History Manga / SouseiNoOnmyouji

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''Twin Star Exorcists''

This is the story about two kids (Rokuro and Benio) and their lives as onmyouji warriors. Rokuro once had the dream to be the greatest Onmyouji, or Exorcist, and to cleanse all impurities. But a tragedy in his past has made him no longer wish to have anything to do with exorcists. Enter Benio a girl who, through a tragedy of her own, wishes to be the greatest Onmyouji.

Needless to say the two don't really get along, but forces conspire to bring them together due to an ancient prophecy that states the child of their union will be the most powerful exorcist to ever exist.

A battle-manga, published in the monthly Magazine/ShonenJump sister magazine, Jump Square, from the creator of Manga/BinbougamiGa full of hilarious hijinks and awesome battle scenes.

An anime adaptation, produced by StudioPierrot, began airing April 6th, 2016. A preview can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBcpzDakVc here]].

'''BEWARE OF MANGA SPOILERS'''

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!Examples of tropes.

* AdaptationExpansion: While remaining mostly faithful to the manga, the Anime expands on a few things such as showing what Benio was doing before she met Rokuro falling out of the sky.
* AdultsAreUseless:
** Seigen, an adult himself, thinks that because of putting children in the position of an Onmyouji instead of allowing them to live their childhood as they should they have failed as adults.
** Discussed after the first battle with Yuuto, some feel Rokuro and Benio shouldn't be fighting but should focus on building their relationship so that they can conceive the Miko, who can take care of everything.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Impurities; justified as they are said to be born from human's negative emotions.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted with [[spoiler: Benio and Yuuto.]]
* AnArmAndALeg:
** Rokuro loses his arm during the incident that took the lives of his friends in the past, luckily he gets a replacement in the form of a powerful impurity arm.
** [[spoiler: During the battle with Yuuto, Benio get's her legs blown off, luckily she gets replacements much like Rokuro arm, from the same Basara that killed her parents no less.]]
* ArrangedMarriage:
** Rokuro and Benio
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Downplayed; [[TheHeartless as long as there are negative thoughts and sorrow, Impurities will be born,]] but destroying Magano itself should do the trick.
* BadassAndChildDuo:
** This [[http://i.imgur.com/5nippOh.png panel]] implies Hijirimaru and Higano used to be this.
** [[AloofBigBrother Shimon]] and his little sister [[IllGirl Sayo]].
* BadassBoast: Pretty much anyone who ever fights, Rokuro especially.
* BadassFamily: The goal of Arima-sama is to have the two strongest onmyouji, Rokuro and Benio, mate. Because their child would then become the strongest Onmyouji ever with the title of "The Miko."
** Benio's parents, [[spoiler: and twin brother,]] were strong Onmyouji.
* BattleCouple: The Title translates to "Twin Star Exorcists" and is the title given to a married exorcist couple whose child will be The Miko, in this case Rokuro and Benio. Kind of subverted in that Rokuro is clearly more competent and Benio mostly acts as support when fighting very strong enemies.
** Benio's parents.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Rokuro and Benio are not pleased about their betrothal and constantly argue and insult each other. However, there are quite a few sweet moments between them as well.
* BerserkButton: Rokuro has many, seeing his friends being hurt by the Impurities and innocent people being hurt, but the thing that really bring out his rage is mocking the death of his friends whom he was forced to kill after they were turned into fallen impurities.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Several. Of note, Rokuro right before Kamui kills Benio- his fist appears out of nowhere into Kamui's face.]]
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: The Impurities.]]
* BloodKnight: Benio really enjoy's fighting, to the point that she regularly enters Magano to fight Impurities instead of waiting for the ones already on earth to pop up. The Basara that killed Benio's parents, [[spoiler: Kamui,]] admitted that he lives to fight strong opponents and if it was a life or death battle it would be more enjoyable.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Benio confronts the Impurity that killed her parents, she asks if he remembers killing them. He answers by asking if she remembers every ant she ever squashed. {{Averted}} later when he does in-fact remember because their HeroicSacrifice was so out of the ordinary.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Several.
** Rokuro's is "Sins and Impurities, I'll cleanse them all."
** Kamui's is "I'll wait while I count down from ten."
* ChildhoodFriend: Mayura is Rokuro's and her father is the one who taught him Exorcism.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Both Benio and Mayura exhibit this after the [[spoiler:TimeSkip]], when another girl ends up aggressively throwing herself at Rokuro.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: An omake has Rokuro angrily denying that he wants to have a child with Benio and says that she'd probably be like a tuna in bed anyway.[[note]]a Japanese idiom with a similar connotation to "dead fish"[[/note]] Benio immediately thinks of the positive characteristics of tuna and assumes Rokuro is [[InsultBackfire praising her]] as a {{Determinator}} and LightningBruiser, causing a LuminescentBlush.
* DanceBattler: Benio's attacks all have dance in the name.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Benio witnessed the death of her parents, [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice which was arguably her fault,]] and later lost her twin brother.]]
** Rokuro was the sole survivor of the massacre of his entire dorm, [[spoiler: later revealed that they had all been forcibly changed into Impurities and he was forced to exorcize them. Benio's twin brother was among them.]] Besides, he was also [[spoiler: found in Magano, age around 6, with no memories at all.]]
** [[spoiler: Ryougo's]] family was attacked by Impurities while his older brother hid him in the cupboard. [[YouAreTooLate He was saved by an exorcists squad, but his whole family was mercilessly slaughtered.]]
** All the children in the Hiinatsuki dorm might have suffered a similar fate, considering they are orphans not only aware of the existence of Impurities, but also feel that the only way they can repay their debt is to become respectable exorcists.
* DarkIsEvil: Most Impurities, human-shaped in particular, seem to be dark-skinned.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Benio. With her parent's assassin, no less.]]
* DualWielding: Benio fights with two charmed blades.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Yuuto, Benio's older twin brother and one of Rokuro's friend at the Hiinatsuki Dorm, the one who caused the tragedy of Hiinatsuki.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Benio was pretty popular at her [[OneGenderSchool old school]].
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Mayura actually has a large amount of spiritual powers, but isn't an Onmyouji. [[spoiler: Which is why she could be forcibly changed into an impurity.]] According to her father if he had raised her as an Onmyouji from the beginning even Benio would not be as strong as her.
** CantCatchUp: Eventually she does start training to be an onmyouji, but by that time Rokuro and Benio have a lot more skill and power so Mayura ends up feeling inadequate at being unable to help her friends.
* FallenHero: Onmyouji can become Impurities, we later learn that the transformation can be forced.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Happens surprisingly often.
** The boy [[spoiler: by Benio's side in her flashbacks]], her mentioning the Tragedy of Hiinatsuki, and the photo of the Hiinatsuki residents.
** Seigen mentioning that Rokuro was the "Strongest of the East" only on the mainland.
** Kamui's mention of "the others"
* ForTheLulz: Kamui, the Basara that killed Benio's parents, gives the reason for most of the things he does as just having a hobby. Be it a SadisticChoice or granting someone a substantial power-up, everything he does is purely to see if he can create the ultimate enemy.
* FunbagAirbag: Mayura's introduction into the anime involves Rokuro running from a rejection right into her chest.
* GenerationXerox: Benio looks like her mother and acts like her father and has his love of Ohagi. Her fighting style is the same as theirs. [[spoiler: Her twin brother Yuuto averts this completely, though. You'd have a hard time guessing they're related. Which was probably [[{{TheReveal}} the point]].]]
* GoOutWithASmile: Some of Rokuro's friends [[spoiler: before they were turned into fallen impurities]] asked him to exorcize them all while smiling. Remembering this really agonizes Rukuro.
* TheHeartless: The Impurities, which are born from humanity's negative thoughts.
* HeroicSacrifice: When given a choice between their lives or Benio's, Benio's parents don't hesitate to sacrifice themselves.
* InnocentCohabitation: {{Averted}}, Benio and Rokuro are made to live together for the express reason that it will help them become a couple.
* IHaveNoSon: Inverted. Seigen doesn't consider himself to be Mayura's father, as he is no longer married to her mother and was never home. During the time he [[spoiler: fought her as a fallen impurity]] he regrets never having done anything even remotely fatherly for her. However, Mayura disagrees and maintains he likes her calling him dad despite him denying it.
* JaggedMouth: Rokuro; Kamui calls him "the kid with fangs".
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Rokuro and Benio are made to fight each other in chapter 2. Benio is more than willing, Rokuro is less than.
* LoneSurvivor:
** Rokuro is the only survivor from an attack by impurities that killed eighteen of his fellow exorcist dorm mates.
** [[spoiler: Ryougo]] is the only one who survived the attack of Impurities on his family.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Arima and Hijirimaru are the most prominent examples.
* MadeOfEvil: Implied, as Impurities are "born from the negative thoughts of man"
* MarriageBeforeRomance: Subverted with Rokuro and Benio, since they are "only" betrothed and, despite disliking each other at first, end up becoming attracted to and falling for each other after getting to know each other's ultimately linked tragic pasts while still betrothed.
