Black God (黒神, Kuro Kami?) is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Sung-Woo Park. Square Enix publishes the manga in Japan's bi-monthly seinen magazine Young Gangan. The story is initially set in modern day Tokyo, then changes to the island of Okinawa in the middle of the story. The word "Black" in the title refers to the character Kuro as it means black in Japanese. "God" in the title refers to the fact that Kuro is a superhuman or a Tera Guardian. In France and other French-speaking countries and territories, the manga goes under the name Kurokami: Black God.
The manga is created entirely by a Korean manhwa team led by both Lim and Park. They would occasionally make fun of the fact that none of them were fluent in Japanese in omake segments drawn at the end of each manga volume.[1]
Black God was among four manga titles licensed by Yen Press along with Zombie-Loan, Alice on Deadlines and Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna[2] when it was announced by their panel at the 2007 New York Comic Convention.[3] Ten volumes are already released with a 11th volume scheduled for a November 2010 release.
It has been adapted into an anime animated by Sunrise, and first aired in Japan and in the United States on January 8, 2009, while South Korea aired it on January 9, 2009
Synopsis
Keita Ibuki is a 19-year-old independent and struggling freelance computer programmer who, with two of his friends, is developing and trying to sell a video game program to big-time video game companies in Tokyo. While trying to stay afloat and survive financially with money being given to him by his 21-year old childhood friend Akane Sano. (In the anime, he is an ordinary high school student.) He has a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro while eating alone at a ramen stand. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Tera Guardian. Keita loses an arm during another fight between Kuro and another Tera Guardian, but Kuro is able to save his life by exchanging his arm for hers since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Mototsumitamas. (In the anime, his heart is injured and their hearts are exchanged instead.) This creates a contract between them, which makes her more powerful than before. However, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together all the time because her heart will become necrotic if it is away from the main body.
As Kuro stays with Keita and gets acquainted with him while meeting with other Tera Guardians and their human masters, they are targeted by the strongest Tera Guardian clan of the East, the Shishigami (Lion God) Clan in an attempt to kidnap Akane and bring about the destruction of the coexistence balance, which Tera Guardians are supposed to protect. Meanwhile, Keita is determined to find out why his mother died after seeing her double as a young boy and to find out who is responsible for trying to destroy the coexistence balance on Earth.
Characters
Main
Keita Ibuki (伊吹慶太 Ibuki Keita?) Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Jason Anthony Griffith (English)
The main character. As a child, he and his mother met a person who looked exactly like her. The next day, she died. Years later, he's a struggling video game programmer. One day, at a Ramen house, he met Kuro, offered her food and his story began there. He does not appear to be aware of Akane's feelings for him.
In the anime version, Keita is portrayed as an ordinary high school student. Unlike his manga counterpart he is neither extremely arrogant nor openly antagonistic of Kuro. He does not physically assault her either to express his displeasure and finally unlike his manga version Kuro trades their hearts not their arms when forming a contract. He is a sub (substitute) in the anime, but it is unknown in the manga whether he is a sub or a root.
Kuro (クロ Kuro?) Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)
Keita's partner. As a child, she was princess of the Tera Guardians. However, tragedy met up with her when her most cherished brother slaughtered her whole tribe. She came to the human world to stop him. Her manga version fights using boxing having learned it from a former professional boxer while her anime version does not have any particular style. Both however use an Exceed which massively increases her offensive power. In the anime, her exceed is the Mega-exe, though in episode 16 it changes to Giga-exe when Keita and Kuro connect their tera to become one. She seems to care deeply about Keita, and holds romantic feelings towards him in the manga. However, in the anime, she professes her deep love for him toward the end of episode 22. She is a reincarnation of one of the three parts of masagami.
Akane Sano (佐野茜 Sano Akane?) Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Julie Ann Taylor (English)
Keita's childhood friend. Her doppleliner is Reishin's partner, Yuki Kaionji. She has romantic feelings for her childhood friend, Keita. In the anime, she is later to be revealed to be Reishin's contractee after the holy land appeared, and also known to be the ultimate master root.
Punipuni (プニプニ Punipuni?) Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese), Michael Sinterniklaas (English)
Kuro's pet doberman pup. He is often shown stealing food from Kuro's plate, causing the master and pet to launch into one of their fights, he can be found most of the time hiding in Kuro's shirt.
Supporting
Excel (エクセル Ekuseru?) Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
Her real name is Maria. After she is rescued by Steiner from "alter egos", who killed her younger brother, she asks Steiner to make a contract with her to make Steiner stronger. Her childlike appearance is the result of a mutation caused by her contract with Steiner; it severely slows down her physical growth and aging process. As a veteran contractee, she has gained considerable experience and a keen insight. She possesses several combat accessories called "thousands", but only two are shown in the manga. One is the Hexa Ring she wears to create the Hexa Shield which blocks attacks. The other one is the ring she gave to Keita. In the omake, it is revealed that the contract between them has lasted for a century. In the anime, she was rescued by one of Steiner's split images during the climax of Steiner and Reishin's showdown. She later forms a contract with Mikami Houjou to avenge the death of Steiner and Bernhard. In the manga, she and Steiner are missing after their infiltration mission to the Kaionji base of operations. In Chapter 71, however, it is shown that she is alive after being rescued by one of Steiner's image but loses her left leg and all of her memories. In Chapter 76, however, she regains her memories and forms a contract with Mikami Houjou.
Steiner (シュタイナー Shutainaa?) Voiced by: George Nakata (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)
A high Tera Guardian of the German High-Council. He prides himself on his unparalleled combat skills that single him out from the many high Tera Guardians employed at "The Noble One." He also possesses nerves of steel, those don't prevent him from getting his personal feelings mixed up in his duties. His "Exceed: Stampede" splits his body into four clones with equal mass and power to attack the enemy. Though the clones follow the command of the original body, they can also judge the situation of the fight autonomously. In the anime, he dies during the fight at Pure Island. In the manga, he is presumed to be dead after their infiltration mission.
Yakumo (八雲 Yakumo?) Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese), Wil Wheaton (English)
A Tera Guardian belonging to Kuro's clan. He is quite strong but tries to avoid getting into fights as much as possible. In Episode 13 of the English Dub he is voiced by Taliesin Jaffe but every other appearance he is voiced by Wil Wheaton.
Riona Kogure (木暮月里緒奈 Riona Kogure?) Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Emily Bauer (English)
Yakumo's contractee. She is a main root who escaped from the Kaioinji group when she learned they were planning on conducting experiments on humans like her.
Kakuma (かくま Kakuma?) Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Amanda Schuckman (English)
One of the two survivors of the Hima clan. She is one of the twins of the former leader whose entire clan was killed by Reishin and Hiyou in their attempt to destroy the Tera Stone. In the manga, Kakuma's contractee is Keita's grandfather Nagamine Ryuujin. Kakuma sacrifices her life and turns into the tera stone after the original tera stone was destroyed by Hiyou. Kakuma's Exceed is Shining Gallop which takes the form of a white galloping horse. In the anime however, she was sacrificed in order to annihilate the barrier and open the path to the Pure land, the island holding the Terra stone.
Makana (まかな Makana?) Voiced by: Eri Sendai (Japanese), Kether Donahue (English)
Kakuma's sister. She shares a very strong connection to her sister, realizing at once when Kakuma was killed. In the manga, she was left in the protection of The Noble Ones under Bernhard.
Nam Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese), Eva Kaminsky (English)
A Sanshinryon, the rough Korean equivalent of a Tera Guardian, she came to Japan to star in a TV show, but due to her naivety got conned of most of her money and had her luggage stolen, which also included her recommendation letter and directions to the TV studio. She eventually ended up freeloading at Keita's house after trying to cook PuniPuni for a meal. She is highly skilled and owns an artifact "Thousand" sword capable of banishing spirits.
Kaionji Group
Reishin (黎真 Reishin?) Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Crispin Freeman (English)
Kuro's Brother. He is the central antagonist for most of the series. He is the creator of the Doppoliner system. His mother, the priestess of his Shishigami (Lion God) clan told him of her prophecy that either he would lead the tribe into prosperity and everlasting order under his rule as "a bringer of peace" or would be "a bringer of destruction" destroying all in his path. During the fight at Pure Island, he is betrayed by Kuraki in episode 12 of the Anime and he returns after his betrayal from Kuraki. His contractee is Akane, which they formed the contract when the holy land appeared.
Daichi Kuraki (蔵木大地 Daichi Kuraki?) Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Christopher Kromer (English)
He was Keita's best friend named Sawamura during his junior high school years. While investigating the death of Keita's mother, he discovered the Doppleliner rule and approached Reishin to offer his services. In the anime, he no longer shares Reishin's perspective on the new world and consequently betrays him. His contract is with Raiga. With Reishin's demise, he has been promoted by the Chairperson.
Yuki Kaionji (魁音寺雪 Yuki Kaionji?) Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Kathleen McInerney (English)
She is the daughter of the chairperson of the Kaionji group. She desires to become a master root in order to surpass her brothers and to form a contract with Reishin. However, she is only a sub of Akane Sano. She died in a helicopter crash when she and Akane escaped in the hotel.
Raiga (雷呀 Raiga?) Voiced by: Eiji Miyashita (Japanese), Matt Caplan (English)
The Terra guardian with whom Daichi has a contract with. As a surviving member of the Hima clan, he seeks revenge against Reishin. His Exceed is the Shiddin sword.
Hiyou (ひよう Hiyou?) Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Marc Diraison (English)
A Tera Guardian who has a contract with Shinobu. His Exceed acts on liquids, allowing him to either form bullets or stakes or to make his enemy's body explode using the blood. In the manga, he died after Kuro performed an exceed on him. However, in the anime, his body is recovered by Kuraki who drains his terra afterwards.
Nanase Shinobu (七瀬忍 Nanase Shinobu?) Voiced by: Touma Yumi (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)
The sub of Keita's mother. She is a Minus/Negative Root capable of absorbing other humans' terra and luck. She made a contract to escape from death under the Doppleliner rule.
Mikami Houjou (法帖三神 Houjou Mikami?) Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English)
A Tera Guardian of the Ginko clan. Her Exceed fortifies her physical attributes increasing both offensive and defensive abilities. She works for the Kaionji group in exchange for the medicine her sub-type contractee requires to survive. After the death of her contractee, she forms a pact with Excel.
Terminology
• Tera Guardian/Mototsumitama: God-like beings charged with maintaining the balance of existence. However, they can become corrupt which result in conflicts between them.
• Doppeliner: one of three people with identical bodies and minds who share the same fate. Every normal human being begins as a doppeliner. If two of them meet, they die. The remaining luck and fate of the two go to the remaining person, called The Root, giving them unimaginable good luck. In the anime, this system was revealed to be a curse placed on humans by the Masagami.
• Minus/Negative Root: When an Alter Ego kills the doppel liner that should have become the root, all the remaining luck flows into the Alter Ego, but it is negative luck, and a Minus Root has to constantly suck out Tera from others in order to survive, as his Tera will continue to diminish.
• Contract: A pact or a bond made between a human and a Mototsumitama through sharing limbs. In the manga Kuro exchanges left arms with Keita to save his life and unwillingly formed a contract,while in the anime Kuro exchanges her heart after Keita was hit.
• Synchro: The greatest initiation of a contract, usually when both partners have a shared will. When synchro is reached, a Tera Guardian's power multiplies. However synchro is really strenuous on the human partner because the human shares all injuries the Tera Guardian receives.
• Exceed: Abilities used in fighting by the Tera Guardian once synchro has been initiated. Each Tera Guardian has a unique Exceed, and some may be dangerous to the human partner, due to the high use of tera.
• Tribal Ends: Humans who have been given Tera Guardian powers by Tera Guardians.
• Tera: Spiritual life force that inhabits all life-forms. Mototsumitama usually form contracts with humans with high amounts of tera because it enables them to use exceed more often.
• Alter Ego: A human who has met his doppeliner, yet has not died. Alter egos disrupt the coexistence balance. Mototsumitama, who are in charge of keeping the balance, carry out the deaths of alter egos to protect the coexistence balance.
• Thousands: Relics made by the Mototsumitamas of the old, that are given to humans as a means of self defense. By channeling their tera, these relics release specific effects (i.e. Excel's Hexa Ring creates the Hexa Shield which blocks attacks or heavy gravitational pull). It also has the ability to transfer tera from one contractee to another.
• Pure Place ( also known as Holy Land): A desolate area which few humans visit which is surrounded by a barrier made by the Tera Guardian to keep away humans and preserve the tera flow, keeping it pure.
• European Alliance (also known as "The Noble One") : An alliance of four Tera Guardian groups in Europe, which was established with the goal of supporting fellow Tera Guardians, extinguishing Alter Egos and preserving the coexistence equilibrium. At present, they manage all of Europe, Central Asia, and part of Africa. At first the Tera Guardian's stance was not to interfere in human society at all, so they differ from the Tera Guardians of Japan and Asian countries who keep to that doctrine faithfully as they secretly have relations with major power structures of human society (like royalty, dynasties, religion, etc.)
The names of the four Tera Guardian groups in "The Noble One" are: Norman Majestic Council, The Celt Alliance, Roman Cognate and the German High-Council.
Development
When Black God was being created, written and illustrated by Lim, Park and their manhwa team, it was done entirely in Korean first before it would then be translated from Korean to Japanese as it was meant to be published and serialized for the Japanese manga market and not for South Korea.[5] The other works of Lim and Park had been done for the manhwa market in South Korea.
Adaptations
Manga
So far, the manga adaptation of Black God has been serialized with 11 bounded volumes already released to the public by Square-Enix in Japan and in magazine form by Young Gangan.[6] In North America and in the United Kingdom, Yen Press has already released Black God in English with 10 volumes translated and released with the upcoming 11th volume scheduled for a November 2010 release.[7] Its first volume was released on October 17, 2007.[8][9]
Black God has also been released in France and also distributed in French-speaking countries and territories by Editions Ki-oon, but it was marketed under the title Kurokami: Black God from its original name.[10] It was also released in Taiwan and distributed in Chinese-speaking countries and territories by Ching Win Publishing Co., Ltd., translated in the Traditional Chinese language.
Anime
See also: List of Kurokami: The Animation episodes
The anime adaptation of Black God was produced by Sunrise, directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi with Reiko Yoshida as the series' supervisor and Hiroyuki Nishimura as the series' animation director and chief character designer.[11][12]
Among the seiyūs involved in the Sunrise production include Noriko Shitaya, who will play as Kuro, and Daisuke Namikawa as Keita.[11] Other seiyū for the production include Sayaka Ohara as Akane Sano, Yukari Tamura as Excel and George Nakata as Steiner.[13] Its title is called Kurokami: The Animation or Black God: The Animation. The anime aired on Japanese TV is on January 2009.[14] Kurokami: The Animation aired first on January 8, 2009 simultaneously in Japan on TV Asahi and in the United States on ImaginAsian, followed by South Korea on January 9, 2009 in AniBOX.[4][15]
The voice actors, hired by Bandai Entertainment for its US broadcast include Jason Anthony Griffith, who plays Keita, Laura Bailey as Kuro with Julie Ann Taylor playing as Akane and Stephanie Sheh as Excel.[16]
Bandai released the Blu-ray and DVD sets of the anime in March 2010.
Reception
This section requires expansion with:
Reviews on Talk:Black God (manga)#Reviews.
Eye on Anime's review praised the manga due to its storyline, but has criticized Keita for having most of the reader's initial attention due to his arrogant and disrespectful attitude and character.[1] Mania noted Black God for having good character development and creative fight scenes,[17] not to mention that it has an excellent and thrilling storyline for readers to follow into without any trouble.[18]
About.com's review said that Black God was good for the combination of various genres including action, drama, suspense, humor combined with the theme of the supernatural in its story and at the same time, questions the need of having fanservice in the manga as the review insists that it is not necessarily needed in the first place.[19] UK Anime Net's Review said that the art is "solid, imaginative layout. It never looks rushed and the paneling flows smoothly."[20] Comic Book Resources pointed out that the fanservice being portrayed in the manga was rather amusing and not offensive as it was the main source of Black God's humor.[21]
So far, Comics Village has been the only one to criticize Black God heavily for having questionable aspects of the storyline being left out initially without being given the chance to have them fully explained to its readers, which can make them a bit confused.[22] On the other hand, it singles out the art and character details at its strong side, with the latter being greatly detailed without being overdone with the "use of speed lines for action scenes and moments of emotion."[22]
References
1. ^ a b "Black God Review". Eye on Anime. http://www.eyeonanime.co.uk/panda.php?mi=7&p=d&px3=Black%20God&reviewid2=159. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
2. ^ "Yen Press to Launch with New Chmakova; Licenced Manga". Publishers Weekly. 2007-02-24. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6419420.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
3. ^ Yen Press (2008-12-30). "Yen Press New Releases, Yen Press". Yen Press. http://yenpress.us/?cat=5. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
4. ^ a b "Kurokami the Animation to Be Broadcast Simultaneously in Japan, U.S., and Korea". Anime News Network. 2008-12-14. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2008-12-14/kurokami-the-animation-to-be-broadcast-simultaneously-in-japan-u.s-and-korea. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
5. ^ Deb Aoki. "Interview: Kurt Hassler - Page 3". About.com. http://manga.about.com/od/mangaartistswriters/a/KurtHassler_3.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
6. ^ "Official manga website" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://www.square-enix.co.jp/magazine/yg/introduction/kurokami/. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
7. ^ "Official Black God Yen Press page". Yen Press. http://yenpress.us/?page_id=151. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
8. ^ "Anime News Network's Black God release page". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=9861&page=28. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
9. ^ "Amazon.com's Black God Page". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0759523495. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
10. ^ "Kurokami - Black God - tome 4" (in French). http://www.nihonnotera.fr/fiche-manga-79.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
11. ^ a b "Black God Manga Confirmed to Get Anime by Sunrise". Anime News Network. 2008-10-02. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-10-02/black-god-manga-confirmed-to-get-anime-by-sunrise. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
12. ^ "Yen Press Title Gets Animated". ICv2. 2008-10-02. http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13429.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
13. ^ "「黒神 The Animation」をよろしくお願いいたします!" (in Japanese). 2008-10-03. http://kurokami-anime.at.webry.info/200810/article_3.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
14. ^ "Several New Anime dated for January 2009". Anime News Network. 2008-11-11. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-11/several-new-anime-named-dated-for-january-2009. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
15. ^ "Official Kurokami Broadcast Information" (in Japanese). Bandai Entertainment. http://www.kurokami-anime.net/broadcast_01.html. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
16. ^ "Bandai Entertainment gets Kurokami Anime". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-14/bandai-entertainment-gets-kurokami-anime. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
17. ^ Matthew Alexander (2008-03-14). "Black God Vol. #02". Mania. http://www.mania.com/black-god-vol02_article_83751.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
18. ^ Matthew Alexander (2008-09-15). "Black God Vol. #03". Mania. http://www.mania.com/black-god-vol03_article_81819.html. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
19. ^ Aoki, Deb. "Black God Volume 2". About.com. http://manga.about.com/od/yenpress/gr/BlackGod2.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
20. ^ Ross Liversidge. "UK Anime Net's Black God Manga Review". UK Anime Net. http://www.uk-anime.net/manga.asp?IntID=121. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
21. ^ Leigh, Danielle (2008-04-29). "Manga Before Flowers — Short Reviews". Comic Book Resources. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/29/manga-before-flowers-short-reviews/. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
22. ^ a b Henderson, Lori. "Comics Village Black God Volume 1". Comics Village. http://www.comicsvillage.com/review.aspx?reviewID=51. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
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Vampire Knight
Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士 Vanpaia Naito?) adalah serial anime/ manga yang bercerita mengenai Cross Gakuen yang terbagi menjadi 2 kelas yaitu : Day Class dan Night Class. Night Class mempunyai rahasia, yaitu semua orang yang ada di sana adalah vampir. Karena itu, Cross Yuki dan saudara angkatnya yaitu Zero, bertugas uantuk menjadi "Guardian" atau pelindung Day Class.
