Overman King Gainer

Overman King Gainer
OVERMANキングゲイナー (Ōbāman Kingu Geinā)
Genre	Adventure, Mecha
TV anime
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Written by	Ichirō Ōkouchi
Music by	Kohei Tanaka
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	Bandai Entertainment
Network	Animax, WOWOW
Original run	September 7, 2002 – March 22, 2003
Episodes	26
Manga
Written by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Illustrated by	Yoshihiro Nakamura
Published by	Media Factory
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Comic Flapper
Original run	2002 – 2009
Volumes	7
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Overman King Gainer (OVERMANキングゲイナー, Ōbāman Kingu Geinā^?) is a TV anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by longtime animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Gundam series, written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and featuring character designs by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kinu Nishimura and Ken'ichi Yoshida, the series ran from September 7, 2002 to March 22, 2003 on Japan's WOWOW network, spanning a total of 26 episodes.

Plot

In Overman King Gainer, after an environmental cataclysm, much of the world's population retreated into domed cities called Domepolis, which are run by an organization known as "London IMA" (International Management Authority) and its police arm, "Saint Reagan". However, the Domepoli are maintained and supplied by privatized firms such as the "Siberian Railroad Company". Many years have passed since the cataclysm, and many have begun to believe that the world environment has recovered sufficiently enough for humans to begin living outside Domepoli. As such, some inhabitants begin planning Exoduses to leave these cities and to resettle their ancestral homelands. However, this does not sit well with the London IMA or the private firms that monopolize trade between the Domepoli, as the loss of people would not only lead to a loss in tax and trade revenue, but if the Exodus were to be successful, it would show the people that it was no longer necessary to rely on the London IMA or the private firms for survival. They fiercely oppose any Exoduses, spreading propaganda on the evils effects of Exoduses on the Earth's environment, and using military force to prevent any attempted Exodus.

The story begins in a Domepolis in Siberia, where championship video game player Gainer Sanga is arrested by Siberian Railroad policewoman Adette Kistler on suspicion of being an Exodus member. Ironically he isn't, but his friends Sara Kodama and Bello Korissha along with his schoolteacher Mamado Azaf are members of the Gauli team, a militia unit of the local Exodus group. At the same time, Exodus expert and coordinator Gain Bijou lets himself be arrested by the Siberian Railroad police as part of his plan to infiltrate the city and steal an "Overman", which is a biomechanical giant robot, for use in defending the Exodus.

Gain is placed in the same prison cell as Gainer, and when Gain initiates his escape, only Gainer is willing to escape as well. They infiltrate the castle of Duke Medaiyu and steal an Overman in the Duke's secret museum collection, which Gainer logs into as his videogame handle: "King Gainer". As Gainer gets the hang of piloting a real Overman, he and Gain encounter shut-in Princess Anna, the Duke's daughter, who supports the Exodus and wants to see the world and people other than her tutor, Lioubov Smettana. Using an annual festival presented by idol singer and co-Exodus leader, Meeya Laujin, as cover, the Exodus executes their plan: take much of the Domepolis, block by block, using heavy hauler machines called Silhouette Mammoths and move them over 3000 km across the Siberian tundra to their ancestral homeland, "Yapan". As the Exodus moves out, the Siberian Railroad police chief, Yassaba Jin, mobilizes his forces to stop them. Other obstacles to the Exodus are Kistler's and Jin's subordinates Jaboli Mariela, Kenjinan Datto, and Enge Gam, Siberian Railroad president Kidz Munt, Saint Reagan policemen Asuham Boone and Zakki Bronco, and Overman aces Cynthia Lane and Kashimaru Bale.

Characters

Yapan Exodus

Gainer Sanga

• Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese), Darrel Guilbeau (English)

Sara Kodama

• Voiced by: Ai Kobayashi (Japanese), Olivia O'Connor (English)

Gain Bijou

• Voiced by: Otoya Kawano (Japanese), Ron Allen (English)

Princess Ana Medaiyu

• Voiced by: Noriko Kito (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)

Lioubov Smettana

• Voiced by: Ai Futamura (Japanese), Julie Ann Taylor (English)

Adette Kistler

• Voiced by: Marika Hayashi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

Bello Korissha

• Voiced by: Shusaku Otake (Japanese), Dave Mallow (English)

Meeya Laujin

• Voiced by: Yumiko Nakanishi (Japanese), Kate Davis (English)

Mamado Azaf

• Voiced by: Rintaro Nishi (Japanese), David Orozco (English)

Hughes Gauli

• Voiced by: Toru Kusano (Japanese), Tony Oliver (English)

Cona Madaya

• Voiced by: Mayumi Honda (Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English)

Nann

• Voiced by: Jun Irie (Japanese), Midge Mayes (English)

Toun

• Voiced by: Yohei Obayashi (Japanese), Dave Mallow (English first), Stephen Apostolina (English second)

Elizabeth

• Voiced by: Tomoko Hayashi (Japanese), Alex Greene (English)

Five Wisemen

Gach Wige

• Voiced by: Kazuhiko Kishino (Japanese), William Frederick Knight (English)

Citran Vie

• Voiced by: Naoki Shirakami (Japanese), Jane Alan (English)

Manman Douton

• Voiced by: Mugihito (Japanese), Anthony Mozdy (English first), Joey Lotsko (English second)

Pelhar Pey

• Voiced by: Hiroaki Harakawa (Japanese), Steve Kramer (English)

Wulgusk Domepolis

Duke Medaiyu

• Voiced by: Harumi Munechika (Japanese), Russel Thor (English)

Siberian Railroad Authority

Cynthia Lane

• Voiced by: Rena Mizuki (Japanese), Tara Malone (English)

Yassaba Jin

• Voiced by: Hisao Egawa (Japanese), Michael McConnohie (English)

Kashmir Valle

• Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Chris Kent (English)

Jaboli Mariela

• Voiced by: Maki Tamura (Japanese), Mia Bradly (English)

Kejinan Datto

• Voiced by: Hiroshi Kitazawa (Japanese), David Lelyveld (English)

Kids Munt

• Voiced by: Seiji Sasaki (Japanese), James Lyon (English)

Enge Gam

• Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Japanese), Richard George (English)

Ariel Nielson

• Voiced by: Hiroshi Takahashi (Japanese), Kurt Strauss (English)

London Ima

Asuham Boone

• Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Doug Erholtz (English)

Zakki Bronco

• Voiced by: Takashi Nakamura (Japanese), Richard Hayworth (English)

Others

Karin Boone

• Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Lynn Fischer (English)

Martina Lane

• Voiced by: Toshiko Sawada (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)

Game Appearances

Overman King Gainer is included in Another Century's Episode 3 for the PlayStation 2 and Another Century's Episode R for the Playstation 3. The series made its debut into the long-running Super Robot Wars series in Super Robot Wars Z and has also appeared in Super Robot Wars K for the Nintendo DS.

External links

• (Japanese) Overman King Gainer, official website
• (Japanese) Overman King Gainer, mirror website
• Overman King Gainer (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia