is a 1987 Japanese
OVA.
Plot
Koichiro Kamishiro is an assistant professor at a university who is highly regarded in the field of archaeology and travels around the world to find various antiquities as well as the "Message of God" which relates to the mysterious Hih Tribe. One day while investigating the ruins in the Middle East, he finds a strange cube-shaped stone despite running into several problems. While investigating the mysterious stone, he receives a visit from Miyabi Koto, the daughter of his former teacher. Initially, Kamishiro is not too keen on the idea, but after listening to Miyabi's story, he decides that it is well worth investigating and decides to get involved. However, he was unaware that this would lead to a major revelation involving the "Ten Commandments", a book of divine prophecy. As he along with Isao, Mina, Ginji and Miyabi travel across Japan repeatedly running into the Japanese government, CIA, KGB and even messengers of the Ten Commandments who will stop at no cost to get the Crystal Triangle back, he comes to a realization that the Crystal Triangle may contain the Message of God he was looking for, which is the potential 11th commandment that will prevent the Earth's destruction.
Cast
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Masane Tsukayama: Koichiro Kamishiro
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Toshiko Fujita: Juno Cassidy
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Yusaku Yara: Grigori Yefimovich / Urga
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Yuriko Yamamoto: Miyabi Koto /
Himiko
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Kazuki Yao: Isao Murakami
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Mayumi Sho: Mina Katsuki
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Ichiro Nagai:
Kukai
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Seizō Katō: The Old Man of
Hakodate
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Yuzuru Fujimoto: Hih Tribe Priest
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Norio Wakamoto: Ginji Iwagami
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Kan Tokumaru
was a Japanese voice actor who was best known as the voice of Anakaris, Bishamon, Sasquatch and Victor von Gerdenheim ('' Darkstalkers'').
Filmography
Television animation
;1995
*''Virtua Fighter'' – Clive
;1996
*'' Case Closed'' – Dete ...
: Yoshioka
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Banjo Ginga
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: Dàrén
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Issei Futamata: Genpo
*
Shinya Otaki Shinya (Shin'ya) is a Japanese given name, usually for males. It is pronounced as "Shin-ya", not "Shi-nya". Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese curler and curling coach
*, Japanese politician
*Shinya Aoki (born 1983), professional mi ...
: Numata
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Yuji Mikimoto: Ubanishad Master
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Michitaka Kobayashi
is a Japanese voice actor. For a time, he was known as . He currently works for Aoni Production.
Voice roles
Television
*''Atashin'chi'' (????) (Mizushima Husband)
*''Digimon Xros Wars'' (????) (Angemon)
*''Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman'' (????) (R ...
: Minato
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Masaru Ikeda: Narrator
Production
''Crystal Triangle'' was released in Japan on VHS on July 1, 1987, and August 26, 1987, for its LaserDisc release. A DVD release by SME Visual Works (now
Aniplex) was released on August 21, 2002. The anime was animated by Studio Live and was produced by
Animate Film and
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is opera ...
. Seiji Okuda handled the OVA's direction, while
Toyoo Ashida and
Kazuko Tadano were
character designer
In visual arts, a model sheet, also known as a character board, character sheet, character study or simply a study, is a document used to help standardize the appearance, poses, and gestures of a character in arts such as animation, comics, and v ...
s in the OVA. The OVA was released in the
U.S. on VHS and LaserDisc by
Central Park Media
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under their U.S. Manga Corps label in 1993. The U.S. release has since gone out of print following
Central Park Media's bankruptcy in 2009.
Note: The English dubbed version was dubbed by the Japanese voice actors.
References
External links
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1980s adventure films
1987 anime OVAs
1987 films
Animated adventure films
Japanese adventure films
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