Shadow Skill

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Shadow Skill


caption =
ja_name = 影技 SHADOW SKILL
ja_name_trans = Shadō Sukiru
genre = Martial arts, Fantasy, DramaInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Megumu Okada
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kodansha
flagicon|Japan Kadokawa Shoten
flagicon|Japan Take Shoubo
demographic =
magazine = Bamboo Comics
Dragon Comics
first = 1992
last =
volumes = 5Infobox animanga/Manga
title = Shadow Skill (I)
author = Megumu Okada
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kodansha
publisher_other =
demographic =
magazine = Afternoon
first = 2000
last = ongoing
volumes = 5
OEM = Infobox animanga/OVA
title =
director = Hiroshi Negishi
studio = flagicon|Japan Zero-G Room
licensor = flagicon|USA Manga Entertainment
episodes = 3
released = October 25, 1995Infobox animanga/Anime
title = Shadow Skill - Eigi
director = Tsukasa Sunaga
studio = flagicon|Japan Studio Deen
licensor = flagicon|USA ADV Films
network = flagicon|Philippines AXN-Asia, GMA-7
flagicon|USA flagicon|Canada Anime Network
first = 2 July 1998
last = 24 December 1998
episodes = 26

nihongo|"Shadow Skill"|影技 SHADOW SKILL|Shadō Sukiru is a manga series with anime adaptations, produced by Studio Deen and aired on Japanese Television in 1998 and has been released in the United States by ADV Films in 2005. The series is based on the manga by Megumu Okada. Shadow Skill is a shōnen series which features Styles of combat, such as martial arts. In addition to having a 26 episode television series three separate OVAs were made which have been released in the United States by Manga Entertainment. The television series, which has a different storyline to that of the OVAs, is distributed by ADV Films.

Characters

The main protagonists of "Shadow Skill" are Elle Ragu, the 59th Sevaar in the kingdom of Kuruda, and Gau Ban, an orphaned boy that Elle took in as her adopted brother. He is currently a "Vaar" and is improving his training. Gau is so impressed by Elle's fighting skill, and the stories of Kuruda's greatest fighter Scarface, that he is studying Elle's fighting skills so that one day he would become the greatest "Sevaar" in Kuruda. But before that, they must face demon beasts, spies, and Elle's debts from drinking, and collateral damage from fighting.

Also in Elle and Gau's life is Faurink Maya (Faury), a Sui Rame talisman sorceress, and Kyuo Lyu, a Septia beast-catcher and grandniece of Eva Stroll, the king of Kuruda.

External links

;English
* [http://www.shadowskill.co.uk/ "Shadow Skill" Network site (UK)] .

;Japanese
* [http://www.mcb-jp.com/ "Shadow Skill" creator's site] .