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| NieA_7 | |
 NieA_7 DVD cover vol4 | |
| ニアアンダーセブン (Nia Andā Sebun) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshitoshi Abe |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Imprint | Kadokawa Comics Ace Extra |
| Magazine | Monthly Ace Next |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | October 1999 – January 2001 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| NieA under 7 - domestic poor @nimation | |
| Directed by | Tomokazu Tokoro (Chief) Takuya Satō |
| Produced by | Shojiro Abe Yasuyuki Ueda |
| Written by | Takuya Satō |
| Music by | Yoshio Owa |
| Studio | Triangle Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | WOWOW |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 26, 2000 – July 19, 2000 |
| Episodes | 13 |
NieA_7 (ニアアンダーセブン, Nia Andā Sebun), also known as NieA under 7, is a doujinshi manga series created by graphic designer Yoshitoshi Abe and later published by Kadokawa Shoten on their monthly Shōnen magazine Monthly Ace Next from October 1999 to January 2001. The manga revolves around a poor, introverted student named Mayuko Chigasaki, who lives above a Japanese bathhouse, and a freeloading, freewheeling outcast alien named NieA, who lives in Mayuko's closet.
The manga is adapted into a 13-episode anime series by Triangle Staff and aired on WOWOW from April 16 to July 19, 2000. Much of the anime's staff also worked on Serial Experiments Lain, as producer Yasuyuki Ueda suggested the team work on a lighter anime as relief from the dark, heavily psychological Serial Experiments Lain.[1] The character Chiaki, a ufology fanatic, shares a name with Chiaki J. Konaka, the script writer for Serial Experiments Lain.
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