* MyGreatestFailure:[[spoiler: For Rokuro, being unable to save his friends during the tragedy of Hiinatsuki (he was actually forced to kill them.)]] However, learning after two years that there was a way to save them really hit him hard.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Rokuro can't find a place on a map, when the map leads to his own house.
* NotSoDifferent:
** A throwaway joke had Mayura mentioning to Benio that Rokuro continued to believe in Santa past the age most children did. An omake later has Benio tearfully asking him if it's true that Santa's a fantasy after all. On a more serious note, both of them have [[{{Tsundere}} similar dispositions]] and have lost loved ones in the past.
** Both [[spoiler: Benio and Yuuto]] tend to make a mess of their rooms. And both get yelled at by Rokuro.
* OneHitKill: Rokuro uses a special charm that turns his right arm monstrous and capable of one-shoting most Impurities it hits.
* PapaWolf: When Seigen learned why [[spoiler: Yuuto turned his daughter into a fallen]] impurity, he was pissed. He also has some shades of this with his apprentices, although he hides it well.
* PaperTalisman: The charms that Onmyouji use are these. Benio uses several and Rokuro uses only a single jet black charm.
* PowerFist: Roukuro can turn his right arm into this.
* PoweredArmor: Benio uses several Charms that gives her a magic version of this which improves her speed, armor, sight, and strength. Speed seems to be the main increase.
* RaceNameBasis: Before his name was revealed, [[spoiler: Kamui]] was only referred to as "Basara".
* TheRival: Benio considers Rokuro to be one after witnessing the power of his arm, Rokuro himself doesn't wish to be rivals but gets into it after the two start fighting.
* SadisticChoice: Benio, as an eight year-old child, is given ten seconds to decide which one of her parents will live and which one will die by a super strong impurity. [[spoiler: When she failed to decide the Impurity then asked her parents if they or Benio should be allowed to live, with no hesitation they say Benio.]]
* ShipTease: Rokuro and Benio get plenty. Surprisingly, Benio gets a scene [[spoiler: with Kamui after he saves her from Impurities and offers to give her the power to keep on fighting. Her expression when she thanks him and his subsequent reaction especially.]] Seeing how their first two meetings went, it was unexpected.
* TheSociopath:
** [[spoiler: Yuuto, he causes the tragedy that haunts Rokuro for a reason that can be summed up as "For Shits and Giggles." Sees his sister, Benio, as a useless annoyance and finds the thought that their parents died protecting her hilarious.]]
** Basara, impurities that have gained enough power to have a human appearance, all seem to share this mental state.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Arguably the main plot of the manga. The reason Benio and Rokuro are [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage forced to marry]] is to give birth to an [[SuperiorSuccessor extremely powerful exorcist]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Benio starts to ask Rokuro if he might be an exorcist after revealing knowledge of Magano but Rokuro denies being an exorcist before she even gets the first word out.
* SuperMode: Several from various characters appear frequently. [[spoiler: When a Basara uses a charm this is the usual result.]]
* SuperSpeed: Benio's fighting style involves hitting the enemy hard and fast, ''very'' fast.
* SuperStrength: Rokuro's charmed arm gives him incredible strength.
* SweetTooth: Benio and her father both love Ohagis.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler: the reason Rokuro intended to quit as an exorcist.]]
* TimeSkip: A two year skip happens at the end of chapter 18.
* TookALevelInBadass: Benio and Rokuro, [[spoiler: as well as Mayura.]] go through several.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Benio really like Ohagi, a type of sweet made with rice and red bean paste.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Yuuto does not take it well when Benio manages to adapt the powers of an impurity like he and Roku do. Seems the boy has a superiority complex and seeing someone he wrote off as weak not only attain the same power he thought made him special but to almost surpass him with it sends his whole world crashing.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Higano and Hijirimaru do care about each other, despite being [[TheHeartless Impurities.]] [[spoiler: When Higano [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] for Hijirimaru and [[TearJerker dies]] [[HoldingHands literally on his lap,]] it sends the remaining Basara in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Kamui pulls one off for Benio, right before she is killed by Impurities after her legs were blown up, and offers her a DealWithTheDevil. She is at first and understandably rather confused on his motivations. He says it's [[ForTheLulz his hobby]].]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Yuuto]] attempts repeatedly to persuade Rokuro to join him as his EvilMinion.
* WhenSheSmiles: In Chapter 18, Rokuro gives Benio a prize he won while they were [[NotADate hanging out by themselves in a local festival.]] After Benio smiles sweetly in response, he [[LuminescentBlush blushes profusely]] and thinks he'd like to make her smile more.

