The Familiar of Zero (2006)

Name: The Familiar of Zero
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Comedy
Released: 2006-07-03
Cast: Rie Kugimiya, Satoshi Hino, Nanako Inoue, Yuka Inokuchi, Mamiko Noto

Series · 23m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Comedy, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Sci-Fi

A clumsy magic-user accidentally summons a normal Tokyo teen, leading to whimsical, broad comedy and adventure.

Big broad humor. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.

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The Familiar of Zero parents guide

The thing to know: moderate sex and nudity, more than a TV-14 usually carries. Beyond that, mild language and some violence.

Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.

Scare: Not scary
Jump scares: None noted
Gore: No gore
Violence: Some violence; Some fighting or peril.
Sex and nudity: Moderate; Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
Language: Mild; Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

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What is The Familiar of Zero about?

Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière’s name is so long and her spell-casting skills are so poor that everyone at the Tristain Academy of Magic just calls her “Louise the Zero.” Louise’s humiliation only increases during an important second-year test, she inexplicably summons Saito Hiraga, a totally normal teenager from Tokyo. Now she’s stuck with him and Saito’s stuck with the lousy life of being a familiar.