Akihabara@Deep

	Akihabara@DEEP
Network	TBS
Number of episodes:	11 + 1 Special
First episode:	Search 1: Our City Akihabara. Exterminate the Otaku Hunts!
Original airing:	June 19, 2006 - ???
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Genre:	Action and comedy

Akihabara@Deep (アキハバラ＠DEEP, Akihabara@Deep^?) is a drama that began airing on TBS from June 19, 2006 and ran for 11 episodes with one secret special.

Synopsis[]

Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of mangas, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku. Page, Box, Akira, Taiko, Daruma, and Izumu are six otaku each with his/her own troubles and sought relief through a website called "Yui's Lifeguard." When site owner Yui died of a mysterious death, the six who are each experts in their own fields gathered to form "Akihabara@DEEP", a "trouble shooter" group that vows to protect Akihabara and solve the problems of its inhabitants.

Cast[]

Shunsuke Kazama as Page
Toma Ikuta as Box
Yuki Himura as Daruma
Gen Hoshino as Taiko
Yuka Kosaka as Akira
Hatsune Matsushima as Izumu/Izm
Manami Honjo as Yui

Digital Capital[]

Kazuki Kitamura as Nakagomi Takeshi
Satoshi Matsuda as Tosaka
Masayuki Izumi as Shimoyanagi Konosuke

Maid Cafe[]

Hiroko Isayama as Watao Akane
Seijun Nobukawa as Rui / Tama-chan (Hipopo)
China Fukunaga (福永ちな) as China
Miri Akimoto as Miri
Rika Fuji (藤井梨花) as Rika
Misa Mochizuki (望月みさ) as Misa
Ayaka Nanasawa (七沢彩夏) as Ayaka

Others[]

Iori Nomizu as Tsuku (Hipopo)
Osamu Shitara
Bunta Kawamoto (川元文太)
Toshiyuki Kuroda (黒田俊幸)
Mickey Curtis (ミッキー・カーチス)

Guests[]

Kazuma Yamane as gang leader (ep1)
Kazunobu Kubota (久保田和靖) as the Cat Fight Announcer (ep2)
Misato Tachibana as Katsurai Mami (ep3)
Natsume Sano as Tachibana Satsuki (ep3)
Daisuke Hibi (日比大介) as Akada Shunichiro (ep4)
Haruka Kinami as Kaira (ep4)
Kami Hiraiwa as Shoko (ep5)
Narumi Konno as Mizuki (ep5)
Reiko Suho as Kuno Akiko (ep6)
MARI as Nagomi (ep8)
Nonami Takizawa as Mikiko (ep9)
Yuki Matsumura as the Fukusyuya (ep9)
Ira Ishida (石田衣良) as himself (ep11)

Production Credits[]

Original writing: Ira Ishida (石田衣良) Akihabara@Deep (novel)
Screenwriter: Kawahara Masahiko (河原雅彦), Yuuko Kawabe (川邊優子)
Producer: i-cf corporation (株式会社アイ・シー・エフ), Geneon Entertainment Inc., Yomiko (読売広告社)
Director: Hitoshi One (大根仁)
Music: Tucker

Episodes[]

Notes[]

Daruma is a cosplaying otaku. So far, he has dressed up as the following characters from the following anime: Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam), Alan Tracy (Thunderbirds), Maetel, Tetsuro (Galaxy Express 999), Cyborg 009 (Cyborg 009), Cobra (Space Adventure Cobra), Black Jack (Black Jack), Nobita (Doraemon), Shinguji Sakura (Sakura Taisen), Alexandria Meat (Kinnikuman). During the second story, he showcased many of his cosplay costumes, notably that of AYA (former guitarist Psycho le Cemu) from the PV "Prism", complete with choreography and signature pink wig.
Nakagomi Takeshi is an open Gundam fan, who has made numerous references to Gundam, apart from him cosplaying as Char Aznable and owning a 1/1 Char Custom Zaku model and several Gundam models. He also owns the famous Kaneda bike from Akira.
Coincidentally, the members of akihabara@DEEP also have the 1/1 Char Custom Zaku model, as well as a 1/1 model of Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3.
The Digital Capital building that appears in the show is a composite of the Akihabara Dai Building with a digitally added portion on the top.


Akihabara@DEEP
Network	TBS
Number of episodes:	11 + 1 Special
First episode:	Search 1: Our City Akihabara. Exterminate the Otaku Hunts!
Original airing:	June 19, 2006 - ???
Opening:
Ending:
Genre:	Action and comedy