Flint hammerhead
Flint hammerhead | |
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Original title | 時空 探 偵 ゲ ン シ ク ン |
transcription | Jiku Tantei Genshi-kun |
genre | Adventure, comedy , fantasy |
Anime television series | |
Country of production | Japan |
original language | Japanese |
year | 1998 |
Studio | Group TAC |
length | 25 minutes |
Episodes | 39 |
Director | Hiroshi Fukutomi |
idea | Hideki Sonoda |
music | Tadashi Namba , Toshio Masuda |
First broadcast | October 1, 1998 on TV Tokyo |
German-language first broadcast |
February 28, 2001 on RTL II |
Manga | |
title | Jiku Tantei Genshi-kun, Susume! Jikumon Tanteidan |
Original title | 時空 探 偵 ゲ ン シ ク ン 、 進 め! ジ ク モ ン 探 偵 団 |
country | Japan |
author | Hideki Sonoda |
Illustrator | Akira Yamanaka |
publishing company | Kōdansha |
magazine | Comic BomBom |
First publication | 1998-1999 |
expenditure | 1 |
Flint Hammerhead ( Japanese 時空 探 偵 ゲ ン シ ン ン , Jikū Tantei Genshi-kun , Eng . "Spacetime Detective Genshi") is an anime television series by the studio Group TAC from 1998. The work was also implemented as a manga and is in the genres To classify adventure, comedy and fantasy . Internationally, the series was also known as Flint the Time Detective .
content
The time thief Petra Fina ( 愛 野 瞳 , Aino Hitomi ) travels through time with her two assistants from the 25th century in order to confuse history for the Dark Lord and to steal the angels of time scattered throughout the ages. On one of their trips to the Stone Age, they meet Flint Hammerhead ( ゲ ン シ , Genshi ) and his father, whom they petrify to take away an angel of time. In the 25th century, the two Stone Age people are dug up again and resuscitated by Bernie Goodman ( 大 和 博士 , Yamato-hakase , "Dr. Yamato") in the temporary police. This gives Flint superhuman strength, while his father remains a talking stone and will serve as a hammer for him in the future. Together with the children Goodman, Sarah ( ソ ラ , Sora ) and Tony ( ト キ オ , Tokyo ), and on behalf of the temporary police, Flint sets out as a time detective to thwart every theft of Petra Fina and for this you travel through various ages.
Production and publication
The anime was created by Studio Group TAC under the direction of Hiroshi Fukutomi based on the idea and concept of Hideki Sonoda . The character design comes from Sachiko Ōhashi and the artistic direction was Hitoshi Nagao . There were 39 episodes, each lasting 25 minutes.
It was first broadcast from October 1, 1998 to June 24, 1999 on TV Tokyo . A German dubbed version was shown for the first time from February 28 to April 24, 2001 on RTL II . This was followed by repetitions on RTL II, Fox Kids and Kabel 1 as well as on Premiere. Fox Kids also released the episodes on DVD. The series was also broadcast on television in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese dubbing.
synchronization
The German version was created at MME Studios in Berlin, dialogue director was Björn Schalla .
role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
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Flint Hammerhead / Genshi | Yukiji | Timm new |
Petra Fina / Hitomi Aino | Yumi Toma | Bianca Krahl |
Sarah Goodman / Sora Yamato | Nana Mizuki | Sonja Spuhl |
Tony Goodman / Tokyo Yamato | Chiaki Morita | Julien Haggége |
music
Tadashi Namba and Toshio Masuda composed the soundtrack for the series . The opening credits are underlaid with the song Power na Kimochi ( パ ワ ー な き も ち , Pawā na Kimochi ) by Yukari Asakura . The closing titles are:
- Moshimo… ( も し も… ) by Mayumi Iizuka
- Kirakira ( き ら き ら ) from Manabi Mizuno
- Boku no Shirushi ( 僕 の シ ル シ ) by Nakagawa Keniti
- Jikū no Kanata e ( 時空 の 彼方 へ ) from Yukiji, Nana Mizuki, Chiaki Morita, Tachiki Fumihiko, Nishimura Chinami
Manga adaptation
In Kōdanshas magazine Comic BomBom one of appeared Hideki Sonoda written and Akira Yamanaka drawn manga series called Jiku Tantei Susume Genshi-kun! Jikumon Tanteidan ( 時空 探 偵 ゲ ン シ ク ン 、 進 め! ジ ク モ ン 探 偵 団 ) to the television series. In 1999 the six chapters appeared in an anthology.
reception
The series is a remake of the Time Bokan series from the 1970s, according to the Anime Encyclopedia , only with a stronger focus on monster hunting and collecting, which was popular in the 1990s after Pokémon and Digimon . The similarity with these two series is also what brought Flint Hammerhead to the USA.
Web links
- Entry at fernsehserien.de
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NAME. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 201 .