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Rental Magica (TV)

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Alternative title:
الاسئجار السحري (Arabic)
レンタルマギカ (Japanese)
魔法使借贷
Themes: witches
Plot Summary: Due to his father's disappearance, Itsuki Iba has to take over the family business: a magician dispatch service called 'Astral'. Astral basically employ countless magicians and other supernatural beings in order to send them out to help those who need magical assistance. As a leader, Itsuki now has to be tough, commanding, and reliable, but there's one problem, he's a coward. Also, in order to run a successful business, he has to connect with his employees, which is more difficult than it seems due to his personality and lack of magical ability. But not only does he have to deal with his own employees, he also has to deal with those who threaten the family business.
Video: ,
User Ratings: 441 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 17 votes (sub:14, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 Excellent: 62 votes (sub:60, Rus.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 146 votes (sub:138, dub:4, Por.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 109 votes (sub:102, dub:3, Spa.sub:2, Por.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Decent: 48 votes (sub:47, dub:1)
 So-so: 30 votes (sub:29, dub:1)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:8, raw:1)
 Weak: 14 votes (sub:13, raw:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, raw:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 910 users, rank: #676
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.225 (Good+.22), std. dev.: 1.621, rank: #1290
Weighted mean: 7.075 (Good+.07), rank: #1394 (seen all: 7.38 / seen some: 6.03 / won't finish: 4.57)
Bayesian estimate: 7.084 (Good+.08), rank: #1198
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage: 2007-10-07 to 2008-03-23
Opening Theme:
#1: "Sora ni Saku (宇宙(そら)に咲く)" by Lisa Komine
#2: "Faith" by Lisa Komine (eps 7-12,19-21,23)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Aruite ikou. (歩いていこう。)" by Jungo Yoshida
#1: "Sora ni Saku (宇宙(そら)に咲く)" by Lisa Komine (ep 1)
#2: "Aruite ikou. (Acapella Version) (歩いていこう。(アカペラVersion))" by Astral no Mina-san: Jun Fukuyama, Kana Ueda, Mikako Takahashi, Junichi Suwabe, Rie Kugamiya, Shizuka Itou (eps 12,21)
Trivia: We have 2
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Related releases:
    Rental Magica - Collection 1 (Sub.DVD) 2009-11-24 (from $27.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Series Composition:
Makoto Sanda
Mamiko Ikeda

Music:
Jun Ichikawa
Takahito Eguchi

Original creator: Makoto Sanda

Original Character Design: pako

Character Design: Minako Shiba

Art director: Masaru Ohta

Sound director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Director of Photography:
Atsuko Okui
Tsuyoshi Kuchiba

Color design: Hiromi Iwaida

Creature Design: Hideki Hashimoto

Editing: Daisuke Hiraki

Theme Song Performance:
Jun Fukuyama (ED2)
Jungo Yoshida (ED1)
Junichi Suwabe (ED2)
Kana Ueda (ED2)
Lisa Komine (OP1/OP2)
Mikako Takahashi (ED2)
Rie Kugimiya (ED2)
Shizuka Itou (ED2)

 

Jun Fukuyama as Itsuki Iba

Kana Ueda as Honami Takase Ambler

Mikako Takahashi as Adilicia Ren Mathers

Daisuke Ono as Kagezaki

Junichi Suwabe as Ren Nekoyashiki

Katsuyuki Konishi as Sekiren (eps 16-24)

Rie Kugimiya as Mikan Katsuragi

Shizuka Itou as Manami Kuroha

Akemi Okamura as Shinogi Minagi (eps 3, 12, 15)

Akihiko Ishizumi as Santa (ep 12)

Ayahi Takagaki as
Female Student
Male Student

Daisuke Matsuoka as
Follower (eps 19-20)
Goetia Subordinate (eps 5-6)
Leader (eps 21-22)
Subordinate (ep 2)
Takeminakata God (ep 3)

Fuyuka Oura as Itsuki (young) (eps 22-24)

Hideki Nakanishi as Classmate (ep 4)

Hidetoshi Nakamura as Oswald lenn Mathers (eps 5, 18)

Hiroki Yasumoto as Judaicus Tholoide (eps 7, 9-10)

Kaori Nazuka as Lapis (eps 7, 9-10)

Katsumi Chou as
Ri Sei Ou (ep 11)
Shōko's grandfather

Keiji Fujiwara as Gara (eps 17-18)

Kenta Miyake as Tastumi Shitou (eps 19-20)

Kentarou Itou as Hyoudou (ep 15)

Mami Kosuge as Mermaid (ep 15)

Mamoru Miyano as Fin Kruda (eps 22-24)

Masako Isobe as Suzuka Katsuragi (eps 19-20)

Megumi Nasu as Shōko Kunugi

Ooki Sugiyama as Soul Eater (ep 4)

Rie Kugimiya as Kaori Katsuragi (eps 19-20)

Rie Nakagawa as Mermaid (ep 15)

Rie Tanaka as Kikyou Katsuragi (Kaori/Mikan's mother; ep 20)

Risa Mizuno as Diana (eps 11-12, 21)

Ryusaku Chijiwa as Kazushi Yamada (ep 3)

Sanae Kobayashi as Sakuya Isurugi (ep 14)

Shinji Ogawa as Teacher (ep 13)

Takahiro Sakurai as Kei Isurugi (ep 14)

Taketora as Goetia member (ep 18)

Tetsuo Kaneo as Leader (eps 21-22)

Tomoko Miyadera as Old Woman (ep 15)

Umeka Shouji as
Mermaid (ep 15)
Radio announcer (ep 1)

Yasumichi Kushida as Clive Roland (eps 17-18)

Yoshinori Sonobe as
Goetia Member (ep 18)
Goetia Subordinate (eps 5-6)
Headless Aristocrat Ghost (ep 13)
Leader (eps 21-22)
Paper Soldier (ep 11)
Subordinate (ep 2)
Warrior (ep 16)

Yuka Inokuchi as Ghost Girl (ep 12)

Yukihiro Misono as Leader (ep 21)

Yuko Kaida as Daphne (5 episodes

eps 12, 17-18, 21-22
)

Yume Miyamoto as Dragon Girl (eps 22-24)

Yumiko Kobayashi as Moroha Minagi (eps 3, 12, 15)

Yuuichi Ishigami as Follower (eps 19-20)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: ZEXCS

Broadcaster:
Chiba TV (2007-10-07)
KBS Kyoto (2007-10-08)
Sun TV (2007-10-09)
Tokyo MX TV (2007-10-10)
TV Aichi (2007-10-10)
TV Hokkaido (2007-10-08)
TV Kanagawa (2007-10-08)
TV Saitama (2007-10-07)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2007-10-08)

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Nozomi Entertainment

Licensed by:
Kadokawa Pictures USA
The Right Stuf International

English cast 
(none)
 
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