Pita-Ten

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Pita-Ten
ぴたテン
Genre	Comedy, Romance, Magical girl
Manga
Author	Koge-Donbo
Publisher	MediaWorks Tokyopop
Demographic	Shōnen
Serialized in	Dengeki Comic Gao!
Original run	August 27, 1999 – June 27, 2003
Volumes	8
TV anime
Director	Reiji Nishiyama
Studio	Broccoli
Network	Animax, TV Osaka, TV Tokyo
Original run	April 7, 2002 – September 29, 2002
Episodes	26
Light novel
Author	Yukari Ochiai
Illustrator	Koge-Donbo, Rina Yamaguchi
Publisher	Dengeki Bunko Seven Seas Entertainment
Demographic	Male
Published	April 10, 2002 – February 10, 2003
Volumes	3

Pita-Ten (ぴたテン, Pita-Ten^?) is a Japanese manga created by Koge-Donbo which was serialized in MediaWorks' shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao! between August 27, 1999 and June 27, 2003; eight bound volumes were released. The manga has been translated into English by Tokyopop.^[1] The manga was adapted into an anime by Akemi Menda and Yasuko Kobayashi that aired on TV Tokyo between April and September 2002, comprising twenty-six episodes.^[2] The title Pita-Ten is short for "Pittari Tenshi" (ぴったり天使, "Pittari Tenshi"^? lit. "clinging angel"). The plot of Pita-Ten centers primarily on the upbeat character Misha and her attempts to become a licensed angel, and Kotarou, her neighbor. It is generally light-humored, but the anime and the manga end with a serious tone. Three light novels, written by Yukari Ochiai, were published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko label between April 2002 and February 2003. The novels have been licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment for release in English, and the first novel was released in March 2008; the second volume is due out in July 2008, and the third will follow in November 2008.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Games 3 Media 3.1 Anime episode list 3.2 Music 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of Pita-Ten characters

Kotarou Higuchi (樋口 湖太郎, Higuchi Kotarō^?)

A calm and collected sixth grader. He looks after himself and lives with his father. It is explained during the story that his mother died while saving him from being run over when he was younger. Kotarou learns new skills and becomes happier once Misha moves in next to him. Kotarou is the reincarnation of his granduncle, Kotaroh (manga only). He has purple hair.

Misha (美紗, Misha^?)

This cute and perky angel is Kotarou's new next-door neighbor and her main passion in life is stalking and glomping Kotarou. She's an apprentice angel (anime) or unofficial angel (manga) who speaks like a small child and tries to make everybody around her happy; consequentially making matters worse. She is very hyper and outgoing around Kotarou (for example, her first line said to him in both versions is "Will you go out with me?!"). She is happy and optimistic, and has always managed to keep on smiling. She becomes best friends with Shia when Shia moves into her home. As a young angel, Misha befriended Kotaroh, Kotarou's granduncle Like Bunnies. However, when she was told to return to heaven, Kotaroh committed suicide. Misha was blamed for the incident and punished, being forced to wear black and kept trapped in a thorn cage. During her time on earth, her exam to become a fully licensed angel is to make Kotarou happy. (Manga Only)She has pink hair. Very very long, puffy hair. With bunnies as the ears.

Shia (紫亜, Shia^?)

A very polite and quiet girl who is great at cooking and cleaning. A demon (manga), or demon apprentice (anime), she is outwardly gentle and kind-hearted, and is not very good at being malicious or at killing humans. She is generally weak - more so when her staff breaks under Misha's angelic influence. In the TV series, she dies from failing to become a full demon. However, Misha gives herself up by making some kind of medicine that made people forget her, and remember Shia. Once the people remembered Shia, Shia came back to life. Later, Misha's sister saves her with her full angel's power. (Manga) In the past, there was an incident in the underworld and Shia was transported to earth in a human form. She was found and taken in by a wealthy rice merchant, who renamed her Shima. Shima fell in love with Kotarou's great grandfather, Taro. They have two children named Kotaroh (Kotarou's granduncle) and Shino (Kotarou's grandmother) When Shima becomes too weak and almost takes Kotaroh's life force, she goes with Klaus (Nya) who earases her memory of Taro and her children. During her time with Kotarou and Misha, Shia is trying to find out about her past. In volume 7 of the manga, Shia dies because she needed life from Kotarou-kun in order to stay alive, and because life essence from Misha-san had poisoned her. (Manga) She has brown and black hair and she is kind.

