Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan | |
First tankōbon volume featuring Kusuo Saiki
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斉木楠雄のΨ難 | |
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Genre | Comedy, Slice of Life, Supernatural |
Manga | |
Written by | Shūichi Asō |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
Original run | May 14, 2012 – present |
Volumes | 21 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiroaki Sakurai |
Written by | Michiko Yokote |
Music by | Psychic Lover |
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Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO |
Original run | July 4, 2016 – December 26, 2016 |
Episodes | 120 |
Game | |
Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan: Shijō Psi Dai no Psi Nan!? | |
Developer | Bandai Namco Studios |
Publisher | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
Platform | Nintendo 3DS |
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (斉木楠雄のΨ難 Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan?, lit. "The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki") is a Japanese gag manga series written and illustrated by Shūichi Asō. The series began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from June 2012. A television anime adaptation by J.C.Staff and EGG FIRM began airing on July 4, 2016. A live-action film directed by Yuichi Fukuda and starring Kento Yamazaki at Sony Pictures and Asmik Ace is set for an October 21, 2017 release.
Kusuo Saiki is a high school student who was born with all manner of psychic abilities, including telepathy, psychokinesis, teleportation, and more. Despite having all these powers, Saiki faces all kinds of hardships and tries to avoid attention as much as possible. The story follows Saiki as he attempts to secretly use his powers to live a normal high school life while dealing with his less than ordinary classmates at P.K. Academy.
The series began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on May 14, 2012. The first collected tankōbon volume was published on September 4, 2012, with 21 volumes released as of April 2017.
On May 4, 2013, a light novel titled, Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan - Extra Story of Psychics was released, following with Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan - Extra Story of Psychics 2 in July 2014.
A flash anime series based on the manga began release on Jump Live from August 4, 2013, featuring the same voice cast as an earlier Comic adaptation.
A television anime adaptation was announced in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine's 23rd issue of 2016. J.C.Staff and EGG FIRM are producing the adaptation, with Hiroaki Sakurai directing, Michiko Yokote handling series composition and Masayuki Onji designing the characters. The series began airing on July 4, 2016 on TV Tokyo, with an episode airing every weekday morning followed by a compilation episode at the end of each week, the series will contain one hundred and twenty episodes in total, along with twenty four compilation episodes. The opening theme is "Seishun wa Zankoku janai" (青春は残酷じゃない Youth Isn't So Cruel?) by Natsuki Hanae while the ending theme, also used for the short episodes, is "Psi desu - I Like You" (Ψです I LIKE YOU?) by Denpagumi.inc. The series is being simulcast by Funimation, who began releasing an English dub from August 7, 2016.