Anime dari serial ini dibagi menjadi 2 musim.
Cerita
Yuuki Cross dan saudara angkatnya Kiryuu Zero bertugas menjadi "guardian class" demi melindungi rahasia dari Night Class yang tidak diketahui oleh para siswa Day Class. Bahwa semua yang ada di night class adalah vampir. Yuuki dan Zero harus menjaga jarak antara para siswa dan siswi day class yang tergila-gila pada murid-murid night class yang keren dan cantik. Karena doktrin perdamaian antara vampir dan manusia yang diciptakan oleh Kurosu Kaien, ayah dari Yuuki sekaligus kepala sekolah Cross Gakuen sendiri, harus diterapkan di sini. Suatu hari gelagat Zero berubah aneh. Yuuki berusaha mencari tahu sampai akhirnya ia digigit oleh Zero. Sejak saat itulah Yuuki tahu kalau Zero adalah manusia yang telah digigit oleh vampir darah murni. Dan kini,, kondisi saudara angkatnya itu semakin parah karena dia semakin dekat dengan Level E.
Kuran Kaname, yang sejak dulu membenci Zero. Dan sudah tahu kalau Zero adalah calon vampir darah murni, berusaha menghalangi Yuuki yang selalu dekat dengan Zero. Bahkan, Kaname sangat marah ketika Yuuki melakukan hal yang tabu. Yaitu, memberikan darahnya pada Zero. Perlahan-lahan misteri terkuak. Siapa orangtua kandung semua vampir, juga Yuuki dan Zero.
• Yuuki Cross/Yuuki Kuran (黒主 優姫 Kurosu Yūki/ Kuran Yūki 玖蘭 優姫?)
Anak dari kepala sekolah Cross Gakuen. Tempat dimana vampir dan manusia hidup berdampingan sebagai teman seasrama. Yuuki mencintai Kaname, namun dia juga menaruh hati pada Zero. Di akhir cerita terungkaplah bahwa Yuuki sebenarnya adalah adik kandung Kaname. Ia rela melakukan hal yang tabu hanya untuk membuat Zero bertahan hidup. Sampai akhirpun ia terus mencari cara agar Zero bisa lolos dari Level E.
• Kaien Cross (黒主 灰閻理事長 Kurosu Kaien Rijichō?)
Kepala Sekolah Cross Gakuen. Ia orang lucu dan humoris yang memberi kesan segar pada anime bergenre misteri ini. Tapi, sebenarnya ia adalah vampire hunter legendaris yang telah memburu banyak vampir.
• Zero Kiryuu (錐生 零 Kiryū Zero?)
Kakak angkat Yuuki. Ia diangkat oleh Kaien karena kedua orang tua Zero telah dibunuh oleh vampir darah murni. Ia sendiri telah digigit dan menuju Level E. Zero menaruh hati pada Yuuki sekalipun ia tak bisa mengakuinya. Zero terus berjuang melawan darah vampirnya hingga akhir. Tapi, ketika Yuuki memberikan darahnya, rasanya Zero mulai bergantung pada darah Yuuki. Ketika ia mengetahui bahwa Yuuki adalah seorang vampir darah murni, rasa benci Zero terhadap Yuuki melebihi rasa cintanya pada Yuuki. Ia bertekad untuk membunuh semua vampir darah murni suatu hari nanti, termasuk Yuuki. Zero selalu membawa sebuah senjata anti Vampire yang hanya bisa dikendalikan olehnya, Bloody Rose.
• Ichiru Kiryu (錐生 壱縷 Kiryū Ichiru?)
Adik laki-laki Zero. Ia lari dari rumah bersama vampir yang sudah membunuh kedua orang tuanya. Ia sangat menyayangi Zero, tapi ia menaruh dendam pada kakaknya itu karena sejak kecil, kakaknya selalu lebih diperhatikan ketimbang dirinya yang bertubuh lemah. Di akhir cerita ia meninggal dengan pistol bloody rose.
• Shizuka Hio (緋桜 閑 Hiō Shizuka?)
Vampir darah murni yang telah menggigit Zero dan membunuh orang tuanya. Ia dijuluki ratu vampir. Karena itu, meski ia gila, tak ada satupun vampir yang berani membunuhnya karena kemurnian darahnya. Sebenarnya dia adalah tunangan dari Rido Kuran, tetapi,Rido sendiri menaruh hati pada Juuri, adiknya. Saat ia ditahan , ia bertemu seorang lelaki manusia yang akhirnya menjadi kekasihnya setelah digigit Shizuka. Kekasih Shizuka dibunuh oleh orang tua Zero karena dia adalah seorang Level E. Shizuka membalaskan dendam dengan membunuh orang tua Zero, membawa Ichiru, dan menggigit Zero. Shizuka dibunuh oleh Kaname.
Siswa Night Class
• Kaname Kuran (玖蘭 枢 Kuran Kaname?)
Moyang pertama keluarga Kuran. Dibangkitkan oleh Kuran Rido menggunakan badan Kaname, kakak Yuuki, anak pertama pasangan Hiruka dan Juuri yang dibawa lari oleh Rido. Memiliki motif yang masih misterius hingga kini. Sangat menyayangi Yuuki, sebagai anak yang ditakdirkan menjadi istrinya, namun ia merelakan Yuuki yang juga menyukai Zero. Ia sangat membenci Zero karena lelaki itu telah menggigit Yuuki. Karena itu, ia membiarkan Zero menggigitnya, demi keselamatan Yuuki. Kaname melakukan segalanya, rencananya, serta membunuh banyak orang demi melindungi Yuuki seorang. Kekuatan Kaname tidak terbatas.
• Takuma Ichijo (一条 拓麻 Ichijo Takuma?)
Tangan kanan Kaname. Vampir Level B. Dia tidak terlihat seperti vampir, sebab dia sangatlah ceria dan jarang menunjukkan kehausan akan darah. Dia jago berpedang . Dia sangat setia pada Kaname dan tidak pernah mnengkhianatinya. mereka berdua bersahabat karib sejak kecil. Sekarang dia berada di sisi Sara Shirabuki.
• Rima Touya (遠矢 莉磨 Tōuya Rima?)
Vampir Level B yang berprofesi sebagai model dan selalu tampak berdua/berpasangan dengan Shiki Senri. Hobinya adalah makan Pocky (begitu pula denggan Shiki). Rambut Rima diikat model twin Pigtails. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan elemen listrik. Dialah yang membantu menyadarkan Shiki ketika Shiki dirasuki oleh Rido. Gadis bermata ungu ini adalah teman sekamar Ruka Souen.
• Ruka Souen (早園 瑠佳 Sōen Ruka?)
Vampir Level B yang tampak seperti nona-nona besar. Dia menaruh hati pada Kaname dan rela memberikan darahnya untuk Kaname. Dia sangat benci pada Yuuki yang disukai Kaname, meskipun pada akhirnya, dia merelakan Kaname pada Yuuki. Dia bahkan memberikan sepatunya pada Yuuki yang baru bangkit sebagai Vampir darah murni. Kemampuan Ruka adalah "Mind Control".
• Hanabusa Aido (藍堂 英 Aidō Hanabusa?)
Vampir Level B yang memiliki julukan "Idol-senpai" . Dia sangat populer di kalangan murid-murid Day Class dan dia suka menggoda Yuuki. Rasa hausnya pada darah sangat mudah terlihat, apalagi tampaknya ia tertarik pada darah Yuuki. Dialah yang paling shock ketika mengetahui bahwa Yuuki adalah adik kandung Kaname yang hilang. Dia bertindak sebagai bodyguard Yuuki. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan es.
• Kain Akatsuki (架院 暁 Kain Akatsuki?)
Vampir level B, sepupu Aidou. Dia selalu tampak bersama dengan Aidou dan wataknya tenang. Dia sangat protektif pada Ruka, terutama dia pernah mengancam akan membunuh Kaname apabila ia menyakiti Ruka. Sebenarnya Kain menyukai Ruka sejak kecil, tetapi, ia mengetahui bahwa Ruka menyukai Kaname sehingga ia hanya bisa menunggu dan bersabar mendengarkan keluhan Ruka. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan api.
• Senri Shiki (支葵 千里 Shiki Senri?)
Vampir Level B yang merupakan pasangan Rima. Dia juga seorang model. Dia adalah anak dari Rido Kuran, dan juga merupakan sepupu Kaname. Tubuhnya pernah dikendalikan oleh Rido saat kebangkitannya. Kemampuannya adalah membuat darahnya menjadi cambuk.
• Seiren (星煉 Seiren?)
Vampir misterius yang bertugas sebagai bodyguard Kaname. Dia sangat protektif pada tuannya itu. Dialah yang paling pendiam dan termasuk gadis paling tegas dalam Night Class.
• Maria Kurenai (紅まり亜 Kurenai Maria?)
Murid baru misterius berambut silver yang datang di Night Class. Dia menaruh perhatian pada Yuuki. Zero sangat mebenci Maria karena ia mengetahui bahwa Shizukalah yang ada dalam tubuh Maria. Maria tampak selalu berjalan bersama Ichiru. Kemampuannya adalah merasuki sesuatu.
Anime dari serial ini dibagi menjadi 2 musim.
Cerita
Yuuki Cross dan saudara angkatnya Kiryuu Zero bertugas menjadi "guardian class" demi melindungi rahasia dari Night Class yang tidak diketahui oleh para siswa Day Class. Bahwa semua yang ada di night class adalah vampir. Yuuki dan Zero harus menjaga jarak antara para siswa dan siswi day class yang tergila-gila pada murid-murid night class yang keren dan cantik. Karena doktrin perdamaian antara vampir dan manusia yang diciptakan oleh Kurosu Kaien, ayah dari Yuuki sekaligus kepala sekolah Cross Gakuen sendiri, harus diterapkan di sini. Suatu hari gelagat Zero berubah aneh. Yuuki berusaha mencari tahu sampai akhirnya ia digigit oleh Zero. Sejak saat itulah Yuuki tahu kalau Zero adalah manusia yang telah digigit oleh vampir darah murni. Dan kini,, kondisi saudara angkatnya itu semakin parah karena dia semakin dekat dengan Level E.
Kuran Kaname, yang sejak dulu membenci Zero. Dan sudah tahu kalau Zero adalah calon vampir darah murni, berusaha menghalangi Yuuki yang selalu dekat dengan Zero. Bahkan, Kaname sangat marah ketika Yuuki melakukan hal yang tabu. Yaitu, memberikan darahnya pada Zero. Perlahan-lahan misteri terkuak. Siapa orangtua kandung semua vampir, juga Yuuki dan Zero.
• Yuuki Cross/Yuuki Kuran (黒主 優姫 Kurosu Yūki/ Kuran Yūki 玖蘭 優姫?)
Anak dari kepala sekolah Cross Gakuen. Tempat dimana vampir dan manusia hidup berdampingan sebagai teman seasrama. Yuuki mencintai Kaname, namun dia juga menaruh hati pada Zero. Di akhir cerita terungkaplah bahwa Yuuki sebenarnya adalah adik kandung Kaname. Ia rela melakukan hal yang tabu hanya untuk membuat Zero bertahan hidup. Sampai akhirpun ia terus mencari cara agar Zero bisa lolos dari Level E.
• Kaien Cross (黒主 灰閻理事長 Kurosu Kaien Rijichō?)
Kepala Sekolah Cross Gakuen. Ia orang lucu dan humoris yang memberi kesan segar pada anime bergenre misteri ini. Tapi, sebenarnya ia adalah vampire hunter legendaris yang telah memburu banyak vampir.
• Zero Kiryuu (錐生 零 Kiryū Zero?)
Kakak angkat Yuuki. Ia diangkat oleh Kaien karena kedua orang tua Zero telah dibunuh oleh vampir darah murni. Ia sendiri telah digigit dan menuju Level E. Zero menaruh hati pada Yuuki sekalipun ia tak bisa mengakuinya. Zero terus berjuang melawan darah vampirnya hingga akhir. Tapi, ketika Yuuki memberikan darahnya, rasanya Zero mulai bergantung pada darah Yuuki. Ketika ia mengetahui bahwa Yuuki adalah seorang vampir darah murni, rasa benci Zero terhadap Yuuki melebihi rasa cintanya pada Yuuki. Ia bertekad untuk membunuh semua vampir darah murni suatu hari nanti, termasuk Yuuki. Zero selalu membawa sebuah senjata anti Vampire yang hanya bisa dikendalikan olehnya, Bloody Rose.
• Ichiru Kiryu (錐生 壱縷 Kiryū Ichiru?)
Adik laki-laki Zero. Ia lari dari rumah bersama vampir yang sudah membunuh kedua orang tuanya. Ia sangat menyayangi Zero, tapi ia menaruh dendam pada kakaknya itu karena sejak kecil, kakaknya selalu lebih diperhatikan ketimbang dirinya yang bertubuh lemah. Di akhir cerita ia meninggal dengan pistol bloody rose.
• Shizuka Hio (緋桜 閑 Hiō Shizuka?)
Vampir darah murni yang telah menggigit Zero dan membunuh orang tuanya. Ia dijuluki ratu vampir. Karena itu, meski ia gila, tak ada satupun vampir yang berani membunuhnya karena kemurnian darahnya. Sebenarnya dia adalah tunangan dari Rido Kuran, tetapi,Rido sendiri menaruh hati pada Juuri, adiknya. Saat ia ditahan , ia bertemu seorang lelaki manusia yang akhirnya menjadi kekasihnya setelah digigit Shizuka. Kekasih Shizuka dibunuh oleh orang tua Zero karena dia adalah seorang Level E. Shizuka membalaskan dendam dengan membunuh orang tua Zero, membawa Ichiru, dan menggigit Zero. Shizuka dibunuh oleh Kaname.
Siswa Night Class
• Kaname Kuran (玖蘭 枢 Kuran Kaname?)
Moyang pertama keluarga Kuran. Dibangkitkan oleh Kuran Rido menggunakan badan Kaname, kakak Yuuki, anak pertama pasangan Hiruka dan Juuri yang dibawa lari oleh Rido. Memiliki motif yang masih misterius hingga kini. Sangat menyayangi Yuuki, sebagai anak yang ditakdirkan menjadi istrinya, namun ia merelakan Yuuki yang juga menyukai Zero. Ia sangat membenci Zero karena lelaki itu telah menggigit Yuuki. Karena itu, ia membiarkan Zero menggigitnya, demi keselamatan Yuuki. Kaname melakukan segalanya, rencananya, serta membunuh banyak orang demi melindungi Yuuki seorang. Kekuatan Kaname tidak terbatas.
• Takuma Ichijo (一条 拓麻 Ichijo Takuma?)
Tangan kanan Kaname. Vampir Level B. Dia tidak terlihat seperti vampir, sebab dia sangatlah ceria dan jarang menunjukkan kehausan akan darah. Dia jago berpedang . Dia sangat setia pada Kaname dan tidak pernah mnengkhianatinya. mereka berdua bersahabat karib sejak kecil. Sekarang dia berada di sisi Sara Shirabuki.
• Rima Touya (遠矢 莉磨 Tōuya Rima?)
Vampir Level B yang berprofesi sebagai model dan selalu tampak berdua/berpasangan dengan Shiki Senri. Hobinya adalah makan Pocky (begitu pula denggan Shiki). Rambut Rima diikat model twin Pigtails. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan elemen listrik. Dialah yang membantu menyadarkan Shiki ketika Shiki dirasuki oleh Rido. Gadis bermata ungu ini adalah teman sekamar Ruka Souen.
• Ruka Souen (早園 瑠佳 Sōen Ruka?)
Vampir Level B yang tampak seperti nona-nona besar. Dia menaruh hati pada Kaname dan rela memberikan darahnya untuk Kaname. Dia sangat benci pada Yuuki yang disukai Kaname, meskipun pada akhirnya, dia merelakan Kaname pada Yuuki. Dia bahkan memberikan sepatunya pada Yuuki yang baru bangkit sebagai Vampir darah murni. Kemampuan Ruka adalah "Mind Control".
• Hanabusa Aido (藍堂 英 Aidō Hanabusa?)
Vampir Level B yang memiliki julukan "Idol-senpai" . Dia sangat populer di kalangan murid-murid Day Class dan dia suka menggoda Yuuki. Rasa hausnya pada darah sangat mudah terlihat, apalagi tampaknya ia tertarik pada darah Yuuki. Dialah yang paling shock ketika mengetahui bahwa Yuuki adalah adik kandung Kaname yang hilang. Dia bertindak sebagai bodyguard Yuuki. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan es.
• Kain Akatsuki (架院 暁 Kain Akatsuki?)
Vampir level B, sepupu Aidou. Dia selalu tampak bersama dengan Aidou dan wataknya tenang. Dia sangat protektif pada Ruka, terutama dia pernah mengancam akan membunuh Kaname apabila ia menyakiti Ruka. Sebenarnya Kain menyukai Ruka sejak kecil, tetapi, ia mengetahui bahwa Ruka menyukai Kaname sehingga ia hanya bisa menunggu dan bersabar mendengarkan keluhan Ruka. Kemampuannya adalah mengendalikan api.
• Senri Shiki (支葵 千里 Shiki Senri?)
Vampir Level B yang merupakan pasangan Rima. Dia juga seorang model. Dia adalah anak dari Rido Kuran, dan juga merupakan sepupu Kaname. Tubuhnya pernah dikendalikan oleh Rido saat kebangkitannya. Kemampuannya adalah membuat darahnya menjadi cambuk.
• Seiren (星煉 Seiren?)
Vampir misterius yang bertugas sebagai bodyguard Kaname. Dia sangat protektif pada tuannya itu. Dialah yang paling pendiam dan termasuk gadis paling tegas dalam Night Class.
• Maria Kurenai (紅まり亜 Kurenai Maria?)
Murid baru misterius berambut silver yang datang di Night Class. Dia menaruh perhatian pada Yuuki. Zero sangat mebenci Maria karena ia mengetahui bahwa Shizukalah yang ada dalam tubuh Maria. Maria tampak selalu berjalan bersama Ichiru. Kemampuannya adalah merasuki sesuatu.
Vampire Knight version english
Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士, Vanpaia Naito?) is a shōjo manga and anime series written by Matsuri Hino. The series premiered in the January 2005 issue of LaLa magazine and is still on-going. Chapters are collected and published in collected volumes by Hakusensha, with eleven volumes currently released in Japan. The manga series is licensed in English by Viz Media, who has released ten volumes so far. The English adaptation premiered in the July 2006 issue of Viz's Shojo Beat magazine, with the collected volumes being published on a quarterly basis.
Two drama CDs were created for the series, as well as a twenty-six episode anime adaptation. Produced by Studio Deen, the anime series' first season aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 8, 2008 and July 1, 2008. The second season, titled Vampire Knight Guilty aired on the same station from October 7, 2008 and December 30, 2008. The anime uses many of the same voice actors as were used for the drama CDs. The anime adaptations have been licensed for release in North America by Viz Media, the DVD will be released on July 20, 2010.
Plot
Yuki Cross' earliest memory is of being all alone on a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by an evil "Level E" vampire and saved by a powerful but kind vampire named Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki, along with her childhood friend, Zero Kiryu are school guardians at the prestigious Cross Academy where her adoptive father is the headmaster. The school is hosting an experimental program that is trying to prove that humans and vampires can live together peacefully, in a quest for coexistence.
The job of the guardians is to make sure that peace is maintained and to protect the human "Day Class" students from the vampire "Night Class" students if necessary. They also make sure that the human students do not discover that the Night Class members are all actually vampires. They go by the guise as "prefects" or "disciplinary committee members" so as to not blow their secret. Most of the day class students are infatuated with the night class students, as they are all very beautiful, intelligent, and mysterious. They also often flirt.
The night class is made up of high-class vampires (Levels A and B), as there is a hierarchy among vampire society. Level A includes only pure bloods, the rarest, most elite, and most powerful class, whose bloodlines have never mixed with humans. Pure bloods are also the only kind of vampires who can bite a human and turn them into another vampire, and a pure blood's blood gives whoever drinks it greater powers. Level B are known as "Nobles" or "Aristocrats." These are also very powerful vampires, but not as mighty as the pure bloods. They also have a small amount of human blood in their ancestry. Levels C,D, and E include humans who have been turned by a pure blood rather than born as a vampire. These ex-humans will eventually go mad with blood lust and become a "Level E" if they are not stabilized by drinking the blood of the one who originally bit them in the first place. Stabilized ex-humans are known as "Level C" or "regular vampires", and humans who have been bitten but have not gone mad are "Level D".
The story follows Yuki's discovery that Zero had been turned into a vampire and her struggle to keep him sane, since he had not been stabilized, and prevent his condition from deteriorating into the lowest form of vampire, the monstrous Level E. Zero's parents were vampire hunters, killed by a pure blood out for revenge, and who also bit him in the process and took his twin brother, assumed to be dead. He hates what he has become, and fears that he will succumb to blood lust and murder everyone. He feels that the only option is to kill himself, which Yuki tries to help him avoid. Meanwhile, she also tries to deal with her seemingly unobtainable love for her hero, Kaname, who also happens to be a pure blood- the only one in the night class.
Yuki faces a difficult decision with the arrival of Shizuka Hio. She is the pure blood vampire who killed Zero's family and turned Zero into a vampire. She offers Yuki a deal to help him; either by having her kill Kaname or allow her to drink Yuki's blood and become a vampire herself. Yuki decides to give up her humanity to save both Zero and Kaname, but is stopped by Zero, who would rather kill Shizuka. Neither occurs when Zero's assumed dead twin shows up, and Kaname ends up killing Shizuka and drinking her blood in order to protect Yuki and reluctantly, Zero. With the loss of his salvation, Yuki continues to help Zero fight his bloodlust while also seeking to recover the memories she lost as a young child before Kaname found her. As the series progresses, Zero's thirst for blood leads to his drinking from Yuki, by her consent, to avoid becoming a level E vampire and losing himself to his monstrous instincts. This is difficult for him, since he secretly loves her and doesn't want to hurt anybody. Kaname loves Yuki as well, and is very protective of her, and to stop her from having to do this, he gives Zero his own "pure" blood. Also, since he had consumed the blood of Shizuka Hio, his own helps keep Zero from going insane and from needing to feed from Yuki.
Eventually, it is revealed that Yuki is a pure blood vampire herself; the Pure blood Princess of the Kuran family, who had been transformed into a human before she lost her memories. It is also revealed that Kaname is Yuki's older 'brother' and that they were engaged as children to be married. This is a common practice among pure bloods to preserve blood lines and due to the fact that vampires are immune to inbreeding. Despite this, Kaname is not Yuki's true blood brother, but an ancient and powerful ancestor of the royal Kuran family who was resurrected by Rido Kuran so that Rido could prey on him and consume him to become more powerful. He escaped and was raised by Yuki's parents, Juuri and Haruka Kuran, after Rido had kidnapped and sacrificed their first child to bring him back to life. To protect Yuki from her monstrous uncle and the corrupt vampire senate who wished to exploit their pure blood, her mother sacrificed her life in order to perform a spell that would seal Yuki's memories and allow her to live as a human. After Yuki reawakens to her vampire nature, Rido again tries to kill her and consume her power. At the same time, Kaname had gone to kill the members of the vampire senate who they had discovered were working together with their uncle to not only get Yuki, but destroy the night class and their hopes for peace. During a fierce battle, Zero ultimately kills Rido, but later on tells Yuki he will have to kill her too when he sees her once again, since she is a pure blood. She tells him that she will keep running, so that he will have a reason to live. Although this is where the anime ends, the manga continues the story and is updated monthly in LaLa Magazine.
Characters
Main article: List of Vampire Knight characters
• Yuki Cross/Yuki Kuran (黒主 優姫/玖蘭 優姫 Kurosu Yūki/Kuran Yūki?) age 15, is the adoptive daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, Kaien Cross, and serves as a school guardian. Ten years prior to the start of the series, Yuki was attacked by a vampire, and rescued by another, Kaname Kuran. Having lost all memories prior to the attack, she was adopted by Headmaster Cross. After her best friend Zero's vampire nature started to reveal itself, she began giving him her blood to drink, hoping to halt the degradation of his human nature. Despite her dedication to her best friend, Yuki was in love with Kaname, the man whom had always been in her memories looking out for her. When Rido Kuran and his Clan of followers resurfaced at Cross Academy, it was revealed that all along, Yuki was unknowingly a pureblood vampire herself; Not to mention Kaname's sister and fiancée.[2] The revelation of her pureblood status caused a deep rift between Zero and Yuki. She is now a pureblood princess, often approaching and offering her services to any suicidal purebloods. In spite of all of the strain and trials put between them, Yuki came to terms with her feelings and realized she loved Zero as well, but could not stray from the man who saved her life ten years ago.
• Zero Kiryuu (錐生 零 Kiryū Zero?) age 15, who is one year older than Yuki Cross,[3] came from a family of vampire hunters. Four years prior to the beginning of the story, his parents and brother were killed by the pureblood vampire, Shizuka Hiou, after they followed orders to assassinate her lover. The now orphaned Zero was taken in by Kaien Cross and became a school guardian, alongside Yuki.[4] Because of what happened to his family, Zero grew to have a deep hatred for all vampires. Despite his grudge, it was later revealed that in result of the attack, Zero had been turned into a vampire himself. As his ravenous side began to surface, his best friend, Yuki, began offering her blood to him, to subdue his true vampire nature.[5] It was also later revealed that his twin brother, Ichiru, also survived the attack and was willingly living by Shizuka's side. Upon consuming Shizuka, and despite the undeniable tension between the two men, Kaname let Zero drink some of his blood to keep Zero from losing control of himself in order to protect Yuki. After Yuki was transformed into a vampire, his feelings for Yuki were revealed, he was indeed in love with her. But Zero and Yuki were now standing on opposing sides; Yuki being a pureblood princess, and Zero becoming the president of the vampire hunters.
• Kaname Kuran (玖蘭 枢 Kuran Kaname?) age 19, a Pureblood vampire and one of the last remaining members of the oldest and most powerful vampire family- the Kurans. He saved Yuki from an attack by a Level E vampire when she was five years old. Aside from his status, he was the Night Class dorm leader and class president, and was highly respected by all of the other Night Class students. While he is cold and authoritative towards his fellows in the Night Class, he is always kind and sweet to Yuki, whom he refers to as his "dear girl". From the beginning, it was revealed that he cared deeply for Yuki, and grew to love her, having been attached to her since she was born. Despite his cold feelings and anger towards Zero, he allowed him to live, out of sympathy for Yuki, who cared deeply for him. He also knew Zero could protect her when he could not. Prior to Yuki's memory loss, Kaname was believed to be her brother, and at a young age, the two pledged to marry each other, just as their parents, who were siblings as well, had done. In truth, he was actually an ancient ancestor of the Kurans, resurrected by Rido Kuran, who had intended to consume him and gain a huge amount of power. Kaname escaped and ended up being raised by Juuri and Haruka Kuran, as Yuki's brother, in place of the son that Rido took and used as a sacrifice to revive Kaname. He later became the leader of Vampire Society, pursuing peace between humans and vampires.
• Rido Kuran (玖蘭 李土 Kuran Rido?) age 3000, A Pureblood Vampire, the elder brother of Juuri and Haruka Kuran, who had ordered Zero's parents to kill his fiancee's (Shizuka Hiou) lover, a level D vampire. He resurrected the ancestor of the Kuran Clan by sacrificing the infant, Kaname Kuran, whose identity the vampire in the story took. Rido was in love with his younger sister, Juuri, and upon rejection and seeing her fall in love with Haruka, he fell into madness. Eventually, due to his instability, he mistook Yuki for Juuri, and attempted to drink her blood. Rido was later killed at the hands of Zero and Yuki, but was shown to have a vestige remain of himself, because of his connection to Kaname.
Media
Manga
Main article: List of Vampire Knight chapters
The first chapter of Matsuri Hino's Vampire Knight premiered in the January 2005 issue of LaLa, where the series is still running. The individual chapters are being collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha, with eleven volumes released in Japan as of June 2009. The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media. In addition to publishing the individual volumes, the series was serialized in Viz's Shojo Beat manga anthology from the July 2006 issue until the magazine was discontinued after the July 2009 issue. It is licensed for English release in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, which has released eleven volumes as of July 2010.[6]
Drama CDs
Two drama CDs have been released for Vampire Knight. The first, LaLa Kirameki, was released as an extra with the September 2005 issue of LaLa. The second, Vampire Knight Midnight CD-Pack, was released only via mail order.
Anime
Main article: List of Vampire Knight episodes
Studio Deen produced a twenty-six episode anime adaptation of the Vampire Knight manga, using many of the same voice actors featured on the drama CDs and directed by Kiyoko Sayama.[7] The episodes started airing on TV Tokyo in Japan on April 8, 2008 and ran until the season conclusion on July 1, 2008. The episodes were also aired at later dates on TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co.[7] The second season, named Vampire Knight Guilty, premiered on the same station October 7, 2008.[8][9] The final episode aired on December 30, 2008. On July 24, 2009, Viz Media announced it had acquired the license for the Vampire Knight anime and would begin releasing it to DVD in July 20, 2010.[10]
The series uses four pieces of theme music. The opening themes of both the first and second season are performed by the duo On/Off, with "Futatsu no Kodō to Akai Tsumi" (ふたつの鼓動と赤い罪?) as the opening for the first season, and "Rondo" (輪廻 -ロンド-Rinne?) as the opening for the second. Kanon Wakeshima performs the first season ending theme, "Still Doll", and also the second season's ending theme "Suna no Oshiro" (砂のお城?). The soundtrack is composed by Haketa Takefumi and consists of 30 tracks (including the opening theme and ending theme).
Light novels
Two light novels created by Matsuri Hino and Ayuna Fujisaki were published in Japan by Hakusensha in 2008. Both novels feature two individual side-stories that use the characters of the manga, but are not specifically based on chapters from the series.[11] The first novel, Vampire Knight: Ice Blue's Sin (ヴァンパイア騎士 憂氷の罪 Vanpaia Naito: Aisu Burū no Tsumi?), was published on April 5, 2008.[11][12] The first story within the novel looks at events that occurred at Cross Academy in the year preceding Yuki's arrival, while the second story details an accident that occurred while Zero was still in training to be a vampire hunter.[11]
The second novel, Vampire Knight: Noir's Trap (ヴァンパイア騎士 凝黒の罠 Vanpaia Naito: Nowāru no Wana?), was published on October 3, 2008.[11][13] It details some of the Cross Academy romances, as well as detailing the accident that happened when Kain and Ruka go to visit Shiki and Rima's modeling studio.[11]
Video game
Vampire Knight DS (ヴァンパイア騎士 DS Vanpaia Naito Dīesu?) is a dating simulation game using the characters from the series, but telling a unique story. It's in Japanese. It was released by D3 Publisher in Japan in January 2009.[11]
Fanbook
In November 2008, the official Vampire Knight, titled Vampire Knight Fanbook: Cross (ヴァンパイア騎士 ファンブックX Vanpaia Naito Fanbukku Kurosu?), was published in Japan. In addition to providing additional information about the series characters and story, it includes images and details from Hino's storyboard.[11] The fanbook has been licensed by Viz Media and will be released in October 19, 2010.[14]
Artbook
Lala magazine announced the upcoming release of a Vampire Knight Artbook, to be released on July 5 in Japan simultaneously with the release of volume 12.
References
1. ^ Voice Actors Named for Animated Series Vampire Knight
2. ^ Vampire Knight, 35th Night
3. ^ Vampire Knight, 6th Night
4. ^ Vampire Knight, 12th Night
5. ^ Vampire Knight, 3rd Night
6. ^ "Vampire Knight". Madman Entertainment. http://www.madman.com.au/actions/periodicals.do?method=view&periodicalId=40. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
7. ^ a b "Vampire Knight (TV)". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9009. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
8. ^ "Vampire Knight 2nd Season to Air in Japan in October". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-06-23/vampire-knight-2nd-season-to-air-in-japan-in-october. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
9. ^ "Vampire Knight Guilty Sequel's Promo Video Streamed". Anime News Network. 2008-08-26. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-08-26/vampire-knight-guilty-sequel-promo-video-streamed. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
10. ^ "Vampire Knight Licensed by Viz Media". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-24/viz-adds-vampire-knight-anime-updated. Retrieved July 24, 2009.
11. ^ a b c d e f g "Vampire Knight News". Shojo Beat 5 (1): 288. January 2009. ISSN 1932-1600.
12. ^ "Vampire Knight Comic" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.vampire-knight.jp/contents/index.php/archives/70. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
13. ^ "ヴァンパイア騎士凝黒の罠" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4592187016/. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
14. ^ "Viz Gets Gente, Library Wars, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Nice to Meet You, Kamisama (Update 2)". Anime News Network. 2009-09-27. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-27/viz-gets-gente-library-wars-grand-guignol-orchestra-nice-to-meet-you-kamisama. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
Two drama CDs were created for the series, as well as a twenty-six episode anime adaptation. Produced by Studio Deen, the anime series' first season aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 8, 2008 and July 1, 2008. The second season, titled Vampire Knight Guilty aired on the same station from October 7, 2008 and December 30, 2008. The anime uses many of the same voice actors as were used for the drama CDs. The anime adaptations have been licensed for release in North America by Viz Media, the DVD will be released on July 20, 2010.
Plot
Yuki Cross' earliest memory is of being all alone on a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by an evil "Level E" vampire and saved by a powerful but kind vampire named Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki, along with her childhood friend, Zero Kiryu are school guardians at the prestigious Cross Academy where her adoptive father is the headmaster. The school is hosting an experimental program that is trying to prove that humans and vampires can live together peacefully, in a quest for coexistence.
The job of the guardians is to make sure that peace is maintained and to protect the human "Day Class" students from the vampire "Night Class" students if necessary. They also make sure that the human students do not discover that the Night Class members are all actually vampires. They go by the guise as "prefects" or "disciplinary committee members" so as to not blow their secret. Most of the day class students are infatuated with the night class students, as they are all very beautiful, intelligent, and mysterious. They also often flirt.
The night class is made up of high-class vampires (Levels A and B), as there is a hierarchy among vampire society. Level A includes only pure bloods, the rarest, most elite, and most powerful class, whose bloodlines have never mixed with humans. Pure bloods are also the only kind of vampires who can bite a human and turn them into another vampire, and a pure blood's blood gives whoever drinks it greater powers. Level B are known as "Nobles" or "Aristocrats." These are also very powerful vampires, but not as mighty as the pure bloods. They also have a small amount of human blood in their ancestry. Levels C,D, and E include humans who have been turned by a pure blood rather than born as a vampire. These ex-humans will eventually go mad with blood lust and become a "Level E" if they are not stabilized by drinking the blood of the one who originally bit them in the first place. Stabilized ex-humans are known as "Level C" or "regular vampires", and humans who have been bitten but have not gone mad are "Level D".
The story follows Yuki's discovery that Zero had been turned into a vampire and her struggle to keep him sane, since he had not been stabilized, and prevent his condition from deteriorating into the lowest form of vampire, the monstrous Level E. Zero's parents were vampire hunters, killed by a pure blood out for revenge, and who also bit him in the process and took his twin brother, assumed to be dead. He hates what he has become, and fears that he will succumb to blood lust and murder everyone. He feels that the only option is to kill himself, which Yuki tries to help him avoid. Meanwhile, she also tries to deal with her seemingly unobtainable love for her hero, Kaname, who also happens to be a pure blood- the only one in the night class.
Yuki faces a difficult decision with the arrival of Shizuka Hio. She is the pure blood vampire who killed Zero's family and turned Zero into a vampire. She offers Yuki a deal to help him; either by having her kill Kaname or allow her to drink Yuki's blood and become a vampire herself. Yuki decides to give up her humanity to save both Zero and Kaname, but is stopped by Zero, who would rather kill Shizuka. Neither occurs when Zero's assumed dead twin shows up, and Kaname ends up killing Shizuka and drinking her blood in order to protect Yuki and reluctantly, Zero. With the loss of his salvation, Yuki continues to help Zero fight his bloodlust while also seeking to recover the memories she lost as a young child before Kaname found her. As the series progresses, Zero's thirst for blood leads to his drinking from Yuki, by her consent, to avoid becoming a level E vampire and losing himself to his monstrous instincts. This is difficult for him, since he secretly loves her and doesn't want to hurt anybody. Kaname loves Yuki as well, and is very protective of her, and to stop her from having to do this, he gives Zero his own "pure" blood. Also, since he had consumed the blood of Shizuka Hio, his own helps keep Zero from going insane and from needing to feed from Yuki.
Eventually, it is revealed that Yuki is a pure blood vampire herself; the Pure blood Princess of the Kuran family, who had been transformed into a human before she lost her memories. It is also revealed that Kaname is Yuki's older 'brother' and that they were engaged as children to be married. This is a common practice among pure bloods to preserve blood lines and due to the fact that vampires are immune to inbreeding. Despite this, Kaname is not Yuki's true blood brother, but an ancient and powerful ancestor of the royal Kuran family who was resurrected by Rido Kuran so that Rido could prey on him and consume him to become more powerful. He escaped and was raised by Yuki's parents, Juuri and Haruka Kuran, after Rido had kidnapped and sacrificed their first child to bring him back to life. To protect Yuki from her monstrous uncle and the corrupt vampire senate who wished to exploit their pure blood, her mother sacrificed her life in order to perform a spell that would seal Yuki's memories and allow her to live as a human. After Yuki reawakens to her vampire nature, Rido again tries to kill her and consume her power. At the same time, Kaname had gone to kill the members of the vampire senate who they had discovered were working together with their uncle to not only get Yuki, but destroy the night class and their hopes for peace. During a fierce battle, Zero ultimately kills Rido, but later on tells Yuki he will have to kill her too when he sees her once again, since she is a pure blood. She tells him that she will keep running, so that he will have a reason to live. Although this is where the anime ends, the manga continues the story and is updated monthly in LaLa Magazine.
Characters
Main article: List of Vampire Knight characters
• Yuki Cross/Yuki Kuran (黒主 優姫/玖蘭 優姫 Kurosu Yūki/Kuran Yūki?) age 15, is the adoptive daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, Kaien Cross, and serves as a school guardian. Ten years prior to the start of the series, Yuki was attacked by a vampire, and rescued by another, Kaname Kuran. Having lost all memories prior to the attack, she was adopted by Headmaster Cross. After her best friend Zero's vampire nature started to reveal itself, she began giving him her blood to drink, hoping to halt the degradation of his human nature. Despite her dedication to her best friend, Yuki was in love with Kaname, the man whom had always been in her memories looking out for her. When Rido Kuran and his Clan of followers resurfaced at Cross Academy, it was revealed that all along, Yuki was unknowingly a pureblood vampire herself; Not to mention Kaname's sister and fiancée.[2] The revelation of her pureblood status caused a deep rift between Zero and Yuki. She is now a pureblood princess, often approaching and offering her services to any suicidal purebloods. In spite of all of the strain and trials put between them, Yuki came to terms with her feelings and realized she loved Zero as well, but could not stray from the man who saved her life ten years ago.
