Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde and Closer

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name = Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Closer


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ja_name = 呪法解禁!!ハイド&クローサー
ja_name_trans = Juhou Kaikin!! Haido & Kuroosaa
genre = Action, Comedy, FantasyInfobox animanga/Manga
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author = Haro Aso
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shogakukan
demographic = Shōnen
magazine = flagicon|Japan Weekly Shōnen Sunday
first = 2008
last = ongoing
volumes =

nihongo|"Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Closer" [Originally, the name was Hyde and Crowther, but was a translation mistake, the actual name Hyde and Closer.] [cite web |url=http://conan-magic.com/hyde.html|title=Translation mistake on Title of the manga Magic ban Removal!! Hyde and Closer! |publisher=Endless Youth and Company |accessdate=a Unknown Date] |呪法解禁!!ハイド&クローサー|Juhou Kaikin!! Haido & Kurōsā is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by ASOU Haro. The manga is serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Sunday".

The manga began its first run in 2008, and has 25 chapters [Only four of the 25 chapters have been Scanslated though.] as of July 7, 2008. Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Closer is not licensed in America yet.

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The story begins with a tale of explaining magic. The main protagonist, is a 13-year-old teenager named Shunpei Closer. he is viewed as a weak, and timid teenager, similar to Tsuna Sawada of the manga Reborn!. His grandfather, Alsyd Closer, was a magician, not the magician with tricks up their sleeves, a real magician. Alsyd would travel around the world constantly, only stopping in Japan every now and then to tell tales of his journeys to Shunpei. Before leaving to Africa on Shunpei's 7th birthday, Alsyd gave Shunpei a teddy bear named Hyde. Shunpei quickly grows attached to the teddy bear, stating he was Shunpei's best friend. Six years have passed, and Shunpei comes home one day, only to receive a package that had a stuffed animal in it. Soon, Shunpei is attacked by the toy, and is almost killed. But before getting killed, Shunpei is cornered into his room, and as the toy was about to strike, the teddy bear Shunpei's grandpa gave him comes to life, and protects Shunpei against the enemy. Shunpei is frightened of the fact that Hyde came to life at first, but Hyde quickly calms him down, and explains how Shunpei, is the magician's number one target in the world. At this moment, the stuffed animal earlier is still alive, and ruthlessly attacks Hyde with knives, and forks. Leaving Hyde at a disadvantage because his only weapon is in his back, and he can't reach his back himself, meaning he needed Shunpei to do it for him. Shunpei struggles to get away from the fight, believing that if he runs away, everything would be fine, but he remembers how he was treated at school, and calls himself "Pathetic". Summoning up his courage, Shunpei returns to the fight, and brings out the Texas Chainsaw within Hyde. With this new weapon, the stuffed animal is easily destroyed. With the duo finishing up their first battle of many, Shunpei learns more about his grandfather more than he could have possibly dared, and to overcome the coward that he himself, and everyone else thought he was.

