Unlimited Psychic Squad

Unlimited Psychic Squad
North American DVD cover
THE UNLIMITED 兵部京介
(The Unlimited Hyōbu Kyōsuke)
GenreAction,[1] supernatural[2]
Anime television series
Directed byShishō Igarashi
Written byShinichi Inotsume
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioManglobe
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run January 7, 2013 – March 25, 2013
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Manga
The Unlimited: Hyōbu Kyōsuke
Written byRokurou Ogaki
Published byShogakukan
MagazineShōnen Sunday S
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 25, 2013 – July 25, 2015
Volumes6 (List of volumes)

Unlimited Psychic Squad, known in Japan as The Unlimited: Hyōbu Kyōsuke (THE UNLIMITED 兵部京介) is a Japanese anime series produced by Manglobe. It is a spin-off to the original Zettai Karen Children manga series, created by Takashi Shiina. A manga adaptation by Rokurou Ogaki was serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S from March 2013 to July 2015, with its chapters collected into six tankōbon volumes.

Media

Anime

See also: List of Unlimited Psychic Squad episodes

In September 2012, a new anime project based on Zettai Karen Children was announced by Weekly Shōnen Sunday.[3] It was later revealed that it would be an original spin-off series focused on the leader of the criminal organization P.A.N.D.R.A., Kyōsuke Hyōbu. The series was produced by Manglobe and ran for 12 episodes on TV Tokyo and other stations from January 7 to March 25, 2013.[4] New additions to the cast include Nao Tōyama as Yūgiri and Junichi Suwabe as Andy Hinomiya while almost all characters from the first TV Series are voiced by the same actors from then.[5][6][7] The series, while similar in setting and characters, is darker and more serious in plot and tone than the original Zettai Karen Children series.[8][9] The opening song is "Last Resolution" by Emblem of The Unlimited and has two versions, one in English and the other in Japanese. It also has eight ending songs: "Outlaws" by Eyelis, "Brightest Light" by Yuichi Nakamura and Kishō Taniyama, "Darkness Night" (another version of "Brightest Light) by Kōji Yusa & Junichi Suwabe, "Brand New Eden" by Kōji Yusa, "Advent" by Kōji Yusa, another arrangement of "Darkness Night", titled "Darkness Night (Hyōbu Arrange.)", performed by Kōji Yusa and Junichi Suwabe, "Sora no Hate" (空の涯て, "End of the Sky") by Eyelis, and a secondary arrangement of "Darkness Night" called "Darkness Night (Hinomiya Arrange.)" performed by Kōji Yusa and Junichi Suwabe. An insert song, "Mirai Monogatari" (未来物語, "Future Story"), performed by Nao Tōyama, was used in the final episode.[10]

The series has been streamed by Crunchyroll.[9][11] In December 2014, Sentai Filmworks announced that they have licensed the series.[8] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japanese with English subtitles on April 21, 2015.[12][13][14]

Manga

A manga adaptation, by Rokurou Ogaki, ran in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S from March 25, 2013,[15][16] to May 25, 2015.[17] An additional story, titled Wanderer (放浪者, Hōrōsha), was published in Shōnen Sunday S, from June 25 and July 25, 2015.[18][19][20] Shogakukan collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from to August 16, 2013, to September 18, 2015.[21][22]

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 August 16, 2013[21]978-4-09-124370-6
2 January 17, 2014[23]978-4-09-124598-4
3 July 18, 2014[24]978-4-09-125179-4
4 April 24, 2015[25]978-4-09-125544-0
5 July 17, 2015[26]978-4-09-126160-1
6 September 18, 2015[22]978-4-09-126407-7

See also

  • Akudama Drive, an anime series whose manga adaptation is written and illustrated by Rokurou Ogaki
  • Crazy Food Truck, a manga series written and illustrated by Rokurou Ogaki

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