title_name=Battle Programmer Shirase
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バトルプログラマーシラセ
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Battle Programmer Shirase
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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.
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) 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 went 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 canceled.
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: 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.
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: 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 looks very young for a 6 grader.
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.
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." (Quoted in
Anxious times in the cartoon underground .)
