Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
| Phantom Thief Jeanne | |
Cover of the first tankōbon volume of Phantom Thief Jeanne.
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神風怪盗ジャンヌ (Kamikaze Kaitō Jannu) |
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| Genre | Kaitō, Magical girl, Historical |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Arina Tanemura |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Ribon |
| Original run | February 1998 – July 2000 |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Atsunobu Umezawa |
| Produced by |
Iriya Azuma Kouichi Shitsuden (Toei YG&G) Megumi Ueda (TV Asahi; eps 1-27) Taro Iwamoto (TV Asahi; eps 28-44) Yumi Shimizu (TV Asahi; eps 28-44) |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Music by | Michiaki Kato |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | February 13, 1999 – January 29, 2000 |
| Episodes | 44 |
Phantom Thief Jeanne (Japanese: 神風怪盗ジャンヌ Hepburn: Kamikaze Kaitō Jannu?, lit. "Divine Wind Phantom Thief Jeanne") is a fantasy shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. The story is about the adventures of a high school girl, Maron Kusakabe, who is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc and transforms into a phantom thief-magical girl to collect the scattered pieces of God's power which are also coveted by demons hiding in beautiful art works.
The manga was published by Shueisha in Ribon between February 1998 and July 2000. The individual chapters were collected and published in seven tankōbon volumes. It was formerly licensed for English-language release by CMX Manga and now licensed by Viz Media. The series was adapted by Toei Animation as a 44-episode anime television series that was broadcast on TV Asahi from February 1999 to January 2000. The series was re-issued by Shueisha in 2007, with all chapters fitting into only 6 volumes, instead of the original 7; all volumes had new covers.
16-year-old high-school gymnast Maron Kusakabe is visited by the angel Finn Fish, who gives her a task. God's power is scattered across the Earth, and if He does not gather enough by the turn of the millennium, He will die. To block Him, The Devil had sent out agents to gather His power, which is the beauty in human hearts, in the form of chess pieces. With Fin's assistance, Maron transforms into the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc in order to hunt Demons hidden within works of art. When Maron defeats a Demon, the artwork disappears, and to the outside world it is as if she has stolen it, and she becomes known as a kaitō ("phantom thief"). Maron's best friend is Miyako, the daughter of a police detective in charge of Jeanne's case.
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