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Kakyūsei (TV)

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Alternative title:
A Girl in a Lower Grade
Kakyuusei (Japanese)
Underclassmate
下級生 (Japanese)
Genres: drama, romance
User Ratings: 47 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Excellent: 6 votes (sub:4, raw:2)
 Very good: 10 votes (sub:6, raw:4)
 Good: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 117 users, rank: #4959 (of 9775)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.021 (Good), std. dev.: 1.9405, rank: #3664 (of 9918)
Weighted mean: 7.027 (Good), rank: #3496 (of 9918) (seen all: 7.23 / seen some: 6.85 / won't finish: 3.85)
Bayesian estimate: 7.125 (Good), rank: #2891 (of 7496)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 14
Episode titles: We have 14
Vintage: 1999-07-05 to 1999-09-26
Opening Theme:
"Every Brand-new Day" by Mari Adachi
Ending Theme:
#1: "Girls be UP!" by UP^2 (eps 1-12)
#2: "Roulette Candle" by Pure' (ep 13)
#3: "Sea -Tsuki no Akari- (Sea -Moonlight-)" by Yumi Kikuchi (ep 14)
#3: "Sea -Tsuki no Akari-" by Yumi Kikuchi (ep 14)
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Comment:
The "fourteenth" episode is an alternate universe side story that is unrelated to the previous thirteen episodes.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Norio Kashima
Screenplay:
Shigeru Yanagawa (eps 1, 3, 6, 8)
Takao Yoshioka (10 episodes
eps 2, 4-5, 7, 9-14
)

Storyboard:
Fumihiro Ueno (ep 14)
Kan Fukumoto (ep 1)
Kazuhito Kikuchi (ep 13)
Kōnosuke Uda (ep 9)
Mitsuo Kusakabe (eps 5, 11)
Shigenori Kageyama (ep 7)
Shigeru Kimiya (ep 6)
Shigeru Yamazaki (ep 10)
Yōsei Morino (ep 3)
Yukina Hiiro (eps 4, 8, 12)
Yukio Okazaki (ep 2)
Episode Director:
Fumihiro Ueno (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 12, 14
)

Hiromi Yokoyama (ep 10)
Kan Fukumoto (ep 7)
Masahito Otani (ep 3)
Mitsuo Kusakabe (eps 5, 11)
Shigeru Kimiya (ep 6)
Takeshi Ushigusa (ep 13)
Yasuhiro Geshi (eps 1, 9)
Yukio Okazaki (ep 2)
Original creator: Masato Hiruta (elf)
Original Character Design: Aya Kadoi
Character Design: Mayumi Watanabe
Chief Animation Director: Mayumi Watanabe
Animation Director:
Akira Otsuka (ep 7)
Eiji Ishimoto (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 12, 14
)

Hideo Maru (ep 3)
Mayumi Watanabe (eps 9, 13)
Megumi Ishihara (ep 9)
Noriyuki Aota (ep 1)
Taeko Satō (eps 5, 11)
Tomoko Hirota (eps 2, 6, 10)
Sound Director: Kōichi Iizuka
Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai
Producer: Saburō Ōmiya

Animation producer: Kazunobu Iwami
Art Supervision: Shichirō Kobayashi
Chief Producer: Kotaro Ran
Color design: Yayoi Tobe
Music Director: Hiroshi Igarashi
Music producer: Mitsunori Yokoyama
Recording: Kōtarō Tezuka
Recording Adjustment: Hideki Shigemitsu
Series Coordination: Shigeru Yanagawa
Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki
Supervision: Dr. POCHI
Theme Song Performance:
Akiko (UP^2 : ED#1)
Fuyumi Sakiya (UP^2 : ED#1)
Kimiko Koyama (UP^2 : ED#1)
Mai Asaki (UP^2 : ED#1)
Mari Adachi (OP + Pure' : ED#2)
Miwa Yanagihara (Pure' : ED#2)
Miyu Matsuki (UP^2 : ED#1)
Nozomi Mizuhara (UP^2 : ED#1)
Riko Sayama (Pure' : ED#2)
Sao Morita (UP^2 : ED#1)
Sato Higashi (UP^2 : ED#1)
Tomomi Nakano (UP^2 : ED#1)
Yumi Kikuchi (ED#3, UP^2: ED#1)
Kōichi Tōchika as Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Mie Sonozaki as Miyuki Iijima
Minako Sango as Ai Minamizato

Ai Uchikawa as Mahoko Mochida
Ikumi Nagase as Reiko Shindou
Miwa Yanagihara as Miko Kamiyama
Shizuka Arai as Ryoko Kanou

Ai Satou as female customer (ep 6)
Ai Uchikawa as cat (ep 1)
Akiko Kimura as
female student (eps 2, 10)
girl (ep 12)
Akiko Muta as Miyuki's mother
Akira Sasanuma as
Kenji (ep 9)
male student (ep 10)
Tim
Chizuko Hoshino as Mayumi Tachibana
Colleen Lanki as Mary (ep 3)
Dai Matsumoto as manager of seaside teahouse
David Schaufele as John (ep 3)
Fuyumi Sakiya as female student (ep 9)
Haruhi Terada as Ai's mother
Harunori Miyata as Shinji Takada
Hiroko Kajimura as Minatsu Yamashita
Ikumi Nagase as
customer (ep 7)
female student (8 episodes
eps 2-4, 6, 10-13
)

Mahoko's friend (ep 5)
Kanoko Hatamiya as Nana Minagawa
Kenichi Ogata as Miko's father
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Cattleya manager
Mari Adachi as
announcer (ep 9)
clerk (ep 7)
female customer (eps 5-6)
female student (9 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 8, 10-14
)

Tsuyoshi's girlfriend (ep 2)
Mitsuaki Madono as Minoru Goto
Miyu Matsuki as
female student (ep 9)
Mahoko's friend (ep 5)
Miyuki Matsushita as Maki Midoritani
Nozomi Mizuhara as female student (ep 9)
Rena Yukie as
customer (ep 10)
Shizuka Mitsuki
Riko Sayama as
girl (ep 11)
Mizuho Yuuki
Sao Morita as female student (ep 9)
Sato Higashi as female student (ep 9)
Takayuki Arai as
announcer at train station (ep 13)
clerk (ep 12)
male customer (eps 5, 7)
male student (7 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 8, 10-11, 14
)

master of ceremonies (ep 9)
sports commentator (ep 6)
Tsuyoshi (ep 2)
zombie (ep 10)
Takeharu Ōnishi as guy picking up girls (ep 5)
Tesshō Genda as Sadaoka
Tomomi Nakano as female student (ep 9)
Tōru Ohkawa as Haruhiko Satake
Yoshio Kawai as Dogeza Master
Yumi Kikuchi as female student (ep 4)
Yumi Takada as Makihara (ep 7)
Yuu Yamazaki as guy picking up girls (ep 5)
Japanese companies
Animation: PP Project
Backgrounds:
Kobayashi Production (eps 1-13 odd)
Mini Art (eps 2-14 even)
Broadcaster:
Chiba Television (eps 1-13)
Sun TV (eps 1-13)
Television Kanagawa (eps 1-13)
Television Saitama Co., Ltd. (eps 1-13)
Editing: Jay Film
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Key Animation:
HeeWon Entertainment (eps 2, 6)
Studio Mark (ep 3)
Original Creator: Elf
Photography: Studio Cosmos
Production: PinkPineapple
Production Cooperation:
Studio Senkan (ep 7)
Studio Sign (ep 11)
Recording Studio: KSS
Sound Production: KSS
Titles: Maki Production

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