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King of Thorn (2010) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 1, 2010

Original Title:
いばらの王 -King of Thorn-

Alternate Titles:
A tövisek ura
El rey espino
Ibara no Ou
King of Thorn
Król ciernia
Le roi des ronces
Rei dos Espinhos
Король Терний
いばらの王
古城荊棘王
荆棘之王
가시나무왕

Genres:
Animation | Fantasy | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Bandai Visual
Enterbrain
KADOKAWA
SUNRISE
Sony PCL
TV Tokyo
dentsu

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  DE: 16  JP: G 

Runtime: 109

Overview from TheMovieDB

A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

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Production

Additional Storyboarding:
Iwao Teraoka

Animation Director:
Takashi Hashimoto
Teiichi Takiguchi
Tsuyoshi Yoshioka
Yukio Iwata
Hiroaki Noguchi
Tatsuya Suzuki
Kumiko Kawana
Hiroki Harada
Katsumi Matsuda
Takahiro Chiba
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Takao Maki
Koichi Suenaga

Art Direction:
Hideki Nakamura

CGI Director:
Tomonari Nakajima

Character Designer:
Hidenori Matsubara

Color Designer:
Terumi Nakauchi

Creature Design:
Kenji Ando

Director:
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Director of Photography:
Mitsuhiro Sato

Editor:
Shuichi Kakesu

Key Animation:
Takashi Hashimoto
Yuki Chika
Katsumi Matsuda
Masahiro Kataoka
Takayoshi Hashimoto
Hisashi Saito
Atsushi Irie
Eiji Abiko
Akihide Miya
Yasuhisa Kato
Takahiro Chiba
Yoshiharu Shimizu
Noriyuki Fukuda
Yasuyuki Shimizu
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Junko Abe
Makiko Fujiwara
Akiko Toyoda
Tokuhiro Itagaki
Eriko Iida
Satomi Watanabe
Shigeki Iwasaki
Yuhei Murota
Sakiko Uda
Kentaro Azuma
Hanako Mitsubachi
Aiko Oura
Yukiko Aikei
Takashi Kojima
Takashi Ono
Satoshi Kimura
Keizou Ichikawa
Shuko Murase
Yuji Hosogoe
Hiroshi Arisawa
Yuko Dangi
Hiromitsu Morishita
Keiji Ishihara
Yukie Sakou
Toshihiro Nakajima
Iwao Teraoka
Yumi Nakayama
Koichi Yagami
Hiroshi Kosuga
Yuusuke Noma
Takahiro Kimura
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Soichiro Matsuda
Mitsunori Murata
Tatsumori Imoto
Yosuji Kudō
Satoshi Shigeta
Mitsuru Obunai
Fujio Inose
Marie Tagashira
Kenichi Takase
Fumiaki Kouta
Yukiyo Komido
Yukio Iwata
Masaaki Yamano
Tomohiro Kamitani
Shinya Nishizawa
Kazuyoshi Yaginuma
Hisao Yokobori
Takao Maki
Fumiko Yoshida
Kouichi Hashimoto
Shuuji Sakamoto
Kiyoshi Komatsubara
Yukie Suzuki
Kunihiro Abe
Tomoshige Inayoshi
Seimei Maeda
Atsushi Shigeta
Hiroki Harada

Mechanical Designer:
Kimitoshi Yamane

Original Music Composer:
Toshihiko Sahashi

Original Story:
Yuji Iwahara

Producer:
Junichi Kimura
Yasumasa Tsuchiya

Screenplay:
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Second Unit Director:
Hirotaka Endo
Shingo Uchida

Sound Director:
Yota Tsuruoka

Special Effects:
Yukiko Kakita

Storyboard Artist:
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Tsukasa Sunaga

Supervising Animation Director:
Naoyuki Onda

Systems Administrators & Support:
Shinpei Ōsaku

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