Minna! ESPer Dayo! (TV Series)

is a 2013 Japanese twelve-part science fiction comedy television miniseries adapted from the '' seinen'' manga series '' Minna! Esper Dayo!'' written and illustrated by Kiminori Wakasugi. It aired on TV Tokyo from April 12 to July 5, 2013. The show's theme song is Japanese-language song "(Where's) The Silent Majority?" by the Japanese singer-songwriter Yu Takahashi. It was followed by a 2015 TV special titled '' All Esper Dayo! SP''.

Plot

Yoshirō Kamogawa, a student at East Mikawa High School in Aichi Prefecture, discovers that he has psychic powers. Over the course of the series he discovers that he and his childhood friend Miyuki both have telepathic powers, Mr. Teru who operates the local Seahorse café has the power of telekinesis, senior Yōsuke Enomoto has the power of teleportation, student outcast Yabe has the power of clairvoyance, Hideo is a psychometer, Ms. Nastume and Mr. Hayashi have telekinesis, Pao can hypnotize people, and others in the town have powers as well. Yoshirō finds that many seek to use their newfound powers for perverted and trivial pursuits, but Yoshirō himself dreams of using his powers to protect his crush, the new transfer student Sae Asami who transferred in from Tokyo, and ultimately save the world. Meanwhile, a pair of ESP researchers who have been laughed out of Tokyo University visit the town to study the people with these powers and to stop them from being destroyed by evil psychics.

Cast

* Shōta Sometani as Yoshirō Kamogawa
* Kaho as Miyuki Hirano
* Erina Mano as Sae Asami
*Makita Sports as Nagano Terumitsu a.k.a. Mr. Teru
*Motoki Fukami as Yōsuke Enomoto
* Tokio Emoto as Yasu
* Megumi Kagurazaka as Akiyama Takako
* Ken Yasuda as Prof. Asami
* Sairi Itō as Yūko
* Yui Murata as Rena
*Mariko Tsutsui as Kamokawa's mom
* Toshihiro Yashiba as Hayashi
* Yoshiki Saitō as Takeshi
* Masashi Tada as Kazuo
* Ijirī Okada as Kamokawa's dad
* Adam Torel as Sergei
* Yūsuke Yamanaka as Masaru
* Hirotaka Kurihara as Kōji
*Kōhei Takeda as Ezaki
*Akiyoshi Nakao as Kayama
* Yūya Ishikawa as Teacher
*Ayaka Morita as Meme Natsume
*Louis Kurihara as Mitsuru
* Kenichirō Mogi as Mogi
* Kyōko Aizome as Auntie
* Reiya Masaki as Yabe Naoya
* Suzunosuke as Hideo Ishizaki
* Ryōko Nagoshi as Hersel
*Aoba Kawai
* Mamiko Itō
* Yoshino Imamura as Hashi
* Atom Shimojō as Saijō
* Sanae Miyata as Hideo's mom
* Sion Sono
* Jyonmyon Pe as Maru
* Takuma Iwasaki as Tetsuya
* Sayaka Tashiro as Mariko
* Yūsuke Matsumoto as Young Hideo
* Shōko Tamimoto
* Yukiko Takenaka
* Erī Arai
* Waki Katakura
* Shōko Takasaki
* Saki Oppata
* Machi Ariake
* Haruyo Ushimaru
* Runa Kamiya
* Azusa Shiina
* Rina Sugihara
* Machi Ariake
* Mayu
* Asu Tatematsu

Episodes

Production

The series is the first adaptation of the '' seinen'' manga series '' Minna! Esper Dayo!'' written and illustrated by Kiminori Wakasugi. It was followed by a 2015 TV special directed by Sion Sono with much of the same cast but without Kaho. A 2015 theatrical film adaptation of the source material, titled ''The Virgin Psychics'', was also directed by Sion Sono but had some changes in casting.

Broadcast

The series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 12, 2013, and ran weekly episodes (with the exception of May 17) until its twelfth and final episode aired on July 5, 2013.

Home video

The TV series was made available for purchase on DVD and Blu-ray from TV Tokyo on August 23, 2013. The DVD box costs 15,200 yen and the Blu-ray box costs 19,000 yen. Extras include a documentary about Sion Sono and a special about the making of the series.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 2556306

Japanese television miniseries
2013 in Japanese television
Japanese science fiction television series
Japanese television dramas based on manga
Japanese comedy television series
Japanese high school television series
2013 Japanese television series debuts
2013 Japanese television series endings
TV Tokyo original programming
Television series about teenagers
Television shows set in Aichi Prefecture