Takashi "Ten-chan" Ayanokoji (綾小路 天, Ayanokōji Takashi^?)

Nicknamed Ten-chan , Takashi is nothing short of a "ladies' man" who is the best friend of Kotarou and Koboshi since they were six. He's great at sports, outgoing and never has to study to get good grades! Despite his perfect grades and popularity, he has a troubled home life and has develops a crush on Shia. Although they never become a couple, they do become friends. In the manga, Ten-chan tells Shia his feelings for her, and admits to Kotarou his previous feelings for Koboshi.

Koboshi Uematsu (植松 小星, Uematsu Koboshi^?)

This semi-sweet loudmouth has the hots for Kotarou and can't stand the fact that Misha is homing in on her territory. Koboshi is depicted as a very assertive character. She loves Kotarou greatly but is too embarrassed to confess her feelings to him. She enjoys having a normal, routinely basis of her every day life; from meeting Kotarou in the morning to talking to him during the day, until Misha showed up. Koboshi wears cat-shaped ears on her head every day, but they are not real or attached to her. She is liable to get angry and be very overprotective, causing her to be constantly irritated by Misha's childish antics and attachment to "her Kotarou-chan". In volume * of the manga, Koboshi reveals her feelings to Kotarou, who is shocked and freaked out. She is rejected and goes into depression, but she soon finds her way and starts becoming more confident in herself and around Kotarou.

Hiroshi "Dai-chan" Mitarai (御手洗 大, Mitarai Hiroshi^?)

Nicknamed both Dai-chan and "Poops" (a play on the Japanese characters of his name, which mean "bathroom"), is one of the few characters who is almost always consistent, storyline-wise, in both the anime and the manga. He is a pre-pubescent eccentric who is totally obsessed with trying to out-do Takashi, no matter what. Hiroshi does not know that Shia is a demon and Misha is an angel; but he is strict and knowledgeable in traditional Japanese arts, so he is able to guess, (often to the annoyance of the other three kids, when he attempts to exorcise Shia and cling to Misha). Despite this, Hiroshi works hard to stand up to his family name, the great Mitarai dynasty, but falls behind Takashi in grades.

Kaoru Mitarai (御手洗 薫, Mitarai Kaoru^?)

Hiroshi's pretty younger sister. She is a highly skilled culinary expert with a serious infatuation with Takashi, — she cooks for him and plans marriage. She reacts violently to anybody who would dare to be mean to Takashi or Hiroshi, though she does value Takashi slightly more than her brother. Kaoru appears reasonably regularly in the anime, but extremely rarely in the manga (she is the only character who was removed from the cast page).

Shino (紫乃, Shino^?)

Kotarou's maternal cousin. She is a small child with a free spirit, but when she gets upset, she gets upset very quickly and easily, and hates being left alone. She, like Kotarou, can see angels, demons and ghosts.

Nya (ニャー, Nyā^?)

A little black cat that is always with Shia who was named by Misha (since the sound a cat makes, "nyo" or "nya" in Japanese). He insists that it is not his real name, but he never reveals it (only in the manga). Nya, who is a full demon, despises Sasha (and the feeling is mutual). His 'human form' is shown in the manga, and he turns out to be very violent. When Shia dies, he says, "I guess I was wrong. [She] turned out to be quite the demon, didn't she? Taking the weakest parts of human hearts and wreaking havoc with it and fate itself. She did it to you [Kotarou], your friend [Ten-chan], that pathetic fool Taro, ..and...me as well." which suggests he did have some care for Shia. He is also known as "Klaus" in some cases.

