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The World of Narue (TV)



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©2003 Tomohiro Marukawa, Kadokawa Shoten/The World of Narue Committee. 

 
Alternative title:
Narue no Sekai (Japanese) 
成恵の世界 (Japanese) 
成惠的世界 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Genres: science fiction 
Themes: aliens 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Iizuka Kazuto is a 14 year old boy who meets a somewhat weird but cute and charming girl named Narue Nanase who claims she is an Alien. The show is about the trials and tribulations of the young couple as they get to know each other. 
Ratings: 533 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 10 votes (sub:5, dub:5)
 Excellent: 61 votes (dub:35, sub:23, edit.dub:1, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 87 votes (sub:55, dub:27, raw:1, ?:1, others:3
1 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 185 votes (sub:120, dub:61, raw:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 107 votes (sub:76, dub:28, raw:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 46 votes (sub:29, dub:14, ?:1, raw:1, edit.dub:1)
 Not really good: 15 votes (sub:9, dub:4, raw:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:10, dub:6)
 Bad: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1081 s, rank: #1142 (of 9997)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.809 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.5427, rank: #4826 (of 10155)
Weighted mean: 6.729 (Good−), rank: #5007 (of 10155) (seen all: 6.85 / seen some: 6.28 / won't finish: 4.69)
Bayesian estimate: 6.746 (Good−), rank: #4579 (of 7635)
Running time: half hour per episode 
Number of episodes: 12 
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2003-04-05 to 2003-06-28 
2005-05-16 (Spain - Buzz Channel) 
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Shooting Star" by CooRie 
Ending Theme:
"Ice Cream" by Saeko Chiba 
Official website:
Official Narue no Sekai Website (Japanese) 
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
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DVD (Region 1)
    Anime Test Drive - 8-Pack Brick (DVD) 2004-04-27 (from $63.98)
    The World of Narue - Anime Test Drive (DVD 1) 2004-04-13 (from $2.99)
    The World of Narue - Complete Collection (DVD 1-2) 2009-07-21 (from $18.12)
    The World of Narue - DVD Collection [Collector's Series] (DVD 1-4) 2004-04-13 (from $15.50)
    The World of Narue - Collector's Series + Book 1 Brick Pack (DVD 1-4) 2004-10-26 (from $125.00)
DVD (Region 0)
    World of Narue - DVD Collection [UK] (Dub.DVD) 2006-06-19 (from $197.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Toyoo Ashida 
Director: Hiromitsu Morita 
Series Composition: Yuu Sugitani 
Music: Takayuki Negishi 
Original Manga: Tomohiro Marukawa 
Character Design: Takaaki Hirayama 
Art Director: Mitsuharu Miyamae 
Chief Animation Director:
Takaaki Hirayama 
Art design: Hitomi Sano 
Sound Director: Katsuyoshi Kobayashi 
Director of Photography: Nobuhiro Tengeji 
Executive producer:
Yoko Furukawa 
Producer:
Yutaka Ohashi 

Advertising:
Yoshiaki Saito 
Animation producer: Akio Sakai 
CG:
Yasuhiro Kato 
Color design: Hitomi Sano 
Editing: Jun Takuma 
Editing Assistant:
Shidai Shii 
Eyecatch Illustration:
Toshiyuki Fujisawa 
In-Between Animation: Fumiaki Usui (IMAGIN; ep 1) 
Key Animation:
Yuichiro Hayashi (eps 4, 12) 
Main Title Design: Noriyuki Jinguji (ZiN STUDIO) 
Music producer: Yoshiyuki Ito 
Planning:
Shunpaku Takahashi 
Production Desk: Yaoki Tokashiki 
Products Manager: Akiko Matsumoto 
Series Story Editor: Yu Sugiyama 
Setting Production: Aya Nozaki 
Sound Effects: Akiko Mutō 
Special Effects: Jin Hibino 
Theme Song Composition: Yuki Kajiura (ED) 
Theme Song Performance:
Saeko Chiba (ED) 
VTR Editing:
Yuichi Ozaki (eps 1-10, 12) 
VTR Editing Assistant:
Minoru Hattori (eps 1-10, 12) 
Hitomi Ando 
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Kazuto Iizuka 
Mamiko Noto as Narue Nanase 

Jun Fukuyama as Masaki Maruo 
Junko Minagawa as Kanaka Nanase 
Mami Kosuge as Bathyscaphe 
Saeko Chiba as Hajime Yagi 

Aya Yamakawa as Kazuto's Mother 
Ayaka Yamashita as Student E (ep 5) 
Chihiro Kusaka as Student D (ep 5) 
Eiji Yanagisawa as Kazuto's Father 
Gumi Kinoshita as
Beach-goer (ep 9) 
Child (ep 7) 
Female student (ep 10) 
Hiroko Nishi as Narumi's Sister (ep 8) 
Ichirota Koizumi as Male Student C (ep 6) 
Jirō Saitō as Avalon C  (ep 12) 
Junichi Sugawara as Tadashi Nanase 
Kanako Tateno as Kyoko Kudo 
Kōji Yusa as Shimada 
Makoto Naruse as
Customer (ep 10) 
Male Student (ep 2) 
Male Student A (ep 6) 
Maria Kawamura as Narumi Mutsuki 
Masafumi Kimura as
Avalon B  (ep 12) 
Driver  (ep 8) 
Old Man (ep 9) 
Masahiko Horio as
Gym Teacher (ep 5) 
Reporter (ep 9) 
Masato Funaki as Judge (ep 10) 
Masayuki Nakata as Chief Judge  (ep 10) 
Miki Tsuchiya as Student C (ep 5) 
Miwa Sugihara as Student B (ep 5) 
Nami Kurokawa as
Aya Kanazawa 
Emcee (ep 10) 
Natsuko Kuwatani as Rei Otonashi 
Oma Ichimura as Rin Asakura 
Ryoko Shintani as Kei Sherman 
Sakura Nogawa as Manaka Daitō/Magical Girl #4 (Yongo) 
Sayaka Aoki as
Student A (ep 5) 
Tomi Morino 
Shigeru Shibuya as Tadashi Nanase (age 30) 
Tadasuke Oomizu as
Male Student B (ep 6) 
erby (ep 2) 
Tomoko Kawakami as Ran Tendou 
Tomomichi Nishimura as Tail Messer 
Utau Mori as Landlady (ep 11) 
Yasuhiko Kawazu as Avalonian  (Avalonian A; eps 1, 12) 
Yuka Komatsu as Kazuto's Sister 
Yukie Maeda as
Hatakaze (ep 4) 
Kiriri Kaibashira 
Yagi's Mother  (ep 2) 
Yūko Gotō as
Store employee (ep 10) 
Yuki Kashiwazaki 
Yūko Satō as Rokugo (ep 3) 
Yumi Hikita as Kanaka's Mother (ep 4) 
Yumi Touma as Haruna 

Ayaka Yamashita 
Chihiro Kusaka 
Gumi Kinoshita 
Ichirota Koizumi 
Makoto Naruse 
Masato Funaki 
Nami Kurokawa 
Tadasuke Oomizu 
Utau Mori 
Yūko Gotō 
Japanese companies
Animation Assistance: Ehrgeiz 
Animation Production: Studio Live 
Animation Production Cooperation:
IMAGINE 
Backgrounds:
Will of Freedom (eps 3, 5, 11) 
Broadcaster: Mainichi Broadcasting System 
CG Production: GONZO 
Digital Paint:
Kyung Kang ANIA 
Editing: Actas 
In-Between Animation: ANIK 
Key Animation:
Max Movie (6 episodes
eps 2-4, 7, 10-11
) 
Studio Wanpack (ep 6) 
Main Title Design: ZiN STUDIO 
Music Production:
Lantis 
Production:
World of Narue Production Committee 
Production Studio: Studio Live 
Recording Studio: Sound City 
Sound Effects: Sound Box 
Sound Production: Trinity Sound 
English cast
English staff
Translation: Keisuke Okamoto 
Executive producer:
John O'Donnell 
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky 

ADR Engineer: Vern Vennard 
ADR Voice Director: Tom Wayland 
Associate producer: Tom Wayland 
Dubbing Coordination: Ross Lefko 
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes (ADV Re-release) 
DVD Coordination:
Ross Lefko 
DVD Menu Design: Larry Koteff (ADV Re-release) 
In-House Production: Justin Sevakis 
In-House Production Manager: Tim Werenko 
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams (ADV Re-release) 
Mixing: Vern Vennard 
Motion Graphics: Justin Sevakis 
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff (ADV Re-release) 
Production manager: Joey Goubeaud (ADV Re-release) 
Quality Assurance: Mariela Ortiz (ADV Re-release) 
Script Adaptation: Tom Wayland 
Subtitling: Justin Sevakis 
Jamie McGonnigal as Kazuto Iizuka 
Veronica Taylor as Narue Nanase 

Carol Jacobanis as Bathyscaphe 
Jimmy Zoppi as Masaki Maruo 
Michele Knotz as Hajime Yagi 
Rachael Lillis as Kanaka Nanase 

Angora Deb as Haruna 
Catherine Kim as
Aya Kanazawa 
Rei Otonashi 
Tomi Morino 
Dan Green as
Avalon B 
Chief Judge 
Gym Teacher (ep 5) 
Tadashi Nanase 
Dana Halsted as Kazuto's Sister 
Jimmy Zoppi as
Child (ep 7) 
Driver (ep 8) 
Kazuto's Father 
Josh Mosby as Akio Shimada 
Lisa Ortiz as
Kiriri Kaibashira 
Kyoko Kudo 
Manaka Daitō/Magical Girl #4 
Mandy Bonhomme as Yuki Kashiwazaki 
Rachael Lillis as
Kazuto's Mother 
Landlady (ep 11) 
Tom Wayland as
Avalon C 
Reporter (ep 9) 
Tristan Goddard as
Avalon A 
Old Man 
Tail Messa 
Veronica Taylor as Hatakaze (ep 4) 
Vibe Jones as
Kanaka's Mother (ep 4) 
Narumi's Sister (ep 8) 
Ran Tendo 
Yagi's Mother (ep 2) 
Zoe Fries as
Narumi Mutsuki 
Rin Asakura 

Catherine Kim (eps 4-6) 
Dan Green (eps 1-3, 7-9) 
Dana Halsted (eps 4-6) 
Mandy Bonhomme (eps 4-6) 
Tom Wayland (eps 1-12) 
Vibe Jones (eps 10-12) 
Zoe Fries (eps 10-12) 
English companies
Broadcaster:
iaTV 
Distributor:
U.S. Manga Corps 
DVD Production: Amusement Park Media (ADV Re-release) 
Internet Streaming:
Viki 
Licensed by:
Central Park Media 
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Carles Lladó as Kazue Iizuka (Kazuto) (Spain dub) 
Pilar Morales as Narue Nanase (Spain dub) 

Carmen Ambrós as Kanaka Nanase (Spain dub) 
Dori Cano as Hajime Yagi (Spain dub) 
sc Rocamora as Masaki Maruo (Spain dub) 
María Rosa Gil as Babiska (Bathyscaphe) (Spain dub) 
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain) 
Dubbing Studio: Cristal Media (Spain dub) 
Internet Streaming: Vitanime.tv 
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd. 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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