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Occult Academy (TV)

Plot Summary: The Waldstein Academy is an institute devoted to studies on paranormal disciplines, thus becoming known as the Occult Academy. Maya Kumashiro returns to this place to attend the funeral of the former principal, Junichiro Kumashiro, her father. Maya, a skeptic who hates the occult, meets Fumiaki Uchida, a time agent from the future sent to 1999 to prevent the apocalyptic Nostradamus Prophecies from happening. The predictions state that the school will be ground zero of the cataclysm that will destroy the world. They must team up to discover not only what actually led to her father's demise, they have limited time to find out what is the key that triggers the beginning of the end.

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Anime / Occult Academy

The date is July 1999, and people were wondering if the world was going to end. At Waldstein Academy—known by its nickname "Occult Academy" for its rather odd field of study—the principal, Junichiro Kumashiro, has died of what the media is claiming as a heart attack. When his 17-year-old daughter, Maya, comes to his funeral (late), the truth is revealed—his love of the occult had gotten so out of hand he summoned a demon.

Maya quickly disposes of said demon, but that's not the real story here. The story really begins with a naked man descending from the sky. He is Fumiaki Uchida, a (former) psychic from the year 2012, apparently sent to stop the world from ending in an alien invasion under the cover of a teacher at the academy, Minoru Abe. His and Maya's destinies collide as Maya plans to get rid of the school that tore her family apart, while Fumiaki uses her assistance to find and neutralize an object or person called the "Nostradamus Key", which, when activated in conjunction with Nostradamus' prophecies, could begin said alien invasion.

The third entry in Aniplex and TV Tokyo's Anime no Chikara series (preceded by Sound of the Sky and Night Raid 1931), this Anime First series started in Summer 2010, ending in the fall.

US residents were able to legally watch this series at Crunchyroll; as of May 28, 2021, this service is no longer available.

There exists a manga adaptation by Kei Toru that loosely retells the main plot, a set of four shorts bundled with the DVD/Blu-Ray release involving a young Maya and Ami taking care of a tsuchinoko, and a light novel side story compilation written by the scriptwriters where each chapter focuses on a different character/set of characters among the main cast.

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The series provides examples of:

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: All background extras are in 3D CG. They look fine when far away, but it's rather distracting when they're maybe ten feet from foreground characters. Any instance of a car also tends to be animated through this method.
• Abusive Parents: Maya's Dad, although he really did seem to love her in the end (his obsession with the occult got the best of him), and Fumiaki's Mom, who became obsessed with the wealth and fame that came from his spoon-bending abilities and neglected him. Episode 10 pretty much proves that the Occult got the best of Maya's dad — in fact, he was really such a good guy that he built the academy for her!

