The Insignia of Avan

The Insignia of Avan
Series	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (2020)
Episode no.	5 (Watch on Crunchyroll)
Airdate	31 October 2020
Japanese	アバンのしるし
Transliterated	Aban no Shirushi
Story arc	Birth Arc
Opening Theme	Ikiru o Suru
Ending Theme	Mother
Adapted from	Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15 (partial)
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"The Insignia of Avan" (アバンのしるし, "Aban no Shirushi") is the fifth episode of the 2020 2D and CG animated TV series, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai. It aired on 31 October 2020.

Summary

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Characters

• Hadlar
• Avan
• Dai
• Popp
• Brass
• Gomechan
• Vearn
• Flora (unnamed)
• Sovereign Rock Castle
• Gargoyle C (unnamed)
• Gargoyle D (unnamed)

Monsters

• Green dragon (unnamed)
• Hydra (unnamed)
• Walking corpse (unnamed)
• Emperor slime (unnamed)
• Skeleton (unnamed)
• Slime (unnamed)
• Muddy hand (unnamed)
• Funghoul (unnamed)
• Lump shaman (unnamed)
• Bewarewolf (unnamed)
• Harmour (unnamed)
• Treeface (unnamed)
• Gargoyle (unnamed)
• Jackanape (unnamed)
• Madusa (unnamed)
• Wrecktor (unnamed)
• Shaman (unnamed)
• Ghost (unnamed)
• Dracky (unnamed)
• Skeleton swordsman (DQIII design; unnamed)
• Infernal armour (unnamed)
• Living statue (unnamed)
• Infanticore (unnamed)
• Cumaulus (unnamed)
• Spitnik (unnamed)
• Firespirit (unnamed)
• Miasma (unnamed)
• Shadow (unnamed)
• Lesser demon (unnamed)
• Dancing flame (unnamed)
• Frostburn (unnamed)
• Magmalice (unnamed)
• Firn fiend (unnamed)
• Mummy boy (unnamed)
• Bone baron (unnamed)
• Hell gladiator (unnamed)
• Prestidigitator (DQIII design; unnamed)
• Hacksaurus (unnamed)
• Ethereal serpent (unnamed)
• Great dragon (unnamed)
• Prism peacock (unnamed)
• Balhib (unnamed)
• Knight errant (unnamed)
• Deadnaut (unnamed)
• Cloud surfer (unnamed)
• Dragster (unnamed)
• Fright knight (unnamed)
• Dullahan (unnamed)
• Tantamount (unnamed)
• Doomsday dragon (unnamed)

Spells

• Sizzle (Hadlar, reprise)
• Kaclang (Avan)
• Megante (Avan)
• Kafrizz (Hadlar)
• Kacrack (Dai)
• Boom (Hadlar)

Abilities

• Hell's Claw (Hadlar, unnamed)
• Avan Strash (Dai)

Items

• Insignia of Avan
• Chimaera wing

Eyecatch

• Sizzle; Heat-type spell
• Kaboom; Explosion-type spell

Manga differences

• Hadlar's belt has hexagons instead of pentagrams. The six-pointed star of evil is replaced by a hexagon too, as done in recent manga editions.
• Hadlar now silently allows Avan to say his farewells to his students.
• The close-quarters fight between Avan and Hadlar is extended; including Hadlar uppercutting Avan, maybe to mirror how Dai did the same to him with his Dragon Crest.
• Avan does not bleed from the forehead anymore and now sees a vision of Flora before casting his self-sacrifice spell, possibly inspired by a similar situation in a flashback of chapter 308.
• Removed Brass's flashback of Dai's Dragon Cret against the Killing Machine to protect Leona
• The tomb of Avan is added near the rock cut by Dai, showing what happened to his sword and glasses.
• Removed Hadlar's presentation of the Dark Army structure. Monsters that did not yet exist when the manga was published are added.

