Paradise Kiss (TV)

Director: Osamu Kobayashi

Series Composition: Osamu Kobayashi

Script: Osamu Kobayashi (eps 1-12)

Storyboard:
Motonobu Hori (eps 2, 8)
Osamu Kobayashi (OP; 6 episodes

eps 1, 3-4, 7, 11, 12 ED

)
Rintarō (ep 10)
Satoshi Nishimura (ep 6)
Takaaki Ishiyama (ep 5)
Yūichi Tanaka (ep 9)

Episode Director:
Kenichi Ishikura (eps 3 asst., 5)
Mitsuyuki Masuhara (3 episodes

eps 4, 10, 12 (asst)

)
Motonobu Hori (3 episodes

eps 2, 8, 11 (asst)

)
Norihiko Nagahama (ep 7)
Osamu Kobayashi (OP; ED; eps 1, 3, 11-12)
Shigetaka Ikeda (ep 6)
Yūichi Tanaka (ep 9)

Music:
NARASAKI from COALTAR OF DEEPERS
THE BABYS

Original Manga: Ai Yazawa

Character Design: Nobuteru Yūki

Art Director:
Asami Kiyokawa
Shinichi Uehara

Art:
Hisashi Ikeda (eps 7, 10-11)
Masako Okada (eps 3, 9)
Naruyo Kiriyama (eps 5, 8)
Shinichi Uehara (eps 1-2, 12)
Zohsui Nishikawa (eps 4, 6, 11)

Animation Director:
Fumie Muroi (eps 5-6, 9)
Hiromi Katō (eps 2, 8, 12)
Itsuko Takeda (ep 6)
Junichi Takaoka (ep 3)
Katsuya Yamada (eps 5-6, 11)
Kazuo Tomizawa (eps 7, 9)
Naomi Hayakawa (ep 7)
Nobuteru Yūki (OP)
Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 3)
Tsuguyuki Kubo (eps 4, 10)
Yūichi Tanaka (ep 1)

Sound Director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Seiichi Morishita

Producer:
Kōji Yamamoto (Fuji TV)
Masao Maruyama
Ryo Oyama
Tetsuya Watanabe
Yōko Matsuzaki (Fuji TV)
Yukihiro Ito (Fuji TV)

2nd Key Animation:
Bomin Kim (ep 10)
Chihiro Hayashi (ep 7)
Eriko Kubokawa (eps 8-9)
Hanako Enomoto (ep 7)
Hiroko Oohata (eps 6-9)
Hiroshi Nishimura (eps 6-9, 11)
Ikuma Tobe (ep 7)
Masahiro Yamanaka (ep 11)
Masayuki Kouda (ep 10)
Meiying Hong (eps 8-9, 11)
Mifumi Tomita (ep 10)
Miho Inoue (ep 10)
Mika Uchiki (ep 10)
Miki Kato (ep 11)
Miki Yoshimoto (eps 6-7)
Miwako Yamamoto (eps 6-7)
Naoko Masui (eps 8-9, 11)
Naoyuki Asano (ep 6)
Osamu Kobayashi (ep 10)
Pil Kang Kim (ep 9)
Ryuuta Yanagi (ep 10)
Shinmei Saito (eps 7, 9)
Taiki Imamura (eps 6-7)

Animation producer:
Masao Morosawa
Tsutomu Fujio

Assistant producer:
Kumiko Nakano (Fuji TV)
Yosuke Toba (Fuji TV)

Background Art:
Hiromichi Tanigawa (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Hisashi Ikeda (6 episodes

eps 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12

)
Kanae Sakakura (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Masako Okada (7 episodes

eps 1-2, 5, 7-8, 10, 12

)
Masashi Kurihara (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Naruyo Kiriyama (6 episodes

eps 1-2, 7, 9-10, 12

)
Shinichi Uehara (eps 3, 5, 7-10)
Takuya Iida (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Tomie Akiho (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Toshiyuki Yoshimura (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Yasunari Usuda (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Yuichiro Nakajima (eps 4, 6)
Yuka Okamoto (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Yumiko Yamada (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Yuuichi Takayama (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)
Zohsui Nishikawa (Atelier BWCA; eps 4, 6, 11)

