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Zetsuen no Tempest Fantasy Mystery Manga Gets TV Anime
posted on by Egan Loo
The June issue of Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine is announcing on Saturday that a television anime adaptation of the Zetsuen no Tempest: The Civilization Blaster fantasy mystery manga has been green-lit. Kyou Shirodaira created the story with Arihide Sano, and Ren Saizaki draws the manga.
The story centers around Yoshino, an ordinary high school student with a mysterious friend named Mahiro. Mahiro made a deal with a witch named Hakaze to hunt down the killers of his parents and sister. Now Mahiro is missing, and Hakaze confronts Yoshino. Yoshino find himself involved in a crisis that may doom the entire world.
The manga has been running in Monthly Shonen Gangan since 2009, and Square Enix is shipping the sixth compiled book volume on Saturday. Shirodaira created another mystery manga, Spiral, that was adapted into anime. The name server for the Internet domain zetsuen.net belongs to Sony Music Entertainment.
Source: Amazon via Manga News (link 2)
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