MAR Omega
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| MÄRCHEN AWAKENS ROMANCE: Omega | |
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| メル Ω, メル オメガ (MÄR Omega) |
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| Genre | shōnen, fantasy, action |
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| Authored by | Kouichiro Hoshino |
| Publisher | Template:FlSagicon Shogakukan |
| Serialized in | Shonen Sunday |
| Original run | September 2006 – Still Running |
| No. of volumes | 1 |
MÄR Omega: MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance Omega (Meru Omega メル Ω, メル オメガ) is a sequel of MÄR, a popular manga series by Nobuyuki Anzai, the creator of Flame of Recca. The manga was drawn by Kouichiro Hoshino, an assistant of Nobuyuki Anzai. MÄR is also an acronym for Märchen, itself being German for fairy tale. It was started in September 2006, several months after MÄR ended. It is currently running on Shonen Sunday in Japan, published by Shogakukan.
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[edit] Status
As of 2006, the first part of the series Marchen Awakens Romance manga's first part has ended with 161 chapters. A sequel called MAR Omega has recently started.
[edit] Plot
Young Kai has been passionately idolizing Ginta ever since his heroic battle in the War Games of six years ago. Since then, ARMs have become a common thing, Guardians especially! Kai himself doesn't have one though, and dreams big of being able to get an ARM like Ginta's! When his caretaker, the old ARM-smith that took him in after his parents' deaths, sends him out on an errand, he is attacked by a bandit from "chess"! In his escape attempt, he finds more than he bargained for when he comes across Babbo! But, now with Babbo's awakening, the fake ARMs are going out of control! Is it Kai's turn to save MAR Heaven following in his hero's footsteps?
[edit] In Depth Plot
The story started 6 years after the second War Games, about Kai, the adoptive son of an ÄRM smith from Harnau City in MÄR Heaven, who idolizes Ginta and Babbo for defeating Phantom at the end of the 2nd War Games. He always wants a good ÄRM for himself, which is often ridiculed by others since Kai possesses no potential whatsoever of magic power, much to his personal dislike, since at the time throughout MÄR-Heaven ÄRMs are already in wide use (especially a new type called fake ÄRMs, activated without the need of magic power), and Kai himself inherited a magic stone from his dead parents, a memento highly suggested an ancestral relation to the sorcerors' kingdom Kaldea.
When Kai was delivering ÄRMs to another city, he walked past a mountain and suddenly got attacked by a remnant of Chess Pieces. While searching for cover, Kai jumped into a pond and woke up the most unthinkable underwater resident - Babbo. Using the ÄRM Kai defeated the Chess guy, one amazing yet inexplicable feat: how was he, a normal boy, be able to fight with the ÄRM up til then wieldable to only two persons, both warriors of legend, Ginta and Phantom ?
Leaving the question hanging, the two returned to Kai's city, only to find themselves in an even tighter situation: among those who came to admire Babbo, there are Kai's fake ÄRM user friends, and they were all out to take Babbo - to bring it to a sinisterly mysterious figure who was watching them the whole time. With the emergency arose, Kai had no choice but to resort to his last option - put the magic stone he owned into Babbo, and forth reborn to the world of MÄR-Heaven the most powerful Guardian recognized, Gargoyle.
Gargoyle easily defeated the guardians and returned their owners' consciousness, but then it was Kai's turn to face trouble with his ÄRM: he lost contact with Babbo inside Gargoyle, and the monster would have savaged the whole town if not for the timing restrain from Alviss with his familiar 13 Totem Poles attack, allowing Kai enough time to regain synchronization with Babbo, returning him to normal.
Saving everyone no time to ponder on what'd happened, the Cross Guard's young warrior's unexpected arrival brought an even more unexpected truth: those fake ÄRM all used so at their own ease didn't, indeed, require a proper amount of magic power from the users, but it sucked from them a worse fuel - their life energy, and through that, their minds could be controlled like a puppet dancing to death. Then why were they so popular ? Why hadn't anyone noticed their dangerous propeties ? And more importantly, who made them ? All were never answered, however, as the one controlling everyone took a sudden desperate move to seal the town except Alviss, Kai, Babbo and Kai's female friend Elise, introducing himself. Although he was easily defeated by Kai and Alviss, the town couldn't be returned, and for that they had to consult Kaldea - birthplace of all ÄRMs and magic users.
