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The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Hakkenden: Il branco dei guerrieri leggendari (Italian)
Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors
THE 八犬伝 (Japanese)
Хаккэндэн: Легенда о Псах-Воинах (Russian)
Genres: action, fantasy
Themes: samurai
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Adapted from the famous samurai masterpiece, Hakkenden tells the tale of eight samurai brothers. Reincarnated and bound to defend the Awa clan, these eight souls must find one another and unite to stop a powerful demonic force. However, the demons that oppose them are determined to keep them seperate and even place them in mortal combat against one another. It is up to Shino, the bearer of the Murasame, to find his wayward brothers and convince them to fight as allies.
User Ratings: 175 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Excellent: 10 votes (sub:6, dub:2, ?:1, raw:1)
 Very good: 33 votes (sub:21, dub:7, raw:2, ?:1, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 44 votes (sub:28, dub:10, raw:1, others:5
2 Russian subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 German dubbed
1 German subtitled
)
 Decent: 27 votes (dub:13, sub:10, others:4
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Russian edited dub
1 German subtitled
)
 So-so: 20 votes (sub:17, dub:2, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:6, ?:1, dub:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Weak: 14 votes (sub:8, dub:4, raw:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Bad: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:2, ?:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 388 users, rank: #2547 (of 9763)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.171 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.1205, rank: #6896 (of 9909)
Weighted mean: 6.141 (Decent), rank: #6939 (of 9909) (seen all: 6.51 / seen some: 5.26 / won't finish: 3.77)
Bayesian estimate: 6.234 (Decent+), rank: #6119 (of 7492)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
1990-10-25 to 1991-03-25 (part 1)
1993-11-25 to 1995-03-25 (part 2—"Shinsho")
Ending Theme:
#1: "Ame ga Mikka Tsuzuku to" (雨が3日続くと) by THE TOPS (eps 1,3,5)
#2: "FRIENDS" by THE TOPS (eps 2,4,6)
#3: "Tabi ~Seimei no Shou~" (旅~生命の章~) by INVOICE (eps 7-13)
Trivia: We have 3
Comment:
The original was 6 episodes long. Then some time later, a sequel of 7 episodes was produced, but was under the same name and so is considered a 'continuation' (i.e. the first episode of the sequel is episode 7, not episode 1 of a new series).
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DVD (Region 1)
    The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 (from $12.99)
    The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden (DVD 2) 2007-08-07 (from $9.98)
    The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden (DVD 3) 2007-10-09 (from $22.99)
    The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden - Box Set (DVD 1-3) 2001-10-09 (from $16.29)
LaserDisc
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 1) 1995-08-01
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 2) 1995-10-03
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 3) 1995-12-05
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 4) 1996-01-30
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 5) 1996-03-26
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 6) 1996-05-28
    The Hakkenden - The Legend of the Dog Warriors (LD 7) 1996-07-30

