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AKB0048 next stage (TV)

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Alternative title:
AKB0048 Second Stage (Japanese)
Themes: Music
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: In the year since the 77th generation understudies ed AKB0048, the Deep Galactic Trade Organization [DGTO] and DES have stepped up their attacks on entertainment. In response, AKB0048 brings back the general elections and the center nova position. The understudies are now thrusted into a new competition directly against the successors. But as AKB0048 brings back policies not seen since Acchan's disappearance, a new more powerful enemy is quietly moving behind the scenes.
Ratings: 193 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 25 votes (sub:21, dub:2, raw:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 42 votes (sub:37, dub:4, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 55 votes (sub:47, dub:8)
 Good: 37 votes (sub:30, dub:5, others:2
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 German subtitled
)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:21, dub:2)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 353 s, rank: #2745 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.819 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5315, rank: #1042 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 7.718 (Very good−), rank: #1153 (of 10154) (seen all: 7.76 / seen some: 8.63 / won't finish: 4.06)
Bayesian estimate: 7.702 (Very good−), rank: #894 (of 7635)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2013-01-05 to 2013-03-30
Opening Theme:
#1: "Aruji Naki Sono Koe" by NO NAME (eps 2-7,9-12)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kono Namida wo Kimi ni Sasagu" by NO NAME (eps 1-2,5-12)
#2: "Kibou ni Tsuite" by NO NAME (ep 3)
#3: "Sasae (AKB0048 ver.)" by BOUNCEBACK (ep 4)
#4: "Aruji Naki Sono Koe" by NO NAME (ep 13)
Insert song:
"Aitakatta" by AKB48 (ep 8)
"Beginner" by AKB48 (eps 2,3)
"Blue Rose" by AKB48 (ep 9)
"Boku Dake No Value" by AKB48 (ep 5)
"Chance No Junban" by AKB48 (ep 6)
"Heavy Rotation" by AKB48 (eps 5,8)
"Hoshi no Mukogawa" by AKB48 (ep 11)
"Kaze wa Fuiteiru" by AKB48 (ep 13)
"Kibou ni Tsuite" by No Name (eps 7,12,13)
"Kono Namida wo Kimi ni Sasagu" by NO NAME (ep 13)
"Korogaru ishi ni nare" by AKB48 (ep 8)
"Niji no Ressha" by NO NAME (eps 1,8,13)
"Oogoe Diamond" by AKB48 (ep 6)
"Pioneer" by AKB48 (ep 1)
"Ponytail to Chouchou" by AKB48 (ep 6)
"RESET" by AKB48 (ep 6)
"River" by AKB48 (eps 5,12)
"Shonichi" by AKB48 (ep 1)
"Shoujotachi Yo" by AKB48 (ep 2)
"Ue kara Mariko" by AKB48 (ep 7)
"Uhho Uhhoho" by AKB48 (ep 10)
"Yume wa Nando Demo Umarekawaru" by NO NAME (ep 3)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Shōji Kawamori
Series Composition: Mari Okada
Script:
Mari Okada (6 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 8, 12-13
)

Toshizo Nemoto (eps 2, 6, 9, 11)
Storyboard:
Shōji Kawamori (7 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 6, 8, 12-13
)

Yoshimasa Hiraike (eps 4, 12)
Episode Director:
Yoshinori Odaka (eps 4, 10)
Unit Director: Seiya Numata (OP)
Original Concept: Shōji Kawamori
Character Design: Risa Ebata
Art Director: Akira Itō
Chief Animation Director:
Tōru Imanishi (eps 7, 9, 11-13)
Animation Director:
Shunta Sakamoto (4 episodes
eps 3, 8, 11, 13
)

Yūko Yamada (eps 1, 6, 11)
Mechanical design: Stanislas Brunet
Art design:
Yann Le Gall
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Cgi Director: Hiroyuki Kashima (unknownCASE)
Director of Photography:
Maki Ueda
Executive producer:
Toshimichi Ōtsuki
2nd Key Animation:
Chie Yamazaki (5 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 6, 8
)

