Synopsis
Takeru Ohyama, a young normal yet perverted minded guy, got accepted and now goes to a school that, unknown to him, was where combat and magic is used. On the first day, he meets again after three years: Haruko Amaya, his childhood friend, Inaho Kushiya, a girl who says she's his fiance, and Kodama Himegami, a blonde who wants to kill him. Finding out that there are many girls there that just don't like him, he is told that everyone there uses a special magic ability while using an item or weapon called a Maken. Later, he finds that no Maken is acceptable for him and doesn't know what to do, since in this school the students get into duels that showcase their magic and combat power, to which he seemingly has none.
Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Not yet aired
Aired: Oct 2011 to ?
Producers: AIC
Genres: Action, Romantic, Comedy, Ecchi, Martial Arts, School, Harem
Broadcaster: TV Saitama
Japanese Staff
Director: Koichi Ohata
Series Composition: Yousuke Kuroda
Original creator: Hiromitsu Takeda
Character Design: Nobuteru Yuki
Characters & Voice Actors
Tomoaki Maeno as Takeru Ouyama
Noriko Shitaya as Haruko Amaya
Iori Nomizu as Inaho Kushiya
Sayuri Yahagi as Kodama Himegami
Misuzu Togashi as Azuki Shinatsu
Mina as Minori Rokujou
Hitomi Harada as Aki Nijou
Satoshi Tsuruoka as Kengo Usui
Tomika Amado
Celia Ootsuka
News
Spoiler for news:
According to Fujimi Shobo official website, an anime project of Takeda Hiromitsu's manga Maken-Ki! was announced to get underway.
Maken-Ki! manga official website
Maken-Ki! Manga Has Anime Project in the Works
Action/romantic comedy about boy at school of students with fighting powers
The official website of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine has revealed that an anime adaptation of Hiromitsu Takeda's Maken-Ki! manga is in the works.
The romantic comedy centers around Takeru Ōyama, a boy enrolled in an elite school where the girls (and boys) fight with mysterious powers called Maken. The student body includes the enigmatic girl Kodama, a girl named Inaho who calls herself Takeru's fiancée, and his childhood friend Haruko.
The manga launched in Dragon Age Pure magazine in 2007, but it has been running in Monthly Dragon Age since last year. The fifth compiled book volume shipped in October.
Source: Fujimi Shobo
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Update on April 30th
According to Monthly Dragon Age's official website, the Maken-Ki! adaptation will air on television.
Ikki Tousen's Koichi Ohata animates Hiromitsu Takeda's fighting school story
The Japanese conglomerate Kadokawa began streaming a 115-second advance promotional video for the Maken-Ki! action romantic comedy anime on Monday. The anime will premiere on Japanese television this October.
Hiromitsu Takeda's Maken-Ki! original manga centers around Takeru Ōyama, a boy enrolled in an elite school where the girls (and boys) fight with mysterious items called Maken. The student body includes the enigmatic girl Kodama, a girl named Inaho who calls herself Takeru's fiancée, and his childhood friend Haruko.
Koichi Ohata (Ikki Tousen, Burst Angel) is directing the anime at AIC. Yousuke Kuroda (Hayate the Combat Butler, Highschool of the Dead, Trigun) is in charge of the scripts, and Nobuteru Yuki (Escaflowne, X, Record of Lodoss War) designed the characters.
The manga launched in Dragon Age Pure magazine in 2007, but it has been running in Monthly Dragon Age since 2009. The manga's sixth compiled book volume shipped earlier this month, and the first volume in the novel adaptation is on sale via the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint.
=== Maken-Ki Manga #8 to Bundle Unaired Anime Episode
Limited edition of manga that is inspiring October anime from AIC
The September issue of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine announced on Tuesday that the eighth volume of Hiromitsu Takeda's Maken-Ki! action romantic comedy manga will bundle an unaired anime episode on DVD. The eighth manga volume will ship in a regular edition (without the DVD) and a limited edition (with the DVD and a variant cover) on March 1, 2011. The print run of DVD-bundled edition will be limited to the number of pre-orders received.