In Kaldea, they were welcomed by Dorothy and a new male character, named Inga into the Grand Elder's palace. All answers for their questions were ready, coming down to a legend descending the magic kingdom for 300 years: the fake ÄRMs were not actuallly the work of many sorcerers, but rather, only one's - the dark magician with infamy for his experiments of human's mind manipulation, went by the name of Unwetter. Babbo - the Elder of Kaldea in his time - confronted the man and succeeded in consigning he and his malicious creations into oblivion, just before Babbo himself died, transferring his soul into the ÄRM and erasing every memory related to that accident. It's unknown for the Grand Elder himself, however, as to why the supposedly sealed fake ÄRMs were once again spread throughout MÄR-Heaven now, how the supposedly dead Unwetter could be revived, and what purpose would be served with the claiming of Babbo. Either way, until these riddles could be solved, Babbo would be taken into custody, which, of course, met with Kai's disagreement.
Relented, the wizard postponed the deal with Babbo... only if Kai could prove himself worthy of wielding it, inside Dorothy's training Dimension ÄRM with Inga's witness. They were not disappointed, however, as when facing with danger of death, Kai suddenly unleashed all his dormant magic power - which was so powerful that it did not only confirm his relation to the magic kingdom, but also suggest a direct blood connection to Babbo. No sooner when they discovered that than the fake ÄRM users presented themselves before Kaldea, to continue the accomplishment of their objective: take Babbo back to their master Unwetter.
[edit] ARM types
Here are just ARM types and their descriptions:
- Simple ÄRMs are little more than simple tools when active.
- Holy ÄRMs possess the power to heal and undo curses.
- Weapon ÄRMs are used as weapons in battle.
- Darkness ÄRMs are powerful artifacts typically used to curse people usually at a cost to the user.
- Dimension ÄRMs teleport to different places, create pocket dimensions, allow to watch scenes happening far away.
- Guardian ÄRMs summon a monster or a 'guardian' of some sort to protect the owner of the ARM. The drawback is that as long as the guardian is active the ÄRM user is unable to move from the spot he was when he summoned it.
- Nature ÄRMs are used for certain elemental attacks, or enhancing a body's physical performance.
- Ghost ÄRMs attach to the user's body and allow them to use their body as a living weapon.
- Unique ÄRMs are any ARMs that can't be put into any of the other classes, such as Babbo.
Taken from MÄR on Wikipedia.
[edit] Characters
Kai: An ÄRMsmith's fosterling who admires Ginta for his deeds in the 2nd MÄR-Heaven war. He always wants an ÄRM as powerful as Babbo, but is capable of using none, as commented by his foster father, for his character is too hesitant. It later turns out Kai has very strong magical power, suggestive of his ancestral relation to the wizards.
Babbo: The legendary ÄRM in the first two MÄR-Heaven war, wielded by captain of MÄR, Ginta. Ever since the 2nd war concluded, he's been traveling around searching for Ginta, and ended up sleeping in a lake until Kai wakes him up.
Elisa: Kai's friend and also one of the sole escapees after the fake ÄRM user's attack on Kai's village, beside Kai himself. She's a cheerful, sweet girl, and promises to protect Kai in time of danger since he doesn't have an ÄRM for defense, which annoys Kai non-stop.
Leon: Kai's friend, but one always has a bone to pick with the other, either by Leon teasing Kai for not having an ÄRM, or claiming himself for being stronger than Ginta, Kai's hero.
Alviss: Former member of team MÄR. After the 6 years interval of the two series, he's joined the Cross Guard, and is currently investigating the mystery of fake ÄRMs.
Tar-o: A pervert but strong-minded boy. He always wants to protect his younger brother, who later dies. His ÄRM is a scorpion ring, able to transform into a sword that holds over 100 different poisins(one able to turn you into stone).
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- MÄR Heaven (Japanese)
- Web Sunday MAR site (Japanese)
