Manyū Hiken-chō

Manyū Hiken-chō
Cover of the first manga volume featuring Chifusa Manyu
魔乳秘剣帖
Genre	Historical, Action
Manga
Written by	Hideki Yamada
Published by	Enterbrain
Demographic	Seinen
Imprint	Techgian Style
Magazine	Tech Gian
Original run	March 24, 2007 – ongoing
Volumes	6
TV anime
Directed by	Hiraku Kaneko
Produced by	Akira Matsui Hiroaki Ooki Yoshiyuki Ito
Written by	Seishi Minakami
Music by	Miyu Nakamura
Studio	Hoods Entertainment
Network	TV Kanagawa, Tokyo MX, Chiba TV, KBS Kyoto, Sun Television, AT-X (TV, censored) ShowTime, Inc. (Webcast, uncensored)
Original run	July 12, 2011 – September 27, 2011
Episodes	12
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Manyū Hiken-chō (魔乳秘剣帖^?, lit. "Magic Breast Secret Scroll") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideki Yamada. Set in a parallel version of the Taihei Edo period, the series follows the busty kunoichi, Chifusa. The manga began serialization in Enterbrain's seinen manga magazine Tech Gian in 2005. An anime adaptation produced by Hoods Entertainment began airing in Japan in July 2011.

Plot

In a reign ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are guaranteed wealth and popularity. If you lack them, you are rarely considered "human". Members of the ruling Manyu Clan help raise the future big breasts. Written on a secret scroll possessed by the clan, there is said to be various techniques on how to grow big and beautiful breasts. Chifusa is to be successor of the clan. However, she takes the secret scroll and runs away with it, hoping to fight against the cruel world that the Manyu Clan has created...

Characters

Chifusa Manyu (魔乳 千房, Manyū Chifusa^?)

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Drama CD), Minako Kotobuki (anime)

The tomboyish successor of the Manyu clan and an expert samurai. She is hotheaded, rash and temperamental but is incredibly loyal and kind-hearted. However, she is prone to becoming enticed with buxom women, as a result of her time with her mother. Despite the fact that she was meant to continue the tradition of the Manyū, she deserts her family because of her hatred of the unfair system with which her family governs (which is judging women's worth based on the size of their breasts) and steals the Scroll of Secrets, which contains techniques on how to enlarge breasts. She is also the only person capable of a technique known as Breast Flow (乳流れ, Chichi-nagare^?), which allows her to control the form of breasts and thus allows her to enlarge or reduce breasts. Because of her inexperience with the technique, initially she can only use it to absorb other women's breasts. After discovering this technique, Chifusa made it her ultimate goal to master it so she could ensure all women in Japan a decent-sized bust. A key part of personality is that she disdains large breasts, how people are treated with or without them, and manipulating people with them(such as large breasts girls at a maid inn).

Kaede (楓^?)

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Drama CD), Aki Toyosaki (anime)

Chifusa's attendant and her best friend since childhood. She is eternally loyal to Chifusa to that point that she also deserted the Manyū clan to go along with her friend. Despite the fact that she is Chifusa's underling, she still tends to give her friend orders, especially when it comes to managing money or picking fights. It is implied several times in both the manga and the anime that Kaede is secretly in love with Chifusa, demonstrated by her envious behavior when Chifusa is around men or her constant attempts at playing with Chifusa's large bosom. It is because of these behaviors that most people who come across Chifusa and Kaede assume that they are lesbians.

Ouka Sayama (狭山 桜花, Sayama Ōka^?)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

A Manyu assassin and Muneyuki's bodyguard who is sent by the Manyuu to chase after Chifusa. She is cold and ruthless, showing no mercy against any foes. She is an incredibly skilled swordswoman, her skills matching and possibly even surpasing Chifusa's. She was the first person that Chifusa used the Breast Flow technique on, accidentally stealing her breasts during a duel when both of them were young. After she lost her breasts to Chifusa, Ouka endured the harsh lifestyle of a flast-chested commoner until Muneyuki employed her, ignoring her lack of social position due to her small breasts. It is implied that Ouka is in love with Muneyuki because of this kindness. Ouka greatly resembles Yu Kanda from the manga/anime series D. Gray Man.

Kagefusa Manyu (魔乳 影房, Manyū Kagefusa^?)

Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (Drama CD), Kaoru Mizuhara (anime)

Chifusa's sadistic, older sister. Unlike Chifusa, she is perfectly happy with her family's form of government and goes to great lengths to preserve it. She hates her sister because even though Chifusa has a smaller chest than her, she was still chosen as the Manyū successor over Kagefusa. At the beginning of both the anime and the manga, Chifusa steals Kagefusa's breasts when she unwittingly uses the Breast Flow technique for the first time. After this incident, Kagefusa is forced to wear an inflating bra and she swears a personal vengeance against her sister. She eventually abandons this grudge after Chifusa promsies to return her breasts when she masters the Breast Flow technique. After forgiving Chifusa, Kagefusa's attitude towards life and the Manyu completely changes, turning her into an easygoing and relaxed (albeit still sadistic) person.

Muneyuki Manyu (魔乳 胸幸, Manyū Muneyuki^?)

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada

Chifusa's brother, whom she initially admires greatly. He is the chief Manyuu Breast Inspector because of his great, natural ability to analyze them. It is because of this job that he despises large breasts, since he claims that after years of staring and analyzing them he has grown tired of them. After Chifusa's defection, his darker side comes up, revealing that he is as ruthless as his father and is willing to go to brutal lengths to preserve Manyu rule. It is implied that he is either in love with or holds certain feelings for Ouka.

Kokage (小影^?)

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen

Kagefusa's assistant and best friend. Very much like what Kaede is to Chifusa, Kokage is eternally loyal to Kagefusa, even though Kagefusa is a lot sterner to Kokage than Chifusa is to Kaede. Kokage is very inexperienced in combat and commonly acts as a spy and reconissance agent for Kagefusa, looking for information to track down Chifusa and Kaede's location.

Munenori Manyu (魔乳 胸則, Manyū Munenori^?)

Voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata (Drama CD), Atsushi Ono (anime)

The lord of the Manyu clan, the ruler of Japan and Chifusa's father. He is the leader of the Manyu and the series' main antagonist. He preserves the Manyu's systyem of rule, in which a woman's worth is judged on by the size of her breasts, through a totalitarian demeanour of government. He is shown to be very cold and vengeful, issuing a death warrant for his own daughter because of her defection and spares no expense to have her stopped.

Kyoka Manyu (魔乳 胸華, Manyū Kyōka^?)

Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki

Chifusa's kind-hearted older sister. She is the most calm person of her family and despite her general mercy and good nature, she still is an enemy to Chifusa after her defection.

Hatomune Mie (三重 鳩宗, Mie Hatomune^?)

Voiced by: Chō (Drama CD), Tōru Ōkawa (anime)

The feudal lord of a Japanese province that Chifusa and Kaede travel through during most of the series. He is introduced when he judges a "Breast Shaking Contest" in which Chifusa participates to help an innkeeper who lets them stay at his inn free of charge. After seeing her bare breasts be flashed accidentally during the contest, Mie becomes obsessed with Chifusa and begins to try to find her in order to touch her breasts. He eventually flees from his palace and becomes a simple citizen in a small town, later running into Chifusa and Kaede again. He helps Kaede rescue Chifusa from the palace of a rival lord and as a reward he is finally allowed to play with Chifusa's tits, an honor he rejects out of respect for Chifusa. He then returns to his palace and resumes his lordship duties.

Media

Manga

Manyū Hiken-chō began monthly serialization in Enterbrain's seinen manga magazine Tech Gian in 2005. The first tankōbon was released on March 24, 2007,^[1] with a total of six volumes available in Japan as of June 25, 2011 under its Techgian Style imprint.^[2]

No.	Release date	ISBN
01	March 24, 2007[1]	ISBN 978-4-7577-3487-6
02	February 25, 2008[3]	ISBN 978-4-7577-4005-1
03	October 25, 2008[4]	ISBN 978-4-7577-4496-7
04	October 24, 2009[5]	ISBN 978-4-04-726098-6
05	May 24, 2010[6]	ISBN 978-4-04-726565-3
06	June 25, 2011[2]	ISBN 978-4-04-727379-5

Drama CD

A drama CD produced by Chara-Ani was released on October 16, 2010, featuring a different voice cast than its anime counterpart.^[7]

Internet radio show

An internet radio show entitled Manyū Hiken-chō: Oedo Radio (魔乳秘剣帖 大江戸らじを, Manyū Hikenchō: Ōedo Rajio^?) aired on Onsen on July 4, 2011. The show is hosted by Tōru Ōkawa and Mamiko Noto, the respective voices for Hatomoto Mie and Ouka Sayama.

