Ground Control To Psychoelectric Girl
Hulu has added a new series to their anime side of the business these week with the thirteen episode run Ground Control To Psychoelectric Girl. The show was released back in January of 2013 on Blu-ray in North America by NIS America in one of their premium edition releases and you can read our review of the show here. Based on the light novel series by Hitoma Iruma that’s known as Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, which translates more directly to Electrowave Girl and Youthful Boy, Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl is a twelve episode series with an OVA done by animation studio Shaft. The series kicked off just as the light novels ended, though there’s still a slowly plodding along manga adaptation out there as well.
Plot concept: Makoto Niwa just moved to the city to live with his aunt Meme after his parents have been reassigned to work overseas. He is perfectly fine with that, saying it will give him the chance to live the dream life of an adolescent boy. He keeps track of the things he does by assigning “points” to them – positive or negative – and adds them up on a regular basis to grade his adolescent life. Then he discovers Meme has a secret daughter (and self-proclaimed alien) named Erio. He finds her rolling around by the front door of Meme’s house wrapped up in a futon. It is then he realizes that his dream adolescent life will not come true, and begins a life of experiences that are out of this world.