The Virgin Psychics

featured some differences in the members of the cast from those earlier television adaptations, most notably Elaiza Ikeda replacing Kaho as Miyuki Hirano.

[1] The film was released in Japan on September 4, 2015, just a few months after Sion Sono's TV special All Esper Dayo!

Critics generally found that the film was full of sexual innuendo and discussion but did not contain actual nudity or sex.

Justin Chang of Variety.com called the film an "occasionally endearing, often supremely irritating movie" and ultimately found that it "is a bit like having a dog hump your leg for the better part of two hours; it's filthy and monotonous and fairly interminable, but after a while you've been so thoroughly numbed that you have to admit it's kind of sweet.

"[3] Wendy Ide of Screen Daily wrote, "For all its cosplay sex slaves, mountains of blow up dolls and frenzied masturbation, this is as tame, and in many ways as innocent, as a Benny Hill sketch.