List of Ef episodes

This is a list of episodes of the two Japanese anime television series adaptations of the two-part adult visual novel series "" by the Japanese software company Minori. The first anime adapts the whole first game "Ef: The First Tale.", and the first half of the second game "Ef: The Latter Tale.". The second anime adapts the second half of the second game.

The first anime adaptation entitled "Ef: A Tale of Memories." is directed by Shin Ōnuma who volunteered for the job when it was offered,citeweb|url=http://www.p-tina.net/interview/14/05.html|title=P-tina's interview of Shaft|accessdate=2007-10-12|language=Japanese] and is produced by the Japanese animation studio Shaft. The story follows three protagonists and their interactions with the girls they meet and gradually fall in love with. A short prologue DVD for "Ef: A Tale of Memories." was released on August 24, 2007.citeweb|url=http://www.ef-memo.com/item_dvd.html|title="Ef: A Tale of Memories." - DVD list|publisher=Shaft|accessdate=2007-11-03|language=Japanese] The prologue is more of a teaser which introduces the characters and some conflict that appears in the first anime series. "Ef: A Tale of Memories." aired between October 7, 2007 and December 22, 2007 on the Chiba TV Japanese television network, and was later aired on subsequent networks such as, including but not limited to, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama, and Sun TV; there are twelve episodes. [citeweb|url=http://www.ef-memo.com/story.html|title=Anime episode listing at the official website for "Ef: A Tale of Memories."|publisher=Shaft|accessdate=2007-11-04|language=Japanese] Each episode ends with a still image drawn by Japanese illustrators of anime, manga, and visual novels; these are listed below as endcards. The episode titles are originally written in English and as such there are no Japanese language equivalents. The first letter in each episode's title, plus the "coda" title of the last episode, can be brought together to form "Euphoric Field". The series was released in six limited and regular edition DVD compilations, each containing two episodes. The first DVD volume was released on December 7, 2007, and the sixth DVD was released on May 9, 2008.

The second anime adaptation entitled "Ef: A Tale of Melodies." is produced by the same staff as with the first series, and contains the same cast of voice actors. "Ef: A Tale of Melodies" began airing in Japan on October 7, 2008 on TV Kanagawa.

"Ef: A Tale of Memories." uses four pieces of theme music for the episodes, one opening theme and three ending themes. The opening theme, starting with episode three, is the English version of "Euphoric Field" by Tenmon featuring Elisa. The first episode uses a background music track for the opening theme, and the second and tenth episodes have no opening theme; "Euphoric Field" was also used for the ending theme in episode two. The Japanese version is used as the opening theme for the twelfth episode. The first ending theme is "I'm here" by Hiroko Taguchi which is used for episodes one, three, seven, and ten. The second ending theme, Nihongo|"Kizamu Kisetsu"|刻む季節|Carving Season by Junko Okada, is used for episodes four, five, and nine. The third ending theme, Nihongo|"Sora no Yume"|空の夢|Sky's Dream by Natsumi Yanase, is used for episode six, eight, and eleven, though the second verse of the song was used in that episode. A remix of the visual novel's theme song called Nihongo|"Yūkyū no Tsubasa" 07mix|悠久の翼 07mix sung by Yumiko Nakajima is used as the ending theme in episode twelve. The opening theme for "Ef: A Tale of Melodies." will be "Ebullient Future" also by Tenmon featuring Elisa.__TOC__

Ef: A Tale of Memories.

Ef: A Tale of Melodies.

References

External links

* [http://www.ef-memo.com/index_top.html "Ef: A Tale of Memories." official website] ja icon
* [http://www.ef-melo.com/ "Ef: A Tale of Melodies." official website] ja icon