Kagerō Project

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Kagerō Project
Original title カ ゲ ロ ウ プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト
transcription Kagerō Purojekuto
Light novel
title Kagerō Daze
Original title カ ゲ ロ ウ デ イ ズ
country JapanJapan Japan
author Jin
illustrator Sidu
publishing company Enterbrain
First publication May 30, 2012 - December 29, 2017
expenditure 8th
Manga
title Kagerō Daze
Original title カ ゲ ロ ウ デ イ ズ
country JapanJapan Japan
author Jin
Illustrator Mahiro Satō
publishing company Media Factory
magazine Monthly Comic Gene
First publication June 15, 2012 - February 15, 2019
expenditure 13
Anime television series
title Mekakucity Actors
Original title メ カ ク シ テ ィ ア ク タ ー ズ
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2014
Studio Shaft
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12
Director Akiyuki Shimbō , Yuki Yase
production Akiko Yodo , Atsuhiro Iwakami , Kenta Suzuki , Kuniyasu Ichikawa
First broadcast April 13, 2014 on Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation , Tokyo MX
synchronization

Kagerō Project ( Japanese カ ゲ ロ ウ プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト , Kagerō Purojekuto ) is a Japanese media franchise that revolves around a group of youth with supernatural abilities. It started with a series of songs for the vocal software Vocaloid by the artist Jin (Shizen no Teki-P). Music videos followed, a light novel and manga series written by Jin, and an anime series. Light novel and manga became known as Kagerou Daze - after a song title in the series - the anime as Mekakucity Actors after the names of the protagonists.

content

The 18-year-old unemployed and couch potato Shintarō Kisaragi ( 如月 伸 太郎 ) has been haunted for two years by Ene, an intelligent computer program with the shape of a girl on his computer. When he has to leave his room and go shopping, he is taken hostage in the mall. In the process he gets to know the Mekakushi-Dan ( Eng . "Blindfold Gang"), a group of young people with various supernatural abilities, all of whom are connected to their eyes. Together with them and Ene, he can overpower the hostage-takers. Shortly before, his younger sister Momo Kisaragi ( 如月 桃 ) also became part of the group. She attracts everyone's attention, which is what made her a pop star . The group wants to help her control her special ability.

The core of the group are the three friends Tsubomi Kido ( 木 戸 つ ぼ み ), Kōsuke Seto ( 瀬 戸 幸 助 ) and Shūya Kano ( 鹿野 修 哉 ), who grew up together as orphans. They live together in the hiding place of the Mekakushi-Dan, led by Kido, who can escape the attention of others. With this ability, she is the exact opposite of Momo Kisaragi. Seto can read the minds of others, and Kano can appear and deceive anyone as they please. While Seto almost never uses his ability, Kano uses it all the time, leaving everyone in the dark about his true feelings. Some time before Momo, the shy Marry Kozakura ( 小 桜 茉莉 ) had been brought into the group by Seto. It can freeze others.

After the events in the mall, Ene and then Shintarō, the latter rather reluctantly, becomes a member of the group. In the city Shintarō later meets the shy and ignorant of the world Haruka Kokonose ( 九 ノ 瀬 遥 ), called Konoha. He lives with a friend who also has 12-year-old Hibiya and Hiyori over the holidays. Hibiya is in love with Hiyori and therefore followed her to the city over the holidays. However, she doesn't want to know anything about him and adores the cool-looking Konoha. Now both children have disappeared and Konoha is looking for them. Together with Shintaro, he sees them being kidnapped and intervenes. This leads to an accident that seems very strange to Shintarō. The others of the Mekakushi-Dan visit the grave of the founder Ayano Tateyama ( 楯 山 文 乃 ). She turns out to be Ene's classmate when she was still a student. All of them, including Shintaro, had already met two years earlier at a school festival. Shintarō was close friends with Ayano and Kido, Seto and Kano grew up together as Ayano's adoptive siblings. Haruka was in love with his classmate Takane Enomoto ( 榎 本 貴 音 ), called Ene, and they were both at the school festival. After the festival both perished: the always weak Haruka then took the form of Konoha with superhuman strength, Ene was reborn in Shintaro's computer.

In the hospital, the group meets Hibiya, whom they bring to their hiding place because of his awakening powers. Kido explains that they all got their powers from near-death experiences in which they entered a mysterious world called "Heat Haze". Relatives who were there stayed there. Kano, who left the cemetery with Ene separately from the others, explains what he learned from Ayano about the powers. These come from a snake that rules an eternal magical world. This was once created by Medusa Azami, who fell in love with a person. In order to escape his and her daughter's mortality, she created a world for her family in which they do not age and die, the Heat Haze. But they were betrayed by other people and Azami withdrew into the Heat Haze. When her daughter and their daughter, Marry, were killed by humans, she resurrected them both and has since drawn all humans into the Heat Haze who die on the same date. Some of them came back with the skills of hitting. The world and the serpents that rule it have since become independent. This knowledge was passed on to Ayano's mother, after her death Ayano and then Kano found out about it. Kenjirō Tateyama ( 楯 山 研 次 朗 ) owned one, the father of Ayano, stepfather and teacher of the other.

Kano and Ene find their bodies in the basement of the school, so that they no longer only have to live in electronic devices. At the same time Shintarō's ability awakens: he had become friends with Marry and became her everlasting memory. The rest of the group now reaches Kenjirō. The snake reveals that it is kept alive in the world and that this world is only created through Marry's desire for a fulfilled life with her friends. This is always created by a new world and then destroyed again by the snake, so that it too is revived. But through Shintarō's memories, Marry can now free herself from this cycle and defeat the snake with the help of Konoha and Ayano from the Heat Haze. This frees everyone from the snake's curse and allows them to live on in the real world.

Publications

Songs

The songs composed by Jin appeared from May 30, 2012 parallel to the light novel series IA Project. A total of 22 songs appeared in two albums and one single.

Light novel

The light novel written by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) is illustrated by Sidu. It was published by Enterbrain in Japan from May 2012 to December 2017 and comprises eight volumes. An English translation is published by Yen Press , and a Chinese translation is published by Kadokawa Shoten in Taiwan.

Manga

Also written by Jin, but drawn by Mahiro Satō , a manga was published in Media Factory's magazine Monthly Comic Gene from June 2012 to February 2019 . The chapters have also been published in anthologies, 13 of which have appeared in total. The seventh volume sold over 50,000 copies in Japan.

A German translation was published by Egmont Manga from October 2015 to April 2020 with all 13 volumes. Yen Press publishes an English version, Editorial Ivréa a Spanish and Tong Li Publishing a Chinese.

Anime

In Studio Shaft 2014 was a twelve episode anime series to the franchise. Directed by Akiyuki Shimbō and Yuki Yase ; the character design was designed by Gen'ichirō Abe . From April 13 to June 28, 2014, the series was shown in Japan by Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation and Tokyo MX . The Aniplex Channel and Crunchyroll platforms included the anime in their programs, with German and English subtitles.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
One Kana Asumi
Marry Kozakura Kana Hanazawa
Konoha Mamoru Miyano
Hibiya Amamiya Misuzu Togashi
Momo Kisaragi Nanami Kashiyama
Shūya Kano Shinnosuke Tachibana
Kosuke Seto Sōichirō Hoshi
Shintaro Kisaragi Takuma Terashima
Tsubomi Kido Yuko Qaeda

music

In the series, three songs are used for the opening credits:

  • Daze by Jin ft. MARIA by GARNiDELiA
  • Headphone Actor from Jin ft. LiSA
  • Ayano no Kōfuku Riron ( ア ヤ ノ の 幸福 理論 ) by Jin ft. Aki Okui

The credits are highlighted with the following titles:

  • Days by Jin feat. Lia
  • Yūkei Yesterday ( 夕 景 イ エ ス タ デ イ ) by Jin ft. LiSA
  • Lost Time Memory by Jin ft. Kōta Matsuyama from Byee the Round
  • Summertime Record by Jin ft. Takuro Sugawara

Also, these titles are used throughout the episodes:

  • Kisaragi Attention ( 如月 ア テ ン シ ョ ン ) by Jin ft. Luna Haruna
  • Mekakushi Code ( メ カ ク シ コ ー ド ) by Jin ft. Koneko Yasagure
  • Kagerō Daze ( カ ゲ ロ ウ デ イ ズ ) by Jin ft. Shōichi Taguchi by Sentimental Vector
  • Kūsō Forest ( 空想 フ ォ レ ス ト ) by Jin ft. Takumi Yoshida from phatmans after school
  • Otsukimi Recital ( オ ツ キ ミ リ サ イ タ ル ) by Jin ft. IA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, June 29-July 5th July 8th, 2015, accessed April 2nd, 2016 .