Twin Star Exorcists
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The cover of the first volume as published in Japan, featuring Rokuro Enmado (left) and Benio Adashino (right).
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双星の陰陽師 (Sōsei no Onmyōji) |
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| Genre | Action, Fantasy, Supernatural |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshiaki Sukeno |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Jump Square |
| Original run | October 4, 2013 – present |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomohisa Taguchi |
| Produced by | Makoto Hijikata Maiko Isogai Tomohiko Iwase Naoto Tani Teruaki Sanematsu |
| Written by | Naruhisa Arakawa |
| Music by | Mikio Endō |
| Studio | Pierrot |
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| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo), AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 6, 2016 – March 29, 2017 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Game | |
| Publisher | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| Platform | PS Vita |
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Twin Star Exorcists (双星の陰陽師 Sōsei no Onmyōji?) is a Japanese supernatural fantasy action shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiaki Sukeno about a pair of young and talented exorcists that according to a prophecy, are destined to marry and have a child that will be the ultimate exorcist. The series is published in Japan by Shueisha in its Jump Square magazine, and is published in English by Viz Media. A television anime adaptation by Pierrot ran between April 6, 2016 to March 29, 2017.
Rokuro Enmado is a young boy who used to be a powerful aspiring exorcist, before a tragic incident left his friends dead and made him abandon the profession. One day, he has a fateful encounter with Benio Adashino, a girl around his age and a well known exorcist from the east. According to prophecy, Rokuro and Benio are the "Twin Star Exorcists", and are destined to marry and have a child known as the Miko, which will be the ultimate exorcist, capable of cleansing all evil spirits, or Kegare, from the world and ending the war that has lasted over a millennium.
Yoshiaki Sukeno began serializing the manga in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine on October 4, 2013. A special chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in April 2016.
Viz Media licensed the series for publication in North America, publishing the first volume in July 2015.
An anime television adaptation was announced on the January 2016 cover of Jump Square on December 4, 2015. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by Naruhisa Arakawa, with animation by Studio Pierrot. Additionally, Shishō Igarashi is serving as assistant director, Kikuko Sadakata is designing the characters, and Itsuko Takeda is serving as chief animation director. The series' first opening theme song is "Valkyrie -Ikusa Otome-" (Valkyrie -戦乙女-?, lit. "Valkyrie -War Maiden-") by Wagakki Band, while the first ending theme is "Eyes" (アイズ Aizu?) by Hitomi Kaji. The second opening theme, "Re:Call", is performed by the idol group i☆Ris, while the second ending theme, "Yadori-boshi" (宿り星?) is performed by the two-man group Itowokashi (Kashitarō Itō and Ryō Miyada). The third opening theme, "sync" is performed by lol, while the third ending theme "Hide & Seek" is performed by Girlfriend. The fourth opening theme, "Kanadeai" is performed by Itowokoashi, while the fourth ending theme "Hotarubi" is performed by Wagakki Band.
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