Battle Programmer Shirase
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Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ) is an anime TV series aired in 2003 and produced by AIC. The series' story focus in on computers and ecchi comedy.
The story of BPS revolves around a "free 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.
Characters
Shirase, Akira
Japanese: 白瀬慧（しらせあきら), voiced by: Nakai Kazuya (中井和哉)
He's the main character of the story. Akira is a very talented computer connoiseur, and he's known in the hacking world as Battle Programmer Shirase (or just as BPS), a genius in computer hacking/security who can do virtually anything. Akira seems to like his niece, Misao.
Amano, Misao
Japanese: 天野美紗緒（あまのみさお）, voiced by: Fukuen Misato (福圓美里)
Misao is Akira's niece. She's a very shy girl who loves to spend her time with Akira, whom she loves to call oni-chan. She seems to have a love interest with Akira, 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).
Trivia
The final episode of the show made the unusual step of explicitly thanking 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 (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5557177.html).)
External Links
- Official site (http://www.anime-int.com/works/bps/) (Japanese)
- Anxious times in the cartoon underground (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5557177.html) by John Borland on ZDNet