is a popular sh?nen romantic comedy manga and anime series from the 1980s. Written by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump, it was later adapted into an anime series broadcasted on Nippon Television, animated by Studio Pierrot and directed by veteran animator Osamu Kobayashi with character designs by Akemi Takada and scripts by Kenji Terada, with Narumi Kakinouchi, one of the creators of Vampire Princess Miyu adding design work to the anime, as well as the opening and ending credits for episodes 1-8. In the mid-1990s the series was novelized as well. Background Teenage romance meets science-fiction in this series as a love triangle develops between the main character, an indecisive esper named Kyosuke Kasuga, Madoka Ayukawa, a mercurial and enigmatic girl with a tough past, and Hikaru Hiyama, Madoka's ditzy and energetic best friend. Kyosuke falls in love with Madoka, and Madoka wants to return those fee

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