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The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (魔探偵ロキＲＡＧＮＡＲＯＫ, matantei loki ragnarok) is a manga by Sakura Kinoshita, as well as a television anime based upon the manga series. The series originally ran in the magazine Shonen Gangan under the name of The Mythical Detective Loki (魔探偵ロキ, matantei loki), but Ragnarok was added to the title when the series was purchased by the MAG Garden publishing company and moved to Comic Blade magazine. The Mythical Detective Loki was collected in 7 volumes by Gangan Comics, which were later republished by Blade Comics; it has not been officially licensed for English distribution. The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok ran for 5 more volumes, which were published in Japan by Blade Comics, and picked up for translation and English release by ADV Manga. The fact that the second series has been licensed without the first series is a source of some controversy among fans in English-speaking countries, as the second series is a direct continuation from the first, and refers back to previous events frequently. Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...
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Story
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. The main character is Loki, the Norse God of mischief. While living in the realm of the Gods, he caused a lot of trouble, so as punishment, he is sent to the world of humans and transformed into a childhood version of himself. To get home, he must collect "evil airs" (evil spirits), so he sets up Enjaku Detective Agency, specialising in strange and paranormal cases to make his search easier. For better or worse, he attracts Mayura Daidouji— a mystery crazed teenage girl who quickly appoints herself a member of his detective agency. Loki tricks Hod into shooting Baldur Loki Laufeyjarson, in Norse mythology is the god of mischief, a son of Farbauti and Laufey, and is described as the contriver of all fraud. Loki is in a sense both a god and a Jotun (compare: Greek Titans and Gigantes), since he mixed...
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The series is based upon Norse mythology, but with many artistic liberties taken with the source material for the manga, and many further changes made from the manga to the anime. For instance, an extra illustration at the end of the 7th volume ofThe Mythical Detective Loki is a mini-diagram of Loki's family tree, which makes reference to Sigyn, Vali, Nari, and Sleipnir, who never appear in either the manga or anime. Norse mythology, Viking mythology or Scandinavian mythology refer to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people. ...
In Norse mythology, Sigyn was the wife of Loki, who bore him two sons, Vali and Narvi. ...
There are several Valis: Vali (Hindu mythology) Vali (Norse mythology) (two Valis here: one a son of Odin, the other a son of Loki) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Odin entering Valhalla riding on Sleipnir (Ardre image stone) In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is Odins magical eight-legged steed, and the first of all horses. ...
Primary Characters God of Mischief (and in some versions Chaos) in Norse Mythology. Trapped in the body of a child, he seeks a way back to the realm of the gods and his original body. He is the father of Fenrir, Yamino, and Hel. He has brown hair and green eyes and can't swim - thus is afraid of deep water. Norse mythology, Viking mythology or Scandinavian mythology refer to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people. ...
- Mayura Daidouji (大堂寺繭良, daidōji mayura; まゆら is used in place of 繭良 after her introduction)
The main human character of the series: a pink-haired, red-eyed 16-year-old mystery maniac high school student. Despite her love of strange cases, she never manages to find out who Loki is. - Ryuusuke Yamino (闇野竜介, yamino ryūsuke; in the manga, various characters also address and refer to him as メガネ, megane, i.e. "four-eyes")
Loki's second son takes the form of a polite, bespectacled boy in his late teens, and serves as his housekeeper, cook, and assistant. He enjoys cooking, cleaning and other domestic activities, and in the anime, he also has an amusing addiction to ordering useless items from mail-order catalogs. His real name is Jormungand, and is also known as the midgard serpent, since his true form is that of a giant serpent that encircles the Earth. Loki rescued Yamino from the bottom of the sea by casting a spell on him (thus giving him a human form) so that he could accompany his father on Earth; for this, he is eternally grateful. The revelation of Yamino's true identity occurs earlier in the manga than the anime, and seems to play more of a part in his characterization for the first manga series. He probably wears glasses as a reference to the Indian cobra (眼鏡蛇, meganehebi, or "glasses snake", in Japanese). Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. ...
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In Norse mythology, the sea serpent Jormungand was a child of Loki and the giantess Angerboda. ...
In Norse mythology, the sea serpent Jormungand was a child of Loki and the giantess Angerboda. ...
Loki's first son takes the form of a small black dog. His real identity is that of the Fenrisulfr, a giant wolf bound by the gods. Fenrir enjoys food, and taunting Yamino. A running gag in both the anime and manga is how Fenrir can be very bossy and intentionally crude around Yamino— and then instantly become the most affectionate and harmless puppy-son possible the moment "Daddy" walks in. Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for thousands of years. ...
Fenrir biting off Tyrs arm In Norse mythology, The Fenrisulfr or Wolf of Fenrir, usually known simply as Fenrir in English, was a monstrous wolf, the son of Loki and the giantess Angrboda. ...
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Loki's only daughter, Hel is the goddess of the underworld. Portrayed as a teenage girl with wavey pink hair, green eyes and glasses, she has the strongest "Father complex" of the three children, though the nature of it differs between the manga and anime. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
A father is the male parent of a child. ...
In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an individuals otherwise mysterious condition: the detail varies widely from theory to theory. ...
- Narugami (鳴神, narugami; his given name is never used in the manga)
Actually the Norse God of thunder, Thor, in the form of a teenage boy with brown hair and eyes. He was sent to Earth from the realm of gods to kill Loki; in the manga, he doesn't remember this at first, while in the anime, he chooses not to kill Loki because he sees no reason to. Unfortunately, for some reason, he can't get back to the realm of the gods, so he is forced to work a wide array of part-time jobs to support himself. This becomes another one of the series' recurring jokes. He always carries around a wooden sword (木刀, bokutō), which is actually Thor's hammer Mjollnir (albeit transformed). In the manga, this is stated directly (mostly in conversation between Loki and Narugami), while the anime remains unclear on the matter. A given name specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. ...
Thors battle against the giants, by Marten Eskil Winge, 1872 Thor, Þór (ON), Þunor (OE), Donar or Donner (German) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder and lightning in Germanic and Norse Mythology, the son of Odin and Jord. ...
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- Reya Ooshima (大島玲也, ōshima reiya, usually called レイヤ, reiya; "Reiya" is a more popular spelling among fans)
Reya is a young girl with blue eyes, brown hair and a cute crush on young Loki. In the anime, she is the sole survivor of a rich family killed in a car accident, and hires Loki to solve a mystery about her mansion. In the manga, she hires Loki because she has been having unsettling dreams about her deceased sister Lisa; she lives with her aunt and uncle, and two older cousins. Reya's true identity is that of the transmigrated Norse goddess Freya. She, like Loki, is sealed into a child form (Reya); unlike Loki, however, Reya does not remember her prior life. Reya becomes Freya when the necklace Brisingamen is put around her neck, but reverts back to Reya when the necklace is removed, and has no memories of what happens while wearing it. Freya, like Reya, is enamoured of Loki, so Reya is also capable of becoming Freya when extremely jealous. Transmigration can has several meanings: Transmigration of the soul is a common term for reincarnation. ...
Freyja in Wagners operas See Freya radar for German World War II radar. ...
Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freya Brisingamen is said to be the (principally amber) necklace of the goddess Freya from Norse Mythology. ...
- Kazumi Higashiyama (東山和美, higashiyama kazumi)
Sent by Odin to assassinate Loki, the watchman Heimdall takes the form of a young boy as a disguise. However, due to the theft of his right eye, he is forced to have neck-length purple hair that completely covers the right side of his face. His nails are actually long, sharp claws, so he also has to wear bulky gloves to hide them. He believes Loki to be the thief that stole his eye, so in addition to carrying out the assassination order, he intends to retrieve his eye or avenge its loss by any means necessary. Although he is one of the more serious characters in the series, Heimdall is also the butt of many jokes. The manga makes fun of his serious personality and his obsession with Loki very frequently, and even though "Kazumi Higashiyama" doesn't attend school, Heimdall still has a daily schedule consisting of piano lessons, singing lessons, and cram school. In the anime, Heimdall usually gets dragged along on shopping sprees by his roommate Freyr, much to his own dismay. For other meanings of Odin and Wotan see Odin (disambiguation) Odin (Old Norse Óðinn, Swedish Oden) is usually considered the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. ...
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Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freya Heimdall (ON Heimdallr, the prefix Heim- means world, the affix -dallr is of uncertain origin, perhaps it means pole, perhaps bright) is one of the gods in the Norse Mythology. ...
A claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods, of the tarsus. ...
A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. ...
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. ...
Cram schools are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities. ...
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- Mysterious Thief Freyr (回答フレイ, kaitō furei; sometimes translated as "Phantom Thief Frey" and other variants)
Freyr is Freya's older brother. He was worried when Freya went missing from the realm of the gods, so he came to Earth to look for her. However, he doesn't know that she transmigrated into Reya. Somewhere along the line, he decides to get Loki's attention by becoming a master jewel thief— the natural enemy of any great detective. Impulsive and quixotic, Freyr seems to think of everything in terms of Romantic cliche, dramatic stereotypes, and absurd non sequitors. His primary agenda is to find Freya, or at least ensure that Loki isn't corrupting her. However, in the course of his plans, Freyr runs into Mayura, falls in love at first sight, and renames her Yamato Nadeshiko (大和撫子, yamato nadeshiko, a name for the prototypical ideal woman; a sort of Japanese Dulcinea). Freyr is a very important god in Old Norse religion; not so much in Norse mythology as one might suppose, for there he actually appears in only one surviving story, but very much in the cult. ...