Anime

The May 2011 issue of Tech Gian announced that an anime adaptation of the manga was in the works.^[8] Produced by Hoods Entertainment, the anime is directed by Hiraku Kaneko, series composition by Seishi Minakami, music by Miyu Nakamura, character designs by Jun Takagi, and produced by Akira Matsui, Hiroaki Ooki, and Yoshiyuki Ito. The anime premiered on TV Kanagawa on July 12, 2011, followed by subsequent broadcasts on Tokyo MX, Chiba TV, KBS Kyoto, Sun Television, and AT-X. AT-X broadcasts of the series are partially uncensored, while it remains heavily censored on other channels. A raw uncensored "Director's Cut" version of the anime is available via webcast on ShowTime's video portal beginning July 22, 2011. DVD and Blu-ray releases of the series, beginning on October 4, 2011, will include an OVA entitled "Binyū Tanren-hō • Nyū-Togi" and a picture drama entitled "Kaede no 'Chifusa-sama Oppai Seichō Kiroku'".^[9] The series' opening theme is "Fate" (運命, Unmei^?) and the ending theme is "Futatsu no Ashiato" (二つの足跡^?, "Two Footprints"), both performed by AiRI.

No.	Title	Original airdate
01	"Chifusa Defects" "Chifusa Rihan Su" (千房 離反す)	July 12, 2011[10]
In a world in which having large breasts means everything, the succesor of the powerful Manyu family, Chifusa Manyu, defects and steals the Manyu Scroll of Secrets (which contains all the Manyu secret techniques for breast enlargement), but is wounded during her escape. She is found by a woman who was recently attacked by Kagefusa, a Manyu assassin and Chifusa's sister, resulting in her breasts becoming small and effectively making her poor. The woman becomes jealous of Chifusa and attempts to sever her breasts in a fit of rage, but Chifusa manages to calm her down. As Chifusa is about to leave, she is confronted by Kagefusa, who had also captured Chifusa's comrade, Kaede, and severed her breasts. As Chifusa stands against Kagefusa, she uses a special technique which steals Kagefusa's breasts and adds them to her own. As Kagefusa is forced to retreat, Kaede decides to join Chifusa on her journey.
02	"Assassin! Breast Illusion" "Shikaku! Chichi Mudō" (刺客! 乳夢道)	July 19, 2011[10]
Running low on money, Chifusa and Kaede earn some money by utilising Chifusa's assets. They go to an inn run by a well-endowed landlady. However, this landlady turns out to be a Manyu assassin who drugs both Chifusa and Kaede and then hypnotizes them with her breasts. Before she can finish them off, the hypnotized Kaede pounces at the landlady's breasts, releasing Chifusa from the mind control effect and giving her the chance to absorb the landlady's breasts. As they move on, Chifusa comes to realize about her ability to alter a woman's breasts using the Breast Flow technique, and vows to learn more about it so she can return Kaede's breasts to normal.
03	"Mysterious Breast Disappearance" "Kaiki Chichi-kakushi" (怪奇 乳隠し)	July 26, 2011[10]
Having not eaten for days, Chifusa and Kaede get a job at a maid bar, but soon get fired due to Chifusa's short temper around the rowdy customers. Collapsing due to hunger, they are rescued by a man whose daughter was strucken by a mysterious breast disappearance. The man asks Chifusa to take her daughter's place in a contest against a neighboring village to please Hatomune Mie, a rowdy landlord. The opposing team sends a Manyu assassin to attack Chifusa, but she manages to beat him and wins the contest the next morning. Although Hatomune later hears word about Chifusa's true identity, he allows her to go, having been mesmerized by her breasts. After she leaves, Hatomune vows to find Chifusa again and get to touch her breasts.
04	"Divers and Breasts" "Ama to Oppai" (海女とおっぱい)	August 2, 2011[10]
With Chifusa and Kaede coming up short on a food bill, they are forced to become divers by the restaurant's owner, Oiso. As Oiso laments how her large breasts keep her from diving properly, her assistant, Mizuki, is attacked by a large octopus which has been causing trouble for the village for years. The next day as everyone hunts for the octopus, Oiso is captured while saving Kaede from the octopus, so Chifusa dives in after her. With the octopus using Oiso as a shield, Chifusa uses the Breast Flow technique to attack the octopus without hurting Oiso, absorbing her breasts in the process. As the octopus attacks Chifusa before she can come up for air, Oiso uses her newfound freedom to kill the octopus, giving Chifusa the credit as thanks.
05	"Bastards and Breasts" "Rokudenashi to Oppai" (ろくでなしとおっぱい)	August 9, 2011[10]
