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絶対少年

Zettai Shounen

Aizawa Ayumu is a young boy, who is sent to a small town called Tana to live with his father for a while. Even though he doesn't want to go, he agrees to do so when his mother offers him a mountain bike. Ayumu used to live in Tana before, and now his memories of the time are shrouded in mystery - apparently something happened when he was a child. Enter Miku, a young girl who knows more than she tells, weird glowing lights floating around, reflections of UFOish objects in the eyes of cats and dogs, a nosy female announcer, a forest with a mysterious past, and a weird boy called Wakkun, who wears the clothes Ayumu used to when he was a child, and you get the world of Zettai Shonen, where mysteries remain mysteries amidst a slow, normal, everyday life. (Source: Anime News Network)

Names

Original絶対少年 (han)
RomajiZettai Shounen
English
Chinese绝对少年 (simplified · via wikidata)
Also known asAbsolute Boy · Zettai Shonen

Facts

FormatTV series · 26 ep · 25 min · 11h total
Aired2005-05-21 → 2005-11-19 (Spring 2005)
StatusFINISHED
StudioAjiado
SourceOriginal work
OriginJapan (Anime)
GenresDramaFantasyMysterySci-Fi
ThemesRuralUrbanPhilosophyEnsemble CastIyashikeiHikikomoriComing of AgeUrban Fantasy

Reception

Community score6.73 / 10
Bayesian score7.25 / 10
Composite49.3
On lists6,352
Favourited70 (1.1%)
Completion64.9%
Drop rate11.1%
In backlog70.0%
Score spread σ1.83

Score distribution

115211335456510961647248821891241032

Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
StudioAjiadoD15 of 26
Broadcast seasonSpring 2005C25 of 53
Year2005C92 of 191
GenreMysteryD408 of 652
LengthTwo-courD442 of 699
EraLate 2000sC501 of 1,149
GenreSci-FiC663 of 1,409
Source materialOriginal workC789 of 1,732
Season (all years)SpringC932 of 1,868
GenreFantasyD1,111 of 2,142
GenreDramaD1,222 of 1,917
FormatTV seriesD1,750 of 3,322
OriginJapanC3,451 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorTomomi Mochizuki, Hiroshi Oono, Hozumi Gouda
Series compositionKazunori Itou
Character designSunaho Tobe, Masayuki Sekine
MusicMasumi Itou
Original creatorSunaho Tobe

Related

RelationYearTitle
otherRikka to Ruu

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