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Pita-Ten
ぴたテン (Pita-Ten)
Demographic	Shōnen
Genre	Harem, Fantasy
Manga
Author	Koge-Donbo
Publisher	MediaWorks
Other publishers: TOKYOPOP
Serialized in	Dengeki Comic Gao!
Original run	2000 – 2003
Volumes	8
TV anime
Director	Reiji Nishiyama
Studio	BROCCOLI
Network	TV Tokyo, TV Osaka and Animax
Original run	April 7, 2002 – September 29, 2002
Episodes	26
Light novel
Author	Yukari Ochiai
Artist	Koge-Donbo, Rina Yamaguchi
Publisher	Dengeki Bunko
Published	10 March 2002 – 10 February 2003
Volumes	3

Pita-Ten is a manga that was written by Koge-Donbo, and was adapted into an anime by Akemi Menda and Yasuko Kobayashi that aired on TV Tokyo.^[1] The title "Pita-Ten" is short for "Pitari Tenshi", which, when translated, literally means "clinging angel" in English. The plot of Pita-Ten centers primarily on the upbeat character Misha and her attempts to become a licensed angel, and Kotarou, her neighbor. It is generally light-humored, but the anime and the manga end with a serious tone. The manga has been translated into English by Tokyopop.^[2]

Contents 1 Characters 2 TV series episode list 3 Music 4 References 5 External links

Further information: List of Pita-Ten characters

Kotarou Higuchi (樋口湖太郎, Higuchi Kotarō^?)

A calm and collected sixth grader. He looks after himself and lives with his father. It is explained during the story that his mother died while saving him from being run over when he was younger. Kotarou learns new skills and becomes happier once Misha moves in next to him. Kotarou is the reincarnation of his granduncle, Kotaroh (manga only).

Misha

This cute and perky angel is Kotarou's new next-door neighbor and her main passion in life is stalking and glomping Kotarou. She's an apprentice angel who speaks like a small child and tries to make everybody around her happy; consequentially making matters worse. She is very hyper and outgoing around Kotarou (for example, her first line said to him in both versions is "will you go out with me?!"). She is happy and optimistic, and has always managed to keep on smiling. She becomes best friends with Shia when Shia moves into her home.

Shia

A very polite and quiet girl who is great at cooking and cleaning. A demon (manga), or demon apprentice (anime), she is outwardly gentle and kind-hearted, and is not very good at being malicious or at killing humans. She is generally weak - more so when her staff breaks under Misha's angelic influence. In volume 7 of the manga, Shia dies because she needed life from Kotarou-kun in order to stay alive, and because life essence from Misha-san had poisoned her. In the tv series, she dies from failing to become a full demon. However, Misha gives herself up by making some kind of medicine that made people forget her, and remember Shia. Once the people remembered Shia, Shia came back to life. Later, Misha's sister saves her with her full angel's power.

Takashi "Ten-chan" Ayanokoji

Nicknamed Ten-chan , Takashi is nothing short of a "ladies' man" who is the best friend of Kotarou and Koboshi since they were six. He's great at sports, outgoing and never has to study to get good grades! Despite his perfect grades and popularity, he has a troubled home life. He develops a crush on Shia. Although they never become a couple, they do become friends. In the manga, Ten-chan tells Shia his feelings for her, and admits to Kotarou his previous feelings for Koboshi.

Koboshi Uematsu

This semi-sweet loudmouth has the hots for Kotarou and can't stand the fact that Misha is homing in on her territory. Koboshi is depicted as a very assertive character. She loves Kotarou greatly but is too embarrassed to confess her feelings to him. She enjoys having a normal, routinely basis of her every day life; from meeting Kotarou in the morning to talking to him during the day, until Misha showed up. Koboshi wears cat-shaped ears on her head every day, but they are not real or attached to her. She is liable to get angry and be very overprotective, causing her to be constantly irritated by Misha's childish antics and attachment to "her Kotarou-chan".

Hiroshi "Dai-chan" Mitarai

Nicknamed both Dai-chan and "Poops" (a play on the Japanese characters of his name, which mean "bathroom"), is one of the few characters who is almost always consistent, storyline-wise, in both the anime and the manga. He is a pre-pubescent eccentric who is totally obsessed with trying to out-do Takashi, no matter what. Hiroshi does not know that Shia is a demon and Misha is an angel; but he is strict and knowledgeable in traditional Japanese arts, so he is able to guess, (often to the annoyance of the other three kids, when he attempts to exorcise Shia and cling to Misha). Despite this, Hiroshi works hard to stand up to his family name, the great Mitarai dynasty, but falls behind Takashi in grades.

Kaoru Mitarai

Hiroshi's pretty younger sister. She is a highly skilled culinary expert with a serious infatuation with Takashi, — she cooks for him and plans marriage. She reacts violently to anybody who would dare to be mean to Takashi or Hiroshi, though she does value Takashi slightly more than her brother. Kaoru appears reasonably regularly in the anime, but extremely rarely in the manga (she is the only character who was removed from the cast page).

Shino

Kotarou's cousin (anime). She is a small child with a free spirit, but when she gets upset, she gets upset very quickly and easily, and hates being left alone. She, like Kotarou, can see angels, demons and ghosts.

