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She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV)

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Alternative title:
Larme Ultime (French)
Lei, l'arma finale (Italian)
Mi novia el Arma Definitiva (Spanish)
SaiKano (Japanese)
Saishū Heiki Kanojo (Japanese)
Saishū Heiki Kanojo: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet (Japanese)
Моя девушка - совершенное оружие (Russian)
最終兵器彼女 (Japanese)
최종병기 그녀 (Korean)
Themes: war
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Shuji and Chise are two Hokkaido high school students barely starting a relationship with each other. Then, with no warning, a squadron of bombers from an unknown country destroy the city of Sapporo. All hope is lost when suddenly, the bombers are destroyed by a small red light floating across the sky. At this point, Shuji finds out that the one responsible for eliminating the enemy forces is Chise, who reveals herself as a cyborg engineered for mass-destruction.
Ratings: 2218 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 476 votes (sub:359, dub:84, ?:3, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:27
18 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Excellent: 446 votes (sub:358, dub:63, raw:6, ?:1, others:18
9 Spanish subtitled
2 Polish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Portuguese dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 440 votes (sub:337, dub:74, raw:5, ?:4, others:20
6 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
3 Spanish dubbed
2 Russian subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 339 votes (sub:259, dub:57, ?:2, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:18
9 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
2 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Decent: 180 votes (sub:140, dub:28, raw:3, ?:2, others:7
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 102 votes (sub:72, dub:23, others:7
3 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Not really good: 64 votes (sub:50, dub:11, ?:1, others:2
2 Spanish dubbed
)
 Weak: 78 votes (sub:53, dub:19, others:6
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Bad: 36 votes (sub:29, dub:3, others:4
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Awful: 21 votes (sub:14, dub:5, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Worst ever: 36 votes (sub:26, dub:6, ?:1, others:3
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 3903 s, rank: #242 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.592 (Very good−), std. dev.: 2.2831, rank: #1579 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 7.492 (Good+), rank: #1763 (of 10154) (seen all: 7.66 / seen some: 6.50 / won't finish: 3.81)
Bayesian estimate: 7.491 (Good+), rank: #1452 (of 7635)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2002-07-02 to 2002-09-24
2006-05-10 to 2006-08-02 (Animax Latin America)
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Koisuru Kimochi" by Yuria Yato (eps 2-12)
Ending Theme:
"Sayonara" by Yuria Yato
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Reviews:
SaiKano (Apr 14, 2004)
News: Show:
Viz February DVDs (Oct 14, 2005)
Saikano Live-Action (Sep 23, 2005)
Saikano OAV Trailer (Jan 1, 2005)
Saikano OAV series (Dec 13, 2004)
Saikano Release Details (Nov 20, 2003)
Anime Video Games News (Feb 14, 2003)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    She, The Ultimate Weapon - Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2021-10-26 (from $29.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    SaiKano - Girlfriend (DVD 1) 2004-04-27 (from $8.47)
    SaiKano - Break Up (DVD 2) 2004-07-06 (from $5.88)
    SaiKano - Changes (DVD 3) 2004-09-07 (from $5.88)
    SaiKano - Love Song (DVD 4) 2004-11-09 (from $29.99)
    SaiKano - Complete Collection (DVD 1-2) 2005-11-15 (from $129.99)
    She, The Ultimate Weapon - Complete Collection (DVD 1-3) 2015-04-07 (from $38.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Mitsuko Kase
Script:
Itaru Era (eps 1-13)
Storyboard:
Yuu Kou (OP; ED)
Episode Director:
Yuu Kou (ep 11)
Unit Director: Yuu Kou (OP; ED)
Original Manga: Shin Takahashi
Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa
Art Director:
Toshihiro Kohama
Chief Animation Director: Masayuki Satō
Animation Director:
Toru Yonemoto (ep 12)
Mechanical design: Hiroyuki Kanbe
3D Director: Hiroaki Matsuura
Sound Director: Keiichirō Miyoshi
Director of Photography: Haruhide Ishiguro
Producer:
Rika Tsurusaki