• Action Girl: Maya with her crossbow of determination.
• Adaptational Badass: Bunmei shows a surprising moment of initiative in Chapter 3 once a Mothman gunks him in filth; pissed off that he lost his opportunity to rescue Mikaze in a dignified manner (because he imagined her being repulsed by him now smelling of shit), he wields Maya's crossbow and exterminates the entire horde, rescuing Maya in the process.
• Adaptational Distillation: Compared to the anime, the Nostradamus Key and the resulting apocalypse are different to fit within the manga's one-volume run. In the former, the meeting between adult Fumiaki and child Fumiaki causes aliens to invade from another dimension; in the latter, a combination of Fumiaki forgetting about his date with Mikaze and Mikaze misinterpreting a scene between him, Maya, and Maya's child self causes Mikaze to sell her soul to a demon and have it destroy the world .
• Adaptational Villainy: An inversion. Mikaze the black mage is not as villainous in the manga as she is in the anime, mainly because she didn't cause as much explicit damage in the former. The Mothmen she summoned did cause a number of missing person cases, but since the manga's tone is mainly comedic and no corpses are seen it's possible that Chihiro could've found survivors in the horde's nest offscreen; and the demon she summoned (to whom she sold her soul so it can destroy the world) only manages to cause property damage and inflict nonlethal injuries on a few people before it's killed by a spell.
• All Just a Dream: Elaborate Happy Place illusions.
• All Myths Are True: Aliens, Ghosts, Psychics, U.M.As, magic spells, hidden pyramids in Japan, The World Tree, Mothmen . The only thing preventing this from becoming a Fantasy Kitchen Sink is a vague explanation about the Academy being a dimensional nexus . It's later revealed that the Mothmen, the Poltergeist, and the Chupacabras were all summoned by Mikaze.
• Almighty Janitor: Smile, literally.
• Alternate Character Reading:
  • The On the Next for episode six uses the alternate reading of "Michinori" (distance) as "Doutei" (virgin), which Kozue finds amusing. note The episode is named "Bunmei's distance", with the alternative being something like "Bunmei the virgin."
  • "Bunmei" and "Fumiaki" are written with the same kanji.
  • Mikaze proves that the endearing young chef at your local eatery may actually be an evil cult-leading witch bent on opening the gates of Hell.
  • Fumiaki proved to be a bit of a scrapper, too, once Mikaze showed what was Beneath the Mask.
  • In episode 6, Maya sees Fumiaki's memories of his tortured childhood and the alien invasion of Earth. She can relate to the former entirely as her father neglected her in favor of his work, and the latter is enough for her to start taking Fumiaki seriously.
  • Fumiaki is one incredibly well-executed example: through all his hardships and misfortunes in the series, plus a lot of soul-searching in the last episode, his transformation from zero to hero is completely credible.
  • Chihiro shows this early on, and hates how close Mikaze and Fumiaki seem. Surprisingly she doesn't seem to pursue him too much, but she's never happy whenever they're together.
  • Maya starts to exhibit this later in the series, especially how cheerful Fumiaki gets whenever Mikaze shows up, and even punches him during one such occasion.
  • Fumiaki just narrowly avoids Maya throwing a giant sword at his head.
  • Maya does it to him again later with a crossbow.
  • Both Maya's father and Kozue by the lamia.
  • In the climax of the manga adaptation, Mikaze is revealed to have inflicted this on herself after a severe misunderstanding rather than being full-on evil.
  • Mikaze, very much so. Whenever she's at the wheel, it's like watching a Rally stage.
  • Ami's dad can do this, too (and it's not limited to just things with wheels), but he knows how to turn it off.
  • 11th-Hour Superpower: Fumiaki at the very end of the series. He gains back his telekinetic powers by taking them from his younger self (thus sealing the Stable Time Loop revolving around him losing the powers shortly before the invasion), and uses it to close the portal that the aliens were invading from, although he ends up doing a Heroic Sacrifice in order to close it off.
  • Evil Costume Switch: Mikaze gets a full Transformation Sequence when she reveals her true form.
  • Expressive Accessory: Smile's smiley-face badge tends to mimic his expressions.
  • Faking the Dead: Both Maya and Junichiro, and quite convincingly. Their fake bodies were created by Chihiro's magic.
  • False Friend: Mikaze to Fumiaki.
  • Fangirl:
    • Kozue loves anything remotely supernatural.
    • Maya does too, but she makes an effort to hide it.
    • Episode 11 features a lot of it.
    • A sort of variation. As a child, Fumiaki's stage name was Bunmei, which he hated. Mikaze referring to his younger self as "Fumiaki-kun" instead of "Bunmei-kun" when they see said younger self on TV is one of the things that makes him fall head-over-heels for her. Later on, after Maya gets a glimpse of his abusive past and finally accepts him, she refers to him as "Fumiaki" for the first time when she speaks to him at the end of the episode.
    • Fumiaki has a penchant for calling Maya by her first name. Initially, Maya insists with a prejudice that he should call her Kumashiro at all instances because she doesn't want to elicit any problems regarding his perceived familiarity, and also because she doesn't quite respect him; eventually she starts becoming closer to him as a comrade and a friend, allowing him to continue calling her "Maya".
    • Foreshadowing:
      • Early in the series, Maya mistakenly calls Fumiaki the "Great King of Terror" who would appear from the sky according to Nostradamus's prophecy because he fell naked out of the sky right in front of her. His encounter with his younger self at the end of the series winds up triggering the apocalypse, so she turned out to be half-right.
      • Mikaze is shown to show up every time Fumiaki tries to get close to Maya. Later in the series, she begins doing it on cue and it's almost glaring on how serendipitous she makes it look. Turns out she's been trying to lure him into betraying Maya the entire time in order to open a portal to Hell.
      • Chihiro's attraction to Fumiaki is shown to be rather out of character for her, as her demeanor towards others doesn't quite show how innocent and frankly childish said attraction is. Considering she is a white mage, she sees Fumiaki's true self and has nothing but praise for it.
      • When fighting the chupacabras, Maya pulls off some crazy shots with her crossbow.
      • Nevermind Ami pinning one to a wall with a thrown candlestick.
      • Not to mention Ami's father decapitating the large chupacabra with his nail gun.
      • JK and his dowsing rods.
      • Ami uses a candlestick.
      • Maya uses her bracelet as brass knuckles to punish Fumiaki at times.
      • Maya's reason for even coming to the school is because she wants to destroy it, since she believes studying the occult drove her father crazy.
      • Fumiaki is deeply hurt by Mikaze's betrayal, having played with his innermost feelings for her own ends. He's also considerably hurt at the fact that she used him to harm Maya .