Sasha (早紗, Sasha^?)

Sasha is Misha's older sister and a fully-fledged angel. She has a small rivalry with Nya and tests Misha for both of her angel exams. She sometimes likes to be referred to as "Sacchun" and has an infactuation with Takashi Ayanokoji.

Taro Higuchi (樋口 太郎, Higuchi Tarō^?)

Kotarou's great-grandfather who fell in love with Shima, Shia's past self.

Kotaroh Higuchi (樋口 小太郎, Higuchi Kotarō^?)

Taro's first child (his name, ko-Tarō, literally means "little-Tarou", meaning "Tarou Junior") and Kotarou's granduncle (manga only). Kotaroh loved Misha dearly, and asked her to go out with him. Misha (being an angel and did not know what that meant) did not understand, so Kotaroh explained that he wanted to be with her forever (this is why Misha asked Kotarou to go out with her in the present time on their first meeting). But what Misha was doing (visiting Kotaroh) was against the rules in Heaven, and she was scolded and ordered to be sent back to Heaven by Sacchan. After he overheard this, Kotaroh decided he would go to Heaven with Misha, and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff to his death. However, because he was half demon, no one knows what happened to his body or soul until he was reincarnated as Kotarou.

[edit] Games

release in Japan for Dreamcast,Wonderswan,Gameboy advance,Playstation 2,Nintendo ds,and,swancrystal and logos games Koge-donbo and Holey.

• Pita-ten:Bunny-chans (Dreamcast)
• Pita-ten:Fantasy Star(Playstation 2)
• Pita-ten:Juice Battle(Gameboy advance)
• Pita-ten:Drill aka Juice(Crystalswan)
• Koge-donbo Rose Fighting (Nintendo ds)
• Pita-ten Drop-out Party (Wonderswan)
• Pita-ten Luv mix-up puzzle(Playstation 2)

