TV series
Space Brothers
Overview
When they were young, the brothers Mutta and Hibito promised each other they would become astronauts. Now, in 2025, Hibito has followed his dream to become the first Japanese on the moon, but Mutta has just been fired from his job. His brother reminds him of their childhood promise, and Mutta decides once again to aim for space.
Details
- First air date
- 2012-03-31
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 99 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- Nippon TV, YTV
- Production
- TOHO, dentsu, Kodansha, A-1 Pictures, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Hiroaki Hirata as Mutta Nanba (voice)
- KENN as Hibito Nanba (voice)
- Masayuki Katou as Kenji Makabe (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Serika Itou / Mutta Nanba as a Boy (voice)
- Masako Ikeda as Sharon Kaneko (voice)
- Yuko Sanpei as Hibito Nanba as a Boy (voice)
- Shô Ryûzanji as Tadashi Hoshika (voice)
- Ryou Naitou as Yasushi Furuya (voice)
- Shintaro Asanuma as Yamato Mizoguchi (voice)
- Takanori Hoshino as Reiji Nitta (voice)
Creators and crew
- Koji Nagai - Producer
- Hideaki Uehara - Director
- Shigeru Ueda - Director
- Daisuke Tsukushi - Director
- Takahiro Harada - Director
- Matsuo Asami - Director
Seasons
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