As a literary genre, romance refers to a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. ...
Clich (from French, imitative) refers to: an overused phrase or expression, or the idea expressed by it; a situation, theme or characterization which has become common; a thing (as a style of clothing) that has become overly familiar or commonplace. ...
In modern usage, a stereotype is a simplified mental picture of an individual or group of people who share a certain characteristic (or stereotypical) qualities. ...
Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust. ...
Dulcinea is a fictional character who is referred to (but does not appear) in Cervantes novel Don Quixote. ...
Verdandi, Urd and Skuld are the goddesses of fate. In the manga, they are a bit ambiguous in their loyalties. Though they help Loki often, such as by giving him the magical ring Draupnir (which can be used to store evil spirits), they have plans of their own, separate from those of Odin and the other gods. Urd, in particular, is implied to be manipulating events on her own. In the anime, however, they have been sent to earth by Odin to kill Loki. Most of their attempts fall into the "Monster of the Week" pattern familiar to Super Sentai shows and magical girl/magical boy anime. Verdandi is one of the three norns in Norse Mythology. ...
In Norse Mythology Urd is one of the three Norns (old crones). ...
Skuld is the name of two characters in Scandinavian mythology, one was one of the three norns in Norse Mythology, and the second one was a princess who married Hjörvard, Hrólf Krakis killer. ...
Draupnir is a golden arm ring possessed by Odin, the ruling god of Norse mythology. ...
For other meanings of Odin and Wotan see Odin (disambiguation) Odin (Old Norse Óðinn, Swedish Oden) is usually considered the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. ...
For other meanings of Odin and Wotan see Odin (disambiguation) Odin (Old Norse Óðinn, Swedish Oden) is usually considered the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. ...
Costumes from the 1975 series, Himitsu Sentai Goranger, on display at the Bandai Museum in Tokyo, Japan Sentai (Japanese: 戦隊), the Japanese word for task force, is most commonly used for classifying the super hero television shows produced by Toei and aired by TV Asahi. ...
Magical girls (mahō shōjo, 魔法少女) belong to a sub-genre of Japanese shōjo anime and manga. ...
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King of the Gods. Odin is only refered to, never seen or interacted with, in the first series of the manga. In the second series, he is hinted at for a while with silhouettes and frames containing parts of his clothing, for instance, but he is eventually seen unobscured. In the anime, he is only shown as a red eye. He seeks to kill Loki, but is somehow unable to do so himself, so he sends assassins instead. He is the one who took Heimdall's eye, not Loki. A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior. ...
The Myths Behind It All Below is some information to help you understand the relationships. - There is a prophecy that at Ragnarok (the end of the world) Loki and his children by his first wife would cause trouble. That is why Odin bound Fenrir and Jormungand and exiled Hel and Loki.
- At Ragnarok:
Odin is kiled by Fenrir. Fenrir is killed by Odin's son. Thor kills and is killed by Jormungand. Heimdall and Loki battle, both are killed. This article is about Ragnarok, the mythological battle. ...
- Loki's tricks were just harmless at first, but gradually grew more evil until he killed Odin's much loved son.
- Loki had two children by a second marrage as well as several illegitimate children. They are never mentioned.
Publication
Japanese - Kinoshita, Sakura (2002). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 1. Mag Garden. ISBN 4901926160.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 2. Mag Garden. ISBN 490192639X.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 3. Mag Garden. ISBN 4901926802.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2004). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 4. Mag Garden. ISBN 4861270316.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2004). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 5. Mag Garden. ISBN 4861270995.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Perfect Guidebook. Mag Garden. ISBN 4901926837.
Limited Editions These were often packaged with special extras, such as audio drama CDs or collectible figurines. Radio drama, which had its greatest popularity in the U. S. and in most other countries before the widespread access to television programming, depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story in her or his minds eye--in this sense, it resembles reading...
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 2 Limited Edition. Mag Garden. ISBN 4901926349.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 3 Limited Edition. Mag Garden. ISBN 4901926845.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2004). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 4 Limited Edition. Mag Garden. ISBN 4861270227.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2004). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 5 Limited Edition. Mag Garden. ISBN 4861270944.
English - Kinoshita, Sakura (2002). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 1. ADV Manga. ISBN 1-4139-0055-0.
- Kinoshita, Sakura (2003). The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok 2. ADV Manga. ISBN 1-4139-0184-0.
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