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Kenichi Sonoda
Born December 13, 1962 · Takaishi, Osaka, Japan (age 63)
No biography available.
Known For
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise · 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
★ 6.91987
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
Riding Bean · 1989Riding Bean
★ 6.51989
MovieAnimationAction
Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.
Gall Force: Eternal Story · 1986Gall Force: Eternal Story
★ 6.61986
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
Gunsmith Cats · 1995Gunsmith Cats
★ 6.31995
MovieAnimationComedy
Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are just a pair of gun shop owners who do a bit of bounty hunting to make ends meet when a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agent comes to them. Using the threat of arresting them for their lack of a retail license for their merchandise and the resulting unpaid taxes, he forces them to agree to cooperate in a sting to break a gun running ring. They have an initial success, but that brings new problems as the ring's leader brings in a merciless assassin to eliminate these new enemies. It will take all their skill, allies and some luck to come out this crisis alive.
Gall Force 2: Destruction · 1987Gall Force 2: Destruction
★ 5.81987
MovieActionAnimation
The war between Solnoids and Paranoids continues, but the conflict reaches a new height as both races complete their Planet Destroyers. This new technology wipes out several star systems leaving only the ninth star system undamaged. As both races head towards it, a Solnoid ship finds Lufy, an attacker cryogenically preserved inside an assault trooper among space debris. Reawakened, Lufy is invited to join a group of Solnoids who are set to complete the original secret mission of her former crew.
Otaku no Video · 1991Otaku no Video
★ 5.71991
MovieAnimationComedy
A hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Rhea Gall Force · 1989Rhea Gall Force
★ 6.41989
MovieScience FictionAnimation
The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survive.
Gall Force 3: Stardust War · 1988Gall Force 3: Stardust War
★ 5.71988
MovieActionAnimation
The remaining forces of the Solnoid and the Paranoid races now head toward Sigma Narse, a forgotten star system with a dying red giant for their final confrontation. The crew of five Solnoids who survived the battle at the ninth star system are sent to meet Capt. Nebulart, head of Intelligence, for what appears to be the last hope for both races.
Movies
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise · 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
★ 6.91987
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
Riding Bean · 1989Riding Bean
★ 6.51989
MovieAnimationAction
Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.
Gall Force: Eternal Story · 1986Gall Force: Eternal Story
★ 6.61986
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
Gunsmith Cats · 1995Gunsmith Cats
★ 6.31995
MovieAnimationComedy
Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are just a pair of gun shop owners who do a bit of bounty hunting to make ends meet when a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agent comes to them. Using the threat of arresting them for their lack of a retail license for their merchandise and the resulting unpaid taxes, he forces them to agree to cooperate in a sting to break a gun running ring. They have an initial success, but that brings new problems as the ring's leader brings in a merciless assassin to eliminate these new enemies. It will take all their skill, allies and some luck to come out this crisis alive.
Gall Force 2: Destruction · 1987Gall Force 2: Destruction
★ 5.81987
MovieActionAnimation
The war between Solnoids and Paranoids continues, but the conflict reaches a new height as both races complete their Planet Destroyers. This new technology wipes out several star systems leaving only the ninth star system undamaged. As both races head towards it, a Solnoid ship finds Lufy, an attacker cryogenically preserved inside an assault trooper among space debris. Reawakened, Lufy is invited to join a group of Solnoids who are set to complete the original secret mission of her former crew.
Otaku no Video · 1991Otaku no Video
★ 5.71991
MovieAnimationComedy
A hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Rhea Gall Force · 1989Rhea Gall Force
★ 6.41989
MovieScience FictionAnimation
The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survive.
Gall Force 3: Stardust War · 1988Gall Force 3: Stardust War
★ 5.71988
MovieActionAnimation
The remaining forces of the Solnoid and the Paranoid races now head toward Sigma Narse, a forgotten star system with a dying red giant for their final confrontation. The crew of five Solnoids who survived the battle at the ninth star system are sent to meet Capt. Nebulart, head of Intelligence, for what appears to be the last hope for both races.
Scramble Wars · 1992Scramble Wars
★ 5.81992
MovieScience FictionComedy
Take the characters from a number of sci-fi based animes, a stage not unlike "Wacky Races," super deformed madness, and general insanity and what you get is Scramble Wars. While Scramble Wars does include characters from the original Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force and Genesis Survivor Gaiarth, it also has a few other characters from other animes such as AD Police and Riding Bean.
Bean Bandit · 2021Bean Bandit
★ 3.52021
MovieAnimationAction
Kenichi Sonoda announced at Anime Central that he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new "Bean Bandit" anime. He confirmed that the project will meld elements of Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats, and like these previous works it will take place in Chicago.
Hurricane Live! 2032 · 1988Hurricane Live! 2032
1988
MovieAnimation
Elements of the Bubblegum Crisis series in an MTV-styled rock video. Clips from the series are combined with the music of Kinuko Omori and the Knight Sabers.