• Zero Kiryuu (錐生 零 Kiryū Zero?) age 15, who is one year older than Yuki Cross,[3] came from a family of vampire hunters. Four years prior to the beginning of the story, his parents and brother were killed by the pureblood vampire, Shizuka Hiou, after they followed orders to assassinate her lover. The now orphaned Zero was taken in by Kaien Cross and became a school guardian, alongside Yuki.[4] Because of what happened to his family, Zero grew to have a deep hatred for all vampires. Despite his grudge, it was later revealed that in result of the attack, Zero had been turned into a vampire himself. As his ravenous side began to surface, his best friend, Yuki, began offering her blood to him, to subdue his true vampire nature.[5] It was also later revealed that his twin brother, Ichiru, also survived the attack and was willingly living by Shizuka's side. Upon consuming Shizuka, and despite the undeniable tension between the two men, Kaname let Zero drink some of his blood to keep Zero from losing control of himself in order to protect Yuki. After Yuki was transformed into a vampire, his feelings for Yuki were revealed, he was indeed in love with her. But Zero and Yuki were now standing on opposing sides; Yuki being a pureblood princess, and Zero becoming the president of the vampire hunters.
• Kaname Kuran (玖蘭 枢 Kuran Kaname?) age 19, a Pureblood vampire and one of the last remaining members of the oldest and most powerful vampire family- the Kurans. He saved Yuki from an attack by a Level E vampire when she was five years old. Aside from his status, he was the Night Class dorm leader and class president, and was highly respected by all of the other Night Class students. While he is cold and authoritative towards his fellows in the Night Class, he is always kind and sweet to Yuki, whom he refers to as his "dear girl". From the beginning, it was revealed that he cared deeply for Yuki, and grew to love her, having been attached to her since she was born. Despite his cold feelings and anger towards Zero, he allowed him to live, out of sympathy for Yuki, who cared deeply for him. He also knew Zero could protect her when he could not. Prior to Yuki's memory loss, Kaname was believed to be her brother, and at a young age, the two pledged to marry each other, just as their parents, who were siblings as well, had done. In truth, he was actually an ancient ancestor of the Kurans, resurrected by Rido Kuran, who had intended to consume him and gain a huge amount of power. Kaname escaped and ended up being raised by Juuri and Haruka Kuran, as Yuki's brother, in place of the son that Rido took and used as a sacrifice to revive Kaname. He later became the leader of Vampire Society, pursuing peace between humans and vampires.
• Rido Kuran (玖蘭 李土 Kuran Rido?) age 3000, A Pureblood Vampire, the elder brother of Juuri and Haruka Kuran, who had ordered Zero's parents to kill his fiancee's (Shizuka Hiou) lover, a level D vampire. He resurrected the ancestor of the Kuran Clan by sacrificing the infant, Kaname Kuran, whose identity the vampire in the story took. Rido was in love with his younger sister, Juuri, and upon rejection and seeing her fall in love with Haruka, he fell into madness. Eventually, due to his instability, he mistook Yuki for Juuri, and attempted to drink her blood. Rido was later killed at the hands of Zero and Yuki, but was shown to have a vestige remain of himself, because of his connection to Kaname.
Media
Manga
Main article: List of Vampire Knight chapters
The first chapter of Matsuri Hino's Vampire Knight premiered in the January 2005 issue of LaLa, where the series is still running. The individual chapters are being collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha, with eleven volumes released in Japan as of June 2009. The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media. In addition to publishing the individual volumes, the series was serialized in Viz's Shojo Beat manga anthology from the July 2006 issue until the magazine was discontinued after the July 2009 issue. It is licensed for English release in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, which has released eleven volumes as of July 2010.[6]
Drama CDs
Two drama CDs have been released for Vampire Knight. The first, LaLa Kirameki, was released as an extra with the September 2005 issue of LaLa. The second, Vampire Knight Midnight CD-Pack, was released only via mail order.
Anime
Main article: List of Vampire Knight episodes
Studio Deen produced a twenty-six episode anime adaptation of the Vampire Knight manga, using many of the same voice actors featured on the drama CDs and directed by Kiyoko Sayama.[7] The episodes started airing on TV Tokyo in Japan on April 8, 2008 and ran until the season conclusion on July 1, 2008. The episodes were also aired at later dates on TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co.[7] The second season, named Vampire Knight Guilty, premiered on the same station October 7, 2008.[8][9] The final episode aired on December 30, 2008. On July 24, 2009, Viz Media announced it had acquired the license for the Vampire Knight anime and would begin releasing it to DVD in July 20, 2010.[10]
The series uses four pieces of theme music. The opening themes of both the first and second season are performed by the duo On/Off, with "Futatsu no Kodō to Akai Tsumi" (ふたつの鼓動と赤い罪?) as the opening for the first season, and "Rondo" (輪廻 -ロンド-Rinne?) as the opening for the second. Kanon Wakeshima performs the first season ending theme, "Still Doll", and also the second season's ending theme "Suna no Oshiro" (砂のお城?). The soundtrack is composed by Haketa Takefumi and consists of 30 tracks (including the opening theme and ending theme).
Light novels
Two light novels created by Matsuri Hino and Ayuna Fujisaki were published in Japan by Hakusensha in 2008. Both novels feature two individual side-stories that use the characters of the manga, but are not specifically based on chapters from the series.[11] The first novel, Vampire Knight: Ice Blue's Sin (ヴァンパイア騎士 憂氷の罪 Vanpaia Naito: Aisu Burū no Tsumi?), was published on April 5, 2008.[11][12] The first story within the novel looks at events that occurred at Cross Academy in the year preceding Yuki's arrival, while the second story details an accident that occurred while Zero was still in training to be a vampire hunter.[11]
The second novel, Vampire Knight: Noir's Trap (ヴァンパイア騎士 凝黒の罠 Vanpaia Naito: Nowāru no Wana?), was published on October 3, 2008.[11][13] It details some of the Cross Academy romances, as well as detailing the accident that happened when Kain and Ruka go to visit Shiki and Rima's modeling studio.[11]
Video game
Vampire Knight DS (ヴァンパイア騎士 DS Vanpaia Naito Dīesu?) is a dating simulation game using the characters from the series, but telling a unique story. It's in Japanese. It was released by D3 Publisher in Japan in January 2009.[11]
Fanbook
In November 2008, the official Vampire Knight, titled Vampire Knight Fanbook: Cross (ヴァンパイア騎士 ファンブックX Vanpaia Naito Fanbukku Kurosu?), was published in Japan. In addition to providing additional information about the series characters and story, it includes images and details from Hino's storyboard.[11] The fanbook has been licensed by Viz Media and will be released in October 19, 2010.[14]
Artbook
Lala magazine announced the upcoming release of a Vampire Knight Artbook, to be released on July 5 in Japan simultaneously with the release of volume 12.
References
1. ^ Voice Actors Named for Animated Series Vampire Knight
2. ^ Vampire Knight, 35th Night
3. ^ Vampire Knight, 6th Night
4. ^ Vampire Knight, 12th Night
5. ^ Vampire Knight, 3rd Night
6. ^ "Vampire Knight". Madman Entertainment. http://www.madman.com.au/actions/periodicals.do?method=view&periodicalId=40. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
7. ^ a b "Vampire Knight (TV)". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9009. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
8. ^ "Vampire Knight 2nd Season to Air in Japan in October". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-06-23/vampire-knight-2nd-season-to-air-in-japan-in-october. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
9. ^ "Vampire Knight Guilty Sequel's Promo Video Streamed". Anime News Network. 2008-08-26. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-08-26/vampire-knight-guilty-sequel-promo-video-streamed. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
10. ^ "Vampire Knight Licensed by Viz Media". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-24/viz-adds-vampire-knight-anime-updated. Retrieved July 24, 2009.
11. ^ a b c d e f g "Vampire Knight News". Shojo Beat 5 (1): 288. January 2009. ISSN 1932-1600.
12. ^ "Vampire Knight Comic" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.vampire-knight.jp/contents/index.php/archives/70. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
13. ^ "ヴァンパイア騎士凝黒の罠" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4592187016/. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
14. ^ "Viz Gets Gente, Library Wars, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Nice to Meet You, Kamisama (Update 2)". Anime News Network. 2009-09-27. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-27/viz-gets-gente-library-wars-grand-guignol-orchestra-nice-to-meet-you-kamisama. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
Thursday
konsep IP routing
outing dari kata dasar route yang diserap dalam bahasa indonesia sebagai rute, definisinya adalah rute dari paket IP didalam jaringan dengan serangkaian tugas untuk mengirimkan paket IP dari router ke router sampai ke tujuan akhir sebagaimana sudah ditentukan didalam bagian IP Header. adalah mirip konsep routing antara jaringan IP dengan system transportasi, disini kami akan menerangkan bahwa konsep routing didalam jaringan IP juga mirip dengan pengoperasian pengiriman mail. dan kami akan membandingkan konsep routing IP dengan konsep konsep system lainnya.
a router has directly attached networks that are immediately accessible (in
other words, that do not require any specific routing mechanism to discover). Consider
router R, in the following example. Networks 1.0.0.0, 10.1.1.0, and 10.1.2.0
are directly connected to the router:
hostname R
!
interface Ethernet0
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.0.0.0
!
interface Ethernet1
ip address 10.1.1.4 255.255.255.0
!
interface Ethernet2
ip address 10.1.2.4 255.255.255.0
…
In fact, the moment these networks are connected to the router they are visible in R’s
routing table. Note in the following output that the command to display the routing
table is show ip route (in EXEC mode). Also note the “C” that is prepended to the
entries in the routing table, indicating that the routes were discovered as directly
connected to the router:
R#show ip route
Codes: C – connected, S – static, I – IGRP, R – RIP, M – mobile, B – BGP
D – EIGRP, EX – EIGRP external, O – OSPF, IA – OSPF inter area
N1 – OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 – OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 – OSPF external type 1, E2 – OSPF external type 2, E – EGP
i – IS-IS, L1 – IS-IS level-1, L2 – IS-IS level-2, * – candidate default
Gateway of last resort is 0.0.0.0 to network 0.0.0.0
C 1.0.0.0/8 is directly connected, Ethernet0
10.0.0.0/8 is subnetted, 2 subnets
C 10.1.1.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet1
C 10.1.2.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet2
Directly connected networks are automatically installed in the routing table if the
interface to the network is up. Figure 1-2 shows router R with its directly connected
networks. (The EXEC command show interface will show the state of the interfaces).
In the previous example, it is assumed that all three interfaces to the directly connected
networks are up. If an interface to a directly connected network goes down,
the corresponding route is removed from the routing table.
If multiple IP addresses are attached to an interface (using secondary addresses), all
the associated networks are installed in the routing table.
Static Routing
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 1.1.1.2
R#sh ip route
…
1 S 146.1.0.0/16 [1/0] via 1.1.1.2
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 1.1.1.3
The syntax of the static route command is:
ip route network [mask] {address | interface} [distance]
where network and mask specify the IP address and mask of the destination. The
next hop may be specified by its IP address or by the interface on which to send the
packet. To point a static route to an interface (Ethernet0 in this case), use:
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 interface Ethernet0
Static routes are smart to the extent that if the next hop (interface or IP address)
specified goes down, the router will remove the static route entry from the routing
table.
Dynamic Routing
we spoke of the “shorter” or “shortest” path in the context
of both DV and Link State algorithms. Since a router may know of multiple
paths to a destination, each routing protocol must provide a mechanism to discover
the “shorter” or “shortest” path based on one or more of the following criteria: number
of hops, delay, throughput, traffic, reliability, etc. A metric is usually attached to
this combination; lower metric values indicate “shorter” paths. For each routing protocol
discussed in the chapters that follow, we will describe how the route metric is
computed.
A network under a single administrative authority is described as an autonomous system
(AS) in routing parlance. Interior gateway protocols (IGPs) are designed to support
the task of routing internal to an AS. IGPs have no concept of political boundaries
between ASs or the metrics that may be used to select paths between ASs. RIP, IGRP,
EIGRP, and OSPF are IGPs. Exterior gateway protocols (EGPs) are designed to support
routing between ASs. EGPs deploy metrics to select one inter-AS path over
another. BGP is the most commonly used EGP.
The Routing Table
At Grand Central Terminal, a big wall lists all the destinations and their corresponding
track numbers (see Figure 1-4). Passengers find their destination on this wall and
then proceed to the indicated platforms. Similarly, a routing table must contain at
least two pieces of information: the destination network and the next hop toward
that destination. This reflects a fundamental paradigm of IP routing: hop-by-hop
routing. In other words, a router does not know the full path to a destination, but
only the next hop to reach the destination.
Departures
Destination #####time#####tracknumber
New Haven 9:21 22
Cos Cob 9:24 11
Valhalla 9:31 19
Dover Plains 9:42 12
Bronxville 9:18 17
Routes are installed in the routing table as they are learned through the mechanisms
we have been discussing: directly connected networks, static routes, and dynamic
routing protocols. A typical routing table in a Cisco router looks like this:
Router>show ip route
Codes: C – connected, S – static, I – IGRP, R – RIP, M – mobile, B – BGP
D – EIGRP, EX – EIGRP external, O – OSPF, IA – OSPF inter area
N1 – OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 – OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 – OSPF external type 1, E2 – OSPF external type 2, E – EGP
i – IS-IS, L1 – IS-IS level-1, L2 – IS-IS level-2, * – candidate default
Gateway of last resort is 0.0.0.0 to network 0.0.0.0
2 177.130.0.0/30 is subnetted, 2 subnets
C 177.130.17.152 is directly connected, Serial1
C 177.130.17.148 is directly connected, Serial0
3 10.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
4 S 10.0.0.0/8 [1/0] via 160.4.115.74
5 S 10.254.101.0/24 [1/0] via 160.4.101.4
6 162.162.0.0/24 is subnetted, 2 subnets
O IA 162.162.101.0 [110/3137] via 11.175.238.4, 02:16:02, Ethernet0
[110/3137] via 11.175.238.3, 02:16:02, Ethernet0
O IA 162.162.253.0 [110/3127] via 11.175.238.4, 02:25:43, Ethernet0
[110/3127] via 11.175.238.3, 02:25:43, Ethernet0
7 O E2 192.188.106.0/24 [110/20] via 11.175.238.33, 20:49:59, Ethernet0
…
Note that the first few lines of the output attach a code to the source of the routing
information: “C” and “S” denote “connected” and “static”, respectively, as we saw
earlier, “I” denotes IGRP, etc. This code is prepended to each routing entry in the
routing table, signifying the source of that route.
The body of the routing table essentially contains two pieces of information: the destination
and the next hop. So, 177.130.0.0 (line 2) has two subnets, each with a 30-bit
mask. The two subnets are listed in the following two lines.
Line 3 shows an interesting case. 10.0.0.0 has two subnets: 10.0.0.0/8 and 10.254.
101.0/24. Not only are the subnet masks different, but the subnets are overlapping. A
destination address of 10.254.101.1 would match both route entries! So, should a
packet for 10.254.101.1 be routed to 160.4.115.74 or 160.4.101.4? Routing table
lookups follow the rule of longest prefix match. 10.254.101.1 matches 8 bits on line 4
and 24 bits on line 5—the longer prefix wins, and the packet is forwarded to 160.4.
101.4. 162.162.0.0 (line 6) has two subnets, each of which is known via two paths.
192.188.106.0 (line 7) is not subnetted.
What if a route is learnt via multiple sources—say, via OSPF and as a static entry?
Each source of routing information has an attached measure of its trustworthiness,
called administrative distance in Cisco parlance. The lower the administrative distance,
the more trustworthy the source.
Table 1-1 shows the default administrative distances.
Table 1-1. Default administrative distances
Route source Default distance
Connected interface 0
Static route 1
External BGP 20
IGRP 100
OSPF 110
IS-IS 115
RIP 120
EGP 140
Internal BGP 200
Unknown 255
Thus, if a route is known both via OSPF and as a static entry, the static entry, not the
entry known via OSPF, will be installed in the routing table.
Note that distance information and the route metric appear in the output of show ip
route inside square brackets with the distance information first, followed by a “/”
and the route metric: [distance/metric].
Administrative distance is only considered internally within a router; distance information
is not exchanged in routing updates.
to be continued..
a router has directly attached networks that are immediately accessible (in
other words, that do not require any specific routing mechanism to discover). Consider
router R, in the following example. Networks 1.0.0.0, 10.1.1.0, and 10.1.2.0
are directly connected to the router:
hostname R
!
interface Ethernet0
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.0.0.0
!
interface Ethernet1
ip address 10.1.1.4 255.255.255.0
!
interface Ethernet2
ip address 10.1.2.4 255.255.255.0
…
In fact, the moment these networks are connected to the router they are visible in R’s
routing table. Note in the following output that the command to display the routing
table is show ip route (in EXEC mode). Also note the “C” that is prepended to the
entries in the routing table, indicating that the routes were discovered as directly
connected to the router:
R#show ip route
Codes: C – connected, S – static, I – IGRP, R – RIP, M – mobile, B – BGP
D – EIGRP, EX – EIGRP external, O – OSPF, IA – OSPF inter area
N1 – OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 – OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 – OSPF external type 1, E2 – OSPF external type 2, E – EGP
i – IS-IS, L1 – IS-IS level-1, L2 – IS-IS level-2, * – candidate default
Gateway of last resort is 0.0.0.0 to network 0.0.0.0
C 1.0.0.0/8 is directly connected, Ethernet0
10.0.0.0/8 is subnetted, 2 subnets
C 10.1.1.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet1
C 10.1.2.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet2
Directly connected networks are automatically installed in the routing table if the
interface to the network is up. Figure 1-2 shows router R with its directly connected
networks. (The EXEC command show interface will show the state of the interfaces).
In the previous example, it is assumed that all three interfaces to the directly connected
networks are up. If an interface to a directly connected network goes down,
the corresponding route is removed from the routing table.
If multiple IP addresses are attached to an interface (using secondary addresses), all
the associated networks are installed in the routing table.
Static Routing
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 1.1.1.2
R#sh ip route
…
1 S 146.1.0.0/16 [1/0] via 1.1.1.2
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 1.1.1.3
The syntax of the static route command is:
ip route network [mask] {address | interface} [distance]
where network and mask specify the IP address and mask of the destination. The
next hop may be specified by its IP address or by the interface on which to send the
packet. To point a static route to an interface (Ethernet0 in this case), use:
ip route 146.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 interface Ethernet0
Static routes are smart to the extent that if the next hop (interface or IP address)
specified goes down, the router will remove the static route entry from the routing
table.
Dynamic Routing
we spoke of the “shorter” or “shortest” path in the context
of both DV and Link State algorithms. Since a router may know of multiple
paths to a destination, each routing protocol must provide a mechanism to discover
the “shorter” or “shortest” path based on one or more of the following criteria: number
of hops, delay, throughput, traffic, reliability, etc. A metric is usually attached to
this combination; lower metric values indicate “shorter” paths. For each routing protocol
discussed in the chapters that follow, we will describe how the route metric is
computed.
A network under a single administrative authority is described as an autonomous system
(AS) in routing parlance. Interior gateway protocols (IGPs) are designed to support
the task of routing internal to an AS. IGPs have no concept of political boundaries
between ASs or the metrics that may be used to select paths between ASs. RIP, IGRP,
EIGRP, and OSPF are IGPs. Exterior gateway protocols (EGPs) are designed to support
routing between ASs. EGPs deploy metrics to select one inter-AS path over
another. BGP is the most commonly used EGP.
The Routing Table
At Grand Central Terminal, a big wall lists all the destinations and their corresponding
track numbers (see Figure 1-4). Passengers find their destination on this wall and
then proceed to the indicated platforms. Similarly, a routing table must contain at
least two pieces of information: the destination network and the next hop toward
that destination. This reflects a fundamental paradigm of IP routing: hop-by-hop
routing. In other words, a router does not know the full path to a destination, but
only the next hop to reach the destination.
