Kamichu! is a Japanese anime television series, strongly influenced by the Shinto religion  

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Kamichu! (かみちゅ!?) is a Japanese anime television series, strongly influenced by the Shinto religion, that follows the adventures of teenage goddess Yurie Hitotsubashi and her friends. The title is short for Kamisama de Chūgakusei (かみさまでちゅうがくせい?, lit. "A Deity As a Middle-School Student"). The series was created by Besame Mucho (ベサメムーチョ, Besamemūcho?), which is the joint pen name of Tomonori Ochiai, Koji Masunari, and Hideyuki Kurata. It was broadcast by the anime television network Animax on its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, where it received its first English-language broadcast.
The series was adapted as a manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh, a shōnen manga magazine, and collected in two tankōbon volumes.
At the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival, Kamichu! received an Excellence Prize for animation.[1]
On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment will still retain the license, Funimation Entertainment will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Kamichu! was one of several titles involved in the deal








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The Kamichama Karin manga series has been released into a total of seven full volumes  















































Manga
The Kamichama Karin manga series has been released into a total of seven full volumes. Koge-Donbo admits in volume one at how the point of Karin's "I am God" was to have her say something stupid and how the manga started was as a gag. Kamichama Karin was originally going to be a two chapter one-shot manga, according to Koge-Donbo. Due to its unexpected popularity, she continued the story. The story continues on in a sequel series Kamichama Karin Chu. again with seven volumes in regular special edition volumes released in Japan. The special edition volumes include the same basic content as the regular editions but include additional content making them highly valuable to manga collectors. The special editions feature different cover artwork including a gold foiled logo on a clear plastic dust jacket. Each special volume is accompanied by booklets which contain whole extra chapters to the story (usually the information in these extra chapters is supplementary, and not critical, to the main story).

Sequel
The adventure continues in Kamichama Karin Chu with the main cast now in the eighth grade. As Kazune comes back from his trip to England, Karin and the gang are back together again. Karin and the gang travel through time, along with a new comrade: a celebrity named Jin Kuga, fighting a new enemy, the Seeds of Chaos. Besides Jin, there are two more (known) new characters: Rika Karasuma and Suzune Kujyou. Rika is later revealed to be the Himeka Karasuma from the future. Suzune is a little boy, actually Karin and Kazune's future child, that appears to Karin to warn her of the danger. And to Jin, Karin is apparently "his goddess". Jin and Kazune fight over Karin once in a while. Himeka Kujyou goes to England to study abroad. However, she comes back, and meets Rika Karasuma, who is actually the other Himeka from the future. She is the antagonist.
In the sequel Karin's fate has been altered, and she must hurry to save her future with Kazune Kujou. In a dream, the future Karin speaks to Karin, telling her that in the future, Micchi will lose his life, Jin will lose his memory, and Kazune will lose all his power and eventually die. Karin cries out that it won't happen, but she has woken up.
Karin also got a new upgrade in her hair style. In volume 7, when she Transformed with Michiru's (Michii) ring, she gained two little white angel-wing looking clips with her original hair balls. She wears them normally, starting in chapter 1 of 'Kamichama Karin Chu'.
Del Rey Manga released volume one of the 'Kamichama Karin Chu' manga on June 24, 2008.[1] Volume two of the 'Kamichama Karin Chu' manga was released on September 30, 2008, Volume 3 was released on January 27, 2009, Volume 4 was released on April 28, 2009, and Volume 5 will be released on July 28, 2009 by Del Rey Manga.[2]

Anime
See also: List of Kamichama Karin episodes
An anime of Kamichama Karin debuted in Japan on April 6, 2007. Animation was done by the animation studio Satelight. The story starts off in Kamichama Karin Chu, the sequel to Kamichama Karin. Karin and Suzune are running through a park when Rika attacks Karin. Karin's Chronos Clock (which has the power to time-travel) gets the Seed of Chaos implanted into it and brings her to the first time she met Kazune at Shii-chan's grave. After that, the events follow the storyline of the manga. Kamichama Karin was shown in Japan every Saturday. An original soundtrack has been released.

