Cyber Team in Akihabara | |
North American DVD cover
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アキハバラ電脳組 (Akihabara Dennō Gumi) |
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Genre | Action, Comedy, Romance, Science fiction |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Yoshitaka Fujimoto |
Music by | Shinkichi Mitsumune |
Studio |
Ashi Productions Gansis |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TBS (1998) |
English network | |
Original run | April 4, 1998 – September 26, 1998 |
Episodes | 26 |
Manga | |
Cyber Team in Akihabara: PataPi! | |
Written by | Tsukasa Kotobuki |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Nakayoshi |
Published | August 1998 |
Game | |
Cyber Team in Akihabara: PataPies! | |
Developer | Westone |
Publisher | Sega |
Genre | Adventure |
Platform | Dreamcast |
Released | July 29, 1999 |
Anime film | |
Cyber Team in Akihabara: Summer Vacation of 2011 | |
Directed by | Hiroaki Sakurai |
Written by | Katsumi Hasegawa |
Music by | Shinkichi Mitsumune |
Studio |
Production I.G Xebec |
Released | August 14, 1999 |
Runtime | 60 minutes |
Cyber Team in Akihabara (アキハバラ電脳組 Akihabara Dennō Gumi?) is a 1998 science fiction anime series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori. The television series aired from April 4, 1998 to September 26, 1998 on TBS and ran for 26 episodes. It was released in the United States by ADV Films. It was also broadcast on international networks such as Anime Network (United States), AXN Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Thailand), Locomotion (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain and Brazil). A 1-hour featured animation film of the series was subsequently released in Japan entitled Cyber Team in Akihabara: Summer Vacation of 2011 (アキハバラ電脳組 2011年の夏休み Akihabara Dennō Gumi: Nisenjūichinen no Natsu Yasumi?); unlike the series the film was produced by Production I.G and Xebec. The show has an array of characters, many of whom are named after birds, gods, and real-myth villains.
The protagonist of this anime is twelve-year-old junior high school student Hibari Hanakoganei living in Akihabara, a suburb of Tokyo in the year 2010. The current craze among young girls in Akihabara and probably all of Japan are electronic pets called "Pata-Pi." Simply buy one, upgrade it with pre-set or custom parts, and show it off to friends and relatives! Hibari, however, seems to be the only girl in town who doesn't have one and can only admire the PataPi owned by her best friend, Suzume, whom she has named Francesca and flamboyantly brags that he is "the best PataPi in the world!"