Zero no Tsukaima

Anime
Zero no Tsukaima / The Familiar of Zero
ゼロの使い魔
Airing date:	July 3, 2006 – September 25, 2006
Creator:	Noboru Yamaguchi
Director:	Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Writer:	Takao Yoshioka
Music:	Shinkichi Mitsumune
Character designer:	Eiji Usatsuka
Studio:	J.C.Staff
Network:	CTC
Licensed by:	AUS Hanabee, NA Sentai Filmworks, UK MVM Films
Category:	Comedy, fantasy, harem
Episodes:	13
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Score: 7.89
Status: Finished Airing
Start Date: 2006-07-03 End Date: 2006-09-25

Synopsis:
Louise is a magician at the Tristein Academy, dubbed with the nickname "Zero Louise" due to her inability to effectively use her magic properly, resulting in zero successes. An upcoming test at her academy requires her to summon a familiar, a servant and partner to support her as a magician. Despite desiring a familiar that would be superior to her constantly mocking classmates, Louise ends up summoning Hiraga Saito, your average Japanese boy. Even with Louise and Saito both unwilling to accept each other, they have no choice. Louise cannot attempt another summoning and Saito cannot return to Japan, and so their life together begins. Based on the novel by Noboru Yamaguchi.

The Familiar of Zero (Japanese: ゼロの使い魔, Hepburn: Zero no Tsukaima) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Noboru Yamaguchi, with illustrations by Eiji Usatsuka. Media Factory published 20 volumes between June 2004 and February 2011. The series was left unfinished due to the author's death in 2013, but was later concluded in two volumes released in February 2016 and February 2017 with a different author, making use of notes left behind by Yamaguchi. The story features several characters from the second year class of a magic academy in a fictional magical world with the main characters being the inept mage Louise and her familiar from Earth, Saito Hiraga.

Between 2006 and 2012, the series was adapted by J.C.Staff into four Anime television series and an additional original video animation episode. The first Anime series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment in English, but the license expired in 2011. Sentai Filmworks has since re-licensed and re-released the first series and released the other three series in North America. A Manga adaptation illustrated by Nana Mochizuki was serialized in Media Factory's Manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive between June 2006 and October 2009. The Manga was released by Seven Seas Entertainment in North America. Three additional spin-off Manga were also created (one of them also localized by Seven Seas Entertainment), as were three visual novels.


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