Theme songs
Opening theme
"Ankoku Tengoku" (暗黒天国, Darkness Heaven?) by Ali Project
Ending themes
"Anemone" (アネモネ?) by Mai Nakahara
"Kūchū Meiro" (空中迷路, Labyrinth in the Sky?) by Marble








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Kamichama Karin (Mini-goddess Karin) is a Japanese manga originally written by Koge-Donbo  















































Kamichama Karin (かみちゃまかりん?, lit. Mini-goddess Karin) is a Japanese manga originally written by Koge-Donbo about a seventh grade girl named Karin who finds out that she can transform into a goddess. The series began as a manga first serialized in January 2003. Kamichama Karin was serialized in the Japanese shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi and published by Kodansha. While the first manga series ended at seven bound volumes, a second entitled Kamichama Karin Chu began serialization in the same magazine in July 2006, and as of April 2008, the series end with seven bound volumes being released.The first one came into the stores on June 24,2008. Kamichama Karin has been licensed in the U.S. and Canada by Tokyopop. An anime series based on the original manga began airing in Japan on April 6, 2007 on TV Tokyo produced by the animation studio Satelight and directed by Takashi Anno.

Karin Hanazono (花園 花鈴, Hanazono Karin?)
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara
Karin is the protagonist of the series. Her name literally means "The Flower Bell of the Flower Garden," with the "Flower Garden" as her surname and "Flower Bell" as her given name. Karin used to live with her aunt because her parents died a long time ago, but she moved in with Kazune and Himeka after they found out about her goddess powers. She is an outgoing person, even though she does bad in school and sticks up for her friends. She had a cat named Shii-chan that passed away in the beginning of the first series. In the first series, she has recently ended 6th grade and starts 7th in volume 1, and is 13(?) years old. In Chu she is in 8th grade and is 14 years old(Stated in volume 1 of Chu). The ring Karin originally thought was her mother's ring allows her to borrow godly power. Her ring is silver and has the power of the goddess Athena (Aphrodite in Chu). It is later revealed in the later volumes of the manga that Karin is actually Kazune Kujyou's wife, Suzuka Kujyou,(Suzuka is Karin backwards, since suzu is another way to read the character rin), which was stated in Volume 7 that Karin was returned to an infant by Kazune Kujyou. They end up together and will end up loving each other with out them knowing at first in the beginning of the anime.
Kazune Kujyou (九条 和音, Kujō Kazune?)
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
Kazune is the main male protagonist. His ring has the power of Apollo Greek god of sun (in the sequel, he has a different ring with the power of Uranus). He is in 8th grade. While he acts cool during much of the story, Himeka states that in the past, he was weak and cried frequently, only becoming his present self when he turned ten years old, after knowing who he was. While Himeka loves bugs, Kazune hates and fears them; in Kamichama Karin, Himeka reveals that Kazune's fear of bugs developed when he and Himeka ran into a giant bug when he was little (which, ironically, was Karin in a bug suit). Even though he is a clone of professor Kazuto Kujyou, he is incomplete and passes out after transforming in god form. He often speaks to Karin in a way that she deems sexist, talking about things like the inherent stupidity or weakness of girls (this is used against him in Chu when Jin calls him a 'girly boy') Kazune is in love with Karin (and tells Michiru such), and has known since the age of ten that Karin is his wife, Suzuka. He himself is the clone of his "father". The older Kazune, Kazuto, put his reseach in Himeka, and then split them in half to protect his work from his former partner, Karasuma Kirihiko.
In Chu, Karin's and his son, Suzune come from the future. He warns them that Kazune goes missing in the future , and later it is discovered that he actually died soon after Suzune was born.
Himeka Kujyou (九条 姫香, Kujyou Himeka?)
Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya
Himeka is Karin's friend and Kazune's "cousin". She is also Suzune's "sister" due to the fact that she is the child of Suzuka and Kazuto. Originally she contained Kazuto's god reseach data, she was then split into two by Kirihiko attempting to steal the research data. One half lives with Kazune, while the other lives with the Karasumas. When one Himeka becomes stronger, the other becomes weaker. Since she was a young girl, she has always defended Kazune, who was a bit of a crybaby when they were little. She loves bugs and is a good cook. She is in 8th grade. Like Karin, she does poorly in school. It is later revealed that she is Kazuto and Suzuka's daughter. She tells Karin at one point that while she has a strong affection for Kazune, it is not necessarily a romantic attachment, as Kazune is "kind of like a brother and kind of like a dad" to Himeka (referencing
Kazune's identity as a clone of Himeka's father). She also witnessed Kazune and Karin kissing in the anime. Later in the series, Kazune says that Himeka is his daughter (along with Karin in Kamichama Karin 7).
Kirio Karasuma (烏丸 キリオ, Karasuma Kirio?)
Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma
Kirio is the main antagonist. He and Kirika are adopted by Kirihiko while they were children. He is the student council president of Sakuragaoka Academy. He tests the protagonists and fights them outside the campus. Karin refers to him as "Mr. Glasses Man" (meganekko), "Four eyes-san" or "Glasses Guy". His only true relative is his twin sister Kirika, but he does have another "sister" by the name of Himeka. In the anime, he is a running gag character; often leaving before ever winning and revealing his plot to Karin and the others while they didn't know, thinking they did. His ring has the powers of the god Ares. Later in the series, his ring is destroyed by Kazune. He then gets possessed by his father, Kirihiko, by the Zeus ring he wore after his broke, but in the end Karin and Kazune saved him.(episode 26) He then returns in Chu. Now, with the other Himeka, he is trying to create a new Zeus ring using the 'seed of chaos',in order to save the future Kirika who is sick. To do that, he has to revive his father, whom currently resides within Kuga Jin.
Michiru Nishikiori (錦織 みちる, Nishikiori Michiru?)
Voiced by: Akira Ishida
Michiru or Micchi is a fellow student of Karin and at one time lived with her, Kazune and Himeka. He was from England. When he was little, he was involved in an accident that killed his parents and crushed his left eye beyond repair, and almost died. But Kazuto made an eye for Michiru, and saved his life. Since he was in the hospital for a year, he is a year older than Karin, Kazune, and Himeka. Michiru shares a close bond to Kazune, because he first thought of him as Kazuto, and still respects Kazune. In the manga, Michiru's friend Ami brought a notebook containing information about Himeka for Kazune to read. Michiru is a bit a pervert around Karin, and in the manga, he stole Karin's first kiss. In Chu, his transformation is the god Neptune .








