Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ, Bīpīesu Batoru Puroguramā Shirase) is an anime television series aired in 2003 and produced by AIC.
The original series spans 5 story arcs across 15 episodes of 12 minutes each. The story of BPS revolves around a "freelance artist" named Akira Shirase. He's a very talented, yet mysterious computer programmer. Because of his incredible abilities, he's contacted by several individuals (curiously, all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki Kaoru) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking/security jobs. He's a very quiet guy who lives alone in a small apartment near his niece's house. At first, the episodes revolved around some freelance jobs that highlighted his abilities - however, later on in the series, characters came back and offered help or plot twists. The school that Shirase had gone to had been hinted throughout the series, and it finally made an appearance in the last episode, when some of the characters began to show their hidden relationships to the others. However, the series was not continued. 『BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ』(ビーピーエス バトルプログラマーシラセ)は、独立UHF局を中心に2003年10月から放送されたAIC制作のUHFアニメである。なお、「BPS」の表記は、タイトルロゴでは「bpS」となっている。 初回放送では1話を3分割した15分バージョン全15話が放送された。また、再放送では30分バージョン全5話が放送された。