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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 
Themes: body switching , robots 
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: 895 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 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 65 votes (sub:47, dub:15, ?:1, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 33 votes (sub:22, 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 1632 users, rank: #759 (of 9914)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.998 (Good), std. dev.: 1.6072, rank: #4135 (of 10061)
Weighted mean: 6.897 (Good), rank: #4293 (of 10061) (seen all: 6.96 / seen some: 6.66 / won't finish: 4.50)
Bayesian estimate: 6.905 (Good), rank: #3906 (of 7617)
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 
Official website:
Murder Princess (Japanese) 
Murder Princess @ avex movie (Japanese) 
Murder Princess at FUNimation 
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 $41.98)

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) 
Yūta 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 
Kōji Aoki 
Koji Sawada 
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)  (eps 2, 4, 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: Shūhei 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 Saitō 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 
Adeline-Fleur Baude as Alita 
Anne Lucie Domange as Falis 

Jacques Herlin as Dominikov 
Yves Leturcq as Pete 

Bernard Debreyne as Jodo 
François Godart as Kaito 
Frédérique Sauvage as Ana 
Hubert Helleu as Zenos 
Samira Mameche as Fenera 
Virginie Aubres Peres as Yuna 
French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ 
Dubbing: Nao ! 
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: AnimeOnegai (Latin America) 
Spanish cast
(none)
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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