Kamichu!

Kamichu!
Cover of the first Japanese DVD, showing from left to right Mitsue, Yurie, and Matsuri
かみちゅ!
Genre	Fantasy, slice of life[1]
Created by	Bésame Mucho Koji Masunari Hideyuki Kurata Tomonori Ochikoshi
Anime television series
Directed by	Koji Masunari
Produced by	Tomonori Ochikoshi Saeko Matsuda (1–3) Atsushi Kaji (4–16)
Written by	Hideyuki Kurata
Music by	Yoshihiro Ike
Studio	Brain's Base
Original network	Animax, TV Asahi
English network	PH: Animax
Original run	June 28, 2005 – September 27, 2005
Episodes	16 (12 TV, 4 DVD only)
Manga
Written by	Hanaharu Naruko
Published by	MediaWorks
Magazine	Dengeki Daioh
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	June 2005 – January 2007
Volumes	2
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Kamichu! (かみちゅ!) is a Japanese anime television series, strongly influenced by Shinto, that follows the adventures of teenage goddess Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The title is short for Kamisama de Chūgakusei (かみさまでちゅうがくせい, lit. 'A Deity As a Middle School Student'). The series was created by Besame Mucho (ベサメムーチョ, Besamemūcho), which is the joint pen name of producer Tomonori Ochikoshi, director Koji Masunari, and writer Hideyuki Kurata. It was broadcast by the anime television network Animax on its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, where it received its first English-language broadcast.

The series was adapted as a manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh, a shōnen manga magazine, and collected into two tankōbon volumes.

In July 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon still retained the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Kamichu! was one of several titles involved in the deal. However, as of August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.