The series premiered in the United States at 1:30 a.m. After Geneon discontinued its US distribution division, the rights transferred to Media Blasters.
Anime boy with spear girl with staff license#
The anime runs 26 episodes and is based entirely on the first novel in the Guardian series, and greatly expands the midsection of the novel.Īt the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 in March, Geneon announced that they had acquired the license to the anime and Scholastic announced they had US distribution rights to the novels. The series has been adapted into an anime television series, produced by Production I.G and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, which premiered in Japan on NHK from April 7, 2007. Main article: List of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit episodes It aired in Youth Adventure on NHK FM Broadcast from August 7, 2006, to August 18, 2006. The series has been adapted into a radio drama series, written by Satoshi Maruo. Levine Books/Scholastic in the summer of 2008 translated by Cathy Hirano. Balsa is hired to protect a prince with a mysterious spirit living inside him. Shinchosha republished it in bunkobon format in March 2007. The novel was first published in hardback by Kaiseisha as children's literature, but it had many adult fans. Balsa's complicated past begins to come to light and they uncover Chagum's mysterious connection to a legendary water spirit with the power to destroy the kingdom. The two begin a perilous journey to ensure the survival of the prince. His own father, the Mikado, has ordered his assassination. On her journey, she saves Prince Chagum and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard.
īalsa, spear wielder and bodyguard, is a wandering warrior who has vowed to atone for eight deaths in her past by saving an equivalent number of lives. The program returned to Adult Swim during the summer 2009 line-up with an airing of the entire series. ET on August 24, 2008, but was dropped from the schedule without warning or explanation on January 15, 2009, after two runs of the first ten episodes. The anime series adaptation premiered on Adult Swim in the U.S. Media Blasters has confirmed that they acquired the rights to the anime. Scholastic released the first novel in English in June 2008. It has since been adapted into numerous media, including radio, manga, anime, and taiga drama adaptations. It was the recipient of the Batchelder Award An ALA Notable Children's Book in 2009. It is the first in the 12-volume Moribito ( 守り人) series of Japanese fantasy novels by Nahoko Uehashi. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit ( Japanese: 精霊の守り人, Hepburn: Seirei no Moribito) is a Japanese novel that was first published in July 1996.
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