[edit] Media

[edit] Anime episode list

#	Title	Original air date
01	"How To Get Along With an Angel" "Tenshi to no Tsukiaikata" (天使とのつきあい方)	2002-04-07
Kotaro lives with his father. Most of the time he's alone. He meets an extremely hyper girl named Misha who lives next door .
02	"How To Make A Yummy Apple Pie" "Oishii Appuru Pai no Tsukurikata" (おいしいアップルパイの作り方)	2002-04-14
Koboshi frantically tries to show her love for Kotaro by making an apple pie.
03	"How To Have Fun at 'Test Your Courage' Day" "Kimodameshi no Tanoshimikata" (きもだめしの楽しみ方)	2002-04-21
On the Test Your Courage Day, Kotaro accidentally goes into a haunted house. Kotaro, Koboshi-chan, and Ten-chan find out that Misha is an angel.
04	"How To Have Fun When Going Into an Onsen" "Tanoshii Onsen no Hairikata" (楽しい温泉の入り方)	2002-04-28
Misha wins some hot spring tickets and everyone goes. Misha tries to "cleanse" Kotaro, thus making him unconscious. Shia is introduced in this episode while "inflicting great pain" on Kotaro.
05	"How To Look For A Part-Time Job" "Arubaito no Sagashikata" (アルバイトの探し方)	2002-05-05
Shia tries to get a part-time job. She takes a job at a cafè called Tricot.
06	"How To Make a New Friend" "Atarashii Tomodachi no Mukaekata" (新しいともだちの迎え方)	2002-05-12
Hiroshi Mitarai is introduced in the series. He is crazy about Misha. Kotaro begins to have feelings for Misha.
07	"How To Play Pranks" "Itazura no Shikata" (いたずらの仕方)	2002-05-19
Kaoru tries to make life for Ten miserably in revenge for her brother but she doesn't realise that she is really playing pranks on Kotaro which seem to backfire on Hiroshi.
08	"How To Fight Your Rival" "Raibaru to no Tatakaikata" (対決の仕方)	2002-05-26
Hiroshi tries to beat Ten at everything but fails and makes a fool of himself.
09	"A Happy Summer angel bunny." "Tenshi no Mitsukekata" (天使の見つけ方)	2002-06-01
Hiroshi nearly finds out that Misha is an angel when she flies but luckily they all come up with an excuse that it was the costume This Summer gave to Misha which made her fly.
10	"How To Reconciliate Skillfully" "Jōzu na Nakanaori no Shikata" (上手な仲直りの仕方)	2002-06-08
Misha breaks Kotaro's mother's cup which upsets him and he ignores Misha, Misha gets very upset and tried to fix the broken cup by using an item she brought from heaven which she split on her friends and they all get stuck together to the ones they do not get along with. Will they ever get un-stuck? and will Kataro ever forgive Misha?
11	"How to Invite Someone to a Wonderful Dance" "Suteki na Dansu no Sasoikata" (素敵なダンスの誘い方)	2002-06-15
Ten starts to be concerned about his feelings towards Shia and gets all depressed, his grades are dropping and his friends give him a cheer up party, Ten meets Shia in the park and asks her for a dance. He eventually cheers up the day after. The group finds out that Shia is a demon.
12	"How to Collect Trifles" "Garakuta no Atsumekata" (ガラクタの集め方)	2002-06-22
Ten-Chan is troubled about Shia being a demon. Meanwhile, Misha tries to help out Kotaro but causes trouble for the town, at the end of the episode, she says that she loves Kotaro.
13	"How To Walk Into A Castle" "Oshiro no Arukikata" (お城の歩き方)	2002-06-29
Kotaro and friends go to Hiroshi's house to study about materials, Kotaro and Koboshi gets lost in Hiroshi's big house and is tested by robots. Misha and Shia make oden for everyone but spills it when they trip over on Hiroshi. Near the end of the episode, Kotaro finds out that angels' also have to have tests.
14	"How To Feel Happy" "Shiawase no Kanjikata" (しあわせの感じ方)
The exams have finally started, Misha receives a notification on the date of her exams which is about what happiness is, Nya tells Shia to ruin it but Shia doesn't. Misha gives Kotaro a pencil that gives you good grades but Kotoro is sent to the staff office for using it and is scolded and is required to retake the test. He is annoyed with Misha and Misha studies on the roof to not annoy Kotaro. Kotaro brings Misha food and is not angry with Misha anymore. Ten-Chan beats Hiroshi in the exams. Hiroshi is horrified.
15	"How To Play In The Amusement Park" "Yūenchi no Asobikata" (遊園地のあそび方)	2002-07-06
Kataro gets a little painful visit from his cousin Shino and his Uncle but his uncle has to go on a business trip so they go to the amusement park. Just when you think that this would be a care free episode without Hitoshi ruining the romance, He appears along with his sister. Shino runs away after hearing about his dad being in the hospital and the crew tries to find Shino. Misha is spotted flying with Kotaro whilst searching for Shino, they finally find her and Misha takes her to see her father.
