Kamichu!
Kamichu!, short for Kamisama de Chūgakusei, is a Japanese anime television series. Influenced by Shinto, it follows the adventures of teenage goddess Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The series was created by Besame Mucho, which is the joint pen name of producer Tomonori Ochikoshi, director Koji Masunari, and writer Hideyuki Kurata. It was broadcast by the anime television network Animax on its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, where it received its first English-language broadcast. Kamichu! was adapted as a manga serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh and collected into two tankōbon volumes.
In July 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. Although Geneon still retained the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Kamichu! was one of several titles involved in the deal, but in August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.
Story
Kamichu! is set in spring 1983 until 1984, in the city of Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on the shores of Japan's Inland Sea. Many of the temples and landmarks shown in the anime are real locations in the city.Yurie Hitotsubashi is a shy ordinary middle school girl who suddenly discovers that she has become a, a goddess in the Shinto sense, overnight. She has no idea what sort of goddess she is or what her powers are. Her friends give her the nickname Kamichu, a portmanteau of and. Yurie meets many other divinities and spirits, while learning the ways of the gods become a great goddess herself. During the course of the series, she learns about being a better goddess as a person.
Characters
;Yurie Hitotsubashi;Matsuri Saegusa
;Mitsue Shijo
;Miko Saegusa
;Kenji Ninomiya
;Yashima
;Shōkichi Hitotsubashi
;Kiyomi Noto
;Ukaru Nishimura
;Bin-chan
;Tama Hitotsubashi
;Akane Hitotsubashi and Kenkichi Hitotsubashi
;Ino, Shika, Chō
Media
Anime
On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment still retained the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Kamichu! was one of several titles involved in the deal. However, as of August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.| # | Title | Original air date |
Manga
Kamichu! was adapted as a manga serialized by MediaWorks in Dengeki Daioh, a shōnen manga magazine, and collected in two tankōbon volumes. There are fourteen episodes plus one short episode in the manga series. Four long episodes consist of two parts.| # | Title | Related Anime episodes |
Music
Three Kamichu! CDs were released:- Ice Candy Maxi
- Hare Nochi Hare! Maxi
- ''Kamichu OST''