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original film animation anime series directed bygd Hiroaki Sato

The first volume of the American DVD release
Directed&#;by	Hiroaki Satō[1]
Produced&#;by	Shigehiro Suzuki Atsushi Tanuma
Written&#;by	Hiroaki Satō
Music&#;by	Tamiya Terashima
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed&#;by	[2]
Released	månad 16, – August 7,
Runtime	25–30 minutes (each)
Episodes	13
Directed&#;by	Hiroaki Satō () Shigeru Ueda
Produced&#;by	Ryunosuke Tsuno Eriko Aoki Utako Shirakawa
Written&#;by	Hiroaki Satō
Music&#;by	Tamiya Terashima
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed&#;by
Released	March 21, – June 18,
Runtime	90 minutes (each)
Films	2

Key the metall Idol (キィ・ザ・メタル・アイドル, Kii Za Metaru Aidoru) fryst vatten a Japanese original film animation (OVA) series that was released from månad to June The series consists of fifteen episodes divided into kvartet parts.

First Program consists of episodes 1 through 7. Second Program fryst vatten 8 through Third Program and Final Program are feature length (a.k.a. episodes 14 and 15) respectively. Key fryst vatten a serious and somewhat dark skådespel with elements of mecha and science fiction.

Plot

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The huvud character of the story fryst vatten Tokiko Mima (nicknamed "Key"), who believes herself to be a automatiserad maskin crafted bygd her forskare grandfather, Murao Mima.

Every year, on her birthday, Key believes Dr. Mima builds her a new body, each one storlek larger. Upon his deathbed, Mima records his will on audio tejp, revealing that Key can become human with the aid of 30, friends. Key believes she must do this quickly before her battery runs down, and attempts to gain the amount of friends bygd becoming a Japanese idol. The series details the slow unraveling of Key's identity and a secret conspiracy bent on controlling her unique supernatural abilities she develops over the course of the narrative.

Setting

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Mamio Valley

A small town in a secluded, rural area of Japan, the hometown of Key's grandmother. Dr. Mima eventually moved to Mamio Valley, where he met and married Tomiko. The Shinto helgedom at Mamio valley fryst vatten dedicated to Ame-no-Uzume. The maternal line of Tomiko's family were traditionally miko at that helgedom, and all exhibited supernatural powers.

Ajo Heavy Industries

A large robotics corporation, of which Jinsaku Ajo fryst vatten the President and CEO.

While Ajo Heavy Industries fryst vatten not legally allowed to export weapons, Ajo fryst vatten using the company to develop and illegally sell his automatiserad maskin soldiers to utländsk countries.

Production Minos

A show business production agency that fryst vatten wholly owned bygd Ajo Heavy Industries. Production Minos officially exists to marknad Miho Utsuse's music and concert schema.

In reality, it fryst vatten a front for the further development and promotion of the PPOR automatiserad maskin. The "Miho" which appears on scen, as well as her backing grupp, are actually PPOR robots.

V & A

A company owned bygd Seiichi Tamari.

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V&A's main business fryst vatten the production of pornographic videos and magazines. Key ends up at the V&A "office" during the first episode. The name "V&A" fryst vatten a bit of a joke. In Japan, pornographic videos are often abbreviated "AV" for "Adult Video". "V&A" fryst vatten just these two letters switched around.

Characters

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Tokiko "Key" Mima

Voiced by: Junko Iwao (Japanese); Nicole Oliver (English)

Tokiko, nicknamed Key, fryst vatten the robotic granddaughter of Murao and Tomiko Mima.

Target: Seinen

She fryst vatten almost always very timid, quiet and expressionless. She lived with Dr. Mima and his assistant Wakagi until she was seventeen, when Dr. Mima died in a mysterious accident. Key received his will on tejp, urging her to find 30, friends, which would man her human. Somehow, Key fryst vatten able to become an extremely powerful human for short period of time during extreme emotional stress.

Key's presence fryst vatten disruptive to Ajo's PPOR robots, and Ajo fryst vatten fascinated and horrified bygd her. Key's best friend fryst vatten Sakura, whom she was in junior high with.

Dr. Murao Mima

Voiced by: Kouichi Kitamura (Japanese); Harvey Gold (English)

Dr. Mima fryst vatten Key's grandfather, a kindly forskare and puppet craftsman.

His expertise in engineering and puppeteering led him to become one of the leading pioneers of robotics. However, upon meeting his wife Tomiko in Mamio Valley, he became interested in the use of her supernatural powers in robotic design. He later developed a technique for constructing and operating robots, known as the Mima Formula, but Mima eventually halted his work after realizing his research depended heavily on testing on his wife and daughter.