Departures
Destination #####time#####tracknumber
New Haven 9:21 22
Cos Cob 9:24 11
Valhalla 9:31 19
Dover Plains 9:42 12
Bronxville 9:18 17
Routes are installed in the routing table as they are learned through the mechanisms
we have been discussing: directly connected networks, static routes, and dynamic
routing protocols. A typical routing table in a Cisco router looks like this:
Router>show ip route
Codes: C – connected, S – static, I – IGRP, R – RIP, M – mobile, B – BGP
D – EIGRP, EX – EIGRP external, O – OSPF, IA – OSPF inter area
N1 – OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 – OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 – OSPF external type 1, E2 – OSPF external type 2, E – EGP
i – IS-IS, L1 – IS-IS level-1, L2 – IS-IS level-2, * – candidate default
Gateway of last resort is 0.0.0.0 to network 0.0.0.0
2 177.130.0.0/30 is subnetted, 2 subnets
C 177.130.17.152 is directly connected, Serial1
C 177.130.17.148 is directly connected, Serial0
3 10.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
4 S 10.0.0.0/8 [1/0] via 160.4.115.74
5 S 10.254.101.0/24 [1/0] via 160.4.101.4
6 162.162.0.0/24 is subnetted, 2 subnets
O IA 162.162.101.0 [110/3137] via 11.175.238.4, 02:16:02, Ethernet0
[110/3137] via 11.175.238.3, 02:16:02, Ethernet0
O IA 162.162.253.0 [110/3127] via 11.175.238.4, 02:25:43, Ethernet0
[110/3127] via 11.175.238.3, 02:25:43, Ethernet0
7 O E2 192.188.106.0/24 [110/20] via 11.175.238.33, 20:49:59, Ethernet0
…
Note that the first few lines of the output attach a code to the source of the routing
information: “C” and “S” denote “connected” and “static”, respectively, as we saw
earlier, “I” denotes IGRP, etc. This code is prepended to each routing entry in the
routing table, signifying the source of that route.
The body of the routing table essentially contains two pieces of information: the destination
and the next hop. So, 177.130.0.0 (line 2) has two subnets, each with a 30-bit
mask. The two subnets are listed in the following two lines.
Line 3 shows an interesting case. 10.0.0.0 has two subnets: 10.0.0.0/8 and 10.254.
101.0/24. Not only are the subnet masks different, but the subnets are overlapping. A
destination address of 10.254.101.1 would match both route entries! So, should a
packet for 10.254.101.1 be routed to 160.4.115.74 or 160.4.101.4? Routing table
lookups follow the rule of longest prefix match. 10.254.101.1 matches 8 bits on line 4
and 24 bits on line 5—the longer prefix wins, and the packet is forwarded to 160.4.
101.4. 162.162.0.0 (line 6) has two subnets, each of which is known via two paths.
192.188.106.0 (line 7) is not subnetted.
What if a route is learnt via multiple sources—say, via OSPF and as a static entry?
Each source of routing information has an attached measure of its trustworthiness,
called administrative distance in Cisco parlance. The lower the administrative distance,
the more trustworthy the source.
Table 1-1 shows the default administrative distances.
Table 1-1. Default administrative distances
Route source Default distance
Connected interface 0
Static route 1
External BGP 20
IGRP 100
OSPF 110
IS-IS 115
RIP 120
EGP 140
Internal BGP 200
Unknown 255
Thus, if a route is known both via OSPF and as a static entry, the static entry, not the
entry known via OSPF, will be installed in the routing table.
Note that distance information and the route metric appear in the output of show ip
route inside square brackets with the distance information first, followed by a “/”
and the route metric: [distance/metric].
Administrative distance is only considered internally within a router; distance information
is not exchanged in routing updates.
to be continued..
What’s Wrong with IT Strategy
By definition, every organization has an IT Strategy – some have it clearly articulated and the others are working to one without knowing it. The question is: Is the IT Strategy producing results? One can also ask the same question a different way: What must one do to make IT Strategy produce results? Or, perhaps, what is wrong with this IT Strategy? The strength of an IT Strategy does not come from it being articulated. It lies along its entire lifecycle – from the vision to the underlying policies, framework, process design, including management and control mechanisms, and execution. Each of them must be carefully thought through and designed. Vision, principles and policies set the direction for an IT Strategy. They are the first step to designing and defining an IT Strategy but, more importantly, they reflect the stakeholders’ beliefs. It is critical that the strategy evolve from these beliefs, otherwise execution will be “half hearted”. It is also absolutely essential to realize that “stakeholders” include both the designers and the executers of this strategy. A framework provides structure to IT Strategy. It enables rapid, repeatable results by ensuring that we have a complete “picture” and made the key connections. Frameworks might not guarantee success, but they sure help sustain and repeat it. Sometime, they can also salvage a floundering effort by identifying root cause of failure. Without a framework success or failure are a black box. More often than not, success comes from tinkering with an initial failure. Frameworks are invaluable in this tinkering. Sometimes we forget that IT Strategy is a process not a point in time event. Like any other process, IT Strategy process must also be designed and have an “owner”. It must also be integrated with other processes such as Budget, Portfolio Rationalization, Enterprise Architecture Planning and Systems Implementation. It must also be managed – monitored and controlled – using clearly defined metrics and mechanisms. Execution makes all the difference between success and failure of an IT Strategy. An IT Strategy might look good on paper. However, implementation is where the rubber meets the road and for the first time we know, for sure, if things are working as planned. As much as strategy drives execution, the reverse is also equally true. A good IT Strategy is one that is built factoring in “practical” considerations or execution “constraints”. Also, on an ongoing basis, real data from execution must be used to “fine tune” strategy. For the sake of brevity, we cannot delve into all that issues affecting IT Strategy. So let us look at 10 key reasons why IT Strategies fail to, well, sizzle: Show me the alignment? IT Strategy and alignment are such very nebulous terms that most people have difficulty defining them in a manner that is actionable. It is fine to say that an IT Strategy is going to align IT with business but it is another matter that most people cannot prove this alignment. Most CIOs cannot say for sure if their IT is aligned with business. Show me the value? Another area of concern is whether an IT Strategy will create verifiable and sustainable results. One of the reasons for business leaders’ dissatisfaction with IT in general, and IT Strategy in particular, is that one cannot verify results. We know that IT Alignment creates shareholder value. However, if one cannot verify alignment itself, they cannot expect to be taken seriously, when they claim, that it resulted in shareholder value creation. What is the ROI of NPV? It is hard to argue with Peter Drucker, when he says, “If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it”. However, is measurement is not restricted to financial measures such as NPV. It is not synonymous with “dollar-denominated”. IT is different. Its value cannot be measured only through NPV or other financial measures. Its measure does not have to be dollar denominated. There are other, better, means of measuring IT Value. How does this decision impact IT Value? An IT Strategy is not an end in itself. Organizations’ need to keep it updated. For example, unanticipated events require a response that might not have been considered in the original strategy. It is critical to understand how these decisions, in response to these events, affect the IT Strategy. Also, how do they impact value creation originally identified? How does this business decision impact IT? Stuff happens. In a business, it happens frequently and, more often than not, without warning. Speed and agility of response, differentiate businesses that succeed. Quickly, one would like to know the impact of a business event on its IT. Also, how can IT help respond to them – efficiently and effectively. IT Strategy framework must, seamlessly, traverse the business and IT boundaries to quickly assess the impact of an event across the entire organization. It should allow for quick decision making in response to these events – by assessing the impact on of each decision on shareholder value. One big leap or baby steps? Success, often, is a multi step process, especially, in uncharted territory. Our response to an initial stumble, determines if it is a minor glitch or a decisive blow. A good framework, process with a feedback loop and metrics help in this endeavor. IT Strategy’s success is no different. Our first foray might result in some problems. We should be able to know when we have faltered; if it is a glitch or a blunder; quickly assess the reason for our stumble. We must also be able to quickly devise a response. Can I learn from my experience? The classic definition of insanity is: repeating the same steps expecting different results. Why do IT organizations behave insanely? Because most organizations do not spend the time to analyze, document, incorporate, disseminate or teach their “lessons learnt”. Best practices are not disseminated from one part of the organization to the other. Failures are hidden. New team members are not taught “what works” and “what doesn’t”. Processes are not modified to incorporate lessons learnt. Your “next” IT Strategy is bound to deliver the same results and this one – nothing less; nothing more Is this a steering committee or a team? Often, IT Strategy is delegated to a steering committee comprised of participants from different functions. Each participant brings excellent, relevant and complementary skills to the table. However, this is a great idea that fails during execution. A successful team must have clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Each member of the team must understand how the different pieces of the puzzle fit together. Each member must “deliver” something. Together, then, the team delivers results. Steering committees result in the right people showing up for all the right meetings. However, they do not focus on role definition. They also fail to assign responsibility for deliverables. More often than not, these committees turn into debating societies where a lot of good stuff is discussed but very little, if anything, of value is ever delivered. Who will lose their job if this fails? Accountability is critical to the success of an IT Strategy. One can create a very “good” IT Strategy that either stays on the shelf or fails miserably when executed. Till success or failure is linked to executive compensation and/or career, such strategies and/or failures will continue to occur. Are we in compliance? IT standards are a critical enabler of IT Strategy because they help lower cost of operations. Organizations invest in standards teams that take great pains in defining standards. Often, IT Strategy process is not linked to a compliance process. Hence, projects that do not adhere to technical standards get implemented. Thus a great IT Strategy results in higher than desirable cost of operations.This is by no means an exhaustive list. However, addressing these will take us many steps closer to the solution.
Sejarah Terciptanya Virus Komputer
Virus komputer pertama kalinya tercipta bersamaan dengan komputer. Pada tahun 1949, salah seorang pencipta komputer, John von Newman, yang menciptakan Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC), memaparkan suatu makalahnya yang berjudul “Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata”. Dalam makalahnya dibahas kemungkinan program yang dapat menyebar dengan sendirinya. Perkembangan virus komputer selanjutnya terjadi di AT&T Bell Laboratory salah satu laboratorium komputer terbesar di dunia yang telah menghasilkan banyak hal, seperti bahasa C dan C++.1 Di laboratorium ini, sekitar tahun 1960-an, setiap waktu istirahat para peneliti membuat permainan dengan suatu program yang dapat memusnahkan kemampuan membetulkan dirinya dan balik menyerang kedudukan lawan. Selain itu, program permainan dapat memperbanyak dirinya secara otomatis. Perang program ini disebut Core War, yaitu pemenangnya adalah pemilik program sisa terbanyak dalam selang waktu tertentu. Karena sadar akan bahaya program tersebut, terutama bila bocor keluar laboratorium tersebut, maka setiap selesai permainan, program tersebut selalu dimusnahkan. Sekitar tahun 1970-an , perusahaan Xerox memperkenalkan suatu program yang digunakan untuk membantu kelancaran kerja. Struktur programnya menyerupai virus, namun program ini adalah untuk memanfaatkan waktu semaksimal mungkin dan pada waktu yang bersamaan dua tugas dapat dilakukan. Pada tahun 1980-an, perang virus di dunia terbuka bermula atas pemaparan Fred Cohen, seorang peneliti dan asisten profesor di Universitas Cincinati, Ohio. Dalam pemaparannya, Fred juga mendemonstrasikan sebuah program ciptaannya, yaitu suatu virus yang dapat menyebar secara cepat pada sejumlah komputer. Sementara virus berkembang, Indonesia juga mulai terkena wabah virus. Virus komputer ini pertama menyebar di Indonesia juga pada
tahun 1988. Virus yang begitu menggemparkan seluruh pemakai komputer di Indonesia, saat itu, adalah virus ©Brain yang dikenal dengan nama virus Pakistan.
Pengertian Virus Komputer
Istilah virus komputer tak asing lagi bagi kalangan pengguna komputer saat ini. Padahal, sekitar 12 tahun yang lalu, istilah ini telah dikenal oleh masyarakat pengguna komputer. Baru pada tahun 1988, muncul artikel-artikel di media massa yang dengan gencar memberitakan mengenai ancaman baru bagi para pemakai komputer yang kemudian dikenal dengan sebutan ‘virus komputer’. Virus yang terdapat pada komputer hanyalah berupa program biasa, sebagaimana layaknya program-program lain. Tetapi terdapat perbedaan yang sangat mendasar pada virus komputer dan program lainnya. Virus dibuat oleh seseorang dengan tujuan yang bermacam-macam, tetapi umumnya para pembuat virus hanyalah ingin mengejar popularitas dan juga hanya demi kesenangan semata. Tetapi apabila seseorang membuat virus dengan tujuan merusak maka tentu saja
akan mengacaukan komputer yang ditularinya.
Kemampuan Dasar Virus Komputer
Definisi umum virus komputer adalah program komputer yang biasanya berukuran kecil yang dapat meyebabkan gangguan atau kerusakan pada sistem komputer dan memiliki beberapa kemampuan dasar, diantaranya adalah :
Kemampuan untuk memperbanyak diri
Yakni kemampuan untuk membuat duplikat dirinya pada file-file atau disk-disk yang belum ditularinya, sehingga lama-kelamaan wilayah penyebarannya semakin luas.
Kemampuan untuk menyembunyikan diri
Yakni kemampuan untuk menyembunyikan dirinya dari perhatian user, antara lain dengan cara-cara berikut :
a. Menghadang keluaran ke layar selama virus bekerja, sehingga pekerjaan virus tak tampak oleh user.
b. Program virus ditempatkan diluar track2 yang dibuat DOS (misalkan track 41)
c. Ukuran virus dibuat sekecil mungkin sehingga tidak menarik kecurigaan.
Kemampuan untuk mengadakan manipulasi
Sebenarnya rutin manipulasi tak terlalu penting. Tetapi inilah yang sering mengganggu. Biasanya rutin ini dibuat untuk :
a. Membuat tampilan atau pesan yang menggangu pada layer monitor
b. Mengganti volume label disket
c. Merusak struktur disk, menghapus file-file
d. Mengacaukan kerja alat-alat I/O, seperti keyboard dan printer
Kemampuan untuk mendapatkan informasi
Yakni kemampuan untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang struktur media penyimpanan seperti letak boot record asli, letak table partisi, letak FAT3, posisi suatu file, dan sebagainya.
Kemampuan untuk memeriksa keberadaan dirinya
Sebelum menyusipi suati file virus memeriksa keberadaan dirinya dalam file itu dengan mencari ID (tanda pengenal) dirinya di dalam file itu. File yang belum tertular suatu virus tentunya tidak mengandung ID dari virus yang bersangkutan. Kemampuan ini mencegah penyusupan yang berkali-kali pada suatu file yang sama.
2.4 Jenis-jenis virus komputer
Berikut ini akan dibahas jenis-jenis virus yang penulis simpulkan dari berbagai sumber, baik sumber pustaka maupun sumber dari internet.
2.4.1 Berdasarkan Teknik Pembuatannya
a. Virus yang dibuat dengan compiler
Adalah virus yang dapat dieksekusi karena merupakan virus yang telah di compile sehingga menjadi dapat dieksekusi langsung. Virus jenis ini adalah virus yang pertama kali muncul di dunia komputer, dan sampai sekarang terus berkembang pesat. Biasanya virus jenis ini dibuat dengan bahasa pemrograman tingkat rendah yang disebut dengan assembler, karena dengan menggunakan assembler program yang dihasilkan lebih kecil dan cepat, sehingga sangat cocok untuk membuat virus. Tetapi tidak tertutup kemungkinan untuk membuat virus dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman lainnya seperti C dan Pascal baik dilingkungan DOS maupun Windows .
Mungkin virus jenis ini adalah virus yang paling sulit untuk dibuat tetapi karena dibuat dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman dan berbentuk bahasa mesin maka keunggulan dari virus ini adalah mampu melakukan hampir seluruh manipulasi yang mana hal ini tidak selalu dapat dilakukan oleh virus jenis lain karena lebih terbatas.
b. Virus Macro
Banyak orang salah kaprah dengan jenis virus ini, mereka menganggap bahwa virus Macro adalah virus yang terdapat pada program Microsoft Word. Memang hampir seluruh virus Macro yang ditemui merupakan virus Microsoft Word. Sebenarnya virus Macro adalah virus yang memanfaatkan fasilitas pemrograman modular pada suatu program aplikasi tertentu seperti Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowePoint, Corel WordPerfect, dan sebagainya. Tujuan dari fasilitas pemrograman modular ini adalah untuk memberikan suatu kemudahan serta membuat jalan pintas bagi
aplikasi tersebut. Sayangnya fungsi ini dimanfaatkan oleh pembuat-pembuat virus untuk membuat virus didalam aplikasi tersebut. Walaupun virus ini terdapat didalam aplikasi tertentu tetapi bahaya yang ditimbulkan tidak kalah berbahanya dari virus-virus yang lain.
c. Virus Script/ Batch
Pada awalnya virus ini lebih dikenal dengan virus batch karena dulu terdapat pada file batch yang terdapat pada DOS, sekarang hal ini telah berganti menjadi script. Virus script biasanya sering didapat dari Internet karena kelebihannya yang fleksibel dan bisa berjalan pada saat kita bermain internet, virus jenis ini biasanya menumpang pada file HTML (Hype Text Markup Language) dibuat dengan menggunakan fasilitas script seperti Javascript, VBscript,4 maupun gabungan antara script yang mengaktifkan program Active-X dari Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Berdasarkan yang dilakukan
a. Virus Boot Sector
Virus Boot Sector adalah virus yang memanfaatkan gerbang hubungan antara komputer dan media penyimpan sebagai tempat untuk menularkan virus. Apabila pada boot sector terdapat suatu program yang mampu menyebarkan diri dan mampu tinggal di memory selama komputer bekerja, maka program tersebut dapat disebut virus. Virus boot sector terbagi dua yaitu virus yang menyerang disket dan virus yang menyerang disket dan tabel partisi.
b. Virus File
Virus file merupakan virus yang memafaatkan suatu file yang dapat diproses langsung pada editor DOS, seperti file berekstensi COM, EXE, beberapa file overlay, dan file BATCH. Virus umumnya tidak memiliki kemampuan untuk menyerang di semua file tersebut. Virus file juga dikelompokkan berdasarkan dapat atau tidaknya tingga di memory.
c. Virus System
Virus sistem merupakan virus yang memanfaatkan file-file yang dipakai untuk membuat suatu sistem komputer. Contohnya adalah file dengan berekstensi SYS, file IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM, atau COMMAND.COM.
d. Virus Hybrid
Virus ini merupakan virus yang mempunyai dua kemampuan biasanya dapat masuk ke boot sector dan juga dapat masuk ke file. Salah satu contoh virus ini adalah virus Mystic yang dibuat di Indonesia.
e. Virus Registry WIndows
Virus ini menginfeksi operating system yang menggunakan Windows 95/98/NT biasanya akan mengadakan infeksi dan manipulasi pada bagian registry Windows sebab registry adalah tempat menampung seluruh informasi komputer baik hardware maupun software. Sehingga setiap kali kita menjalankan Windows maka virus akan dijalankan oleh registry tersebut.
f. Virus Program Aplikasi
Virus ini merupakan virus Macro, menginfeksi pada data suatu program aplikasi tertentu. Virus ini baru akan beraksi apabila kita menjalankan program aplikasi tersebut dan membuka data yang mengandung virus.
