Kakyūsei
| Kakyūsei | |
| 下級生 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, romance, slice of life |
| Video game | |
| Developer | ELF Corporation |
| Publisher | ELF Corporation |
| Genre | Dating sim, visual novel |
| Platform | PC-98, MS-DOS, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
| Released | |
| Original video animation | |
| Elf-ban Kakyūsei | |
| Directed by | Norio Kashima |
| Produced by | Saburō Ōmiya |
| Written by | Norio Kashima |
| Music by | CUE |
| Studio | Pink Pineapple |
| Licensed by | ADV |
| Released | January 24, 1998 – September 25, 1998 |
| Runtime | 27–29 minutes |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Norio Kashima |
| Produced by | Saburō Ōmiya Takashi Terasaki |
| Written by | Shigeru Yanagawa |
| Music by | Hiroshi Igarashi CUE Ryō Yonemitsu Masaaki Sainoo Tarō Todoroki |
| Studio | Trans Arts |
| Original network | Chiba TV, Sun TV, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama |
| Original run | July 5, 1999 – September 26, 1999 |
| Episodes | 13 + OVA |
| Video game | |
| Kakyūsei 2 | |
| Developer | ELF |
| Publisher | ELF |
| Genre | Visual novel, dating simulation |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows |
| Released |
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| Anime television series | |
| Kakyūsei 2 | |
| Directed by | Yōsei Morino |
| Produced by | Yasunori Muratake |
| Written by | Shigenori Kageyama |
| Studio | ARMS |
| Original network | Chiba TV, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama |
| Original run | October 1, 2004 – December 24, 2004 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Original video animation | |
| Kakyūsei 2: Anthology | |
| Directed by | Katsuyoshi Yatabe (ep 1) Haruo Ōgawara (ep 2) |
| Studio | Pink Pineapple |
| Released | March 24, 2006 – June 23, 2006 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Original video animation | |
| Kakyūsei 2: Sketchbook | |
| Directed by | Haruo Ōgawara |
| Studio | Pink Pineapple |
| Released | May 25, 2007 – June 22, 2007 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 2 |
Kakyūsei (下級生, Kakyūsei; lit. "Underclassmates") is a dating sim series by ELF Corporation originally created by Masato Hiruta, as a spin-off of the Dōkyūsei series. Kakyūsei was released on PC-98 in 1996, MS-DOS and Sega Saturn in 1997, Microsoft Windows in 1998 and Mac OS in 2000. A sequel, Kakyūsei 2, wss released for Windows in 2004.
An anime OVA based on the first game, Elf-ban Kakyūsei (エルフ版 下級生, Erufuban Kakyūsei; lit. "Elf Version Underclassmates"), was created by Pink Pineapple in 1998. The title distinguishes the anime from the similarly titled but unrelated OVA series of the same title, Kakyūsei, also produced by Pink Pineapple, but earlier, in 1995. It had a TV series produced in 1999, after the success of the OVA. The 14th episode of the TV series was never aired on television. A television series based on Kakyūsei 2 was also released in 1997, as well as 2006–2007 OVA sequels and spin-offs based on Kakyūsei 2, that were considerably more explicit than the TV version.