Chief Editor: Kashiko Kimura

Clothing Design: Atsuro Tayama

Color Check:
Azusa Sasaki (eps 6, 9, 11)
Fumie Hayashi (5 episodes

eps 2-3, 6-7, 11

)
Izumi Murasaki (Pierrot DAR; ep 4)
Masako Torigata (eps 3, 8, 11)
Noriko Kikui (eps 3, 12)
Rika Fujishima (ep 5)
Tomoe Imamura (Pierrot DAR; ep 4)
Yasuko Suenaga (ep 10)
Yoshinori Horikawa (ep 1)
Yūko Satō (eps 4, 10)

Color design: Yoshinori Horikawa

Color setting:
Azusa Sasaki (eps 6, 9, 11)
Fumie Hayashi (eps 2, 7, 11)
Masako Torigata (eps 8, 11)
Noriko Kikui (eps 3, 12)
Tomomi Katō (ep 5)
Yoshinori Horikawa (ep 1)
Yuki Kase (ep 10)
Yūko Satō (ep 4)

Composite: Atsushi Takeyama (ED)

Digital Art: Ryō Kōno

Digital Effects: Shinichi Igarashi (all eps)

In-Between Check:
Akiko Ohshima (8 episodes

eps 1-2, 6-9, 11-12

)
Hiroko Tezuka (ep 10)
Kayo Sakazume (9 episodes

eps 1-3, 6-9, 11-12

)
Megumi Tonegawa (7 episodes

eps 3, 6-9, 11-12

)
Sakiko Watanabe (eps 1-2)
Yaeko Kodama (ep 4)
Yuki Nomura (ep 5)

Key Animation:
Akiko Asaki (ep 1)
Akio Hasegawa (ep 9)
Ayumu Kotake (eps 3, 12)
Bomin Kim (ep 4)
Chihiro Hayashi (8 episodes

eps 1-3, 6, 8-9, 11-12

)
Emiko Kataoka (eps 2, 6)
Eriko Kubokawa (ep 7)
Fumie Muroi (OP; eps 3, 9, 12)
Fumio Fukushima (ep 5)
Hidehiko Sawada (7 episodes

eps 2-3, 6-7, 9, 11-12

)
Hiroko Oohata (eps 3, 12)
Hiromi Katō (eps 1, 9)
Hirotaka Kinoshita (ep 4)
Hiroto Tanaka (OP)
Hiroyuki Hashimoto (eps 1, 3, 6)
Hiroyuki Imaishi (ED)
Itsuko Takeda (OP)
Junichi Takaoka (eps 7, 9, 11)
Katsuya Yamada (eps 11-12)
Kazuko Shibata (ep 12)
Kazunobu Hoshi (ep 10)
Kazuya Saitō (eps 2, 6, 9)
Kōichi Arai (OP)
Koji Maruoka (ep 5)
Kunihiko Inoue (eps 2, 6, 9, 12)
Kunio Katsuki (OP; ep 2)
Masafumi Nakagawa (eps 3, 6)
Masahiko Sasaki (8 episodes

eps 1-3, 6, 8-9, 11-12

)
Masahiro Neriki (eps 4, 10)
Masahiro Yamanaka (eps 6, 9)
Masayuki Kouda (ep 4)
Masayuki Satō (eps 6, 9, 11-12)
Meiying Hong (ep 12)
Mika Uchiki (ep 4)
Mika Yamamoto (ep 7)
Miki Kato (ep 6)
Miki Yoshimoto (ep 3)
Miwako Yamamoto (ep 3)
Motohiko Kurihara (ep 9)
Motonobu Hori (6 episodes

eps 1-3, 8, 11-12

)
Nagisa Nakajima (ep 2)
Naoko Masui (ep 12)
Naoyuki Asano (eps 1, 3, 12)
Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 9)
Norimoto Tokura (OP)
Osamu Kobayashi (OP; 10 episodes

eps 1, 3-9, 11-12

)
Pil Kang Kim (eps 2, 7-8)
Ryōma Ebata (ep 7)
Ryuuta Yanagi (ep 4)
Seika Saruwatari (ep 2)
Setsuko Unno (ep 5)
Shingo Okano (ep 3)
Shūji Miyazaki (eps 2, 8)
Tadakatsu Yoshida (ep 10)
Tadashi Shimizu (ep 5)
Taiki Imamura (eps 3, 8)
Takashi Otsuka (ep 5)
Tōru Iino (ep 5)
Tsuguyuki Kubo (eps 4, 10)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (ep 8)
Yousuke Toyama (ep 9)
Yu Maruyama (ep 1)
Yūichi Endō (eps 4, 10)
Yūichi Tanaka (eps 9, 12)
Yuki Nomura (ep 5)
Yumi Masuda (ep 1)
Yusuke Yoshigaki (ED)
Yuujirou Moriyama (eps 2, 8)

Music producer: Hiroaki Sano

Planning: Kōji Kaneda (Fuji TV)

Production:
Hideo Katsumata
Jungo Maruta
Kouichi Uchida (Fuji TV)
Minoru Ishihara
Shuichi Machida

Production manager:
Hideyoshi Akabane
Masaaki Yukawa
Yukiko Ninokata
Yukiko Takase (Fuji TV)

Setting Production: Yoshifumi Sueda

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Special Effects:
Ayumi Arahata (eps 1-2, 5)
Kumiko Taniguchi (eps 1-2, 5)
Tomoe Ikeda (Pierrot DAR; eps 4, 10)
Toyohiko Sakakibara (7 episodes

eps 3, 6-9, 11-12

)

Texture Art: Yuichi Suehiro

Theme Song Performance:
Franz Ferdinand (ED)
Tommy february (OP)

Kenji Hamada as Jōji "George" Koizumi

Yu Yamada as Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka

Chiharu Suzuka as Isabella

Marika Matsumoto as Miwako Sakurada

Noriyuki Uchino as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Shunsuke Mizutani as Arashi Nagase

Akeno Watanabe as Higasa (ep 6)

Akiko as Female Employee (ep 5)

Akiko Kawase as Hamada-sensei (eps 7, 9-12)

Atsushi Kakehashi as
Employee (ep 11)
Iroquois Guy (ep 7)

Daisuke Namikawa as Suguru Hayasaka (Yukari's brother (ep 12))

Eiji Miyashita as Guy in Street (ep 1)

Enapou as School nurse (ep 9)

Kana Oomura as
Female Student (ep 7)
Girl in Street (ep 1)

KAORI. as Store girl (ep 6)

Kappei Yamaguchi as Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Kenichi Ogata as Sebas-chan (ep 10)

Kiyotaka Furushima as
Class Teacher (ep 7)
Cram School Guy (ep 1)

Kōichi Iwaki as Jōichi Nikaidō

Kotomi Yamakawa as Nakayama

Kyōko Terase as Innkeeper (eps 4, 12)

Makoto Tsumura as Suguru Hayasaka (Yukari's brother)

Megumi Toyoguchi as Tanabe (ep 6)

Miho Saiki as Kaori Asō (eps 10-12)

Miki Maruyama as Cram School Girl (ep 1)

Porsche Okite as Noriji Sunami (ep 10)

Rica Matsumoto as young George (ep 10)

Rie Kugimiya as young Isabella (ep 10)

Rumi Shishido as
Alice Yamaguchi (ep 2)
Mikako Kōda

Shinichirō Miki as Seiji Kisaragi (eps 1, 6, 11-12)

Shōko Tsuda as Yasuko Hayasaka (Yukari's mother)

Tōru Nara as Konishi (Tokumori's friend)

Urara Takano as Lisa Nagase

Yōko Soumi as Kozue Shimamoto (ep 7)

Yoshino Takamori as Yukino Koizumi

2nd Key Animation:
Anime Roman (eps 7, 9, 11)
Mouse (eps 7, 9)
Studio Wombat (eps 6-9, 11)
Tokyo Animation Center (ep 7)
Triple A (ep 6)