      • In the episode where she undergoes a near-death experience, The reason Kozue's soul wouldn't leave the afterlife was because she couldn't find her glasses. Which were on her head the whole damn time.
      • For the overall plot, the cast spends the series searching for Nostradamus's Key. It turns out to be Fumiaki himself, by way of Never the Selves Shall Meet .
      • Magical Incantation: Used by Maya (and Fumiaki, by proxy) to seal Mikaze in the school.
      • Male Gaze: Pretty blatant in Episode 11.
      • Mama's Boy: Fumiaki, both as a child and as an adult. When Mikaze is finally vanquished and they find out that meeting himself as a child will cause the dimensional rift, he tells Maya that even though he doesn't have good memories of his mother, he loves her very much and will probably attempt to contact her even when it would risk opening the dimensional rift. As such, he cannot stay. What they weren't counting on is that the child Fumiaki could not avoid visiting the Occult Academy, thus meeting his future counterpart anyway .
      • Miniature Senior Citizens: Mikaze's boss and Fumiaki's landlady (sisters).
      • Minidress of Power: Maya
      • Miles Gloriosus: Fumiaki. In Episode 4, he actually comes straight with Maya about how he really came back to the past: kicking and screaming.
      • The Mole: Chihiro was outed early to the audience, but we still don't know which she works for. That is, until she turns out to the be the.
      • Ms. Exposition: Maya, more often than not.
      • Mukokuseki: Maya's blue eyes aside, averted along with her sister trope Only Six Faces. There's a lot of work put on faces and facial expression.
      • Mundane Utility: You can use timeline predictors disguised as cellphones as . cellphones.
      • Nail 'Em: Ami's dad opts for a nail gun to fight the chupacabras.
      • Naked First Impression: Though the light covers it for the audience, Maya gets a good look at Fumiaki's junk when he lands. Oh, the fans get a decent look, too, depending on how much you're paying attention.
      • Naked on Arrival: Fumiaki
      • Near-Death Experience: Kozue willingly goes into one, ending up in a very Seussian afterlife. And gets stuck. kinda
      • Never the Selves Shall Meet: Fumiaki touching his younger self triggers the apocalypse.
      • No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Fumiaki has made it very clear he doesn't like Chihiro's constant advances. That seems to be more because he used his phone to find out what would happen if he did go out with her. Which makes one wonder why he didn't also do the same thing with Mikaze at some point early on as well. He was clearly interested in her.
      • Non-Action Guy: Fumiaki. Of the lying cowards sort. Most of the time.
      • Not Himself: Kozue acted this way when she first awakened from her near-death experience, but everyone found out pretty quickly why.
      • Not Quite Dead: Chihiro used her magic to make it appear as if Maya died to throw Mikaze off her trail. And as it turns out, she did the exact same thing to Maya's father.
      • Not So Above It All: Although Maya is not that interested in Fumiaki romantically, she is visibly uncomfortable at how he swoons at Mikaze's mere sight.
      • Nuclear Option: Because the Godzilla Threshold will be crossed.
      • Offhand Backhand: Maya gets an Offhand Backshot with her crossbow right after rescuing Ami from the mini-chupacabras.
      • Only a Flesh Wound: When the chupacabra bites Ami, its fangs probably would have hit some internal organs and did some serious damage, but it only knocks Ami out, apparently from some narcotic poison.
      • Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Every episode ends with "This program is a work of fiction. Departed spirits, psychic abilities, UMAs, etc. do not exist. Unless you believe in them. "
      • Out-of-Clothes Experience: Fumiaki's.
      • Papa Wolf: Ami's dad.
      • Paper-Thin Disguise: Played with. Though the motives as to why he took the position are never questioned, it's actually pointed out that Fumiaki is an altogether terrible teacher, regardless of him being a rather nice guy. His design, wardrobe and demeanor in the classroom stand out to show how badly he is out of his element.
      • Parental Abandonment: Two examples:
        • One with Maya, who felt her father was ignoring her and was focused solely on occult stuff, which caused her to resent it as she grew older.
        • Another is with Akari, a little girl who died of hypothermia waiting for Santa to show up during one Christmas Eve. Since her parents got divorced and the father was working, he was unable to watch over her, and grew to regret his decision to work that night and not check up on her. Recreating the scene however and have him come home that night allows Akari to pass on.
        • Fumiaki was a spoon-bender, which is shown by his younger self on TV. Although he somehow lost them by adulthood.
        • Number Five was a pyrokinetic, and JK's dowsing works.
        • The series takes place in Matsushiro, a town near the city of Nagano in Japan's Nagano prefecture, and many local landmarks are clearly recognizable. This includes the hill on which Waldstein Academy resides, Minakami-yama, which some believe to be a pyramid.
        • The bunker shown in Episode 3 is the Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters .
        • Fumiaki's arrival from the future in the buff appears to a take on the same procedure used in the Terminator films.
        • The War of the Worlds tripods appear in a flashforward in episode 2.
        • The time machine used to send Fumiaki to the past has been used before for teleportation.
        • Maya nicknames JK Kurenai no Buta. He likes it.
        • The students' song about Chihiro's hairstyle is a reference to a song and animation featured on Okaa-san to Issho (Together with Mother, think Japan's Sesame Street).
        • Kozueloses her glasses fairly often, leading to hilarious situations or even driving the plot.
        • The Little Prince is Kozue's spiritual guide.
        • The name "JK" could be a reference to the author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling.
        • Possibly one went out to Hot Fuzz with the cult scene.
        • They both probably derive from something else, but the original promotion poster of the series looks oddly similar to a Gintama DVD cover◊, and the characters have suspiciously similar personality traits.
        • Stemming from the above, instead of being mortally wounded by Mikaze after fighting her alone like in the anime, the manga version of Chihiro survives their battle since she is fighting alongside Junichiro, Maya, and Fumiaki .
        • As a result of being Demoted to Extra, Chihiro's assistant becomes this. (Considering he was affected by the spell in the anime's climax, this was probably for the best.)
        • Also stemming from the above, instead of sending aliens and himself through a dimensional rift like in the anime, the manga version of Fumiaki disappears after casting the spell in Junichiro's notebook in Maya's place. Some time later during the summer holidays, Maya, Mikaze, Amy, and Kozue are shocked to see him on TV in a guest segment to demonstrate his spoon-bending powers (the first two because of him being alive, the last two because he was secretly an esper).

