Magic Knight Rayearth

Magic Knight Rayearth (魔法騎士レイアース Mahou Kishi Reiāsu) is a magical girl manga, anime, and RPG Video Game series by CLAMP, whose credits also include Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits. Originally a manga, it was later brought into television anime with two series totaling forty-nine episodes, and later a three-part OVA series unrelated to both the original television anime and manga (although using the same character designs and names, and some other similarities). (The "Magic Knight" phrase used in the series title and the characters' roles is written with the same kanji as "mahou kishi," but CLAMP dictated that it is not pronounced the same way with phonetic characters known as furigana.)

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Magical girl - Manga - Anime - RPG - Video Game - CLAMP - Cardcaptor Sakura - Chobits - OVA - Kanji - Furigana

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The manga has been released in the United States in English by TOKYOPOP (initially named Mixx) in six volumes. The English manga was at first issued in a flipped left to right format, but was re-released in the original right to left format. Both the television anime and the OVA were brought over to the U.S. as well, as was the Magic Knight Rayearth game for the Sega Saturn, which follows the plot of the first anime series loosely. Unfortunately the Super Famicom title was only released in Japan (though there are now fan-translations of it). The Super Famicom game is also well-known for being more faithful to the original story compared to the Sega Saturn game. The two games however are very different to each other. The Sega Saturn game plays more like an Action RPG along the lines of Secret of Mana and Zelda whearas the Super Famicom plays more like a traditional RPG (eg: the Final Fantasy series).

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United States - English - TOKYOPOP - Magic Knight Rayearth - Sega Saturn - Super Famicom - Fan-translations - Action RPG - Secret of Mana - Zelda - Final Fantasy

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