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Tactics (タクティクス) is a Manga series collaborated between Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama. It is serialized and currently running in Comic Blade Masamune. Sakura Kinoshita supplied the character "Kantarou", and Kazuko Higashiyama supplied the character "Haruka". The manga was released in North America by ADV Manga in 2004 . STORY Ever since he was born, Kantarou has had the 6th sense to see demons, and has become friends with them. One day a Youkai told him about an Oni -eating Tengu , and ever since then Kantarou has been in search of it, and one day, on a youkaibusting case, finds him. He then names the Tengu "Haruka", and in naming him forces the Tengu to be his servant. Characters
ADV Manga Not unlike ADV Manga 's licensed English releases of Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok , only two volumes of Tactics have been produced by the company. These volumes were produced on a seemingly erractic schedule, with the first volume released on October 26 , 2004 , and the second volume released on May 24 , 2005 . The release of newer volumes has been put into much speculation, as ADV Manga currently does not have the manga listed on their official website. However, there are rumors of the delay being mostly due to a large layoff period in the company's history. Translation Many people were confused when ADV Manga changed Sugino's gender to a 'she' and Muu-chan's gender to a 'he'. Some people felt that it was wrong to change Sugino's gender, because it affects how the relationships between Sugino and other people, and Muu-chan to other people look like. ANIME The animation studio Studio DEEN adapted the Manga of Tactics into a 25-episode Anime series, which ran on Japanese television from October 5 , 2004 to March 29 , 2005 . Opening Theme "Secret World" by MIKI Ending Theme "Mienai Chikara" by Akiyama Miki Plot Summary Ever since he was little, Kantarou (or Kan-chan as Youko calls him) has always been able to see and talk with youkai, and he swore that he would find the famous oni-eating Tengu and become friends with it. His search takes years as he endures the persistency of his editor to finish the latest manuscript and the nagging of Youko, but finally he manages to meet with the oni-eating Tengu and names him Haruka, thus binding him to his service. (In Tactics, a demon cannot go against the will of the person who gave it its name.) Now, as a famous ethnologist and 'youkai buster' on the side, along with Youko and Haruka, Kan-chan works to exorcise various youkai and oni that cause people trouble. However, as Haruka's sealed past catches up with them all, it will take more than a few exorcised demons to get them through these troubled times. CD Season 1 will come out at June 27th of 2006 Japanese Staff Director: Hiroshi Watanabe Series Composition: Kenichi Kanemaki Dubbing Director: Kazuhiko Inoue Script: Kanemaki Kenichi Screenplay: Hiroyuki Kawasaki Katsuhiko Takayama Masashi Kubota Masashi Suzuki Storyboard: Chiaki Ima Hiroshi Watanabe Masashi Kojima Mitsuko Oyake Shinpei Miyashita Episode Director: Chiaki Ima Hiroshi Watanabe Shigeru Ueda Music: Kei Haneoka Character Design: Mariko Oka Art Director: Michiyo Akutsu Chief Animation Director: Mariko Oka Animation Director: Minefumi Harada Miyako Tsuji Youichi Ishikawa Yukiko Ban Director of Photography: Akio Abe Japanese Cast Kouki Miyata ''as'' Kantarou Takahiro Sakurai ''as'' Haruka Tomoko Kawakami ''as'' Youko Nana Mizuki ''as'' Suzu Soichiro Hoshi ''as'' Sugino Omi Minami ''as'' Muu-chan ORIGINAL DOUJINSHI BY MAD COOKIE MONSTER Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama form a Doujinshi circle called Mad Cookie Monster. They individually go by the pseudonyms Wasabi Katsuo and Wasabi Maguro, respectively. This circle has released many doujinshi for their own series, including Tactics, some of them containing explicit Yaoi pornography. One of the rarest and best known of these titles is "Love Sick," a 72-page doujinshi containing an illustrated short novel and an explict Yaoi comic, featuring the pairing Haruka x Kantarou. Mad Cookie Monster has also produced fan comics for other series, including Harukanaru Toki no Naka De. EXTERNAL LINKS
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