Scissor Seven Season 1

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## Production

### Production Company

Aha Entertainment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xiao Feng Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Shanghai Magic Star Culture Media Co., Ltd.

### Producer

Shasha Zou, Xiaofeng He

**Scissor Seven Season 1** originally ran from April 25th, 2018 to June 20th, 2018 in China, and was released as a single season with the 4 OVA episodes on January 10th, 2020 on Netflix, with the original Mandarin, English, Japanese, French, and Spanish dubs.

It is a short 10 episode (see list) animated series and was the first work of Sharefun Studio. It follows the main character Seven, whose purpose is to make a name for himself as Chicken Island's strongest assassin while doubling as a hairstylist.

The first season is followed by 4 bonus OVAs. On Netflix, Season 1 and the OVAs are together as a 14-episode season.

## Synopsis

Seven is an amnesiac young man who becomes an assassin in order to make enough money to travel to Stan, a technologically advanced country that can help bring back his memories. As the show progresses, Seven learns about his past connections to the Killer League, an organization of Xuanwu

Seven is accompanied by his friend Dai Bo, a blue feathered chicken that is in charge of the hair salon Seven works at. Dai Bo aids Seven in his quest to be a professional killer. Clients that come into the hair salon typically ask Seven to kill someone, but it seems as though Seven doesn't have any talent as an assassin, as he fails most of his missions and/or (in some cases) saves the target.

## Production

### Production team

* Original work, supervision, series composition, editor: He Xiaofeng
* Character design: He Xiaofeng, Liang Xinru
* Chief Producer: Shasha Zou
* Producer: Luo Hao, Zhang Qi
* Planning: Sun Huasong, Wang Sixiao
* Producer: Zhu Jing
* Executive Producer: Zhao Han
* Publicity and distribution: Aha Entertainment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
* Music Production and Distribution: Running Monsters
* Voice-over production: Voicegem
* Dubbing Supervisor: Jiang Guangtao
* Animation Production: Guangzhou Xiao Feng Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
* Production: Aha Entertainment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xiao Feng Culture Communication Co. Ltd., Shanghai Magic Star Culture Media Co., Ltd.

### Chinese cast

* Seven: He Xiaofeng
* Dai Bo: Jiang Guangtao
* Xiao Fei: Zhao Han
* Thirteen: Duan Yixuan, Zeng Rong (child)
* Stan Robot: Zhao Han
* Chairman Jiang: Liu Xiaoqian
* Meow Kitty: Jiang Huiqin
* Mad Bark: Zhao Chengchen
* Underpants Man: 大师 (Master ?)
* Granny Chen: Liu Xiaoqian
* Cola: Zhu Rongrong
* Captain Jack: Congyu Yuan
* Ah Jun: Chen Shihao
* Ah Jie: Hou Junjie
* He Dachun: 斑马 (The Zebra ?)
* Qing Feng: Jiang Guangtao

### English cast

* Seven: Ronny Chieng
* Dai Bo: Jas Patrick
* Thirteen: Jennie Kwan
* Stan Robot: Dashiell McGaha-Schletter
* Prince of Stan: Crispin Freeman
* Chairman Jiang: Karen Huie
* Meow Kitty: Jill Bartlett
* Mad Bark: Lawrence Saint-Victor
* Ah Jie: Skip Stellrecht
* Da Fei: Aleks Le
* Chicken farm owner: Steve Blum

## Trivia

* Parts of the Season 1 soundtrack were removed in the Chinese mainland version because of a controversy around the artist's stance on the Hong Kong protests of 2019-2020. The original soundtrack is still in the Netflix version.
* In September 2021, Season 1 "刺客伍六七" was removed from Chinese streaming sites. It then was released again as "伍六七" ("Wu Liuqi") in October 26. Some scenes were changed due to censorship, especially those pertaining to injury of animals. The color of blood was also changed from red to black. Most notably, the episode "Mission 4: Killing Underpants Man" was deleted. This is attributed to an online article about the most violent shows viewable on Chinese platforms1

## External Sources

https://twitter.com/cuchallain/status/1441408314487676939?s=21