| 192nd | Top anime distributed by TV Tokyo |
| Shrine of the Morning Mist | |
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 First English edition of Shrine of the Morning Mist, published by Tokyopop |
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| 朝霧の巫女 (Asagiri no Miko) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Magical girl, Slice of life story |
| Manga | |
| Author | Hiroki Ugawa |
| Publisher | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| English publisher |   Madman Entertainment  Tokyopop |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young King Ours |
| Original run | March 2000 – August 2007 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| TV anime | |
| Director | Yuji Moriyama |
| Studio | Chaos Project Gansis |
| Licensor | Media Blasters |
| Network | TV Tokyo, AT-X AnimeWorks |
| Original run | July 4, 2002 – December 26, 2002 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Shrine of the Morning Mist (朝霧の巫女 Asagiri no Miko) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiroki Ugawa. The manga was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King Ours. The manga is licensed in North America by Tokyopop and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The manga was adapted into an anime series, directed by Yuji Moriyama. The anime was licensed in North America by Media Blasters.
It tells the story of Yuzu Hieda, a high school freshman and one of three sisters, all of whom are miko at the local Shinto shrine. When her childhood love returns, it is discovered that dark gods have a great interest in him and Yuzu is recruited to gather fellow female students into a "Miko Council" to fight off a full-scale mystic assault. The priestesses have talismans which focus their powers and are used when attacking the dark kami.
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In the dubbed version, the Miko Council is referred to as the "Priestess Club".
The real-life city of Miyoshi, Hiroshima was used as the basis for the location of the anime.[1] The real Miyoshi also has an abundance of mist in the morning (hence the series' title), and the folktales recorded in Inō Mononoke scroll (which inspired much of the anime's story) took place on a mountain near Miyoshi City. The mountain in question also appears prominently in Shrine of the Morning Mist.
Shrine of the Morning Mist is written and illustrated by Hiroki Ugawa. Shōnen Gahōsha released the manga's five tankōbon volumes between January 2001 and December 27, 2007.[2][3] The manga is licensed in North America by Tokyopop,[4] which released the manga's first four tankōbon volumes between May 9, 2006 and May 1, 2007 as of July 2009.[5][6] The series is licensed in France as Asagiri - Les prêtresses de l'aube by Editions Ki-oon.[7]
| No. | Japanese | English | |||
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| Release date | ISBN | Release date | ISBN | ||
| 1 | January 2001[2] | ISBN 978-4-785-92060-9 | May 9, 2006<[5] | ISBN 978-1-598-16343-8 | |
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| 2 | September 2001[8] | ISBN 978-4-785-92122-4 | September 5, 2006[9] | ISBN 978-1-598-16344-5 | |
| 3 | July 31, 2002[10] | ISBN 978-4-785-92206-1 | January 2, 2007[11] | ISBN 978-1-598-16345-2 | |
| 4 | January 16, 2004[12] | ISBN 978-4-785-92389-1 | May 1, 2007[6] | ISBN 978-1-598-16346-9 | |
| 5 | December 27, 2007[3] | ISBN 978-4-785-92896-4 | — | — | |
IGN's A.E. Sparrow criticises the manga for making Tadahiro "possibly the most boring character written in the history of manga. He looks and behaves with all the emotional range of a Ken doll, despite being the core character around which the action revolves".[13]
Them Anime Review's Jeremy A Beard comments that comedy of the anime "employs a lot of silly school life misunderstandings and visual gags that reminded me of something like Azumanga Daioh".[14] Anime News Network's Sean Broestl commends the anime for its "great character design, catchy opening [and the] comedy isn't overdone" but he criticises the episodes for feeling "rushed" and its "mediocre plot".[15] Mania.com's Chris Beveridge comments on the anime's "half-length episodes" due to it being aired on TV Tokyo as the second half of Nekketsu Denpa Club, saying, "the show makes decent use of the format and the pacing is certainly much better than a lot of shows that were trying out this format a few years ago, but there's still something slightly off about how it plays out and roughly half of the episodes feel like they're either a bit rushed or they don't end in what you'd consider an appropriate place."[16]
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