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{{About|the anime series|the "god people" of the Ryukyus|Ryukyuan religion#Kaminchu}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image           = Kamichu DVD1.jpg
| caption         = Cover of the first Japanese DVD, showing from left to right Mitsue, Yurie, and Matsuri
| ja_kanji        = かみちゅ!
| ja_romaji       =
| genre           = [[Fantasy]], [[slice of life]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Santos |first1=Carlo |title=Kamichu! DVD 1 - Review |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/kamichu/dvd-1 |publisher=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=May 14, 2019 |date=May 31, 2006}}</ref><!-- Genres should be based on what reliable sources list them as and not on personal interpretations. Limit of the three most relevant genres in accordance with [[MOS:A&M]]. -->
| creator         = {{ubl|Bésame Mucho|[[Koji Masunari]]|[[Hideyuki Kurata]]|Tomonori Ochikoshi}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = tv series
| director        = [[Koji Masunari]]
| producer        = {{Plain list|
* Tomonori Ochikoshi
* Saeko Matsuda (1–3)
* Atsushi Kaji (4–16)
}}
| writer          = [[Hideyuki Kurata]]
| music           = [[Yoshihiro Ike]]
| studio          = [[Brain's Base]]
| network         = [[Animax]], [[TV Asahi]]
| network_en      = {{English anime network|PH=[[Animax]]}}
| first           = June 28, 2005
| last            = September 27, 2005
| episodes        = 16 (12 TV, 4 DVD only)
| episode_list    = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| author          = [[Hanaharu Naruko]]
| publisher       = [[MediaWorks (publisher)|MediaWorks]]
| demographic     = {{lang|ja-Latn|[[Shōnen manga|Shōnen]]}}
| magazine        = [[Dengeki Daioh]]
| first           = June 2005
| last            = January 2007
| volumes         = 2
| volume_list     =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer|portal=yes}}

{{nihongo|'''''Kamichu!'''''|かみちゅ!}} is a Japanese [[anime]] television series, strongly influenced by [[Shinto]], that follows the adventures of [[teenage]] [[kami|goddess]] Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The title is short for {{nihongo|''Kamisama de Chūgakusei''|かみさまでちゅうがくせい||{{lit|A Deity As a Middle School Student}}}}. The series was created by {{nihongo|Besame Mucho|ベサメムーチョ|Besamemūcho}}, which is the joint pen name of producer Tomonori Ochikoshi, director [[Koji Masunari]], and writer [[Hideyuki Kurata]]. It was broadcast by the anime television network [[Animax]] on its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, where it received its first English-language broadcast.

The series was adapted as a [[manga]] serialized in ''[[Dengeki Daioh]]'', a {{lang|ja-Latn|[[shōnen]]}} manga magazine, and collected into two {{lang|ja-Latn|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes.

In July 2008, [[Geneon Entertainment]] and [[Funimation]] announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon still retained the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. ''Kamichu!'' was one of several titles involved in the deal. However, as of August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.

==Story==
Yurie is a shy and otherwise ordinary [[middle school]] girl who suddenly discovers that, overnight, she has become a {{transl|ja|[[kami]]}}, a goddess in the [[Shinto]] sense. She has no idea what sort of goddess she is or what her powers are. Her friends give her the nickname ''Kamichu'', a [[portmanteau]] of {{nihongo||神|kami|"god"}} and {{nihongo||中学生|chūgakusei|"middle school student"}}. In her journey she meets many other divinities and spirits, and learns the ways of the gods in order to become a great goddess herself. During the course of the series, Yurie grows more in being both a better goddess and as a person.

''Kamichu!'' is set in the Spring of 1983 to the Spring of 1984,<ref name="newspaper">Episode 14 contains a scene in which Yurie is reading a newspaper with date printed as January 1, 1984.</ref> in the city of [[Onomichi]], [[Hiroshima Prefecture]], on the shores of Japan's [[Seto Inland Sea|Inland Sea]]. Many of the temples and landmarks shown in the anime are real locations in and around the city, faithfully depicted.

