Asura Cryin' 2: Battle and Fate of the Chosen Ones "Asura Cryin' 2", which aired from October 1 to December 24, 2009, is a TV anime series based on the light novel by Mikumo Gakuto. This work is a sequel to "Asura Cryin" which aired in 2008, and depicts a deeper story and character development. Below, we will introduce detailed information and reviews of "Asura Cryin' 2", as well as recommended points. Broadcast information "Asura Cryin' 2" was broadcast on AT-X, tvk, Chiba TV, Teletama, Sun TV, TOKYO MX, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto, and BS11. It aired from October 1st to December 24th, 2009, and consisted of 13 episodes, each 30 minutes long. The broadcast schedule is as follows: - AT-X: October 1, 2009 to December 24, 2009, every Thursday from 9:30 to 10:00
- tvk: October 3, 2009 to December 26, 2009, every Saturday from 24:30 to 25:00
- Chiba TV: October 4, 2009 to December 27, 2009, every Sunday from 23:30 to 24:00
- Teletama: October 4, 2009 to December 27, 2009, every Sunday from 25:00 to 25:30
- Sun Television: October 5, 2009 to December 28, 2009, every Monday from 24:00 to 24:30
- TOKYO MX: October 5, 2009 to December 28, 2009, every Monday from 25:30 to 26:00
- TV Aichi: October 6, 2009 to December 29, 2009, every Tuesday from 25:28 to 25:58
- KBS Kyoto: October 7, 2009 to December 30, 2009, every Wednesday from 25:00 to 25:30
- BS11: October 9, 2009 to January 1, 2010, every Friday from 24:30 to 25:00
Original story and production The original work is a light novel by Gakuto Mikumo, published by Dengeki Bunko (ASCII Media Works), and the director is Keizo Kusakawa. The animation is produced by Seven Arcs, and the production is by Rakuko Student Council. Copyright belongs to "©Gakuto Mikumo/ASCII Media Works/Rakuko Student Council". story The protagonist, Natsume Tomoharu, begins living alone as he enters high school. At first glance, he seems like an ordinary high school student, but he has a special constitution in which his childhood friend, Minakami Mio, is haunted by him as a ghost. On the first day after moving in, a beautiful unknown woman hands him a silver trunk that was entrusted to her by his older brother, Naoki, and that same night, he is attacked by a mysterious girl dressed as a shrine maiden. This trunk becomes the catalyst for Tomoharu to face the hidden truth of the world, and his fate changes dramatically. Commentary "Asura Cryin' 2" is the second season of the series based on the popular novel. High school student Natsume Tomoharu, who is haunted by his childhood friend, Minagami Mio, opens a silver suitcase entrusted to him by his brother and becomes the handler of the Asura Machina, Kurogane. This is the story of the start of a new battle for Tomoharu and his friends in the science club who fight using Kurogane. cast The main cast includes: - Tomoharu Natsume, Naoki Natsume: Miyu Irino
- Misao Minakami: Haruka Tomatsu
- Takatsuki Kanade: Ai Nonaka
- Kurosaki Shuri and Kurosaki Shiri: Tanaka Rie
- Ania Fortuna: Sayuri Yahagi
- Reishiro Saeki: Shoutarou Morikubo
- Reiko Saeki: Kimiko Koyama
- Koala (Kento Takaya): Shinji Kawada
- Tachibana Takayuki: Yuko Kaida
- Aki Tachibana: Hiromi Hirata
- Yukihara Yo: Sayori Ishizuka
- Takaya Kagaya: Kazuya Nakai
- Sadness: Satomi Sato
- Takuma Higuchi: Hiro Shimono
- An Ohara: Aki Toyosaki
- Ritsuto Shiozumi: Yoko Hikasa
- Mayu Kazuhide: Junji Mashima
- Krustina Fortuna: Sayaka Ohara
- Kotori: Yoko Hikasa
- Phoenix Bird Ice Feather: Midori Takahashi
- Shiozumi Old Man: Akihiko Ishizumi
- Kurasawa Rokuka: Kitamura Eri
- Vivian: Kenji Takahashi
- Princess bamboo: Midori Takahashi
- Haruna Chiyohara: Reiko Takagi
- Entourage: Kenji Takahashi
- Yasutake Satomi: Keisuke Fujita
- Kanade's father: Eizo Tsuda
- Yagi: Kenji Takahashi
Main Staff The key staff members are: - Original story: Taketo Mikumo (Dengeki Bunko/ASCII Media Works)
- Director: Keizo Kusakawa
- Series Composition: Akao Deko
- Character design: Nao Waratanuki
- Character design: Atsushi Komori
- Mechanical design: Fukushima Hideki
- Chief mecha animation director: Hiroyasu Oda
- Storyboard, direction: Keizo Kusakawa, Ryoki Kamitsubo
- Animation director: Atsushi Komori
- Mechanical animation director: Hiroyasu Oda
- Original illustrations: Ryotaro Akao, Hiroyuki Ohkaji, Masato Onoda, Ken Kato, Shuta Kuroiwa, Kyoko Kotani, Hideki Fukushima, Shinpei Tomooka, Toshiko Baba, Hiroki Mutaguchi, Kuushou Shimizu, Hideo Maru, Masashi Wakayama
- Photography: Tadashi Kitaoka, Mami Goto
- 3D CGI: Sanzigen (Yoshihiro Otobe, Shinsaku Nagura, Atsushi Mimura, Takahiro Yokoyama)
- Art director: Toshiko Kaizu
- Art setting: Kaoru Aoki
- Color design: Aiko Shinohara
- Director of photography: Tadashi Kitaoka
- Sound Director: Aketagawa Jin
- Music: Mitsutaka Tajiri
- Production desk: Yusuke Hatanaka
- Assistant Production Desk: Makoto Kuwahara
- Animation Production: Seven Arcs
- Producers: Go Nakanishi, Osamu Uemura, Hiroyuki Yuzawa
- Produced by: Rakuko Student Council
Main Characters The main characters are: - Tomoharu Natsume: The protagonist of this work, a boy with a tendency to misfortune who has been known in the neighborhood as "haunted" since surviving an airplane crash three years ago. After opening a suitcase entrusted to him by his older brother, he becomes the operator of the mechanical demon "Kokutetsu" and leads a turbulent school life.
- Minagami Mio: A childhood friend who is possessed by Tomoharu as a ghost. She is caring and takes on the role of supporting Tomoharu and making jokes in the science club. To be precise, she is not a ghost, but rather a "Projection of the Grave Virgin" that is used as a sacrifice to activate the Mechanical Demon.
- Takatsuki Kanade: A beautiful girl in class who has feelings for Tomoharu. Her shy personality and slow-witted behavior make it hard to imagine, but her true identity is a demon who controls the flames of hell. She is the only daughter of the Takatsuki Group, a designated demon society in a wide area, but she left home because she hated the family business and is living with her relative, Shiozumi's house.
- Kurosaki Akemi: She is the deputy head of the science club that Tomoharu and her friends are enrolled in, and is also the one who got Tomoharu involved in the turmoil. Contrary to her beautiful appearance, her body has been modified with dark science, making her a treasure trove of heavy weaponry, and in battle, missiles shoot out from her entire body, making her a dangerous older sister.
- Ania Fortuna Someschel Miku Klausenburg: The youngest daughter of Margrave Fortuna, a demon clan with the ability to "eat luck". Although only 10 years old, she is a genius girl who specializes in the control system of the Machine Demon and can control several countries. She came to Japan as an exchange student to search for her older sister, Krustina, and attends Rakushu High School while living at the Naruo House.
- Takuma Higuchi: Tomoharu's friend, he is a severe occult maniac who talks about aliens and UMAs whenever he opens his mouth. Because of this, he is not popular at all, even though he has a good face. He is also quite well-informed, and is knowledgeable about rumors and urban legends, so he is useful in unexpected situations.
- Ohara An: A cheerful girl who was in the same track and field club as Tomoharu in junior high school. She is also the poster girl for the Ohara Liquor Store where Tomoharu works part-time. She is secretly popular with boys because of her cheerful and friendly personality, but she seems to be a little concerned about her modest breasts.
- Tachibana Takato: President of the third student council of Rakushu High School. Although he appears to be extremely normal in appearance and personality among the eccentric members of the Rakushu High School student council, his abilities are unknown. He always carries his Japanese sword, Fuyuzakura, on his back, and fights on an equal footing with Kaga Kagari, the demon slayer.
- Saeki Reishiro: President of the First Student Council at Rakushu High School and operator of the mechanical demon Hisui. He has a strong belief that demons must be destroyed to maintain the balance of the world, and is in opposition to the science department. He once plotted to get Tomoharu into his camp.
- Reiko Saeki: A classmate of Tomoharu, she is a beautiful girl on par with Kanade and Misao. Although she is kind to girls, she is always harsh towards Tomoharu and Higuchi, which has led to heartless rumors that she is a lesbian. She is obsessed with her brother, Reishiro, and sometimes takes quite radical actions as the leader of the Holy Defense Force.
- Aion Shizuma: A girl who is a cousin of the Saeki siblings and is a projection that possesses Reishiro. When she was a flesh-and-blood human, she had a rough personality and often bullied and fought with Reiko, but now for some reason, she has a relatively calm mood. She has an abnormal obsession with numbers and is rumored to be good at mental arithmetic.
- Takaya Kagaki: A demon slayer who is the operator of the mechanical demon Baraki and the contractor of the demon Krustina. He uses his forbidden power to indiscriminately attack demons and gather large amounts of magical power, and is being pursued by the Kanto Student Federation and the Holy Defense Force, who have taken the situation seriously.
- Krustina Fortuna Someschel Miku Klausenburg: A demon girl with the ability to "eat luck", who is a leading researcher in the device and separator that separates the burial maidens from the mechanical demons. She was once invited by the Royal Science Madness Society to study at Rakushu High School as an exchange student, but disappeared before graduation and is currently under contract with Kaga Kagari.
- Mayu Kazuhide: Treasurer of the second student council of Rakushu High School. He caused the UMA commotion in Tobi Lake after abandoning his familiar, the wind beast Vivian, born from his relationship with a demon. He always has a silly face, but he has been held back a year due to his busy student council activities, and is actually one year older than Tomoharu and the others.
- Kurasawa Rikka: President of the second student council of Rakushu High School and the operator of the mechanical demon Suisei. She usually wears strong glasses and braids to look like a diligent honor student, but she is a greedy, evil beauty who works behind the scenes of the school to make money.
- Yukihara Yo: A handsome, cross-dressing beauty with medieval beauty. She is the operator of the mechanical demon "Shirogane", which is the counterpart of "Kokugetsu", and is feared as the strongest armed student instructor in the Kanto Student Federation. She is also the former president of the First Student Council, and seems to have a personal connection with Shu Kai.
- Haruna Chiyohara: One of the armed student instructors of the Kanto Student Federation. She is the operator of the mechanical demon "Zinc Flower", and together with fellow armed student instructors Yo and Yasutake, she is pursuing the truth behind the "Demon Hunting Incident". Contrary to her elegant Kyoto accent, she also has a shrewd side.
Main Robot Items The main robots and items are: - Asura Machina: A mechanical, artificial demon said to have been created to destroy demons. It appears from another dimension via the operator's shadow and exerts destructive magical powers.
- Handler: A magician who summons Mecha-Genie from another dimension and controls it. He is possessed by a ghost-like girl called a Projection Being.
- Projection Body: The official name of the ghost girls that possess the puppeteer. With a few exceptions, they are invisible to normal humans. Their true identity is a pseudo-sensory input/output device of the burial maiden sealed away by the mechanical demon.
- Mysterious Trunk: A silver trunk obtained by Tomoharu's older brother, Naoki, and passed on to Tomoharu through Shuri. It is also called the "Extracta" or "Altar." It is the key device to summon the Mecha-Genie sealed away in another dimension.
- Naruo House: Tomoharu's lodgings. There are rumors of monsters appearing, and it is also known as the "Hades House," and is feared by the neighboring residents. The basement is said to be a hangout spot for the past generations of the science club...
- Rakushu High School: A co-educational school run by a mission that was established through donations from all over the country, regardless of denomination. It values student autonomy and has three officially recognized student councils, as well as several unofficial student councils.
- Demons: They look just like normal humans, but each bloodline has different magical powers. Female demons, in particular, have the ability to summon familiars by making a "contract" with a human.
- First Student Council: One of the official student councils at Rakushu High School. They belong to an international security organization called the Holy Defense Force, and are in charge of security within the school. They claim that demons are the cause of the end of the world, and are trying to destroy the dangerous demons within the school.
- Second Student Council: One of the official student councils at Rakushu High School. Also known as the Pilgrim Merchant Alliance, it oversees committee activities within the school. Claiming that a huge amount of money is needed to prevent the end of the world, it takes on various illegal jobs to make money.
- The Third Student Council: One of the officially recognized student councils at Rakushu High School. It is a branch organization of an international academic organization called the Royal Society of Mad Science, and is researching a technology called Black Science. It claims that demonic powers are the key to avoiding the end of the world, and is in fierce conflict with the First Student Council.
- Second Round: In order to correct the future history in which the world was destroyed, humanity made a deal with the devil and went back in time to redo the second history. Because the same timeline is repeated, buildings and industrial products that were built in the first round world that should not have existed in reality are sometimes excavated. Such traces of the first round world are called "ruins."
- Killer Doll (Widget): A mechanical doll used by the Second Student Council. It can only execute simple commands, but has great destructive power, and mercilessly targets its prey with a hunting hatchet and a knife attached to its arm.
- Stabilizer: An extension that strengthens the connection between the Lieutenant and the Puppeteer. The Puppeteer can sense the pain or fatigue felt by the Lieutenant as damage, and the Lieutenant can control parts of the Puppeteer's body.
- Armed Student Instructor (Guardian and Lagoon/GD): The strongest frontline commander of the Kanto Student Federation. Only the operators of the ten strongest mechanical demons, all of whom have been given metal names, can claim this title.
- Kanto Student Federation: A higher organization that coordinates the interests of each school's student council and takes command of battles outside of school. It has 10 puppeteers who are said to be the strongest.
- Belial Doll: A girl who was sealed away as a sacrifice to the Machine-Genie. She appears in the real world as a ghost-like form called a projection. It is said that in exchange for their souls, the Machine-Genie will grant the wishes of the person who manipulates them.
- Contractor: A human who has made a "contract" with a demon. They gain the ability to control demons from another world, known as familiars, but in exchange they lose memories of their loved ones.
- Familiar (Daughter): A giant monster summoned from another world by a female demon. It has combat abilities comparable to a mechanical demon and protects its contractor. If the contractor loses control of it, it can turn into a complete monster and go berserk.
- Asura Cryin: A forbidden being who is a puppeteer of the Machine Demon, but also has a contract with a demon. In theory, it is said that he can amplify magical power infinitely, and his existence is considered dangerous.
- Science Club: The club where Tomoharu and his friends are enrolled. It belongs to the Third Student Council and is also a sub-organization of the Royal Science Madness Society. It was founded by Naoki in the past for the purpose of researching dark science.
subtitle The subtitles of each episode are as follows: - EX014: The Vanished World and Remnants of Memory (2009/10/01)
- EX015: The Burial Virgin Devoured by the Devil (2009/10/08)
- EX016: Free and Unfree Choices (2009/10/15)
- EX017: The price of calling the name of the sacrifice (2009/10/22)
- EX018: The Tragic Relationship Between Love and Magic (2009/10/29)
- EX019: The Truth Dedicated to You (2009/11/05)
- EX020: The Hour of Kaimetsu, the Darkness of Showmetsu (2009/11/12)
- EX021: A future where memories are lost (2009/11/19)
- EX022: Death and Peace Side by Side (2009/11/26)
- EX023: Remaining lives, lost lives (2009/12/03)
- EX024: My feelings for you will destroy the world (2009/12/10)
- EX025: The past, causation, and despair of separation (2009/12/17)
- EX026: Gears of Choice (2009/12/24)
Related Titles "Asura Cryin 2" is a sequel to "Asura Cryin", which is also based on a light novel series. "Asura Cryin" is also a related work. Theme songs and music The theme songs and insert songs are as follows: - OP1: Alternative
- Lyricist: atsuko
- Composer: atsuko, KATSU
- Arrangement: KATSU
- Sung by: angela
- ED1: Delight Beyond
- Lyricist: atsuko
- Composer: atsuko, KATSU
- Arrangement: KATSU
- Sung by: angela
- ED2: Kirafuwa
- Lyricist: atsuko
- Composer: atsuko, KATSU
- Arrangement: KATSU
- Sung by: angela
- IN1: Alternative
- Lyricist: atsuko
- Composer: atsuko, KATSU
- Arrangement: KATSU
- Sung by: angela
- IN2: Spiral
- Lyricist: atsuko
- Composer: atsuko, KATSU
- Arrangement: KATSU
- Sung by: angela
Rating and Recommended Points "Asura Cryin' 2" has been highly praised as an animated work that brings out the charm of the original to the fullest. Below we will introduce the evaluation and recommended points in detail. Story and Characters "Asura Cryin' 2" carefully depicts the deep storyline of the original work and the growth of the characters. The protagonist, Natsume Tomoharu, becomes a puppeteer of the Mechanical Demon and fights alongside his companions in a moving and captivating way. In addition, each character's background and feelings are depicted in detail, making it easy to empathize with them. In particular, the relationship between Tomoharu and Misao and the individual personalities of characters such as Shuri and Kanade stand out. Visuals and performance The visuals of the animation are very beautiful, and the battle scenes of the Machine-Magic Demon are particularly powerful. The character designs also faithfully reproduce the images of the original work, which is a delight for fans. In terms of direction, there are also plenty of tense battle scenes and scenes that depict the characters' emotions, providing plenty of visual enjoyment. music Angela's songs, which are the theme songs and insert songs, fit perfectly with the atmosphere of the anime and play a role in livening up the story. In particular, the opening theme "Alternative" is a powerful song that symbolizes the theme of the work and captures the hearts of viewers. In addition, the ending themes "Kanata no Delight" and "Kirafuwa" also leave an impression with their beautiful melodies that reflect the feelings of the characters. Recommended points Asura Cryin' 2 is recommended for the following viewers: - For those who have read the original light novel "Asura Cryin": You can enjoy the world view and characters of the original once again in the anime.
- People who like Karakuri Genie and battle scenes: The impressive battle scenes and fascinating designs of the Karakuri Genie characters are a must-see.
- People who want to enjoy deep storylines and character development: Each character's background and feelings are carefully depicted, making it easy to empathize with them.
- For those who like angela's music: The theme songs and insert songs really add to the atmosphere of the film.
summary "Asura Cryin' 2" is an animated work that brings out the charm of the original work to the fullest, with a deep story and character growth, beautiful visuals and powerful battle scenes, and Angela's wonderful music that draws viewers in. This work is recommended not only for fans of the original work, but also for those who want to enjoy action and a deep story. Please give it a watch. |
