Ayakashi (visual novel)

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name = Ayakashi


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ja_name = アヤカシ
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genre = Adventure, HorrorInfobox animanga/Game
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developer = Crossnet
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released = October 28, 2005
genre = Visual novel
ratings = 18+
platforms = PCInfobox animanga/Game
title = Ayakashi H
developer = Crossnet
publisher =
released = September 29, 2006
genre = Visual novel
ratings = 18+
platforms = PCInfobox animanga/Anime
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director = Jun Takada
studio = Tokyo Kids
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network = flagicon|Japan AT-X, Chiba TV, Sun TV, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama
first = December 12, 2007
last = March 5, 2008
episodes = 12Infobox animanga/Manga
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author = Crossnet (original work)
Yuushi Kanoe (art)
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kodansha
demographic = Seinen
magazine = Magazine Z
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last =
volumes = 1

nihongo|"Ayakashi"|アヤカシ is a 2005 visual novel developed by Crossnet. An eroge sequel was later released in 2006 with the name "Ayakashi H". A twelve-episode anime adaptation was aired in 2007. A bundle release of the game called "Ayakashi Pack" was released on December 14, 2007 to celebrate the release of the anime, containing both Ayakashi and Ayakashi H.

Plot

Ayakashi is a parasite life force that gives superpowers to its host, taking in return the host's entire life force. Yū Kusaka is a student that lost his will to live after the death of a dear childhood friend, until the day a mysterious girl, named Eimu Yoake, appears. From that moment on, his life would never be the same again. Hunted by Ayakashi and their hosts, the power within Yū awakens and a never ending battle begins.

Ayakashi H

The setting is one month after Ayakashi.

Characters

*"The following seiyū are from the anime adaption."

;Nihongo|Yū Kusaka|久坂 悠|Kusaka Yū:Anime voices|Daisuke Kishio:The main character. He is a warm-hearted, caring Ayakashi handler fighting for the sake of a promise he made to Hime and Izumi two years before the main story. His promise was to protect them. Yu has the strongest Ayakashi, Ryuu. Ryuu is a dragon-like Ayakashi.

;Nihongo|Eimu Yoake|夜明 エイム|Yoake Eimu:Anime voices|Nana Mizuki:The main heroine. Eimu first appears as a bodyguard forced to protect Yū. Later into the series, Yu and Eimu develop a bond in which she later chooses for herself to protect him. Eimu has two Ayakashis, Akuro-ou, a large, blue Ayakashi and Satori, a small blue and white Ayakashi with the ability to fight and read minds.

;Nihongo|Hime Yakushiji|薬師寺 陽愛|Yakushiji Hime:Anime voices|Miyu Matsuki:Yū's childhood friend, she is very popular around the boys in school, but she always hangs around Yū, she is cappable of seeing Ayakashi, in the end of her route is revealed that she is an Ayakashi user.

;Nihongo|Pam Werne Asakura|パム・ウェルヌ・アサクラ|Pamu Aerunu Asakura:Anime voices|Ai Shimizu : A friend Yū and Eimu meet later in the anime. She tends to like Yū. Her ayakashi is Tengu.

;Nihongo|Izumi Makihara|牧原 和泉|Makihara Izumi:Anime voices|Sakura Nogawa:Yū's childhood friend. She was killed by Eimu 2 years before the main story and transferred a part of her soul into Eimu upon her death along with her memories and emotions. Satori was originally her Ayakashi.

;Nihongo|Orie Natsuhara|夏原 織江|Natsuhara Orie:Anime voices|Sakura Nogawa:A girl who searches for something she doesn't know, when she change's her hairstyle she is identical to Izumi She is a cat Ayakashi. Her master and Bakeneko's handler, Natsuhara, were killed by Kare.

;Nihongo|Kare|彼|Kare:Anime voices|Tomokazu Sugita:The main antagonist. His real name is unknown and he is sometimes referred to as "Him".

;Nihongo|Akino Yoake|夜明 アキノ|Yoake Akino:Anime voices|Satsuki Yukino:Eimu's older sister. She's loyal to "Him"; and tends to be cold towards Eimu and Yu. Not acknowledging Eimu as her sister. Saying she lost her sister "two years ago" before the main story. The reason she says this, is because Eimu chooses to protect Yu instead of joining her sisters side. Her ayakashi is Aterui. A red, smaller ayakashi version of Akuro-ou.

;Nihongo|Akio Maekawa|前川 彰男|Maekawa Akio:Anime voices|Daisuke Namikawa

;Nihongo|Heima Kajiwara|梶原 平馬|Kajiwara Heima:Anime voices|Tomoyuki Terai:Yū's senior, he is also an Ayakashi user who was ordered by Kare to keep an eye on Yū.

Ayakashi H Characters

;Nihongo|Kikuri Shirakami|白神 菊理|Shirakami Kikuri:Hime's cousin and succesor of the Shirakami family, she has the ability to seal and control Ayakashi with a stamp handed over by her family, also she has a pair of short swords to fight Ayakashi, she believes that Ayakashi are evil and dangerous, but Yū shows her that not all Ayakashi are Evil, in the end she develops a crush on him.

;Nihongo|Yae Sakimori|咲守 八重|Sakimori Yae:One of Kikuri's bodyguards, she is shy and fears men but even so she has a crush on Katsumi, when she fights uses a pair of gauntlets, with these she can fight hand to hand with Ayakashis like Akuro-ou.

;Nihongo|Katsumi Osakabe|刑部 克己|Osakabe Katsumi:One of Kikuri's bodyguards, he is calm and collected and always gives advise to Yū on how to handle Kikuri, he uses a Katana to fight, later is revealed that he is an Ayakashi user and that he wants to kill all the Ayakashi users, so they don't have to suffer the pain that his dead wife had to go trough, he combines sword techinques with his wife's fire Ayakashi "Shiranui".

Ayakashi

;Nihongo|Ryuu|竜:Yū's ayakashi. It is the ayakashi of "destruction" and "rebirth".

Episode list

1. Bloody Beginning

2. Awakening

3. Remuneration

4. Ayakashi User

5. KARE

6. IZUMI

7. Isolation

8. Eimu

9. Decision

10. Couple

11. Path of No Return

12. Symbiosis

External links

* [http://www.ayakashi.info/ Anime official website] ja icon
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