Twin Spica is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kou Yaginuma. The "realistic, slice-of-life science fiction series" tells the story of a group of Japanese high school students training to become astronauts in the early 21st century after the country's first human spaceflight launch ends in a disaster that causes many civilian casualties. It was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper from September 2001 to August 2009 and was later published in 16 tankōbon volumes by Media Factory from January 2002 to October 2009.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Launching Fireworks | 2003-11-01 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Asumi's Dream | 2003-11-08 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | One Step Toward the Stars | 2003-11-15 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Memory of a Distant Day | 2003-11-22 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | My Mother's Face | 2003-11-29 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Test Complete | 2003-12-06 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Space School Entrance Ceremony | 2003-12-13 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | One Person's Dream, Everyone's Dream | 2003-12-20 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Campanella's Forest | 2004-01-10 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Even Under Water, There is Space | 2004-01-17 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | Wounded Wings | 2004-01-24 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Our Star, the Leaf Star | 2004-01-31 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Promised Five | 2004-02-07 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 14 | Sad, Smiling Face | 2004-02-14 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 15 | All Alone | 2004-02-21 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 16 | Asumi's Cherry Tree | 2004-02-28 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 17 | Survival Training | 2004-03-06 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 18 | Marika & Marika | 2004-03-13 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 19 | What You Can Do Now | 2004-03-20 | 25 min |
Season 1 | Episode 20 | Look for Tomorrow | 2004-03-27 | 25 min |
Art | Asuka Komiyama | Art Direction |
Directing | Tomomi Mochizuki | Series Director |
Writing | Tomomi Mochizuki | Series Composition |
Visual Effects | Masako Goto | Character Designer |
Sound | Kazunori Miyake | Original Music Composer |