Phantom Quest Corporation

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Television broadcast
German title Phantom Quest Corporation
Original title 幽 幻 怪 社
Yūgenkaisha
You-Gen-Kai-Sya Logo.svg
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 1994-1995
length 32 minutes
Episodes 4th
genre Drama , horror , comedy
production Hiroaki Inoue, Kazuaki Morijiri, Masao Morosawa
music Jun'ichi Kanezaki
German-language
first broadcast		 October 5th, 2002 (episode 1)
October 14th, 2003 (complete) on VOX
synchronization

Phantom Quest Corporation ( Japanese 幽 幻 怪 社 , Yūgenkaisha , officially: You-gen-kai-sya , dt. About: "Company for ghosts and strange things ") is the title of a 4-part OVA made by Madhouse on behalf of Pioneer LDC was produced. The title is a play on words with Yūgen kaisha ( 有限会社 ), the Japanese variant of a GmbH .

In Germany, it was broadcast on television on the VOX station and also released several times both as VHS and on two different DVD versions.

A very similar conception of a manga and anime series is called Ghost Sweeper Mikami .

action

In the 6th year of the Heisei era (= 1994) a company falls out of the picture of the corporate landscape of Japan : The Phantom Quest Corporation is a service company that hunts demons and drives out ghosts.

At the head of the Phantom Quest Corporation is the spirited Ayaka Kisaragi, who likes to enjoy life to the fullest and does not hesitate long with her opponents. Despite her ability to fight the supernatural, her bad habits, which include drinking lots of sake , indulging in one shopping frenzy, and sleeping into the daytime, are what keep her company at the end of everyone Episode "in the red" is. The many experts consulted, such as the fortune teller Suimei, cannot be paid in this way .

The plot consists of four independent acts: In the first act Ayaka acts as a vampire hunter, in the second she deals with the mysterious death of a taxi driver who suddenly died after a seemingly harmless accident. In the third part she is commissioned by an entrepreneur to drive out a ghost who is supposed to be up to mischief in a museum and which is massively hindering the establishment of an exhibition sponsored by him. The last episode confronts Ayaka and Mamoru with a competition from Buddhist monks, who, however, use the ghosts and demons they have captured themselves to secure further orders.

Publications

Based on the concept of Jūzō Mutsuki , Mami Watanabe wrote the series script and also wrote the screenplay for the first episode, as well as that of the third, together with Tetsu Kimura, while the second and fourth episodes were written by Tatsuhiko Urahata. Directed by Kōichi Chigira in episode 1, Morio Asaka in episodes 2 and 4, and Takuji Endō in episode 3. Hitoshi Ueda was responsible for the character design .

The OVA was released from August 25, 1994 to February 25, 1995 in Japan in four parts on Laserdisc and VHS, and two years later in the USA on two VHS cassettes. In Germany, as in the USA, the series was initially released on two VHS cassettes, which contained both the Japanese original sound as well as an English dub and had a subtitle for the German market.

The German first release on DVD took place in 2001 by Pioneer LDC under the title "Phantom Quest Corporation - Perfect Collection" itself, the exclusive distribution was taken over by ACOG. The English version was used as the basis for the video stream, which is mainly expressed in the opening and ending each episode is provided with English texts.

The OVA was also shown several times on German-language free TV : The first episode of the OVA was first broadcast on the VOX channel as part of an anime comedy night with the animes El Hazard OVA 1-2, the first episode of Wedding Peach DX and Moldiver in German dubbing, as well as the first Slayers movie , the first special by The Irresponsible Captain Tylor in the original Japanese with German subtitles.

After this episode was broadcast again on September 6, 2003 with further first episodes of the series Arjuna , Comic Party , Cosplay Complex , DNA² , Kishin Corps , The Hakkenden , Legend of Basara , Najica Blitz Tactics and Sakura Wars in the original with subtitles, the series was cut together about a month later as a "movie version" shown on VOX and repeated in January and May 2004 on the XXP channel .

The second DVD release in Germany took place on July 25, 2005 by SPVision under the same title, but with a redesigned cover and DVD menu, three audio tracks in several language versions.

synchronization

For the first editions of both the VHS and the later DVD version, no German-language dubbing was planned: They were only released with German subtitles, and while the VHS version was still set to Japanese and English, the DVD was missing Version the English soundtrack. The new edition of this publication was in the studios of the Elektrofilm Postproduction Facilities GmbH . The dialogue book comes from Ulrike Lau, who is also the dubbing director .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Ayaka Kisaragi Rika Matsumoto Nadja Reichardt
Kōzō Karino Kōichi Yamadera Uwe Büschken
Mamoru Shimesu Kazu Ikura Rubina Kuraoka
Rokkon Yūsaku Yara Tom Deininger
Suimei Naoko Watanbe Marianne Lutz
Makiko Mizuno Yuka Koyama Manja Doering
Yūjiro Ishibara Naoki Tatsuta Thomas Hailer
Ruriko Asakaga Yōko Kawanami Ulrike Lau
Sano, the taxi driver Machi Yuji Olaf Reichmann
Ms. Sano Mizuki Ōtsuka Maja Dürr
Mukyō Seki Toshihiko Matthias Klages
Nanami Rokugo Kotono Mitsuishi Julia Meynen
Natsuki Ogawa Aya Hisakawa Gundi Eberhard
Toru Nakasugi Kaneto Shiozawa Viktor Neumann

music

Both the opening That's Yūgenkaisha ( THAT'S 幽 幻 怪 社 , dt. About: "That's the Phantom Quest Corp.") and the ending of the episodes Mahiru no tokai ( 真 昼 の 都会 , dt. About: "Midday big city") were from Rika Matsumoto sung, who also speaks the main role Ayaka in the original version of the series. While the lyrics are from Natsuko Karedo, Junichi Kanezaki composed the melody.

In addition to the release in Japan, there was also a soundtrack for the OVA, also distributed by Pioneer LDC.

Light novel

Mami Watanabe wrote a light novel about Yūgenkaisha , which was published by Fujimi Shobo in September 1995 ( ISBN 4-8291-2643-4 ). The illustrations are by Hitoshi Ueda and Asako Nishida.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on Absolute Anime
  2. ↑ Review of the VHS edition on JASMS: The Japan Anime Sailor Moon Page
  3. ↑ Overview in the online film database
  4. ↑ Entry in the website of Anime no Tomodachi eV
  5. ↑ Review of Anime on DVD
  6. ↑ List of speakers for Anime on DVD
  7. ↑ End credits of the episodes from the first German DVD release

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