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3	''Kishin Douji Zenki'' (or ''Zenki'' for short) was a fantasy action manga by Kikuhide Tani and Yoshihiro Kuroiwa that appeared in Monthly Shonen Jump from 1992 - 1996. A 51-episode anime adaptation produced by Kitty Films [[note]] This show being one of their last anime productions [[/note]] and animated by Creator/StudioDeen aired on Creator/TVTokyo in 1995.
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5	Long ago, a priest called Ozuno Enno controlled Zenki and other powerful demons to defeat the demon goddess [[BigBad Queen Karuma]]. A thousand years later, when Karuma and her minions return, Zenki gets summoned by Chiaki Enno, a pigtailed {{Miko}} who is Ozuno's descendant.
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7	Zenki and Chiaki now have to put up with each other and fight demons at the same time. The only catch? Zenki's been forced to become [[ShapeshifterModeLock a little kid]] every time there's no threat around. So now he's gotta hang around Chiaki during her school days, as Karuma's threat expands around them...
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11	!!''Kishin Douji Zenki'' contains examples of:
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13	%%* ActionGirl: Kazue. [[spoiler: Anju was one in training before being brainwashed.]]
14	%%* ActionSurvivor: Chiaki and Sayaka
15	* AdaptedOut: Quite a few characters either never show up in the anime or got replaced by anime exclusive ones.
16	* AlienBlood: People possessed by the seeds bleed green.
17	* AlternateContinuity: The TV series can be considered this since despite the similarities it deviates ''heavily'' from the manga, and the entire 2nd half of the TV series [[note]] as well as the characters introduced in those episodes [[/note]] is anime only, the OVA by contrast more closely follows the manga.
18	* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: Inugami]], in the anime.
19	* BigEater: Zenki, in his child mode. [[spoiler:When possessed by one of Karma's Seeds, the Principal of Chiaki's school (normally a ReasonableAuthorityFigure) goes VillainousGlutton mode.]]
20	* BloodierAndGorier: The manga is a bit bloodier than the anime.
21	* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
22	** When the Karma seeds latch on a human, this is their primary effect before forcibly mutating them into monsters.
23	** [[spoiler: Anju's villainy turns out to be caused by this. As a teenaged CuteBruiser, she once was [[SnowMeansDeath about to die in a snowy mountain]] but Karma seized her and erased her memories, then mind-controlled her for years.]]
24	* ButtMonkey: Zenki, as a kid. [[{{Jerkass}} He kind of deserves it though]].
25	* CanonForeigner: A very significant number of characters are exclusive to the anime [[note]] particularly in the 2nd half of the anime [[/note]], which actually result in a number of differences from the manga.
26	* DarkActionGirl: Anju.
27	* DemonSlaying: What Zenki has been summoned to do.
28	* DirtyOldMan: Jukai, who among other things, gets very excited about being asked to rescue a bunch of nude women from being trapped in a giant [[AllWebbedUp spider net]].
29	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The first monster Zenki faces after he gets summoned in the manga is actually two guys, joined together by an eye and a membrane.
30	* {{Fanservice}}:
31	** Chiaki's panties are kinda obvious from time to time. When she's in a skirt, that is (which is relatively frequent in the anime).
32	** Also, Anju is a DarkActionGirl with a great figure and killer legs.
33	* GhostlyGoals: One episode of the anime deals with [[spoiler:the ghost of a samurai being affected by its past ''and'' a Karma seed...]]
34	* GoldFever: The first monster Zenki faces after he gets summoned in the manga. The guys came to Shikigami Town to summon Zenki and make money out of that. Another enemy in the anime is obsessed with money and transforms into a monster that turns everything into gold; Chiaki is forced to strip to her underwear when her clothes start turning.
35	* LeeroyJenkins: Zenki, who always tends to rush his opponents even in his child form.
36	* LuminescentBlush: Chiaki Enno in the episode, "Karuma the Demon and Her Three Demon Disciples". She's left red-faced after Kuribayashi lifts her skirt, she yanks it back in place, and slaps him in response.
37	* MysticalCityPlanning: The entire town turns out to be in the pattern of a pentagram designed to keep the BigBad from breaking free.
38	* OrdinaryHighschoolStudent: Chiaki, until the adventure starts. Ako and Sayaka are more genuine examples.
39	* PowerLimiter: Chiaki's bracelet keeps Zenki in his SleepModeSize.
40	* RaisedByDudes: One of the biggest differences between the manga and the anime? In the manga Akira/Gouki lives in a religious all-male village, and he's mainly referred to as "Gokimaru" rather than "Akira" like in the anime.
41	* RedEyesTakeWarning: People infected with the seeds, Zenki himself to in his true form.
42	* ReligiousBruiser: Souma Miki
43	* SleepModeSize[=/=]ShapeshifterModeLock: Zenki's child form.
44	* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Anju and Souma, since she was brainwashed into following Karuma when a teenager and forgot that Souma was her VictoriousChildhoodFriend... only to die in his arms few after she manages to remember.]] [[spoiler: Later Sayaka and Inugami, doubling as InterSpeciesRomance.]] Both of these are exclusive only to the anime.
45	* TamerAndChaster: The Latin American version of the anime was toned down in various scenes which shown FullFrontalAssault, changing and extending other scenes, since the anime was adapted to be emitted for younger audiences during the "anime fever" of TheNineties.
46	* TransformationSequence: Whenever Zenki turns into his true form
47	* TruerToTheText: The OVA is closer to the manga than the TV series was.
48	* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Souma tries to give ask this to Anju in the middle of a WhatTheHellHero. His harsh rebukes actually start undoing her amnesia ''and'' her brainwashing...]]

Context Manga / KishinDoujiZenki