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Modern Magic Made Simple (TV)

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Alternative title:
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō (Japanese)
よくわかる現代魔法 (Japanese)
簡單易懂的現代魔法 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, comedy, magic
Themes: magical girl
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The story revolves around Koyomi Morishita, a clumsy high school freshman girl who is often mistaken for a grade-schooler because of her shortness. Koyomi becomes a disciple of Misa Anehara, a 25-year-old graduate student who happens to be one of the most powerful modern-day magicians.
User Ratings: 288 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:2, raw:2, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Excellent: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:2)
 Very good: 53 votes (sub:35, dub:17, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 88 votes (sub:76, dub:10, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 50 votes (sub:49, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 24 votes (sub:22, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 26 votes (sub:23, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 19 votes (sub:17, dub:1, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:7, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 533 users, rank: #2025 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.302 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.8054, rank: #6355 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 6.226 (Decent+), rank: #6503 (of 9642) (seen all: 6.50 / seen some: 4.96 / won't finish: 4.03)
Bayesian estimate: 6.284 (Decent+), rank: #5809 (of 7243)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2009-07-04 (Advanced Broadcast)
2009-07-11 to 2009-09-26
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"programming for non-fiction" by Natsuko Aso
Ending Theme:
"Made in WONDER" by Aki Misato
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
Review:
News: Show:
Press Release:
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DVD (Region 1)
    Modern Magic Made Simple - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2011-12-20 (from $53.50)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yasuhiro Kuroda
Series Composition:
Yasuhiro Kuroda
Yūichi Monda
Script:
Michiko Itou (eps 6-7, 9-10)
Naoki Tozuka (5 episodes
eps 1, 5, 8, 11-12
)

Yūichi Monda (eps 0, 2-4)
Storyboard:
Junichi Sakata (eps 3, 7, 11)
Katsuyuki Kodera (eps 5, 9)
Masahiro Sonoda (ep 8)
Mitsue Yamazaki (ep 4)
Nagisa Miyazaki (eps 0, 6)
Takehiro Nakayama (eps 1, 12)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 10)
Yasuhiro Kuroda (ep 2)
Episode Director:
Atsushi Nakayama (ep 1)
Jirō Asuka (ep 11)
Masahiro Sonoda (ep 8)
Masato Jinbo (ep 6)
Mitsue Yamazaki (ep 4)
Naoki Murata (eps 3, 7, 12)
Risako Yoshida (ep 2)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 10)
Yasushi Muroya (ep 0)
Yoshitaka Nagaoka (eps 5, 9)
Original creator: Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Original Character Design: Miki Miyashita
Character Design: Makoto Koga
Art Director: Ken'ichi Tatefuji (See Throu Studio)
Chief Animation Director: Masafumi Tamura
Animation Director:
Eri Baba (ep 5)
Kenichi Ishimaru (ep 8)
Kenji Ōta (eps 3, 6, 11)
Makoto Koga (ep 11)
Masafumi Tamura (eps 0, 12)
Rie Fujiwara (ep 8)
Shinji Yamamoto (eps 4, 7, 11)
Shinya Ojiri (ep 2)
Takashi Uchida (eps 1, 9)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 10)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Director of Photography: Tōru Sugawara (Studio Cosmos)
Assistant Animation Director:
Kazuhisa Kosuge (ep 8)
Naoki Yamauchi (ep 12)
Reiko Sato (ep 8)
Yoshino Honda (ep 8)
Background Art:
Fuminao Akai
Sanae Tomoto
Sumiko Aihara (Studio Jack)
Yasutoshi Kawai (Studio Jack)
Color design: Osamu Mikasa
Color Key:
Chikako Kamata
Kouta Shiraishi (Studio Easter)
Mayumi Tomari (Studio Fantasia)
Yukiko Shigemitsu
Design Assistant: Hiroyuki Kasugai
Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
Finish Animation:
Aiko Shinohara (Studio Easter)
Emi Nonaka (Studio Easter)
Emiko Onodera (Studio Easter)
Fumiko Numahata
Hitomi Ikeda (Studio Easter)
Kanna Terawake
Keiko Kai (Studio Easter; ep 12)
Kumiko Anno (Studio Easter)
Miyuki Shimada (Studio Easter)
Shun Hasegawa (Studio Easter)
Yukiko Shigemitsu
Key Animation:
Aiko Ōura (Sunrise Animation Studio-Ep6,9)
Akio Kitahara (5 episodes
eps 0-1, 3, 7, 12
)

Atsushi Nikaidō (ep 4)
Atsushi Usui (ep 8)
Aya Nagumo (eps 1, 4)
Ayu Imoto (ep 8)
Bomin Kim (Big Bang; ep 12)
Chikae Kuwahara (Big Bang; ep 12)
Dai Nishino (Big Bang; ep 12)
Daisuke Kamei (ep 11)
Daisuke Saitō (eps 1, 7, 12)
Eiichi Kuboyama (ep 3)
Eisuke Matsubara (ep 10)
Eitaro Abe (eps 6, 12)
Eri Baba (eps 0, 4, 10)
Eriko Iida (Sunrise Animation Studio -Ep 5)
Fumiko Kon (ep 9)
Hidenori Miyahara (Nakamura Production; ep 3)
Hiroaki Konno (Big Bang; ep 12)
Hiroko Shigekuni (eps 6, 11)
Hiroshi Tatezaki (ep 11)
Hiroyuki Kasugai (eps 1, 3, 7, 10)
Itaru Saito (ep 12)
Ji Hee Jung (Anihouse Sun; ep 12)
Kana Nishijima (Sunrise Animation Studio -Ep 6)
Katsumi Aoshima (eps 2, 7)
Katsushi Suzuki (Big Bang; ep 12)
Kazuhisa Kosuge (ep 8)
Kazuki Ito (ep 4)
Kazuki Toi (ep 6)
Kazuma Kikuchi (ep 1)
Kei Mazaki (ep 12)
Kei Ōhashi (ep 7)
Keiko Motoya (ep 10)
Keisuke Watanabe (ep 9)
Ken Mutou (eps 1, 4)
Kenichi Ishimaru (ep 8)
Kenichi Umeki (ep 1)
Kenichi Umemoto (ep 9)
Kenji Ōta (eps 0, 3, 6, 11)
Kōichi Shimizu (Big Bang; ep 12)
Kōichi Takai (eps 1, 4, 7)
Kōji Miura (eps 9, 12)
Kōsuke Yoshida (Nakamura Pro.; eps 3, 6-7)
Kumiko Abe (SunriseAnimationSt.-Ep5,6,9,11)
Maki Fujita (ep 12)
Makoto Ōta (ep 0)
Makoto Ozawa (ep 11)
Manabu Shioda (eps 1, 3, 11)
Mao Furukawa (ep 8)
Masafumi Tamura (ep 12)
Masakazu Ishikawa (ep 8)
Masanori Hashimoto (Big Bang; ep 12)
Masanori Iizuka (AI; ep 12)
Masaru Yoshioka (ep 2)
Masato Nishikawa (ep 11)
Megumi Yamazaki (ep 10)
Michinori Shika (ep 10)
Mika Suzuki (Sunrise Animation Studio-Ep6,9)
Min Bae Lee (Anihouse Sun; ep 12)
Mitsuru Nakata (Nakamura Pro.; eps 3, 6-7, 11)
Miyako Ōta (eps 4-5, 9)
Miyuki Konno (ep 8)
Naoki Yamauchi (eps 0, 5-6)
Naomi Ide (ep 8)
Naoto Nakamura (ep 4)
Noriko Sato (eps 0-1, 3, 9)
Reiko Sato (eps 0, 2, 8, 10)
Reina Takada (eps 5, 9)
Risako Yoshida (ep 0)
Saki Kobayashi (eps 0, 4-5, 9)
Sakiko Uda (SunriseAnimationStudio-Ep6,11)
Sakurako Mitsuhashi (Sunrise Animation Studio -Ep 5)
Satomi Watabe (Sunrise Animation St.-Ep5,6,9)
Satomi Yamanaka (ep 6)
Seiji Masuda (eps 0, 2)
Shigeki Iwasaki (Sunrise Animation St.-Ep5,6,11)
Shinichi Iimura (eps 1, 7)
Shinji Abe (ep 8)
Shinji Yamamoto (eps 0, 5)
Shinya Kameyama (eps 1, 10)
Shinya Ojiri (eps 0, 3)
Shinya Yamada (ep 6)
Shun Odajima (eps 1, 12)
Takashi Uchida (ep 1)
Takayo Mitsuwaka (eps 0-1, 7, 10)
Takayoshi Hayashi (ep 11)
Takuya Hirata (ep 11)
Tokuhiro Itagaki (Sunrise Animation Studio -Ep 9)
Tomoaki Chishima (ep 11)
Tomokazu Shimabukuro (Nakamura Pro.; eps 4, 6-7, 11)
Tomoko Tsuji (ep 8)
Tomomi Murayama (ep 8)
Tomoyuki Kitamura (eps 0, 4)
Tomoyuki Ōshita (ep 0)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (eps 0, 3-5, 10)
Wataru Yamamoto (ep 10)
Yoshimasa Kikuchi (AI; ep 12)
Yoshinari Saito (ep 8)
Yoshino Honda (ep 8)
Yosuke Imakubo (ep 7)
Youko Kuboyama (ep 10)
Young Hee Cho (Anihouse Sun; ep 12)
Yūhei Murota (Sunrise Animation Studio-Ep6,9)
Yui Murakami (ep 10)
Yūki Nakajima (eps 0, 4)
Yūki Yamashita (Nakamura Production; eps 4, 6)
Yukihiro Kitano (10 episodes
eps 0-5, 7, 9-10, 12
)

