The Irregular At Magic High School · Anime, manga, and games

5d ago

Reborn!, Irregular at Magic High School, Duel Masters Creators Team on Horo-Beat Manga

Shogakukan's Monthly Coro Coro Comics magazine launched a new manga titled Horo-Beat on Friday, May 15. The first chapter runs 66 pages. The project brings together creators from three major franchises. Duel Masters creator Shigenobu Matsumoto is credited with the original work and handles storyboard composition. The Irregular at Magic High School light novel author Tsutomu Satou is cooperating on the scenario. Reborn! creator Akira Amano provides the original character designs. Akira Tsuruta is drawing the manga. The story is described as a "thrilling tag-team battle" manga featuring yokai and humans fighting together. It centers on Jin Narumi, a second-year middle school student who can see monsters, yokai, devils, and ghosts. He visits his friend Hinata at her temple every morning, which is overrun by these creatures. Hinata cannot see them and does not take Jin's concerns seriously. When a giant yokai attacks them, Hinata is knocked unconscious and Jin is near death. Hinata's temple cat Leo transforms into a raiju beast, and Jin teams up with Leo to defeat the yokai and save Hinata.

6d ago

Irregular at Magic High School Film Opens at #5 in Japan

The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc - debuted at #5 in its opening weekend at the Japanese box office, according to Kogyo Tsushin. The film sold about 89,000 tickets and earned 152,764,200 yen (about US$967,100) in its first three days. Jimmy Stone directed the film at studio 8-Bit, with Taku Iwasaki composing the music. Returning cast members include Yuichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba, Saori Hayami as Miyuki Shiba, Chiwa Saito as Maya Yotsuba, and Emiri Kato as Fumiya Kuroba. New cast additions include Daisuke Ono as Katsushige Shibata and Ai Kayano as Yuuka Tsukuba. LiSA performs the theme song "YES." Meanwhile, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie dropped from #1 to #2 in its third weekend, selling 341,000 tickets and earning 490,061,280 yen (about US$3.10 million). The film has sold a cumulative total of 4.31 million tickets and earned 5,945,505,120 yen (about US$37.63 million). Detective Conan: Highway no Datenshi held at #3 in its fifth weekend, becoming the fourth consecutive film in the franchise to earn over 10 billion yen. The live-action Sakamoto Days film stayed at #4 in its second weekend. Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party opened at #8.