==Characters==
;{{nihongo|Yurie Hitotsubashi|一橋 ゆりえ|Hitotsubashi Yurie}}
:{{anime voices|[[Mako (voice actress)|Mako]]|[[Megan Harvey]]}}
:Yurie is the [[protagonist]] of the series. In the first episode, she tells her best friend Mitsue that overnight she has become a [[kami|goddess]]; how or why this became so is never further explained. She is remarkably naïve and simple-minded, but always has the best intentions. She has had a [[Puppy love|crush]] on Kenji Ninomiya for a long time, and gets very nervous and red-faced around him. Whenever she exercises her divine powers, her hair grows very long and she often falls asleep afterward, due to the taxing effort involved. At the end of the anime she becomes Kenji's girlfriend.
;{{nihongo|Matsuri Saegusa|三枝 祀|Saegusa Matsuri}}
:{{anime voices|[[Rika Morinaga]]|[[Stephanie Sheh]]}}
:Matsuri is the person in charge of the Raifuku [[Shrine]] in [[Onomichi]]. She runs the shrine with her sister, Miko, and their widowed father, the chief priest. Matsuri is always thinking of schemes to earn money for the shrine or attract more visitors to it, usually through exploiting Yurie's newfound divinity. Unlike Miko, she cannot see spirits without the [[ofuda|charms]] that Yurie usually writes (though in the manga and anime, Miko states that Matsuri had been able to see spirits in her childhood).<!-- Doesn't she say in ep 2 that she and Yashima used to speak/hang out together 'all the time'? --> Her name means "worship".
;{{nihongo|Mitsue Shijo|四条 光恵|Shijō Mitsue}}
:{{anime voices|Kaori Mine|Erika Weinstein}}
:Mitsue is Yurie's bespectacled best friend. She's very down-to-earth, and serves as the "[[straight man]]" for her friends, but wishes that her life were more exciting. Yurie often goes to her for advice, which is simple common sense that is always right. She is usually [[Mediumship|possessed]] by Yashima when he needs to communicate with people or when he wants to play the guitar.
;{{nihongo|Miko Saegusa|三枝 みこ|Saegusa Miko}}
:{{anime voices|[[Ai Nonaka]]|Rachel Hirschfeld}}
:Miko is Matsuri's shy younger sister. She does the cooking in the house, and is very polite and respectful to everyone. She helps out in the shrine and has the ability to see spirits. She has a crush on the shrine's god, Yashima, whom she often speaks with. Her name, [[Miko]], is also the term for a Shinto shrine attendant.
;{{nihongo|Kenji Ninomiya|二宮 健児|Ninomiya Kenji}}
:{{anime voices|[[Issei Miyazaki]]|[[Johnny Yong Bosch]]}}
:Kenji is the president and only member of his school's [[Japanese calligraphy|calligraphy]] club. He is quiet, aloof, and rather slow on the uptake. He loves his brushes, and he often does [[calligraphy]] for the Raifuku shrine. He only does calligraphy when he is 'inspired', yet it takes him a while to realise that most of his sources of inspiration revolve around Yurie, who has an intense crush on him. At the end of the anime, he becomes Yurie's boyfriend.
;{{nihongo|Yashima-sama|八島様|Yashima-sama}}
:{{anime voices|[[Kōsuke Okano]]|[[Yuri Lowenthal]]}}
:Yashima is the local ''[[kami]]'' of the Raifuku shrine. He wishes to be a rock star, so he often possesses Mitsue (who is totally against this) in order to fulfil his dream. He is also often seen with an [[Akita Inu]] that talks. He seems to be close friends with Miko Saegusa, but it is implied that he is more interested in her sister, Matsuri.
;{{nihongo|Shoukichi Hitotsubashi|一橋 章吉|Hitotsubashi Shoukichi}}
:{{anime voices|[[Makoto Tsumura]]|J.D. Stone}}
:Shoukichi is Yurie's younger brother, who likes Miko, attends the same school as his older sister, one grade below. Often, he acts more mature than his sister and often teases her, but he does love her. He has a crush on Miko, and acts differently and blushes whenever he is around her.
;{{nihongo|Kiyomi Noto|ノート 清美|Noto Kiyomi}}
:{{anime voices|[[Ryō Hirohashi]]|Lily Mason}}
:A kouhai of Yurie, Matsuri, and Mitsue who is also in love with Kenji.
;{{nihongo|Ukaru Nishimura|西村 ウカル|Nishimura Ukaru}}
:{{anime voices|[[Yuki Kaida]]|Lucian Lee}}
:A male student at Yurie's school who was competing for student council. 
;{{nihongo|Bin-chan|貧乏神(貧ちゃん)|Binbou-gami}}
:A poverty god Yurie takes in after he saves Tama's life. He shares Tama's body.
;{{nihongo|Tama|一橋 タマ|Hitotsubashi Tama}}
:{{anime voices|[[Chiwa Saitō]]|[[Carrie Savage]]}}
:Yurie's pet cat. After she began to share her body with Bin-chan, she exhibits a number of human traits which make Shoukichi suspicious.
;{{nihongo|Akane Hitotsubashi|一橋 あかね|Hitotsubashi Akane}}
:{{anime voices|[[Miki Itō]]|[[Karen Thompson (voice actor)|Karen Thompson]]}}
:Yurie and Soukichi's mother.
;{{nihongo|Kenkichi Hitotsubashi|一橋 憲吉|Hitotsubashi Kenkichi}}
:{{anime voices|[[Mitsuaki Hoshino]]|[[Talis Axelrod]]}}
:Yurie and Soukichi's father.
;Ino, Shika, Chou
:Ino {{anime voices|Yukie Maeda|[[Sam Riegel]]}}
:Shika {{anime voices|Kanako Hattori|[[Liam O'Brien]]}}
:Chou {{anime voices|[[Misato Fukuen]]|[[Hunter MacKenzie Austin]]}}
:The three tiny spirits that the God Association sends to Yurie as her assistants. Their names are puns, as they were given by Yurie for unrelated reasons but correspond to the animals that they resemble. Chou is a butterfly, Ino is a boar and Shika is a deer. "Ino-Shika-Chou" is also a winning hand in the cards game, [[Hanafuda]].