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Kannagi began as a manga series written and illustrated by Eri Takenashi and began serialization in the first issue of Ichijinsha's shōnen manga magaz  



























































Manga
See also: List of Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens chapters
Kannagi began as a manga series written and illustrated by Eri Takenashi and began serialization in the first issue of Ichijinsha's shōnen manga magazine Comic Rex on December 9, 2005. The first bound volume was released on August 9, 2006 under Ichijinsha's Rex Comics imprint, and as of November 8, 2008, six volumes have been released in Japan. Each volume comes bundled with a pin-up drawn in collaboration of Takenashi with another prominent artist. The artists for the first six pin-ups were Takashi Takeuchi (of Type-Moon), Ryukishi07 (of 07th Expansion), Itaru Hinoue (of Key), Yun Kōga (artist of Loveless), Ume Aoki (artist of Sunshine Sketch), and Zekkyō (artist of Toradora! manga), respectively.[1]
In the January 2009 issue of Comic Rex, the editors made a statement that the manga will be on hiatus due to concern about the author's health problem.[2] The installment of the manga just prior to the author's illness caused some fan controversy, but was not linked to her illness. The author underwent surgery on December 12, 2008 and is currently recovering.[3]

Internet radio show
An Internet radio show to promote the anime series started distribution with the first broadcast on June 11, 2008 and is hosted by Haruka Tomatsu (who plays Nagi in the anime), Hideyuki Kurata (the anime's screenwriter), and Yutaka Yamamoto (the anime's director). The broadcasts are distributed on the anime's official website.[4]

