Lensman

Lensman
Original Title	ＳＦ新世紀　レンズマン SF Shinseiki Lensman
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio 1	Intersound, Inc.
Dubbing Studio 2	Studiopolis
Voice Director 1	Tom Wyner
Voice Director 2	Steve Kramer
Translation & Adaptation	Tom Wyner Carl Macek Steve Kramer
Recorded	1987 1990
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Year	1984

Lensman (ＳＦ新世紀 レンズマン SF Shinseiki Lensman, lit. "Science Fiction New Century Lensman") is a Japanese animated film based on the Lensman novels by E. E. Smith, produced by Madhouse and directed by Kazuyuki Hirokawa and Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the later director of Wicked City, Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Synopsis Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companinon, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.

Dubbing History

The film was dubbed by Harmony Gold USA as Lensman: Secret of the Lens in 1988. Harmony Gold's dub had many scenes cut for content and time, and a new soundtrack, with some tracks carried over from their previous titles Robotech II: The Sentinels and Robotech: The Movie.

In 1990, the film was given a redub by Streamline Pictures, which left the original soundtrack intact and left it uncut. This new dub contained many of the same voice actors as the Harmony Gold dub, some of which reprised their roles (Kerrigan Mahan as Kimball Kinnison and Michael McConnohie as Peter Buskirk).

Cast

Character	Seiyū	Harmony Gold Dub	Streamline Dub
Kimball Kinnison	Toshio Furukawa	Kerrigan Mahan
Peter Van Buskirk	Chikao Ōtsuka	Michael McConnohie
Clarissa MacDougal	Mami Koyama	Melanie MacQueen	Edie Mirman
Worsel	Nachi Nozawa	Jeff Winkless	Steve Kramer
D.J. Bill	Katsuya Kobayashi	Gregory Snegoff
Lord Helmuth	Seizō Katō	Tom Wyner
Gary Kinnison	Tadashi Nakamura	Michael Forest (1st half)	Mike Reynolds
		Tom Wyner (2nd half)
Admiral Haines	Hidekatsu Shibata	Mike Reynolds	Michael Forest
The Lens	Tadashi Yokouchi	Tom Wyner	Alexandra Kenworthy
LaVerne Thorndyke	Takeshi Aono	Steve Kramer	Dave Mallow
Sol	Yūko Saitō	Ted Lehmann	Robert Axelrod
Blakslee	Yasuo Tanaka	¿?	Doug Stone
Zuilk	Shingo Kanemoto	Kerrigan Mahan	Milton James

Additional Voices

Harmony Gold Dub Ben Gibson Dave Mallow Michael Sorich Doug Stone Tom Wyner

Streamline Dub Steve Kramer Carl Macek Gregory Snegoff Doug Stone

Notes

• Gary Kinnison inexplicably goes from being voiced by Michael Forest to Tom Wyner in the Harmony Gold dub.
• The Lens has a male voice in the original Japanese and Harmony Gold dubs, but in the Streamline dub, it has a female voice.

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Dub	Region	Country
Harmony Gold	1988		Harmony Gold	NTSC	United States
Streamline Pictures	1990		Streamline
Manga Entertainment	1993			PAL	United Kingdom

See Also

• Lensman: Power of The Lens

External Links

• Lensman (anime) at the Anime News Network
• Lensman at the Internet Movie Database