Level E

Level E
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Prince Baka
レベルE
(Reberu Ī)
GenreScience fiction comedy[1]
Manga
Written byYoshihiro Togashi
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 2, 1995January 15, 1997
Volumes3
Anime television series
Directed byToshiyuki Katō
Produced by
  • Hatsuo Nara
  • Ken Hagino
  • Kōji Kajita
Written byJukki Hanada
Music byYang Bang-ean
Studio
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run January 11, 2011 April 5, 2011
Episodes13

Level E (Japanese: レベル E, Hepburn: Reberu Ī) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The plot follows the misadventures of alien Prince Baka Ki El Dogra, who crash-lands on Earth and forcibly begins living with high school student and baseball player Yukitaka Tsutsui. However, Prince Baka gradually realizes that he is targeted by aliens from other planets, and he uses his clever wits to somehow maintain world peace each time. Along with its short length and more realistic art style, the story of Level E focuses much more heavily on humor than Togashi's more famous series Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter.

Level E was serialized for sixteen chapters in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1995 to 1997 for a total of 16 chapters, collected in three tankōbon volumes. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation, directed by Toshiyuki Katō and produced by Pierrot and David Production, aired on TV Tokyo in 2011.

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