Asura Cryin'
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | アスラクライン |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Apr 2, 2009 [15 years 9 months ago] |
| Ended: | Jun 25, 2009 [15 years 7 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | ANIDB |
Tomoharu is a normal high school student... except for the fact that he is never alone. Haunted by the ghost of his dead childhood friend, he moves into a new residence at the beginning of the school year. Life turns out to be a little more difficult than expected, though, when his house is overrun by various female occult users. To make things even worse he is pulled into an epic struggle to protect a mysterious trunk, that is presently hidden in the house. * Based on the light novel series by Mikumo Gakuto with illustrations by Watanuki Nao.
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Episode 1: Tricky Devil (Asura Machina)
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-04-02
Three years after the plane crash, Tomoharu Natsume lives peacefully with the ghost of his childhood friend who disappeared in the same crash. However, the day before entering Rakurowa High School, he is met by a mysterious woman. Told not to hold on to it no matter what, Tomoharu is perplexed by the silver trunk she gives him. But things were already moving into action... That night, Tomoharu is attacked by a beautiful shrine maiden with inhuman beauty and power. Her target is the trunk...!
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Episode 2: About Being Destroyed in the Future
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-04-09
Without a clear understanding of the situation, Tomoharu becomes a handler of an Asura Machina. Taking a break from his life's new problems, Tomoharu goes to visit his landlord Shioizumi, a strange old man living in a room full of spirals. “I hope you can make the decision that's right for you.” Confused by the old man's words, Tomoharu bumps into Kanade, who happens to live at the shrine. Tomoharu seeks answers to his questions about Misao, Kanade, and the Asura Machina, but...
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Episode 3: The Shadow Cast by the Light of Science
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-04-16
Misao disappears fighting Reishiro's Asura Machina Hisui, and Kanade is held captive. Filled with rage, Tomoharu tries to call on Kurogane again. With the silver trunk in hand, Tomoharu goes to confront the First Student Council. He is stopped by Reishiro's ghost Aine. “Are you willing to hurt Misao to save a demon?” Behind Reishiro's determination to keep handlers and demons apart is the tragic past of Aine, Reishiro, and Reiko. Seeing Kanade sacrifice herself for Tomoharu's sake, Tomoharu chooses to fight.
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Episode 4: The Feeling of Losing Your Destination
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-04-23
With Reishiro's Asura Machina out for repairs, the responsibility of finding and capturing Dobi Lake's mysterious monster falls on the Third Student Council. Despite the seriousness of their task, acting president of the Science Club Shuri turns the mission into a camping trip. Reishiro forbids Tomoharu from getting close to Kanade and has his younger sister Reiko keep watch over them, but Tomoharu and Kanade spend time together. Behind everything is the chaos created by another couple...
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Episode 5: Uniting Hearts and Bodies
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-04-30
Days before his midterm exams, Tomoharu finds a wet and bloodied Shuri collapsed in front of his residence. Held tightly in her hand is another silver trunk. Trying to avoid the suspicious gaze of his neighbors, Tomoharu takes Shuri inside. When she awakes, Shuri is a different person, calling herself Yukari. Looking for information, Tomoharu and Misao pay a visit to the old church Shuri was living at, only to find newspaper articles of the crash three years earlier. At the church, Tomoharu and Misao run into a surprisingly handsome young woman...
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Episode 6: The Sacrifice Rising from Beyond the Darkness
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-05-07
Shuri's memory is back, but Tomoharu is out with a cold. That doesn't stop former student council president and Kanto Student Union Guardian Dragoon Yo from coming after Shuri's stabilizer. Unable to hand over the stabilizer that will free a burial doll from its Asura Machina, Shuri and Kanade fight back. Armed with Shirogane's ability to cut through space, Yo is a formidable opponent. Trying to buy time until Tomoharu's recovery, Shuri holds Yo off. However, it seems the two share a personal history...
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Episode 7: Dispersing Dream of the Cruel Sky
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-05-14
With the installation of the stabilizer, Misao becomes visible to everyone. Seeing the new Misao adapting well to life as an ordinary school girl, Tomoharu reflects on the past. At the same time, Yo and Shuri think back to the events leading up to the accident and the day their peaceful lives came to an end.
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Episode 8: Ruling Maiden of Calamity
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-05-21
A serial killer indiscriminately killing demons appears in Tomoharu's city. Fed up with the Takatsuki group's guards, Kanade turns to Tomoharu. At the same time, Shuri arrives with another visitor for Tomoharu. Entering Rakurowa High School as a foreign student is the ten year old child prodigy Ania Fortuna, youngest daughter of the Fortuna family of luck eaters. Tomoharu is left in charge of two young demon girls, but...
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Episode 9: The Forbidden Being That Should Not Exist
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-05-28
The demon hunter turns out to be a man controlling the opposing powers of demons and Asura Machina: the forbidden Asura Cryin'. In the face of such tremendous power, Reishiro reminds Tomoharu that he must not make a contract with Kanade. After discovering her missing sister Christina's involvement in the demon hunter's crimes, Ania sets out on a mission to uncover the truth. Who is behind the escalating attacks of the demon hunter? What does he want?
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Episode 10: Connected by the Chains of Time
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-06-04
Having lost Ania to Asura Cryin' Kagakagari, Tomoharu and the others search the room of Kotori, a student teacher working at Rakurowa High School during Christina's stay in Japan. On the other side of the city, Ania is reunited with her sister, her body already vanishing from the strain of powering the Splitter, a machine used to separate burial dolls from their Asura Machina. Requiring the luck eater's abilities to power the Splitter, Kagakagari attempts to use Ania in place of her weakened sister...
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Episode 11: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That Is Here with Us
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-06-11
Successfully stopping Kagakagari's ritual that would have killed the city's demons, Tomoharu returns to regular school life. Aine's bouyant mother Kirie invites Tomoharu to a party to celebrate the anniversary of her daughter's death in cheerful fashion. Much to everyone's surprise, Kirie describes the late Aine as boisterous and mischievous, and Reishiro and Reiko's pasts are revealed. With these thoughts on their minds, the party goes on...
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Episode 12: Until This World Dies
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-06-18
While Shuri and Reishiro are enjoying their vacation in Hawaii, Tomoharu discovers part of the statue he received at Kirie's party is actually an Asura Machina plug-in. Wanting to avoid another catastrophe, Tomoharu follows Shuri's advice and takes the mysterious plug-in to Toru, president of the Science Club. Kanade makes Tomoharu promise her that he won't use his Asura Machina's powers again. Still wanting to free the burial doll from the Asura Machina, Kagakagari comes after the igniter.
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Episode 13: The Stigma of the Cursed Sinner
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-06-25
Having failed to take the igniter by force, Kagakagari takes Rakurowa High School's sophomores hostage. Still unsure of the igniter's purpose, Tomoharu slips out to make a deal with Kagakagari while Toru and Rikka quarrel, followed secretly by Kanade. Can they stop the Asura Cryin' out to destroy the alleged “second world?”
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