Yukihiro Kobayashi (eps 2, 9)
Yukiko Muta (Big Bang; ep 12)
Yumie Wada (NakamuraProduction-Eps.3,4,11)
Music producer: Yoshiyuki Ito
Online Editor:
Ayaka Minami
Gen Itakura
Production Advancement:
Akihiko Ōsawa (eps 0, 4)
Riyo Horie (ep 8)
Sayuri Ōi (eps 5, 9)
Shin Tozuka (eps 2, 6)
Takanobu Akita (ep 12)
Takanori Yano (ep 10)
Takashi Udo (ep 8)
Takurō Suzuki (eps 6, 11)
Yasuhiro Fujikawa (eps 1, 3, 7, 12)
Yoshiki Sugano (ep 8)
Production producer: Yuji Takae
Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda
Theme Song Performance:
Aki Misato (ED)
Natsuko Aso (OP)
Ai Nonaka as Koyomi Morishita

Haruka Tomatsu as Yumiko Cristina Ichinose
Hitomi Nabatame as Misa Anehara
Minako Kotobuki as Kaho Sakazaki
Shintarō Asanuma as Sōshirō Anehara

Ayumi Fujimura as
Katamari
Mayuri Anehara
Binbin Takaoka as
Detective (ep 8)
Man (ep 11)
Chikara Ōsaka as
Manager (ep 2)
Tsukumo Jinzai
Gō Inoue as Company employee (ep 3)
Hiromi Igarashi as Boy A (ep 1)
Junko Kitanishi as
CA (ep 8)
Teacher (ep 2)
Yumiko's mother
Kazuyuki Okitsu as
Karl Cristbarth
Passerby A (ep 7)
Kenji Hamada as Gary Huang
Masayuki Katō as Jean-Jacques Guibarthez
Misaki Sekiyama as
Boy (ep 7)
Homeroom teacher (ep 1)
Mutsumi Tamura as Sōshirō Anehara (young)
Natsuko Aso as Receptionist (ep 9)
Nobuaki Kanemitsu as
Teacher (ep 10)
Yumiko's father
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Customer B (ep 1)
Noriko Uchiyama as Chinese person (ep 10)
Ryoukichi Takahashi as Thief (ep 3)
Satomi Satou as jini
Shunzou Miyasaka as Customer A (ep 1)
Takashi Oohara as Shop manager (ep 1)
Takayuki Sugō as Karl Cristbarth (old)
Tōru Ohkawa as Company president (ep 2)
Tsutomu Densaka as Passerby B (ep 7)
Tsuyoshi Aoki as Kenjūrō Anehara
Yōko Hikasa as
Mio Kisaragi (ep 2)
Official (ep 4)
Yoshino Nanjō as Student (ep 2)
Yoshiya Naruke as Stock exchange staff (ep 10)
Yuka Saitō as Announcer (ep 3)
Yuka Tanishita as Announcer (ep 9)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Nomad
Backgrounds:
Kyung Kang ANIA
Studio Beam
Studio Jack (10 episodes
eps 1, 3-8, 10-12
)

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2009-07-13)
Bandai Channel (2009-07-13)
Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation (2009-07-11)
Composite: Studio Cosmos
Music Production: Lantis
Production Assistance: Studio Blanc. (ep 8)
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
English staff
English companies
Translation: Michael Brown
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford

Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff
Subtitle Editor: Laura Wyrick
Distributor: Section23 Films (North America)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (subtitled version)
HIDIVE (Subtitled)
Hulu
The Anime Network
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Subtitles: MX Media LLC
Translation: MX Media LLC
English cast
(none)

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