Virtua Fighter (TV series)
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Virtua Fighter (Japanese: バーチャファイター, Hepburn: Bācha Faitā) is a Japanese anime television series based on the Virtua Fighter series of video games made by Sega. Produced by TV Tokyo, Yomiko Advertising and TMS-Kyokuichi, it was directed by Hideki Tonokatsu, with Tsutomu Kamishiro handling series scripts, Ryō Tanaka designing the characters, Satoshi Katō serving as sound director and Kaoru Ōhori composing the music. Targeted towards children aged 6 to 15 years old,[1] the series originally aired on TV Tokyo from October 2, 1995 to June 27, 1996. The episodes take place before the first game in the series, and accordingly portray the characters as slightly younger than they are in the games.[2]
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Virtua Fighter | |
バーチャファイター (Bācha Faitā) | |
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Genre | Adventure, Martial arts |
Created by | Yu Suzuki |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hideki Tonokatsu Masahiro Mutō (supervisor) |
Produced by | Keisuke Iwata (TV Tokyo) Hirokazu Ige (Yomiko Advertising, Inc.) Yasumichi Ozaki (Tokyo Movie Shinsha) |
Written by | Tsutomu Kamishiro |
Music by | Kaoru Ōhori |
Studio | TMS-Kyokuichi[lower-alpha 1] |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
English network | |
Original run | 2 October 1995 – 27 June 1996 |
Episodes | 35 |
A video game based on the series, Virtua Fighter Animation, was released in 1996.