“Waitress Rinka gains phasing powers, becomes Tokyo's "White Girl" hero, fighting evil espers alongside teleporting classmate Kyoutarou.”
Tokyo ESP
東京ESP
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Synopsis
Waitress Rinka gains phasing powers, becomes Tokyo's "White Girl" hero, fighting evil espers alongside teleporting classmate Kyoutarou.
Rinka Urushiba works part time as a waitress to help out her unemployed father. By all accounts, her life in Tokyo is a relatively normal one—but her sense of normalcy begins to fade when she inexplicably sees a flying penguin one day. Chasing it all the way to the top of a building, she encounters more surprises, including flying goldfish and another person—a classmate named Kyoutarou Azuma—who can also see these strange things. After Rinka passes out when a goldfish phases through her, she wakes up an esper with the ability to phase her body through solid matter. However, her newfound ability is not the only strange thing about her: when she uses her powers, her hair turns white. Deciding reluctantly to use this new gift to help the city, she becomes Tokyo's new hero, dubbed the "White Girl." Along with Kyoutarou, who gained the power of teleportation, Rinka begins righting the wrongs in the city while fighting other espers who have much less noble intentions.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 31 sampled reviews
What 31 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.89 · split reception
4.3 pts
Recommenders 7.3 · others 3.0
↑ 3.10
Running avg · Sep 2014 → Apr 2018
- 7 “this story has a nice flow, progresses rapidly and is effectively a series of events that lead you to draw your own conclusions regarding the deeper motivations of the characters. this is a simple,...”
- 8 “Tokyo ESP is the typical anime sci-fi, super powers, Shounen and a bit of comedy, but not because it has the typical stereotypes of anime makes it bad, quite the contrary, this anime has an...”
- 7 “Story: If you have seen X-Men, then there are quite a lot of similarities. I personally liked that the story had a badass heroine, good amount of action, and slight romance. However, the pacing is...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 Summer 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-8404 catalog
Produced by
- Lantis Producer
- Kadokawa Shoten Producer
- Rakuonsha Producer
- KlockWorx Producer
- Tokyo MX Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor