Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ) is an anime television series aired in 2003 and produced by AIC.
The original series spans 5 story arcs across 15 episodes of 12 minutes each.
Plot summary
The story of BPS revolves around a "freelance artist" named Akira Shirase. He is a very talented, yet mysterious computer programmer. Because of his incredible abilities, he is contacted by several individuals (all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki Kaoru) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking/security jobs.
Akira is a very quiet guy who lives alone in a small apartment near his niece's house. At first, the episodes revolved around some freelance jobs that highlighted his abilities - however, later on in the series, characters came back and offered help or plot twists. The school that Shirase had gone to had been hinted throughout the series, and it finally made an appearance in the last episode, when some of the characters began to show their hidden relationships to the others. However, the series was not continued.
Characters
- Akira Shirase (白瀬慧)
- He is the main character of the story. Akira is a very talented computer connoisseur and is known in the hacking world as Battle Programmer Shirase (which is typically shortened to BPS). A genius in computer hacking and security who can do anything on any computer, or phone.