Minna! ESPer Dayo! (TV series)
A comedic miniseries about teens discovering psychic powers.
Minna! Esper Dayo! is a 2013 Japanese science fiction comedy television miniseries adapted from the seinen manga series of the same name by Kiminori Wakasugi. It aired on TV Tokyo from April 12 to July 5, 2013, and features the theme song "(Where's) The Silent Majority?" by Yu Takahashi.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Miniseries
- Based on
- Minna! Esper Dayo! by Kiminori Wakasugi
- Screenplay
- Kiminori Wakasugi
- Sion Sono
- Shinichi Tanaka
- Taichi Suzuki
- Director
- Sion Sono
- Yu Irie
- Taichi Suzuki
- Sho Tsukikawa
- Starring
- Shōta Sometani
- Kaho
- Erina Mano
- Theme music
- Yu Takahashi
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The 2015 TV special All Esper Dayo! SP was directed by Sion Sono with much of the same cast but without Kaho.
- A 2015 theatrical film adaptation titled The Virgin Psychics was also directed by Sion Sono with some casting changes.
- The DVD box costs 15,200 yen and the Blu-ray box costs 19,000 yen.
Plot
Yoshirō Kamogawa, a student at East Mikawa High School in Aichi Prefecture, discovers he has psychic powers. He learns that his childhood friend Miyuki also has telepathy, Mr. Teru of the Seahorse café has telekinesis, senior Yōsuke Enomoto can teleport, outcast Yabe has clairvoyance, Hideo is a psychometer, Ms. Nastume and Mr. Hayashi have telekinesis, and Pao can hypnotize. Many use their powers for perverted or trivial ends, but Yoshirō dreams of protecting transfer student Sae Asami and saving the world. Meanwhile, ESP researchers from Tokyo University visit to study the psychics and prevent their destruction by evil psychics.
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