Mami the Psychic

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Mami the Psychic
The cover of the first tankōbon, released in Japan by Shogakukan
エスパー魔美 (Esupā Mami)
Genre	Magical girl
Manga
Written by	Fujiko F. Fujio
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Tentōmushi Comics
Magazine	Shōnen Big Comic
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1977 – 1983
Volumes	9
Anime television series
Directed by	Keiichi Hara
Produced by	Junichi Kimura (TV Asahi) Yoshiaki Koizumi (TV Asahi) Soichi Besshi (Shin-Ei Animation) Hitoshi Mogi (Shin-Ei Animation)
Written by	Akira Okeya Sukehiro Tomita Ryo Motohira Keiichi Hara Shoei Tsukada
Music by	Kohei Tanaka
Studio	Shin-Ei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 7, 1987 – October 26, 1989
Episodes	119 + 1 special
Anime film
ESPer Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll
Directed by	Keiichi Hara
Produced by	Soichi Besshi Yoshiaki Koizumi Junichi Kimura
Written by	Sukehiro Tomita
Music by	Kohei Tanaka
Studio	Shin-Ei Animation
Released	March 12, 1988
Runtime	41 minutes

Mami the Psychic^[1] (エスパー魔美, Esupā Mami, "ESPer Mami") is a manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio in 1977 and serialized in Shōnen Big Comic. It tells stories about Mami, a middle schoolgirl who one day finds out she has various psychic powers, and how she uses them to help people.

The series was later adapted into an anime series in 1987 and an anime film in 1988.^[2]

This series has a similar premise to one of Fujiko F. Fujio's earlier shorts titled Akage no Anko ("Redheaded Anko"), later retitled Anko Ōi ni Okoru ("When Anko Really Gets Angry"), which is about Anko Aoyama, a teenage girl who discovers her psychic powers and the dark secret of her mother's lineage of true witches, and who also poses nude for her own father.