Berdasarkan media penyebarannya
a. Penyebaran dengan media fisik
Media yang dimaksudkan bisa dengan disket, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), harddisk, dan sebagainya. Untuk CD-ROM, walaupun media ini tidak dapat dibaca tetapi ada kemungkinan suatu CD-ROM mengandung virus tertentu, walaupun kemungkinannya kecil, tetapi seiring dengan berkembangnya alat CD-R/CD-RW yang beredar dipasaran maka kemungkinan adanya virus didalam CD-ROM akan bertambah pula. Untuk saat ini virus jenis ini yang menjadi dominan dari seluruh virus yang ada. Virus ini akan menular pada komputer yang masih belum tertular apabila terjadi pengaksesan pada file/media yang mengandung virus yang diikuti dengan pengaksesan file/media yang masih bersih, dapat juga dengan mengakes file/media yang masih bersih sedangkan di memori komputer terdapat virus yang aktif.
b. Penyebaran dengan Media Internet
Akhir-akhir ini virus yang menyebar dengan media sudah semakin banyak, virus ini biasanya menyebar lewat e-mail ataupun pada saat kita mendownload suatu file yang mengandung virus. Juga ada beberapa virus yang secara otomatis akan menyebarkan dirinya lewat e-mail apabila komputer memiliki hubungan ke jalur internet
tahun 1988. Virus yang begitu menggemparkan seluruh pemakai komputer di Indonesia, saat itu, adalah virus ©Brain yang dikenal dengan nama virus Pakistan.
Pengertian Virus Komputer
Istilah virus komputer tak asing lagi bagi kalangan pengguna komputer saat ini. Padahal, sekitar 12 tahun yang lalu, istilah ini telah dikenal oleh masyarakat pengguna komputer. Baru pada tahun 1988, muncul artikel-artikel di media massa yang dengan gencar memberitakan mengenai ancaman baru bagi para pemakai komputer yang kemudian dikenal dengan sebutan ‘virus komputer’. Virus yang terdapat pada komputer hanyalah berupa program biasa, sebagaimana layaknya program-program lain. Tetapi terdapat perbedaan yang sangat mendasar pada virus komputer dan program lainnya. Virus dibuat oleh seseorang dengan tujuan yang bermacam-macam, tetapi umumnya para pembuat virus hanyalah ingin mengejar popularitas dan juga hanya demi kesenangan semata. Tetapi apabila seseorang membuat virus dengan tujuan merusak maka tentu saja
akan mengacaukan komputer yang ditularinya.
Kemampuan Dasar Virus Komputer
Definisi umum virus komputer adalah program komputer yang biasanya berukuran kecil yang dapat meyebabkan gangguan atau kerusakan pada sistem komputer dan memiliki beberapa kemampuan dasar, diantaranya adalah :
Kemampuan untuk memperbanyak diri
Yakni kemampuan untuk membuat duplikat dirinya pada file-file atau disk-disk yang belum ditularinya, sehingga lama-kelamaan wilayah penyebarannya semakin luas.
Kemampuan untuk menyembunyikan diri
Yakni kemampuan untuk menyembunyikan dirinya dari perhatian user, antara lain dengan cara-cara berikut :
a. Menghadang keluaran ke layar selama virus bekerja, sehingga pekerjaan virus tak tampak oleh user.
b. Program virus ditempatkan diluar track2 yang dibuat DOS (misalkan track 41)
c. Ukuran virus dibuat sekecil mungkin sehingga tidak menarik kecurigaan.
Kemampuan untuk mengadakan manipulasi
Sebenarnya rutin manipulasi tak terlalu penting. Tetapi inilah yang sering mengganggu. Biasanya rutin ini dibuat untuk :
a. Membuat tampilan atau pesan yang menggangu pada layer monitor
b. Mengganti volume label disket
c. Merusak struktur disk, menghapus file-file
d. Mengacaukan kerja alat-alat I/O, seperti keyboard dan printer
Kemampuan untuk mendapatkan informasi
Yakni kemampuan untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang struktur media penyimpanan seperti letak boot record asli, letak table partisi, letak FAT3, posisi suatu file, dan sebagainya.
Kemampuan untuk memeriksa keberadaan dirinya
Sebelum menyusipi suati file virus memeriksa keberadaan dirinya dalam file itu dengan mencari ID (tanda pengenal) dirinya di dalam file itu. File yang belum tertular suatu virus tentunya tidak mengandung ID dari virus yang bersangkutan. Kemampuan ini mencegah penyusupan yang berkali-kali pada suatu file yang sama.
2.4 Jenis-jenis virus komputer
Berikut ini akan dibahas jenis-jenis virus yang penulis simpulkan dari berbagai sumber, baik sumber pustaka maupun sumber dari internet.
2.4.1 Berdasarkan Teknik Pembuatannya
a. Virus yang dibuat dengan compiler
Adalah virus yang dapat dieksekusi karena merupakan virus yang telah di compile sehingga menjadi dapat dieksekusi langsung. Virus jenis ini adalah virus yang pertama kali muncul di dunia komputer, dan sampai sekarang terus berkembang pesat. Biasanya virus jenis ini dibuat dengan bahasa pemrograman tingkat rendah yang disebut dengan assembler, karena dengan menggunakan assembler program yang dihasilkan lebih kecil dan cepat, sehingga sangat cocok untuk membuat virus. Tetapi tidak tertutup kemungkinan untuk membuat virus dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman lainnya seperti C dan Pascal baik dilingkungan DOS maupun Windows .
Mungkin virus jenis ini adalah virus yang paling sulit untuk dibuat tetapi karena dibuat dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman dan berbentuk bahasa mesin maka keunggulan dari virus ini adalah mampu melakukan hampir seluruh manipulasi yang mana hal ini tidak selalu dapat dilakukan oleh virus jenis lain karena lebih terbatas.
b. Virus Macro
Banyak orang salah kaprah dengan jenis virus ini, mereka menganggap bahwa virus Macro adalah virus yang terdapat pada program Microsoft Word. Memang hampir seluruh virus Macro yang ditemui merupakan virus Microsoft Word. Sebenarnya virus Macro adalah virus yang memanfaatkan fasilitas pemrograman modular pada suatu program aplikasi tertentu seperti Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowePoint, Corel WordPerfect, dan sebagainya. Tujuan dari fasilitas pemrograman modular ini adalah untuk memberikan suatu kemudahan serta membuat jalan pintas bagi
aplikasi tersebut. Sayangnya fungsi ini dimanfaatkan oleh pembuat-pembuat virus untuk membuat virus didalam aplikasi tersebut. Walaupun virus ini terdapat didalam aplikasi tertentu tetapi bahaya yang ditimbulkan tidak kalah berbahanya dari virus-virus yang lain.
c. Virus Script/ Batch
Pada awalnya virus ini lebih dikenal dengan virus batch karena dulu terdapat pada file batch yang terdapat pada DOS, sekarang hal ini telah berganti menjadi script. Virus script biasanya sering didapat dari Internet karena kelebihannya yang fleksibel dan bisa berjalan pada saat kita bermain internet, virus jenis ini biasanya menumpang pada file HTML (Hype Text Markup Language) dibuat dengan menggunakan fasilitas script seperti Javascript, VBscript,4 maupun gabungan antara script yang mengaktifkan program Active-X dari Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Berdasarkan yang dilakukan
a. Virus Boot Sector
Virus Boot Sector adalah virus yang memanfaatkan gerbang hubungan antara komputer dan media penyimpan sebagai tempat untuk menularkan virus. Apabila pada boot sector terdapat suatu program yang mampu menyebarkan diri dan mampu tinggal di memory selama komputer bekerja, maka program tersebut dapat disebut virus. Virus boot sector terbagi dua yaitu virus yang menyerang disket dan virus yang menyerang disket dan tabel partisi.
b. Virus File
Virus file merupakan virus yang memafaatkan suatu file yang dapat diproses langsung pada editor DOS, seperti file berekstensi COM, EXE, beberapa file overlay, dan file BATCH. Virus umumnya tidak memiliki kemampuan untuk menyerang di semua file tersebut. Virus file juga dikelompokkan berdasarkan dapat atau tidaknya tingga di memory.
c. Virus System
Virus sistem merupakan virus yang memanfaatkan file-file yang dipakai untuk membuat suatu sistem komputer. Contohnya adalah file dengan berekstensi SYS, file IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM, atau COMMAND.COM.
d. Virus Hybrid
Virus ini merupakan virus yang mempunyai dua kemampuan biasanya dapat masuk ke boot sector dan juga dapat masuk ke file. Salah satu contoh virus ini adalah virus Mystic yang dibuat di Indonesia.
e. Virus Registry WIndows
Virus ini menginfeksi operating system yang menggunakan Windows 95/98/NT biasanya akan mengadakan infeksi dan manipulasi pada bagian registry Windows sebab registry adalah tempat menampung seluruh informasi komputer baik hardware maupun software. Sehingga setiap kali kita menjalankan Windows maka virus akan dijalankan oleh registry tersebut.
f. Virus Program Aplikasi
Virus ini merupakan virus Macro, menginfeksi pada data suatu program aplikasi tertentu. Virus ini baru akan beraksi apabila kita menjalankan program aplikasi tersebut dan membuka data yang mengandung virus.
Berdasarkan media penyebarannya
a. Penyebaran dengan media fisik
Media yang dimaksudkan bisa dengan disket, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), harddisk, dan sebagainya. Untuk CD-ROM, walaupun media ini tidak dapat dibaca tetapi ada kemungkinan suatu CD-ROM mengandung virus tertentu, walaupun kemungkinannya kecil, tetapi seiring dengan berkembangnya alat CD-R/CD-RW yang beredar dipasaran maka kemungkinan adanya virus didalam CD-ROM akan bertambah pula. Untuk saat ini virus jenis ini yang menjadi dominan dari seluruh virus yang ada. Virus ini akan menular pada komputer yang masih belum tertular apabila terjadi pengaksesan pada file/media yang mengandung virus yang diikuti dengan pengaksesan file/media yang masih bersih, dapat juga dengan mengakes file/media yang masih bersih sedangkan di memori komputer terdapat virus yang aktif.
b. Penyebaran dengan Media Internet
Akhir-akhir ini virus yang menyebar dengan media sudah semakin banyak, virus ini biasanya menyebar lewat e-mail ataupun pada saat kita mendownload suatu file yang mengandung virus. Juga ada beberapa virus yang secara otomatis akan menyebarkan dirinya lewat e-mail apabila komputer memiliki hubungan ke jalur internet
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Maid Sama! (anime manga)
Maid Sama!, known in Japan as Kaichō wa Maid-sama! (会長はメイド様!, lit. The Student Council President is a Maid!?) is a shōjo manga series by Hiro Fujiwara. It is currently serialized in Hakusensha's monthly shōjo manga magazine, LaLa. There are currently 8 published volumes under the Hana to Yume Comics imprint in Japan.[1] In their Anime Expo 2008 panel, North American publisher Tokyopop announced its various newly licensed series and that Kaichō wa Maid-sama! would be titled Maid-sama!.[2] An anime adaptation began airing on April 1, 2010.[3]
Plot
Main article: List of Maid Sama! characters
Seika High School, once an all-boys school notorious for its wild students and for generally being a terrifying place for girls, has recently become a co-ed school. With the female population still a minority and living in fear of the over-the-top antics of the males, Misaki Ayuzawa takes it into her own hands to reform the school and allow the girls to feel safe in the rough environment.
Training, studying and even becoming the first female student council president of the school, Misaki has gained a reputation among the male students body as an uptight boy-hating dictator and as a shining hope for the teachers and fellow female students. However, despite her tough-as-nails appearance, she secretly works part-time at a maid cafe in order to support her family. Unfortunately, her hard-earned reputation is threatened when the popular, attractive, and somewhat impassive Usui Takumi takes an interest in her after discovering her in a maid uniform after school.
Media
Manga
Maid Sama! is written and illustrated by Hiro Fujiwara. This series is serialized in Hakusensha shōjo magazine Lala and the serial chapters collected into eleven volume. The first one was released on September 5, 2006,[4] and the eleventh one on August 5, 2010.[5]
Outside Japan, the series was licensed by Tokyopop in North America,[6] and Pika Edition in France.[7]
Cover of Maid-sama! Volume 5 as published by Hakusensha, featuring Misaki Ayuzawa eating Usui Takumi and holding a cake of all the characters of the show in a plate!
No. Japanese English
Release date ISBN Release date ISBN
01 September 5, 2006[4] ISBN 4592184319 April 7, 2009[8] ISBN 978-1-4278-1403-6
02 February 5, 2007[9] ISBN 9784592184324 August 11, 2009[10] ISBN 978-1-4278-1404-3
03 August 4, 2007[11] ISBN 9784592184331 January 12, 2010[12] ISBN 978-1-4278-1405-0
04 December 5, 2007[13] ISBN 9784592184348 April 13, 2010[14] ISBN 978-1-4278-1406-7
05 May 2, 2008[15] ISBN 9784592184355 July 13, 2010[16] ISBN 978-1-4278-1689-4
06 September 5, 2008[17] ISBN 9784592186861 October 12, 2010 (scheduled)[18] ISBN 978-1-4278-1690-0
07 April 3, 2009[19] ISBN 9784592186878 - —
08 September 4, 2009[20] ISBN 9784592186885 - —
09 April 5, 2010[21] ISBN 9784592186892 - —
10 June 4, 2010[22] ISBN 9784592191803 - —
11 August 5, 2010[5] ISBN 9784592191810 - —
This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.
Anime
See also: List of Maid Sama! episodes
The October 2009 issue of LaLa announced that a television anime adaptation of the series would be produced.[3] It will be broadcasted in TBS and BS-TBS during Spring 2010.[23] The April 2010 issue of LaLa revealed the broadcast date to be on April 1, 2010 at 1:55 midnight. The adaptation was also present at the Tokyo International Anime Fair with Ayumi Fujimura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kana Hanazawa and Yū Kobayashi's attendance.[24] The Anime Network has announced that they will stream the series in the U.S. and Canada on their online player, starting with the first episode for premium subscribers premiering on June 15 and for registered members two days after. New episodes will premiere on Thursdays.[25]
The staff list was announced and Hiroaki Sakurai directed the series with series composition done by Mamiko Ikeda who previous worked in the series composition for Emma: A Victorian Romance series and most recently the Rental Magica series and Hanasakeru Seishōnen while the animation character designs by Yuki Imoto and music composed by Tōru Motoyama. The series was animated by J.C.Staff who previously worked on Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile.[26] Ayumi Fujimura and Nobuhiko Okamoto took on the role of Misaki Ayuzawa and Takumi Usui respectively.[26]
Drama CDs
A drama CD for Kaichō wa Maid-sama was released in Japan.[citation needed]
References
1. ^ "s-book.net Library Service - 会長はメイド様!" (in Japanese). s-book.net/Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_series?tid=459218431. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
2. ^ "Tokyopop Announces New Manga Titles (Update 2)". Anime News Network. July 5, 2008. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-05/tokyopop-anonunces-new-manga-titles. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
3. ^ a b "Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. August 21, 2009. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-21/kaichou-wa-maid-sama-shojo-manga-gets-tv-anime. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
4. ^ a b "会長はメイド様！ 1" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=4592184319. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
5. ^ a b "会長はメイド様！ 11" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592191810. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
6. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 1". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/1. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
7. ^ "Maid sama / Shôjo" (in French). pika.fr. http://www.pika.fr/new/node/7358. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
8. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 1". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/1. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
9. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 2" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184324. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
10. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 2". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/2. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
11. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 3" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184331. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
12. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 3". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/3. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
13. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 4" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184348. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
14. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 4". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/4. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
15. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 5" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184355. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
16. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 5". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/5. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
17. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 6" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186861. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
18. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 6". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/6. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
19. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 7" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186878. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
20. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 8" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186885. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
21. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 9" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186892. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
22. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 10" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592191803. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
23. ^ http://fujihiron.jugem.jp/?eid=213
24. ^ "TBSアニメーション・「会長はメイド様！」公式ホームページ ／ 最新情報 - 10年2月記事" (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System. http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/maidsama/news/news1002.html. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
25. ^ "Anime Network To Begin Streamin Maid Sama On June 15". Anime News Network. June 8, 2010. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-08/anime-network-to-begin-streaming-maid-sama-on-june-15. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
26. ^ a b "TBSアニメーション・「会長はメイド様！」公式ホームページ ／ スタッフ&キャスト" (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System. http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/maidsama/staffcast/staffcast.html. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
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Plot
Main article: List of Maid Sama! characters
Seika High School, once an all-boys school notorious for its wild students and for generally being a terrifying place for girls, has recently become a co-ed school. With the female population still a minority and living in fear of the over-the-top antics of the males, Misaki Ayuzawa takes it into her own hands to reform the school and allow the girls to feel safe in the rough environment.
Training, studying and even becoming the first female student council president of the school, Misaki has gained a reputation among the male students body as an uptight boy-hating dictator and as a shining hope for the teachers and fellow female students. However, despite her tough-as-nails appearance, she secretly works part-time at a maid cafe in order to support her family. Unfortunately, her hard-earned reputation is threatened when the popular, attractive, and somewhat impassive Usui Takumi takes an interest in her after discovering her in a maid uniform after school.
Media
Manga
Maid Sama! is written and illustrated by Hiro Fujiwara. This series is serialized in Hakusensha shōjo magazine Lala and the serial chapters collected into eleven volume. The first one was released on September 5, 2006,[4] and the eleventh one on August 5, 2010.[5]
Outside Japan, the series was licensed by Tokyopop in North America,[6] and Pika Edition in France.[7]
Cover of Maid-sama! Volume 5 as published by Hakusensha, featuring Misaki Ayuzawa eating Usui Takumi and holding a cake of all the characters of the show in a plate!
No. Japanese English
Release date ISBN Release date ISBN
01 September 5, 2006[4] ISBN 4592184319 April 7, 2009[8] ISBN 978-1-4278-1403-6
02 February 5, 2007[9] ISBN 9784592184324 August 11, 2009[10] ISBN 978-1-4278-1404-3
03 August 4, 2007[11] ISBN 9784592184331 January 12, 2010[12] ISBN 978-1-4278-1405-0
04 December 5, 2007[13] ISBN 9784592184348 April 13, 2010[14] ISBN 978-1-4278-1406-7
05 May 2, 2008[15] ISBN 9784592184355 July 13, 2010[16] ISBN 978-1-4278-1689-4
06 September 5, 2008[17] ISBN 9784592186861 October 12, 2010 (scheduled)[18] ISBN 978-1-4278-1690-0
07 April 3, 2009[19] ISBN 9784592186878 - —
08 September 4, 2009[20] ISBN 9784592186885 - —
09 April 5, 2010[21] ISBN 9784592186892 - —
10 June 4, 2010[22] ISBN 9784592191803 - —
11 August 5, 2010[5] ISBN 9784592191810 - —
This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.
