Tsukuyomi – Moon Phase
Tsukuyomi - Moon Phase (Japanese月 咏-MOON PHASE ) is a manga by Keitaro Arima, who was also implemented as an anime television series. The main character Hazuki is a young vampire girl with a fondness for Lolita style.
Action
Morioka Kohei want to be a photographer, but he has the misfortune is that unwanted spirits can be seen in the photographs. One day he visited, on behalf of the " magazine for Supernatural ", an old castle in Germany, more precisely in the Black Forest. He has to make the job Photos of supernatural events. Although he can not see this, you can see this then his photographs. One night he sees there a vampire girl. When he photographed, he then notes that they do not appear in the photo, so he decides once more to see. So he goes back to the castle and tries to get into this. However, he is the only one which can go in there, because it is protected with an invisible magical barrier that leaves no one in or out. He can penetrate this because it is insensitive to magical and spiritual things. In the castle he again meets the vampire girl. She calls him onii - sama ( revered elder brother ) and introduces himself by the name of Hazuki. She is originally from Japan, but they do not want to tell, which makes them in Germany. He finds out that Hazuki is held against their will in this castle. She tries to make Kohei to her servant, by sucking his blood. Then he will destroy the subject matter which it holds in the lock. While Kohei is immune to the vampire curse, he helps her to escape. Hazuki can successfully escape from the castle and leaves it in the direction of Japan, in order to seek her mother.
When she arrives in Japan, she goes to Kōheis house where he lives with his grandfather. This allows that Hazuki must live with them. Due to his own childhood experience, Kohei Hazuki decides to help them in their task.
However, try other vampires, as Elfriede and Count Kinkell to retrieve Hazuki from Japan. They stop at nothing.
Characters
Hazuki (叶 月) is a young vampire girl. It is rather naive, but exactly does she so adorable. It has the ability to look into the eyes of a person to perform mind control. So the person placing an order, which it then runs without will. She also has a second personality named Luna, who only comes to the fore when the moon is full. Luna is a serious and dark character who is in contrast to Hazukis happy nature.
Kohei Morioka (森丘 耕 平) a photographer who spirits and souls for a magazine about Supernatural is photographed. He is quite insensitive to supernatural things, which makes him almost invulnerable against it. In addition, he is also immune to Hazukis mind control. He lives with his grandfather.
Hiromi Anzai (安西 裕美) is an employee of Kohei in a magazine for supernatural things. She is quite young, attractive and apparently developed feelings for Seiji Mido.
Ryuhei Mido (御堂 竜 平) is the grandfather of Kohei and a powerful spirits Lore. He lives with Kohei and Hazuki and operates an antique shop. Later, he developed a close relationship with Elfriede.
Elfrida (エルフリーデ, Erufurīde ) is also a vampire like Hazuki. She was sent to bring Hazuki to back to go to the castle, from which they fled. She is a servant of Count Kinkell.
Heidi (ハイジ, Haiji ) is the guardian spirit of Hazuki. It is only about the size of a doll and can be transformed into a normal cat.
Kinkell (キンケル, Kinkeru ) is a vampire Count, which has a mandate to bring Hazuki back into the castle.
Hikaru Mido (御堂 光) is the cousin of Kohei and engaged with Seiji. She constantly tries to help her sister Kaoru to be noticed by her fiance Kohei more. Therefore, it should also be understood not good with Hazuki. However, their relationship improved with the progression of the plot. As she is the Mido clan, it has received a priestly education and the appropriate magical abilities.
Kaoru Mido (御堂 薫) is the twin sister of Hikaru and fiancée of Kohei. She is sensitive to very quiet, which is why Kohei she hardly noticed. However, they tried to support her sister, to get his attention again and again. She, like her sister magical abilities.
Seiji Mido (御堂 成 児) is also an employee of Kohei and Hiromi. He has skills in dealing with supernatural and spiritual powers. He is also resistant to the charms of Hazuki, so she can not control it with her mind control.
Art played later on in the story. It is the little half-sister of Hazuki. With full name is Artemis. She hates Hazuki because her due to her father's attention and kind lonely.
Publications
Manga
The manga was published from September 1999 to January 2009 in the magazine Comic Gum. From April 2000 to March 2009 he was summarized in 16 anthologies ( tankōbon ).
The manga has been published among others in the United States at Tokyopop.
Anime
2004, a 26- episode anime television series was produced and directed by Akiyuki Shinbo. This Masahiro Aizawa designed the character design and Satoru Kuwabara took over the artistic direction. Tsukuyomi - Moon phase was October 5, 2004 to March 29, 2005 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous TV day ) shown in the Japanese television station TV Tokyo program. By 5 days offset parallel he also ran on TV Osaka.
2007, the series was broadcast in English by the transmitter Anime Selects and AZN Television. In addition, the anime was released by Revelation Films and Madman Entertainment.
Synchronization
Music
The biasing song of the series Neko Mimi Mode was composed by the Greek- French DJ and producer Dimitri From Paris and sung by " Chiwa Saito played Hazuki ". The episodes 9 and 14 used Tsuku Yomi fashion by the same composer and the same singer but Chiwa Saito played dubbed Luna here. The last two episodes had no bias. Both were released on 21 October 2004 on a single, reached number 26 on the Oricon chart and stayed there six weeks.
As credits title was mainly Kanashii Yokan (悲しい 予感), texted and composed by Yukari Hashimoto and sung by " marianne Amplifier feat. yuka " used. The episodes 1-2, 9, 14 and 19 pressentiment used triste, which is a French-language version of Kanashii Yokan. For Nami no Toriko Episode 7 ni naru yō ni (波 の トリコ に なる よう に) was used. The last two episodes used Neko Mimi Mode in the credits. Episode 17 has no closing credits. On the DVD release was for the 19th episode instead pressentiment triste the piece Just for my love used which composed by Katsutoshi Kitagawa Eriko and Itō was texted both of which form the duo Round Table. Sung it was of the " Miko Twins" ie May Kadowaki in their role as Hikaru Mido and Miyu Matsuki Kaoru as Mido. Kanashii Yokan was on 21 November 2004 also released as a single with Nami no Toriko ni naru ni yō as a B- side, but only reached number 86 and stayed 3 weeks.
The full soundtrack called Tsukiyomi - Moon Phase Best Collection " Zembu, Kikitaku Natchatta ... " ( 「月 咏-MOON PHASE 」 BEST COLLECTION 「全部,聴き たく なっ ちゃっ た.... 」 ) Was published on 21 January 2005. Addition of this, but there is a limited edition, which includes a second CD that contains a different version of Neko Mimi Mode and 21 tracks with about four to five seconds long speech snippets.