Occultic;Nine
| Occultic;Nine | |
 The cover of the first light novel volume. | |
| オカルティック・ナイン (Okarutikku Nain) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Paranormal[1] |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Chiyomaru Shikura |
| Illustrated by | pako |
| Published by | Overlap |
| English publisher | J-Novel Club |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Overlap Bunko |
| Original run | 25 August 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Illustrated by | Ganjii |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | good! Afternoon |
| Original run | 7 October 2015 – present |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Game | |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
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| Written by | To-Jumpei Morita |
| Music by | Masaru Yokoyama |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by |
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| Network | Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, ABC, AT-X, CBC |
| Original run | 9 October 2016 – present |
| Episodes | 12 |
Occultic;Nine (オカルティック・ナイン Okarutikku Nain) is a Japanese light novel series written by Chiyomaru Shikura, the creator of Steins;Gate. The series is licensed in English by J-Novel Club. A manga, illustrated by Ganjii, began serialization in October 2015. An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures began airing on 9 October 2016.
Plot
The story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.
Characters
- Yūta Gamon (我聞 悠太 Gamon Yūta)
- Voiced by: Yūki Kaji[1]
- A high school boy and self-described NEET who runs the blog "Kiri Kiri Basara," which aggregates news and discussion of the occult, with hopes of driving enough traffic to his site that he can live off the money from affiliate clickthroughs. He ends up attracting a strange crew of characters around him.
- Ryoka Narusawa (成沢 稜歌 Narusawa Ryōka)
- Voiced by: Ayane Sakura[1]
- An energetic spirit guide with enormous breasts who is Yuta's best friend. Calls herself "Ryo-tas", and Yuta "Gamotan". She wields an electric stun-gun shaped like an old-fashioned raygun which is dubbed the "Poya-gun" according to Yuta.
- Sarai Hashigami (橋上 サライ Hashigami Sarai)
- Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa[1]
- A ultra-realist first-year university student, in contrast to his father who is a widely-known professor who specializes in paranormal phenomena.
- Miyū Aikawa (相川 実優羽 Aikawa Miyū)
- Voiced by: Hitomi Yoshida[1]
- A popular fortune teller and first-year high school student with her own fanclub at school. She has recently decided to get close to Yuta, joining him and Ryoka to contribute to his blog. They all live in Kichijōji and go to the same school.[2]
- Tōko Sumikaze (澄風 桐子 Sumikaze Tōko)
- Voiced by: Shizuka Itō[1]
- A reporter for the occult magazine Mumū.
- Aria Kurenaino (紅ノ 亞里亞 Kurenaino Aria)
- Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro[1]
- A black magic proxy who is said to place curses on others, provided she has a sample of the victim's hair and information. She runs her shop in Hamonika-Yokochō (harmonica alley) near Kichijōji Station.[2] Her real name is Ria Minase. Her brother Takaharu died while donating a kidney for her. She was unable to accept the loss and stole her brother's corpse and lived with it for a year, believing that he was still alive with her.
- Kiryū Kusakabe (日下部 吉柳 Kusakabe Kiryū)
- Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama[1]
- A mysterious individual.
- Ririka Nishizono (西園 梨々花 Nishizono Ririka)
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto[1]
- A dōjin manga creator with the ability to predict the future. She goes to the same university as Hashigami Sarai's.[2]
- Shun Moritsuka (森塚 駿 Moritsuka Shun)
- Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara[1]
- A cosplayer and otaku detective. He is small and looks like a child, but he is 26 years old.[2]
Media
Light novel
The light novels are written by Chiyomaru Shikura and illustrated by pako. Overlap Bunko published the first volume in August 2014.[3] The series was one of four titles originally offered by J-Novel Club, an online English light novel publisher, when the service first launched.[4]
Volumes
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 August 2014[5] | ISBN 978-4-90686-621-2 |
| 2 | 25 April 2015[6] | ISBN 978-4-86554-020-8 |
Game
A game adaptation of the novels was announced in March 2015.[7][8]
Manga
A manga adaptation by Ganjii began serialization in Kodansha's good! Afternoon manga magazine on 7 October 2015.[1][9]
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 April 2016[10] | — |
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced in March 2016, with the cast from the game reprising their roles for the series.[1] The anime is produced by A-1 Pictures, and directed by Kyōhei Ishiguro and Miyuki Kuroki, with To-Jumpei Morita handling series composition, Tomoaki Takase designing the characters, and Masaru Yokoyama composing the music. The opening theme song, titled "Seisū 3 no Nijō", is performed by Kanako Itō, while the ending theme song, titled "Open your eyes", is performed by Asaka. Both theme songs were written by Shikura, and are scheduled for release on 26 October 2016. It premiered on 9 October 2016 on Tokyo MX, ABC, CBC, GTV, GYT and BS11.[11][12] Aniplex of America has licensed the anime series for North America.[13] The series will be released across six Blu-ray and DVD home video release volumes containing 2 episodes each, totalling 12 episodes.[14]
Episode list
| No. | Title[lower-alpha 1] | Original air date[15] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Underwater" "Takusan no Hito" (たくさんの人) | 9 October 2016[lower-alpha 2] |
| Yuta Gamon sits in a cafe in his hometown Kichijōji, working to increase traffic to his website, which aggregates news and stories of the occult around Japan. The annoyingly cheerful Ryoka Narusawa shows up as Yuta catches a glimpse of the young fortune-teller and classmate Miyu Aikawa on a TV commercial. The two decide to invite her for an interview to raise traffic for his site. Elsewhere, Sarai Hashigami abruptly leaves a lecture hall, reluctantly following the advice of a fortune-teller to see his father before it's too late. Touko Sumikaze chats with the editor-in-chief of her occult-themed magazine, where he talked about receiving Professor Hashigami's latest manuscript from an old woman, even though Hashigami's mother is dead. Touko offers that it could be a ghost. Later, Aria Kurenaino helps a customer curse someone to death, then discovers someone shoved a bloody scalp in her mailbox. The next day, Yuta and Ryoka meet up with Miyu after school and take her back to the cafe. Miyu claims that her future would be greater with Yuta. After Yuta decides to make Miyu part of the team, the girls pressure him into interviewing Professor Hashigami about his occult research. Yuta plays with a bloody knife on the Professor's desk, then discovers the corpse of the Professor himself. | ||
| 2 | "My Cold Dimension" "Unmei o Kaeru Chikara Nante Nai kara" (運命を変える力なんて無いから) | 16 October 2016 |
| In the past, Miyu begins doubting herself after receiving calls for fortune-telling that try to prove her as a fake. When Sarai calls her, she sees visions of him standing over his dead father's body, and tearfully begs him to visit his father, as she can only see the future, not change it. In the present, Yuta notices that Professor Hashigami wrote the word "CODE" in his own blood before expiring. An impatient female voice commands Yuta via his shortwave radio to yank out a golden tooth from the Professor's lower jaw, which he manages just before Shun Moritsuka enters the room. Later, Shun fills in the police on his findings, including a doujinshi with a story oddly familiar to the events that took place. When the police dismiss him, he calls an unknown man about a list that he is searching for. Elsewhere, Ryoka and Miyu try to test the rumor of a girl who can curse others, by placing a curse on Yuta. As Shun tries to get statements from various persons of interest, he hears from Toko the tale of Ria Minase, whose brother died. Ria refused to accept her brother's death, so she kept his corpse with her for a year before anyone else reported it. | ||
| 3 | "She Cracked" "Mōsō Datta no Darou ka" (妄想だったのだろうか) | 23 October 2016 |
| Miyu's classmate and producer goes missing after meeting a strange boy in an alley. Shun visits Ririka to ask for more details about her doujin, and she responds that the scenes for her drawings appear in her dreams. Toko talks to her editor-in-chief about Ria Minase, as a flashback elaborates Aria's past. Yuta stumbles around the city, randomly testing keyholes he finds for the odd-shaped golden key he pulled out of Professor Hashigami's mouth, while afraid of being labelled a murderer. As Yuta tries to pick up a call, he is attacked by a mysterious being. Yuta then wakes up to hear the voice from his shortwave radio yell at him to turn on the news where a tragedy is being reported. | ||
| 4 | "Psycho Daisies" "Hannin wa Gamon Yūta da" (犯人は我聞悠太だ) | 30 October 2016 |
| Toko arrives at the office for an emergency meeting, and watches the report of a tragic mass suicide in Inokashira Park on the news. She is sent by her Editor-in-Chief to investigate the happenings. The following day, all the bodies were reported to be found, and investigations into the identities of the deceased were underway. Conspiracies about the incident being caused by mass hypnotism abound, which Yuta refutes, pushing instead for the theory that the deaths were a result of a suicide volunteer offline meeting. Returning home, Yuta researches on the death of Professor Hashigami, which led him back to Kiri Kiri Basara where he once made a post regarding the late professor. In the comments, he noticed a post made by Shun, which pointed him to a dojin drawn by Ririka, titled "A Dark Water's Bottom". Meanwhile, Miyu consults Toko on advice about her still-missing friend, and the latter learns about the owner of Kiri Kiri Basara. The episode ends with Sarai confronting Yuta as the owner of Kiri Kiri Basara. | ||
| 5 | "She's Lost Control" "Koko ga Atarashii Sekai nano ne" (ここが新しい世界なのね) | 6 November 2016 |
| Sarai requests for Yuta to tell him about the circumstances surrounding Professor Hashigami's death, which was revealed to have happened shortly after the professor's study was ransacked. Yuta convinces Sarai to allow him to search for clues in his father's study, in which he discovers a coded message in the roof of the room. Ririka realizes that she had been drawing her own perspective underwater. The next day, Shun tails Ryoka and Yuta to Bloo Moon, cornering Yuta in the café by asking him about his experience in molar extractions. Aria and Kiryu discuss about this meeting between the three at Bloo Moon as witnessed by Kiryu, before being visited by Shuu himself. Meanwhile, Sarai had deciphered parts of the code in the ceiling as names related to the Inokashira Park incident, while Yuta shares Ririka's dojin with the group. | ||
| 6 | "She Took A Long Cold Look" "Anta no Hō dattan da ne" (アンタの方だったんだね) | 13 November 2016 |
| 7 | "The Dream's Dream" "Jōei Kaishi" (上映開始) | 20 November 2016 |
| 8 | "Happiness is a Warm Gun" "Wareware no Tadoritsuita Kyūkyoku no Iryōna noda" (我々のたどり着いた究極の医療なのだ) | 27 November 2016 |
Notes
- ↑ English titles based on Crunchyroll simulcasts
- ↑ The series is listed to premiere on Tokyo MX at 24:00 on 8 October 2016, which is effectively 9 October.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Steins;Gate Creator's Paranormal Science Novels Occultic;Nine Get TV Anime". Anime News Network. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Characters Occultic Nine Official Site
- ↑ Loo, Egan (28 December 2012). "Steins;Gate's Shikura Writes Debut Novel Occultic;Nine". Anime News Network. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ "J-Novel Club Publisher Launches to Release Light Novels in English Digitally". Anime News Network. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Occultic;Nine① -オカルティック・ナイン-. Overlap Bunko (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ Occultic;Nine② -オカルティック・ナイン-. Overlap Bunko (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ "Steins;Gate Creator's Paranormal Science Novel Occultic;Nine Gets Game". Anime News Network. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ Green, Scott (28 March 2015). "Game to Adapt "Steins;Gate" Creator's "Occultic;Nine"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ Green, Scott (7 October 2015). "Manga Adapts "Steins;Gate" Creator's "Occultic;Nine"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ オカルティック・ナイン（１） [Occultic;Nine (1)]. Kodansha (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ↑ "Steins;Gate Creator Reveals Occultic;Nine TV Anime's 1st Video, Staff, Songs, October Debut". Anime News Network. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ↑ "Occultic;Nine TV Anime Reveals More of Cast, October 8 Debut, New Visual". Anime News Network. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ "Aniplex USA Licenses March comes in like a lion, Occultic;Nine Anime". Anime News Network. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ Occultic；Nine -オカルティック・ナイン- 6. occultic-nine.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ↑ Occultic；Nine -オカルティック・ナイン- - アニメ - TOKYO MX [Occultic;Nine - Anime - Tokyo MX] (in Japanese). Tokyo MX. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
External links
- Light novel official website (Japanese)
- Anime official website (Japanese)
- Manga official website (Japanese)
- Occultic;Nine (light novel) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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