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Takashi Anno (eps 1-6)
Yukio Okamoto (eps 7-13)
Script:
Hidemi Kamata (eps 8-13)
Noboru Aikawa (eps 1-7)
Storyboard:
Satoru Utsunomiya (ep 9)
Shinya Ōhira (ep 10)
Yukio Okamoto (eps 7-8, 11, 13)
Episode Director:
Satoru Utsunomiya (ep 9)
Shinya Ōhira (ep 10)
Takashi Nakamura (ep 4)
Yukio Okamoto (eps 7-8, 11)
Music: Takashi Kudoh
Character Design:
Atsushi Okuda (eps 7-13)
Atsushi Yamagata (eps 1-6)
Takashi Nakamura (ep 4)
Animation Director:
Atsushi Okuda (eps 8, 11, 13)
Atsushi Yamagata (ep 12)
Hideyuki Motohashi (asst; ep 7)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (eps 8, 11)
Kazuo Tomizawa (ep 7)
Masaaki Yuasa (ep 4)
Noboru Furuse (ep 11)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 12)
Shinji Hashimoto (eps 1, 9)
Shinsuke Terasawa (ep 7)
Takashi Nakamura (ep 4)
Sound Director:
Akira Yamazaki (eps 1-6)
Yoshikazu Iwanami (eps 1-6)
Director of Photography:
Hitoshi Satō
Kazuhiro Konishi
Art Boards: Yūsuke Takeda (ep 10)
Color design: Kouji Ootsuki
Editing: Shūichi Kakesu
In-Between Animation:
Munetaka Abe (eps 1-2, 4-6)
Naoyuki Konno (ep 7)
In-Between Check: Naoyuki Konno (eps 8-11)
Key Animation:
Akihiro Yuki (eps 9-10)
Chikae Kuwahara (ep 11)
Emiko Momose (ep 12)
Fumihide Sai (ep 13)
Hideaki Yokoi (ep 10)
Hideki Shibuya (ep 12)
Hiroko Yoshizawa (ep 8)
Hironobu Saitō (ep 11)
Hiroshi Okubo (ep 12)
Hiroyoshi Ohkawa (ep 13)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (ep 13)
Hiroyuki Morita (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Okuno (ep 8)
Hiroyuki Uchida (eps 7-8, 12)
Hisatoshi Motoki (ep 12)
Hitoshi Haga (ep 11)
Ichiro Hattori (ep 7)
Imazaki (ep 7)
Jirō Kanai (ep 9)
Jun Takizawa (ep 11)
Junichi Yokoyama (ep 6)
Kanta Kamei (eps 8-9)
Katsuichi Nakayama (ep 11)
Kazuchika Kise (ep 4)
Kazuhiko Miyake (ep 7)
Keiko Shimizu (ep 9)
Kōichi Arai (ep 10)
Koji Watanabe (eps 7-9, 11, 13)
Kou Yoshinari (eps 12-13)
Kouji Yanagisawa (ep 8)
Kunihiko Abe (ep 13)
Kunihiko Sakurai (ep 7)
Manabu Ono (ep 12)
Mariko Aoki (ep 10)
Masaharu Tada (ep 10)
Masahiko Itojima (ep 11)
Masahiko Kubo (eps 11-13)
Masahiro Sekine (ep 13)
Masahito Yamashita (ep 8)
Masashi Ishihama (eps 8, 11-13)
Masashi Kaneko (eps 9, 11, 13)
Masatsugu Arakawa (ep 10)
Masayuki Yoshihara (ep 12)
Matsuri Okuda (eps 8, 13)
Michiyo Suzuki (eps 9, 12)
Mitsuo Iso (ep 1)
Naomi Kimura (ep 12)
Naoyuki Konno (eps 11-13)
Nobutoshi Ogura (eps 8, 11)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 11)
Norimoto Tokura (ep 10)
Norio Matsumoto (ep 1)
Osamu Tanabe (eps 10, 13)
Sadayuki Iwai (ep 7)
Sanae Chikanaga (ep 8)
Satoru Utsunomiya (ep 9)
Sawako Yamamoto (ep 13)
Shigeki Awai (ep 7)
Shingo Suzuki (eps 12-13)
Shinji Hashimoto (ep 10)
Shinji Tanaka (ep 7)
Shinsuke Terasawa (eps 9, 11)