Chifusa and Kaede save a woman called Osuzu from four "monsters" that assaulted her and tried to molest her breasts. At Osuzu's village, both heroines meet a man named Yasuke, who lost his massively-breasted wife two years prior and struggles with different jobs to maintain his four kids, and whom Osuzu is hopelessly in love with. In order to help Osuzu, Chifusa and Kaede convince Osuzu's grandfather to organize a hunt for the monsters, leaving Yasuke to take care of Osuzu; ultimately Osuzu manages to charm Yasuke and they begin dating. During the hunt, Chifusa and Kaede stumble upon the monsters and after a brief fight they discover that they were just Yasuke's four children, who played with their captured women's breasts because they missed their deceased mother's bosom. Chifusa strikes a deal with them and makes them promise not to assault any more women...after she lets them play with her own boobs for an entire afternoon.
06	"Kagefusa Revisited" "Kagefusa Futatabi" (影房ふたたび)	August 16, 2011[11]
After an encounter with some guards, Chifusa ends up absorbing several pairs of breasts, which make her own tits enormous and massively heavy, limiting her mobility. She and Kaede travel to a temple where a nun named Jifuni theorises that the reason for Chifusa absorbing breasts is because of her own selfish desire for her mother's comfort. Chifusa is put on a training course to cleanse and rebuild a pile of rocks that form a nipple-like fountain in order to purify her breasts. However, just before she completes the fountain, she is approached by Kagefusa, who steals the Manyu scroll only to find the Breast Flow technique cannot be learned, as it was passed down from her mother's bloodline. Noticing Kagefusa's sorrow for having small breasts, Chifusa gives her the opportunity to cut hers, but she cannot bring herself to do so because of her sister's unselfishness and because of the sheer beauty of her breasts. After the fountain is completed, Kagefusa returns the scroll and bids farewell after making Chifusa promise to return her breasts to her after she masters the Breast Flow technique.
07	"Boobie Kid" "Oppai Kozō" (おっぱい小僧)	August 23, 2011[11]
Chifusa and Kaede stop at a village so Chifusa can get a massage to ease the pain caused by her heavy tits. The masseus, a girl named Momoha, tells them of "The Boobie Kid" a local thief that steal's rich women's tits and allegedly gives them to the poor. Suspecting that this Boobie Kid might be a Manyu who knows how to master the Breast Flow technique, Chifusa takes a job as a bodyguard for a local big-breasted woman who will likely be the next target in order to catch the Boobie Kid. At the same time, the big-breasted landlady also employs another girl called Ouka as a bodyguard and immediately Chifusa becomes suspicious of Ouka because of her unusually good swordsmanship. That night, the Boobie Kid strikes but is chased away and caught by Chifusa. The Boobie Kid is later revealed to be Momoha, the masseus, and that she is a member of the Munamori family and that she knows a technique similar to the Breast Flow technique that Chifusa cannot use. At that point, Ouka arrives and reveals herself to be a Manyu assassin; she proceeds to attack Chifusa and nearly kills her but fails due to Momoha's interruption. While fleeing, Momoha is fatally wounded and as she lays dying gives Chifusa her tits so she can use their essence to master both the Manyu and Munamori techniques before bidding her farewell and wishing her good luck on her mission.
08	"Chifusa Imprisoned" "Chifusa Towaru" (千房囚わる)	August 30, 2011[11]
Chifusa and Kaede run into Lord Hatomune Mie, who has escaped from his palace and disguised himself as a commoner to live a simple life in a village, where he has become a popular citizen. After receiving a tour of the town from Mie, Chifusa and Kaede depart but are soon stopped by a Manyu swordsman who attacks them and kidnaps Chifusa, taking her to the palace of a local lord. In the palace, the Manyu swordsman takes the Manyu scroll from Chifusa and begins to use the different techniques on her to test them out before returning her to the Manyu. Kaede asks Mie for help in rescuing Chifusa and the two break into the local lord's mansion, where Mie defeats dozens of the lord's soldiers and finally releases Chifusa from the dungeon where she is locked away. While Mie finishes off the local lord, Chifusa confronts the Manyu swordsman and kills him. After all three of them escape to safety, Chifusa rewards Mie by allowing him to play with her tits. Surprisingly, he refuses.
09	"Bud of Love" "Tsubomi no Koi" (つぼみの恋)	September 6, 2011[11]
While traveling through the forest, Kaede and Chifusa save a painter called Sakuji Itamune from a trio of Manyu guards who wanted to kill him because of the content of his art. When Sakuji sees Kaede, he immediately asks her to model for his next painting. When Chifusa tells Kaede she shouldn't because it would slow down their progress, Kaede mistakes Chifusa's motivation and believes she doesn't want her to model because she is jealous, prompting her to abandon Chifusa. When they are about to start painting, Sakuji reveals he is a nude painter who only paints flat-chested models (which is why the three Manyu guards had attacked him) which shocks Kaede and makes her escape; though as soon as she leaves she is attacked by the three Manyu guards whom they had run into earlier. Sakuji finds them and tries to defend Kaede but is unable to beat the guards. The two are saved, however, when Chifusa arrives and easily defeats the attacking Manyu. Afterwards, with Chifusa's help, Sakuji makes a painting of Kaede which he considers his masterpiece. Sakuji offers Kaede to stay with him and be his permanent model, but Kaede chooses to stay with Chifusa and the two depart to continue their journey.
10	"The First Breast Slice" "Hajimari no Chichi-giri" (始まりの乳斬り)	September 13, 2011[12]
Chifusa and Kaede rest for the night in an abandoned shack after Chifusa comes down with a fever. While they are resting, Kaede mentions that Chifusa had only come down with a fever like that eight years prior (in an incident she does not recall which ended with Kaede being assigned as Chifusa's attendant). Chifusa begins to recall what happened what day while at the same time, in Muneyuki's house, Ouka does the same. It turns out that Chifusa had accidentally used the Breast Flow technique before during a duel she had with Ouka eight years prior and had accidentally stolen her breasts. After recovering, Kaede and Chifusa continue their journey, concluding that Chifusa has yet another set of breasts to return after she masters the Breast Flow technique.
11	"Munemori Village" "Munemori no Sato" (胸杜の里)	September 20, 2011[12]
Chifusa and Kaede arrive to the Munemori village, hometown to Chifusa's mother, which is now in ruin. There they reunite with Chifusa's grandmother and Chifusa's aunt, Tsuhuya Munemori, and her baby daughter, Hazuki. Tsuhuya agrees to teach Chifusa how to master the Breast Flow technique. At the same time, Kagefusa and Kokage take Ouka to Edo village, where they have a day of fun and a night of drinking, during which Kagefusa and Ouka discuss the latter's feelings for Muneyuki until they are interrupted by a courier with urgent news. The following day, before the training begins, Chifusa's grandmother tells Chifusa the story of how her mother died, revealing that Chifusa's mother killed herself so the Manyu wouldn't learn how to use the Breast Flow technique for their corrupt ways. Nonetheless, Chifusa vows to learn the Breast Flow technique in order to undo the Manyu's unjust regime. As training begins, Chifusa realizes she cannot use the Breast Flow technique because she lacks a mother's heart, which is necessary for it. However, Tsuhuya tells Chifusa there is soemthing she can do to attain a mother's heart without being a mother. Later, Kaede bursts in to warn Chifusa that a batallion of Manyu warriors has arrived to the village...a batallion led by Muneyuki and a vengeful Ouka.
12	"Breast Flow" "Chichi-nagare" (乳流れ)	September 27, 2011[12]
Muneyuki and Ouka lead a batallion of four Manyu assassins to capture Chifusa and Kaede. The two, along with Tsuhuya Munemori, face off against the assassins, defeating one of them before being outmatched. However, they are saved by the timely arrival of Kagefusa and Kokage, who join in on the fight. When the fight begins to get too rough, Chifusa's grandmother tells her to take Hazuki away with her to protect the last child of the Munemori bloodline; though initially hesitant, Chifusa and Kaede agree and flee with Hazuki. However, they are cornered by Ouka, who wishes to settle her old score with Chifusa as well as defeat her to gain status among the Manyu. Ouka initially has the upper hand in the fight, but halfway through it, Chifusa manages to unlock the Breast Flow by remembering how she had earlier attained a mother's heart... by breastfeeding Hazuki, which allowed her to have a motherly bond with one of her kin. Chifusa uses the Breast Flow technique against Ouka and manages to make her breasts grow, which weakens her long enough for her and Kaede to flee with Hazuki. Later on, Chifusa and Kaede find Kagefusa, Kokage, Tsuhuya and Chifusa's grandmother, who defeated the assassins and fled as well. After returning Hazuki to Tsuhuya and reassuring Kagefusa that she will return her breasts, Chifusa and Kaede continue their journey.

Reception

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External links

• Official manga website
• Official anime website
• Manyū Hiken-chō at Tech Gian
• Manyū Hiken-chō (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia