The magician's bride

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The magician's bride
Original title 魔法 使 い の 嫁
transcription Mahō Tsukai no Yome
genre Fantasy , mystery , romance novel
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kore Yamazaki
publishing company Likes garden
magazine Monthly Comic Blade → Monthly Comic Garden
First publication November 30, 2013 - ...
expenditure 10
Original video animation
title The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star
Original title 魔法 使 い の 嫁 星 待 つ ひ と
transcription Mahō Tsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2016-2017
Studio Wit studio
length 24 minutes
Episodes 3
Director Norihiro Naganuma
music Jun'ichi Matsumoto
Anime television series
title The Ancient Magus' Bride
Original title 魔法 使 い の 嫁
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2017-2018
Studio Wit studio
length 24 minutes
Episodes 24 in 1 season
Director Norihiro Naganuma
music Jun'ichi Matsumoto
First broadcast October 7, 2017 on MBS

First publication in German		 October 7th, 2017 on Crunchyroll
synchronization

The bride of the magician ( Japanese 魔法使いの嫁 Maho Tsukai no Yome ) is a fantasy - Manga of Kore Yamazaki . The series is published in Japan by Mag Garden in their magazine Monthly Comic Garden and in Germany by Tokyopop- Verlag.

The series is about the young girl Chise , who is bought by the magician Elias at an auction and henceforth lives with him and is taught magic.

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After her mother's suicide, 15-year-old Japanese girl Chise is repeatedly taken in by various relatives and passed on until she finally sells herself as a slave in the hope of ending up in a place where she will not be sent away again. Elias Ainsworth bought it at auction. This magician, who appears monstrous with his tall figure and animal skull, wants to take her in as his apprentice and teach her magic. Chise is, it turns out, a Slay Vega (夜 の 愛 し 仔（ス レ イ ・ ベ ガ） Surei Bega , "beloved child of the night") - a person with special magical abilities. These uncontrolled abilities were also the reason why her family died and no one wanted to take her in. Since she has to die sooner or later if she does not learn to control these forces, she apprentices with Elias and lives with him and his housekeeper Silky, a banshee , in Great Britain . Elias soon shows that he is not only interested in Chise as an apprentice, but also as a young woman and calls her his future bride. But their relationship remains undetermined as they slowly get to know each other better.

Chise meets the elves of the forest who live near Elijah's house. Because of her special powers, they would like to kidnap Chise into her realm, but they always show themselves to be helpful beings. Many other magical beings also feel drawn to Chise. Together with Elias they visit the magician Lindel, who guards the land of dragons. It is one of the dragons' last refuge, where they can hide from humans. Here, on a second visit, Chise makes her wand from the branch of a tree that grew out of a dead dragon.

As a magician, Elias is repeatedly entrusted with tasks relating to supernatural incidents. These often come from Pastor Simon of the local community who oversees Elias for the church. On one of these assignments, Elias and Chise meet a black dog who is guarding the grave of his loved one. He is taken in by Chise and, as Ruth, her constant companion who is magically connected to her and who can also take on human form. On another assignment, the two meet the magician Renfred and his apprentice Alice. They fight each other and Renfred detests magicians, but eventually parting in respect. Later, Alice, who is treated very caringly by her master, and Chise become friends. Another friend Chise finds is Stella from the nearby village, whose brother she rescues from a curse. And the magical craftsman and old friend Elias' Angelica Varley quickly takes Chise in the heart and wants to support her. Other magical beings around Elias envy him the Slay Vega, want to seduce and win them over and try to see a dispute between the two. Including the immortal Cartaphilius looking for a new body.

About Elias past, Chise learns from Lindel that Elias was once picked up in the forest with no memory of his past and from then on was taken in and taught in magic. But as a being that is neither human nor fairy, he is unsure of himself and often ignorant of the life of humans and fairies alike. Again and again he behaves towards Chise like an insecure, still learning child and therefore chose her as the one who should bring the world and people's feelings closer to him. Chise wants to take on this task while she learns the magic from him. Often she has problems controlling her powers and harms herself, even if Ruth and her wand are of help. When Cartaphilius has dragons kidnapped from the land of dragons, Chise wants to free them. Together with Elias and Ruth, she succeeds, but not without overexerting herself again. In addition, she was cursed by the enraged dragon. To get rid of the curse, Ruth and Elias secretly plan to sacrifice Stella. When Chise finds out, she runs away and into Cartaphilus' arms. He promises her release from the curse, if he receives something from her powers in return. Cartaphilus, or Joseph as he calls himself, has been cursed by God to live forever after offending God's Son and is desperate in search of new bodies or a way to stop his decline. But Elias and all friends come to save Chise from the connection with Cartaphilus. You can defeat its magic. Eventually, they give Cartaphilus a place at Elias' house to find his peace while Chise forgives Elias and proposes him.