Characters

nihongo|Closer Shunpei|黒兎俊平|Shunpei Kuroosaa Closer Shunpei is a 13-year-old timid teenager. Shunpei has spiky black hair, and blue eyes. He wears a un-explained necklace that holds what seems to be a half light blue, and half dark blue (Or possibly dark purple) Magatama He could be easily compared to Tsuna Sawada of the manga Reborn!. Shunpei is harshly looked down upon by his classmates everyday, as he seems to have no special abilities, and messes up at everything. (He even poured the right fluids together in a beaker, and "still" caused an explosion. In chapter 2, Shunpei uses magic for the first time. And in chapter 3, Shunpei is told by Hyde that Shunpei needs to able to learn more magic because of the fact that protecting Shunpei, and fighting a enemy is very hard since both of them are fighting stronger enemies as the story goes on. Shunpei at first, strongly believes that he can't do anything, but when Hyde came along, and corrected him, Shunpei began to think otherwise. Hyde states in chapter 4, that Shunpei has the potential to become a very strong magician. Otherwise, Hyde would've stopped hanging around Shunpei a long time ago. [The following information has been provided with RAW's of the series, and most of the information I infered, and will be updated once translated. (Instead of using classmate, replace "Classmate" with the character's real name, etc)] In later chapters, Shunpei has shown bravery, and courage when dealt in battles with other magic-users. For instance, in chapter 11, Shunpei, and a classmate had to use umbrellas to block the shine from some overhead lights to give Hyde the advantage against a battle with a Shadow user, (He stabs other people's shadows using his own shadow) but the last light was too far to be able to hang the umbrella over it. But seeing as Hyde had the chance of losing, and dying, Shunpei gathered up his courage, and jumped to the headlight, (Which had to be a good 8 feet away or so) and successfully blocked the light, leaving Hyde to finish off his opponent. Another example, of how Shunpei has changed since Hyde entered his life, was in chapter 21, where Shunpei was determined to control a item he had received. Shunpei, and Hyde were attacked by what looked to be a giant, (But in the end, he was a small little creaure with a bowl of Ramen on his head) and although Hyde attempted to help, Shunpei asked to fight alone, with determination dripping from his eyes. Eventually, Shunpei had won the battle, and Hyde destroyed the creature with the Texas Chainsaw.:Magic::Barrier: the most basic spell it follows the rule of not allowing anything within a certain area without the casters permission. Once this spell is mastered more complex spell aren’t too far behind. Shunpei can perform it without an incantation something that is very hard to pull off.:Unknown: [Because this information was taken from a RAW chapter of the series, not much information is known about this magic] In chapter 19, Shunpei gains an magical item, and in chapter 20, trains to control it. The magical item looks like a Cell Phone with it being closed, or open, (Possibly to disguise it as a phone, instead of a weapon) and has a heart decorative on it. In chapter 21, Shunpei eventually controls the item in a real life or death situation. What the item actually does, is stops any object thrown at Shunpei, absorbs the the impact, and throws a object similar to what was thrown at Shunpei, at the enemy. Similar to a Thumb Drive. And similar to The main protaginist's ability of the series Mx0.

—A teddy bear that was given to Shunpei on Shunpei's 7th bithday. Hyde has not shown any reaction, until a enemy attempts to assassinate Shunpei. Hyde addresses Shunpei as either "Shun", or "Shun my boy", just like Alsyd. Probably because of Alsyd's magic in Hyde himself. Hyde can eaily be compared to the character Reborn in the anime/manga Reborn!. Hyde is calm when outside of battle, and puts on a blank face that shows no emotion. (Just like a normal teddy bear) He seems to be nice to Shunpei, and his mother. Hyde states that he thinks that Shun has potential, only he needs to toughen up a bit. Hyde is the one who has been proving Shunpei wrong when Shunpei thought of himself as weak, and a coward. In his back, he holds a chainsaw named the Texas Chainsaw. Oddly, the chainsaw stands about twice as tall as Hyde himself, but can easily fit inside Hyde. When he fights he normally gets an evil grin on his face, showing he might enjoy the idea of getting rid of the doll and thereby getting rid of the user; when he uses his Texas Chainsaw, his face becomes shadowed over, making his grin more evil looking. In battle, (And sometimes outside of battle) Hyde always has a Chocolate cigar in his mouth. Excluding the times when Hyde is put into a bag so Shunpei can carry him around with ease. Besides the Texas Chainsaw, Hyde shows superhuman strength, or enhanced strength in chapter 6. Throwing a full sized locker through a window in mid-air. In chapter 7, Shindou reveals that Hyde's magical power is more different than those of a normal magical doll. As well as revealing that Hyde has a small amount of magical power in his body, and is keeping it a secret from Shunpei. This hints that Hyde may revert back into a normal teddy bear someday once the magical power within him runs out. But this is not proven yet, because it is not known exactly what happens to a magical doll once their magical power runs out.:Magic: :Texas Chainsaw (probably named after the movie): a ridiculously large (its twice Hyde’s size) demonic looking chainsaw that Hyde can wield effectively to cut his enemies to pieces.There seems to be some mystery to the Texas Chainsaw, as enemy dolls tend to freeze out fear, begin panicking, and then lose all their confidence when they see it. Although this doesn't happen when faced with strong opponents.

Shunpei’s grandfather, he gave Shunpei Hyde on his 7th birthday. He would travel around the world and whenever he dropped by he would tell Shunpei about his travels and sometime show him magic “tricks”. He lives life “like a man” and tries to teach Shunpei that man decides his own path in life and that as long as they want to a man can achieve anything. He is really one the greatest magician king to ever live in the world and his little “tricks” are real magic spells that he can handle effortlessly. It seems most of the worlds magic users are after his blood so they become the strongest above the rest, but since he has been practically disappeared off the earth all the attacks are now focused on Shunpei. He normally calls Shunpei “Shun my boy”.

Enemy Curse users:Those who wish to gain the powers of the Crowther bloodline. Most dolls have their own distinctive laugh.

Antonio and Chamokey: the 1st pair to attack Shunpei, Antonio disguised himself as a delivery man and handed Shunpei the package containing the doll. Chamokey explained why it was trying kill Shunpei and that his life would be in constant danger for the rest of his life. In battle the doll favored anything that could stab or cut. Hyde destroyed Chamokey, which resulted in Antonio driving off a bridge to his death.:Laugh: Ukokoko (like the sound a monkey makes):Hollow Blackness: the doll’s shadow becomes multiple hands to attack with many weapons at the same time.

Chirdski and Harawataski: the second to attack, Chirdski is a Russian curse user who wears a walrus skin like a fur coat (even if he complains about japans hot weather). Chirdski was struck with appendix problems after his doll was destroyed, he was rushed to a hospital. After which Hyde and Closer went looking for him (Hyde uses this as a means to stop being ambushed) and convinced him to help (Hyde does something to his face which causes anyone who sees him to laugh uncontrollably) to show how many other magic users were out to get Closer (1000 in total). Chirdski after more "convincing" revealed information on 'The Six' the strongest magic users out of the rest well soon start moving in to attack.

Harawataski is a skull jack-in-the-box doll. He says he loves to eat humans' lustful desires. His weapons are a pair of tongs and a small crowbar.:Laugh: Vahyahaha:Death House: it allows Harawataski to appear (with party confetti) from any closed opening (a door, a desk drawer, windows, etc.) it also stops anyone from enter or leaving effectively trapping anyone in the room his taken over. Breaking the dolls concentration can temporarily stop the spell.

Shindou, and Tomiko: The third to attack. Shindou is a soccer star in Shunpei's school, and although almost every girl in the school admire him, his only love, is a strange one at that. He is in love with a black-haired doll named Tomiko, and talks to it as if it was a living object. (Tomiko is later shown to be a magical doll like Hyde) Behind his graceful look, he is actually a magic-user. Not to mention his style of fighting is different from the first two magic-users. Instead of hiding, and standing from the sidelines, sending his/or magic power for the magical doll to do his/her "dirty work". Shindou, and Tomiko instead fight together, therefore increasing the strength of Tomiko. (Hyde explains that the farther away the magic-user is from his magical doll, the less magic power he/she could send to their doll. And vice-versa) Making them a strong foe for Hyde, and Shunpei. Even though they fought together, in later chapters they become good friends.

Tomiko is a small doll, and is apparently, in some sort of relationship with Shindou. His reason to attack Shunpei is to use the Alsyd's blood within Shunpei, to turn Tomiko into a real women. (Because Shindou states that no one would accept a relationship with a doll) She states that she loves Shindou, and vice-versa, which apparently "creeps" Shunpei out.:Laugh: None (So far):Mozanhagu: Tomiko's main ability, is her ability to stretch, and use her hair as a weapon. Apparently, with Shindou's, and Tomiko's "Love", their hair can pierce through anything, even piercing Shunpei's magical barrier. And is even later shown to be absolutely impenetrable. Showing not even Hyde's Texas CHainsaw can cut through it. Hyde, and Shunpei defeated them by lighting her hair on fire, thus rendering her ability useless.:Growth?: In chapter 16, it is shown that Tomiko can transform into a real, beautiful woman. In this form, she can stop attacks with a few strands of her hair, as well as being able to the knives on in her hair to deliver a death blow to the opponent. But, this comes with a great downfall. As long as Tomiko is in this form, Shindou seems to give her either a great deal of magic to her, or had given her his "Life Force", thus turning him into a old, weak, and vulnerable man. Minor Characters

Shunpei's Mother: She appears few times and doesn’t seem to be at all scared of Hyde moving by himself. She seems to know about Shunpei’s grandfather being a magician, and is currently un-named.

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