Ryosuke Takahashi Directed Anime Watchlist
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Ryousuke Takahashi is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, and producer. He has worked for Sunrise on many anime shows in the real robot genre, including Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Panzer World Galient, and Blue Comet SPT Layzner.
TV, 1973,
39 eps
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The TV series is the first directorial work by Ryosuke Takahashi. It is considered as an early gathering of many of anime's future greats, particularly for the Gundam series.
Season 1 (Episodes 1-39)
Season 1 (Episodes 1-39)
Cyborg 009 (1979)
Cyborg 009
TV, 1979,
50 eps
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The TV series is a soft reboot of the 60s anime versions, both adapted from the manga series by Shotaro Ishinomori. It was directed by Ryosuke Takahashi. Most of the series' plot is original, except for the first nine episodes, oversaw by Ishinomori before leaving the project due to creative differences with Takahashi. The anime was canceled after 50 of its planned 52 episode.
TV, 1981,
75 eps
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The TV series was created by directors Ryosuke Takahashi and Takeyuki Kanda, and screenwriter Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. Dougram was one of the first successors to the "Real Robot" genre created by Mobile Suit Gundam. Takahashi would go on to create a follow-up series, Armored Trooper Votoms, which used similar styling and themes but was otherwise unrelated in plot, characters or setting.
Movie, 1983,
1 ep
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The film is a summary of the TV series.
Soukou Kihei Votoms
Armored Trooper Votoms
TV, 1983,
52 eps
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The TV series was created and directed by Ryosuke Takahashi. Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous series, Fang of the Sun Dougram, VOTOMS continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime subgenre. The series was followed by numerous OVA releases, and also inspired a number of spin-off works.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder
Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder
OVA, 1985,
1 ep
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The OVA takes place after the Woodoo arc (after episode 13) of the TV series.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Big Battle
Armored Trooper Votoms: Big Battle
OVA, 1986,
1 ep
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The OVA is set after the climax of the original Votoms storyline, but before the epilogue at the end of the TV series itself.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Red Shoulder Document - Yabou no Roots
Armored Trooper Votoms: Red Shoulder Document - Roots of Treachery
OVA, 1988,
1 ep
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The OVA serves as a prequel to the main TV series and especially The Last Red Shoulder OVA.
Kikou Kai Galient
Panzer World Galient
TV, 1984,
25 eps
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The TV series was directed by Ryōsuke Takahashi and written by Sōji Yoshikawa. It is the third installment of the Takahashi Mecha Trilogy, following both Armored Trooper Votoms and Fang of the Sun Dougram, respectively.
OVA, 1986,
3 eps
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The first two OVAs "Chapter of the Land" and "Chapter of the Sky" are in fact recaps of episodes 1-13 and 14-25 of the TV series, respectively, while the third OVA "Crest of Iron" is an alternate version that has its own storyline and different character settings.
Aoki Ryuusei SPT Layzner
Blue Comet SPT Layzner
TV, 1985,
38 eps
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The TV series was originally written by Tsunehisa Itō with Ryōsuke Takahashi as series' director. Episode 25 is a recap clip-show and episode 38 is replaced by the 3rd OVA, subtitled The Last Act: Re-recording 2000, that remakes and expands on its events to conclude the show after it was canceled with only 2/3rd of the plot concluded.
Aoki Ryuusei SPT Layzner OVA
Blue Comet SPT Layzner
OVA, 1986,
3 eps
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The OVA serves as an alternative version of the TV series. The first 2 OVAs, subtitled Act I: Eiji 1996 and Act II: Le Caine 1999, summarize episodes 1–24 (Act I) and 26–37 (Act II) of the TV series. The final OVA, "Seal 2000", is an expanded version of the final episode of the TV series (38) and features new animation and a longer epilogue.
OVA, 1988,
12 eps
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The OVA series is a spinoff of the Armored Trooper Votoms TV series. It takes place in the same universe (and time, and in some episodes, almost the same places) as Votoms, but the two stories are entirely independent of each other.
OVA, 1991,
4 eps
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The OVA series is based on the series of illustrations entitled "Odyssey: The World of Norio Shioyama " and was directed by Ryosuke Takahashi.
OVA, 1993,
3 eps
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The OVA series is based on Leiji Matsumoto's World War II manga Battlefield. It was written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (ep 1), Takashi Imanishi (ep 2) and Ryousuke Takahashi (ep 3).
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Kakuyaku taru Itan
Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy
OVA, 1994,
5 eps
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The OVA series is a sequel to the original TV series.
Chinmoku no Kantai
Silent Service
OVA, 1995,
3 eps
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The OVA is based on a manga series by Kaiji Kawaguchi, which was originally produced as a single TV special film and then two OVA episodes.
TV, 1998,
25 eps
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The TV series was directed by Ryousuke Takahashi, who also co-created the series along with Sunrise pseudonym collective staff "Hajime Yatate". Goro Taniguchi of Code Geass fame was the assistant director. The screenplay was written by Toru Nozaki.
TV, 1999,
26 eps
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The TV series was created by Ryōsuke Takahashi, the creator of Armored Trooper Votoms and Gasaraki.
Movie, 2002,
1 ep
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The film is a compilation of both old and new footage, with many clips completely re-animated, and features a significantly different ending: the final third of the storyline from the original TV series was removed for the film, necessitating an alternate ending.
Hi no Tori
Phoenix
TV, 2004,
13 eps
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The TV series is based on the manga of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. Directed by Ryōsuke Takahashi, it adapts "Dawn", "Resurrection", "Strange Beings", "Sun", "Future" arcs from the manga. The story is consistently shortened and restructured, and the experimental elements of the original manga are almost completely eliminated.
ONA, 2006,
13 eps
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The ONA series was created and directed by veteran director Ryōsuke Takahashi.
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Intrigue in the Bakumatsu: Irohanihoheto
ONA, 2006,
26 eps
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The ONA series was originally created by director Ryōsuke Takahashi and Sunrise collective writing staff.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Pailsen Files
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
OVA, 2007,
12 eps
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The OVA series is set after the 1988 OVA movie The Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition and serves as a prequel to the VOTOMS TV series.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi
Armored Trooper Votoms: Alone Again
OVA, 2011,
1 ep
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The OVA serves as sequel to the Shining Heresy and prequel to the Phantom Arc.
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Genei-hen
Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc
OVA, 2010,
6 eps
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The OVA series is a sequel to the original TV series and Shining Heresy OVA.
TV, 2012,
6 eps
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The short TV series is based on a 1980 unused script by Leiji Matsumoto and was directed by Ryosuke Takahashi. It was the final anime that Matsumoto had involvement with before his death in February 2023.
TV, 2021,
12 eps
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The TV series is a reboot of the original Muteking, The Dashing Warrior by Tatsunoko. It was directed by Yūzō Satō, with Ryōsuke Takahashi serving as chief director.
TV, 2024,
25 eps
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The TV series is an adaptation of the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami and directed by Ryosuke Takahashi.
