| Psychic Academy | |
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| サイキックアカデミー煌羅万象 (Saikikku Akademī Ōra Banshō) |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy, School, Supernatural |
| Manga | |
| Author | Katsu Aki |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| English publisher |  Tokyopop |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Magazine Z |
| Original run | December 1999 – April 2003 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Original net animation | |
| Director | Shigeru Yamazaki |
| Writer | Mitsuhiro Yamada |
| Studio | E.G. Films |
| Licensor | TOKYOPOP |
| Released | 2002 |
| Runtime | 9–10 minutes |
| Episodes | 24 |
Psychic Academy (サイキックアカデミー煌羅万象 Saikikku Akademī Ōra Banshō) is an eleven volume manga created by Katsu Aki and published by Kodansha, and licensed in English by Tokyopop. Psychic Academy also has a twenty-four episode mini-anime that was originally released on the Internet (called an Original Net Animation). Each episode runs about ten minutes in length. Some of these episodes, in subtitled version only, have been released along with the English versions of the first and second volumes of the manga.
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Psychic Academy follows the life of Ai Shiomi, a boy with psychic powers, also known as "aura power" in fictional modern day Japan. This ability has emerged in the world, but not all people have it. Aura power itself allows certain elements such as fire, water, ice, wind, lightning, earth, and light to be used by those who have the ability. Which type of power they can use depends on their aura and what they are taught.
Ai agrees to attend the Psychic Academy School after being pressured by his parents. The school is where the elite students go to learn how to use their elemental aura power. Ai knows that somewhere within the Academy is his childhood friend Orina. At school however, she is known as Saara, after her aura code. On his way to his first day at school, Ai encounters a girl named Myuu (Mew). She is another student at the Academy and is a very quiet, seemingly moody girl. Ai also learns that his older brother Zero, a legend amongst those with aura powers, will be one of his teachers.
As Ai struggles with his new school, a life he is not sure he wants; a crazy rabbit takes him as his student. His feelings for Orina and Myuu begin to develop and contrast as the school year progress. Ai also makes discoveries about his rare light aura. To further complicate things, a group of researches try to artificially awaken the dormant aura genes within all humans, heedless of the danger and damage to society it might cause.
The book series consists of 11 volumes.
Ai Shiomi (汐見 愛 Shiomi Ai) Voiced by: Daisuke
Sakaguchi
Aura: Light
Ai believes he does not belong at Psychic Academy and is unsure of
how to fit in, or what his special power is (which is later
revealed to be the rare Light Aura). Though along with being
reunited with his childhood friend, Orina, he also makes some new
friends, such as Myuu (Mew) and "Master Boo (Buu)". It is later
revealed that his parents really adopted him and his brother and
that his brother took him and ran away from their original home to
hide the fact that Ai possesses a Light Aura. That Aura appears to
have potential to grow far beyond other Auras, although Ai still
has not been able to figure out more than two words of his Aura
Code. This has had little to no bearing on his overall aura
strength. At the peak of his power, he is able to use the light
aura to show an opponent's deepest secrets as he did with Tokimitsu
in their final battle.
Myuu (ミュウ
Myū) Voiced by: Tsugumi
Higasayama
Aura: Fire
Myuu (or Mew) wields the aura power of fire. She is afraid of the
rain to the point she will miss days of school when it is raining
and possibly suffer panic attacks if forced to be out in the rain.
She is distant, even to the point of slight rudeness, because of a
traumatic experience in her past: during her childhood, her mother
was killed during an Aura experiment. The explosion caused the lab
sprinklers to go off, showering her shocked self with water; this
caused her dislike for rain.
With her friendship with Orina and Ai she slowly begins to warm up. Myu shares a bond from childhood with Ai, though neither of them realize this bond at first. It has also been revealed later on that at least one reason for her enormous aura strength is that her father, an ambitious Aura scientist, has artificially altered - possibly even artificially awakened - her Aura code. These make her stronger but also make it dangerous for her to use her powers, because when she uses them, she risks possibly dying. She both fears and dislikes her father intensely for it. In the final volume of the series, she passes away after admitting to Ai her feelings for him. Though she is dead, she is still able to visit Ai in the Para Dream.
Orina (織奈) Voiced by: Rie
Tanaka
Aura: Water
Orina, also known as Sara (which is her Aura code name), is a
childhood friend of Ai who still holds strong feelings for him. The
two have shared a romantic relationship which sometimes shows as a
love triangle between Orina, Ai and Myuu. Orina's Aura is Water,
which she usually employs for healing. Orina has a generally sweet
demeanor, though she can be somewhat overbearing and pushy when she
wants to be. She seems quite immature sometimes, but she handles
Ai's moods much easier than everyone else, and can even calm him
down when other people cannot. Despite Mew's feelings for Ai, Orina
is close friends with her and rarely displays jealousy toward Mew.
She was initially rather mistrustful of Fafa however.
Zero Voiced by: Hiroshi
Kamiya
Aura: Steel
Zerodaimu Kyupura Pa Azaraku Vairu Rua Darogu is a famous psychic
known as the "Vanquisher of the Dark Overlord". He is the older
brother of Ai Shiomi. Zero is also an instructor for Psychic
Academy, though he seems to spend more time acting as protector for
his little brother than he does teaching classes. he seems to have
a habit of being hit by the girls. His biggest downfall would be
when he starts telling and showing people Ai's deepest darkest
secrets on top of all that he has an appalling taste in neck ties.
His Aura specialty is Steel. At the end of the story, together with
Shiomi, he travels around the world to awaken the children of the
Aura.
Faafa/Ren Voiced by: Reiko
Takagi
Aura: Ice/Magma
A brother and sister sharing the same body. Faafa was incarcerated
at the Aura Development Center in the United States. Ren, in an
attempt to free Faafa, attacked the center. In the ensuing
destruction, Ren died and Faafa was critically injured. A heart
transplant from Ren's body allowed Faafa to survive, while
implanting a piece of Ren's aura in her body. As a result, the two
share one body, similar to Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde. However, in the para-dream, both Ren and Faafa have their
own unique bodies. Fafa's Aura is ice, while Ren's is lava.
Boo Velka Receptor Arba (ブウ Bū) Voiced by: Shigeru
Chiba
Aura: Crystal
Also known as Buu in the manga. Boo is a demented rabbit
with very strong Aura powers who attaches himself to Ai as Ai's
"Master", believing Ai to be one of the next great "Aura Masters",
and it is through "Master Boo's" training and help that Ai first
starts to discover how to use some of his own Aura power, and learn
it rather quickly and expertly. Boo's Aura specialty are
Crystals.
Tokimitsu Shinano (unknown)
Aura: Gravity(Dark)
Tokimitsu shares much in common with Ai in that both of their aura
codes start off undefined. Later, it is revealed that Tokimitsu
carries the gravity, or "dark" aura. Tokimitsu later takes on the
name Gyurazu after his aura code. He is capable of drawing aura
energy out of aura carriers, sometimes killing them outright and
leaving their bodies as dried mummies.
Tokimitsu is a pet project of the Aura Development Center. He is obsessed with gaining power and becoming "complete" by having Ai's light aura coded into him. He currently is without aura power after facing the full power of Ai's aura. He is the only one to have done so, and it is he that first names Ai as an aura master.
Opening theme "Say Over" by Rie Tanaka & Tsugumi Higasayama
Ending theme "Love Angel" by A-my with MION
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