Maga-Tsuki

Maga-Tsuki

Volume 1 of the Japanese release.
まがつき
Genre Romance, Harem Supernatural
Manga
Written by Hoshino Taguchi
Published by Kodansha
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Monthly Shonen Sirius
Original run April, 2011 – present
Volumes 11

Maga-Tsuki (まがつき) is a shōnen manga series by Hoshino Taguchi, who got the idea for the story after visiting a shrine. The story follows Yasuke, who is about to confess his love to his childhood friend when he is cursed by accidently breaking a mirror at his family's shrine. The curse causes him to be linked to the goddess of misfortune Orihime at all times or else he will die. He can only be revived by having her kiss him which among other things causes problems with his relationship with his childhood friend. Maga-Tsuki was first serialized in Monthly Shonen Sirius starting in April, 2011. The series has been released in manga format in Japan where eleven volumes have been released by Kodansha. Outside of Japan, the manga was adapted into an English language format that is being released by Kodansha Comics USA. The first English language manga was released in March, 2016 with more announced.

Plot

Yasuke is a first year high school student who has feelings for his childhood friend Akari. He lives at a shrine, where his older sister is a shrine priestess, and caretaker though she neglects some of her duties for her brother to clean up. After Akari is invited over by his sister, Yasuke sees this as the perfect time to confess his feelings towards her, but ends up accidently breaking a mirror in the shrine. The result is that he is cursed by Orihime, the goddess of misfortune who takes his soul into her. To make matters worse if he is separated from her then he dies, and can only be brought back to life through her kissing him. When Akari suddenly sees Orihime she storms off thinking that Yasuke did this in order to hurt her as she also has feelings for him. Orihime initially asks Yasuke to make her happy which will lift the curse, but due to his childhood friend storming off he is upset with her. Orihime soon breaks down into tears which causes the destruction of the things around him. Realizing this he soon is able to calm her down.

His sister eventually finds out, and is able to help convince almost everyone at his school that they are related. Akari is not convinced but feels better after Hinata introduces herself as Orihime's sister, and asks her to break the two up. Hinata later reveals herself to be Amaterasu, goddess to the universe who declares that she is going to reseal Orihime into the mirror. In her attempt to do so though, Yasuke's soul goes into Akari causing the two to remain in close contact at all times or else he will die. Akari is relieved to hear about the curse as a reason for the misunderstandings, but Hinata tells Yasuke that his goal to make her sister happy has not changed.

Concept

While visiting a shrine manga author Hoshino Taguchi thought to himself who he was praying to. He stated that the Japanese people do not correctly differentiate between shrines, and temples, and that it seemed rude to not know who you are making a request to. Hoshino kept the idea of "Poor gods all people ever do is ask things of them", and incorporated it into a new story after reading about Japanese mythology.[1]

Release

Maga-Tsuki was first serialized in manga magazine Monthly Shonen Sirius starting in April, 2011. The first manga volume of Maga-Tsuki was released in Japan by Kodansha on August 9, 2011. Eleven volumes have been released so far, the most recent being on March 9, 2016.[2][3] Crunchyroll first announced that an English adaptation would be available on its website on November 25, 2014.[4] Having picked up the license, Kodansha Comics USA later announced at Anime Expo 2015 that it was planning to release Maga-Tsuki sometime in February, 2016.[5] The first English language manga volume was released in March, 2016 in both digital, and print formats. In addition to North America, the series has also been released in Australia through Random House.[6][7] Two volumes have been released so far with more announced through amazon.

Volume Japanese English
Release Date ISBN Release Date ISBN
1 August 9, 2011[2] ISBN 978-4-06-376286-0 March, 2016[6] ISBN 1-63236-239-2
2 January 6, 2012[8] ISBN 978-4-06-376317-1 April, 2016[9] ISBN 1-63236-240-6
3 June 8, 2012[10] ISBN 978-4-06-376346-1 June 28, 2016[11] ISBN 1-63236-241-4
4 October 9, 2012[12] ISBN 978-4-06-376363-8 August 30, 2016[13] ISBN 1-63236-242-2
5 February 8, 2013[14] ISBN 978-4-06-376381-2 October 11, 2016[15] ISBN 1-63236-243-0
6 July 9, 2013[16] ISBN 978-4-06-376410-9 December 6, 2016[17] ISBN 1-63236-244-9
7 February 7, 2014[18] ISBN 978-4-06-376436-9 ISBN
8 August 8, 2014[19] ISBN 978-4-06-376482-6 ISBN
9 February 9, 2015[20] ISBN 978-4-06-376521-2 ISBN
10 October 9, 2015[21] ISBN 978-4-06-376563-2 ISBN
11 March 9, 2016[3] ISBN 978-4-06-390609-7 ISBN

References

  1. Hoshino Taguchi. Maga-Tsuki Volume 1. Kodansha Comics USA. pp. 182–184. ISBN 978-1-6323-6239-1.
  2. 1 2 "まがつき(1)" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "まがつき(11)" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  4. "Crunchyroll Adds Hoshino Taguchi's Maga-Tsuki Manga". Anime News Network. November 25, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  5. "Kodansha Adds Magatsuki, Real Account and Princess Jellyfish". Anime News Network. July 7, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Magatsuki, Volume 1: Touched by a Goddess". Kodansha Comics USA. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  7. "Australian Release List - March 2016". Anime News Network. March 31, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  8. "まがつき(2)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  9. "Magatsuki, Volume 2: From Cursed to Worse!". Kodansha Comics USA. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  10. "まがつき(3)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  11. "Maga-tsuki 3". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  12. "まがつき(4)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  13. "Maga-tsuki 4". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  14. "まがつき(5)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  15. "Maga-tsuki 5". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  16. "まがつき(6)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  17. "Maga-tsuki 6". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  18. "まがつき(7)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  19. "まがつき(8)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  20. "まがつき(9)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  21. "まがつき(10)". Kodansha. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

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