Witch Hunter Robin (film)

Witch Hunter Robin is a Japanese anime series created by Sunrise. It follows the STN-J, the Japanese branch of a secret global organization called "SOLOMON" that fights the harmful use of witchcraft, using a database of those who have (or inherited from their parents) the power of witchcraft in order to arrest or eliminate them should their powers "awaken". The series focuses on one of the STN-J's members, Robin Sena.

Cast

Akeno Watanabe - Robin Sena
Dorothy Elias-Fahn - Additional Voices / -
Dave Mallow - Shohei Hattori
Jerry Gelb - Master (Yuji Kobari)

Mela Lee - Toko Masaki
Tony Oliver - Custodian
Catherine Battistone - Methuselah
Michael Forest - Inquisitor
Kirk Thornton - Shiro Masuda

Steven Jay Blum - Akio Kurosawa

Johnny Yong Bosch - Haruto Sakaki
Richard Cansino - Yutaka Kobari

Richard Epcar - Kannosaki
Crispin Freeman - Amon
Jun Fukuyama - Haruhito Sakaki

Barbara Goodson - Toudo's Mother
Julianne Grossman - Secretary, Keiko Muramatsu
Kyôko Hikami - Yurika Dojima
Michihiro Ikemizu - Takuma Zaizen
Kaho Kôda - Miho Karasuma
Steve Kramer - Syndicate Gunman #3, Thug
Lex Lang - Juzo Narumi, Thug
Wendee Lee - Miho Karasuma
Julie Maddalena - Young Methuselah

Michael McConnohie - Yuji Higashi, News Anchor, Detective, Kazuma Kurata, Tsuneo Tazawa, Seiichiro Aramune, Factory Technician, Additional Voices
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn - Jeanne, Mamoru Kudo, Old Lady, Additional Voices
Therese Nguyen - Minori Nakayama
Tony Pope - Suzuki, Director
Jamieson Price - Takuma Zaizen
Michelle Ruff - Yurika Dojima
Barry Stigler - Mafia Member #2, Old Man at Bar
Doug Stone - Chief Kosaka
Paul St. Peter - Hiroshi Honma, Kiyoshi Matsunaga

Karen Strassman - Chie, Lisa Kayama, Saki Yoshioka
Jessica Straus - Hitomi
Takuma Takewaka - Amon
Julie Anne Taylor - Eiko Yano
Shinpachi Tsuji - Chief Kosaka
Kari Wahlgren - Robin Sena
Akino Watanabe - Robin Sena
Dave Wittenberg - Michael Lee
Tom Wyner - Juliano
Hiro Yuuki - Michael Lee

Theme songs
Opening: Shell
Performance: Bana
Lyrics: Hitomi Mieno
Composition/arrangement: Hideyuki Daichi Suzuki
Ending: half pain
Performance: Bana
Lyrics: Hitomi Mieno
Composition: Takao Asami
Arrangement: Taku Iwasaki

Staff
Planning: Sunrise
Original concept: Hajime Yatate, Shukou Murase
Director: Shukou Murase
Character designs: Kumiko Takahashi
Music: Taku Iwasaki
Production: Sunrise, Bandai Visual

Plot
Robin Sena is a "craft user", born in Japan and raised by the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. She is trained to use her craft (fire) to hunt down witches. Witchcraft is a genetic trait, dormant within a number of individuals within the human population. However, powers can be "awakened" in these dormant human "seeds" at any time. Trained hunters, usually craft-users or "seeds" themselves, are needed to keep watch over "seeds" and hunt those whose abilities become active, serving in secret organizations, such as the parent branch "Solomon" (and the "STN-J" branch in Japan), as self-appointed witch police to curtail the use of witchcraft in society, and to keep the witch kind in secret from the public. Even police, who cooperates with STN-J in abnormal criminal cases, do not know what STN-J does.

The series begins when Robin arrives in Japan to gain information for Solomon headquarters about a fabled item that holds the "secrets of the craft", while acting undercover as a new hunter to the STN-J in their efforts to capture witches. It is hinted that she subconsciously understands something of the STN-J's use of Orbo when she refuses to wear the necklaces the hunters wear with it, saying it sickens her.

Orbo is a green liquid that negates witch abilities. STN-J's hunters carry small vials of it on necklaces as a form of protection against their targets' craft. Hunters also carry air pistols which fire darts or pellets of orbo that dampen witch powers when it enters the bloodstream of the target witch. Hunters who are craft-users or seeds can use orbo with little ill effects (their powers are reportedly diminished while using it). Robin, a craft user herself, says that she will not keep orbo on her because "it's disgusting."

As the series goes on, Robin grows increasingly uncomfortable with her role in hunting and capturing other witches. She begins to question the treatment they receive while incarcerated in the mysterious "Factory". After the discovery of "secrets of the craft," she was entrapped and attacked twice by "witch bullets". Aside from that, STN-J is attacked, presumably for "secrets of the craft" (though as it turned out, the last attack was Solomon's attack to find out what Zeizen was planning).

Robin begins to worry that she will become a target and grows to suspect that her partner Amon would hunt her. Eventually, Robin does become a target of Solomon and labeled a witch, becoming "hunted". In the end, Robin finds out more about her craft and that of witches than she knew at the beginning.

Initially, the series appears to take a "monster of the week" approach. About halfway through the 26-episode season, the characters and the relationships between them are established and the main plot gets underway.

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