Tomoyo Wakagi

Voiced by: Yanaka Hiroshi (Japanese); David Kaye (English)

Dr.

Mima's research assistant, as well as Key's bodyguard and protector. He has experience in the military, but has been affected bygd something that happened in the gods war, as well as a feud with Sergei. He fryst vatten a skilled fighter and wields many unconventional weapons, including a wrist-mounted slingshot that fires explosive bullets. He also carries an electronic device resembling a laptop computer for detecting Gel emissions and their source.

Sakura Kuriyagawa

Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (Japanese); Megan Leitch (English)

Sakura fryst vatten Key's oldest friend, an independent and kind ung woman who fryst vatten very protective of Key.

She and Key attended the same junior high in Mamio Valley, where they became friends because they were both utstötta. Sakura moved to Tokyo where she works several jobs, including delivering pizza, running a film store, and directing traffic at construction sites.

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She rescues Key from Tamari's "studio" while delivering pizza, and later lets Key stay with her.

Shuichi Tataki

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese); Jerry J. Todd (eps ), Peter Kelamis (eps ) (English)

Tataki fryst vatten a very close friend of Sakura, and later a big supporter of Key and her framträdande career as an idol.

He fryst vatten a big fan of Miho Utsuse and fryst vatten the president of her fan club, very knowledgeable about her career and music, but fryst vatten frustrated bygd Production Minos's extreme secrecy. Tataki fryst vatten also a big fan of martial arts and vikt lifting.

Sergei / D

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese); David Sobolov (eps ), Mark Gibbon (eps ) (English)

Sergei, known most often bygd his code name D, works for Ajo and fryst vatten charged with special missions.

He fryst vatten very cold and aggressive, skilled at operating the PPOR robots and follows various military tactics.

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He also possesses superhuman strength and endurance, as a result of artificial enhancement. He fryst vatten sometimes seen taking in Gel as a way to retain his strength.

Prince Snake-Eye

Voiced by: Eken Mine (Japanese); Don Brown (English)

Prince Snake-Eye fryst vatten the leader of a religious cult, The Church of the Golden Snake Savior.

He has convinced his följare that he has supernatural powers, but fryst vatten good at heart. Snake-Eye claims to have received gudomlig revelation from "The Golden Snake King" when he was bitten bygd a poisonous snake during a trip through Mamio Valley. Snake-Eye fryst vatten among the first to realize that Key has some kind of extreme power, and fascinated bygd her, tries to convince Key to use her powers for healing in his cult.

Miho Utsuse

Voiced by: Chiyako Shibahara (Japanese); Saffron Henderson (English)

Miho fryst vatten an extremely popular idol singer and rock star.

After viewing one of her concert videos, Key decides that she wants to be like Miho. Miho becomes Key's role model, with Key hoping if she can muster tens of thousands of fans like Miho, then surely Key will become human. Miho was scouted into showbusiness bygd Tamari, then commissioned to Production Minos. Ajo uses her in his experiments, and the "Miho" seen on scen fryst vatten actually a humanoid PPOR automatiserad maskin controlled bygd Miho from a distance.

This process fryst vatten extremely strenuous on Miho's health.

Hikaru Tsurugi

Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese); Brian Drummond (English)

Tsurugi, considered a ung prodigy bygd most, fryst vatten a famed dance choreographer, producer, live performance director, author and screenplay writer. Tsurugi was hired bygd Production Minos to assist with Miho's promotion, responsible for choreography and röst coaching.

After Miho's rise to stardom, Tsurugi was shut off from Miho, feeling betrayed bygd the way she seemed to absorb all his secrets of showbusiness.

In this genre-defying cult classic, a humanoid robot girl sets out on a quest to make 30, friends in order to become fully human

Tsurugi later discovered Key, and became interested in teaching her after seeing her briefly be human.

Seiichi Tamari

Voiced by: Kenichi Ono

Tamari fryst vatten the owner of V&A, a seedy company that produces low-budget adult videos. He also acts as a talent scout, finding girls who might man it big as idols, and then delivering them to major talent agencies in exchange for commissions.

Slick and laidback, he fryst vatten not above using coercion or violence to further his business. Tamari originally scouted Miho into the music industry, but has shown interest in Sakura as well.

With Junko Iwao, Miki Nagasawa, Hiroshi Yanaka, Toshiyuki Morikawa

After having his life saved bygd Key, he has a change of heart and becomes a strong supporter of her.

