Green Legend Ran
Episode 1: Departure
© 1992 AIC / Pioneer LDC, Inc.
Color / Stereo / 45 minutes / Japanese Language / English Dubbed
This is The Story Of Our Future Plant, Transformed Into A Strange New World Where Human Life Has Just Been Reborn. This is The Story Of AIRA, RAN, And Their Struggle For Survival In The Strange, New World.
This is our future earth where the environment and people's lives have been transformed. Six large mysterious creatures, which came down from space provides the only water. People can only live in the area surrounding these creatures. It never rains and what they call "oceans" are massive deserts of scorching heat. In these life-sustaining cities, the huge creatures are called "Holy Mother" and there is constant war between the Rodoists, who have monopolized the water, and technology, and the rebel group Hazzard. Ran who lost his mother in this civil war joins the Hazzard to seek revenge. But his life changes when he meets Aira at the Hazzard camp!
- Ran Kikuchi Hidehiro
- Aira: Yayoi Mitsuki
- Chimin: Yamadera Koichi
- Lazlo: Futamata Issei
- Moji: Tsujimura Masato
- Grandmother: Takamura Akiko
- Dr. Kim: Arimoto Kinryu
- Ran's Mother: Inoue Kikuko
- Young Ran: Maruta Mari
Director: Saga Satoshi
Screenplay: Yamamoto Yu
Character Design / Animation Director: Ohashi Yoshimitsu
Mechanical Animation Director: Ezura Hisashi
Storyboards: Tanaka Tatsuyuki
Key Animation: Inagaki Kengo, Ezura Hisashi, Shimamura Shuichi, Murakami Motokazu, Miyamae Kazuyuki, Watanabe Junichi
Art Director: Arai Ken
Sound Director: Honda Yasunori
Music: Yoshikawa Yoichiro (N.2)
Director of Photography: Narusawa Takao
Produced by: M.T.V.