==Media==

===Anime===
There are sixteen episodes in the anime series. Twelve episodes were broadcast on [[TV Asahi]] in [[720p]], omitting episodes 8, 11, 13, and 16. The DVD release included all sixteen episodes. The opening theme was {{nihongo|"Fair Weather Followed by Fair Weather"|晴れのちハレ!|Hare Nochi Hare!}} performed by [[Maho Tomita]], and the closing theme was {{nihongo|"Ice Candy"|アイスキャンディー|Aisu Kyandī}} performed by [[MAKO]].

On July 3, 2008, [[Geneon Entertainment]] and [[Funimation]] announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment still retained the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. ''Kamichu!'' was one of several titles involved in the deal.<ref name="Fun-Gen">{{cite press release|url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2008-07-03/funimation-entertainment-and-geneon-entertainment-sign-exclusive-distribution-agreement-for-north-america |title=FUNimation Entertainment and Geneon Entertainment Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement for North America|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2008-07-03|access-date=2008-07-22}}</ref> However, as of August 2011, the rights to the series had expired.<ref name="ANN-Expired">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-08-17/funimation-confirms-some-geneon-licenses-have-expired|title=Funimation Confirms Some Geneon Licenses Have Expired|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2011-08-17|access-date=2011-08-20}}</ref>

The titles of several<!-- all? --> episodes are from Japanese pop songs from the 1980s and 1990s.

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|- style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCF"
! # !! Title !! Original air date
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 1
| Title               = The Spite of Youth
| TranslitTitle       = Seishun no Ijiwaru
| NativeTitle         = 青春のいじわる
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|6|29}}
| ShortSummary        = When Yurie announces during lunch that she had become a god the previous night, Matsuri, as the daughter of a [[Shinto]] priest, tries to help her figure out what kind of god she is. During their efforts, Yurie accidentally creates a [[typhoon]], which she has to dispel to save Kenji.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 2
| Title               = Please God
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama Onegai
| NativeTitle         = 神様お願い
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|7|6}}
| ShortSummary        = Matsuri decides her family's Raifuku Shrine will host a [[matsuri|festival]] in honour of Yurie, but discovers Yashima, the god of the shrine, has gone missing. Yurie travels to the land of the gods to convince him to return.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 3
| Title               = I Didn't Mean it
| TranslitTitle       = Sonna Tsumori ja Nakatta no ni
| NativeTitle         = そんなつもりじゃなかったのに
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|7|13}}
| ShortSummary        = The god of poverty arrives in town, sending the local economy into a depression; and Yurie's pet cat, Tama, goes missing. These two events may have something in common. Poverty god ends up sharing Tama's body.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 4
| Title               = Earth's Crisis
| TranslitTitle       = Chikyū no Kiki
| NativeTitle         = 地球の危機
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|7|27}}
| ShortSummary        = The Gods Association sends Yurie three spirit assistants to help her deal with petitions. As her first task, the [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] summons Yurie to help communicate with a [[Martian]].
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 5
| Title               = I Don't Like Being Alone
| TranslitTitle       = Hitori Bocchi wa Kirai
| NativeTitle         = ひとりぼっちは嫌い
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|8|3}}
| ShortSummary        = Yurie catches a cold and stays at home for a few days, but her friends don't come to visit. Feeling lonely, she uses her powers to depart from her body as a spirit and visit them instead.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 6
| Title               = A Small Decision
| TranslitTitle       = Chiisa na Kesshin
| NativeTitle         = 小さな決心
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|8|10}}
| ShortSummary        = Kiyomi, a freshman, comes to Yurie seeking love advice - but the object of her crush is Kenji. Trying earnestly as a good goddess to help her rival nonetheless, Yurie joins Kenji's calligraphy club with her.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 7
| Title               = Lovers of the Sun
| TranslitTitle       = Taiyō no Koibito-tachi
| NativeTitle         = 太陽の恋人たち
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|8|24}}
| ShortSummary        = During the summer holidays, Yurie and her friends go to a quiet part of the seashore and explore an abandoned beach house. The gods living there want to know what has become of the people who once enjoyed themselves there, and Yurie fulfills their wish.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 8
| Title               = Wild Times
| TranslitTitle       = Yasei Jidai
| NativeTitle         = 野生時代
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Strange packs of cats have been roaming the town recently, and Tama is among them. Yurie follows her and turns into a cat to meet the charismatic feline, Tyler Meowden (an homage to [[Fight Club (novel)#Tyler Durden|Tyler Durden]]), who wants to revolt against humans. She and Tama fight to stop him.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 9
| Title               = Crossing the River of Time
| TranslitTitle       = Toki no Kawa o Koete
| NativeTitle         = 時の河を越えて
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|8|31}}
| ShortSummary        = Yurie and her friends meet an old man named Gen who was once a crewman of the [[Japanese battleship Yamato|battleship Yamato]]. Shortly afterward, she receives a message from the sunken battleship, which wants to visit its home port again.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 10
| Title               = I Choose You
| TranslitTitle       = Kimi ni Kettei
| NativeTitle         = 君に決定
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|9|7}}
| ShortSummary        = As another of her business ploys, Matsuri convinces Yurie to run for student council president, but they encounter unexpectedly fervent opposition.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 11
| Title               = Love is Missing
| TranslitTitle       = Koi wa Yukue Fumei
| NativeTitle         = 恋は行方不明
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Miko and Shoukichi run away to a nearby town together for mysterious reasons. Yurie and her friends spend the day trying to find them.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 12
| Title               = Mysterious Adventure
| TranslitTitle       = Fushigi na Bōken
| NativeTitle         = ふしぎなぼうけん
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|9|14}}
| ShortSummary        = For the month of [[Kannazuki]], Yurie attends the "God Convention" in [[Izumo Taisha|Izumo]]. While there, she temporarily transfers to a local middle school where everyone treats her with utmost respect.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 13
| Title               = We Do As We Like
| TranslitTitle       = Yaritai Hōdai
| NativeTitle         = やりたい放題
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Matsuri, a fervent Shintoist, becomes offended by the foreign holiday of [[Christmas in Japan|Christmas]] and stages "Yurie-chan Thanksgiving Day" in order to combat it.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 14
| Title               = Dream Colored Message
| TranslitTitle       = Yume Iro no Messēji
| NativeTitle         = 夢色のメッセージ
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|9|21}}
| ShortSummary        = During her winter break from school, Yurie spends an entire day under the [[kotatsu]]. She receives several [[Nengajō#Postcards|''Nengajō'']] (New Year's cards), including one from Kenji.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 15
| Title               = A Small Step
| TranslitTitle       = Chiisa na Ippo de
| NativeTitle         = 小さな一歩で
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2005|9|28}}
| ShortSummary        = When Yurie resolves to give Kenji some ''[[Honmei choco]]'' ("true feelings chocolate") for [[Valentine's Day#East Asia|Valentine's Day]] and confess her love, the entire school and everyone in town pitches in to help her. After a brief, awkward conversation on the school's rooftop, the two are lifted into the sky upon a large piece of paper (upon which Kenji had written the [[kanji]] for 'love'). As they soar above the town, Kenji tells Yurie that he loves her, because she is strange. The character on the flying paper turns into the kanji for 'strange'.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 16
| Title               = Look, Don't You Think Spring Has Come?
| TranslitTitle       = Hora ne, Haru ga Kita
| NativeTitle         = ほらね、春が来た
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Yurie and Mitsue help Matsuri and Miko clean the shrine storage rooms. As she spends the night there, Yurie tells her friends that Kenji is her boyfriend.
}}
|}

