Bart Garsus is a first-class citizen from Taraak, coming from rich parents who owned a food production company. He is initially an easily excitable, weak, and cowardly character, and ends up becoming the helmsman of the Nirvana when the ship chose him for the job. Early in Vandread: The Second Stage, Bart showed compassion for a sick little girl on a polluted planet. She listened to his embellished stories and laughed at his jokes. When a Harvest ship came to the planet, he showed courage for the first time by fighting them off almost single handedly with the weapons of the Nirvana. But while he was gone, she died from her illness. She left a doll of Bart she was making, without finishing the hair, so Bart shaved his head in memory of her. Towards the end of the series, he develops feelings for BC, not knowing her secret, but even after he finds out, he is not swayed, and continues to pursue BC for a relationship. While more settled late in the series, Bart remains a comic relief character. (Source: Wikipedia)

Life sucks for Hibiki. Intergalactic society has broken into civil war between males and females; he's stuck on the assembly line for war mecha, relentlessly teased by his co-workers and unable to pursue his dreams of building his own mecha one day. He finally decides he's had enough though, and attempts to break in and steal a mech for his own purposes; this turns out to be a bad idea, thrusting him into the middle of a fever-pitch space battle that brings him face to face with the enemy and launches him into an adventure that will change his mundane life forever. 
(Source: AnimeNfo)

__Height:__ 174 cm

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A Japanese voice actor, stage actor, narrator and singer affiliated with talent agency [Atomic Monkey](http://www.atomicmonkey.jp/jp/), having previously worked under [Haikyou](https://haikyo.co.jp/). He's also a chair member of creative production team HeroQ, which he joined in 1994.

__Non-anime voice roles:__
- Miguel O'Hara - *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023 Film; JP dub)
- Toad - *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* (2023 Film; JP dub)
- Marc Spector/Moon Knight, Steven Grant/Mr. Knight, Jake Lockley - *Moon Knight* (2022 TV; JP dub)
- Siegfried Kaslana - Honkai Impact 3rd (VG)

He is known for playing tough or grouchy men in dubbed anime and video games. His career includes Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi and Jin in Samurai Champloo. He also played numerous cameos and minor characters in Rurouni Kenshin, in addition to the major character of Hajime Saito. He also does Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo as well as Gabumon and other voices in Digimon.  According to Anime News Network, Thornton has the most credits of any male voice actor and he is second in total voice actor credits only next to Wendee Lee. He has been in nearly two hundred voice-over productions for Japanese animation.  Thornton is also well-known for having played many different minor voice roles throughout the Power Rangers franchise (and similar series such as VR Troopers and Masked Rider).  Thornton has also had experience with ADR direction. Currently, he is co-directing the ADR for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee.

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Ricardo Sakamoto Sawaya, better known as Ricardo Sawaya, is a Brazilian actor, voice actor and dubbing director.

_Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat X, 11 & 1)
- Kotarō Katsura (Gintama 2: Rules are Made to be Broken)
- Long (Wish Dragon)
- Shirako Takamoto (Hot Wheels: Acceleracers franchise)
- Andrew Baines "Andy" Bernard (The Office)
- Mitchell Vincent Pritchett (Modern Family)
- Philip Blake / The Governor (The Walking Dead)
- Randall Park (Marvel Cinematic Universe, Always Be My Maybe and Blockbuster)
- Floyd Lawton / Deadshot (Injustice 2 and LEGO DC Super-Villains)
- Dick Grayson / Nightwing (LEGO DC Super-Villains)
- Griffon Minos (Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul)
- Ed (2nd voice; Parks and Recreation)
- Gil (Midnight In Paris)
- Chirrut Îmwe (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
- Doctor Mark Devanow (2nd dub; Mad About You)
- Doctor Curt Connors / Lizard (Ultimate Spider-Man)
- Raúl Lázaro (Trese)
- Thor (1st dub; The Super Hero Squad Show)
- H.E.R.B.I.E. (2nd dub; The Super Hero Squad Show)
- Chris Miller (Detroit Become Human)
- Mark Cheung (Batman: Arkham Knight)
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Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? 
(Source: AnimeNfo)

Vandread The First Stage (season one) was immediately followed up by this TV special. This TV special, also known as Vandread Taidouhen Stage (The Movement Stage) was a recap of the first 13 episodes with additional footage. So, Vandread Taidouhen is not really a bridge between Vandread The First Stage and Vandread The Second Stage (season two). It was made to bring new viewers up to date as to what happened during the first season 
(Source: AniDB)

Vandread Gekitouhen (Vandread Turbulence), similiar to Vandread Taidouhen, is an OVA summary of Vandread the Second Stage plus several extra scenes 
(Source: AniDB)