Kyousougiga

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京騒戯画
Kyousougiga
Promotional image featuring, counter clockwise, the protagonist, Koto, Inuyama the dog, Head priest Yakushimaru, Kurama, Shoko, A and Un, Yase and her posse, and Lady Koto.
Genre	Science Fiction, Fantasy
Original net animation
Directed by	Rie Matsumoto
Produced by	Satoshi Kitamura
Written by	Miho Maruo
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	December 6, 2011
Runtime	26 minutes
Manga
Written by	Izumi Todo
Illustrated by	Merche
Published by	ASCII Media Works
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Dengeki Maoh
Original run	February 2012 – ongoing
Original net animation
Directed by	Rie Matsumoto
Produced by	Satoshi Kitamura
Written by	Miho Maruo
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	August 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012
Runtime	7-12 minutes
Episodes	5
Anime television series
Directed by	Rie Matsumoto
Produced by	Satoshi Kitamura
Written by	Rie Matsumoto Izumi Todo
Music by	Gō Shiina
Studio	Toei Animation
Network	Tokyo MX, BS Asahi
Original run	October 2, 2013 – December 25, 2013
Episodes	10 + 3 extras

Kyousougiga (京騒戯画, Kyōsōgiga, lit. Capital Craze Comic) is an original net animation created by Izumi Todo and produced by Toei Animation in collaboration with Banpresto. The animation was released on Nico Nico Douga on December 6, 2011, followed by a release on Youtube on December 10, 2011.^[1] Five additional episodes were streamed between August 31, 2012 and December 22, 2012.^[2]^[3]^[4] A television anime series began airing in October 2013.^[5] The series is named after the Chōjū-giga scrolls.

Plot

Main article: List of Kyousougiga episodes

Long ago a priest, high priest Myōe, had the ability to make anything he wrote come to life. This ability scared the villagers, and made him an outcast. In his mountain home he drew a variety of things, not least of which was a surreal town called Kyoto (鏡都, lit. Mirror Capital). One of his drawings, a rabbit named Koto, whom he drew as the God of the Mirror Capital, comes to life upon striking a deal with a Bodhisattva. Lady Koto manages to win the love of Myōe. After finding a war orphan and taking him under their wing as an adoptive child, the family dimension hop to Kyoto for a better life. Myōe draws the son, Yakushimaru, two siblings, Yase, and Kurama. The five of them live happily together until Lady Koto, having fulfilled her end of the deal with the Buddhavista, has to be taken away. With their time as a family at its end, Myōe leaves Yakushimaru his title, and his prayer beads, telling him that he will return with the beginning and the end in tow.

Years later Yakushimaru runs Kyoto as part of the Council of Three with Yase and Kurama as they await the return of their mother and father, a girl who bears resplendence to both Myōe and Koto, who's name is also Koto, finds her way into Kyoto, a feat never achieved. Koto spends her days in Kyoto living with Myōe, searching for a way to return home, while also trying to find clues about her own family. Eventually Kurama manages to hatch a plan with the use of Bishimaru and Koto to force open the gate leading to Kyoto, allowing Lady Koto to return. Her return however threatens to destroy the entire multiverse, and gains negative attention of the Shrine, a mysterious organization that acts to keep the peace of the multiverse.

Characters

Koto (コト): Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya; The main protagonist, a 14-year-old girl who fights with a variable size hammer. Koto is a hyperactive girl who is searching for an black rabbit in order to return home with her familiars, while also searching for clues that will reunite her with her family. She spent her childhood as a student in the Shrine, and is very adept at combat.
A (阿) and Un (吽): Voiced by: Hidaka Noriko (A), Ryoko Shiraishi (Un); A and Un are Koto's familiars whom she inherited from her master. Their name means 'the beginning' and 'the end'. She refers both as "Ah-un". Apparently, they're twins. A, like Koto, is hyperactive, while Un, on the other hand, is much more reserved. They both appear as chibi middle school students, but can transform into red and blue monsters who can fly and possess supernatural strength.

Myōe (明恵) / Yakushimaru (薬師丸): Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura, Chiwa Saito (young); A young Buddhist monk who looks after Koto and her familiars while waiting for his adopted father and mother, the original Myōe, and Lady Koto, to return. Before Myōe found him, Yakushimaru had committed suicide upon the death of his family. Inari's drew him a pomegranate that bestowed him with immortality. His attitude is not as pious as his appearance. Yakushimaru is his real name before he is granted the title of Myōe. He is one of the members of the Council of Three.

Yase (八瀬): Voiced by: Eri Kitamura; An oni who often hosts tea parties at her estate in the forbidden zone outside of the city. Though generally having the appearance of a polite, refined and very wealthy young lady, she will shape shift into a raging monster if she becomes irritated. Yase is one of the members of the Council of Three. She is originally a drawing by the original Myōe.

Kurama (鞍馬): Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara, Ryoko Shiraishi (young); An elderly looking Buddha who is usually seen levitating on a large sake saucer. Kurama carries out most administrative duties in Kyoto. As a child Karuma wished to see the world outside of Kyoto, but Myōe, knowing how humans might treat Kurama, forbade it. For this reason Kurama actively seeks to find a way out of Kyoto. Kurama is Shoko's boss and one of the members of the Council of Three. He is originally a drawing by the original Myōe.

Professor Shoko (ショーコ博士, Shōko Hakase): Voiced by: Chiwa Saito; A young girl who wears goggles and a white lab coat. She is under Kurama and is in charge of safekeeping Bishimaru, the adamant giant. Shoko is head of Kyoto's forces, who are all drone like men who wear white suits and resemble mafia. She is cocky and often uses her authority in large and obstructive ways, such as mobilizing her entire force and blockading much of Kyoto to find the replaceable controller for Bishimaru. Shoko also dislikes Koto, or anyone who disrespects her authority, or touches anything of hers.

Fushimi (伏見): Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto; Shoko's assistant. Fushimi putting up with Shoko's antics and tantrum. He is also a close friend and confide of Kurama.

Myōe (明恵)

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

A priest with the strange ability to make anything he draws come to life. Myōe is a caring, but socially awkward man. Myōe moves into the mountains and eventually into mirror Kyoto before he has to leave his family. Little is known of what happens to Myōe after leaving Kyoto. He looks like an older Inari.

Lady Koto (古都, Koto): Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa; A black rabbit born from the original Myōe's drawings who fell in love with him and accepted the offer of a female Bodhisattva to lend her a human body in order to confess her feelings for him. She then lived with Myōe and adopted Yakushimaru. She also took Yase and Kurama as her children and together, they moved to the mirror Kyoto. Koto eventually has to be confined to a desolate moon for fear of what may happen as a result of not returning her body to the bodhisattva. She shares the same name as Koto.

Inari (稲荷)

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

Koto's father and teacher. He wears a fox mask and carries a very decorated katana. Inari is very secretive about his past and about Kotos mother. He looks like a younger Myōe.

Media

Anime

Manga

A manga adaptation illustrated by Merche began serialization in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Maoh magazine in February 2012.

Video games

Koto and Yase appear as playable characters in the crossover strategy game, Super Heroine Chronicle, to be released by Namco Bandai Games for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.^[6]

References

External links

Official original net animation website (Japanese)
Official TV series website (Japanese)
Kyousougiga (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- ANN review

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