Animation Production: Madhouse

Background Art:
Atelier BWCA (eps 4, 6, 8, 12)
DR Movie (all eps)

Broadcaster:
Fuji Television Network
Kansai Telecasting Corporation
Noitamina
Tokai Television

Cooperation:
A/T
excite
INFAS.com
Itochu Electronics
Laforet
Nelke Planning
Ryuukyou-Tsuushin WWD
Venus Fort

Digital Photography: Studio Twinkle

Key Animation:
Kyung Kang ANIA (ep 8)
Madhouse (ep 5)
Mito Animation (ep 5)
Oh! Production
Studio Wombat (ep 3)
Tatsunoko Production (ep 5)

Music Production: Aniplex

Production:
Aniplex
Dentsu Inc.
Fuji Television Network
Madhouse
Shodensha Publishing

Production Assistance:
Sanchai Corporation (ep 5)
Studio Pierrot (eps 4, 10)

Sound Effects: Sound Box

ADR Director: Stephanie Sheh

Translation: Shoko Oono

Executive producer: Katsuhiko Tsurumoto

Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
Kaeko Sakamoto
Sawako Furuya

ADR Writer: Stephanie Sheh

Assistant producer: Mami Okada

Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada

Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto

Dialogue Editing:
Alex Gordon
Kevin Patzelt
Patrick Rodman

Engineering Assistant:
Amie Farquhar (eps 1-4)
Jeff Prosser (eps 9-12)
Matt Hovland (eps 5-8)

Post-Production Assistant: Don Alderson

Production Assistant:
Charles Ohta
John Cha
Mark Fujita

Production Coordination: Megumi Kunisada

Re-Recording Mixing: Michael Brooks

Recording engineer:
Alex Gordon
Kevin Patzelt
Patrick Rodman

Spotting:
Clark Cheng
Tetsuya Fujita

Subtitling: Clark Cheng

Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman

Julie Ann Taylor as Yukari

Patrick Seitz as Jouji "George" Koizumi

Barbara Goodson as Kozue Shimamoto

Derek Stephen Prince as Arashi Nagase

Jane Alan as Isabella

Johnny Yong Bosch as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Jolie Jackson as Miwako Sakurada

Barbara Goodson as George (Young; ep 10)

David Keefir as Konishi (eps 1-3)

Dorothy Fahn as Kaori Aso

Jasmine Dias as Mikako Kouda

Jennifer Sekiguchi as
Alice Yamaguchi
Nakayama

Julie Rei Goldstein as Risa Nagase

Karen Thompson as Teacher Hamada

Liam O'Brien as
Guy in Street (ep 1)
Noriji Sunami (eps 10-11)
Seiji Kisaragi (eps 1, 6, 11-12)
Teacher (ep 3)

Mia Bradly as Yukino Koizumi

Michelle Ruff as
Cram School Girl (ep 3)
Girl in Street (ep 1)
Hostess (ep 4)
School Nurse (ep 9)
Suguru Hayasaka (Young)

Mike McFarland as Joichi Nikaido

Patrick Seitz as Sebastian (ep 10)

Peter Doyle as Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Sam Carr as Yasuko Hayasaka

Tara Platt as Higasa (ep 6)

Vic Mignogna as Suguru Hayasaka (Older)

ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Animax India
Animax South Africa
iaTV

Distributor:
FUNimation Entertainment (North America; expired; 2008)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)

Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (expired)

Ja-Hyeong Gu as Jouji "George" Koizumi

Seon Lee as Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka

Dong-Gyun Yu as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Min-Jeong Yeo as Miwako Sakurada

Minji as Isabella

Sewung Yun as Arashi Nagase

Dong-Gyun Yu as Seiji Kisaragi

Jeong Hyeok as
Arisu Yamaguchi
Hamada
Yukino Koizumi

Min-Jeong Yeo as Kaori Asou

Minji as Kozue Shimamoto

Sewung Yun as Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Sin-Hui Park as
Mikako Kouda
Yukari's Mother

ADR Director: Philippe Roullier

Adaptation: Charles Platto

Céline Melloul as Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka

Philippe Roullier as Jouji "George" Koizumi

Bérangère Jean as Isabella

Bruno Meyere as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Jessie Lambotte as Miwako Sakurada

Thierry Bourdon as Arashi Nagase

Adrien Solis as Konishi

Christine Paris as
Hama
Yukino Koizumi

Fabrice Lelyon as Professeur Hamada

Olivia Dutron as
Kaori
Mikako

Pascale Chemin as
Nakayama
Yasuko Hayasaka

Broadcaster:
June (from 18 July 2012)
MCM (from September 2010)

Dubbing: MediaCenter Post-Production

Dubbing Director: Stefano Crescentini

Dubbing Assistant: Luciano De Santis

Dubbing Sound: Roberto Ronzini

Editorial Coordination: Luca Ficarelli

Domitilla D'Amico as Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka

Francesco Bulckaen as Jouji "George" Koizumi

Alessandra Cassioli as Isabella

David Chevalier as Arashi Nagase

Maria Letizia Scifoni as Miwako Sakurada

Alessandra Korompay as Yukino Koizumi

Alessandro Budroni as Tsutomu

Antonella Baldini as Mikako Kouda

Bianca Portone as Alice Yamaguchi (ep 2)

Emanuela Rossi as Kozue Shimamoto (ep 7)

Federica Bomba as Lisa Nagase

Federico Bebi as Isabella (bambino)

Gabriele Patriarca as George (young)

Marco Vivio as Seiji Kisaragi (eps 1, 6, 11-12)

Melissa Maccari as Nakayama

Stefano Crescentini as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network Italia (from 30 June 2008)
Man-Ga (from September 2011)

Distributor: Panini Video Italia

Dubbing: Cine Dubbing International

Dubbing Director: Richard Westerhaus (eps 1-12)

Dialogue Writer: Christian Schneider (eps 1-12)

Disposition: Martina Eckert

Mixing And Postproduction Engineer: Willi Grossmann

Recording engineer:
Andres Jaramillo
René Hoppe
Thomas Gesell

Gabi Wienand as Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka

Markus Pfeiffer as Jouji "George" Koizumi

Dieter Maise as Arashi Nagase

Heiko Obermöller as Hiroyuki Tokumori

Ilya Welter as Isabella

Sarah Brückner as Miwako Sakurada

Alice von Lindenau as
Cram School Girl (ep 3)
Isabella (young; ep 10)

Andreas Meese as Noriji Sunami (eps 10-11)

Brit Gülland as Hamada

Corinna Dörenkamp as Mikako Kouda

David Turba as Tsutomu Yamaguchi (ep 6)

Fritz Rott as Employee (ep 11)

Julia Ziffer as Tanabe (ep 6)

Karlheinz Tafel as Sebastian (ep 10)

Katja Liebing as
Alice Yamaguchi (eps 2, 4, 9)
Female Student (ep 7)
Kaori Asou (eps 10-12)

Luise Charlotte Brings as Yasuko Hayasaka

Maxi Häcke as Suguru Hayasaka

Michaela Kametz as
Kozue Shimamoto (eps 7-11)
School Nurse (ep 9)

Petra Glunz-Grosch as Innkeeper (eps 4, 12)

Philipp Schepmann as Konishi

Ranja Bonalana as Higasa (ep 6)

Renier Baaken as Class Teacher (ep 7)

Richard Westerhaus as
Cram School Guy (ep 3)
Suguru Hayasaka (older; ep 12)

Silke Haupt as
Girl in Street (ep 1)
Lisa Nagase (eps 6, 12)
Nakayama

Simon T. Roden as Seiji Kisaragi

Stephan Schleberger as
Guy in Street (ep 1)
Iroquois Guy (ep 7)

Susanne Dobrusskin as
Female Employee (ep 5)
Yukino Koizumi

Thomas Friebe as Jouichi Nikaidou (eps 11-12)

Distributor: Panini Video

Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios

Distributor: Mega-Anime

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.