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Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings (TV)

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Alternative title:
Devil Kings
戦国BASARA (Japanese)
戰國BASARA (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action
Themes: war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan, many generals fought in an endless struggle for power, but one man proved to be too big a threat - The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune, two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals, begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.
Ratings: 1024 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 53 votes (sub:37, dub:14, Eng:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 95 votes (sub:74, dub:14, ?:1, others:6
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Chinese mandarin subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 172 votes (sub:131, dub:25, raw:3, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:11
3 Portuguese subtitled
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
)
 Good: 177 votes (sub:126, dub:42, raw:2, ?:1, others:6
2 Spanish subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 133 votes (sub:109, dub:18, raw:2, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 100 votes (sub:84, dub:11, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Not really good: 83 votes (sub:81, dub:2)
 Weak: 70 votes (sub:67, dub:2, others:1
1 Vietnamese subtitled
)
 Bad: 54 votes (sub:54)
 Awful: 42 votes (sub:41, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 45 votes (sub:36, dub:8, others:1
1 Mandarin subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 1761 s, rank: #689 (of 9998)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.850 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.6407, rank: #8047 (of 10155)
Weighted mean: 5.750 (Decent−), rank: #8233 (of 10155) (seen all: 6.78 / seen some: 6.75 / won't finish: 3.54)
Bayesian estimate: 5.771 (Decent−), rank: #7065 (of 7635)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2009-04-01 to 2009-06-17
Opening Theme:
"JAP" by Abingdon Boys School
Ending Theme:
"Break & Peace" by Dustz
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Complete 1st Season (Blu-ray) 2010-10-12 (from $69.88)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Seasons One & Two [Essentials] (Blu-ray) 2020-06-30 (from $22.75)
Blu-ray (Region B)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Complete 1st Season (Blu-ray) 2010-11-15
Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Season 1 (BD+DVD) 2012-02-07 (from $70.00)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Seasons One & Two (BD+DVD) 2013-06-11 (from $39.99)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Seasons One and Two + OVA [S.A.V.E.] (BD+DVD) 2016-12-27 (from $34.98)
DVD (Region 1)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Complete 1st Season (DVD) 2010-10-12 (from $39.99)
DVD (Region 2)
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Complete 1st Season (DVD) 2010-11-15
    Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Complete 1st and 2nd Season (DVD) 2012-09-17

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Itsurō Kawasaki
Series Composition: Yasuyuki Mutō
Screenplay:
Yasuyuki Mutō (eps 1-12)
Storyboard:
Itsurō Kawasaki (6 episodes
eps 1, 4, 6, 8-10
)

Tomohiro Shinoda (assist.; ep 9)
Episode Director:
Yoshiyuki Takayanagi (ep 10)
Original Character Design: Makoto Tsuchibayashi (CAPCOM)
Character Design: Tōru Ōkubo
Art Director: Shunichirō Yoshihara
Chief Animation Director: Tōru Ōkubo
Animation Director:
Yusuke Yoshigaki (ep 12)
3D Director: Atsushi Satō
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Director of Photography: Naoyuki Ohba
Producer:
Yukio Yoshimura

2D Work: Chie Nishitani
2nd Key Animation:
Yuuta Takanami (ep 11)
3D Animation:
Reina Kaneko
Animation Check:
Young Lim Lee (eps 2, 5, 11)
Animation producer: Tetsuya Nakatake
Art Setting: Hideyasu Narita
Assistant Animation Director:
Noriko Ogura (ep 9)
Assistant Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Background Art:
Yūta Chimoto
Color design:
Mayumi Satō (assistant)
Color Key:
Yuka Takeda (ep 9)
Composition:
Toshihiro Takahashi
Design:
Tomomi Ozaki
Editing: Daisuke Imai
Editing Assistant: Momoko Ishida
Finish Animation:
Yuri Okada
Finish Check:
Yumi Asano (ep 8)
In-Between Animation:
Yuri Naminoue
Key Animation:
Eiji Komatsu (4 episodes
eps 3, 6, 10, 12
)

Kyōhei Tezuka (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 6, 10-12
)

Takahisa Katagiri (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 6, 9, 11-12
)

