"Scryed" (2001) TV series

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Goro Taniguchi

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

4 July 2001 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

22 years ago, a bizarre uprising occurred in Japan's Yokohama region, destroying civilization, killing many...

Plot Keywords:

Anime

Cast

Steve Blum	...	Kazuma (1 episode, 2001)
Melissa Fahn	...	Cammy / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Barbara Goodson	...	Banka / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Tony Oliver	...	Elian / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Derek Stephen Prince	...	George Tatsunami (1 episode, 2001)
Michelle Ruff	...	Ayase Terada / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Doug Stone	...	Councilman / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Paul St. Peter	...	Biff / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Julie Ann Taylor	...	Chuka #2 / ... (1 episode, 2001)
Kirk Thornton	...	Hideki / ... (1 episode, 2001)

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Series Directed by
Goro Taniguchi		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Keisuke Iwata	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Shinichirô Kobayashi	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Hisanori Kunisaki	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Yasuaki Ide		(unknown episodes)
Mikio Sakai		(unknown episodes)
Hideyuki 'Daichi' Suzuki		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Direction by
Akira Suzuki		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Department
Masamitsu Hidaka	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Reiko Iwasawa	....	color designer (unknown episodes)
Mitsuko Kase	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Masaki Kitamura	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Rion Kujo	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Fuyu Kuroki	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Shinji Takamatsu	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Goro Taniguchi	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Sumio Watanabe	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Kazuo Yamazaki	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)
Takeshi Yoshimoto	....	storyboard artist: opening/ending credits (unknown episodes)
Naoyuki Yoshinaga	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Yasuo Uragami	....	sound director (unknown episodes)

Series Animation Department
Seiichi Hashimoto	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Hisashi Hirai	....	animation director: opening and ending credits / character design/animation director / ... (unknown episodes)
Kôji Itô	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Eiji Nakata	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Seiichi Nakatani	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Iwao Teraoka	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Yôichi Ueda	....	mechanical animation director (unknown episodes)
Masahiro Yamane	....	animation director: opening and ending credits / chief mechanical animation director / ... (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
Mikio Sakai	....	music arranger: "Drastic my Soul" (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
Tetsuya Fujita	....	translator (unknown episodes)
Shintaro Itoga	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Noriyuki Jinguji	....	visual concept (unknown episodes)
Hiroto Kato	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Toru Kitahata	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Rion Kujo	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Daiki Nishimura	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Kouji Ogata	....	guest alter design (unknown episodes)
Hirokazu Yamada	....	unit director (unknown episodes)
Takeshi Yoshimoto	....	chief unit director (unknown episodes)
Akira Yoshimura	....	unit director (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• TV Asahi

Distributors

• Cartoon Network (2005) (USA) (TV)
• Sotsu Agency

Special Effects

• Matrix

Other Companies

• APU Studio  recording studio
• Audio Planning U  sound production
• Bigbody  title design
• Jay Film Company  editing cooperation
• Q-Tec  video editing
• Winds  editing

Also Known As:

"s-CRY-ed" (Japan) (alternative transliteration) (USA) (alternative spelling)
"Sukuraido" (Japan)

Runtime:

25 min (26 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (DVD rating)

Company:

TV Asahi

Quotes:

[repeated line]
Biff Kun: HAMMER!

Soundtrack:

Reckless Fire

Some decent action, but overall rather boring

S.CRY.ED takes place in what could be the distant future, a world where a catastrophic event has shaken a section of the earth, giving select individuals from a certain generation the ability to use "alters," which is kind of a sort of magic, allowing them to transform objects and fight each other. (yes, you would think that they would find a good way to use these abilities, but no, all they do is fight each other.) There are two different types of alter users, "native alters" who live outside the walls of the city, simply trying to go on with their lives, and those alter users who are part of an organization known as HOLD, these alter users form an offshoot of HOLD called HOLY.

Kazuma is one such "Native Alter" with an amazingly strong alter. He works as a bounty hunter, until one day, HOLY comes, and everything changes.



The only thing I can really say about SCRYED, is that when everything is put together, what you basically get, is an OKAY anime. Nothing in the entire anime is really exceptional. The different Character designs are mostly rather unattractive, as are some of the characters themselves. Kazuma is your standard protagonist, strong and unpredictable, and always looking for a fight. Ryu, the strongest warrior from HOLY, is probably the coolest looking, but is still your standard antagonist.

The animation in this series is sometimes good, and sometimes rather bland. While none of the fights are what you would call jaw-dropping, since this IS an action anime, most of them come across as rather decent, if not rather silly.

The music switches between 80's punk rock, and some weird vocals that kind of sound like japanese hymns. Sometimes it fit, and sometimes it didn't. I did enjoy the opening theme though, and I always looked forward to watching it.

The last point I will bring up is the story, which started off simple enough, (I won't go into it, but it is pretty clear after watching just the first episode) but suddenly took a turn for the much more 'weird.' I don't really think the animators planned ahead, because after episode fifteen or so, the entire series is kind of a mess and by the end your just watching it to say you finished it, which is never good when your shelling out twenty bucks a dvd.

Overall, like I said before, this anime is just okay. Had the series continued to get better as it did from episodes 1-15, then this series probably would have gotten an A grade, but with the mess of the second half, the highest I can give this anime is C-.