Battle Programmer Shirase

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Battle Programmer Shirase

バトルプログラマーシラセ (Battle Programmer Shirase)
Genre	Comedy
TV anime
Directed by	Hiroki Hayashi
Studio	G Plus
Network	TV Kanagawa
Original run	3 October 2003 – 4 January 2004
No. of episodes	15

Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ, Battle Programmer Shirase^?) is an anime TV series aired in 2003 and produced by AIC. The series' story focus is on computers and ecchi comedy.

The story of BPS revolves around a "free programmer" named Akira Shirase. He's a very talented, yet mysterious computer programmer. Because of his incredible abilities, he's contacted by several individuals (curiously, all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking/security jobs. He's a very quiet guy who lives alone in a small apartment near his niece's house.

The original series spans 5 story arcs across 15 episodes of 12 minutes each.

1 Characters
2 Music
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Characters

Akira Shirase (白瀬慧, Akira Shirase^? voiced by: Nakai Kazuya): He's the main character of the story. Akira is a very talented computer connoisseur and is known in the hacking world as Battle Programmer Shirase (which is typically shortened to BPS). A genius in computer hacking and security who can do anything on any computer, or a phone.

Misao Amano (天野美紗緒, Misao Amano^? voiced by: Fukuen Misato): Misao is Akira's great-niece. She's a very shy girl who loves to spend her time with Akira, who she often refers to as onii-chan. She cares for him deeply and it's very common to see her cooking for him or worrying about him. Sometimes, Misao says mau-mau, which doesn't have an actual meaning (this may be a "cute" form of speech the creators added for her to please fans of cute anime girls).

Misao shares both a name and a general image with a major character in the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy TV series (known in its US release as Magical Project S), and some fans have speculated that she actually is the same character transplanted to a new series.

[edit] Music

There are two theme songs used in the series. The opening theme (OP) is called "Suddenly" by Naomi Amagata. The closing theme (ED) is "Pure Enough" by Yuki Matsuura.

[edit] Trivia

The final episode of the show made the unusual step of explicitly thanking not only the local Japanese viewers, but also those in the fansub community: It was addressed to "those who enjoy the show on TV, and to those outside the broadcast area who took special measures to watch the show on their PC monitors, and to everyone who watched it subtitled overseas without permission." (Quoted in Anxious times in the cartoon underground.)