Ja Kanji: | 八雲立つ |
Ja Romaji: | Yakumo Tatsu |
Type: | manga |
Author: | Natsumi Itsuki |
Publisher: | Hakusensha |
Demographic: | Shōjo |
Magazine: | LaLa |
First: | October 19, 1992 |
Last: | November 5, 2002 |
Volumes: | 19 |
Type: | ova |
Director: | Tomomi Mochizuki |
Music: | Hajime Mizoguchi |
Studio: | Bandai Visual, Studio Pierrot |
First: | October 25, 1997 |
Last: | November 25, 1997 |
Episodes: | 2 |
Type: | manga |
Yakumo Tatsu: Arata | |
Author: | Natsumi Itsuki |
Publisher: | Hakusensha |
Demographic: | Josei |
Magazine: | Melody |
First: | February 28, 2018 |
Volumes: | 8 |
is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Natsumi Itsuki. It won the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.[1] It was adapted in 1997 into an OVA series.
Kuraki Fuzuchi is a handsome and quiet young man who has immense psychic powers and sword skills. He meets Takeo Nanachi, a college student with similar powers.
The story opens with Nanachi traveling to a small shrine in the mountains to purify his deceased grandfather's sword in a festival that only occurs every 49 years. There he meets Kuraki and later accidentally stumbles upon Kuraki's initiation ritual as a Shaman. From there on, their lives are inexplicitly intertwined as they encounter ghosts, spirits, demons, and other characters with supernatural powers while the author provides a parallel running story depicting their previous life.