Najica Blitz Tactics (Japanese: ナジカ電撃作戦, Hepburn: Najika Dengeki Sakusen) is an anime television series by Studio Fantasia and Amber Film Works. It aired in Japan from October to December 2001. The series is similar to that of Agent Aika, both being directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima and animated by Studio Fantasia, with much of the same content.

Though Najica was later adapted into a manga by Takuya Tashiro (田代 琢也, Tashiro Takuya), the majority of the difference in content were in the context of the missions and especially the ending.

Story

Najica Hiiragi is a noted perfumer for CRI Cosmetics, famous for being able to identify over 500 scents. Secretly, however, she is actually a field agent for CRI’s Intelligence Bureau, an agency unknown to the public and even to most of its own employees for the sake of their own protection.

Najica is assigned the mission to recover a gynoid known as a Humaritt code-named “ZZZ” and referred to as “Lila”. Najica becomes suspicious when CRI Intelligence is contracted by Shinba Industrial to recover more lost and possibly rogue Humaritts; especially since most of them are in the hands of criminals, revolutionaries, guerrillas or terrorist groups. Her suspicions increase when Lila is assigned to be her partner, even though Najica insists she be allowed to continue working alone. As time goes on, however, Najica begins to trust Lila, even if Lila’s lack of social graces make her wince.

Theme music

Opening theme

“Najica”, by Diligent Circle of Ekoda

Ending theme

“Body & Mind”, by Natsumi Harada

Broadcast

The Najica anime television series premiered on Television Kanagawa the Thursday broadcast night of October 4, 2001 at 25:40 (October 5, 2001 at 1:40am) with broadcasts on Chiba Television Broadcasting and Television Saitama the following night. It was broadcast on Kids Station the following Thursday at 23:30, starting October 11. During the week of November 15, the first three channels did not air a new episode. Starting with episode 7 on November 22, the Kids Station Thursday night broadcast then preceded TV Kanagawa’s broadcast, with the final episode airing on December 27, 2001.

Najica Blitz Tactics
Volume 1 DVD cover of Najica Blitz Tactics.
ナジカ電撃作戦 (Najica Dengeki Sakusen)
Genre	Action, science fiction
Anime television series
Directed by	Katsuhiko Nishijima
Produced by	Yasuki Miki Kazuhiko Ikeguchi Atsushi Yamamori Tomohisa Iizuka
Music by	Jun’ichi Kanezaki
Studio	Studio Fantasia Amber Film Works
Licensed by	NA ADV Films
Original network	TV Kanagawa, Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Kids Station
English network	NA Anime Network ZA Animax
Original run	October 5, 2001 – December 27, 2001
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Takuya Tashiro
Published by	Media Factory
English publisher	NA ADV Manga
Magazine	Comic Flapper
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	2001 – 2003
Volumes	3