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Rental Magica (TV)

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Alternative title:
レンタルマギカ (Japanese) 
Genres: adventure , comedy , fantasy , horror , mystery , romance , supernatural 
Themes: harem , witches 
Objectionable content: Significant 
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. 
User Ratings: 682 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 24 votes (sub:21, dub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 88 votes (sub:82, ?:2, raw:1, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 208 votes (sub:198, dub:6, others:4
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 176 votes (sub:165, dub:5, ?:1, others:5
2 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 84 votes (sub:81, dub:2, raw:1)
 So-so: 55 votes (sub:50, dub:4, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:14, dub:1, raw:1)
 Weak: 23 votes (sub:22, raw:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:4, raw:1, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1445 users, rank: #686 (of 5564)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.116 (Good), std. dev.: 1.6326, rank: #1912 (of 5554)
Weighted mean: 6.979 (Good), rank: #2126 (of 5554) (seen all: 7.26 / seen some: 6.25 / won't finish: 4.19)
Bayesian estimate: 6.988 (Good), rank: #1852 (of 4226)
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 (eps 2-6, 13-18, 22) 
#2: "Faith" by Lisa Komine (eps 7-12, 19-21, 23) 
#3: "Sora ni Saku: Hikigatari Version" (宇宙（そら）に咲く 〜弾き語りVersion〜) by Lisa Komine (ep 24) 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Sora ni Saku" (宇宙[そら]に咲く) by Lisa Komine (ep 1) 
#2: "Aruite Ikō." (歩いていこう。) by Jungo Yoshida (eps 2-11, 13-20, 22-24) 
#3: "Aruite Ikō. [Astral Version]" (歩いていこう。（アストラルVersion）) by Astral no Mina-san [Jun Fukuyama, Kana Ueda, Mikako Takahashi, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Rie Kugimiya, and Shizuka Itou] (eps 12, 21) 
Trivia: We have 2
Reviews:
Rental Magica Sub.DVD Collection 2 (Dec 10, 2010)
Rental Magica Sub.DVD Collection 1 (Jan 10, 2010)
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Nozomi Entertainment Announces Rental Magica, Pt. 2 (Jun 13, 2012)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Rental Magica - Collection 1 (Sub.DVD) 2009-11-24 (from $39.99)
    Rental Magica - Collection 2 (Sub.DVD) 2010-04-06 (from $29.80)
    Rental Magica - Collection 1 [Litebox] (Sub.DVD) 2012-08-07 (from $22.09)
    Rental Magica - Collection 2 [Litebox] (Sub.DVD) 2012-10-02 (from $22.12)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Itsuro Kawasaki 
Series Composition:
Makoto Sanda 
Mamiko Ikeda 
Storyboard: Itsuro Kawasaki (1-3, 5-6, 10) 
Episode Director:
Itsuro Kawasaki (ED, 1, 10, 22, 24) 
Masahiro Okamura (2, 8) 
Naoki Oohira (20) 
Shigeki Hatakeyama (5, 14, 19) 
Yoshinobu Tokumoto (3, 11, 18) 
Music:
Jun Ichikawa 
Takahito Eguchi 
Original creator: Makoto Sanda 
Original Character Design: pako 
Character Design: Minako Shiba 
Art Director: Masaru Ohta 
Chief Animation Director: Minako Shiba (eps 1-2, 22-24) 
Animation Director: Minako Shiba (OP) 
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami 
Director of Photography:
Atsuko Okui 
Tsuyoshi Kuchiba 

Assistant Art Director: Sumiko Aihara 
Color design: Hiromi Iwaida 
Creature Design: Hideki Hashimoto 
Editing: Daisuke Hiraki 
Key Animation:
Hideki Hashimoto (OP) 
Itsuro Kawasaki (10, 15) 
Music Performance:
Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute) 
Hiroki Satou (Trombone) 
Otohiko Fujita (Horn) 
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp) 
Planning: Takeshi Yasuda 
Production:
Atsushi Itou 
Hiroyasu Asami 
Nobuhiko Sakawa 
Tsutomu Takano 
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) 
Internet Streaming: Rakuten ShowTime 
Music Production: Victor Entertainment 
Production:
Imagica 
Kadokawa Pictures 
Kadokawa Shoten 
NTT Docomo 
The Klockworx Co., Ltd. 
ZEXCS 
English companies
English staff
(none)
Broadcaster: Animax Asia 
Distributor: Nozomi Entertainment 
Internet Streaming:
Hulu 
YouTube 
Licensed by:
Kadokawa Pictures USA 
The Right Stuf International 
English cast
(none)
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