An anime adaptation, produced by StudioPierrot, began airing April 6th, 2016,

This is the story about two kids (Rokuro and Benio) and their lives as onmyouji warriors. Rokuro once had the dream to be the greatest Onmyouji, or Exorcist, and to cleanse all impurities. But a tragedy in his past has made him no longer wish to have anything to do with exorcists. Enter Benio a girl who, through a tragedy of her own, wishes to be the greatest Onmyouji. Needless to say the two don't really get along, but forces conspire to bring them together due to an ancient prophecy that states the child of their union will be the most powerful exorcist to ever exist.

An anime adaptation began airing April 6th, 2016, produced by StudioPierrot

This is the story about two kids (Rokuro and Benio) and their lives as onmyouji warriors. Rokuro once had the dream to be the greatest Onmyouji, or Exorcist, and to cleanse all impurities. But a tragedy in his past has made him no longer wish to have anything to do with exorcist. Enter Benio a girl who, through a tragedy of her own, wishes to be the greatest Onmyouji. Needless to say the two don't really get along.

A battle-manga from the creator of Manga/BinbougamiGa full of hilarious hijinks and awesome battle scenes.

Published in the monthly Magazine/ShonenJump sister magazine, Jump Square, an anime adaptation began airing April 6th, 2016.

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Published in the monthly Magazine/ShonenJump sister magazine, Jump Square, an anime adaptation was announced December 4th 2015.

* BattleCouple: The Title translates to "Twin Star Exorcists" and is the title given to a married exorcist couple whose child will be The Miko, in this case Rokuro and Benio. Kind of subverted in that Rokuro is clearly more competent and Benio mostly acts as support when they fighting very strong enemies.

* BattleCouple: The Title translates to "Twin Star Exorcists" and is the title given to a married exorcist couple whose child will be The Miko, in this case Rokuro and Benio. While the two are more than a little bit against the couple idea, there's no denying that together they make an awesome team.

* WhenSheSmiles: After Benio smiles sweetly at Rokuru when he gives he a prize he's won while they were [[NotADate hanging out by themselves in a local festival]] in Chapter 18, he [[LuminescentBlush blushes profusely]] and thinks he's like to make her smile more.

* WhenSheSmiles: After Benio smiles sweetly at Rokuru when he gives he a prize he's won while they were [[NotADate hanging out by themselves in a local festival]], he [[LuminescentBlush blushes profusely]] and thinks he's like to make her smile more.

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Kamui pulls one off for Benio, right before she is killed by Impurities after her legs were blown up, and offers her a DealWithTheDevil. She is at first and understandably rather confused on his motivations. He says it's [[ForTheLulz his hobby]].]]

An anime adaptation was announced in the December 4th issue of Square Jump.

* FallenHero: Onmyouji can become Impurities, [[spoiler: later we learn that the transformation can be forced.]

* LoneSurvivor: Rokuro is the only survivor from an attack by impurities that killed eighteen of his fellow exorcist dorm mates.

* ShipTease: Rokuro and Benio get plenty. Surprisingly, Benio gets a scene, [[spoiler: with Kamui after he saves her from Impurities and offers to give her the power to keep on fighting. Her expression when she thanks him and his subsequent reaction especially.]] Seeing how their first two meetings went, it was unexpected.

* FallenHero: Onmyouji can become Impurities, [[spoiler: later we learn that the transformation can be forced.]]

* AdultsAreUseless: Seigen an adult himself think that because of putting children in the position of an Onmyouji instead of allowing them to live their childhood as they should.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Several. Of note, Rokuro right before Kamui kills Benio- his fist appears of nowhere into his face.]]

* TimeSkip: Previewed in the beginning of [[spoiler:Chapter 18, and starting in earnest in the next.]]

''Twin Star Exorcist''

* DarkIsEvil: Most Impurities, human-shaped in particular, seem to be [[UnfortunateImplications dark-skinned.]]