Erementar straight

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Erementar Gerad ( Japanese エ レ メ ン タ ル ジ ェ レ イ ド ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Mayumi Azuma , which belongs to the Shōnen genre and has also been implemented as an anime series.

action

Coud van Giruet lost his parents as a child and was taken in by air pirates. After an attack, he finds a young girl named Reverie Metherlence, or Ren for short, among the loot . This girl is an Edilraid .

Edilraid are physically completely identical beings to humans, who can merge with humans in order to then serve them as weapons. However, the consciousness of the Edilraid still exists, which creates more of a "combat alliance" than a control. If a unity of the soul and the emotional situation of the person and the Edilraid is created, this is able to sing Edilraid songs together, which can develop powerful magical powers. Once an Edilraid has united with a person, they are permanent partners and the Edilraid can no longer merge with another person until his partner has died.

When the air pirates are infiltrated by Arquaile , an Edilraid protection organization, and asked to hand over the Edilraid to their care, Coud's ship is attacked by a vicious group called Chaos Choir. This wants to usurp world domination with the help of the Edilraid. After the ship was shot down, Coud and Ren set off on a journey to Edilgarten, the country of origin of all Edilraid. They are accompanied by the Arquaile troop. This consists of Kuea, an Edilraid with constant hunger, Rowen, who is Kuea's human combat partner, and Cisqua, the leader of the trio. During their trip they experience adventures during which a love develops between Ren and Coud.

Eventually Ren is kidnapped by Arquaile against Cisqua's consent, but she manages to free herself and reach the Edilgarten. This is completely devastated and is controlled by Chaos Choir, who want Ren to replace the current Queen Eve. But thanks to his love, Coud succeeds in freeing Ren and reuniting the people and Edilraid with a powerful Edilraid song that exudes harmony.

Publications

Erementar Gerad has been appearing in Japan since February 2002 in individual chapters in the Manga magazine Comic Blade published by Mag Garden . The last chapter appeared in December 2009. This publishes the individual chapters at regular intervals in the form of edited volumes, 18 of which have appeared.

The manga is also translated into English, French and Spanish as Elemental Gelade . Carlsen Comics has been publishing the anthologies in German since July 2005. So far, 18 volumes have been published. Six volumes of the offshoot Erementar Gerad - Flag of Blue Sky have now been published.

Adaptations

Anime

Television broadcast
Original title エ レ メ ン タ ル ジ ェ レ イ ド
Erementar straight
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2005
length 24 minutes
Episodes 26th
genre Adventure , fantasy , comedy
idea Mayumi Azuma
music Yuki Kajiura
First broadcast April 5, 2005 - September 27, 2005 on TV Tokyo
synchronization

From April 5 to September 27, 2005, the Japanese TV station TV Tokyo ran a film version of the manga as an anime television series. The series consists of 26 episodes of approximately 25 minutes each and was produced by the animation studio XEBEC . Directed by Shigeru Ueda , the character design was created by Taeko Hori and the artistic director was Hiromasa Ogura.

The series was published in English in North America, Great Britain and Australia, as well as in France, Russia, the Philippines and Poland.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Coud Van Giruet Akira Ishida
Reverie Metherlence Mikako Takahashi
Cisqua Nana Mizuki
Kullweet Envatilia Naoko Suzuki
Rowen Yuji Ueda

music

The music for the series was composed by Yuki Kajiura . The opening credits are Forever by Savage Genius, the credits for the credits are Yakusoku ( 約束 ) by Kuroda Michihiro and for the last episode everlasting song ~ japanese edition by FictionJunction ASUKA.

Erementar Gerad - Ao no Senki

Since June 2003, Comic Blade Masamune , a sister magazine of Comic Blade, has published a manga series under the title Erementar Gerad - Ao no Senki (EREMENTAR GERAD - 蒼 空 の 戦 旗 - ), which so far comprises five anthologies and a plot other than Erementar Gerad having. Carlsen Comics has published the series since December 2006 under the title Erementar Gerad - Flags of Blue Sky . So far, six volumes have been published in German.

Light novel

Since August 2005, Mag Garden has published a light novel by author Asaka Shou and illustrator Mayumi Azuma at Mag Garden . So far, the series comprises two volumes.

radio play

In October 2003 the first radio play DC for the manga was released in Japan. Two more CDs followed in April and September 2005, all of which were released by Victor Entertainment .

Video games

Three Erementar Gerad video games were released in Japan . The first was Erementar Gerad: Matoe, Suifu no Ken , which was released in 2005 for mobile phones and PlayStation 2 . Elemental Gelade followed in the same year : Tozasareshi Uta . In 2006 the game Matoe, Suifu no Ken was published by Taito .

reception

Malindy Hetfeld from Splashcomics describes the manga as "a real feast for all role-players and fantasy fans" . The drawings are "breathtaking and varied, with great SD moments and tense panels" . The characters are detailed and the plot offers action and humor from the start. In the course of the plot, the quality would remain the same, the characters would be further worked out and so every reader could find his favorite character.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erementar Straight CDs. Mag Garden , accessed October 12, 2007 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Comic Review - Erementar Gerad 1. Splashcomics, accessed on March 16, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Comic Review - Erementar Gerad 3. Splashcomics, accessed on March 16, 2009 .

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