Trivia

• "Kigan-jou" (Demon Rock Castle) got changed to "Sovereign Rock Castle" in the Crunchyroll/Hulu localisation from Square Enix, while the manga and perfect book used Kigan-jou as English writing.
• An impact frame of Dai's Avan Strash is shaped like the Dragon Crest
• Avan's Kamikazee spell was left untranslated as "Megante", contrary to all other spells, maybe because the usual term was considered not politically correct. Dai's "Hyadain" spell was translated as "Kacrack", instead of its usual Kercrack localisation.

Credits

In order

Cast

• Dai: Atsumi TANEZAKI
• Gomechan: Ai FURIHATA
• Brass: Kenichi OGATA
• Popp: Toshiyuki Toyonaga
• Avan: Takahiro SAKURAI
• Vearn: Takaya HASHI
• Hadlar: Tomokazu SEKI
• Monsters
  • Misaki IKEDA
  • Koichi SOMA
  • Genta NAKAMURA
  • Takehiro HASU

In collaboration with Toei Movie Studios

Crew

• "Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai" (Shueisha "Weekly Shonen Jump")
  • Original Story: Riku Sanjo
  • Art: Koji Inada
  • Supervisor: Yuji Horii
• Planning
  • Yu Miyake
  • Atsushi SUZUKI
  • Marumo Rei (TV Tokyo)
  • Akio IYOKU
• Executive Producer
  • Ryutaro Ichimura
  • Hiroyuki Sakurada
• Producer
  • Keisuke NAITO
  • Hatsuo NARA (TV Tokyo)
  • Tetsuto MOTOYASU
• Planning Manager
  • Takafumi Ogura
  • Norio Yamakawa (TV Tokyo)
  • Katsura Naito
• Assistant Producer
  • Masahisa Nishiyama
  • Hideyoshi Nakamura (TV Tokyo)
• Series Composition: Katsuhiko CHIBA
• Music: Yuki HAYASHI
• Opening Theme: "Ikiru wo suru"
  • Song: Macaroni Enpitsu
  • Lyrics: Hattori
  • Composition: Hattori
  • Arrangement: Macaroni Enpitsu
  • (Toy's Factory)
• Production Manager
  • Yuki OHTA
  • Kiyofumi HORIKOSHI
• Art Design: Ayaka FUJII
• Colour Design: Aya MORI
• CG Director: Tomohiko TAKAHASHI
• Monster Design: Shuntarou Mura
• Prop Design: Hidemitsu MASUI
• Character Design: Emiko MIYAMOTO
• Series Director: Kazuya KARASAWA
• Animation Production: Toei Animation
• Production: TV Tokyo, The Adventure of Dai Production Committee
• Script: Katsuhiko CHIBA
• Key frame
  • Futoshi HIGASHIDE
  • Naoki MURAKAMI
  • Takashi Nozawa
  • Taku Hoshino
  • Miki KOMURO
  • Atsushi NIKAIDO
  • Hideki NAGASHIMA
  • Fumiaki KOUTA
  • Manabu IMURA
  • Atsuya Shimizu
  • Tatsuhiro NAGAKI
  • Kotani Hitomi
  • Chihiro SHIMADA
  • Hata Honoka
  • Kazumi NAKATSU
  • Kee FUJIIKE
  • Mutsumi Fujii
  • Ami Wataru
  • Kazuki Takenaga
  • Chizuru MORI
  • Hara Natsumi
  • Studio Cosmo
  • Toei Animation Philippines
  • Hideki KUBO
  • Shuntarou Mura
• Opening Animation Director: Emiko MIYAMOTO
• Opening Key frame: Naotoshi SHIDA
• Opening Photography
  • Takayuki Ogino
  • Mio NAKAYAMA
  • Liu Hanying
  • Shiori Kaneko
  • Yoshitaka MATSUURA
  • Masaaki KAMADA
• Ending Animation director: Emiko MIYAMOTO
• Ending Key frame: Tomoya NISHIGUCHI
• In-between frames
  • Toei Animation Philippines
  • Studio Kagura
  • Asahi Production
    • Hanao Iida
    • Liu Shikou
    • Hiroto Saito
    • Shinnosuke Tanaka
    • Takaki Hieda
    • Mutsumi Fujii
    • Shin Kashiwakuma
    • Chika Tomaru
    • Hirota Nobuyuki
• In-between frames Check: Yuuko MORIMOTO
• Colour Check: Aya MORI
• Digital Paint
  • Toei Animation Philippines
  • Studio Kagura
  • Asahi Production
• Backgrounds
  • Studio Pablo
  • Osamu IMAI
  • Kenji FUKUDA
  • Seina YAGUCHI
  • Mizuki Saito
  • Ayumi Horikawa
  • Rina Sasaki
  • Naoko KOSAKABE
• Art Setting: Ayaka FUJII
• CG Producer
  • Yuji YOKOO
  • Taichiro Miwa
• CG Asset
  • Katsuto Tomiyasu
  • Yutaka Yamaki
  • Lee GinMin
  • Jun Nomura
  • Noriko Murata
  • Seiichi Kuroda
  • Junya Nakatani
  • Takashi Ino
  • Satoshi Nakajima
  • Norie Hirosawa
• CG Animation
  • Masayuki KOIZUMI
  • Keisuke Kunisada
  • Takashi Adachi
  • Guo Chogi
• CG Effect
  • Atsushi Nishimura
  • Yasuyuki SUZUKI
  • Kohei Kida
  • Tatsuya Takeuchi
  • Ryoichi MATSUMOTO
• Director of Photography: Shinichi IGARASHI
• Photography
  • Studio Twinkle
  • Masayuki IWATA
  • Shintaro Sakai
  • Hiroshiro Iwamoto
  • Shiga Jie
  • Ryota Okawara
  • Misato KATAYAMA
  • Megumi Hamada
  • Akane SHIMIZU
• Editing: Eiichi NISHIMURA
• Recording: Mitsuharu ITO
• Recording Assistant: Takashi SHIBATA
• Sound Effects: Yoko SAKURAI (Swara Pro)
• Music Selection: Yasuno SATO
• Director Assistant: Takao Kiriyama
• Production Advancement: Yaegashi Ichiro
• Art Manager: Maoki SAWADA
• Finishing Manager: Ido Hiroyoshi
• CG Manager: Shou UENO
• Recording: Moe Sebe
• Casting: Moriyoshi MATSUYAMA
• Assistant Producer
  • Seira Miyamori
  • Momoko Takayanagi (TV Tokyo)
• Ending: "mother"
  • Song: Macaroni Enpitsu
  • Lyrics: Hattori
  • Composition: Hattori
  • Arrangement: Macaroni Enpitsu
  • (Toy's Factory)
• Sound Production: Tavac
• Recording Studio: Studio Jumo
• Online Editing
  • Toei Digital Lab
  • Masashi Koyama
• Music Collaboration
  • Toei Animation Music Publishing
  • TV Tokyo Music
• Promotion Programming: Mayuko Oe (TV Tokyo)
• Promotion
  • Minoru YOSHIDA
  • Shiho TSUYUKI
  • Yusuke MOTOYOSHI
• Collaboration
  • V Jump Saikyo Jump Editorial Department
  • Yasuhiko Saito
  • Kim Sung-kyu
• Art: Ayaka FUJII
• Chief Animation Director: Emiko MIYAMOTO
• Animation Director
  • Yuya TAKAHASHI
  • Shuuichirou MANABE
• Episode Director: Kazuya KARASAWA
• Production: TV Tokyo, The Adventure of Dai Production Committee
• ©SANJO RIKU, INADA KOJI/ SHUEISHA, The Adventure of Dai Project
• ©SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.

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