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Battle Programmer Shirase |
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BPSバトルプログラマーシラセ
(Bīpīesu Batoru Puroguramā Shirase) |
| Genre |
Comedy |
| TV
anime |
| Director |
Hiroki Hayashi |
| Studio |
G Plus |
| Network |
TV Kanagawa |
| Original run |
3 October
2003 – 4 January
2004 |
| Episodes |
15 |
| Anime
and Manga Portal |
Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ, Bīpīesu
Batoru Puroguramā Shirase
?) is an anime TV series aired in 2003 and produced by AIC. The series' story
focus is on computers and ecchi comedy.
The original series spans 5 story arcs across 15 episodes of 12
minutes each.
Plot
summary
The story of BPS revolves around a "freelance 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
Kaoru) 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. At
first, the episodes revolved around some freelance jobs that
highlighted his abilities - however, later on in the series,
characters came back and offered help or plot twists. The school
that Shirase had gone to had been hinted throughout the series, and
it finally made an appearance in the last episode, when some of the
characters began to show their hidden relationships to the others.
However, the series was not continued.
Characters
- Akira Shirase (白瀬慧
?, 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 phone.
- Misao Amano (天野美紗緒
?, voiced by: Fukuen
Misato)
- Misao is Akira's great-niece. She is a very shy girl who loves
to spend her time with Akira, whom she often refers to as
onii-chan (お兄ちゃん
?). 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 (まうまう
?), 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 looks very young for
a 6th grader.
- Yoriko Yunoki (柚木頼子
?, voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa)
- Yoriko is a girl who works for the United States Navy. Her rank
is Major Yoriko Yunoki. She first meets BPS (Akira) when he is seen
walking home after waiting in front of a book store. He explains
that the book store clerk only opens when he wants to. She had been
following Misao and asked if she could go to her house. She seems
to have the same knowledge of computers as Akira and in one episode
asks him to join her in the National Guard as her partner. She also
asks him to go to America with her, and seems to have strong
feelings for Akira as well.
- Sae Motoki (本木紗英
?, voiced by: Yūko Nagashima)
- Sae is Misao's teacher. In an earlier episode she had tried to
get Misao together with a boy from grade class. She is later seen
drinking in an alley where she meets Akira, whom she hasn't seen
since high school. She was being forced to have a marriage
interview, and since she didn't want to go she ended up getting
drunk in the alley.
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.
Thanking
the viewers
The final episode of the show made the unusual step of
explicitly apologizing for ending the series, 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."[1]
References
- ^
"Anxious times in the cartoon
underground". http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5557177.html. Retrieved
2007-11-03.
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