Yuuga Tokuno (eps 7, 12)
Key Animation Supervisor:
Yuuga Tokuno (assist.; ep 11)
Music Assistant: Keiichi Sotomura (Sony Music Entertainment)
Music producer: Yuko Sakurai
Photography:
Yuri Hirokawa
Photography Supervision: Hiroki Takagi
Planning Assistant:
Yōhei Sawada
Production:
Yoko Furukawa
Production Advancement:
Yūsuke Ueda (eps 2, 9)
Production manager: Megumi Satou
Publicity:
Sadakazu Kikuchi
Recording Assistant: Tomohiro Sunaoshi (Jinnan Studio)
Recording engineer: Takayuki Yamaguchi (Jinnan Studio)
Sound Effects: Naoto Yamatani (Sound Box)
Sound Production: Kisuke Koizumi
Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami
Supervision:
Makoto Yamamoto (CAPCOM)
System Management: Junichiro Aki
Theme Song Performance:
Dustz (ED)
Video Editing:
Osamu Sasaki
Web Production:
Yūki Kagamoto
Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune
Sōichirō Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura

Masakazu Morita as Maeda Keiji
Natsuko Kuwatani as Kasuga
Takehito Koyasu as Sarutobi Sasuke
Tesshō Genda as Takeda Shingen
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Katakura Kojūrō

Atsushi Imaruoka as Naoe Kanetsugu
Daisuke Endō as Yoshinao
Hideo Watanabe as Narration
Hiroki Shimowada as Ranmaru Mori
Jun Konno as Bunshichi
Keiji Fujiwara as Matsunaga Hisahide
Kōji Tsujitani as Nagamasa Asai
Kōzō Shioya as Yoshimoto Imakawa
Mamiko Noto as Oichi
Masashi Miyazawa as Ujimasa Hōjō 
Mitsuhiro Sakamaki as Magobei
Norio Wakamoto as Oda Nobunaga
Romi Park as Uesugi Kenshin
Ryūzō Ishino as Motochika Chousokabe
Shigeru Nakahara as Motonari Mori
Show Hayami as Akechi Mitsuhide
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Toshiie Maeda
Tomoko Kawakami as Itsuki
Tōru Ōkawa as Ieyasu Tokugawa
Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Samanosuke
Yūko Kaida as Matsu
Yurika Hino as Nou Hime
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
union CHO
Animation Finish:
union CHO
Animation Production: Production I.G
Editing: Jay Film
In-Between Animation:
ZEXCS
Internet Streaming: Hulu
Key Animation:
union CHO
Music Production: Flying Dog
Original Creator: CAPCOM
Photography Assistance:
Line Farm
Production:
Team Basara
Production Assistance:
Nippon Animation (eps 4, 8)
Video Editing: Sony PCL
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Christopher Bevins
Translation:
Shoko Oono
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
Producer:
Justin Cook

ADR Engineer:
Geoff Bisente
Assistant ADR Director: Taliesin Jaffe
Assistant producer: Michael Harcourt
Blu-Ray Authoring:
Trace Furniss
Blu-Ray Compression:
Jacob Martin
Blu-Ray Editor: Jeremy Jimenez
Blu-Ray Menu Audio: Jim Welch
Blu-Ray Menu Design: Kris Pierce
Blu-Ray Producer: Clarine Harp
Blu-Ray Quality Control:
Rob Schindlbeck
Digital Video Coordinator: Jeff Yale
DVD Authoring: Christine Bertolino
Head Writer: John Burgmeier
Lead Video Engineer: Sarah Mueller
Line Producer: Zach Bolton
Mix Engineer:
Dallas Taylor (CAS)
Post-Production Assistant:
Casey Barteau
Production Assistant:
Trenton Jons
Production Supervision: Susie Nixon
Senior Video Editor:
Jeremy Jimenez
Subtitling:
Jon Uzzel
Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams
Video Editing:
Robert Bell
Video Engineer: Michael Rivas
Video Post-Production Director: Brandon Tyler
Johnny Yong Bosch as Yukimura Sanada
Robert McCollum as Masamune Date

Chris Ayres as Shingen Takeda
Eric Vale as Maeda Keiji
Michael Sinterniklaas as Sasuke Sarutobi
Stephanie Sheh as Kasuga
Travis Willingham as Kojuro Katakura

