Psychic Squad

Psychic Squad
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring (from left to right) Aoi Nogami, Kaoru Akashi and Shiho Sannomiya
絶対可憐チルドレン
(Zettai Karen Chirudoren)
Genre
Manga
Written byTakashi Shiina
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
Original runJuly 13, 2005July 14, 2021
Volumes63
Anime television series
Directed byKeiichiro Kawaguchi
Written bySatoru Nishizono
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioSynergySP
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run April 6, 2008 March 29, 2009
Episodes51 + OVA
Light novel
Zettai Karen Children the Novels "B.A.B.E.L. Hōkai"
Written byGakuto Mikumo
Illustrated byTakashi Shiina
Published byShogakukan
ImprintGagaga Bunko
PublishedMay 20, 2008
Video game
Zettai Karen Children DS: Dai-4 no Children
DeveloperHuneX
PublisherKonami
GenreSimulation RPG
PlatformNintendo DS
ReleasedSeptember 4, 2008
Spin-off

Psychic Squad, known in Japan as Zettai Karen Children (Japanese: 絶対可憐チルドレン, Hepburn: Zettai Karen Chirudoren; lit.'Absolutely Lovely Children'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 2005 to July 2021, with its chapters collected in 63 tankōbon volumes. It is the story about three young problem girls with outstanding psychic powers and a young man with no special powers at all tasked to guide them properly while dealing with all the commotions they cause, including their obvious infatuation with him.

A 51-episode anime television series produced by SynergySP was broadcast from April 2008 to March 2009, and had a special original video animation (OVA) released in July 2010. A 12-episode spin-off focused on main antagonist Kyōsuke Hyōbu, titled Unlimited Psychic Squad, and produced by Manglobe, was broadcast from January to March 2013.

By July 2012, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation. In 2022, Psychic Squad received the 53rd Seiun Award for Best Comic.

Plot

In the future, as people with ESP increase in numbers, so does the possible good and evil they can cause to society. The Japanese government establishes of the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory (B.A.B.E.L.) a special esper organization tasked with dealing with situations that can't be resolved by ordinary means, including dealing with espers engaged in criminal activity. Kōichi Minamoto, a 20-year-old prodigy is assigned by B.A.B.E.L. to the task of supervising the most powerful espers in the country, a trio of gifted but mischievous 10-year-old girls known as "The Children": Kaoru Akashi, Shiho Sannomiya, and Aoi Nogami.

As the series progresses, The Children and Minamoto must deal with several enemy organizations, each with conflicted views regarding the role of espers in the world, including "P.A.N.D.R.A.", a cadre of rogue espers determined to wage war against the rest of mankind, the "Black Phantom", a mercenary organization who brainwashes espers into living tools of destruction and the "Normal People", composed solely of non-esper individuals who view espers only as a threat to be vanquished.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina, Zettai Karen Children was developed out of a short story he had written in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Sunday Super in 2003.[3] A four-chapter story was then published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in September 2004.[4][5] Zettai Karen Children was serialized for 16 years in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, from July 13, 2005,[6][a] to July 14, 2021.[9][10][11] Shogakukan collected its 622 individual chapters in sixty-three tankōbon volumes, released from October 18, 2005,[12] to September 17, 2021.[13]

