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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: #5031 (of 9903)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.021 (Good), std. dev.: 1.9405, rank: #3717 (of 10050)
Weighted mean: 7.027 (Good), rank: #3536 (of 10050) (seen all: 7.23 / seen some: 6.85 / won't finish: 3.85)
Bayesian estimate: 7.124 (Good), rank: #2941 (of 7615)
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 Satō 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 
Kenyū Horiuchi as Cattleya manager 
Kumiko Nishihara as Tina 
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 Ōkawa 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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