===Manga===
{{Expand section|date=June 2008}}

''Kamichu!'' was adapted as a [[manga]] serialized by [[MediaWorks (publisher)|MediaWorks]] in ''[[Dengeki Daioh]]'', a {{lang|ja-Latn|[[shōnen]]}} manga magazine, and collected in two {{lang|ja-Latn|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes.

There are fourteen episodes plus one short episode in the manga series. Four long episodes consist of two parts (02+03, 04+05, 09+10, 12+13).

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|- style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCF"
! # !! Title !! Related Anime episodes
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 01
| TranslitTitle       = Seishun no Ijiwaru
| NativeTitle         = 青春のいじわる
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep01
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's. In the first scene, Kenji draws a mustache on Yurie's face in her dream because she is a god.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 02
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama Onegai ~ first part
| NativeTitle         = 神様お願い〜前編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep02 (ep01)
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's. Miko is introduced and they hold a ceremony in this episode.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 03
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama Onegai ~ sequel
| NativeTitle         = 神様お願い〜後編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep02
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 04
| TranslitTitle       = Sonna Tsumori ja Nakatta no ni ~ first part
| NativeTitle         = そんなつもりじゃなかったのに〜前編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep03
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 05
| TranslitTitle       = Sonna Tsumori ja Nakatta no ni ~ sequel
| NativeTitle         = そんなつもりじゃなかったのに〜後編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep03
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 06
| TranslitTitle       = Koi no Kakuritsu 51%
| NativeTitle         = 恋の確率51%
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Yurie and Kenji takes a makeup exam after the final exam. Kenji tells Yurie that he would like to see the long haired girl he saw in the typhoon.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 07
| TranslitTitle       = Hoshi no Hana-taba
| NativeTitle         = 星の花束
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep04
| ShortSummary        = "Team ShiYAwase" is sent from the God Association. They try to make a wish of a lady they met at Yashima Shrine come true.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 08
| TranslitTitle       = Hitori ja Irare nai
| NativeTitle         = ひとりじゃいられない
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep07
| ShortSummary        = Yurie, Mitsue and Matsuri enjoy shopping. Yurie loses her way and meets a god of old fashioned toy who is almost forgotten by people. Yurie plays with the toy, and the god arises in people's mind for a while. That reminds Yurie herself the appreciation for her own friends.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = N/A
| TranslitTitle       = Zen-ryaku, Michi no Ue yori
| NativeTitle         = 前略、道の上より
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = A short side story. Daily life of the people from Oshou's perspective.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 09
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama Help! ~ first part
| NativeTitle         = 神様ヘルプ!〜前編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep10
| ShortSummary        = Yurie is appointed as Mayor for a Day. When she is complimented by Mayor, she is carried away and tries to make everyone's demands come true.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 10
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama Help! ~ sequel
| NativeTitle         = 神様ヘルプ!〜後編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep10
| ShortSummary        = When she wakes up after a long sleep, Yurie finds she made troubles all over the town. But people already know they are the one who should make the town better by themselves.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 11
| TranslitTitle       = Ie-nai Hito-koto
| NativeTitle         = 言えないひとこと
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep11
| ShortSummary        = When Miko breaks the bow she obtained from her dead mother, she can't tell anyone. Shokichi notices her trouble and tries to help her out.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 12
| TranslitTitle       = Tomodachi no Kankei ~ first part
| NativeTitle         = トモダチの関係〜前編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep12
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's. Mitsue complains about Matsuri's disregard of Yurie's burden. Their friendship gets worse while Yurie is absent.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 13
| TranslitTitle       = Tomodachi no Kankei ~ sequel
| NativeTitle         = トモダチの関係〜後編
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep12 (ep11)
| ShortSummary        = Similar story to Anime's. Yurie's classmates offer to give their stitchworks to Yurie at her last class in her temporal school. Finally Yurie gets to be friends with everyone in her class.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 14
| TranslitTitle       = Gakuen Tengoku
| NativeTitle         = 学園天国
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Yurie's class holds a haunted house at the school festival. When Yurie gets a long hair wig to play a ghost, she tries to figure out why Kenji wished to see the long haired girl.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 15
| TranslitTitle       = Jun-ai Countdown
| NativeTitle         = 純愛カウントダウン
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep12
| ShortSummary        = On New Year's Eve, Yurie helps the Yashima Shrine. Kenji gives a practice of a big-scaled calligraphy to Yurie. Yurie is worried about that she can't confess her love to Kenji. At the moment the god Benzaiten drops in to see Yurie and encourages her.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 16
| TranslitTitle       = Kami-sama no Timing
| NativeTitle         = 神様のタイミング
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = ep06 (ep15)
| ShortSummary        = When Kiyomi wants to give a chocolate to Kenji for Valentine's Day, Yurie helps her. Kiyomi notices that Kenji is in love with Yurie unconsciously. So she decides to back away from Kenji and gives him her chocolate just as an appreciation. But Yurie misunderstands the situation because she sees Kenji receives it so readily.
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 17
| TranslitTitle       = Kumori, Nochi Hare
| NativeTitle         = 曇り、のち晴れ
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = While Yurie is stuck in her room, the town economy gets down again. Yurie tries to bounce herself back and figure out the reason. She happened to know Kiyomi's feelings on her way and finds out the reason of the bad economy, too. But she is still nervous to confess her love to Kenji. At the moment, many incidents related to proverbs happen throughout the town.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 18
| TranslitTitle       = Hora ne, Haru ga Kita
| NativeTitle         = ほらね、春が来た
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja 
| OriginalAirDate     = N/A
| ShortSummary        = Troubles are made by Kenji's calligraphies and a spiritual paper weight he happened to pick up. They tear all the calligraphy but the last one "snowy season" (冬将軍) is blown away. So Kenji and Yurie writes big "first spring storm" (春一番) on the snow in union. When Yurie shouts "Kamichu", spring suddenly comes and Kenji sees the long haired girl standing beside him holding their hands.
}}
|}

===Music===
Three ''Kamichu!'' CDs were released:

# アイスキャンディー Maxi - 2005-08-24 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A4KR8Q/|script-title=ja:アイスキャンディー|publisher=[[Amazon.co.jp]]|access-date=2007-10-19|language=ja}}</ref>
# 晴れのちハレ! Maxi - 2005-08-24 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A4KR8G/|script-title=ja:晴れのちハレ! |publisher=[[Amazon.co.jp]]|access-date=2007-10-19|language=ja}}</ref>
# Kamichu OST - 2005-10-26 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BD0WHW/|script-title=ja:かみちゅ! オリジナル・サウンドトラック|publisher=[[Amazon.co.jp]]|access-date=2007-10-19|language=ja}}</ref>

==Reception==
The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2005 [[Japan Media Arts Festival]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Award-winning Works | year=2005 | url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/animation/000461/index.php | work=Japan Media Arts Plaza | access-date=January 8, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215012403/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/animation/000461/index.php | archive-date=February 15, 2012 }}</ref>

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==See also==
*[[Arahitogami]]: More information on human being as a God(dess) in Shinto religion.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Animation/kamichu/ Official ''Kamichu!'' website] by Sony Music {{in lang|ja}}
* [https://archive.today/20130201093037/http://www.rightstuf.com/catalog/browse/link/t=category,c=right-stuf,v=right-stuf,g=s-kamichu,a=funimationcom Official ''Kamichu!'' website]
* [http://www.style.fm/as/13_special/mini_050802.shtml Interview with Hideyuki Kurata and Koji Masunari] {{in lang|ja}} - about the anime ''Kamichu!''
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