Anime
See also: List of Maid Sama! episodes
The October 2009 issue of LaLa announced that a television anime adaptation of the series would be produced.[3] It will be broadcasted in TBS and BS-TBS during Spring 2010.[23] The April 2010 issue of LaLa revealed the broadcast date to be on April 1, 2010 at 1:55 midnight. The adaptation was also present at the Tokyo International Anime Fair with Ayumi Fujimura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kana Hanazawa and Yū Kobayashi's attendance.[24] The Anime Network has announced that they will stream the series in the U.S. and Canada on their online player, starting with the first episode for premium subscribers premiering on June 15 and for registered members two days after. New episodes will premiere on Thursdays.[25]
The staff list was announced and Hiroaki Sakurai directed the series with series composition done by Mamiko Ikeda who previous worked in the series composition for Emma: A Victorian Romance series and most recently the Rental Magica series and Hanasakeru Seishōnen while the animation character designs by Yuki Imoto and music composed by Tōru Motoyama. The series was animated by J.C.Staff who previously worked on Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile.[26] Ayumi Fujimura and Nobuhiko Okamoto took on the role of Misaki Ayuzawa and Takumi Usui respectively.[26]
Drama CDs
A drama CD for Kaichō wa Maid-sama was released in Japan.[citation needed]
References
1. ^ "s-book.net Library Service - 会長はメイド様!" (in Japanese). s-book.net/Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_series?tid=459218431. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
2. ^ "Tokyopop Announces New Manga Titles (Update 2)". Anime News Network. July 5, 2008. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-05/tokyopop-anonunces-new-manga-titles. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
3. ^ a b "Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. August 21, 2009. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-21/kaichou-wa-maid-sama-shojo-manga-gets-tv-anime. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
4. ^ a b "会長はメイド様！ 1" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=4592184319. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
5. ^ a b "会長はメイド様！ 11" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592191810. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
6. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 1". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/1. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
7. ^ "Maid sama / Shôjo" (in French). pika.fr. http://www.pika.fr/new/node/7358. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
8. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 1". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/1. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
9. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 2" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184324. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
10. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 2". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/2. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
11. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 3" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184331. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
12. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 3". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/3. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
13. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 4" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184348. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
14. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 4". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/4. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
15. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 5" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592184355. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
16. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 5". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/5. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
17. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 6" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186861. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
18. ^ "Maid Sama! Volume 6". Tokyopop. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2638/MaidSama/6. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
19. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 7" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186878. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
20. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 8" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186885. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
21. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 9" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592186892. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
22. ^ "会長はメイド様！ 10" (in Japanese). Hakusensha. http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592191803. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
23. ^ http://fujihiron.jugem.jp/?eid=213
24. ^ "TBSアニメーション・「会長はメイド様！」公式ホームページ ／ 最新情報 - 10年2月記事" (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System. http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/maidsama/news/news1002.html. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
25. ^ "Anime Network To Begin Streamin Maid Sama On June 15". Anime News Network. June 8, 2010. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-08/anime-network-to-begin-streaming-maid-sama-on-june-15. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
26. ^ a b "TBSアニメーション・「会長はメイド様！」公式ホームページ ／ スタッフ&キャスト" (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System. http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/maidsama/staffcast/staffcast.html. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
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Soul Eater (manga)
Soul Eater (ソウルイーター Sōru Ītā?) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and (at least one) human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "death scythe" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster, Shinigami (better known as Death), they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order or they will have to restart all over again. The manga is published by Square Enix and was first released as three separate one-shots serialized in two Gangan Powered special editions and one Gangan Wing issue between June 24 and November 26, 2003. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine on May 12, 2004.
The first bound volume was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan, and as of July 2010, seventeen volumes have been released. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. The English translated version of Soul Eater is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine starting on July 29, 2008, and the first manga volume was released on October 27, 2009.
A single drama CD was produced on August 31, 2005 which came bundled with an art book. An anime adaptation produced by Bones first aired on TV Tokyo in Japan on April 7, 2008, and contained 51 episodes; Funimation licensed the anime series for North American distribution. An action-adventure video game by Square Enix for the Wii was released in September 2008, and an action video game for the Nintendo DS was released in October 2008. Another action game was released in January 2009 on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.
Death Weapon Meister Academy.
See also: List of Soul Eater characters
In Soul Eater, meister (職人 shokunin?) Maka Albarn and her weapon partner Soul Eater are students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校 Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō?)—DWMA (死武専 Shibusen?) or simply the Academy for short—located in the fictional Death City,[1] in Nevada, United States. The school has many other students including Black Star with his weapon partner Tsubaki, and Death the Kid with his weapon partners (who are sisters) Liz and Patty. The school is run by Shinigami, Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters.[1] Maka's goal, along with the other meisters, is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and turn them into death scythes, weapons capable of being used by shinigami.[1] In the universe of Soul Eater, witches are powerful beings and the natural enemies of DWMA, as almost all of them have a destructive nature and desire chaos.
Shortly after the start of Soul Eater, Maka and Soul Eater face off against the forces of the witch Medusa, who forces her child, the meister Crona and Crona's weapon Ragnarok, to collect non-evil human souls to transform Crona into a kishin (鬼神?), an evil demon god. Medusa and her cohorts attack the DWMA on the eve of the festival commemorating its founding with the intention of reviving Asura, the first kishin who nearly plunged the entire world into madness before being sealed beneath the DWMA by Shinigami. Despite the combined efforts of Maka, Black Star, and Death the Kid, Medusa's group successfully revives Asura, who leaves to spread chaos around the world after a brief battle with Shinigami. However, Medusa is seemingly killed by the meister and DWMA teacher Franken Stein in the process, while Crona surrenders to the DWMA and goes on to enroll there and befriend Maka.
As a result of Asura's spreading madness, Medusa's older sister Arachne comes out of hiding after 800 years. Arachne reforms her organization Arachnophobia, which poses itself as a serious threat to the DWMA. The DWMA calls in the death scythes around the world to aid in the fight against Arachnophobia. During this time, Medusa resurfaces with her soul in the body of a young girl, and forms a truce with the DWMA so they can annihilate the threat of Arachnophobia together. The DWMA students and Medusa's entourage infiltrate Arachnophobia's headquarters where Maka defeats Arachne, only for Medusa to betray the DWMA, possessing Arachne's body and brainwashing Crona into rejoining her. Meanwhile, Death the Kid is captured by Noah, an enemy posing as the former meister Eibon. Following this, the meister unit Spartoi is formed at the DWMA to take down Noah, and Maka finally succeeds in turning Soul Eater into a death scythe.
Differences in the anime adaptation
The anime series deviates from the manga considerably after episode 35. The anime series faithfully adapts the plot of the manga until after the DWMA's first major battle against Arachnophobia, upon which it deviates from the original plot considerably. After giving the DWMA information on Arachnophobia, Medusa takes advantage of Stein's increasing madness to lure him away with her. The DWMA manage to bring back Stein, and Maka defeats Medusa. Meanwhile, Arachne finds and forms an alliance with Asura, intending to spread his madness across the world. In the ensuing confrontation between the DWMA and Arachnophobia, Shinigami and Asura resume their fight, which ends with Asura defeating Shinigami, turning on Arachne and eating her soul. In the final battle, Maka, Black Star, and Death the Kid defeat Asura, and the world returns to normal.
Development
After the end of his first manga series, B.Ichi, Atsushi Okubo created a one-shot story called "Soul Eater" published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Japanese readers were so fascinated by it that Okubo created two other one-shots called "Black Star" and "Death The Kid". The results were high and the editor Gangan Comics asked Atsushi Okubo to create a series from his one-shots that became the introduction chapters to the final manga series Soul Eater.[citation needed]
Atsushi Okubo reveals that he creates the main characters by inspiring from his personality; like the dunce for Black Star, the order for Death The Kid or the fun for Patty. Other characters like protagonists and antagonists are created from his imagination and also from his previous favorite manga, like the sun and the moon smiling over Death City are inspired from his favorite manga Dr. Slump because it used many nonliving objects as if they were humans. Unlike many shōnen manga, Soul Eater's main character is a teenage girl, Maka Albarn, because Okubo felt that readers would be more interested than with a male character. The background and design of Death City, the main town where the characters are living, is mainly inspired from Tim Burton and David Lynch films.[citation needed]
Media
Manga
See also: List of Soul Eater chapters
Soul Eater began as a manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003 and November 26, 2003 across two manga magazines published by Square Enix: first in the summer 2003 special edition of Gangan Powered,[2] followed by the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine, and finally in Gangan Wing. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine on May 12, 2004. The first bound volume was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan, and as of July 22, 2010, seventeen volumes have been released.[3] The manga has been licensed by Yen Press for distribution in English in North America. The manga was initially serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus anthology magazine, the first issue of which went on sale on July 29, 2008.[4] The first English volume of the manga was sold on October 27, 2009; the second was released on February 23, 2010.[5]
Drama CD
A drama CD was released on August 31, 2005 by Square Enix entitled Soul Eater (Vol. 1): Special Social Studies Field Trip (ソウルイーター(Vol.1)特別社会科見学 Sōru Ītā (Vol. 1) Tokubetsu Shakaika Kengaku?).[3] The CD came bundled with an art book and a script of the CD dialogue. Of the cast used for the drama CD, only Black Star's voice actress Yumiko Kobayashi was retained for the anime voice cast.
Anime
See also: List of Soul Eater episodes
A 51 episode anime adaptation was directed by Takuya Igarashi, and produced by Bones, Aniplex, Dentsu, Media Factory, and TV Tokyo; Bones and Aniplex were responsible for the animation and music production respectively.[6][7] The anime's scenario writer was Akatsuki Yamatoya who based the anime's story on Atsushi Okubo original concept. Character design was headed by Yoshiyuki Ito, with overall art direction by Norifumi Nakamura.[6] The anime's conceptual design was done by Shinji Aramaki. The episodes started airing on April 7, 2008 on TV Tokyo, and two animated specials aired on May 29 and June 1, 2008.[8] The episodes also aired at later dates on TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co.[6] The final episode aired on March 30, 2009. The first DVD compilation volume was released on August 22, 2008 with the first three episodes. The second DVD compilation volume was released on September 25, 2008 with episodes four through seven. Each DVD volume will be released in monthly intervals.[9] The anime was licensed by Funimation and will be releasing the series in four half-season DVD box sets starting with the first volume in February 2010.[10] All 51 subtitled episodes are available on Funimation's website, along with the first twenty-four episodes dubbed in English. Soul Eater is Bones' third anime series to run with 50-51 episodes, after 2003's Fullmetal Alchemist and 2005's Eureka Seven.
The anime was regularly broadcast Mondays at 6:00 pm on TV Tokyo. The official Japanese website of the Soul Eater anime series announced that each episode will air in two different versions: the regular Monday 6:00 p.m. version and a late-night "Soul Eater Late Show" version. Special footage was added at the start and end of the commercial break; the next episode preview was also different from the regular version. The dual broadcast of this supernatural action series was being billed as the "world's first evening and late-night resonance broadcast". The "resonance" term refers to a story concept in which the characters, such as the heroine Maka and her living weapon partner Soul Eater, achieve maximum power by synchronizing their souls.[11] MTV Portugal premiered Soul Eater on February 1, 2010.[12] In the Philippines, Soul Eater aired in a Tagalog version over the cable channel Hero TV which will last from April to June 2010.
Video games
Soul Eater: Monotone Princess (ソウルイーター モノトーン プリンセス Sōru Ītā Monotōn Purinsesu?), an action-adventure video game exclusively for the Wii and developed by Square Enix with Bones was released on September 25, 2008.[13] in Japan only. Grimoire (グリモア Gurimoa?) and Ponera (ポネラ Ponera?) are two original playable characters exclusive for the game designed by the author, Atsushi Okubo. Ponera is the Monotone Princess and Grimoire is known as Noah in the manga. Soul Eater: Plot of Medusa (ソウルイーター メデューサの陰謀 Sōru Ītā Medyūsa no Inbō?) is an action game produced by Namco Bandai Games for the Nintendo DS and was released on October 23, 2008.[14] Soul Eater: Battle Resonance (ソウルイーター バトルレゾナンス Sōru Ītā Batoru Rezonansu?) is a fighting game produced by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and was released on January 29, 2009.
Music
Six pieces of theme music are used for the episodes; two opening themes and four closing themes. The first opening theme is "Resonance" by T.M.Revolution for the first thirty episodes, and the single was released on June 11, 2008. The second opening theme is "Papermoon" by Tommy heavenly6 from episode thirty-one onwards; the single was released on December 10, 2008 by DefStar Records. The first closing theme is "I Wanna Be" by Stance Punks for the first thirteen episodes, and the fifty-first episode; the single was released on June 4, 2008. The second closing theme is "Style" by Kana Nishino from episode fourteen to twenty-six; the single was released on August 13, 2008 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The third closing theme is "Bakusō Yume Uta" (爆走夢歌?) by Soul'd Out's Diggy-Mo from episode twenty-seven to thirty-nine; the single was released on November 26, 2008 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The final closing theme is "Strength" by Abingdon Boys School from episode forty through episode fifty; the single was released on February 25, 2009.[15][16]
The first character song maxi single sung by Chiaki Omigawa (Maka) and Kōki Uchiyama (Soul) was released on August 6, 2008 by Aniplex. The second single by Yumiko Kobayashi (Black Star) and Kaori Nazuka (Tsubaki) was released on September 3, 2008, and the third single by Mamoru Miyano (Kid), Akeno Watanabe (Liz), and Narumi Takahira (Patty) was released on October 1, 2008. Two original soundtracks for the anime were released on August 27, 2008 and March 18, 2009 by Aniplex. The theme song for Soul Eater: Monotone Princess is "Soul's Crossing" sung by T.M.Revolution, and is included on the "Resonance" single.[17]
References
1. ^ a b c "Story section at anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/story/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
2. ^ "Summer 2003 issue of Gangan Powered" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://gangan.square-enix.co.jp/powered/2003summer.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
3. ^ a b "Books section at manga's official website" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://gangan.square-enix.co.jp/souleater/books/. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
4. ^ "Yen Press Announces Titles to Run in Anthology Mag". Anime News Network. 2008-04-19. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-19/yen-announces-titles-to-run-in-anthology-magazine. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
5. ^ "Soul Eater manga English volumes". Yen Press. http://yenpress.us/?page_id=451. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
6. ^ a b c "Soul Eater (TV)". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9070. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
7. ^ "TV Tokyo: Soul Eater - Staff, Cast" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/contents/souleater/staff/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
8. ^ "Two Soul Eater Anime Specials to Air in Japan". Anime News Network. 2008-05-17. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-05-17/two-soul-eater-anime-specials-to-air-in-japan. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
9. ^ "Goods section at the anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/goods/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
10. ^ "FUNimation Adds Soul Eater Anime from Media Factory". Anime News Network. 2008-12-31. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-31/funimation-adds-soul-eater-anime-from-media-factory. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
11. ^ "Soul Eater to Air in Japan in Two Weekly Versions". Anime News Network. 2008-02-12. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-12/soul-eater-to-air-in-japan-in-two-weekly-versions. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
12. ^ "Soul Eater Episodios [Soul Eater Episodes]" (in Portuguese). MTV Portugal. http://www.mtv.pt/programas/Soul-Eater-t1/. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
13. ^ "Soul Eater: Monotone Princess Released Date and Price Confirmed!" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-06-20. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/087/87928/. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
14. ^ "D-pad and Touch Pen Resonance Operation Soul Eater: Plot of Medusa to Be Sold This Autumn" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-06-20. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/087/87608/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
15. ^ "Abingdon Boys School's "Strength" single". CD Japan. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=ESCL-3171. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
16. ^ "Music section at anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/music/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
17. ^ "T.M.R to Sing the Theme Song for the Soul Eater Wii Game!" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-05-12. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/079/79362/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
The first bound volume was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan, and as of July 2010, seventeen volumes have been released. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. The English translated version of Soul Eater is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine starting on July 29, 2008, and the first manga volume was released on October 27, 2009.
A single drama CD was produced on August 31, 2005 which came bundled with an art book. An anime adaptation produced by Bones first aired on TV Tokyo in Japan on April 7, 2008, and contained 51 episodes; Funimation licensed the anime series for North American distribution. An action-adventure video game by Square Enix for the Wii was released in September 2008, and an action video game for the Nintendo DS was released in October 2008. Another action game was released in January 2009 on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.
Death Weapon Meister Academy.
See also: List of Soul Eater characters
In Soul Eater, meister (職人 shokunin?) Maka Albarn and her weapon partner Soul Eater are students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校 Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō?)—DWMA (死武専 Shibusen?) or simply the Academy for short—located in the fictional Death City,[1] in Nevada, United States. The school has many other students including Black Star with his weapon partner Tsubaki, and Death the Kid with his weapon partners (who are sisters) Liz and Patty. The school is run by Shinigami, Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters.[1] Maka's goal, along with the other meisters, is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and turn them into death scythes, weapons capable of being used by shinigami.[1] In the universe of Soul Eater, witches are powerful beings and the natural enemies of DWMA, as almost all of them have a destructive nature and desire chaos.
Shortly after the start of Soul Eater, Maka and Soul Eater face off against the forces of the witch Medusa, who forces her child, the meister Crona and Crona's weapon Ragnarok, to collect non-evil human souls to transform Crona into a kishin (鬼神?), an evil demon god. Medusa and her cohorts attack the DWMA on the eve of the festival commemorating its founding with the intention of reviving Asura, the first kishin who nearly plunged the entire world into madness before being sealed beneath the DWMA by Shinigami. Despite the combined efforts of Maka, Black Star, and Death the Kid, Medusa's group successfully revives Asura, who leaves to spread chaos around the world after a brief battle with Shinigami. However, Medusa is seemingly killed by the meister and DWMA teacher Franken Stein in the process, while Crona surrenders to the DWMA and goes on to enroll there and befriend Maka.
As a result of Asura's spreading madness, Medusa's older sister Arachne comes out of hiding after 800 years. Arachne reforms her organization Arachnophobia, which poses itself as a serious threat to the DWMA. The DWMA calls in the death scythes around the world to aid in the fight against Arachnophobia. During this time, Medusa resurfaces with her soul in the body of a young girl, and forms a truce with the DWMA so they can annihilate the threat of Arachnophobia together. The DWMA students and Medusa's entourage infiltrate Arachnophobia's headquarters where Maka defeats Arachne, only for Medusa to betray the DWMA, possessing Arachne's body and brainwashing Crona into rejoining her. Meanwhile, Death the Kid is captured by Noah, an enemy posing as the former meister Eibon. Following this, the meister unit Spartoi is formed at the DWMA to take down Noah, and Maka finally succeeds in turning Soul Eater into a death scythe.
Differences in the anime adaptation
The anime series deviates from the manga considerably after episode 35. The anime series faithfully adapts the plot of the manga until after the DWMA's first major battle against Arachnophobia, upon which it deviates from the original plot considerably. After giving the DWMA information on Arachnophobia, Medusa takes advantage of Stein's increasing madness to lure him away with her. The DWMA manage to bring back Stein, and Maka defeats Medusa. Meanwhile, Arachne finds and forms an alliance with Asura, intending to spread his madness across the world. In the ensuing confrontation between the DWMA and Arachnophobia, Shinigami and Asura resume their fight, which ends with Asura defeating Shinigami, turning on Arachne and eating her soul. In the final battle, Maka, Black Star, and Death the Kid defeat Asura, and the world returns to normal.
Development
After the end of his first manga series, B.Ichi, Atsushi Okubo created a one-shot story called "Soul Eater" published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Japanese readers were so fascinated by it that Okubo created two other one-shots called "Black Star" and "Death The Kid". The results were high and the editor Gangan Comics asked Atsushi Okubo to create a series from his one-shots that became the introduction chapters to the final manga series Soul Eater.[citation needed]
Atsushi Okubo reveals that he creates the main characters by inspiring from his personality; like the dunce for Black Star, the order for Death The Kid or the fun for Patty. Other characters like protagonists and antagonists are created from his imagination and also from his previous favorite manga, like the sun and the moon smiling over Death City are inspired from his favorite manga Dr. Slump because it used many nonliving objects as if they were humans. Unlike many shōnen manga, Soul Eater's main character is a teenage girl, Maka Albarn, because Okubo felt that readers would be more interested than with a male character. The background and design of Death City, the main town where the characters are living, is mainly inspired from Tim Burton and David Lynch films.[citation needed]
Media
Manga
See also: List of Soul Eater chapters
Soul Eater began as a manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003 and November 26, 2003 across two manga magazines published by Square Enix: first in the summer 2003 special edition of Gangan Powered,[2] followed by the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine, and finally in Gangan Wing. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine on May 12, 2004. The first bound volume was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan, and as of July 22, 2010, seventeen volumes have been released.[3] The manga has been licensed by Yen Press for distribution in English in North America. The manga was initially serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus anthology magazine, the first issue of which went on sale on July 29, 2008.[4] The first English volume of the manga was sold on October 27, 2009; the second was released on February 23, 2010.[5]
Drama CD
A drama CD was released on August 31, 2005 by Square Enix entitled Soul Eater (Vol. 1): Special Social Studies Field Trip (ソウルイーター(Vol.1)特別社会科見学 Sōru Ītā (Vol. 1) Tokubetsu Shakaika Kengaku?).[3] The CD came bundled with an art book and a script of the CD dialogue. Of the cast used for the drama CD, only Black Star's voice actress Yumiko Kobayashi was retained for the anime voice cast.