Manga

The manga was first published in Japan from November 30, 2013 (issue 1/2014) to July 30, 2014 (issue 9/2014) in Monthly Comic Blade magazine. After its conversion to a purely online magazine, the manga switched to the sister magazine Monthly Comic Garden on September 5, 2014 (issue 10/2014) . The publisher Mag Garden brought out the chapters in nine anthologies ( Tankōbon ) so far , of which the sixth sold over 270,000 times. A CD with a radio play was enclosed with the fifth volume.

In Germany, the manga has been published by Tokyopop- Verlag at regular intervals since October 2015 , so far in twelve volumes. It has also been translated into Spanish, English, Russian, Polish and Chinese. In 2017, The Magician's Bride was named “Best Manga” with the PENG! -Comic award winning.

In Japan, the guidebook Mahō Tsukai no Yome - trait was published , which was also published in German in June 2018 as the magician's bride - trait .

Anime

In 2016 Wit Studio produced a three-part prequel under the name Mahō Tsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito ( 魔法 使 い の 嫁 星 待 つ ひ と ) as an original video animation series, which narrate the events before the manga. The OVAs were written by Kore Yamazaki himself, the anime was produced by Norihiro Naganuma . For the character design is Hirotaka Kato responsible for Bamboo backgrounds. The music is composed by Junichi Matsumoto and produced by Flying Dog . The OVA series is distributed by Shochiku. The OVAs are available with subtitles under the title The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star on the Crunchyroll platform.

From October 8, 2017 to March 25, 2018, a 24-part television series ran after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) on Tokyo MX , as well as on Mainichi Hōsō , AT-X , TV Aichi , TV Saitama with an offset of up to one week , Chiba TV , BS11 and Hokkaidō Hōsō . It was also offered with German subtitles under the title The Ancient Magus' Bride in a simulcast from the provider Crunchyroll . Crunchyroll ordered a German synchronization for the series and the OVA, which was published on the platform on January 15, 2019. At the beginning of February 2019 it was announced that Kazé Germany was able to secure the rights to the disc release of the anime series and the three-part OVA for the German-speaking area.

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role Japanese voice German voice
Chise Hatori Atsumi Tanezaki Franciska Friede
Elias Ainsworth Ryota Takeuchi Achim book
Silky Aya Endo Julia Foelster
Ruth Kōki Uchiyama Jacob Weigert
Lindel Daisuke Namikawa Martin May
Alice Mutsumi Tamura Katharina von Keller
Cartaphilus Ayumu Murase Jonas Minthe
Ariel Ami Naitou Daniela Reidies
Ash Eye Jouji Nakata Jürgen Holdorf
Chika Hatori Kikuko Inoue Manuela Baker
Goddess of spring Shion Shimizu Nina Witt
Hazel Hiroki Matsukawa Timo Kinzel
Oberon Kappei Yamaguchi Patrick Bach
Spriggan Hiroki Yasumoto Joachim Kretzer
Titania Sayaka Oohara Kristina von Weltzien
Yuuki Hatori Shinji Kawada Timo Kinzel

music

Jun'ichi Matsumoto wrote the soundtrack. The OVA used the theme song Clockwork Quick and Lightning Slow , which was written by Chris Mosdell, composed by Riuto Ōmori and sung by Julia Shortreed.

The television series used in the first 12 episodes in the opening credits Here (text: Yūho Iwasato, melody: Yūsuke Shirato) sung by Junna and in the credits Wa -Cycle- (text: Kōko Komine, melody: Tomohiko Kira) sung by Hana Itoki. In the remaining episodes, You (text: Yūho Iwasato, melody: Ryōta Nakano) was sung by May'n and in the end credits Tsuki no Mō Hanbun ( 月 の も う 半 分 ; text: Yūho Iwasato, melody: Yūsuke Shirato) was sung by Aiki & Akino from Bless4 . In the last episode, however, The Legend of "The Ancient Magus Bride" was used at the end, which was composed by Jun'ichi Matsumoto and written and sung by Jessica . Within the episodes, other pieces were used such as Liberala ( リ ベ ロ ア ー ラ Riberoāra ) by Miu Sakamoto in episode 3, Kimi no Yukue ( 君 の 行 方 ) sung by Kocho in episode 5, Seirei no Mai - Dance of the Spirit ( 精 霊 の 舞 〜 Dance of the Spirit) by Kokia in episode 6, Anno Domini ( ア ン ノ ド ミ ニ ) sung by Hibiki Kitajō in episode 8, Iruna Etelero ( イ ル ナ エ テ ル ロ Iruna Eterero ) sung by Daichi Takenaka in episodes 11 and 12, Rose von Kaco in episode 14, Hanakazoe ( 花 数 え ) by Akino Arai in episodes 18 and 24, and story by Kotringo in episode 22.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, September 26-October 2nd. Anime News Network, October 5, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Scott Green: "Ancient Magus' Bride" Manga to Get Drama CD. In: Crunchyroll . September 12, 2015, accessed October 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Kore Yamazaki's The Ancient Magus' Bride Manga Gets TV Anime in October. In: Anime News Network. March 9, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Kanie: "The Ancient Magus' Bride": KAZÉ confirms disc release in Germany. Manime.de, February 8, 2019, accessed on February 21, 2019 .