Youichi Sakai (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-8, 10
)

Yuuhei Ueda (ep 1)
3DCG Modeling:
Takeshi Suzuki
AKB Executive Producer: Yasushi Kubota
Animation producer: Fumio Kaneko
Assistant Animation Director:
Yūko Yamada (ep 13)
Assistant Art Director: Hyun Soo Kim
Assistant CGI Producer: Hideaki Hata
Assistant Unit Director: Yoshimasa Hiraike (ED)
Background Art:
Yōichirō Yamamoto
CG Animation Director: Atsushi Sakiyama (unknownCASE)
CG Producer: Tomisaburou Hashimoto
CGI Designer:
Yuya Yamaguchi (unknownCASE)
CGI Special Skills Director: Hiroshi Yagishita
Character Modeling Director: Katsuyoshi Miyajima
Color Check: Chie Tanimoto
Color Check Assistance:
Yūko Satō
Color Correction: Mitsuhiro Shoji
Color design: Nanae Shinaji
Color setting:
Yukie Nakajima (Artemis)
Compilation:
Yoshiyuki Ito (KBS Kyoto)
Copyright Illustration Production: Waka Muramatsu
Editing: Kentarō Tsubone (REAL-T)
Ending Director: Kooichi Ueno (ALCHEMY BROS.)
Finish Animation:
Sakura Komatsu (Dream Force)
In-Between Animation:
Youichi Sakai
In-Between Check:
Yoshiyuki Ōkubo
Key Animation:
Akihiro Taniguchi (9 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 6, 8-10, 12-13
)

Hideki Sadai (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 10, 12
)

Kanji Nagasaka (5 episodes
eps 1, 5-6, 8, 13
)

Maki Sawai (6 episodes
eps 2, 6-12 even, 13
)

Masahiro Aizawa (7 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6-12 even, 13
)

Miki Yoshikawa (9 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 6, 8-10, 12-13
)

Tomoe Tanaka (ED; 8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-12 even, 13
)

Tomokazu Sugimura (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 6, 8, 11-13
)

Yoshiyuki Ōkubo (ED; 8 episodes
eps 1-3, 6, 8-9, 12-13
)

Yūki Yada (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 10, 13
)

Yuuko Kamiyama (ep 3)
Live Effects: Hanae Fujioka
Massive Artist:
Yūta Hatayama
Monitor Graphics:
Jirō Kageyama (T2 Studio)
Music Production Assistance: Eiko Kio (Legato Music)
Opening Director: HIBIKI
Photography:
Yūichi Takezawa (T2 Studio)
Planning: Yasushi Akimoto
Planning Assistant: Kenji Sasagawa
Production Advancement:
Yūsuke Watabe (ep 13)
Production Desk: Kōhei Eguchi
Publicity:
Yoko Nagata
Publicity Producer: Masako Iwamoto
Recording Adjustment: Ayumu Anzai
Recording Assistant: Kimitaka Shindō
Setting Production: Mariko Mochizuki
Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
Sound Production Manager: Rie Tanaka
Sub-Character Design:
Mariko Ito
Supervision: Yasushi Akimoto
Theme Song Performance: AKB48
Total Logo Design: Tsuyoshi Takeda
Video Editing:
Yuki Honda
Virtual Camera: Hiromi Enokida
Amina Satō as Yūka Ichijō
Haruka Ishida as Kanata Shinonome
Karen Iwata as Nagisa Motomiya
Kumi Yagami as Sonata Shinonome
Mao Mita as Makoto Yokomizo
Mayu Watanabe as Chieri Sono
Sawako Hata as Suzuko Kanzaki
Sayaka Nakaya as Orine Aida
Sumire Satō as Mimori Kishida

Akemi Kanda as Yūko
Ayako Kawasumi as Sayaka
Kana Ueda as Tomochin
Mai Nakahara as Sae
Mamiko Noto as Kojiharu
Miyuki Sawashiro as Acchan
Momoka Kinoshita as Megumi Wanibuchi
Rena Maeda as Gina (ep 26)
Ryōko Shiraishi as Takamina
Yui Horie as Yukirin
Yukari Tamura as Mayuyu

Ai Kayano as Mao
Airi Furukawa as Aoi Koenji
Atsushi Kousaka as Soldier A (ep 25)
Daisuke Ono as Teacher Ushiyama
Eiji Takeuchi as Audience A (ep 26)
Genki Muro as Audience B (ep 20)
Haruka Ishida as Mamoru
Haruka Yamazaki as Audience A (ep 15)
Harumi Sakurai as Woman A (ep 19)
Haruo Yamagishi as
DES Soldier B (ep 14)
Soldier B (ep 25)
Hideto Nitta as Announcer (ep 14)
Hiroki Gotō as Staff (ep 21)
Hiroki Maeda as Man A (ep 19)
Hironori Saitō as Government Official (ep 18)
Hisako Kanemoto as Mei (eps 14, 22-23)
Ikumi Hayama as
Dealer (ep 18)
Research Student B (ep 15)
Sakuya (ep 14)
Itaru Yamamoto as
Audience B (ep 21)
Chef Papa (ep 25)
Coal Miner (ep 24)
Commander (ep 26)
DES Soldier (ep 18)
DES Soldier A (ep 14)
Fan A (eps 16-17)
Host (ep 15)
N (ep 19)
Zodiac Member A (ep 23)
Junichi Yanagita as
Audience A (ep 21)
Hungy A (ep 23)
Man B (ep 19)
Kaito Ishikawa as WOTA (ep 16)
Kanehira Yamamoto as
Announcer (ep 20)
Customer B (ep 16)
Kaori Ishihara as Himeko (ep 17)
Katsumi Watanabe as Sensei Sensei
Kazunori Nomada as Man C (ep 19)
Kenji Sugimura as Researcher (ep 15)
Kenta Matsumoto as Audience B (ep 17)
Kenta Sasa as
Audience D (ep 20)
Hungy B (ep 23)
Kento Ishikawa as Audience C (ep 20)
Kikuko Inoue as Nagisa's Mother (eps 4, 13)
Kōichi Sōma as Trading Company Executive (ep 18)
Kōji Takeda as Security Guard (ep 23)
Makoto Yasumura as Leader (eps 16, 22, 25)
Masanori Machida as Judge (ep 14)
Mitsuaki Hoshino as Toku-san (eps 16-17)
Miyū Takeuchi as Hazuki Yanagikawa
Motomu Kiyokawa as Yasunaga
Nao Tōyama as Vera (ep 26)
Naoya Nosaka as Audience C (ep 15)
Natsuki Hanae as Fan B (eps 16-17)
Natsumi Takamori as Mizuho (ep 17)
Rie Murakawa as Research Student A (ep 15)
Rina Dendō as Research Student C (ep 15)
Risa Taneda as Yūka's little brother (ep 17)
Ryō Sugisaki as
Agent (eps 25-26)
Audience A (ep 17)
Ryōkichi Takahashi as
Audience A (ep 20)
Audience B (eps 15, 26)
Ryōsuke Kanemoto as
Black Clothes Man (ep 24)
Zodiac Member B (ep 23)
Sachiko Kojima as Mikako Minamino
Saori Ōnishi as
Woman B (ep 19)
Yūka's little sister (ep 17)
Shigeo Kiyama as Boss (ep 22)
Shinobu Matsumoto as Lieutenant (ep 18)
Show Hayami as Chieri's Father
Taishi Murata as Customer A (ep 16)
Takahiro Fujiwara as Shogun (ep 18)
Takahiro Miyamoto as Soldier C (ep 25)
Taketora as Higashino (ep 18)
Tōru Ōkawa as Kazenagi's Father
Yasuaki Takumi as Subordinate (ep 14)
Yuka Keichō as Yūka's mother (eps 17, 26)
Yūki Hayashi as
Announcement (ep 21)
Announcer (ep 26)
Yukihiro Misono as Yūka's father (eps 17, 26)
Yumi Kakazu as Tsubasa
Yumi Uchiyama as Waitress (ep 16)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Yuhodo
3DCG Modeling:
Spirot
Animation Production: Satelight
Backgrounds:
Studio Easter
CG Production:
unknownCASE
Finish Animation:
Video Art
In-Between Animation:
Video Art
Key Animation:
Studio Wanpack (ep 11)
Monitor Graphics: T2 Studio
Motion Capture:
Satelight
Music Production Assistance: Legato Music
Photography:
T2 Studio
Photography Direction: T2 Studio
Production:
Satelight
Production Assistance:
Studio Fantasia (ep 7)
Recording Studio: Procen Studio
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
special effects: T2 Studio
Video Editing: Q-Tec
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Christopher Ayres
ADR Script: Josh Grelle
Executive producer:
John Ledford
Producer:
John Ledford

Adapted English Lyrics: Krystal LaPorte
Audio Engineer:
Ricardo Contreras
BD Authoring: David Williams
DVD Authoring: Nick Lee
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff
Production Assistant:
Kayla King
Production manager: Joey Goubeaud
Sound Design: Brent Marshall
Subtitle Script & Timing:
Kayla King
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Brittney Karbowski as Orine Aida
Caitlynn French as Suzuko Kanzaki
Carli Mosier as Mimori Kishida
Emily Neves as Chieri Sono
Genevieve Simmons as Kanata Shinonome
Juliet Simmons as Sonata Shinonome
Luci Christian as Nagisa Motomiya
Molly Searcy as Makoto Yokomizo
Monica Rial as Yuka Ichijou

Allison Sumrall as Tomomi Itano
Beth Lazarou as Sayaka Akimoto
Cynthia Martinez as Minami Takahashi
Hayley Adams as Mayu Watanabe
Margaret McDonald as Yuki Kashiwagi
Meaghan Avocato as Megumi Wanibuchi
Nancy Novotny as Haruna Kojima
Sasha Paysinger as Atsuko Maeda
Shannon Emerick as Sae Miyazawa
Tiffany Terrell as Yuuko Oshima

Allison Keith-Shipp as Mikako Minamino
Beth Lazarou as Mizuho (ep 4)
Christopher Ayres as
Lieutenant (ep 5)
Nagisa's Father (eps 1, 13)
Researcher (ep 2)
Sensei Sensei
David Matranga as
Announcer (eps 1, 7)
Chieri's Father
George Manley as
Commander (ep 1#)
Public Prosecutor (ep 1)
Tokusan (ep 3)
Greg Ayres as Mamoru
Illich Guardiola as Ushiyama
John Swasey as
Boss (ep 9)
Judge (ep 1)
Leader
Papa Cook (ep 12)
Yasunaga
Kalin Coates as Yuka's Younger Brother (ep 4)
Krystal LaPorte as
Casino Dealer
Mofufu
Waitress (ep 3)
Margaret McDonald as
Aoi Koenji
Yuka's Younger Sister (ep 4)
Mark X Laskowski as
Higashino (ep 5)
Yuka's Father (eps 4, 13)
Nancy Novotny as Nagisa's Mother (eps 4, 13)
Shelley Calene-Black as Tsubasa Kitagiri
Tiffany Grant as
Female Announcer (ep 3)
Himeko (ep 4)
Kiara
Yuka's Mother (eps 4, 13)

English companies
Distributor:
Section23 Films (North America)
Internet Streaming:
The Anime Network
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Seraphim Digital
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Latin America)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Brazil)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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