Shinya Ōhira (eps 1, 9-10)
Shinya Takahashi (eps 11, 13)
Shizuo Kawai (ep 13)
Tadao Yoshikawa (ep 7)
Takaaki Yamashita (ep 10)
Takahiro Kishida (ep 12)
Takahiro Komori (ep 11)
Takao Maki (ep 12)
Takashi Hashimoto (ep 1)
Takashi Nakamura (ep 4)
Takayuki Hamana (ep 10)
Takeshi Honda (ep 5)
Takeshi Ōsaka (ep 12)
Takeshi Yamazaki (ep 10)
Tatsuya Tomaru (eps 8, 13)
Tatsuyuki Tanaka (ep 9)
Tetsuya Nishio (eps 9, 12-13)
Tomo Ikeuchi (ep 7)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (eps 8-9)
Toshimitsu Kobayashi (ep 9)
Yasushi Muraki (ep 11)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (ep 10)
Yoshiharu Shimizu (eps 8, 11, 13)
Yoshihiro Kitano (eps 10, 13)
Yukinori Umetsu (ep 7)
Yūzō Satō (ep 13)
Sound Effects: Masahiro Shōji
Special Animation Director:
Hidenori Matsubara (ep 13)
Naoyuki Onda (ep 13)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 13)
Akio Ōtsuka as Daikaku Inumura /Kakutarou
Arisa Andou as Masaka
Aya Hisakawa as Hamaji
Chafūrin as Haichirou Kanamari
Chieko Honda as Hamaji
Chikao Ohtsuka as Ikkaku Akaiwa
Hajime Koseki as Kagetsura Anzai
Hidenari Ugaki as Komiyama
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Suketomo Ohta
Hideyuki Umezu as Sabohei Kamado
Hiroshi Ito as Mukusaku
Hirotaka Suzuoki as Samojirou Aboshi /Yamashita Sadakane
Junpei Takiguchi as Hikiroku
Kaneta Kimotsuki as Narrator
Kappei Yamaguchi as Sosuke Inukawa /Gakuzo
Kikuko Inoue as Hikute
Kiyonobu Harita as Rikijirou
Kiyonobu Suzuki as Yoshirou Ubayaki
Kōichi Kitamura as Arimura
Kōichi Yamadera as Dousetsu Inuyama
Kumiko Watanabe as Kurayago
Kunihiko Yasui as Hattarou
Mahito Tsujimura as Yasuhei
Masaaki Hiramatsu as Hitoyo
Masako Katsuki as
Funamushi
Tamazusa
Masako Nozawa as Kamezasa
Masao Imanishi as Nariuji Ashikage
Masashi Ebara as Daisuke Kanamari /Chudai
Masayuki Omoro as Ounai
Megumi Hayashibara as Inusaka Mouya
Miki Itō as Fuse Princess
Minami Takayama as Keno Inusaka
Mitsuaki Hoshino as Shakuhachirou
Motomu Kiyokawa as Mitsuhiro Jinyo
Naoki Bandō as Yoshinari Satome (ep 11)
Noriko Hidaka as Shinbei Inue /Daihachi
Ritsuo Sawa as Motofuji Hikita
Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Awayuki
Sakiko Tamagawa as Hinaginu
Shigeru Nakahara as Shahei Higami
Shigeru Shiibashi as Sesuke
Shigeru Shiihashi as Sesuke 
Shinobu Adachi as Nabiki
Shō Hayami as Fusahachi
Shūichi Ikeda as Samojirou Aboshi (ep 5)
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Gobaiji Gunki
Takeshi Aono as Bansaku Inuzuka
Tamio Ohki as Yoshizane Satome
Tesshō Genda as Kobungo Inuda
Tomohiro Nishimura as Genpachi Inugai
Tomomichi Nishimura as Daiki Makuwari
Toshihiko Seki as Shino Inuzuka
Toshio Funazu as Tota
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Yoshinari Satomi
Yoshiko Asai as Isanako
Yūsaku Yara as Kyuroku Higami

Japanese companies
Broadcaster: Kids Station
Production:
AIC
Artland (eps 7-13)
ARTMIC (eps 1-6)
Pioneer LDC
English cast
English staff
Executive producer: Naoju Nakamura
Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto

DVD Executive Producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
DVD Producer: Taku Otsuka
Music producer: Kit Thomas (END)
Production Assistant: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Production Coordination:
Janet Kendrick
Kim Wishart Goddard
Recording engineer:
Eric Schurch
Jason Fredrickson
Script Conformation: Ward Perry
Cathy Weseluck as Shinbei Inue/Daihachi
David Kaye as
Daikaku Inumura/Kakutaro
Sadamasa's Guard
Doris Chillcott as
Kamezasa
Sosuke's Mother
Tamazusa
French Tickner as Ikkaku Akaiwa
Janyse Jaud as
Funamushi
Girl #1
Isanako
Keno Inuzaka
Kurayago
Tamazusa
Young Kakutaro
Kelly Sheridan as
Hamaji
Nui
Young Sosuke
Ken Kramer as
Arimura Yokobori
Awayuki
Narrator
Shino Inuzuka
L. Harvey Gold as Yoshizane Satomi
Lalainia Lindbjerg as
Princess Fuse
Tatasuka
Lynda Boyd as
Keno Inuzaka
Nabiki
Tamazusa (2nd voice)
Matt Hill as
Sosuke Inukawa/Gakuzo
Yoshinari Satomi
Matt Smith as
Daisuke Kanamari
Fusahachi
Shahei Higami
Shino Inuzuka
Yoshizane Satomi
Michael Dobson as
Bansaku Inuzuka
Daiki Mauwari
Dosetsu Inuyama
Fusahachi
Hikiroku
Kobungo Inuta
Mukusaku
Thug #1
Yoshinari Satomi
Myriam Sirois as
Girl #2
Hinaginu
Paul Dobson as
Kobungo Inuta
Kyuroku Higami
Samojiro Aboshi/Sadakane
Thug #2
Yoshiro Ubayuki
Scott McNeil as
Hachiro Kanamari
Motofuji Hikita
Ward Perry as
Genpachi Inukai
Maewari's Servant
Oborogi
Sabohei Kamado
Sukutomo Ohta
Thug #3
Yasuhei
English companies
Dubbing: Ocean Studios
DVD Authoring: SpeeDVD
DVD Menus: Pulpgraphix
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Logo Design: Jason71.com
Recording Studio: The Ocean Group
Special Thanks To: New Generation Pictures
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: France Rombaut
Brigitte Aubry as tatsuka Inozuka
Cyrille Artaux as
Daisuke Kanamari
Gakuzo
Gérard Rouzier as
narrateur
Samojiro Aboshi
Jacques Albaret as
Shino Inozuka
Yoshinari Satomi
Laurence Bréheret as Hamaji
Marjolaine Poulain as Princesse Fuse

French companies
ADR Production: François Avisse vidéo
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Executive producer: Luis de Val

Screen Inserts: Miguel Rey (Spain dub)
Angel de Gracia as Shino Inuzuka (Spain dub)
Aurora García as Shinbei Inue/Daihachi (Spain dub; ep 11)
Berta Cortés as Shinbei Inue/Daihachi (Spain dub; eps 12-13)
Enrique Hernández as Keno Inuzaka (Spain dub)
Jordi Ribes as Daikaku Inumura/Kakutaro (Spain dub; ep 9)
Luis Espinosa as Daikaku Inumura/Kakutaro (Spain dub; eps 12-13)
Luis Grau as
Dosetsu Inuyama (Spain dub)
Kobungo Inuta (Spain dub)
Paco Gázquez as Genpachi Inukai (Spain dub)
Raúl Llorens as Sosuke Inukawa/Gakuzo (Spain dub)

Alfonso García Zambrano as Daisuke Kanamari/Chudai (Spain dub; ep 4)
Angel de Gracia as Yoshinari Satomi (Spain dub; young)
Aurora García as Tamazusa/Funamushi (Spain dub)
Berta Cortés as Hamaji (Spain dub)
Javier Amilibia as Daisuke Kanamari/Chudai (Spain dub; ep 11)
Luis Espinosa as
Daisuke Kanamari/Chudai (Spain dub)
Samojirou Aboshi/Yamashita Sadakane (Spain dub)
Miguel Rey as Yoshinari Satomi (Spain dub; adult)
Paco Gázquez as Yoshizane Satomi (Spain dub)