Anthony Bowling as Samanosuke
Barry Yandell as Yoshimoto Imakawa
Brian Mathis as
Narrator
Saheita (ep 13)
Brina Palencia as Yumekichi (ep 13)
Bruce Lewis as Magobei
Bryan Massey as Sukeroku (ep 13)
Caitlin Glass as Yumekichi
Christopher Bevins as Asai Nagamasa
Chuck Huber as Toshiie Maeda
Greg Ayres as Kenshin Uesugi
Greg Dulcie as Shige (ep 13)
Jamie Marchi as Matsu
Jeremy Inman as Yoshinao
Jerry Russell as Ujimasa Hojo
Jim Johnson as Kanetsugu Naoe
John Swasey as Oda Nobunaga
Josh Grelle as Tetchan
Kent Williams as Hisahide Matsunaga (eps 8-9)
Laura Bailey as Oichi
Liam O'Brien as Ieyasu Tokugawa
Maxey Whitehead as Mori Ranmaru
Patrick Seitz as Chosokabe Motochika
R Bruce Elliott as Shimazu Yoshihiro (ep 9)
Sam Regal as Mori Motonari
Scott Hinze as Bunshichi
Sean Michael Teague as Harukichi (ep 13)
Stephanie Young as Nou Hime
Vic Mignogna as Mitsuhide Akechi
Z. Charles Bolton as Bekunosuke (ep 13)

English companies
Broadcaster: FUNimation Channel
Distributor:
Manga Entertainment (Great Britain & Ireland)
Internet Streaming:
YouTube
French staff
French companies
(none)
Distributor: KAZÉ
French cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director:
Lucia Valenti

Dubbing Coordination: Orlando Leone
Andrea Beltramo as Date Masamune
Davide Albano as Sanada Yukimura
Roberto Accornero as Oda Nobunaga

Chiara Preziosi as Kasuga
Erika Laiolo as Mori Ranmaru
Gianandrea Muià as Sarutobi Sasuke
Gianni Gaude as Takeda Shingen
Luca Ghignone as Akechi Mitsuhide
Maurizio Di Girolamo as Nagamasa Asai
Paolo Carenzo as Uesugi Kenshin
Roberta Maraini as Oichi
Walter Rivetti as Katakura Kojūrō

Alberto Olivero as Hisahide Matsunaga (eps 8-9)
Alice Bertocchi as Nou Hime
Andrea Rotolo as Ieyasu Tokugawa
Chiara se as Matsu Maeda (eps 3, 12)
Luca Sbaragli as Toshiie Maeda (eps 3, 12)
Oliviero Cappellini as Narrator
Osmar Santucho as Chousokabe Motochika
Renato Novara as Maeda Keiji
SHADE as Motonari Mori
Tony Mazzara as Imagawa Yoshimoto (ep 2)
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Man-Ga (from 10 February 2017)
Distributor: Yamato Video
Internet Streaming:
YouTube (Yamato Animation)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Niels Curvin as Date Masamune
Ralph Kretschmar as Sanada Yukimura

Andrea Cleven as Kasuga
Benno Lehmann as Keiji Maeda
Mario Hassert as Sarutobi Sasuke
Mehmet Yilmaz as Uesugi Kenshin
Philipp Zieschang as Ieyasu Togukawa
Phillip Richter as Nagamasa Asai
Rene Hofschneider as Akechi Mitsuhide
Sven Riemann as Kojuurou Katakura
Thomas Arnold as Takeda Shingen

Alexander Ziegenbein as Bunshichi
Bastian Kämmerer as Mōri Motonari
Benno Lehmann as Imagawa Yoshimoto (ep 2)
Daniel Gärtner as
Samanosuke
Yoshinao
Helmut Krauss as Matsunaga Hisahide
Jan Andres as Magobei
Jan Kurbjuweit as Toshiie Maeda
Karsten Troyke as Narrator
Lars Möhring as Samanosuke
Marko Bräutigam as Chousokabe Motochika
Sarah Alles as Nou Hime
Tabea Börner as Matsu Maeda
German companies
Broadcaster: Animax
Distributor: FilmConfect
Internet Streaming: Anime on Demand
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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