Arcana (manga)
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| Arcana | |
_01.png) First tankōbon volume cover | |
| Genre | |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Yua Kotegawa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
| Original run | September 21, 2000 – November 15, 2001 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Yoshitaka Yamaguchi |
| Produced by |
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| Written by |
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| Music by | Yusuke Hayashi |
| Studio | Nikkatsu |
| Released | October 19, 2013 |
| Runtime | 89 minutes |
Arcana (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yua Kotegawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2000 to 2001. A live-action film adaptation premiered in 2013.
Kensho Murakami is a police detective who is assigned to investigate a serial bombing at Shuei Elementary. He and his partner, Nakabayashi, learn that a doctor from a mental institution called on behalf of one of his patients about the explosion minutes before the bomb went off. This leads to Murakami's meeting with the nameless and amnesic patient whom they would eventually call "Maki", who appears to communicate with deceased spirits of the dead that tell her things which no living human would know. Murakami tries to uncover the secret behind Maki as she helps him and Nakabayashi to deal with a series of supernatural crimes committed by a mass murderer. However, as Murakami finds himself falling in love, he learns of Maki's true nature and her connection to an identical woman named Satsuki.
Characters
- Maki (まき)
- Portrayed by: Tao Tsuchiya[3]
- Satsuki (さつき)
- Portrayed by: Tao Tsuchiya[3]
- Kensho Murakami (村上 謙省, Murakami Kenshō)
- Portrayed by: Masataka Nakagauchi[3]
- Mieko Tomochika (友近 三枝子, Tomochika Mieko)
- Portrayed by: Mitsuki Tanimura[4]
- Yutaka Hashi (橋 雄高, Hashi Yutaka)
- Portrayed by: Goro Kishitani[3]
- Nakabayashi (中林)
- Portrayed by: Takuya Uehara[4]
- Michiru (みちる)
- Portrayed by: Kaito
- Gaku Torikawa (鳥河 学, Gaku Torikawa)
- Portrayed by: Hajime Taniguchi[4]
- Munemitsu Kobayashi (小林 宗光, Kobayashi Munemitsu)
- Portrayed by: Masahiro Noguchi[4]
- Taguchi (田口)
- Portrayed by: Masashi Taniguchi[4]
