"Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom" (2009) TV series 2009-

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

2009 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Forced to Kill Fightning to Live

Plot:

The story of two brainwashed assassins, Ein and Zwei, who struggle to regain their memories as they work for the Inferno crime syndicate.

Plot Keywords:

Main Character Dies | Japan | Child Murder | Female Degradation | America

Cast

Miyu Irino	...	Reiji / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Newton Pittman	...	Reiji / ... (25 episodes, 2009)
Ayahi Takagaki	...	Ein / ... (24 episodes, 2009)
Lindsay Seidel	...	Ein / ... (22 episodes, 2009)
Akeno Watanabe	...	Lizzie Garland (21 episodes, 2009)
Isshin Chiba	...	Scythe Master / ... (21 episodes, 2009)
Shay Moore	...	Lizzie Garland (21 episodes, 2009)
Aya Hisakawa	...	Claudia McCunnen (20 episodes, 2009)
Colleen Clinkenbeard	...	Claudia McCunnen (20 episodes, 2009)
Susumu Chiba	...	Raymond Mcguire / ... (17 episodes, 2009)
Sôichirô Hoshi	...	Toru Shiga (17 episodes, 2009)
Kent Williams	...	Scythe Master (17 episodes, 2009)
J. Michael Tatum	...	Raymond McGuire (15 episodes, 2009)
Miyuki Sawashiro	...	Cal Devens / ... (14 episodes, 2009)
Christopher Bevins	...	Toru Shiga (13 episodes, 2009)
Hideo Ishikawa	...	Issac Wisemel / ... (12 episodes, 2009)
Brittney Karbowski	...	Cal / ... (12 episodes, 2009)
Rick Keeling	...	Isaac Wisemel (12 episodes, 2009)
Tomoyuki Shimura	...	Daisuke Godo (11 episodes, 2009)
Phil Parsons	...	Daisuke Godo (11 episodes, 2009)

Series Directed by
Kôichi Mashimo		(26 episodes, 2009)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa		(6 episodes, 2009)
Shinya Kawamo		(5 episodes, 2009)
Hiroshi Morioka		(5 episodes, 2009)
Koji Sawai		(5 episodes, 2009)
Takeshi Yoshimoto		(5 episodes, 2009)

Series Writing credits
Yôsuke Kuroda		(26 episodes, 2009)
Gen Urobuchi		(26 episodes, 2009)
Tyler Walker		(15 episodes, 2009)
Kazuho Hyodo		(6 episodes, 2009)
Yukihito Nonaka		(3 episodes, 2009)
Tetsuya Takahashi		(3 episodes, 2009)
Shogo Yasukawa		(3 episodes, 2009)
Jamie Marchi		(2 episodes, 2009)

Series Produced by
Justin Cook	....	producer: FUNimation (26 episodes, 2009)
Gen Fukunaga	....	executive producer: FUNimation (26 episodes, 2009)
Carly Hunter	....	producer: FUNimation (26 episodes, 2009)
Ryoji Maru	....	line producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Mitsuhiro Matsuo	....	assistant producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Hideaki Muraoka	....	line producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Chiho Nishioka	....	associate producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Nobuhiro Osawa	....	producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Megumi Suzuki	....	associate producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Tyler Walker	....	line producer: FUNimation (26 episodes, 2009)
Shinobu Yoshinuma	....	producer (26 episodes, 2009)

Series Original Music by
Hikaru Nanase		(26 episodes, 2009)

Series Cinematography by
Kenji Takehara		(26 episodes, 2009)

Series Film Editing by
Masayuki Kurosawa		(26 episodes, 2009)

Series Art Direction by
Yoshimi Umino		(26 episodes, 2009)

Series Production Management
Kenichiro Tanaka	....	production manager (6 episodes, 2009)
Tatsuya Hamamoto	....	production manager (5 episodes, 2009)
Katsuhiro Kurmoto	....	production manager (5 episodes, 2009)
Ryousuke Ugajin	....	production manager (4 episodes, 2009)
Ryoji Maru	....	production manager (3 episodes, 2009)
Hideaki Muraoka	....	production manager (2 episodes, 2009)

