Munto
| Munto | |
Munto DVD cover
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| ムント | |
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| Genre | Drama, Fantasy, Romance |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Produced by | Yoko Hatta |
| Written by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Music by | Shinji Ikeda |
| Studio | Kyoto Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | March 18, 2003 – April 23, 2005 |
| Runtime | 52 minutes (ep. 1) 58 minutes (ep. 2) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai | |
| Directed by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Written by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Music by | Monaca Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio | Kyoto Animation |
| Original network | Chiba TV |
| Original run | January 14, 2009 – March 11, 2009 |
| Episodes | 9 |
| Anime film | |
| Tenjōbito to Akutobito Saigo no Tatakai | |
| Directed by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Produced by | Atsushi Itō Hideaki Hatta |
| Written by | Yoshiji Kigami |
| Music by | Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio | Kyoto Animation |
| Released | April 18, 2009 |
| Runtime | 83 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai | |
| Written by | Kyoto Animation |
| Illustrated by | Makoto 2-gō |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Comp Ace |
| Original run | May 2009 – present |
| Volumes | 2 |
Munto is a two-episode original video animation (OVA) project by Kyoto Animation, first released in 2003 titled Munto followed by a 2005 sequel Munto: Beyond the Walls of Time. An animated television series entitled Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai based on the OVAs was produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Yoshiji Kigami. The TV series is a nine-episode continuation of the OVAs, and aired in Japan between January and March 2009 on Chiba TV. The TV series includes an updated director's cut of the OVA episodes with new animation and footage. A manga adaptation of the TV series illustrated by Makoto 2-gō began serialization in the May 2009 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace magazine. An animated film named Tenjōbito to Akutobito Saigo no Tatakai (天上人とアクト人 最後の戦い?) was released on April 18, 2009.
In the distant past of Munto when the world of the Heavens did not exist, humans lived a prosperous civilization. One day, beings of unknown origins fell out of the sky and onto human world. These beings could control a power called Akuto, or human emotions. They could take the human spirit, which is an accretion of feelings, wishes and dreams and turn that into a physical power or physical object. These beings, obsessed with their powers, destroyed the human civilization within a few days. However, they did not realize that the humans created the Akuto; these beings who descended from the skies killed off the very source of their power. They then discovered several alternate universes which they could draw more Akuto from. They depleted all the other dimensions of Akuto and used it to create their own empire in the skies above the humans. This new civilization was known as the Heavens and was populated by the Heavenly Beings who could control Akuto.
The leaders of the Heavens soon grew corrupt due to the unlimited amount of Akuto they had stolen from other planets in other space times, and the Heavens began to collapse into disarray. At this time, the humans launched an attack against the Heavens. They were the very humans that were defeated when the Heavenly Beings first showed up. The humans who supplied the Akuto then defeated the Heavenly Beings. During the battle, the leaders of the Heavens decided to sever the supply of Akuto, cutting themselves away from Earth rather than be killed by the rebelling humans. They sealed themselves into a parallel dimension in order to sever the link of Akuto, though this resulted in the pillars that connected Earth to the Heavens to fall from the sky causing massive destruction. This day was called the "Calamitous Day" when both worlds lost contact with each other. From that day on, the Heavenly Beings considered linking the two dimensions together to be a taboo and appointed a guardian to guard this link to make sure it is never connected again.
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