Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Gyune, Viola (Main) - Voice Actors: Tezuka, Chiharu, Mamèche, Samira, Olivieri, Elda, Eberhard, Gundi
• Hayes, Dolores (Main) - Voice Actors: Kuwashima, Houko, Lehmann, Dascha, De Cesarei, Jenny, Hester, Boni
• Lavans, Radium (Main) - Voice Actors: Koyasu, Takehito, Wolfe, Ben, Bonetto, Giuliano, Ferrette, Damien
• Barrows (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Watabe, Takeshi
• Hines (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ishii, Kouji, Weaver, Brett
• Lloyd (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nakano, Yutaka, Jones, David
• Melissa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ochiai, Rumi, Mcbride, Ellie, Urbschat-mingues, Claudia, Cattaneo, Patrizia
• Stewart Links, Rachel (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakakibara, Yoshiko, Silvestri, Marcella, Lesley, Lana
• Will (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakaguchi, Kenichi, Kluckert, Tobias, Sandri, Luca

Staff:

• Campbell, Charles (Producer, ADR Director, Recording Engineer)
• Ooshima, Mitsuru (Producer)
• Watanabe, Tetsuya (Director)
• Tsuruoka, Youta (Sound Director)
• Kitamura, Masaki (Episode Director)
• Mori, Kunihiro (Episode Director)
• Yamaguchi, Yuuji (Episode Director)
• Yoshida, Shin (Script)
• Kondou, Nobuhiro (Storyboard)
• Aizawa, Kagetsu (Key Animation)
• Aoyama, Masanobu (Key Animation)
• Harada, Hiroki (In-Between Animation)
• Hasegawa, Toshio (Special Effects)
• Hata, Shouji (Recording)
• Higashiji, Kazuki (Background Art)
• Hirasawa, Akihiro (Background Art)
• Hirayama, Madoka (Character Design, Animation Director)
• Horii, Kumi (Character Design, Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Ishikawa, Masakazu (Key Animation)
• Itou, Masumi (Music)
• Kadonosono, Megumi (Key Animation)
• Kamata, Hitoshi (Key Animation)
• Kanno, Toshiyuki (Key Animation)
• Kinoshita, Ryouka (Background Art)
• Kojima, Hideo (Original Creator)
• Kouta, Fumiaki (In-Between Animation)
• Maesawa, Hiromi (Key Animation)
• Masuki, Takamasa (Background Art)
• Miyake, Yuuichirou (Key Animation)
• Miyazawa, Tsutomu (Mechanical Design, Key Animation)
• Mori, Etsuhito (Key Animation)
• Morokuma, Michiko (Background Art)
• Motohashi, Hideyuki (Key Animation)
• Muraji, Akihide (In-Between Animation)
• Nagaya, Yuriko (Key Animation)
• Naka, Morifumi (Assistant Animation Director)
• Nakajima, Yoshiko (Key Animation)
• Nishioka, Shinobu (Assistant Animation Director)
• Niwa, Yasutoshi (Key Animation)
• Okabe, Minoru (Animation Check, Key Animation)
• Okabe, Jun (Background Art)
• Oomori, Hidetoshi (Key Animation)
• Ootsuka, Ken (Key Animation)
• Saiki, Yasuhiro (Key Animation)
• Saitou, Shinmei (Key Animation)
• Sakou, Yukie (Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Satou, Masaru (Art Director)
• Shigeta, Atsushi (Key Animation)
• Shingou, Yasushi (Key Animation)
• Suzuki, Tsutomu (Animation Director, Mechanical Design, Key Animation)
• ... and 2 more staff

Reviews:

• User 5hreddy (Score: 7/10):
  Well, as the synopsis would imply, the story for Idolo occurs before the events of the ZOE game. If you've played any of the games you'll immediately recognise the main protagonists of the series, i.e that related to the development of Orbital Frames. Anyway on with the review: Story (7/10): I gave the story a seven as I think it flows nicely but as you can imagine for a 55 min story, it does lack the breadth of a full movie. However, the story is believable and really gets into the emotions of the characters. It also lends some understanding to the background of Viola'scharacter and you can get to see why Viola is so bitter in the ZOE game.nnArt (6/10): Nothing particularly groundbreaking but does its job effectively enough.nnSound (8/10): The music shares most of the characteristics of the games in terms of style and fits in nicely with much of the action of the film.nnCharacter (6/10): The characters develop quite well considering the length, but perhaps not quite enough to really get to the motivations of the characters.nnEnjoyment (8/10): A quick astute dose of good quality anime, so I would say the enjoyment level was quite high.nnOverall (7/10): If you're a fan of the ZOE game series then I would highly recommend this if you want to get the background into the origins of the Orbital Frame. Even if you've never the played the games, it's still a highly enjoyable OVA.

Forum Topics:

• Zone of the Enders: Idolo Episode 1 Discussion
• Discussion

External Links:

• Official Site
• AniDB
• ANN
• Wikipedia

Related Anime/Manga:

• Zone of the Enders: Dolores, I (anime - Sequel)