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comedy
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television miniseries
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adapted from the ''
seinen
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manga
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series '' Minna! Esper Dayo!'' written and illustrated by Kiminori Wakasugi. It aired on
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Yu Takahashi. It was followed by a 2015 TV special titled ''
All Esper Dayo! SP
is a 2015 Japanese comedy-drama science fiction mystery television special directed by Sion Sono. It continues the story from the 2013 TV series adaptation of the ''seinen'' manga series '' Minna! Esper Dayo!'' written and illustrated by Kiminori ...
''.
Plot
Yoshirō Kamogawa, a student at East Mikawa High School in
Aichi Prefecture
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, 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
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visit the town to study the people with these powers and to stop them from being destroyed by evil psychics.
Cast
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Shōta Sometani
is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo. He is known for his protagonist roles in ''Himizu'' and ''Parasyte''.
Career
Sometani was a child actor. He has worked in both film and television, gaining his first leading role in ''Pandora's Box'', ...
Erina Mano
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as Sae Asami
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Makita Sports
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as Nagano Terumitsu a.k.a. Mr. Teru
* Motoki Fukami as Yōsuke Enomoto
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Tokio Emoto
is a Japanese actor.
Biography
Emoto's father is Akira Emoto, his mother is Kazue Tsunogae, and his brother is Tasuku Emoto.
In 2003, Emoto had his acting debut in the film, '' Jam Films S''.
Up until around 2011, he maintained a part-time jo ...
as Yasu
*
Megumi Kagurazaka
is a Japanese actress and glamour model. She is married to the director Sion Sono and has starred in seven of his films.
Career
Kagurazaka has appeared in films such as '' Cold Fish'', '' Guilty of Romance'', and '' The Land of Hope''.
Filmo ...
Sairi Itō
is a Japanese actress.
Career
Ito made her debut in the 2003 television drama ''14-kagetsu: Tsuma ga Kodomo ni Kaette Iku'' with no acting experience, playing a female researcher whose body becomes that of a young girl.
In February 2023, she w ...
Mariko Tsutsui
is a Japanese actress.
Personal life
She was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture.
Tsutsui graduated from Kōfu Daiichi High School in Yamanashi Prefecture. She dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University. She later graduated from the Waseda Univ ...
as Kamokawa's mom
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Toshihiro Yashiba
is a Japanese actor represented by JFCT.
Filmography
TV series
Films
References
External links
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Japanese male actors
1971 births
Living people
People from Sōka ...
as Hayashi
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Yoshiki Saitō
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Written forms
Yoshiki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*義樹, "justice, tree"
*義基, "justice, foundation"
*義機, "jus ...
Yūsuke Yamanaka
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Written forms
Yūsuke can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:
*勇介, "courage, mediate"
*勇助, "courage, to help"
*勇輔, "courage, t ...
Kōhei Takeda
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as Ezaki
*
Akiyoshi Nakao
is a Japanese actor.
Nakao's wife is actress Riisa Naka
is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous by appearing in ''Hachi One Diver'' (2008) and played the lead, Hana ...
as Kayama
*
Yūya Ishikawa
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Written forms
Yūya can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*勇也, "courage, to be"
*悠也, "calm, to be"
*雄也, "mal ...
Louis Kurihara
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Kyōko Aizome
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Early life
Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda, Chiba, Noda, ...
Ryōko Nagoshi
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Forms in kanji can include:
* 涼子 – "refreshing, child"
* 亮子 – "help ...
Mamiko Itō
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Atom Shimojō
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as Saijō
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Sanae Miyata
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as Hideo's mom
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Sion Sono
is a Japanese filmmaker, author, and poet. Best known on the Film festival, festival circuit for the film ''Love Exposure'' (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today", a "Stakhanovite movement, ...
Yūsuke Matsumoto
Yūsuke, Yusuke, or Yuusuke is a masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yūsuke can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:
*勇介, "courage, mediate"
*勇助, "courage, to help"
*勇輔, "courage, to ...
as Young Hideo
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Shōko Tamimoto Shoko, Shōko or Shōkō may refer to:
*Shoko (Buddhist) (1162–1238), disciple of Hōnen and second patriarch of Jōdo-shū
*Emperor Shōkō (1401–1428), the 101st Emperor of Japan
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Shōko Takasaki Shoko, Shōko or Shōkō may refer to:
*Shoko (Buddhist) (1162–1238), disciple of Hōnen and second patriarch of Jōdo-shū
* Emperor Shōkō (1401–1428), the 101st Emperor of Japan
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Mayu Mayu may refer to:
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* Mayu (river), a river of Burma
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seinen
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word means "youth", but the term " manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like '' Weekly Manga Times'' and '' Weekly Man ...
''
manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...
Sion Sono
is a Japanese filmmaker, author, and poet. Best known on the Film festival, festival circuit for the film ''Love Exposure'' (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today", a "Stakhanovite movement, ...
with much of the same cast but without Kaho. A 2015 theatrical film adaptation of the source material, titled ''
The Virgin Psychics
is a 2015 Japanese comedy-drama science fiction mystery film directed by Sion Sono. It is the third adaptation of the ''seinen'' manga series '' Minna! Esper Dayo!'' written and illustrated by Kiminori Wakasugi, following a 2013 TV series and a ...
'', was also directed by
Sion Sono
is a Japanese filmmaker, author, and poet. Best known on the Film festival, festival circuit for the film ''Love Exposure'' (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today", a "Stakhanovite movement, ...