Denpa-teki na Kanojo (Electromagnetic Girlfriend)

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Synonyms: The Radio Wave-Like Girlfriend

Japanese: 電波的な彼女

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 4, 2009 to Dec 4, 2009

Producers: Shueisha

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Brain's Base

Source: Light novel

Genres: Mystery, Suspense

Theme: School

Duration: 42 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.49¹ (scored by 67,213 users)

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Ranked: #1919²

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Popularity: #1546

Members: 148,669

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Delinquent Juu Juuzawa is a lone wolf who does not see much use in befriending people. So when a girl named Ame Ochibana claims they are linked together from their previous lives, he is highly skeptical and doesn't want anything to do with her. Even stranger is that her fondest wish is to be his servant. Thinking that Ame must be delusional, he tries to distance himself from her. But when a classmate is murdered, Juu instead decides to keep her close, believing the strange girl to be the culprit. However, her intelligence and skill begin to prove invaluable as the two begin working together to solve the murder.

Denpa-teki na Kanojo weaves together a story of love, loss, and devotion, showing that allies can be found in the most unlikely of places.

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First episode aired online from Feb 4th - 8th on Bandai Channel.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ochibana, Ame

Main

Hirohashi, Ryou
Japanese

Juuzawa, Juu

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Ochibana, Hikaru

Supporting

Yoshizumi, Kozue
Japanese

Kirishima, Yukihime

Supporting

Nakahara, Mai
Japanese

Satsuki, Miya

Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu
Japanese

Kakura, Kiyoshi

Supporting

Tasaka, Hideki
Japanese

Ayase, Ichiko

Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami
Japanese

Hirose, Nao

Supporting

Kitamura, Eri
Japanese

Fujishima, Kanako

Supporting

Sato, Akemi
Japanese

Endo, Madoka

Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki
Japanese

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Kanbe, Mamoru

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Shimizu, Katsunori

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Tanaka, Hironori

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Yamamoto, Yamato

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	1: "Taiyo" by tenohira
	2: "Door" by Rumika (eps 2)

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Oct 11, 2022

SgtSalamander

Recommended

Electromagnetic Girlfriend is an eccentric little gem of an anime, absolutely packed with suspense, mystery, and adventure from start to finish. I went into this with the weirdest expectations because of the title, but not even 10 minutes in those expectations were flipped on their head, and I was hooked. Beginning with the story, it really pulls its weight considering just how short the show is with a scant 2 episode run. Without giving anything away, the setup is very out-there but soon builds itself up into this engaging, even surprising story, backed up by some great writing. The mysteries are so unique and detailed ...

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Nov 28, 2022

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A couple of decent enough mysteries, but a really underdeveloped cast of characters.

This is a pair of two OVAs based on a three volume novel series of the same name. It only adopts two of it’s volumes however, with the first OVA adapting the first volume and the second OVA mainly adapting the third with some minor stuff taken from the second. As one would expect, since each OVA is only 42 minutes and it straight up skips adapting the second volume, that the adaptation has to diverge considerably from the novels with major cuts to the story and a lot of restructuring of ... events.

Each OVA involves a mystery with a psychological horror vibe being dealt with by the two main characters, Juu and Ame. As the title of the series suggests, there is some degree of denpa to it as well, though unlike the title suggests its rooted in the antagonists rather than the heroine. The heroine leans more towards just being a pretty standard chuuni. Each of the mysteries aren’t amazing, but they’re decent enough and they’re written competently enough that they flow reasonably well and have a good sense of atmosphere. Each explores simple themes, the first around the desire to not be pitiful and the second around the desire to obtain happiness, and though this exploration isn’t all that deep and doesn’t really do anything particularly novel, it feels like it hits some good notes and gets in some good lines on the topics.

Ultimately, the biggest problem is that it doesn’t really feel anywhere near a complete story. Each mystery gets resolved pretty resolutely, but in terms of characters it’s significantly lacking. The background on the main duo is severely lacking and thus they don’t feel properly fleshed out. They’re certainly still cool, but their motivations and thought processes aren’t explained properly and thus it’s hard to fully get invested in them. The dynamic between the main characters is interesting and you can kind of see some relationship development beginning, however only just barely. Very little development actually occurs. The word 彼女 in the title seems to generally be translated as ‘girlfriend’, but as least in terms of how things are portrayed in the OVA, I would translate it as simply ‘girl’ as things don’t get anywhere near that point. It also introduces some side characters that could be interesting if used properly, but it never really gets a chance to do much with them. The cast thus feels pretty hollow and the series as a whole feels kind of incomplete and like it’s missing essential elements.

The art and animation are decent enough. The quality of either isn’t amazing per se, but the story boarding and general framing was pretty good and in general worked really well for the tone it was trying to establish. The soundtrack was decent enough but not particularly memorable. There aren’t OPs, and the EDs also had decent enough songs though the visuals were just text on a single color background.

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Apr 2, 2020

Heatgeist

Not Recommended

Okay, I don't know if I am crazy or something, but I am very confused when I see all of the high ratings on the reviews for this. This 2 episode OVA is really not amazing at all and if anything, doesn't even meet the term mediocre.
The only thing that sticks out in this is the occasional cute girl frame and nice drawings of the scenery, but besides that it really sucked. It was edgy for no reason, I got no central lesson from this, the animation really wasn't anything to note, and ...

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