Battle Programmer Shirase
Battle Programmer Shirase (Japanese BPSバトル プログラマー シラセ, Bīpīesu Batoru puroguramā Shirase ) is an anime television series that was erstausgestrahlt 2003-2004. The sci-fi series, which is devoted to the theme hacking, includes five stories completed in three episodes to twelve minutes each, for a total of 15 episodes.
Action
Battle Programmer Shirase, short BPS, is the nickname of the mysterious programmer Akira Shirase (白 瀬 慧, Shirase Akira ). He is known in the underground mainly for his outstanding abilities as a hacker and computer technician. He is commissioned by various companies and organizations to solve specific problems and threats. Every completed story includes an order.
Shirase, who lives as a lodger in his relationship, does not work for money - its payment usually consists of rare computer hardware that is no longer manufactured. Shirase has feelings for his underage grandniece Misao Amano (天野 美 纱 绪, Amano Misao ), but this can not admit it.
Akira's client look alike and always hot Akizuki. At the first encounter with Akira, see this often in an ambiguous position with his grandniece Misao before, in the Akira has just been " accidentally stumbled ". All incarnations of Akizuki lead then a soliloquy in which they justify the alleged child abuse so that Akira is the only one who can do the job for them. In this soliloquy always falls a reference to the French actress Isabelle Adjani.
Formation and Publications
The Anime Studio Anime International Company (AIC ) produced the anime based on an idea by Hiroki Hayashi (author of El Hazard ), who also directed. The title song is called Suddenly and sung by Naomi Amagata, the end credits song Pure Enough was by Yuki Matsuura.
The first broadcast on Japanese television took place on 3 October 2003 to January 3, 2004 at the television station TV Kanagawa place until production after 15 episodes was ended prematurely. In March 2004, all 15 episodes on DVD were released.
In the epilogue of the final episode, the producers apologized for the premature end, not only with viewers in Japan, but also expressly " in which overseas, they [the series ] seen without permission with subtitles " - at this time one of the rare cases that Anime producers publicly taken a position on that their works as a so -called global illicit fansubs are made available over the Internet.
Background
Many facts about the chipping is presented in a highly exaggerated or unrealistic way. So the superhuman abilities of Shirase are often set similar to the attacks of a superhero in the scene. So he leads, for example, in the second episode by a Double Compile, allowing him to compile multiple programs at the same time which is impossible at speed. The defense of a hacker attack using a mobile phone is practically impossible, since neither the reaction time nor the technical possibilities are given. But as we also find many more such exaggerations. There are also many allusions to well-known companies. These include, for example, BHL (DHL ) Ebson ( Epson) or Kattaku are ( Pioneer ). Akira is also a follower of the series in the now-defunct X68 architecture, a nod to the Sharp X68000.
Reception
Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements compared the main character with the title character from Lupin III. They said: "It's a sign of the times that the anime audience is now tied to settle down and to the house that the latest action hero is a man who sits at a desk, playing with a computer while it is waiting for someone of bringing him food. "