16	"How To Walk like a girl." "Gekai no Arukikata" (下界の歩き方)	2002-07-13
Misha's sister Sasha visits Earth and is attracted to Ten. Shia and Misha are 2 girls are after seeing his *cute* charms,Honey but she is shocked when she first meets Kotaro because can see spirits and ghosts. She is also shocked finding out that Shia is a demon along with Nya. Sasha becomes frustrated on having an angel and demon living together Sasha and Nya have a magic fight but Sasha's spell is deflected onto Kotaro which makes Kotaro Sporty and smart For that Rabbitgirl. Kotaro becomes amazing at football but then is altered to being heavy and light when magic spells are used on him by Nya and Sasha. They then continue to cause havoc between Misha and her friends forever to that Girl. Sasha leaves when she is late for a boy's choir concert.
17	"How To Enjoy Your Holiday" "Kyūjitsu no Tanoshimikata" (休日の楽しみ方)	2002-07-20
The group decide to go to the cinema after Ten-chans uncle gives them movie tickets for there hard work, Kotaro, Misha and Koboshi chooses to watch a dinosaur movie whilst Ten and Shia watch a romance movie, Kaoru spots Ten and Shia entering the cinema and misunderstands it as a date, she is then possessed by Nya who has devilish thoughts...again. Kaoru becomes berserk and frightens the customers in the cinema. She chases and then fights Shia in the park. Will Kaoru ever be back to normal again? Watch it and see!
18	"How To Spend Your Vacation" "Bakansu no Sugoshikata" (バカンスのすごし方)	2002-07-27
The group is invited to go to Mitarai's family beach resort, they all get changed to their swimsuits to go swimming, but can Hiroshi really swim?
19	"How An Apprentice Angel Does Her Best" "Minarai Tenshi no Ganbarikata" (見習い天使のがんばり方)
Misha's angel qualification test's are here, She becomes an Angel-For-One-Day and is examined by her sister to see if she qualifies or not, will she pass or will she fail?
20	"How To Find Things You've Lost" "Nakushita Mono no Mitsukekata" (なくしたものの見つけ方)	2002-08-03
Misha is missing! The crew try find her, everyone is down as Misha has not returned home for a week yet. Misha returns later because she went to heaven to order another passing exam. Heaven and Earth times are different as she went to heaven for a day but in earth time it is 1 week. Kotaro speaks out his true feelings to himself at the end.
21	"How Girls Do Their Best" "Onna no Ko no Ganbarikata" (女の子のがんばり方)	2002-08-10
Koboshi has a rivalry between Shia and Misha because they always visit Kotaro so she tries to help Kotaro and the housework. Misha and Shia turn up to buy ingredients to cook different types of food for Kotaro to eat. Koboshi starts to doubt her appearance as Shia and Misha are pretty. She tries to change her ways and become more pretty and less violent but she passes out from hunger. She returns back to normal after Kotaro explains that he liked the old Koboshi better.
22	"How To Burn For The Sports Meeting" "Undōkai no Moekata" (運動会の燃え方)	2002-08-17
Kotarou and company decide to compete in the town's annual sports meeting to win an automatic dishwasher for Shia but Shia has low blood pressure and struggles when she runs. Once the Sports Meeting was over, was it really the dishwasher Shia wanted?
23	"How To Enjoy Hiking" "Haikingu no Tanoshimikata" (ハイキングの楽しみ方)	2002-08-24
The group go hiking but Ten over-reacts when he gets his bento from Shia, Kotaro knocks it over by accident and they fall out. They are separated in the forest but the soon reconcile their friendship.
24	"How To Visit A Patient" "Omimai no Ikikata" (お見舞いの行き方)	2002-08-31
Ten-chan is hospitalized and Kotarou and company decide to visit him.
25	"How To Separate" "Owakare no Shikata" (お別れの仕方)	2002-09-01
Shia gets fired as a demon apprentice and every one forgets about her except for Misha. Can Misha ever get anyone to remember Shia?
26	"How To Connect Your Feelings" "Omoi no Tsunagikata" (想いのつなぎ方)	2002-09-29
Misha tries to make everyone remember Shia and bring her back, but disappears in the process. Will she ever come back?

[edit] Music

Opening theme

"Wake Up Angel ~Negaimashite wa Mugen Nari~" by Funta

Ending theme

"Chiisana Mahō" ("Little Magic") by Miyuki Sawashiro

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website (Japanese)
• TV Osaka's official Pita-Ten website (Japanese)
• Tokyopop's official Pita-Ten website
• Seven Seas Entertainment's Pita-Ten website
• Pita-Ten (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia