Flash of the Night Raid - Senkou no Night Raid - ■ Public Media TV anime series ■ Original Media Anime Original ■ Broadcast period April 5, 2010 - June 28, 2010 ■TV Broadcast - TV Tokyo April 5, 2010 to June 28, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Every Monday 25:30 to 26:00
- TV Aichi April 7, 2010 to June 30, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Every Wednesday 25:58 to 26:28
- TV Osaka April 9, 2010 to July 2, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Every Friday 26:35 to 27:05
- BS Japan April 11, 2010 to July 3, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Every Sunday 24:05 to 24:35
- AT-X April 13, 2010 to July 6, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Every Tuesday 8:30 to 9:00
- Biwako Broadcasting June 28, 2010 to September 27, 2010 (1st to 13th episodes) Every Monday 26:00 to 26:30
- TOKYO MX October 3, 2010 to December 26, 2010 (1st to 13th episodes) Every Sunday 24:00 to 24:30
■ Online distribution - ShowTime April 12, 2010 to July 5, 2010 (Episodes 1 to 13) Updated every Monday from 12:00
- AniTeleshiAta June 18, 2010 - September 17, 2010 (Episodes 1-13) Updated every Friday
■Broadcasting station TV Tokyo series, UHF, ShowTime, AniTeleshiAta ■Frequencies half an hour ■ Number of Episodes Episode 13 ■Original Story A-1 Pictures ■ Director Jun Matsumoto ■ Production- Production: A-1 Pictures
- Produced by: Flash Night Raid Production Committee (ANIPLEX, TV TOKYO)
■Works ©A-1 Pictures / Flash Night Raid Production Committee ■ Story A bouquet of supernatural powers blooms in the magical city.
A web of conspiracies unfolds in the international city of Shanghai.
The prelude to a great war buried in the darkness of history now begins.
1931, the magical city of Shanghai.
After the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, the Japanese Army advanced into mainland China.
Among them was a special spy organization called the Sakurai Agency, which has since been forgotten by history.
In Shanghai, where many hegemonic nations compete for supremacy, these people with special abilities never appear on the public stage, but instead operate behind the scenes of various incidents.
In the midst of all this, a section of the army suddenly disappears.
This was only the beginning of a major event that would soon shake the world.
■Cast- Aoi Miyoshi/Hiroyuki Yoshino
- Inakuzu/Daisuke Namikawa
- Yukina Sonoki/Yoshiko Ikuta
- Natsume Kagiya/Takanori Hoshino
- Shinichiro Sakurai/Ryusuke Obayashi
- Furan/Saki Fujita
- Kuze/Atsushi Miyauchi
- Rei Rei / Ina Fujioka
- Airi/Aya Endo
- Nishio/Katsu Anri
- Horststein/Dominic Allen
- Old Man/Yosuke Akimoto
- Miki/Renshi Fukuyama
- Kanji Ishihara/Tsutomu Isobe
- Seishiro Itagaki/Koichi Mori
- Yoshitsugu Takekawa/Takaya Hashi
- Tadashi Hantani/Nobuo Tobita
- Jiro Minami/Masaru Ikeda
- Shintaro Imada/Yasumichi Kushida
- Masanori Kojima/Takayasu Usui
- Takiyama/Masaya Matsukaze
- Kamoumi/Ryotaro Okiayu
- Shiori Nagura/Masayuki Kato
- Kiyoshi Mitani/Hiroo Masuda
- Morishima Morito/Nomura Kenji
- Hisajiro Hayashi/Susumu Fukumatsu
- Victor Bulwer-Lytton/Greg Irwin
- Aisin Gioro Puyi / Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Ichinose/Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Kazama/Saki Fujita
- Ichiro/Ryo Keisei
- Takachiho Isao/Hirata Hiroaki
- Narration by Ayako Kawasumi
- Silence/Ayako Kawasumi
■ Main staff- Original work: A-1 Pictures
- Planning: Koichiro Natsume, Akihiko Tamura (TV Tokyo)
- Original character design: Akimine Kamijo
- Character design: Keigo Sasaki
- Main writer: Shinsuke Onishi
- Mecha and prop design: Yoshinobu Tsuneki
- Assistant Director: Yamato Naomichi
- Main animators: Takao Sano, Yusuke Shimizu
- Art director: Yoshio Tanioka
- Art setting: Kazushige Kanehira
- Director of photography: Shinji Nasu
- Color design: Kazuko Nakajima
- Edited by Shigeru Nishiyama
- Sound Director: Minoru Yamada
- Music Production: Aniplex
- Music by Taro Hakase and Satoshi Kadokura
- Recording: Satoshi Yano
- Recording assistant: Hiroki Sawamura
- Sound effects/Emi Takanashi/Hidee Takagi
- Recording studio/Taback
- Sound Production: Akiko Noguchi
- Chinese Language Instructor/Ren Xiaogang
- Chinese translation by Mao Shuhua
- English and German instructor: Dominique Allen
- Format editing/Q-Tech/Motoki Shirai/Masaru Kitamoto
- Music cooperation: Katsumi Otani (HATS UNLIMITED), TV Tokyo Music
- Theme song cooperation: Keiichi Tonomura (Sony Music Entertainment)
- Logo design by Eiichi Goto
- Planning cooperation: Takeshi Ochi, Madoka Motoki, Masami Ebihara
- Planning and Sales Producer/Osamu Takesue
- Planning Manager/Haruyuki Iguchi (TV Tokyo)
- Assistant Producer/Moe Sakai
- The Power of Anime Promotion Producer/Kazuko Yamamoto
- Publicity Producer/Kumiko Homma
- Advertising/Ikue Hayashi
- Program promotion: Yosuke Aoki (TV Tokyo)
- Promotional cooperation: Shunichiro Kanaya
- Web production: Koji Uetsuji, Satsuki Maruyama
- Production Administration Manager: Keiko Ishikawa
- Production staff: Yoshiko Kitamura, Akiko Saito
- System Management/Masayoshi Yoshioka
- Hybrid Cap/Yoshito Ito
- Producers: Kazunori Adachi, Akiko Odawara (TV Tokyo)
- Executive producers: Yukio Kawasaki (TV Tokyo), Hideo Katsumata, Tomonori Ochikoshi
- Animation producer/Yutaka Omatsu
- Production: A-1 Pictures
- Director: Jun Matsumoto
- Produced by: Flash Night Raid Production Committee (ANIPLEX, TV TOKYO)
■ Main Characters- Aoi Miyoshi
The offspring of a certain powerful politician. A positive and unapproachable character. Though he can appear a little reckless, he has a strong sense of justice and is single-minded. He studied abroad in Europe, where he developed liberal values and an international sensibility. While traveling abroad, his fiance died young. During this time of despair, he was invited by the Sakurai Agency and accepted. In Shanghai, he runs a photo studio with Ge to hide his identity as a spy. His powers include psychokinesis. There is a time limit. - Iwa kudzu
He was born into a family of warriors, from samurai to high-ranking military officers. He was raised by his strict grandmother, who thoroughly drilled into him the way of life of a warrior. He is proud and strict. His thinking is conservative and inflexible, which often leads to conflicts with Aoi. After graduating from the Military Academy with excellent grades, he was forced to join the Sakurai Agency, denying him his hope of entering the Military War College. He has the ability to teleport, but there is a limit to the number of jumps he can make, and he cannot jump to places that are not within his field of vision. - Yukina Sonoki
He comes from a former aristocratic family. He volunteered to join the Sakurai Agency in order to search for his older brother who led a unit of the Kwantung Army and disappeared on the continent. He has a calm demeanor in everyday life, but at times he behaves in a dignified and solemn manner. He is active and curious, and is fully suited to be an intelligence agent, but his kindness, having been raised in a hothouse environment, can sometimes be a hindrance. His ability is psychometry. He prefers the scent of flowers when activating his ability in order to sharpen his concentration. - Natsume Kagiya
Born into a poor farming family in a remote village. From a young age, he worked as a servant for the Sonogi family, where he noticed the awakening of his abilities. He joined the Sakurai Agency to protect Yukina, who was heading to the continent in search of her brother. He is brusque, but earnest and sincere. He carries out his duties in silence, without saying anything unnecessary. In order to hide their relationship of master and servant in public, he behaves as an equal with Yukina, but when they are alone, he is still her loyal servant. He has special visual abilities, and can see through telephoto lenses, see through clairvoyance, and see in the dark. It is said that moonlight is necessary for him to fully utilize his abilities. - Shinichiro Sakurai
A former Army Lieutenant Colonel, he presides over the Sakurai Agency, an intelligence organization that brings together people with special abilities to collect and retain information necessary for the Army. He is friendly and has a carefree demeanor, but there are times when it is hard to understand what he is thinking. - Furan
She is the poster girl for a small restaurant that frequents Aoi and Kuzu's photo studio. She works like the restaurant's owner, from cooking to serving food, and dreams of making it the biggest restaurant in the area. She will do anything, even if it means being a little forceful, to make money.
■Subtitle- Episode 1/Rescue (2010/04/05)
- Episode 2: Rondo of Reminiscence (2010/04/12)
- Episode 3: Shadows Fall on the Big Four (2010/04/19)
- Episode 4: Camera, Baozi, and Stray Cats (2010/04/26)
- Episode 5: Summer Negative (2010/05/03)
- Episode 6: Night on the Rankai (2010/05/10)
- Special Edition/Prophecy (2010/05/17)
- Episode 8: In the Land of Frozen Land (2010/05/24)
- Episode 9: New Kyoto (2010/05/31)
- Episode 10: East is East (2010/06/07)
- Episode 11: Searching for Darkness (2010/06/14)
- Episode 12: Night Attack (2010/06/21)
- Episode 13: At least a sliver of hope (2010/06/28)
■ Related works- Flash Night Raid Episode 7
- Flash Night Raid Unaired Version
■ Theme songs and music- OP1
・Promise・Lyrics: Tatsuro・Composition: Tatsuro・Arrangement: Miya・Singer: Mucc - ED1
・Promise・Lyrics: Tatsuro・Composition: Tatsuro・Arrangement: Miya・Singer: Mucc - ED2
・To the future...
Lyrics: Sayo Composition: Sayo Arrangement: Sayo, ACE
・Singer: HIMEKA - TM1
・The Mission to Complete
・Composition: Taro Hakase ・Arrangement: Yuji Toriyama ・Performance: Taro Hakase - IN1
・Vocalise・Composition: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Flash of Night Raid - Senkou no Night Raid - Review and Recommendation "Night Raid: Flash" is an original anime series produced by A-1 Pictures that aired in 2010. It is set in Shanghai in 1931 and depicts the exploits of spies with special abilities. This anime skillfully combines historical background and fictional elements to provide viewers with deep emotion and excitement. Below, we will explain in detail the appeal and recommended points of this work. Story and setting The story of "Night Raid Flash" is set in Shanghai in 1931. At this time in Shanghai, the city had been through the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, and the Japanese Army was advancing into mainland China, creating a time of rising international tension. Amidst all this, a special spy organization buried in the darkness of history, the Sakurai Agency, operates behind the scenes of various incidents using their special abilities. The story begins with a unit of the army suddenly disappearing, and depicts the hidden conspiracy behind it and the prologue to a major incident. One of the charms of this work is how it skillfully incorporates historical background. While it is based on real historical events and people, the addition of fictional elements provides viewers with fresh surprises and excitement. In addition, the exploits of characters with special abilities are visually very appealing, adding depth to the story. character The characters in "Night Raid Flash" are all unique and attractive. The main character, Aoi Miyoshi, has a positive and unfriendly personality, but also a strong sense of justice and a straightforward side. His psychokinesis ability has a big impact on the progress of the story. Inami Kuzu is a strict and proud warrior, and his teleportation ability makes him indispensable to the team's strategy. Yukina Sonoki is a woman of the former nobility who joins the Sakurai Agency to search for her brother, and her drive and curiosity, combined with her psychometry abilities, bring new developments to the story. Natsume Kagitani is a loyal servant who joins the Sakurai Agency to protect Yukina, and his special visual ability greatly contributes to the team's information gathering. Shinichiro Sakurai is the leader of the Sakurai Agency, and his aloof demeanor and mysterious behavior draw the viewer in. Furan is the poster girl who frequents Aoi and Kuzu's photo studio, and her dreams and forceful drive add humor and warmth to the story. Although these characters each have different backgrounds and abilities, they work together for a common goal. Their growth and deepening bond is moving to the audience. Visuals and Music The visuals of "Night Raid: Flash" are a testament to A-1 Pictures' high level of production technique. The realistic backdrops of Shanghai in 1931 and the detailed character designs are visually stunning. Scenes where special abilities are used combine dynamic direction with beautiful animation to draw the viewer in. The musical aspect of this work is also of excellent quality. The opening theme, "Promise," is impressive with Mukku's powerful voice and Tatsuro's lyrics and composition, and is a song that symbolizes the theme of the story. The ending themes, "Promise" and "To the Future...," are also used, and each one enhances the viewer's emotions as the story unfolds. Additionally, the music used in the play, such as Hakase Taro's "The Mission to Complete" and Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise," are also important elements that add to the atmosphere of the story. Recommended points "Night Raid" is a work that skillfully combines historical background and fictional elements, providing viewers with deep emotion and excitement. The following points are the reasons why it is especially recommended. - A fusion of historical background and fiction : Although set in Shanghai in 1931, the story depicts the exploits of spies with special abilities, providing viewers with fresh surprises and excitement.
- Attractive characters : Each character has their own unique personality, and the growth and deepening bonds between the characters will move viewers.
- High quality visuals and music : A-1 Pictures' high quality production and excellent music enhance the atmosphere of the story.
- Tension and Suspense : As the plot twists and plot twists unfold, the audience is constantly on edge and suspenseful.
"Night Raid: Flash" is a work that is recommended not only for history buffs and spy fans, but also for people who enjoy anime in general. Please watch this work and experience its charm. |