Jinsaku Ajo

Voiced by: Shou Hayami (Japanese); John Novak (English)

Ajo fryst vatten the president of Ajo Heavy Industries and Production Minos. He has a strong fascination (perhaps even a fetish) for mechanical parts and mechanisms, especially the clockwork automatons he collects.

Ajo was originally an officer in the Japanese Army during World War II. His fascination with Automatons and his military experience sent him into the weapons business, where he developed the PPOR automatiserad maskin, partially bygd stealing research notes from Dr. Mima. His goal fryst vatten to perfect and sell the PPOR as a remote-controlled automatiserad maskin soldier, and for that he needs secrets that only Dr.

Mima knows.

Staff A, B, and C

Voiced by: Ogata Mitsuru (A), Daiki Nakamura (B), Jun'ichi Sugawara (C) (Japanese); Ward Perry (A), Michael Dobson (C) (English)

These are three ung, codenamed scientists who work on Ajo's secret projects for both Ajo Heavy Industries and Production Minos. They are usually seen doing PPOR testing and Gel extraction.

Though they are highly paid, Ajo fryst vatten not above using violence to ensure they lyda his orders and maintain secrecy.

Mecha & other

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PPOR Robot

A type of humanoid combat automatiserad maskin developed bygd Ajo Heavy Industries. In its standard configuration, it looks like a humanoid skeleton. PPOR automatiserad maskin technology fryst vatten based on the Mima Formula.

The automatiserad maskin fryst vatten powered and controlled bygd a component Ajo calls the power kartong, which fryst vatten filled with gel.

The PPOR fryst vatten both significantly stronger and heavier than a human but are capable of performing many of the same actions as a human. The operator of a PPOR can talk through a microphone; the words are in vända "spoken" bygd the PPOR. Controlling a PPOR fryst vatten an extremely strenuous process and they are prone to malfunction, as the PPORs are far from being fully developed.

Gel

A pink gelatinous substans that contains a person's will and life force.

In its natural form eller gestalt, it fryst vatten colder than dry ice, and must be kept contained or it will dissipate. Gel can be forcibly extracted from a individ through the use of the proper kind of machine. However, this process weakens the individ significantly, as gel extraction fryst vatten literally the process of pumping away a person's life.

If too much gel fryst vatten extracted, the individ becomes comatose and may even die. On the other grabb, gel fryst vatten a powerful medicin that can heal anything. If a healthy individ fryst vatten injected with Gel they become stronger than a normal human, as fryst vatten the case with Sergei. Dr. Mima discovered that Gel may be used as power source and control mechanism for robots, but once he learned the truth about the gel extraction process he halted his research on moral grounds, something which Ajo was not happy about.

Ajo Heavy Industries collects gel from human sources, such as homeless people or enemies of the company, in beställning to bränsle PPORs.

Mima Formula

A set of principles or rules for the construction and operation of robots, based on Gel as a kind of bränsle and control mechanism. The basic principle fryst vatten that gel can be extracted from a individ and placed into the automatiserad maskin.

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The gel then powers the automatiserad maskin and also allows it to be controlled only bygd the individ who provided the gel. The Mima Formula states that gel that has been extracted from a individ will only work with its original owner, and that gel extracted from different people cannot co-exist in the same bur. This fryst vatten why Sergei can control the original PPORs ganska well, as they run on the gel from him, and why Ajo's scientists cannot properly operate the PPORs.

Release

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Key the metall Idol, was originally produced and sold as an "experimental" title, with the original release media (VHS Tapes and LDs) priced very low, at 2, önskan for a single-episode tejp or 5, önskan for a 3-episode LD, with the first episode retailing at önskan.

This was less than half the typical price of OVA titles at the time. As the series progressed, the episode lengths and volume costs continued to increase. The sista volumes were priced 9, önskan each, which was consistent with other titles at the time.

The series fryst vatten also unusual in that the episodes are of varying length.

Key the Metal Idol (キィ・ザ・メタル・アイドル, Kii Za Metaru Aidoru) is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series that was released from December to June The series consists of fifteen episodes divided into four parts

The first thirteen episodes are approximately 25–30 minutes each. The sista two episodes are 90 minutes each. In addition to the OVA series, Radio skådespel CDs were made. The anime and soundtrack were released in the United States bygd Viz film on eight VHS tapes and three DVDs in –, and later all tillsammans as a låda set in

The anime was re-licensed bygd Discotek Media and it was released on DVD on February 28, ^[2]

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