Soar High! Isami

Soar High! Isami (飛べ！イサミ Tobe! Isami) is an anime series made by Group TAC and directed by Gisaburō Sugii. The anime was broadcast on NHK between April 8, 1995 and March 30, 1996.

Synopsis
Isami Hanaoka is just a fifth grader who happens to be a descendant of the Shinsengumi. Together with fellow descendants and classmates Soushi Yukimi and Toshi Tsukikage, she discovers in the basement of her home, strange artifacts left behind by their ancestors as well as a message urging them to "fight the evil Kurotengu organization".

Cast[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Isami Hanaoka	Michiyo Nakajima	Rumiko Varnes (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Isami Hanaoka	Michiyo Nakajima	Soness Stevens (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Toshi Tsukikage	Yoshiko Kamei	Sean Nichols
Soushi Yukimi	Noriko Hidaka	Jaya Drats (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Soushi Yukimi	Noriko Hidaka	Jeremy Felton (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Kei Tsukikage	Yūko Mita	Angela Im (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Kei Tsukikage	Yūko Mita	Terry Osada (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Black Goblin	Ikuo Nishikawa	Dennis Falt (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Black Goblin	Ikuo Nishikawa	Barry Gjerde (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Kanyusai Hanaoka	Kōichi Kitamura	Blake Crawford (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Kanyusai Hanaoka	Kōichi Kitamura	Michael Naishtut (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Reiko Hanaoka	Kikuko Inoue	Angela Im (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Reiko Hanaoka	Kikuko Inoue	Terry Osada (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Kai Hanaoka	Kōji Ishii	Richard Allen (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Kai Hanaoka	Kōji Ishii	Michael Naishtut (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Kazuma Sakamoto	Kenichi Ono	Richard Allen (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Kazuma Sakamoto	Kenichi Ono	Greg Dale (Vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Genbe	¿?	Masatake Amemiya
Yasuyuki Tsukikage	Hirohiko Kakegawa	Greg Dale (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Sonoe Tsukikage	Mami Horikoshi	Rumiko Varnes (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Sonoe Tsukikage	Mami Horikoshi	Soness Stevens (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Heisuke	Sukekiyo Kameyama	Matthew Barron (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Heisuke	Sukekiyo Kameyama	Greg Dale (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Shigesuke	Toshiharu Sakurai	Blake Crawford (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Shigesuke	Toshiharu Sakurai	Michael Naishtut (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Eisuke Yukimi	Hideyuki Umezu	Blake Crawford (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Eisuke Yukimi	Hideyuki Umezu	Michael Naishtut (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Orie Yukimi	Sakurako Kishiro	Rumiko Varnes (vol. 1-2, eps. 1-3)
Orie Yukimi	Sakurako Kishiro	Terry Osada (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Mr. Spider	Hiroshi Yanaka	Blake Crawford (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Mr. Spider	Hiroshi Yanaka	Greg Dale (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Haruka Takagi	Yōko Sasaki	Angela Im (Vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Haruka Takagi	Yōko Sasaki	Soness Stevens (Vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Mayuko Kiyokawa	Kikuko Inoue	Angela Im (vol. 1, eps. 1-3)
Mayuko Kiyokawa	Kikuko Inoue	Terry Osada (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Hiroko Karasuma/Agent No. 7	Kumiko Watanabe	Soness Stevens (vol. 2-3, eps. 4-9)
Mechanical Doll 1 (Ep. 1)	Kôji Ishii	Angela Im
Mechanical Doll 3 (ep. 4)	Kôji Ishii	Soness Stevens
Titles (vol. 1, ep. 1-3)	Michiyo Nakajima Yoshiko Kamei Noriko Hidaka	Rumiko Varnes Sean Nichols Jaya Drats
Titles (vol. 2-3, ep. 4-9)	Michiyo Nakajima Yoshiko Kamei Noriko Hidaka	Soness Stevens Sean Nichols Jeremy Felton

Additional Voices[]

Angela Im
Blake Crawford
Greg Dale
Michael Naishtut
Richard Allen
Rumiko Varnes
Soness Stevens
Terry Osada

Notes[]

Only nine episodes of the series across three volumes were ever released, though further DVD volumes were listed for release. The dub of the series was incompleted, though it seems that the dub was a commissioned dub by the Japanese distributors, NHK, rather than Hirameki International, as Hirameki originally listed the volumes as being sub-only, indicating that the dub was likely supplied as an afterthought.^[1]
The episode order on the Hirameki International releases is different from the Japanese broadcast order and home video releases as six episodes (2,4,6-8,11) were skipped, and used the opening and ending animation from the second half of the series rather than the first half.
For some unknown reasons (possibly by some problems of the dubbing recording studio and probably, in some of the cases, left English voice acting and dubs in 2003), Rumiko Varnes, Angela Im, Blake Crawford, Richard Allen, Dennis Falt, Matthew Barron, and Jaya Drats, didn't participate in the second and third volumes. Instead, Michael Naishtut, Terry Osada, Greg Dale, Barry Gjerde, Soness Stevens, and Jeremy Felton took their voice roles.
Toshi Tsukikage (Sean Nichols), and Genbe (Masatake Amemiya) are the only main characters whose voice actors didn't change (Also, Sean Nichols is the only the voice actor who has appeared in all the english dubbing titles introductions).
There are also multiple mistakes, mainly lip sync errors, light voice tone changes, exaggerated unintelligible (mostly) dialogues (with also strange characterization like the second voice of Heisuke) and bad english spelling errors (Mostly like Idol Fight Suchie-Pai 2 English Dub).
Some of the Volume 1 English Dubbing Actors did all the voices of Idol Fight Suchie-Pai 2 (OVA).
Between four dubbing actors did nearly all the voices (in each Volumes), which also result in the excessive repeating voices in nearly all the characters and all the additional voices.
This is the last English dub (Incomplete) producing work of Hirameki International and distribution of these dubs.

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Hirameki International	2003-2004		Episodes 1, 3, 5, 9-10, 12-15	1 NTSC	United States
Hirameki International	2003-2004		3 Volumes	1 NTSC	United States

References[]

↑ The Forgotten Dub of Soar High! Isami. Retrieved February 14, 2019.

External Links[]

Soar High! Isami (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Soar High! Isami at the Internet Movie Database
https://www.giantbomb.com/hirameki-international-group-inc/3010-5118/

[1] The Forgotten Dub of Soar High! Isami. Retrieved February 14, 2019.

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