Zero no Tsukaima: Princess no Rondo

Anime
Zero no Tsukaima: Princesse no Rondo
ゼロの使い魔～三美姫の輪舞(プリンセッセのロンド)～
Airing date:	July 6, 2008 – September 21, 2008
Creator:	Noboru Yamaguchi
Director:	Yū Kō
Writer:	Nahoko Hasegawa
Music:	Shinkichi Mitsumune
Character designer:	Eiji Usatsuka
Studio:	J.C.Staff
Network:	CTC, tvk
Licensed by:	AUS Hanabee, NA Sentai Filmworks, UK MVM Films
Category:	Comedy, fantasy, harem
Episodes:	12
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Score: 7.65
Status: Finished Airing
Start Date: 2008-07-06 End Date: 2008-09-22
Synopsis:
Following Saito's heroic actions in the War with Albion in season two, Saito & Louise return to Tristain, only to have the runes which bind Saito & Louise disappear. Saito & Louise struggle with a relationship no longer defined as Master & Familiar, as they search for an Elf who has the power to restore the dead to life, and may hold the key to understanding Saito's loss of the Gandalfr's power.
(Source: ANN)

The third season, also containing twelve episodes, entitled Zero no Tsukaima: Princesse no Rondo (ゼロの使い魔～三美姫の輪舞(プリンセッセのロンド)～), aired on Japan's Chiba TV between July 6 and September 21, 2008, and Arts Central in Singapore between July 10 and September 24, 2008. An original video animation episode for the third season was released on December 24, 2008. Sentai Filmworks licensed the third season with the OVA (under the name The Familiar of Zero: Rondo of Princesses) in North America and released them on May 12, 2015 on Blu-ray and DVD.

The Familiar of Zero (Japanese: ゼロの使い魔, Hepburn: Zero no Tsukaima) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Noboru Yamaguchi, with illustrations by Eiji Usatsuka. Media Factory published 20 volumes between June 2004 and February 2011. The series was left unfinished due to the author's death in 2013, but was later concluded in two volumes released in February 2016 and February 2017 with a different author, making use of notes left behind by Yamaguchi. The story features several characters from the second year class of a magic academy in a fictional magical world with the main characters being the inept mage Louise and her familiar from Earth, Saito Hiraga.

Between 2006 and 2012, the series was adapted by J.C.Staff into four Anime television series and an additional original video animation episode. The first Anime series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment in English, 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. A Manga adaptation illustrated by Nana Mochizuki was serialized in Media Factory's Manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive between June 2006 and October 2009. The Manga was released by Seven Seas Entertainment in North America. Three additional spin-off Manga were also created (one of them also localized by Seven Seas Entertainment), as were three visual novels.