Anime
See also: List of Soul Eater episodes
A 51 episode anime adaptation was directed by Takuya Igarashi, and produced by Bones, Aniplex, Dentsu, Media Factory, and TV Tokyo; Bones and Aniplex were responsible for the animation and music production respectively.[6][7] The anime's scenario writer was Akatsuki Yamatoya who based the anime's story on Atsushi Okubo original concept. Character design was headed by Yoshiyuki Ito, with overall art direction by Norifumi Nakamura.[6] The anime's conceptual design was done by Shinji Aramaki. The episodes started airing on April 7, 2008 on TV Tokyo, and two animated specials aired on May 29 and June 1, 2008.[8] The episodes also aired at later dates on TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co.[6] The final episode aired on March 30, 2009. The first DVD compilation volume was released on August 22, 2008 with the first three episodes. The second DVD compilation volume was released on September 25, 2008 with episodes four through seven. Each DVD volume will be released in monthly intervals.[9] The anime was licensed by Funimation and will be releasing the series in four half-season DVD box sets starting with the first volume in February 2010.[10] All 51 subtitled episodes are available on Funimation's website, along with the first twenty-four episodes dubbed in English. Soul Eater is Bones' third anime series to run with 50-51 episodes, after 2003's Fullmetal Alchemist and 2005's Eureka Seven.
The anime was regularly broadcast Mondays at 6:00 pm on TV Tokyo. The official Japanese website of the Soul Eater anime series announced that each episode will air in two different versions: the regular Monday 6:00 p.m. version and a late-night "Soul Eater Late Show" version. Special footage was added at the start and end of the commercial break; the next episode preview was also different from the regular version. The dual broadcast of this supernatural action series was being billed as the "world's first evening and late-night resonance broadcast". The "resonance" term refers to a story concept in which the characters, such as the heroine Maka and her living weapon partner Soul Eater, achieve maximum power by synchronizing their souls.[11] MTV Portugal premiered Soul Eater on February 1, 2010.[12] In the Philippines, Soul Eater aired in a Tagalog version over the cable channel Hero TV which will last from April to June 2010.
Video games
Soul Eater: Monotone Princess (ソウルイーター モノトーン プリンセス Sōru Ītā Monotōn Purinsesu?), an action-adventure video game exclusively for the Wii and developed by Square Enix with Bones was released on September 25, 2008.[13] in Japan only. Grimoire (グリモア Gurimoa?) and Ponera (ポネラ Ponera?) are two original playable characters exclusive for the game designed by the author, Atsushi Okubo. Ponera is the Monotone Princess and Grimoire is known as Noah in the manga. Soul Eater: Plot of Medusa (ソウルイーター メデューサの陰謀 Sōru Ītā Medyūsa no Inbō?) is an action game produced by Namco Bandai Games for the Nintendo DS and was released on October 23, 2008.[14] Soul Eater: Battle Resonance (ソウルイーター バトルレゾナンス Sōru Ītā Batoru Rezonansu?) is a fighting game produced by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and was released on January 29, 2009.
Music
Six pieces of theme music are used for the episodes; two opening themes and four closing themes. The first opening theme is "Resonance" by T.M.Revolution for the first thirty episodes, and the single was released on June 11, 2008. The second opening theme is "Papermoon" by Tommy heavenly6 from episode thirty-one onwards; the single was released on December 10, 2008 by DefStar Records. The first closing theme is "I Wanna Be" by Stance Punks for the first thirteen episodes, and the fifty-first episode; the single was released on June 4, 2008. The second closing theme is "Style" by Kana Nishino from episode fourteen to twenty-six; the single was released on August 13, 2008 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The third closing theme is "Bakusō Yume Uta" (爆走夢歌?) by Soul'd Out's Diggy-Mo from episode twenty-seven to thirty-nine; the single was released on November 26, 2008 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The final closing theme is "Strength" by Abingdon Boys School from episode forty through episode fifty; the single was released on February 25, 2009.[15][16]
The first character song maxi single sung by Chiaki Omigawa (Maka) and Kōki Uchiyama (Soul) was released on August 6, 2008 by Aniplex. The second single by Yumiko Kobayashi (Black Star) and Kaori Nazuka (Tsubaki) was released on September 3, 2008, and the third single by Mamoru Miyano (Kid), Akeno Watanabe (Liz), and Narumi Takahira (Patty) was released on October 1, 2008. Two original soundtracks for the anime were released on August 27, 2008 and March 18, 2009 by Aniplex. The theme song for Soul Eater: Monotone Princess is "Soul's Crossing" sung by T.M.Revolution, and is included on the "Resonance" single.[17]
References
1. ^ a b c "Story section at anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/story/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
2. ^ "Summer 2003 issue of Gangan Powered" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://gangan.square-enix.co.jp/powered/2003summer.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
3. ^ a b "Books section at manga's official website" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://gangan.square-enix.co.jp/souleater/books/. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
4. ^ "Yen Press Announces Titles to Run in Anthology Mag". Anime News Network. 2008-04-19. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-19/yen-announces-titles-to-run-in-anthology-magazine. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
5. ^ "Soul Eater manga English volumes". Yen Press. http://yenpress.us/?page_id=451. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
6. ^ a b c "Soul Eater (TV)". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9070. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
7. ^ "TV Tokyo: Soul Eater - Staff, Cast" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/contents/souleater/staff/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
8. ^ "Two Soul Eater Anime Specials to Air in Japan". Anime News Network. 2008-05-17. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-05-17/two-soul-eater-anime-specials-to-air-in-japan. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
9. ^ "Goods section at the anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/goods/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
10. ^ "FUNimation Adds Soul Eater Anime from Media Factory". Anime News Network. 2008-12-31. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-31/funimation-adds-soul-eater-anime-from-media-factory. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
11. ^ "Soul Eater to Air in Japan in Two Weekly Versions". Anime News Network. 2008-02-12. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-12/soul-eater-to-air-in-japan-in-two-weekly-versions. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
12. ^ "Soul Eater Episodios [Soul Eater Episodes]" (in Portuguese). MTV Portugal. http://www.mtv.pt/programas/Soul-Eater-t1/. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
13. ^ "Soul Eater: Monotone Princess Released Date and Price Confirmed!" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-06-20. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/087/87928/. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
14. ^ "D-pad and Touch Pen Resonance Operation Soul Eater: Plot of Medusa to Be Sold This Autumn" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-06-20. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/087/87608/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
15. ^ "Abingdon Boys School's "Strength" single". CD Japan. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=ESCL-3171. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
16. ^ "Music section at anime's official website" (in Japanese). http://www.souleater.tv/music/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
17. ^ "T.M.R to Sing the Theme Song for the Soul Eater Wii Game!" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. 2008-05-12. http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/079/79362/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
Hunter x Hunter Anime Manga
Hunter × Hunter adalah judul manga karya Yoshihiro Togashi, yang bercerita tentang anak laki-laki berusia 12 tahun bernama Gon Freecss, dan usahanya untuk menemukan ayahnya, Ging Freecss. Ging adalah seorang Hunter, yang dalam cerita Hunter x Hunter yaitu anggota dari suatu kelompok elit yang memiliki segala macam izin untuk melakukan apapun dimanapun.
* Gon Freecss: Seorang anak laki laki berumur 12 tahun yang mengembara untuk menemukan ayahnya yang sudah lama pergi dan tak pernah kembali. Gon mempunyai indera yang sangat tajam karena terbiasa hidup dihutan dan tidak takut pada monster. Gon sangat polos, baik dan setia kawan. Dia bertemu dengan Killua pada ujian hunter dan sejak saat itu Gon dan Killua menjadi teman yang baik. Memiliki Nen bertipe Kyouka, atau penguat, yang sering digunakan secara spesifik oleh Gon untuk melancarkan pukulan yang amat kuat. Jurus spesialnya adalah Jajanken.
* Killua Zaoldyeck: Anak dari keluarga pembunuh bayaran yang sangat terkenal dan ditakuti oleh banyak golongan. Memiliki sifat yang sangat cuek dan suka semaunya sendiri. Dia bertemu dengan Gon pada latihan hunter, namun sayang dia gagal dalam ujian hunter yang pertama karena tekanan kakaknya, Illumi Zaoldyeck. Karena paksaan kakaknya itu, setelah ujian hunter Killua terpaksa ikut kembali kerumahnya. Karena perjuangan tekad Gon, Kurapica,dan Leorio yang nekad menerobos masuk ke rumah keluarga Zaoldyeck di Kururu Mountain, maka akhirnya Killua pun ikut kembali bersama Gon, dan dari saat itu Gon dan Killua tidak pernah berpisah. Killua memiliki Nen bertipe Henka, atau transformasi. Killua mengubah kekuatan Nen miliknya menjadi suatu kekuatan listrik yang cukup mematikan. Killua telah dilatih sedemikian rupa untuk menjadi seorang assassin, terbukti dengan mampunya ia membuka 3 pintu gerbang rumahnya, yang notabene beratnya 16 ton. Killua juga tahan terhadap racun dan aliran listrik.
* Leorio: Orang yang suka humor, bahkan kadang-kadang saat bertempur-pun ia sesekali bercanda. Merupakan salah satu teman baik Kurapica.Dia memiliki cita-cita untuk menjadi seorang dokter karena dia pernah kehilangan seorang teman yang sangat akrab dengan dia,ia tak dapat menyembuhkan temannya itu. dia ikut ujian hunter pun hanya karena dia membutuhkan dana untuk ikut kuliah di universitas kedokteran, pada akhirnya dia berhasil menjadi seorang dokter. Sejauh ini, Leorio hanya menguasai 'Ten' dari 4 dasar 'Nen'.
* Kurapika: Lelaki yang "cantik" ini berumur 16 tahun,ia membuat banyak orang bertanya-tanya apakah dia lelaki atau perempuan. Leorio pernah ingin mengajukan tebakan, apakah Kurapica laki-laki atau perempuan saat ujian hunter di menara trik. Orang yang sangat akrab dengan Gon, bijaksana dan selalu berpikir dengan kepala dingin. Wawasannya luas karena hobinya membaca buku (terutama buku sejarah). Walau demikian, saat mendengar tentang Genei ryodan, sifat kalapnya akan muncul, bersamaan dengan munculnya mata merahnya. Kurapica, sebagai keturunan terakhir suku Kuruta memiliki mata merah yang hanya akan muncul saat ia mulai marah. Kurapica sebenarnya memiliki Nen bertipe Gugenka, materialisasi, yang diwujudkan dengan rantai yang melilit tangan kanannya. Tetapi saat mata merahnya muncul, tipe Nen-nya berubah menjadi Tokushitsu, atau spesialisasi. Saat matanya berubah merah, kemampuan khususnya adalah dapat menggunakan semua tipe nen dengan tingkat kemahiran 100%. Kurapica mempunya dendam yang mendalam terhadap Genei Ryodan. 5 tahun sebelum ujian hunter,Genei Ryodan membunuh seluruh anggota suku Kuruta yang mendiami wilayah Rukuso.Banyak orang memburu mata merah dari suku Kuruta. Saat terjadi pelelangan di Yorkshin city, sepasang bola mata suku Kuruta terjual dengan harga 2,9 milyar.
* Hisoka : Pria misteris yang kuat dan aneh. Sifatnya yang nyentrik, sesuai dengan penampilan sehari-harinya mirip seorang pesulap atau badut (pierrot). Dia bertemu dengan Gon saat ujian hunter dan tertarik akan keberanian Gon dalam menolong Leorio. Menganggap bahwa Gon memiliki kekuatan potensial yang hebat, Hisoka berusaha menghindar untuk membunuh Gon, karena menunggu sampai kekuatan Gon cukup "matang untuk dipanen". Seorang anggota laba-laba atau Genei Ryodan (palsu, karena nomor punggungnya yang bernomor 4 hanya tempelan di punggungnya), walau sebenarnya ia hanya masuk dalam Genei Ryodan demi melawan sang pimpinan, Kuroro Lucifer. Sama seperti Killua, nen Hisoka bertipe Henka. Hyosoka mengubah nen-nya menjadi mirip seperti permen karet (Bungee Gum).Hisoka kemungkinan memiliki ketertarikan dengan salah satu anggota Genei Ryodan, Machi.
* Ging Freecss : Merupakan seorang hunter yang diakui sebagai salah satu hunter terhebat pada masa itu. Ging merupakan ayah dari Gon dan merupakan alasan kenapa Gon berusaha untuk menjadi seorang hunter profesional. Saat Gon masih sangat kecil, Ging meninggalkan Gon dalam perawatan Mito dan ibunya, sementara Ging sendiri menghilang tidak jelas kemana. Ging memiliki tipe nen Tokushitsu atau spesialisasi. Ging adalah salah satu dari 11 pencipta game Greed Island, yaitu Ging, Razor, Elena, Eeta, dan Dwun (aslinya Wdwune), sedangkan untuk 5 orang lagi tidak diketahui asal usulnya.
* Bibi Mito : Adik dari istri Ging Freecss, dia juga mencintai Ging, namun Ging lebih mencintai kakaknya. Dialah yang merawat Gon, sejak Gon masih kecil hingga dia berumur 12 tahun. Dia sangat membenci Ging, karena mengganggap Ging tidak bertanggung jawab dengan menelantarkan Gon begitu saja.
* Gon Freecss: Seorang anak laki laki berumur 12 tahun yang mengembara untuk menemukan ayahnya yang sudah lama pergi dan tak pernah kembali. Gon mempunyai indera yang sangat tajam karena terbiasa hidup dihutan dan tidak takut pada monster. Gon sangat polos, baik dan setia kawan. Dia bertemu dengan Killua pada ujian hunter dan sejak saat itu Gon dan Killua menjadi teman yang baik. Memiliki Nen bertipe Kyouka, atau penguat, yang sering digunakan secara spesifik oleh Gon untuk melancarkan pukulan yang amat kuat. Jurus spesialnya adalah Jajanken.
* Killua Zaoldyeck: Anak dari keluarga pembunuh bayaran yang sangat terkenal dan ditakuti oleh banyak golongan. Memiliki sifat yang sangat cuek dan suka semaunya sendiri. Dia bertemu dengan Gon pada latihan hunter, namun sayang dia gagal dalam ujian hunter yang pertama karena tekanan kakaknya, Illumi Zaoldyeck. Karena paksaan kakaknya itu, setelah ujian hunter Killua terpaksa ikut kembali kerumahnya. Karena perjuangan tekad Gon, Kurapica,dan Leorio yang nekad menerobos masuk ke rumah keluarga Zaoldyeck di Kururu Mountain, maka akhirnya Killua pun ikut kembali bersama Gon, dan dari saat itu Gon dan Killua tidak pernah berpisah. Killua memiliki Nen bertipe Henka, atau transformasi. Killua mengubah kekuatan Nen miliknya menjadi suatu kekuatan listrik yang cukup mematikan. Killua telah dilatih sedemikian rupa untuk menjadi seorang assassin, terbukti dengan mampunya ia membuka 3 pintu gerbang rumahnya, yang notabene beratnya 16 ton. Killua juga tahan terhadap racun dan aliran listrik.
* Leorio: Orang yang suka humor, bahkan kadang-kadang saat bertempur-pun ia sesekali bercanda. Merupakan salah satu teman baik Kurapica.Dia memiliki cita-cita untuk menjadi seorang dokter karena dia pernah kehilangan seorang teman yang sangat akrab dengan dia,ia tak dapat menyembuhkan temannya itu. dia ikut ujian hunter pun hanya karena dia membutuhkan dana untuk ikut kuliah di universitas kedokteran, pada akhirnya dia berhasil menjadi seorang dokter. Sejauh ini, Leorio hanya menguasai 'Ten' dari 4 dasar 'Nen'.
* Kurapika: Lelaki yang "cantik" ini berumur 16 tahun,ia membuat banyak orang bertanya-tanya apakah dia lelaki atau perempuan. Leorio pernah ingin mengajukan tebakan, apakah Kurapica laki-laki atau perempuan saat ujian hunter di menara trik. Orang yang sangat akrab dengan Gon, bijaksana dan selalu berpikir dengan kepala dingin. Wawasannya luas karena hobinya membaca buku (terutama buku sejarah). Walau demikian, saat mendengar tentang Genei ryodan, sifat kalapnya akan muncul, bersamaan dengan munculnya mata merahnya. Kurapica, sebagai keturunan terakhir suku Kuruta memiliki mata merah yang hanya akan muncul saat ia mulai marah. Kurapica sebenarnya memiliki Nen bertipe Gugenka, materialisasi, yang diwujudkan dengan rantai yang melilit tangan kanannya. Tetapi saat mata merahnya muncul, tipe Nen-nya berubah menjadi Tokushitsu, atau spesialisasi. Saat matanya berubah merah, kemampuan khususnya adalah dapat menggunakan semua tipe nen dengan tingkat kemahiran 100%. Kurapica mempunya dendam yang mendalam terhadap Genei Ryodan. 5 tahun sebelum ujian hunter,Genei Ryodan membunuh seluruh anggota suku Kuruta yang mendiami wilayah Rukuso.Banyak orang memburu mata merah dari suku Kuruta. Saat terjadi pelelangan di Yorkshin city, sepasang bola mata suku Kuruta terjual dengan harga 2,9 milyar.
* Hisoka : Pria misteris yang kuat dan aneh. Sifatnya yang nyentrik, sesuai dengan penampilan sehari-harinya mirip seorang pesulap atau badut (pierrot). Dia bertemu dengan Gon saat ujian hunter dan tertarik akan keberanian Gon dalam menolong Leorio. Menganggap bahwa Gon memiliki kekuatan potensial yang hebat, Hisoka berusaha menghindar untuk membunuh Gon, karena menunggu sampai kekuatan Gon cukup "matang untuk dipanen". Seorang anggota laba-laba atau Genei Ryodan (palsu, karena nomor punggungnya yang bernomor 4 hanya tempelan di punggungnya), walau sebenarnya ia hanya masuk dalam Genei Ryodan demi melawan sang pimpinan, Kuroro Lucifer. Sama seperti Killua, nen Hisoka bertipe Henka. Hyosoka mengubah nen-nya menjadi mirip seperti permen karet (Bungee Gum).Hisoka kemungkinan memiliki ketertarikan dengan salah satu anggota Genei Ryodan, Machi.
* Ging Freecss : Merupakan seorang hunter yang diakui sebagai salah satu hunter terhebat pada masa itu. Ging merupakan ayah dari Gon dan merupakan alasan kenapa Gon berusaha untuk menjadi seorang hunter profesional. Saat Gon masih sangat kecil, Ging meninggalkan Gon dalam perawatan Mito dan ibunya, sementara Ging sendiri menghilang tidak jelas kemana. Ging memiliki tipe nen Tokushitsu atau spesialisasi. Ging adalah salah satu dari 11 pencipta game Greed Island, yaitu Ging, Razor, Elena, Eeta, dan Dwun (aslinya Wdwune), sedangkan untuk 5 orang lagi tidak diketahui asal usulnya.
* Bibi Mito : Adik dari istri Ging Freecss, dia juga mencintai Ging, namun Ging lebih mencintai kakaknya. Dialah yang merawat Gon, sejak Gon masih kecil hingga dia berumur 12 tahun. Dia sangat membenci Ging, karena mengganggap Ging tidak bertanggung jawab dengan menelantarkan Gon begitu saja.
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