2D CGI: Yōsuke Nanjō (OP)
Art Setting:
Toshihiro Kohama
Assistant Animation Director:
Toru Yonemoto (eps 3, 9)
Assistant Episode Director: Tomoaki Ohta (eps 4, 10)
Assistant producer: Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu
Associate producer:
Teruji Hishiyama
Background Art:
Youngil Park (DR Movie)
Color Coordination: Eri Suzuki
Color setting:
Tomomi Asawa
Compositing: Atsushi Takeyama (OP)
Dialect Coach: Hiromi Konno (Hokkaidô dialect)
Digital Director: Mitsuhiro Karato
Digital Paint:
Yuko Ueda (ep 4)
Digital Paint Check:
Yuko Ueda
Effects: Masaya Suzuki (ED)
Eyecatch Illustration: Shin Takahashi (eps 2-13)
In-Between Animation:
Yuko Yoshinomura (ep 4)
In-Between Check:
Yuko Yoshinomura
Key Animation:
Hiroshi Mimata (5 episodes
eps 1, 5, 9, 12-13
)

Yuki Chika (Studio Mu; eps 7, 12)
Main Title: Noboru Okano
Mechanical Supervision: Hiroyuki Kanbe
Monitor Graphics: Yōsuke Nanjō
Music Editing: Yutaka Gōda
Music producer: Takeshi Ando
Photography:
Tsunetaka Ema
Planning:
Iwao Sezaki
Production Advancement:
Yoko Takamizawa (ep 8)
Production Affairs: Megumi Tsubaki
Production Assistant: Yasuki Hori
Production Desk: Eiji Sumitomo
Production manager:
Takehiko Shimazu
Production Office Manager: Koji Kajita
Program Publicity:
Toshihiro Hosoda
Publicity Manager:
Takeharu Katsuyama
Publicity Producer: Nobuyuki Iinuma
Recording Adjustment: Kazunari Tanaka
Setting Production: Jiro Hamada
Sound Effects:
Takuya Hasegawa (Sound Box)
Sound Production Manager:
Takuya Ōno
Special Effects:
Yukinao Iida
Texture: Shin Inoie
Theme Song Composition: Yuria Yato
Theme Song Performance: Yuria Yato
Fumiko Orikasa as Chise
Shirou Ishimoda as Shuuji

Miki Itō as Fuyumi
Tetsu Shiratori as Atsushi
Yuu Sugimoto as Akemi

Atsushi Ii as Kawahara
Gou Aoba as Soldier D (ep 6)
Hideaki Tezuka as Staff A (ep 3)
Hiroaki Ishikawa as Customer B (ep 11)
Hiromi Konno as Rie
Hiroshi Naka as Old man (ep 11)
Hiroshi Yanaka as Soldier C (eps 7-8)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as
Customer D (ep 11)
Shingo (ep 9)
Iho Hayakawa as Woman (ep 2)
Jirō Saitō as Soldier B (eps 3, 6)
Jōji Kokubo as Soldier D (ep 7)
Jun Fukuyama as Ground staff 1 (ep 2)
Kazuhiko Inoue as Shuuji's Father
Kazuhiro Nakata as Soldier B (ep 10)
Keijin Okuda as Staff B (ep 3)
Kentaro Honda as Ground staff 2 (ep 2)
Kishō Taniyama as
Takamura (eps 4-5)
Take (eps 1-2)
Kissei Kumamoto as Customer E (ep 11)
Kiyomi Asai as Seiko
Kōichi Kuriyama as Soldier E (eps 7-8)
Mai Nakahara as Iku (ep 10)
Makoto Aoki as Soldier C (ep 3)
Manabu Muraji as Itou
Masahiko Tanaka as P.E. teacher (ep 5)
Masakazu Suzuki as Soldier C (ep 5)
Mika Doi as Shuuji's Mother
Norihiro Inoue as Schooler (ep 12)
Rintarō Nishi as Soldier A (eps 7-9)
Sachiko Kojima as Yukari
Shirō Saitō as Soldier B (ep 6)
Sōsuke Komori as Masa (ep 11)
Taiki Matsuno as Ryouhei (ep 4)
Takahiro Mizushima as Soldier A (ep 6)
Takashi Inagaki as Akemi's father (ep 10)
Takashi Nagasako as Soldier B (eps 7-9)
Takehiro Koyama as Language teacher (ep 5)
Tetsuo Gotō as Executive A (ep 8)
Tomoyuki Shimura as Gorou (ep 11)
Toshiharu Sakurai as Customer C (ep 11)
Wataru Yokoyama as General (ep 11)
Yasunori Masutani as Escaping soldier (ep 8)
Youto Kazama as Soldier B (ep 5)
Yūji Kishi as
Kazu
Soldier A (ep 3)
Yuka Shioyama as Chise's younger brother
Yukari Hirano as Mother (ep 12)
Yumi Kakazu as Satomi
Yuria Yato as Female student A (ep 10)
Yutaka Aoyama as Soldier C (ep 10)
Yutaka Nakano as Staff (ep 7)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: GONZO
Backgrounds:
Studio Easter
Broadcaster: Family Gekijyo
Digital Paint:
DR Movie (10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-7, 9, 11-13
)

White Line (eps 4, 8, 10)
In-Between Animation:
DR Movie (OP; ED; 10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-7, 9, 11-13
)

White Line (eps 4, 8, 10)
Key Animation:
DR Movie (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-6, 9, 11
)

Studio Wanpack (eps 4, 10, 12)
Music Production:
Toshiba EMI
Photography: GONZO
Photography Assistance:
Studio Viola (eps 9, 12-13)
Planning Assistance: Family Gekijyo
Production Assistance:
Toei Animation
Recording Studio: Omnibus Japan
Sound Effects: Sound Box
English staff
English cast
Executive producer:
Seiji Horibuchi
Producer:
John Ledford (Sentai Filmworks re-release)

Adaptation: Toshifumi Yoshida
Disc Authoring: Joel McCray (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
DVD Menu Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Production:
Roxanne Terrell (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Production Assistant:
Shannon Reed (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Production Associate: Hiromi Makepeace (Box set)
Production Coordination: Janice Williams (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Production manager:
Miho Suzuki (Box set)
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Escott
Recording engineer: Mark Escott
Song Translations: Rika Takahashi (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Subtitle Script: Peter Makepeace
Subtitling: Neal Barnes (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch (Sentai Filmworks re-release)
Voice Direction: Elaine Clark
Mark Atherlay as Shuji

Amy Provenzano as Akemi
Elaine Clark as Fuyumi
Joe Wyka as Atsushi

David Arendash as Mr. Kawahara
Elaine Clark as Shuji's Mother
Jesse Spencer as Shuji's Father
M.J. Reynolds as Nori
Nick Shakoour as Kazu
Nicole Emi as Yukari
English companies
ADR Production: Voice One
DVD Production: Video Arts, Inc.
Internet Streaming:
The Anime Network
Licensed by:
Viz Media (Expired)
Production:
Sentai Studios (2021 Sentai release)
Recording Studio: Robert Berke Studio
Video Post Production: Video Arts, Inc.
Korean cast
Korean staff
(none)
Jeong-Mi Bae as Chise
Wan-Gyeong Seong as Shuuji

Eui-Jin Chae as Fuyumi
Hong Soyeong as Akemi
Sang-Heon Lee as Atsushi
Song Junseok as Tetsu

Gwang-Ju Jeon as Nori
Lee Yeongran as Yukari
Seung-Tae Kim as Take
Korean companies
(none)
French staff
French cast
Translation: Nicolas Priet

Adaptation: Géraldine Maquaire
Artistic Direction: Valérie Uzan
Digital Art: François Uzan
(none)
French companies
Distributor: Manga Distribution
Publisher: Déclic Images
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Animax
Dubbing Producer: Intertrack TV Producciones (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Dubbing Studio: Doblajes Paris S.A de C.V. (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Translation: Laura Valentini

Dubbing Assistant:
Micaela Mancinelli
Dubbing Engineer: Gabriele de Rossi
Mixing: Paolo Lovat
Scriptwriting: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Synchronization: Matteo Saoncelli
Eva Padoan as Chise
Marco Vivio as Shuji

Debora Magnaghi as Fuyumi
Leonardo Graziano as Atsushi
Niseem Onorato as Tetsu

Dario Penne as Kawahara
Gianluca Iacono as
Nakamura
Take 
Graziella Porta as Madre di Shuji
Marco Balzarotti as Scienzato (ep 12)
Maurizio Scattorin as Padre di Akemi
Omar Vitelli as Nori
Raffaele Farina as Padre di Shuji
Veronica Puccio as Satomi
Italian companies
Broadcaster: MTV Italia (ep 1)
Distributor:
Shin Vision
Dubbing: Sample srl
Sound:
Sample srl (Milano)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Dubbing Director: Angelica Santos

Locutor: Ronaldo Artinic 
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
Animax Brazil (Dubbed)
Dubbing Studio: Álamo
Translation: JBC
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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