        Occult Academy (Seikimatsu Okaruto Gakuin)

        Occult Academy* charges out of the boxes with its first episode – really throwing punches everywhere and culminating in uber-tsundere Maya standing on her father’s coffin, interrupting the funeral (taking place in in a school auditorium) and shouting about everything being ‘staged’.

        Sound over the top?

        It definitely is.

        But the anime is well-aware of that fact too, and so if you watch episode one it’s possible at least to contextualise what I’ve just mentioned. And if you’re like me, after you’ve seen the ep you’ll probably be 100% hooked on the premise and characters.

        Occult Academy (Seikimatsu Okaruto Gakuin) 2010

        So, on to the plot! Simply put, Maya and Fumiaki investigate occult occurrences, searching for a way to prevent the end of the world. To add a bit of complication, they’re uneasy allies and he’s a time-traveller while she’s a sceptic, somehow filling in as principal of the school she attends. From there, the show grows increasingly off-the-wall, while holding things together with the central threat of a terrible future that must be avoided.

        I thought both Maya and Fumiaki were great lead characters, as their own issues complicate their present day lives nicely. Some of the supporting cast are good enough to be scene stealers too – I’m thinking Smile and JK, and Ami, though I wanted to see a touch more from Junichirou also, especially as we might have a somewhat unreliable narrator with Maya.

        Throughout the series, I found myself surprised here and there by a few twists. I also enjoyed the occasional moments of straight-up drama, a great contrast with all the supernatural and humour elements. As much as anything, I really enjoyed the distinctive, varied character design too. Once again, I feel like I’m hammering modern anime a bit… but with certain genres, the character design is a bit same-same, and that’s not the case with Occult Academy.

        Ready for the fan-service paragraph? Aside from the typical costume stuff, I was surprised to see some that was vital to plot and character. But I guess if I say too much more, I’ll inadvertently drift into spoiler territory and for some reason, I think this anime is a bit forgotten now? IS that even true? I don’t see the physical edition up with many retailers and can’t remember if it’s available to stream in many places? (And 12 years is a long time in anime).

        In any event, Occult Academy surprised me with its mix of humour, heart and the supernatural and I’d recommend it to folks who enjoyed… well, actually, I don’t think I have a handle on shows that include this mix of genres or tone. Maybe if you like a bit of time-travel mixed in with your supernatural, science-fiction, suspense, action comedy?

        5 Stars

        *Part of A1 Pictures ‘Anime no Chikara’ which featured 3 shows that were originals (Night Raid and Sound of the Sky also), and which inspired me to seek out the other two, which I hope to review soon-ish.

        

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