Maoyu

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The story is set in a world embroiled by war between Humans and Demons. The Humans' greatest warrior, the Hero (勇者, Yūsha), invades the castle of the Demon King (魔王, Maō), intent on vanquishing the leader of the Demons. Inside, the Hero discovers that the Demon King is in fact a Demon Queen; and instead of battling him, the Demon Queen proposes an alliance with the Hero. She explains how a sudden end to the war can bring further chaos to the world as the Humans, once united to stand against their common enemies, would eventually begin fighting among themselves, with similar issues already occurring in the Demon Realm. Convinced by her words, the Hero joins forces with the Queen, and together they execute a plan to bring prosperity and a lasting peace to both Humans and Demons alike.

Production

Commercial releases

Game designer Shōji Masuda took note of the series and contacted the author on Twitter. [7] [8] This led to the establishment of a project to publish the series commercially as a novel. [9] Masuda acted as the series' publication supervisor, with Atsushi Yamakita and Hiromi Hosoe taking on the role of setting director, Atsushi Yamakita providing extra consulting on map creation, toi8 providing illustrations, with additional character design assistance from Keinojō Mizutama. Besides the novel series, the franchise has received several manga adaptations and drama CDs and a TV anime adaptation, which was broadcast between January and March 2013.

Media

Light novels

Maoyū: Maō Yūsha
Maoyu cover.jpg
Cover of volume 1 featuring the title characters
まおゆう魔王勇者
Genre Fantasy [1]
Original network Tokyo MX, Mie Television, tvk, Sun TV, KBS, GBS, Animax
English network
Original run January 5, 2013 – March 30, 2013
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
No.TitleRelease dateISBN
01"Become Mine, Hero" "I Refuse!"(「この我のものとなれ、勇者よ」「断る!」)December 29, 2010 978-4-04-726933-0
02Conspiracy of Kurultai (忽鄰塔(クリルタイ)の陰謀)January 31, 2011 978-4-04-726994-1
03Expeditionary force of Seiken(聖鍵(せいけん)遠征軍)April 28, 2011 978-4-04-727097-8
04What Can be Done With These Hands(この手でできること)July 16, 2011 978-4-04-727098-5
Episode01Episode1 Female Magician from Elms country(エピソード1 楡の国の女魔法使い)October 31, 2011 978-4-04-727551-5
05The other side of the hill(あの丘の向こうに)January 21, 2012 978-4-04-727144-9
Episode00Episode0 Archer from Dune country(エピソード0 砂丘の国の弓使い)June 30, 2012 978-4-04-728095-3
Episode02Episode2 Female Knight from Flowers country(エピソード2 花の国の女騎士)December 22, 2012 978-4-04-728456-2

Manga

The manga series Maoyu: Archenemy and Hero "Become mine, Hero" "I refuse!", illustrated by Akira Ishida, was published in English digitally by Kadokawa Shoten, with the first two volumes made available on BookWalker on December 24, 2014. [10] First 16 volumes were released. Yen Press had licensed the manga and planned to release it in a digital format. [11]

No.Release dateISBN
01 August 24, 2011 978-4-04-715766-8
02 December 20, 2011 978-4-04-120054-4
03 April 24, 2012 978-4-04-120205-0
04 August 23, 2012 978-4-04-120361-3
05 December 21, 2012 978-4-04-120518-1
06 February 22, 2013 978-4-04-120577-8
07 May 23, 2013 978-4-04-120697-3
08 August 21, 2013 978-4-04-120822-9
09 December 26, 2013 978-4-04-120938-7
10 March 26, 2014 978-4-04-121047-5
11 July 26, 2014 978-4-04-101732-6
12 October 25, 2014 978-4-04-101733-3
13 January 26, 2015 978-4-04-101734-0
14 April 25, 2015 978-4-04-101735-7
15 July 25, 2015 978-4-04-102908-4
16 October 26, 2015 [12] 978-4-04-102909-1
17 February 26, 2016 [13] 978-4-04-102910-7
18 August 26, 2016 [14] 978-4-04-104685-2

Anime

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, directed by Takeo Takahashi and produced by Arms, aired in Japan on January 5 to March 30, 2013 on Tokyo MX. [15] The screenplay is written by Naruhisa Arakawa and the music is by Takeshi Hama. The anime is streaming by Crunchyroll with English subtitles. [16] The opening theme song is "Headwind" (向かい風, Mukaikaze) by Yohko and the ending theme song is "Unknown Vision" by Akino Arai. Sentai Filmworks has acquired the series for a release in North America, while in Australia it is licensed by Madman Entertainment. [17]

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