Karas(카라스)

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鴉 -KARAS- (Karas)
Genre	Science fiction
OVA
Directed by	Keiichi Satou
Studio	Tatsunoko
No. of episodes	6
Released	7 February 2005

Summary

The world of the humans and the world of the demons (youkai) have overlapped one another, leaving humans to walk the streets of life as they normally would, while demons walk, hidden from the naked eye, down the very same streets. A young woman named Yurine, and her servant Karas, have long maintained order and balance between the overlapped worlds, ultimately keeping the demons from interrupting the lives of humans. However, humans have come to forget and jest at the existence of demons, and no longer understand the privilege it is to live without fear. Disgusted by this arrogance, an old Karas turns his back on the laws he had once upheld, and takes the form of a human named Ekou, while creating an army of Mikura, or mechanized demons, to ready an attack on the human race.

A young man named Otoha inherits the powers of the Karas and takes his place at the side of Yurine, who claims that his soul called out for her while he lived the life of a human. It is now up to Otoha to prove himself as a Karas, and restore the balance that Ekou threatens to upset.

Meanwhile, a superstitious police officer named Sagisaka and his rational new recruit, Kure, follow the trail of the murders dealt by Ekou's Mikura, as well as the trail of a good demon turned human named Nue. The prophecy unfolds from here....

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Prophecy contains the first 3 OVAs of a 6 part series. This one begins with Ekou fighting and eventually killing a Karas. Three years later, Kure witnesses an attack on a film crew by a water demon and survives. He is sent to a new police department with Sagisaka and begins investigating the bizarre murders.

Meanwhile, demon hunter Nue is on the trail of the water demon who is posing as a masked wrestler. His assassination attempt is interrupted by the new Karas; Otoha, enters and engages the demon in combat, eventually killing him.

Ekou and his minions move their plans forward; it is revealed that Ekou is using another Yurine as a power source for his mechanised Mikura demons. Two of his minions, a spider-woman and a robotic blade-spinning freak(a sickle weasel) attack the city and Karas is forced to fight them.

As Karas engages the enemy, Yurine realizes that the true target of Ekou was actually Otoha's physical human body which laid in a hospital in a coma state. Karas's fight with the blade-spinning freak is cut short once he sees his true body. At that point, Yurine lets her guard down and is abducted by the spider-woman. Without the Yurine's aid, Karas loses power and dissipates. Otoha eventually awakens from his coma and kills the blade-spinning guy while in human form.

[edit] Characters

• Otoha Chosen as the new Karas and still proving himself to Yurine. While not fighting Mikura as the Karas, Otoha is a doctor in the spirit realm helping benevolent spiritual entities, who are becoming sick due to Eko's actions in both worlds.

• Nue He is a Mikura in human form who has come to Shinjuku, Japan to defeat Eko. He has turned his back on Eko and renounced his evil ways. He carries two gold pistols and a rifle to handle the Mikura so he does not have to take on his true form, but his need to feed on the blood of humans threatens to overcome him. Nue shares his name with a mythical Japanese creature, which he closely resembles in his transformed demonic form.

• Eko Chosen as Karas in the Edo period. Eko realized how to seize power in this world by upsetting the balance between the spirits and humans and subsequently turned his back on humanity. Since his fall from grace, Eko has killed every Karas after him.

• Yurine She is an entity who takes the shape of a young woman with very light yellow, blue, or pink hair who holds the power to designate a Karas, and also controls the power of the Karas. There are multiple Yurine aspects, each with varying designs on her goggles, which are worn in her hair. These symbols designate the various roles each Yurine aspect is to play in the struggle between the worlds.

• Kure He is a young police detective recently assigned to the Tokyo Police Observation Department. He is rational and secular. He strongly denies the existence of demons and supernatural powers. He was in the same train station toilet where a water demon, turned Mikura, attacked a TV crew, but he was not a direct witness of what happened.

• Hinaru She is the only survivor of the water goblin attack on the T.V. crew in the Shinjuku public men's restroom. She seems destined to play some sort of role, but her real importance has yet to be determined.

• Sagisaka The head detective in the case of the supernatural, inexplicable events occurring around the city. His daughter, sole survivor of a brutal demon attack at her school, is one of the few who lived to tell about the demons. But she is in a hospital for mental/emotional problems caused by the attack by the demons, and her father is still waiting to get her testimony of the events. Sagisaka is an older man, and he believes that demons definitely are the ones committing all these gruesome murders around town. He and his ally, Kure, are also hunting Nue, because they believe he may have something to do with the incident in the restrooms of the subway.

• Suiko A Mikura water goblin disguised as a professional masked wrestler. During the first movie, Nue attempts to shoot and kill him with a rifle at his wrestling arena, but is interrupted when Karas and Yurine show up. Karas engages Suiko after he loses his disguise and turns into a gigantic mechanized robot capable of summoning evil water spirits and firing what appear to be missiles. Karas and Suiko engage in a battle in a sewer under the arena, and after a fierce duel Karas is victorious when he slices Suiko in half with his transformed sword.

• Karas The transformed version of Otoha. When summoned by Yurine, Otoha steps through the magic portal opened on her command and becomes clothed in impenetrable armor and is bestowed a magical katana. Upon becoming Karas, he gains the ability to move with incredible speed and attack with amazing physical and magic power. At times, he is moving so fast that it appears that everything around him is moving very slowly or has stopped moving completely. Also, upon becoming enraged, his eyes turn a fiery red, allowing him to transform his sword into a massive blade capable of hewing any foe. Karas can also transform into two alternate forms: a large car equipped with powerful missiles and a bird-like jet fighter with a gun that fires bolts of energy. However, Otoha is not the only one who can transform into Karas. The evil Eko can also transform himself into Karas. This version is different however, as its suit is blackened with evil, and its skills are enhanced beyond those of a normal Karas. Eko's Karas has killed any Karas that has come before him, and as fate shall have it, sometime in the future there will be a duel of Karas' once again ... between Otoha and Eko.

• Mikura The term for those demons or spirits (youkai) who have fallen under the corrupt influence of Eko and become mechanized. They feed on the blood of humans, requiring it to enable them to change from their human-appearing forms into the mechanized Mikura form. Each Mikura embodies aspects of the type of youkai they once were, before joining the side of Eko. Mikura can be distinguished by a black ring with a white symbol on it being worn on any finger.