Ann Cassandra
| unCassandra | |
| アンカサンドラ (Ankasandora) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Gorou Hifumishi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Rival |
| Original run | April 4, 2008 – December 2008 |
| Volumes | 2 |
unCassandra (アンカサンドラ Ankasandora) is a Japanese manga series written by Gorou Hifumishi, and illustrated by Gumi Amashi. The series follows clairvoyant high school students Nanaki Bekku and Kizaki Banjou as they try to break the prophecies created by the Cassandra mask.
The manga series was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Rival magazine from April 2008 to December 2008.
Plot
Nanaki Bekku is a clairvoyant, she can see deaths and tragedies when she looks in the mirror. Only they haven't happened yet. Her whole life she thought these events were unavoidable, until she met Kizaki Banjou. Nanaki had just arrived in Tokyo when she is saved from a falling billboard by a nearby fish vendor. When she gets to school the next day she discovers that it was Kizaki Banjou, her senpai who had been held back a year for missing too much school because of his "accidents". While the other students wrote it off as his bad luck, Nanaki suspected there was more to it than that. She followed him around and discovered that Kizaki was a clairvoyant to, only his was of seeing the predictions was his notebook that he carried around with him at all times. He considers himself a "prediction breaker", he thinks if he can stop all the predictions then he can save his own life — he was predicted to die in 3 years (at the age of 20). After throwing his notebook in the river, and watching as he jumped in after it, Nanaki helped him break the prediction of the death of a young girl. After that Nanaki told Kizaki about her ability and teamed up with him to break the rest of the predictions in the note book. She helped out but using what she sees for a more accurate description on the location and times of the predictions. While trying to stop an explosion in a mall, they run into a man, Makita Eitarou, who called himself a "prediction enforcer". He was also clairvoyant but saw it as his job to make sure the predictions happened. After Nanaki and Kizaki stop the explosion, the angry Makita kidnaps Nanaki and makes Kizaki choose between saving Nanaki and stopping the prediction. After burning Kizaki's notebook, Makita ran off to go make sure the prediction happened, not realizing that Kizaki had tricked him, so that Makita became the thing that stopped the prediction. After rescuing Nakaki, Kizaki tells her that the predictions are over, that was the last one before his death prediction. Thinking its safe, they try to start a normal life, but then Nanaki sees another prediction, a girl getting hit by a truck. After saving her, the girl introduces herself as Chiasa. They learn that she is also a clairvoyant and the thing causing the "predictions" is a mask called the Cassandra mask, it allows the wearer to change fate and cause whatever destruction they see fit. She also tells them the only way to stop it is to place another mask on top of it, the Seal. They begin their hunt for the Cassandra mask, after finding the city it's in Chiasa runs away from Nanaki and Kizaki. While looking for her, Nanaki gets another prediction, this time of Chiasa's death and an explosion. When they get to the location Nanaki evacuates the building while Kizaki runs to the apartment to save Chiasa, he fights his way past the man with the Cassandra mask, but when he gets inside he discovered it was a trap for him. After the explosion the man with the Cassandra mask trips over some of the rubble and falls to his death, and Chiasa tells Nanaki that after using the Cassandra mask the wearer dies. The mask itself has power and it hypnotizes Nanaki into putting it on. After that Nanaki disappears and Kizaki finds Chiasa who tells him the mask took Nanaki. Kizaki and Chiasa run around trying to find Nanaki, when they find her the Cassandra mask has already trapped her inside her own head. Kizaki pins Nanaki down and tries to force the Seal over the Cassandra mask but the Nanaki/Cassandra breaks his arm. Kizaki shouts out to Nanaki, breaking Cassandra's hold on her and the mask falls to the ground. After placing the seal mask over the Cassandra mask, they go home. The story ends 3 years later on the day Kizaki is supposed to die, and it ends with all 3 of them, Nanaki, Kizaki and Chiasa having a picnic under the cherry blossoms.
Characters
- Nanaki Bekku (名無き ベック Bekku Nanaki)
- A high school student, who just moved to Tokyo. She is a clairvoyant, because of her ability she was ridiculed and considered a freak.
- Kizaki Banjou (木崎 板状 Banjou Kizaki)
- He is a 17-year-old high school student who has been held back a year due to numerous absences because of his injuries from all of his "accidents". He has a journal which shows him pictures of crime scenes and disasters that haven't happened yet.
- Chiasa (千朝)
- She's is also a clairvoyant, she is constantly on the run, looking for the Cassandra mask. Her family was killed by the Cassandra mask while it was trying to destroy the Seal mask. After receiving the Seal from older brother, while dying, she became the sole target of the Cassandra mask.
- Makita Eitarou (マキタ 榮太郎 Eitarou Makita)
- He is a man who is also clairvoyant, he gets his predictions through an old tape recorder. He thinks it's his duty, assigned by god, to make sure the predictions happen.
Media
Manga
The manga was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Rival from April 2008 to December 2008. It has a total of 2 volumes. The first began in April 2008 and the second ended in December 2008. Each volume has 4 chapters.