Mahou Kishi Rayearth

Japanese name: Mahou Kishi Rayearth
Japanese name: 魔法騎士レイアース
English name: Magic Knight Rayearth
Italian name: Una porta socchiusa ai confini del sole
Polish name: Wojowniczki z Krainy Marze?
Dates: October 17, 1994-March 13, 1995
July 1997 (Italy)
Broadcast time: Monday, 19:30-20:00 (7:30-8:00 pm)
Number of episodes: 20
Animation Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Production Company:
Broadcaster: Yomiuri TV (YTV)
Italia 1 (Italy)
RTL7, TVN Siedem (Poland)
Creator(s): CLAMP (Apapa Mokona, Nanase Okawa, Mikku Nekoi, Satsuki Igarashi) (manga)
Series Director: Toshihiro Hirano
Episode Director(s): Keitaro Motonaga, Koichi Chigira, Yoshikata Nitta, Hajime Kamegaki, Tarou Hatani, Yorimichi Nakano, Hitoyuki Matsui
Producer(s): Michihiko Suwa, Shigeki Nakamura, Masahito Yoshioka
Planning: Naohiko Noda, Keiko Maruo (series organization)
Storyboard(s):
Layout:
Writer(s): Nanase Ohkawa (supervisor), Keiko Maruo (supervisor), Osamu Nakamura
Art Director: Tsutomu Ishigaki
Character Designer(s): Atsuko Ishida, Masahiro Yamane (mecha)
Animator(s): Atsuko Ishida (director), Keiji Goto (director), Hideyuki Motohashi (director), Takehino Nakayama (director), Madoka Hiroyama (director)
Backgrounds:
Music: Hayato Matsuo
Sound: Yasuo Uragami (director), Junichi Sasaki (effects)
Voice Actors
(regular characters):
Hekiru Shiina (Hikaru Shidou), Konami Yoshida (Umi Ryuuzaki), Hiroko Kasahara (Fuu Hououji), Yuri Shiratori (Mokona and Primera), Takumi Yamazaki (Ferio), Nozomu Sasaki (Clef), Hideyuki Tanaka (Rayearth), Akio Ohtsuka (Windham), Tessho Genda (Ceres), Megumi Ogata (Princess Emeraude), Juhrouta Kosugi (Zagato), Yuri Amano (Alcione), Minami Takayama (Ascot), Minami Takayama (Ascot), Yuko Nagashima (Caldina), Yukimasa Kishino (Lafarga)
Genre(s): adventure, comedy, romance, fantasy, giant robots, dimensional travel, magic
Home Video
information:
Japan: DVD (POBV-2001)
United States: DVD (Media Blasters, AWDVD 0083)
Note(s): The Mahou Kishi Rayearth series (1995) is a sequel. This series was remade with substantial changes in an oav series, Rayearth (1997).

To see what other animated programs were out at the same time as Mahou Kishi Rayearth go to the Chronology of Animation.

Note on finding copies of programs:
Unfortunately I lack the time or resources to help people find copies of anime television programs. I have put together a web List of Online Video and Book Stores that will be useful to find copies in the United States, some other countries, and one Japanese store. There are other similar stores on the Internet around the world that might be able to supply the DVDs, LDs, VCDs, or video tapes that are desired. Check my Japanese Animation Information page for links to Internet resources that may have further information. I am not involved in trading materials from my own collection. I am still waiting to see most of the programs in this List of Anime Television Series and would be happy to find sources for many of them.

Because of these circumstances I will not respond to requests for help to find these types of materials.


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