Bio Hunter
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![]() DVD cover of Bio Hunter
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バイオ・ハンター (Baio Hantā) |
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Genre | Mystery, Psychological horror |
Manga | |
Written by | Fujihiko Hosono |
Published by | Scola |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Comic Burger |
Original run | 1989 – 1990 |
Volumes | 1 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Yuzo Sato |
Written by | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
Music by | Masamichi Amano |
Studio | Madhouse |
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Released | December 8, 1995 |
Runtime | 60 minutes |
Bio Hunter (バイオ・ハンター Baio Hantā?) is a Japanese manga series authored by Fujihiko Hosono. It tells the story about two molecular biologists, Koshigaya and Komada who take on humans with strange viruses that make them less human and more demonic. It was serialized in the Scola manga magazine Comic Burger.
The manga was also adapted into an hour-long single-episode anime OVA, produced by Madhouse Studios and Toei Video, directed by Yuzo Sato and scripted by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It was distributed throughout the United States and Canada by Urban Vision. The English dub is distributed by MVM Films in the United Kingdom and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
Characters
- Komada (Japanese voice actor: Toshihiko Seki, English dub: Matt McKenzie)
- Koshigaya – (Japanese voice actor: Kazuhiko Inoue, English dub: Matt K. Miller)
- Sayaka – (Japanese voice actor: Yuko Minaguchi, English dub: Sherry Lynn)
- Bokuda – (Japanese voice actor: Chikao Ōtsuka, English dub: Mike Reynolds)
- Tabe – (Japanese voice actor: Tarô Ishida, English dub: Barry Stigler)
- Mikawa – (Japanese voice actor: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo, English dub: Jamie Hanes)
- Mary – (Japanese voice actor: Rei Igarashi, English dub: Barbara Goodson)
- Boss – (Japanese voice actor: Yutaka Shimaka, English dub: John Hostetter)
- Police Officer (Japanese voice actor: Daiki Nakamura)
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- Works by Fujihiko Hosono