Wanna-Be's · 1986Wanna-Be's
★ 4.31986
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
A tag-team battle between the elegant girls of Dream Team and the heavy-face-painted women of Foxy Ladies. Naturally, the Dream Team gets the crap kicked out of them, but not before one of them makes one strong attempt at lifting the 250-pound Foxy lady over her head. The one`s to take their place are Eri and Miki of the Wanna-Be`s team. Miki and Eri are both just fun girls who want to have fun, but once they begin their new training with the mysterious Kidou Corporation, the same corporation that trained the Dream Team, they discover that there is something deeper behind their training.
Ten Little Gall Force · 1988Ten Little Gall Force
★ 4.01988
MovieAnimationComedy
A super deformed parody which depicts the "making of " Eternal Story and Destruction. A very humorous behind-the-scenes look (if "Gall Force" were a live-action series instead of being animated).
The Three Musketeers in Boots · 1972The Three Musketeers in Boots
★ 6.01972
MovieAnimationAdventure
Pero is back in Go Go Town, a fearful place in the Wild West that desperately awaits for a sheriff to come. In this town of no law and order, Pero and a boy named Jimmy try to help Annie, daughter of a saloon owner who has just been killed.
Gall Force: Earth Chapter · 1989Gall Force: Earth Chapter
★ 7.51989
MovieScience FictionAction
After the completion of Operation Exodus,the Earth-based forces must survive long enough for the Mars re-inforcements. During this time, Sandy Newman and her squad face a challenge to their military training in the form of a quasi-religious group called Geo Chris which endeavours to make the Earth green once more. Unknown to them, the plans Mars have drawn up will kill the machines and the forces fighting against them.
Idol Fighter Su-Chi-Pai II · 2003Idol Fighter Su-Chi-Pai II
★ 4.02003
MovieActionAnimation
A bunny alien, a maid-dominatrix, a cyborg, a magical girl, and a transforming super hero set out to vanquish a set of monsters to retrieve a set of magical Mahjong tiles known as the Pai - these ancient artifacts will grant the one who gathers them a wish, and these girls aren't going to let anything stand in their way - monsters, or each other!
Hurricane Live! 2033 · 1990Hurricane Live! 2033
1990
MovieScience FictionAnimation
Hurricane Live 2033: More Music of the Bubblegum Crisis spotlights the music that helped to make 80's series The Bubblegum Crisis the popular early piece of anime that its become. The hard rock songs of Priss and the Replicants are played amidst a video montage of the series' most exciting action sequences, and rarely seen live footage from the musicians themselves is also included.
TV Shows
Bubblegum Crisis · 1987Bubblegum Crisis
★ 7.01987
SeriesAnimation
MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake.
A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo.
When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined.
Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.
Solty Rei · 2005Solty Rei
★ 6.52005
SeriesAnimation
It’s been twelve years since the Blast Fall, an unexplained disaster that left countless dead and many more maimed. Society is divided and every citizen feels the burn, most of all the Resembles – people whose mangled bodies have been rebuilt with high-tech prosthetic devices. Bounty hunter Roy Revant has seen it all, walking alone in this shattered city. That is, until the day a strange little girl named Solty falls from the sky straight into his heart. The search for family turns into a search for meaning and those that wield harsh power over society won’t go unnamed for long. Roy and Solty may seek different things… But who wants to search for truth alone?
Gunsmith Cats · 1995Gunsmith Cats
★ 7.11995
SeriesAnimationComedy
Rally Vincent knows her weapons well, while her partner Minne May Hopkins loves to play with explosives. The pair run a gun-shop illegally and one day Bill Collins of the ATF, blackmails Rally and Minnie May into working for the ATF. Little do they know, that they are getting involved in a mission larger than they could imagine.
Gall Force: Earth Chapter · 1989Gall Force: Earth Chapter
1989
SeriesAnimation
Many of Earth's survivors have been successfully evacuated to the Mars Base, leaving Sandy Neuman and the other remaining military forces to continue their fight against the machines. Thirty secret missile silos are the Earth forces' best bet to take down the MME citadel in Australia, but their comrades on Mars are hesitant to offer their support. Against all odds, Sandy and the gang must endure the bloodshed and try desperately to turn the tides of war - but the MME won't go down so easily...
Bubblegum Crash · 1991Bubblegum Crash
★ 6.11991
SeriesAnimation
MegaTokyo 2034: The saga of the Knight Sabers continues.
The group tries to find out who or what is behind the recent string of robberies, murders, and Boomer malfunctions which are somehow related to the creation of an advanced artificial intelligence.
Furthermore, it seems that the Knight Sabers may be breaking up.
Gall Force: New Era · 1991Gall Force: New Era
★ 7.01991
SeriesAnimation
Two hundred years have passed since mankind defeated the MME army and its leader, the artificial intelligence G.O.R.N. Earth has suffered war once more at the hands of Genova, the leader of a genetically modified evolution of humans known as the Yuman, and the effects of that war are visible even today. People now live in domed cities, population control is on the forefront of concern, and the planets are linked by a singular computer network. Now, fate strikes Earth once more as a Yuman man unleashes G.O.R.N. into the network, reviving its desires to exterminate humanity from the entire universe! It's up to the aging android Catty and a team of women to help save all mankind once more!