is a Japanese anime

Anime

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 series by Sunrise

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 from 1999. Seraphim Call may be considered avant-garde

Avant-garde

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 in several respects. For example: it is an anthology

Anthology

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 of individual stories while most other anime is serialized

Serial (radio and television)

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. Other examples include a surprise ending that comes at the beginning of one of the stories, an episode seen entirely through the eyes of a plush toy, one is largely a Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (TV series)

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parody

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, and two nearly identical episodes from individual twin perspectives. The experimentation in plot structure can be very subtle often requiring the viewer to watch each episode twice before noticing it.

Plot

Each story takes place in the year 2010, in a futuristic city named Neo-Acropolis on an artificial island in Japan. Among the city's residents are 11 girls, each facing a different dilemma.

Characters

Yukina is a high-school girl who possesses a high level of skill in science and engineering. She also has androphobia, and travels around in a giant robot

Super Robot

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 in order to avoid being around men.

Despite her age, Tanpopo still enjoys picture books, stuffed toys, and colouring. She always wears a bright (usually orange) hair ribbon.

Chinami lives with her divorced father and two young siblings, and spends most of her time doing housework. She enjoys baking sweets, and has a wish to study pastry-making in Paris.

Hatsumi has been an athletic tomboy

Tomboy

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 all her life and has no desire to be feminine

Femininity

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; she believes that if she is not feminine, she cannot be beautiful, either. However, after she is chosen to model for a painting, her outlook begins to change.

Out of the Murasame family's twin daughters, Shion is the one intended to inherit her father's company. Her personality is methodical, sharp, and cold, but she has a very strong bond with Sakura.

Sakura, the younger of the Murasame twins, will apparently inherit her mother's company when she comes of age. She is quiet and tries to watch over Shion.

Saeno has a deep love for mathematics

Mathematics

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 of all types, but chose to become an English teacher, as she thinks of math as being something precious that she cannot teach to someone who does not love it.

Ayaka is the kind-hearted daughter of a fabulously wealthy man, but she spends his fortune too frivolously (often without making it clear how much the items cost beforehand) and dreams of protecting world peace.

Kasumi is practical and rarely speaks. She is unimpressed that her actions at a park fountain have transformed into a ritual for good luck amongst young girls, and actually finds it irritating that people all over the city are attributing completely unrelated messages and ideas to her. She works on a camera crew for a news station, and likes to ride her motorcycle.

Using the pen name

Pen name

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 Subaru Kurumigawa, shy high-schooler Kurumi has secretly become the author of a manga

Manga

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 that is so popular it has been made into an anime. She works hard on her manga, to the point of falling asleep on the drawing table, but keeps her identity secret from those who know her in real life. Due to the masculine nature of Kurumi's pen name, most of her audience assumes that she is male (including Tanpopo, who later concludes that Kurumi is a homosexual man).

Urara is the daughter of the late architect who designed Neo-Acropolis. She describes herself as "quiet and indecisive", and loves both nature and architecture (particularly that of the city her father built). Since the death of her father, Urara has been the caretaker of her sick mother.

Episodes

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Ending themes

Each episode has a different ending theme performed by the voice actress of the main character. The closing theme to the final episode is "I miss you" written and performed by "ancy".

Episode	Character	Voice actress	Song title
1	Yukina Kurimoto	Hiroko Kasahara Hiroko Kasahara Hiroko Kasahara is a popular seiyū and J-pop singer.She sang the ending theme song of the PlayStation 2 RPG, Shadow Hearts, titled Ending Theme ~ Shadow Hearts, and the ending theme of the PC and Playstation 2 visual novel Ever17: the Out of Infinity, titled Aqua Stripe- Notable voice roles :*...	"Yume mite mo ii ja nai"
2	Tanpopo Teramoto	Taeko Kawada	"Baby Pink na Asa"
3	Chinami Ōse	Akiko Yajima Akiko Yajima , born May 4, 1967, is a Japanese voice actress from Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.-Anime:*Battle Athletes Victory *Berserk *The Big O *Blood+...	"Sorekara..."
4	Hatsumi Kusunoki	Emiko Ito	"Viva! Onnanoko Domei"
5	Shion Murasame	Miki Nagasawa Miki Nagasawa is a female Japanese voice actress born in Hokkaidō and raised in Fukushima. Formerly affiliated for Haikyo, she is now affiliated with Atomic Monkey.-Anime:* After War Gundam X as Perla Ciss* Akihabara Dennou Gumi as Kamome Sengakuji...	"Now Is The Time"
6	Sakura Murasame	Chinami Nishimura Chinami Nishimura is a Japanese voice actress who has voiced characters in both the Japanese and English-dubbed versions of Pokémon. Nishimura was born in Chiba Prefecture...	"50% no Balance"
7	Saeno Hīragi	Kyoko Tsuruno	"Return to Myself"
8	Ayaka Rindō	Rei Sakuma Rei Sakuma is a Japanese voice actress employed by 81 Produce. She is best known in Japan for her voice work in the long running children's series Soreike! Anpanman; her most famous role in the English-speaking world, however, is probably as the Chinese Amazon Shampoo in Ranma ½.-Notable voice roles:*Akabon...	"Surprise wa yamerarenai"
9	Kasumi Kurenai	Yu Asakawa Yu Asakawa , is a popular Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. She is also a singer, both solo and with the Hinata Girls. She also provides the voice samples for the Crypton Future Media's third Vocaloid 2 era Vocaloid, Megurine Luka. Asakawa is currently affiliated with Arts Vision...	"Endless Tomorrow"
10	Kurumi Matsumoto	Ayako Kawasumi Ayako Kawasumi is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer. She is affectionately referred to by her fellow voice actors and fans as "", "" and "". She is a skilled pianist, having practiced the piano since childhood....	"Album"
11	Urara Tachibana	Maria Yamamoto Maria Yamamoto is a Japanese voice actress and singer.-Voice actress roles:Maria Yamamoto's roles as a voice actress include the following.* Amazing Nurse Nanako, as Nanako* Cinderella Boy, as I Lyan Rain* Chance Pop Session, as Nozomi Kaihara...	"Yes, it's my true love"