Psychic Squad

Psychic Squad
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring (from left to right) Aoi Nogami, Kaoru Akashi and Shiho Sannomiya
絶対可憐チルドレン
(Zettai Karen Chirudoren)
Genre
Manga
Written byTakashi Shiina
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 13, 2005July 14, 2021
Volumes63
Anime television series
Directed byKeiichiro Kawaguchi
Written bySatoru Nishizono
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioSynergySP
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run April 6, 2008 March 29, 2009
Episodes51 + OVA (List of episodes)
Light novel
Zettai Karen Children the Novels "B.A.B.E.L. Hōkai"
Written byGakuto Mikumo
Illustrated byTakashi Shiina
Published byShogakukan
ImprintGagaga Bunko
DemographicMale
PublishedMay 20, 2008
Video game
Zettai Karen Children DS: Dai-4 no Children
DeveloperHuneX
PublisherKonami
GenreSimulation RPG
PlatformNintendo DS
ReleasedSeptember 4, 2008
Spin-off

Psychic Squad, known in Japan as Zettai Karen Children (Japanese: 絶対可憐チルドレン, Hepburn: Zettai Karen Chirudoren, lit.'Absolutely Lovely Children'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 2005 to July 2021, with its chapters collected in 63 tankōbon volumes. It is the story about three young problem girls with outstanding psychic powers and a young man with no special powers at all tasked to guide them properly while dealing with all the commotions they cause, including their obvious infatuation with him.

A 51-episode anime television series produced by SynergySP was broadcast from April 2008 to March 2009, and had a special original video animation (OVA) released in July 2010. A 12-episode spin-off focused on main antagonist Kyōsuke Hyōbu, titled Unlimited Psychic Squad, and produced by Manglobe, was broadcast from January to March 2013.

By July 2012, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation. In 2022, Psychic Squad received the 53rd Seiun Award for Best Comic.

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  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference OVA-ann was invoked but never defined (see the help page).