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Psychic Academy
サイキックアカデミー煌羅万象
(Saikikku Akademī Ōra Banshō)
Genre Romantic comedy, School, Supernatural
Manga
Author Katsu Aki
Publisher Flag of Japan Kodansha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Magazine Z
Original run December 1999 – April 2003
Volumes 11
ONA
Director Shigeru Yamazaki
Writer Mitsuhiro Yamada
Studio E.G. Films
Licensor TOKYOPOP
Episodes 24
Released 2002
Runtime 9 minutes

Psychic Academy (サイキックアカデミー煌羅万象 Saikikku Akademī Ōra Banshō?) is an eleven volume manga created by Katsu Aki and published by Kodansha and licensed in English by Tokyopop. Psychic Academy also has a twenty four episode mini-anime that was originally released on the Internet (called an Original Net Animation). Each episode runs about ten minutes in length. Some of these episodes, in subtitled version only, are now being released along with the English version of the first and second volume of the manga.

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Psychic Academy follows the life of Ai Shiomi, a boy with psychic power, also known as "aura power" in fictional modern day Japan. This ability has emerged in the world, but not all people have it. Aura power itself allows certain elements such as fire, water, ice, wind, lightning, earth, and light to be used by those who have the ability. Which type of power they can use depends on their aura and what they are taught.

Ai agrees to attend the Psychic Academy school after being pressured by his parents. The school is where the elite students go to learn how to use their elemental aura power. Ai knows that somewhere within the Academy is his childhood friend Orina. At school however, she is known as Saara, after her aura code. On his way to his first day at school, Ai encounters a girl named Myuu (Mew). She is another student at the Academy and is a very quiet, seemingly moody girl. Ai also learns that his older brother Zero, a legend amongst those with aura powers, will be one of his teachers.

As Ai struggles with his new school, a life he is not sure he wants, a crazy rabbit takes him as his student. His feelings for Orina and Myuu begin to develop and contrast as the school year progress. Ai also makes discoveries about his rare light aura. To further complicate things, a group of researches try to artificially awaken the dormant aura genes within all humans, heedless of the danger and damage to society it might cause.

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Ai Shiomi (汐見 愛 Shiomi Ai?) Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi
Ai believes he does not belong at Psychic Academy and is unsure of how to fit in, or what is his special power (which is later revealed to be the rare Light Aura). Though along with being reunited with his childhood friend, Orina, he also makes some new friends, such as Myuu (Mew) and "Master Boo (Buu)". It is later revealed that his parents really adopted him and his brother and that his brother took him and ran away from their original home to hide the fact that Ai possesses a Light Aura. That Aura appears to have potential to grow far beyond other Auras, although Ai still has not been able to figure out more than two words of his Aura Code. This has had little to no bearing on his overall aura strength. At the peak of his power, he is able to use the light aura to show an opponent's deepest secrets as he did with Tokimitsu in their final battle.

Myuu (ミュウ Myū?) Voiced by: Tsugumi Higasayama
Myuu (or Mew) wields the aura power of fire. She is afraid of the rain to the point she will miss days of school when it is raining and possibly suffer panic attacks if forced to be out in the rain. She is distant, even to the point of slight rudeness, because of a traumatic experience in her past: during her childhood, her mother was killed during an Aura experiment. The explosion caused the lab sprinklers to go off, showering her shocked self with water; this caused her dislike for rain.

With her friendship with Orina and Ai she slowly begins to warm up. Myu shares a bond from childhood with Ai, though neither of them realize this bond at first. It has also been revealed later on that at least one reason for her enormous aura strength is that her father, an ambitious Aura scientist, has artificially altered - possibly even artificially awakened - her Aura code. These make her stronger but also make it dangerous for her to use her powers, because when she uses them, she risks possibly dying. She both fears and dislikes her father intensely for it. In the final volume of the series, she passes away after admitting to Ai her feelings for him. Though she is dead, she is still able to visit Ai in the Para Dream.

Orina (織奈?) Voiced by: Rie Tanaka
Orina, also known as Sara (which is her Aura code name), is a childhood friend of Ai who still holds strong feelings for him. The two have shared a romantic relationship which sometimes shows as a love triangle between Orina, Ai and Myuu. Orina's Aura is Water, which she usually employs for healing. Orina has a generally sweet demeanor, though she can be somewhat overbearing and pushy when she wants to be. She seems quite immature sometimes, but she handles Ai's moods much easier than everyone else, and can even calm him down when other people cannot. Despite Mew's feelings for Ai, Orina is close friends with her and rarely displays jealousy toward Mew. She was initially rather mistrustful of Fafa however.

Zero Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya
Zerodaimu Kyupura Pa Azaraku Vairu Rua Darogu is a famous psychic known as the "Vanquisher of the Dark Overlord". He is the older brother of Ai Shiomi. Zero is also an instructor for Psychic Academy, though he seems to spend more time acting as protector for his little brother than he does teaching classes. His Aura specialty is Steel. At the end of the story, together with Shiomi, he travels around the world to awaken the children of the Aura.

Faafa/Ren Voiced by: Reiko Takagi
A brother and sister sharing the same body. Faafa was incarcerated at the Aura Development Center in the United States. Ren, in an attempt to free Faafa, attacked the center. In the ensuing destruction, Ren died and Faafa was critically injured. A heart transplant from Ren's body allowed Faafa to survive, while implanting a piece of Ren's aura in her body. As a result, the two share one body, similar to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. However, in the para-dream, both Ren and Faafa have their own unique bodies. Fafa's Aura is ice, while Ren's is lava.

Boo Velka Receptor Arba (ブウ Bū?) Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba
Also know as Buu in the manga. Boo is a rabbit with very strong Aura powers who attaches himself to Ai as Ai's "Master", believing Ai to be one of the next great "Aura Masters", and it is through "Master Boo's" training and help that Ai first starts to discover how to use some of his own Aura power, and learn it rather quickly and expertly. Boo's Aura specialty are Crystals.

Tokimitsu Shinano (unknown?) Voiced by: None
Tokimitsu shares much in common with Ai in that both of their aura codes start off undefined. Later, it is revealed that Tokimitsu carries the gravity, or "dark" aura. Tokimitsu later takes on the name Gyurazu after his aura code. He is capabale of drawing aura energy out of aura carriers, sometimes killing them outright and leaving their bodies as dried mummies.

Tokimitsu is a pet project of the Aura Development Center. He is obsessed with gaining power and becoming "complete" by having Ai's light aura coded into him. He currently is without aura power after facing the full power of Ai's aura. He is the only one to have done so, and it is he that first names Ai as an aura master.

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