dobson (Faust), Ellen Kennedy Brown (Tamasaburo, Lorelei), Richard Newman (Master Soemon, Obiichi, Rubens, General Goddel), Nicole Oliver (Luchs, Baiko), Samantha Ferris (Panther), Venus Terzo (Tiger), French Tickner (Gennai Shiraga), Samuel Vincent (Mitsurugi Hanagata)
Music
- Music
- Parome
Animation
- Animator
- Masaharu Kawamori, Ken Otsuka, Yukihiro Kitano, Kunio Kazuki, Katsuichi Nakayama, Shinya Uchida, Yoshimi Hashimoto, Tsutomu Miyazawa, Eiji Inoue, Keizo Ichikawa, Noriyuki Tetsura, Takayuki Gorai (Key Animators)
- Animation Checkers
- Tatsushi Narita, Hiromi Sakai
- Title Animators
- Toshiyuki Inoue, Hideko Nimura, Tetsuya Kamagaya, Masaya Onishi, Yoshinoba Yamatawa, Toshika Ohashi, Yoko Kusumoto, Mikita Kamei, Makoto Koga, Futoshi Fujikawa
Art Department
- Art Director
- Kazuo Nagai
- Character Designer
- Tsukasa Kotobuki
- Backgrounds
- Syunsuke Suzuki, Kiyomi Emomoto, Katsufumi Hario, Kazue Kudo, Emi Kitahara, Kaotu Narashima, Akira Yoshida
- Design
- Tsukasa Kotobuki, Hidekazu Shimamura, Kazuo Nagai
- Mechanical Designer
- Katsuyuki Tamura
- Special Guest Mechanical Designers
- Mashaharu Kawamori, Shingo Takeba
- Color Stylings
- Mieko Wanatabe
Visual Effects
- Cel Effects
- Masashiro Murakami
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Hidetoshi Watanabe
- Photography
- T. Nishimura, Daisuke Inome, Masaki Kubomuri, Kazuy Hoshi, Miki Kamieda
Editing
- Editor
- Shigeru Nishiyama
Sound
- Sound Director
- Hideyuki Tanaka
Crew
- Color Setting
- Shinobu Nakamura
Companies and other credits
- Backgrounds: Studio Fooga
Production notes
A series of three 30-minute videos, "Saber Marionettes" (not "Saber Marionette J"), was released in 1995, one year befoer the TV series.
Following the TV series, another video series, "Saber Marionette J Again," consisting of six 25-minute episodes, was released in 1997. This sequel to the series appeared to be made up of unbroadcast TV episodes.
The series returned to TV in 1989 as "Saber Marionette J to X," with 26 25-minute episodes. The final episode was never broadcast on TV, but was released to video.
Literal translation of title: "Faust's Challenge."
Following the TV series, another video series, "Saber Marionette J Again," consisting of six 25-minute episodes, was released in 1997. This sequel to the series appeared to be made up of unbroadcast TV episodes.
The series returned to TV in 1989 as "Saber Marionette J to X," with 26 25-minute episodes. The final episode was never broadcast on TV, but was released to video.
Literal translation of title: "Faust's Challenge."