Anime
See also: List of Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens episodes
An anime adaptation was produced by the animation studio A-1 Pictures, directed by Yutaka Yamamoto, and the screenplay is written by Hideyuki Kurata. The anime aired in Japan between October 4 and December 27, 2008, containing thirteen episodes.[5] The anime was dropped by the satellite channel BS11 Digital before it started airing; no explanation was given.[6] An original video animation episode was shipped with the final DVD volume on May 27, 2009. Bandai Entertainment licensed the anime and released the first of two seven-episode DVD compilation volumes on July 17, 2009. The second volume will ship on September 24, 2009.[7]

Light novel
A light novel written by Tōka Takei, with illustrations by Eri Takenashi and Kasumu Kirino was published by Ichijinsha under their Ichijinsha Bunko imprint on December 20, 2008.







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Kannagi: (Shrine maiden) Crazy Shrine Maidens, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Eri Takenashi.  

















































































Kannagi: (かんなぎ?, lit. Shrine maiden) Crazy Shrine Maidens, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Eri Takenashi. The manga began serialization in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Comic Rex on December 9, 2005, published by Ichijinsha. An anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures first aired in October 2008 in Japan.
Main characters
Nagi (ナギ?)
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu
Nagi is a goddess who wakes up after years of slumber with Jin's unexpected help. Her mission as a deity is to cleanse the impurities of the world, but as her powers have weakened over time due to her sacred tree being cut down, her body is easily harmed by them. She ends up having to do it with the help of Jin and brandishing an improvised exorcist staff created using a magical girl-themed toy baton.
Kannagi (かんなぎ?)
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu
A different personality that exists inside Nagi. She seems to be the only one who knows about Nagi's real identity. When she descends upon Nagi's body, the process cannot last very long as it consumes a significant amount of energy, though this can be prolonged by using another person's body heat.
Jin Mikuriya (御厨 仁, Mikuriya Jin?)
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono
After using a part of a fallen sacred tree to make a sculpture of a girl, he inadvertently brings Nagi back to life. Since then, Nagi lives in his house and counts on his help to hunt down the impurities (as he is able to catch them with his bare hands), a task impossible to Nagi due to her weakened state. Later, when Nagi was frustrated by being uncertain about her own identity, Jin decides to assist Nagi to trace back her origin. He enjoys Worcester sauce on a slice of bread or a bowl of rice.
Tsugumi Aoba (青葉 つぐみ, Aoba Tsugumi?)
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
Tsugumi is Jin's childhood friend who harbors a crush on him. She is concerned about Jin living alone with another girl despite Nagi fabricating a story about being his half-sister.
Zange (ざんげ?)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
Another goddess and Nagi's twin sister. Unlike Nagi's, Zange's tree is still intact and located in a church's courtyard, thus she is still able to catch and cleanse impurities by herself. The fact that she switched her character to that of a Catholic nun, as it is a stronger religion nowadays according to her, contributed to her divinity staying intact. Despite seemingly being kind and caring on the outside, she usually takes advantage of Nagi's weakened state to torment her. The word zange in Japanese means 'penitence' or 'confession'.
Hakua Suzushiro (涼城 白亜, Suzushiro Hakua?)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
Hakua is a girl from Jin's school possessed by Zange. Since childhood, Hakua was able to see spiritual images around her and her body has been very susceptible to spiritual possession. As other children considered her ability very odd, she had trouble interacting with children of her age. When she was still a child, she makes a friend with Jin during a summer camp, who did not consider her ability strange as he also possessed a strong spiritual sense. However, in the current storyline, Jin doesn't seem to remember well about his encounter with Hakua in the past. Since then, Hakua has not been able to go outside her house and she compared herself to a "princess locked up in a castle". Just before Hakua attempted to commit suicide due to depression, she "willingly accepted" Zange to be her host. However Nagi claims that despite this, it may put too much stress into her body. Both Zange and Hakua develop a liking for Jin and decide to bring him to their side.










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