Nya

A little black cat that is always with Shia who was named by Misha (since the sound a cat makes, "nyo" or "nya" in Japanese). He insists that it is not his real name, but he never reveals it (only in the manga). Nya, who is a full demon, despises Sasha (and the feeling is mutual).

Sasha

Sasha is Misha's older sister and a fully-fledged angel. She has a small rivalry with Nya and tests Misha for both of her angel exams. She sometimes likes to be referred to as "Sacchun".

Taro Higuchi

Kotarou's great-grandfather.

Kotaroh Higuchi

Taro's first child and Kotarou's granduncle (manga only). Kotaroh loved Misha dearly, and asked her to go out with him. Misha (being an angel and did not know what that meant) did not understand, so Kotaroh explained that he wanted to be with her forever (this is why Misha asked Kotarou to go out with her in the present time on their first meeting). But what Misha was doing (visiting Kotaroh) was against the rules in Heaven, and she was scolded and ordered to be sent back to Heaven by Sacchan. After he overheard this, Kotaroh decided he would go to Heaven with Misha, and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff to his death.

#	Title	Original air date
01	"How To Get Along With an Angel" "Tenshi to no Tsukiaikata" (天使とのつきあい方)	2002-04-07
Kotaro lives with his father. Most of the time he's alone. He meets an extremely hyper girl named Misha who lives next door .
02	"How To Make A Yummy Apple Pie" "Oishii Appurupai no Tsukurikata" (おいしいアップルパイの作り方)	2002-04-14
Koboshi frantically tries to show her love for Kotaro by making an apple pie.
03	"How To Have Fun at 'Test Your Courage' Day" "Kimodameshi no tanoshimikata" (きもだめしの楽しみ方)	2002-04-21
At the Halloween Test of Courage Day. Kotaro accidentally goes into a haunted house. Everyone finds out that Misha is an angel.
04	"How To Have Fun When Going Into an Onsen" "Tanoshii onsen no hairikata" (楽しい温泉の入り方)	2002-04-28
Misha wins some hot spring tickets and everyone goes. Misha tries to "cleanse" Kotaro, thus making him unconsious. Shia is introduced in this episode while "inflicting great pain" on Kotaro.
05	"How To Look For A Part-Time Job" "Arubaito no sagashikata" (アルバイトの探し方)	2002-05-05
Shia tries to get a part-time job. Each time she fails. She takes a job at a cafè called Tricot.
06	"How To Make a New Friend" "Atarashii tomodachi no mukaekata" (新しいともだちの迎え方)	2002-05-12
07	"How To Play Pranks" "Itazura no shikata" (いたずらの仕方)	2002-05-19
08	"How To Finish Your Assignment" "Raibaru to no tatakaikata" (対決の仕方)	2002-05-26
09	"How To Welcome A New Student Part I" "Tenshi no mitsukekata" (天使の見つけ方)	2002-06-01
10	"How To Welcome A New Student Part II" "Jouzu na nakanaori no shikata" (上手な仲直りの仕方)	2002-06-08
11	"How To Work A Bit Of Mischief" "Suteki na dansu no sasoikata" (素敵なダンスの誘い方)	2002-06-15
12	"How To Cheer A Person Up" "Garakuta no atsumekata" (ガラクタの集め方)	2002-06-22
13	"How To Elegantly Eat Apples" "Oshiro no arukikata" (お城の歩き方)	2002-06-29
14	"How To Feel Happy" "Shiawase no kanjikata" (しあわせの感じ方)
15	"How To Play In The Amusement Park" "Yuuenchi no asobikata" (遊園地のあそび方)	2002-07-06
16	"How To Walk On Earth" "Gekai no arukikata" (下界の歩き方)	2002-07-13
17	"How To Enjoy Your Holiday" "Kyuujitsu no tanoshimikata" (休日の楽しみ方)	2002-07-20
18	"How To Spend Your Vacation" "Bakansu no sugoshikata" (バカンスのすごし方)	2002-07-27
19	"How An Apprentice Angel Does Her Best" "Minarai tenshi no ganbarikata" (見習い天使のがんばり方)
20	"How To Find Things You've Lost" "Nakushita mono no mitsukekata" (なくしたものの見つけ方)	2002-08-03
21	"How Girls Do Their Best" "Onna no ko no ganbarikata" (女の子のがんばり方)	2002-08-10
22	"How To Burn For The Sports Meeting" "Undoukai no moekata" (運動会の燃え方)	2002-08-17
23	"How To Enjoy Hiking" "Haikingu no tanoshimikata" (ハイキングの楽しみ方)	2002-08-24
24	"How To Visit A Patient" "Omimai no ikikata" (お見舞いの行き方)	2002-08-31
25	"How To Separate" "Owakare no shikata" (お別れの仕方)	2002-09-01
26	"How To Connect Your Feelings" "Omoi no tsunagikata" (想いのつなぎ方)	2002-09-29

Opening theme

• "Wake Up Angel ~Negaimashite ha Mugen Nari~" by Funta.

Ending theme

• "Chiisa na Mahou" by Miyuki Sawashiro.

• (Japanese) Official website
• (Japanese) TV Osaka's official website
• Pita-Ten (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia