Phantom Quest Corp.
Phantom Quest Corporation (Japanese幽 幻 怪 社, Yūgenkaisha, officially: You- gen- kai- sya, dt as: "Company of Ghosts and Strange ") is the title of a 4-part OVA by Madhouse on behalf of Pioneer LDC was produced. The screenplay was penned by Mami Watanabe, was directed by Koichi Chigira and Moio Asaka. The title is a pun on Yugen Kaisha (有限会社), the Japanese version of a GmbH.
In Germany they were both aired on TV on the transmitter VOX and published several times both as VHS and on two different DVD versions.
1995 saw a light novel to Yūgenkaisha Mami Watanabe (渡 辺 麻 実, Mami Watanabe ), the script coordinator of the series.
One in the design very similar manga and anime series Ghost Sweeper Mikami entitled.
Action
In the 6th year of the Heisei era ( = 1994 ) a company falls out of the image of the company landscape of Japan: The Phantom Quest Corporation is a service company that hunts demons and spirits cast out.
At the top of Phantom Quest Corporation is the spirited Ayaka Kisaragi who like to enjoy life to the fullest and do not hesitate for long with their opponents. Despite their abilities in the fight against the supernatural especially their bad habits, which are in particular that are going to drink a lot of sake, indulge in a shopping frenzy after another, to sleep up for the day, responsible for ensuring that their company at the end of each episode " in the red " infected. On the way, the many experts brought in can not be paid, such as the fortune teller Suimei.
The plot comprises four independent records: In the first Act, Ayaka operated as a vampire hunter, in the second it deals with the mysterious death of a taxi driver, who died suddenly after a seemingly harmless accident. In the third part it is engaged by a contractor to exorcise a spirit that will drive up to mischief in a museum and hinders the establishment of a sponsored exhibition from him massively. The last episode confronted Ayaka and Mamoru with competition from Buddhist monks, but the use of the spirits and demons that they themselves have captured this in order to secure further orders.
Publications
The OVA was released in Japan in 1994 and two years later in the USA on two VHS tapes. In Germany the series as in the U.S. was first released on two VHS cassettes, which contained both the Japanese original, as well as an English dub and was provided for the German market with a caption.
The German first released on DVD followed in 2001 by Pioneer LDC under the title "Phantom Quest Corporation - Perfect Collection". Itself, the exclusive distributor took ACOG as the basis for the video stream, the English version was used, which manifests itself in the fact that the opening and is provided Ending each episode with English lyrics.
The OVA was also shown several times in the German Free TV: The first episode of the OVA was first broadcast on the channel VOX in the context of an anime comedy night with the anime El Hazard OVA 1-2, the first episode of Wedding Peach DX and Moldiver in German synchronization, as well as the first Slayers movie, the first special of the irresponsible Captain Tylor in the Japanese original broadcast with German subtitles.
After this episode aired a second time on 6 September 2003, another first episodes of the series Arjuna, Comic Party, Cosplay Complex, DNA ², Kishin Corps, The Hakkenden, Legend of Basara, Najica Blitz Tactics and Sakura Wars in the original language with subtitles, the series was about a month later edited together as "Movie version" on VOX fully shown and repeated in January and May 2004 to the transmitter XXP.
The second DVD release in Germany on 25 July 2005 SPVision under the same title, but with a newly designed cover and DVD menus, three audio tracks in multiple language versions.
Synchronization
No German -language synchronization were for the first editions of both the VHS and the later released DVD version still planned: They only appeared with German subtitles, and while yet the VHS version was both Japanese and dubbed English, lacked the DVD version, the English soundtrack. The new edition of this publication was in the studios of the electric Postproduction Facilities GmbH. The dialog book comes from the same synchronous Ulrike Lau Director leading.
Music
Both the Opening That's Yūgenkaisha ( 「 THAT'S幽 幻 怪 社」 German as: ". Such is the Phantom Quest Corp ") and the ending of the episodes Mahiru no tokai ( 「真昼 の 都会」 German as: " Midday city " ) were sung by Rika Matsumoto, in the original version of the series starring Ayaka speaks at the same time. While the lyrics of Natsuko Karedo comes, Junichi Kanezaki composed the melody.
In addition to publishing in Japan appeared also also marketed by Pioneer LDC soundtrack to the OVA.