Series Art Department
Naoki Aoyama	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Tomomi Kato	....	art coordinator (26 episodes, 2009)
Fumie Kawai	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Makiko Kojima	....	color designer / color setting (26 episodes, 2009)
Hiroshi Morioka	....	storyboard artist: ending animation / storyboard artist: opening animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Junko Nagasawa	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Sho Nakahara	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Yukihito Nonaka	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Shin Watanabe	....	background art: Production AI (26 episodes, 2009)
Tomoyuki Kurokawa	....	storyboard artist: opening animation / storyboard artist (21 episodes, 2009)
Kôichi Mashimo	....	storyboard artist: ending animation / storyboard artist (7 episodes, 2009)
Mi-Yeong Lee	....	prop designer (6 episodes, 2009)
Koji Sawai	....	storyboard artist (6 episodes, 2009)
Yuki Moriyama	....	color setting (5 episodes, 2009)
Asami Watanabe	....	prop designer (5 episodes, 2009)
Shinya Kawamo	....	storyboard artist (4 episodes, 2009)
Taeko Mizuno	....	color setting (4 episodes, 2009)
Hideyo Yamamoto	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2009)
Takeshi Yoshimoto	....	storyboard artist (2 episodes, 2009)

Series Sound Department
Scott Sager	....	adr engineer (26 episodes, 2009)
Will Short	....	adr engineer (26 episodes, 2009)
Yoshimi Sugiyama	....	sound producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Yota Tsuruoka	....	sound director (26 episodes, 2009)
Masaru Urahata	....	sound effects: Sound Garden (26 episodes, 2009)
Tyler Walker	....	adr director (26 episodes, 2009)

Series Special Effects by
Masahiro Murakami	....	special effects (26 episodes, 2009)
Kenji Teraoka	....	mechanical designer (26 episodes, 2009)

Series Visual Effects by
Misaki Horiuchi	....	2D works: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Eiji Inomoto	....	3D CGI director (26 episodes, 2009)
Ayumi Kamo	....	background texture: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Eri Ohtsuka	....	CG layout: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Yusuke Okamoto	....	2D works: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Kazu Sato	....	2D works: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Yasuyo Yaegashi	....	background texture: BeeTrain (26 episodes, 2009)
Yuushi Koshida	....	3D CGI (6 episodes, 2009)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Koji Iwamoto	....	photographer: Studio Twinkle (26 episodes, 2009)
Satoshi Morimoto	....	photographer: Studio Twinkle (26 episodes, 2009)
Jin Saito	....	photographer: Studio Twinkle (26 episodes, 2009)
Saori Takagi	....	photographer: Studio Twinkle (26 episodes, 2009)
Hiroaki Tanaka	....	photographer: Studio Twinkle (26 episodes, 2009)

Series Animation Department
Misaki Horiuchi	....	2d work (26 episodes, 2009)
Tomoaki Kado	....	character designer / animator: opening animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Yoko Kikuchi	....	character designer / animator: opening animation (26 episodes, 2009)
Yasuhiro Saiki	....	animation director: mechanical animation / mechanical animation director / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Mutsumi Sasaki	....	character designer / animator: opening animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Minako Shiba	....	character designer / animator: opening animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Yoshiaki Tsubata	....	character designer / animator: closing animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita	....	character designer / animation director: ending animation / ... (26 episodes, 2009)
Kimi Yanoguchi	....	original character designer (26 episodes, 2009)
Asami Watanabe	....	animator: opening animation / animation director / ... (22 episodes, 2009)
Daisuke Endô	....	animator: opening animation / animation director / ... (21 episodes, 2009)
Emi Honda	....	animator: opening animation / animator (20 episodes, 2009)
Kumiko Katou	....	animator: opening animation / animator (20 episodes, 2009)
Mi-Yeong Lee	....	animator: opening animation / assistant animation director / ... (20 episodes, 2009)
Yukiko Ban	....	animator: opening animation (19 episodes, 2009)
Tomoko Ishida	....	animator: opening animation / animator / ... (19 episodes, 2009)
Ritsuko Kondo	....	animator / animation checker (9 episodes, 2009)
Satomi Naito	....	animator / animation checker (9 episodes, 2009)
Asuka Shinbo	....	animator (9 episodes, 2009)
Mao Yamazaki	....	animator / animation checker (9 episodes, 2009)
Masako Yumoto	....	animator / animation checker (9 episodes, 2009)
Chiyuki Tanaka	....	animator: opening animation (7 episodes, 2009)
Miho Imoto	....	animator / animation checker (4 episodes, 2009)
Kazuko Matsumura	....	animator (4 episodes, 2009)
Mayu Saito	....	animator (4 episodes, 2009)
Atsuko Sugawara	....	animator (4 episodes, 2009)
Hiroko Hamada	....	finishing checker (3 episodes, 2009)
Rie Maehara	....	animator (3 episodes, 2009)
Emiko Matsuno	....	animator (3 episodes, 2009)
Taeko Mizuno	....	finishing checker (3 episodes, 2009)
Masahiro Suwa	....	animator (3 episodes, 2009)
Satoshi Tokuda	....	animator (3 episodes, 2009)
Wataru Abe	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Mari Asada	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Akio Hasegawa	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Kaori Hashimoto	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Osamu Hirayama	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Atsushi Itô	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Takashi Iwao	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Yuko Iwaoka	....	animation director / animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Shinya Kameyama	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Yuuko Kamiyama	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Kanae Komatsu	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Hiroshi Kosuge	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Takahiro Kuroishi	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Satoko Miyachi	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Rumi Miyata	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Yuki Moriyama	....	finishing checker (2 episodes, 2009)
Aya Nagumo	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Chûji Nakajima	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Hitomi Ochiai	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Tatsuya Oka	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Takaaki Sekizaki	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Takeshi Tsuda	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Kenichi Umemoto	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Akira Wakabayashi	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)
Hanae Yokota	....	finishing checker (2 episodes, 2009)
Kenji Yokoyama	....	animator (2 episodes, 2009)

Series Music Department
Yoshiyuki Ito	....	music producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Kôichi Mashimo	....	executive soundtrack producer (26 episodes, 2009)
Tatsuya Katou	....	composer: additional music (4 episodes, 2009)

Series Other crew
Yosuke Aoki	....	publicist (26 episodes, 2009)
Fukashi Azuma	....	program chief: TV Tokyo (26 episodes, 2009)
Tarou Deji	....	planning (26 episodes, 2009)
Shunji Inoue	....	partner: Project Phantom (26 episodes, 2009)
Atsushi Iwasaki	....	partner: Project Phantom (26 episodes, 2009)
Ayumi Kamo	....	image director (26 episodes, 2009)
Takaaki Kidani	....	partner: Project Phantom (26 episodes, 2009)
Kenichi Komori	....	partner: Project Phantom (26 episodes, 2009)
Taro Maki	....	planning (26 episodes, 2009)
Hitoshi Nagai	....	literature support (26 episodes, 2009)
Katsuharu Nagata	....	planning (26 episodes, 2009)

Production Companies

• Bee Train
• Genco
• Project Phantom

Distributors

• AT-X (2009) (Japan) (TV)
• FUNimation Entertainment (2009) (USA) (all media)
• Madman Entertainment (2011) (Australia) (DVD)
• Nitroplus (2009) (Japan) (all media)
• TV Aichi (2009) (Japan) (TV)
• TV Osaka (2009) (Japan) (TV)
• TV Tokyo (2009) (Japan) (TV)

Special Effects

• Bee Train (digital effects)

Other Companies

• AIC  animation
• Bee Train  animation
• Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon  digital paint
• Lantis  music production
• M.S.C.  digital paint
• MSJ  digital paint
• Media Factory  serialized in
• P.A. Works  animation
• Production AI  backgrounds
• Rakuonsha  sound production
• Sound Garden  sound effects
• Studio Gong  recording studio
• Studio Mark  animation
• Studio Road  digital paint
• Studio Twinkle  photography
• TV Tokyo Music  music collaborator
• Xebec  animation

Runtime:

25 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | South Korea:18 | Singapore:PG | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (VHS/DVD rating) | Australia:MA (some episodes) | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:M (some episodes) | New Zealand:M

Company:

Bee Train

Trivia:

The new female Phantom Army formed by Sycthe Master at the end of the series are all dressed in white halter-top dresses. These dresses are very similar to the dresses worn by the characters MADLAX and Margaret Burton at the end of "Madlax" (2004).

Movie Connections:

Version of Phantom: Phantom of Inferno (2011) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Karma

A Far better interpretation of Phantom of Inferno the game then its awful OVA

When I first saw this I got to admit I was sceptical it would be any good because I saw 'Phantom: The Animation' which was one of the worst OVA I ever saw! But this one despite different look of characters this was not a disappointment.

The story telling in the series was a lot more better then the OVA with far more depth and in spirit of the classic game of which I am a big fan of.

Also the characters were deeper and better presented and their portrayal was far better.

While I am adamant in my opinion the game is definitive I must say Requiem of the Phantom was a far better adaptation and interpretation then the OVA could EVER be!