Season 1 (2010)
Release date: 2010-10-08
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Writer: Yasuomi Umetsu
Episodes (12):
1. The Fortune Cafe
Hotori's and Toshiko's job at a maid café conflicts with school rules. They must convince their teacher to permit their job, but first the café has a lot of improvement to do…
Release date: 2010-10-08
2. The Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
An encounter with the local police officer leads Hotori to threaten sexual harassment suits. Hotori's plans to increase customers backfires.
Release date: 2010-10-15
3. The Cat Boy
Moriaki begs Hotori to use her detective skills to discern the mystery surrounding two keepsake paintings. Hotori assists with recovering a pet cat.
Release date: 2010-10-22
4. The Cursed Equation
After scoring a 0 on her math test, Hotori’s math teacher, Moriaki, sentences her to detention and divulges his murderous presumptions.
Release date: 2010-10-29
5. The Amazingly Strange Toshiko Tatsuno
Tatsuno receives tickets to see a movie and wants to invite her love interest, Sanada. Takeru, Hotori’s younger brother, is asked to hang out by his classmate, Ebi-chan.
Release date: 2010-11-05
6. The Pandora Maid Service
Hotori visits an antique shop in search of a birthday gift for Tatsuno. Later, she searches for a PC to scan an image for her site and finds a spreading pandemic.
Release date: 2010-11-12
7. The Lovers’ Midnight Dash
Sanada devises a plan and uses his daily horoscope reading to win Hotori’s heart. The two decide to play hooky for the remaining school day.
Release date: 2010-11-19
8. The Fully Automated Orchestra
The girls discover a vending machine with astonishingly good food. Hotori's class isn't planning anything for the Cultural Festival; Futaba suggests forming a band.
Release date: 2010-11-26
9. The Clash of the Buytans
Harue challenges Toshiko to a table tennis game. Both girls put up a furious fight, but in the end, who will be the victor of the tennis table?
Release date: 2010-12-03
10. The Finger Pointing Geriatric
The news reports mysterious holes that have appeared in the neighborhood. Futaba questions Hotori about the holes.
Release date: 2010-12-10
11. Kon’s Summer of Tears
Mr. Moriaki tries to help Hotori with her remedial math class by comparing it to detective work with mixed results.
Release date: 2010-12-17
12. Sore Machi...
Futaba & Toshiko aren't on speaking terms because Toshiko refuses to join the table tennis club. Hotori ruins an expensive pen and dreams about being judged in the afterlife.
Release date: 2010-12-24
Cast
Chiaki Omigawa
as Hotori Arashiyama (voice)
Rieka Yazawa
as Futaba Kon (voice)
Aoi Yuuki
as Toshiko Tatsuno (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
as Uki Isohata (voice)
Miyu Matsuki
as Josephine / Yukimi Arashiyama (voice)
Miyu Irino
as Hiroyuki Sanada (voice)
Satsuki Yukino
as Kameidou Shizuka
Tomokazu Sugita
as Natsuhiko Moriaki (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
as Harue Haribara (voice)
Emiri Kato
as Eri Isezaki (voice)
Eri Sendai
as Yukiko Arashiyama (voice)
Hiroshi Naka
as Zenji Isohata (voice)
Mutsumi Tamura
as Takeru Arashiyama (voice)
Nobuaki Kanemitsu
as Takanori Kikuchi (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
as Shunsaku Matsuda (voice)
Takaya Kuroda
as Yuji Sanada (voice)
Toshiharu Sakurai
as Kazutoyo Arai (voice)
Yoji Ueda
as Narrator (voice)
Yuki Ono
as Ayumu Arashiyama (voice)
Crew - click here to expand
Maaya Sakamoto - Theme Song Performance, Katsuhiko Takayama - Series Composition, Hiroki Yamamura - Character Designer, Hitoshi Hibino - Color Designer, Masakazu Ishiguro - Comic Book, Yasuomi Umetsu - Writer, Akiyuki Shinbo - Director, Tomohiro Fujita - Producer, Junichiro Tanaka - Producer, Shinichi Nakamura - Producer, Shosei Ito - Producer, Mitsutoshi Kubota - Producer, Masao Fukuda - Music Producer, Toshiki Kameyama - Sound Director, Kazuhiko Seki - Editor, Rei Egami - Director of Photography, Hisaharu Iijima - Art Direction, Hiroki Yamamura - Supervising Animation Director, Miyako Nishida - Supervising Animation Director, Yasutoshi Iwasaki - Supervising Animation Director, Naoyuki Tatsuwa - Assistant Director