The Familiar of Zero

The Familiar of Zero
Original Title	ゼロの使い魔 Zero no Tsukaima
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Voice Director	Tony Oliver
Recorded	2008
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	49 13 (dubbed)
Year	2006-2012

The Familiar of Zero (ゼロの使い魔, Zero no Tsukaima) is an anime produced by J.C. Staff and directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki, based on the series of light novels written by Noboru Yamaguchi and illustrated by Eiji Usatsuka.

The first season of the series was licensed in the United States in a partnership between Geneon Entertainment and FUNimation Entertainment, but the license expired in 2011. Sentai Filmworks has since re-licensed and re-released the first series and released the other three series in North America in sub-only format.

Synopsis Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière is a self-absorbed mage in a world of wands, cloaks, and royalty. Although she studies at Tristain Academy, a prestigious school for magicians, she has a major problem: Louise is unable to cast magic properly, earning her the nickname of "Louise the Zero" from her classmates. When the first year students are required to perform a summoning ritual, Louise's summoning results in a catastrophic explosion! Everyone deems this to be yet another failure, but when the smoke clears, a boy named Saito Hiraga appears. Now Louise's familiar, Saito is treated as a slave, forced to clean her clothes and eat off the ground. But when an unfamiliar brand is found etched on Saito's hand from the summoning ritual, it is believed to be the mark of a powerful familiar named Gandalfr.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière	Rie Kugimiya	Cristina Valenzuela
	Saito Hiraga	Satoshi Hino	Jonathan Meza
	Kirche Augusta Frederica Von Anhalt Zerbst	Nanako Inoue	Lauren Landa
	Tabitha / Charlotte Helene Orléans de Galli	Yuka Inokuchi	Jennifer Alyx
	Siesta	Yui Horie	Xanthe Huynh
	Princess Henrietta De Tristain	Ayako Kawasumi	¿?
	Montmorency Margarita la Fère de Montmorency	Mikako Takahashi	Sam Carr
	Guiche de Gramont	Takahiro Sakurai	Nicholas Manelick
	Derflinger	Tetsuo Gotō	Kaiji Tang
	Jessica	Akari Higuchi	Michelle Ann Dunphy
	Count Mott	Yasunori Matsumoto	Charles Rengel
	Principal Osman	Takeshi Aono	Jonathan Meza
	Professor Chevreuse	Noriko Suzuki	Lauren Landa
	Longueville/Fouquet - Matilda of Sachsen-Gotha	Akiko Kimura	Michelle Ann Dunphy
	Professor Jean Colbert	Takuma Suzuki	Kaiji Tang
	Malicorne de Grandple	Hiraku Tokita	Marianne Miller
	Katie	Kumiko Suzuki	Jennifer Alyx
	Styx	Taketora	Bobby Thong
	Marteau	Ken Uo	Patrick Aghajanian
	Scarron	Tetsuo Gotō
	Wales Tudor	Masahiro Yamanaka	Jonathan Koontz
	Jean-Jacques Wardes	Tomoyuki Shimura	Kaiji Tang (ep. 7)
			Charles Rengel (ep. 10-13)
		Tatsuhisa Suzuki (young)	Brian Breth (young)
	Water Spirit	Mikako Takahashi	¿?
	Oliver Cromwell	Jirō Saitō	Tony Oliver
	Percerin	Aruno Tahara
	Marianne de Tristain	Noriko Suzuki	Allison Moffett

Additional Voices

• Marin M. Miller
• Bobby Thong
• Jennifer Alyx
• Charles Rengel

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Content	Region	Country
FUNimation Entertainment	2008		Season One	1 NTSC	United States
			3 Discs
	2010		Season One
			3 Discs
Sentai Filmworks	2014		Season One	1 NTSC
			3 Discs
			Season One	A DVB-T
			2 Discs
	2023		Season One
			2 Discs

External Links

• The Familiar of Zero at the Internet Movie Database
• The Familiar of Zero (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia