Devil Hunter Yohko
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魔物ハンター妖子 (Mamono Hantā Yōko) |
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| Genre | Magical girl, Comedy |
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| Directed by | Katsuhisa Yamada (ep. 1) Hisashi Abe (eps. 2 & 3) Jun'ichi Sakata (ep. 5) Akiyuki Shinbo (ep. 6) |
| Written by |
Sukehiro Tomita (ep. 1) Hisaya Takabayashi (ep. 2) Katsuhisa Yamada (ep. 3) Tatsuhiko Urahata (eps. 5-6) |
| Music by | Hiroya Watanabe (eps. 1 & 5) Toshiyuki Omori (eps. 2-3 & 6) |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Released | 1990 – 1995 |
| Runtime | 30–40 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Gaku Miyao |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Imprint | YK Comics |
| Published | October 1996 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Devil Hunter Yohko (Japanese: 魔物ハンター妖子 Hepburn: Mamono Hantā Yōko?) is an anime series created by Madhouse, produced by Toho, and released in North America by ADV Films.
Devil Hunter Yohko is about a boy-crazy sixteen-year-old girl named Yohko Mano who banishes demons from the Earth. Yohko is voiced by Aya Hisakawa in the original Japanese dialogue. In the English dubbed version she is portrayed by Amanda Winn-Lee.
For centuries, the Mano family has been slaying demons. Yohko's grandmother, Madoka, is the 107th Devil Hunter, and Yohko's mother, Sayoko, would have been the 108th, but for a small hitch: A Devil Hunter must be a virgin to take on the power and responsibility. Sayoko became pregnant before Madoka could reveal the family's secrets, and so the job fell to Yohko Mano, Sayoko's daughter, who is placed as the 108th Devil Hunter. Now as a Devil Hunter, Yohko must face off against demons while trying to live her life as a boy-crazy schoolgirl.
Devil Hunter Yohko was ADV Films' first VHS release on December 15, 1992. ADV co-founder, Matt Greenfield, said the reason Yohko was chosen as the first release was because "we wanted something that was really very unique, that people were going to say 'Whoa! What was that?', because at the time no one in the US had seen anything like this." Toho reluctantly licensed Devil Hunter Yohko to ADV, making the title ADV's first; even though Shozo Watanabe, the general manager of the Los Angeles office of Toho, expressed concern that ADV would not be able to handle the distribution of the film, Toho was unable to find another distributor, so it selected ADV. The story was adapted into a manga by Gaku Miyao. The anime was re-released to DVD in 2002, commemorating the tenth anniversary of its original release by ADV.
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