Alfonso García Zambrano as Gobaiji Gunki (Spain dub)
Aurora García as
Hikute (Spain dub)
Isanako (Spain dub)
Kamezasa (Spain dub)
Masaka (Spain dub)
Nabiki (Spain dub)
Nui (Spain dub)
Princess Fuse (Spain dub; ep 6)
Sosuke's Mother (Spain dub)
Berta Cortés as
Hitoyo (Spain dub)
Kurayago (Spain dub)
Princess Fuse (Spain dub; ep 1)
Carlos Vicente as Shahei Higami (Spain dub)
Francisco Alborch as
Komiyama (Spain dub)
Motofuji Hikita (Spain dub; eps 12-13)
Francisco Garriga as
Hikiroku (Spain dub)
Nariuji Ashikaga (Spain dub)
Rikijiro (Spain dub)
Suketomo Ota (Spain dub)
Javier Amilibia as
Hachiro Kanamari (Spain dub)
Ikkaku Akaiwa (Spain dub)
Motofuji Hikita (Spain dub; ep 11)
Ounai (Spain dub)
Yasuhei (Spain dub; ep 6)
Josep María Zamora as
Awayuki (Spain dub)
Daiki Makuwari (Spain dub)
Yasuhei (Spain dub; ep 7)
Luis Espinosa as
Fusahachi (Spain dub)
Sabohei Kamado (Spain dub)
Shakuhachiro (Spain dub)
Luis Grau as
Mitsuhiro Jinyo (Spain dub)
Mukusaku (Spain dub)
Mercedes Diemand-Hartz as Hinaginu (Spain dub)
Miguel Rey as Narrator (Spain dub)
Paco Gázquez as
Bansaku Inuzuka (Spain dub)
Kagetsura Anzai (Spain dub)
Kyuroku Higami (Spain dub)
Santiago Cortés as Arimura Yokobori (Spain dub)

Angel de Gracia (Spain dub)
Aurora García (Spain dub)
Berta Cortés (Spain dub)
Enrique Hernández (Spain dub)
Javier Amilibia (Spain dub)
José Javier Serrano (Spain dub)
Josep María Zamora (Spain dub)
Luis Espinosa (Spain dub)
Luis Grau (Spain dub)
Miguel Marquillas (Spain dub)
Paco Gázquez (Spain dub)
Ramón Rocabayera (Spain dub)
Raúl Llorens (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Triveu (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Script: Serenella Mete
Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

General Consultant: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Script Supervision: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Angelo Nicotra as Lord Jindai
Cesare Barbetti as Narratore
Corrado Conforti as Yoshinari
Dario Penne as Bansaku
Domitilla D'Amico as Principessa Fuse (child)
Emanuela Rossi as Tamazusa
Francesco Pannofino as Kokungo
Georgia Lepore as Principessa Fuse (adult)
Marco Mete as Lord Ashikaga
Marella Jacobacci as Isanako
Massimo De Ambrosis as Genpachi
Michele Gammino as Yoshizane
Riccardo Rossi as Sosuke
Roberto Gammino as Dosetsu
Sandro Acerbo as Aboshi
Sandro Sardone as Arimura
Serena Verdirosi as Kahezasa
Sergio Di Stefano as Shahei
Simone Mori as Daisuke
Vittorio De Angelis as Fusahachi
Vittorio Stagni as Hikiroku
Italian companies
German staff
German cast
(none)
Christian Stark as Shino Inuzuka
Eva Michaelis as Prinzessin Fuse
Jan-David Rönfeldt as Dousetsu Inuyama
Prinzessin Fuse as Eva Michaelis 
Robin Brosch as Samojirou Aboshi
German companies
Broadcaster: VOX
Dubbing: Hamburg (?)

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