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1October 18, 2005[12]978-4-09-127371-0
2October 18, 2005[14]978-4-09-127372-7
3January 14, 2006[15]978-4-09-120028-0
4April 15, 2006[16]978-4-09-120127-0
5June 16, 2006[17]978-4-09-120415-8
6September 15, 2006[18]978-4-09-120578-0
7December 16, 2006[19]978-4-09-120708-1
8February 16, 2007[20]978-4-09-121010-4
9May 18, 2007[21]978-4-09-121068-5
10August 10, 2007[22]978-4-09-121167-5
11November 16, 2007[23]978-4-09-121215-3
12March 18, 2008[24]978-4-09-121302-0
13June 23, 2008[25]978-4-09-121397-6
14September 18, 2008[26]978-4-09-121465-2
15December 18, 2008[27]978-4-09-121515-4
16March 18, 2009[28]978-4-09-121598-7
17July 17, 2009[29]978-4-09-122007-3
18September 17, 2009[30]978-4-09-121745-5
19December 18, 2009[31]978-4-09-122028-8
20February 18, 2010[32]978-4-09-122148-3
21April 26, 2010[33]978-4-09-122258-9
22July 16, 2010[34]978-4-09-122419-4
23October 18, 2010[35]978-4-09-122625-9
24December 17, 2010[36]978-4-09-122719-5
25February 18, 2011[37]978-4-09-122782-9
26June 17, 2011[38]978-4-09-122872-7
27September 6, 2011[39]978-4-09-123238-0
28December 16, 2011[40]978-4-09-123430-8
29January 18, 2012[41]978-4-09-123516-9
30May 18, 2012[42]978-4-09-123665-4
31August 17, 2012[43]978-4-09-123793-4
32December 18, 2012[44]978-4-09-124034-7
33January 18, 2013[45]978-4-09-124167-2
34April 18, 2013[46]978-4-09-124204-4
35August 16, 2013[47]978-4-09-124366-9
36October 18, 2013[48]978-4-09-124457-4
37January 17, 2014[49]978-4-09-124553-3
38April 18, 2014[50]978-4-09-124647-9
39July 18, 2014[51]978-4-09-124676-9
40December 18, 2014[52]978-4-09-125414-6
41March 18, 2015[53]978-4-09-125796-3
42July 17, 2015[54]978-4-09-125858-8
43September 18, 2015[55]978-4-09-126227-1
44January 18, 2016[56]978-4-09-126497-8
45April 18, 2016[57]978-4-09-127093-1
46August 18, 2016[58]978-4-09-127329-1
47December 16, 2016[59]978-4-09-127429-8
48March 17, 2017[60]978-4-09-127510-3
49August 18, 2017[61]978-4-09-127576-9
50December 18, 2017[62]978-4-09-127880-7
51April 18, 2018[63]978-4-09-128228-6
52August 17, 2018[64]978-4-09-128348-1
53January 18, 2019[65]978-4-09-128780-9
54April 18, 2019[66]978-4-09-128808-0
55August 16, 2019[67]978-4-09-129176-9
56December 18, 2019[68]978-4-09-129453-1
57March 18, 2020[69]978-4-09-129566-8
58June 18, 2020[70]978-4-09-850082-6
59September 18, 2020[71]978-4-09-850184-7
60January 18, 2021[72]978-4-09-850289-9
61April 16, 2021[73]978-4-09-850519-7
62July 16, 2021[74]978-4-09-850631-6
63September 17, 2021[13]978-4-09-850646-0

Anime

A 51-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by SynergySP, started airing on TV Tokyo on April 6, 2008.[75] The anime has six pieces of theme music; two opening themes and four ending themes. The first opening theme is "Over The Future" by Karen Girl's, the first ending theme is "Zettai love×love Sengen!!" (絶対love×love宣言!!) by "The Children starring Aya Hirano, Ryoko Shiraishi and Haruka Tomatsu"; the second ending theme is "Datte Daihonmei" (DATTE大本命), also by Hirano, Shiraishi, and Tomatsu. From episode 27 onwards opening theme has changed to "MY WINGS", once again by Karen Girl's, ending theme changed to "Break+Your+Destiny" by Yuuichi Nakamura, Kishō Taniyama and Kōji Yusa and "Soushunfu" performed by Aya Hirano, Ryoko Shiraishi and Haruka Tomatsu. In episode 46 of the series, the opening theme, "MY WINGS", was sung by Aya Hirano, Ryoko Shiraishi and Haruka Tomatsu while the ending theme was "Zettai love×love Sengen!!", sung by Karen Girl's.

An original video animation (OVA) was announced in December 2009.[2] It was released on July 16, 2010, and includes original material based on the junior high school story arc.[76] The opening theme for the OVA is "Seventh Heaven" by The Children and the ending theme is "Out of Control" by Karen Guy's.[77]

In January 2012, Sentai Filmworks announced that they have licensed the series.[78] Sentai Filmworks released the series on four DVDs in Japanese with English subtitles on May 1, July 17, September 4 and November 6, 2012.[79][80]

Video game

A video game for the Nintendo DS developed by Konami entitled Zettai Karen Children DS: Dai-4 no Children (絶対可憐チルドレンDS 第4のチルドレン) was released on September 4, 2008.[81]

Kaoru Akashi appears as a fighter character in the fighting game Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen (サンデー VS マガジン 集結! 頂上大決戦) for Sony's PlayStation Portable. Characters Aoi, Shiho, Minamoto, Fujiko and Hyōbu also make appearances as part of special moves or as support. The game was also developed by Konami and released on March 26, 2009.[82]

Reception

By July 2012, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation.[83] Psychic Squad was awarded the 53rd Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 2022.[84]

Notes

  1. ^ It started in the magazine's 33rd issue of 2005 (cover date July 27),[7] released on July 13 of that same year.[8]

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