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Chaika: The Coffin Princess (Japanese: 棺姫のチャイカ, Hepburn: Hitsugi no Chaika) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ichirō Sakaki and illustrated by Namaniku ATK. Twelve volumes of the series have been published by Fujimi Shobo under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. It has been adapted into three manga series. An anime adaptation was announced in July 2013[1] and aired from April 9, 2014, to June 25, 2014. A second season titled Chaika The Coffin Princess: Avenging Battle aired from October 8, 2014, to December 10, 2014.[2]
Chaika: The Coffin Princess | |
![]() Cover art for Chaika - The Coffin Princess featuring Chaika Trabant. | |
棺姫のチャイカ (Hitsugi no Chaika) | |
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Genre | Action, fantasy[1] |
Light novel | |
Written by | Ichirō Sakaki |
Illustrated by | Namaniku ATK |
Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
Imprint | Fujimi Fantasia Bunko |
Demographic | Male |
Original run | December 18, 2010 – March 10, 2015 |
Volumes | 12 |
Manga | |
Written by | Ichirō Sakaki, Shinta Sakayama |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | October 26, 2011 – December 26, 2014 |
Volumes | 5 |
Manga | |
Hitsugi no Chaikakka | |
Written by | Kanikama |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
Imprint | Shōnen |
Magazine | 4-Koma Nano Ace (2011–2013) Shōnen Ace (2014) |
Original run | August 9, 2011 – May 2014 |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Gakuen Chaika! | |
Magazine | Niconico Age Premium |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | January 9, 2014 – December 11, 2014 |
Volumes | 1 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Soichi Masui |
Produced by | Jun'ichirō Tamura |
Written by | Touko Machida |
Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
Studio | Bones |
Licensed by |
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Original network | Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TVQ, CTC, TV Saitama, GBS, MTV, tvk, BS11 |
English network | |
Original run | April 9, 2014 – December 10, 2014 |
Episodes | 22 + OVA |
Five years ago, the 300-year-long war between the Alliance of Six Nations and the Gaz Empire finally came to an end when Emperor Arthur Gaz was killed by the Eight Heroes. The Empire's lands were then divided by the alliance, who later formed the Council of Six Nations to bring peace and order to the land. In addition, Gaz's remains, which possessed incredible magical energy, were divided up and granted to each of the Eight Heroes, who used their shares for various reasons.
In the present, Toru Acura is an unemployed Saboteur (乱破師, Sabatā) who is unable to settle in this peaceful era as there is no demand for his Saboteur skills, and thus he sees no meaning in his life. While out foraging in the forest, Toru encounters Chaika Trabant, a white-haired Wizard (魔法師, Wizādo) who travels with a coffin. After saving her from a man-eating unicorn, Toru, along with his sister Akari, are hired by Chaika to gather the scattered remains of Arthur Gaz. It is revealed that Chaika is the former Emperor's daughter, who managed to escape in the chaos following her father's death and wishes to find her father's remains so that she can give him a proper burial. Over the course of the series, the group faces difficulties while facing against each of the Eight Heroes. Frederika, a shape-shifting dragoon who belonged to one of the heroes, joins their party. Meanwhile, the six nations sends the Kleeman Agency's Gillette Corps to hunt down Chaika to obstruct their quest in order to prevent another war. Other groups led by girls claiming to be Chaika Gaz also pursue them to take the parts.
Chaika Bohdan (チャイカ・ボフダーン, Chaika Bofudān) (Voiced by: Saeko ZogoEp. 1 credits (Japanese); Brittney KarbowskiEp. 5 credits[4] (English)), known as Red Chaika, is a silver-haired girl who is very similar in appearance to Chaika Trabant, but wears a red frilled headband, has shorter hair, and a more developed chest. Like Trabant, she speaks in the broken and disjointed form of the common language.Ep. 5 Her weapon is a snake blade.Ep. 5 While Trabant wishes to collect the remains of her father to give them a proper burial, Bohdan intends to enact revenge upon the Eight Heroes by killing them.Ep. 5 After seeing that Toru is a capable fighter, she tries to have him and his sister join her cause, but they turn her down after she reveals she intends to kill the Chaika in their company as she claims there can only be one Chaika Gaz in this world.Ep. 5-6 Another thing she seems to have in common with Trabant is her attraction to Toru.
Bohdan has two companions:
The Postwar Reconstruction Implementation Agency (戦後復興推進機関, Sengo Fukkō Suishin Kikan), or more commonly called Kleemann Agency, is a multinational organization tasked with supporting the postwar reconstruction. The organization also includes a number of small field units such as the Gillette Corps and the Campagna Corps whose duty is the capture of bandits and other criminals.
A division of the Kleemann Agency who have been tasked with capturing Chaika. In season 2 their task switches to gathering the emperor's remains.S2 ep. 2
Soara is a sky fortress that was knocked down in the war with Gaz. It had since been repaired and was active in the final storyline of the first anime season. The group attempts to start a war by destroying Cadwell, the capital of the Wiemac kingdom but the plans are foiled by Toru's group and the Gillette Corps.
The eight warriors who killed Emperor Arthur Gaz and split his body among them. Many of them serve as episodic antagonists in the anime series.
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | December 18, 2010[11] | 978-4-04-071051-8 |
2 | May 20, 2011[12] | 978-4-04-071052-5 |
3 | October 20, 2011[13] | 978-4-04-071053-2 |
4 | March 17, 2012[14] | 978-4-04-071054-9 |
5 | August 17, 2012[15] | 978-4-04-071055-6 |
6 | January 19, 2013[16] | 978-4-04-071056-3 |
7 | July 20, 2013[17] | 978-4-04-071057-0 |
8 | January 18, 2014[18] | 978-4-04-070007-6 |
9 | April 19, 2014[19] | 978-4-04-070090-8 |
10 | September 20, 2014[20] | 978-4-04-070145-5 |
11 | December 20, 2014[21] | 978-4-04-070148-6 |
12 | March 10, 2015 (LE)[22] March 20, 2015[23] | 978-4-04-070171-4 (LE) 978-4-04-070150-9 |
Shinta Sakayama launched a manga adaptation of the light novels in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in 2011,[24] and the series ran until December 2014.[25] The series was licensed in English by Yen Press.[26]
Two other manga have also been published: a four-panel manga Hitsugi no Chaikakka, by Kanikama that in Kadokawa Shoten's 4-Koma Nano Ace magazine in 2011–2013 and then in Monthly Shōnen Ace in 2014,[24] and a series titled Gakuen Chaika! that ran in Kadokawa's Age Premium magazine in 2014.[27]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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1 | March 17, 2012[28] | 978-4-04-120208-1 | June 23, 2015[29] | 978-0316342070 | |
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2 | August 21, 2012[30] | 978-4-04-120337-8 | September 22, 2015[31] | 978-0316263788 | |
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3 | May 22, 2013[32] | 978-4-04-120633-1 | December 15, 2015[33] | 978-0316263795 | |
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4 | March 26, 2014[34] | 978-4-04-121061-1 | March 22, 2016[35] | 978-0316263801 | |
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5 | December 26, 2014[36] | 978-4-04-102461-4 | September 27, 2016[37] | 978-0316272346 | |
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A two-season anime adaptation was produced by Bones.[38] The first season aired in Japan from April 9, 2014, to June 25, 2014.[39] For the first season, the opening theme song was "Darakena" ("Laden") by Iori Nomizu and the ending theme song was "Kairaku Genri" (快楽原理, "Pleasure Principle") by Coffin Princess, consisting of Chika Anzai, Saeko Zōgō, and Yui Makino.
The second season titled Chaika The Coffin Princess: Avenging Battle aired from October 8, 2014, to December 10, 2014. For the second season, the opening theme song was "Shikkoku o Nuritsubuse" (漆黒を塗りつぶせ, "Paint It Jet-Black") by Iori Nomizu and the ending theme song was "Watashi wa Omae no Naka ni Iru" (ワタシハオマエノナカニイル, "I Exist Within You") by Coffin Princess, consisting of Chika Anzai, Saeko Zōgō, and Iori Nomizu.
An OVA was bundled with the limited edition of the twelfth and final volume of the original novels, released on March 1, 2015.
The first season has been licensed for digital and home video release by Sentai Filmworks.[40] Sentai licensed the second season in May 2016.[41]
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Girl who Bears the Coffin" Transliteration: "Hitsugi Katsugu Shōjo" (Japanese: 棺かつぐ少女) | April 9, 2014 | |
While foraging for food in the forest, an unemployed saboteur, Toru Acura, encounters Chaika Trabant, a young white-haired wizard who is carrying a coffin. Their encounter is interrupted by the appearance of a man-eating unicorn. As Toru and Chaika flee they come up with a plan: Toru will delay the beast to allow Chaika the time she needs to cast her spell using her magic Gundo sniper rifle. As gratitude, Chaika buys Toru a meal only for Toru's sister, Akari, to show up and accuse him of slacking off. Meanwhile, Albéric Gillette and his men from the Gillette Corps meet with Roberto Abarth, a war hero who fought against the Gaz Empire five years previously, and ask Abarth for the item he acquired from the war but they are refused. Meanwhile, Chaika hires the Acura siblings to steal an item from Abarth's mansion. That night, Toru, Akari and Chaika sneak into Abarth's mansion but encounter Abarth himself, who mistakes them for thieves hired by Albéric to steal his item. As he's about to use his magic to eliminate them, Abarth is shocked when he recognizes Chaika. | |||
2 | "The Lazy Man's Choice" Transliteration: "Namakemono no Sentaku" (Japanese: 怠け者の選択) | April 16, 2014 | |
Abarth is shocked to see Chaika as he believed her to be dead. After escaping him, Chaika explains that Abarth's mansion is his Gundo which allows him manipulate any object within the mansion and the only way to stop it is to destroy its magic source. Toru distracts Abarth as Chaika and Akari search for the source. Eventually they find the item that Chaika is looking for, a severed left hand in a glass jar. As they leave the mansion, the trio are attacked by the Gillette Corps who demand that they hand over Chaika and the magical hand. Akari drags Chaika to safety while Toru, carrying the glass jar, leads the Corps in a chase around the city before fighting one of their members, Nikolay Autotor. Toru is soon cornered by Albéric, Vivi Holopainen and the Corps magic vehicle. Albéric reveals to him that Chaika is actually Chaika Gaz, the daughter of the dreaded Emperor, Arthur Gaz of the Gaz Empire, whose death at the hands of the Eight Heroes ended the war. Albéric and his organization fear that if knowledge of Chaika's existence were to spread, Gaz loyalists would attempt to reform the Gaz Empire with her as a figurehead, which would reignite the war. The emperor's remains are also powerful sources of magic power. Toru is unmoved by these arguments and Chaika uses her magic to allow him to escape. Once they are safe, she reveals that she is gathering her father's remains so he can be given a proper burial. Toru and Akari decide to help Chaika in her quest for which she is thankful. | |||
3 | "The Forest Where the Hero Lives" Transliteration: "Eiyū no Sumu Mori" (Japanese: 英雄の棲む森) | April 23, 2014 | |
The trio search for another of the Eight Heroes who has a part of Arthur's remains in the town of Ipsom. Unfortunately, Chaika's coffin is drawing unwanted attention, so Toru wraps it in cloth. Meanwhile, the Gillette Corps receives word from their superiors, the post-war Kleeman Agency, that reinforcements are unavailable. As they have lunch, Chaika and the others learn that the ruler of Ipsom, Dominica Skoda, a dragoon cavalier and one of the Eight Heroes, lives nearby in a dangerous forest. The Gillette Corps arrive in town and are hot on the trail of Toru, Akari and Chaika when Guy, a young man who appears as a hologram and is Chaika's informant, informs them of where Dominica lives and where they can find an abandoned magical vehicle as transport. Having fixed up one of the abandoned vehicles, Chaika reveals that she was out of the country when her father was killed and doesn't have memories of the war. The trio is soon attacked by Orthrus but is saved by a female knight. | |||
4 | "The Dragoon's Wish" Transliteration: "Doragūn no Negai" (Japanese: ドラグーンの願い) | April 30, 2014 | |
The female knight introduces herself as Dominica Skoda and allows the trio to stay in her mansion. Toru suggests that they ask Dominica to hand over Arthur's remains peacefully before using force if that fails, but Chaika is reluctant since Dominica saved their lives and has been kind to them. The next day, Toru asks Dominica for Arthur's remains. To their surprise, she agrees to hand them over if they can defeat her. As they prepare, the group realizes that there is something strange about Dominica since she didn't recognize Chaika, despite being one of the Eight Heroes. During their match, Toru and Akari fight Dominica in their Iron-Blood Transformation forms but are unable to overcome her. However, Toru realizes that the Dominica they are fighting is not human but rather her Dragoon taking her master's form and forces the dragon to reveal its true form. Using their skills together, Toru, Akari and Chaika are able to defeat the Dragoon. The Dragoon then reveals that Dominica died shortly after the war ended but due to their close bond, she was unable to forget her master. As promised, the Dragoon gives them Arthur's eyes and decides to follow Toru, Akari and Chaika on their journey in the form of a young girl by the name of Fredrika. | |||
5 | "The Pursuer and the Pursued" Transliteration: "Ou Mono Owareru Mono" (Japanese: 追う者追われる者) | May 7, 2014 | |
Heading to the town of Perimeral, Toru, Akari and Chaika are ambushed by a red armored sword fighter and her two companions. Toru captures the warrior and is shocked to discover that she looks like Chaika but with shorter hair. Chaika Trabant is taken captive by Red Chaika's companions and both groups are forced to flee when the Gillette Corps arrives. After bribing her with food, Red Chaika reveals her name to be Chaika Bohdan, and also claims to be Emperor Arthur's daughter. She also wants to gather her father's remains but, unlike their Chaika, Red Chaika wants to use the power of their father's remains to take revenge against the Eight Heroes and the subjects who abandoned their father during the war. Meanwhile, Red Chaika's companions reveal to Chaika that there are other girls named Chaika who are also claiming to be Emperor Arthur's daughter. Elsewhere, the wizard Mattheus Callaway and Catboy Leonardo Stola try to track Toru and Akari but instead find Red Chaika's companions. Eventually, the two groups agree to a prisoner exchange and the two Chaikas meet each other face to face. | |||
6 | "Red and White" Transliteration: "Aka to Shiro to" (Japanese: 赤と白と) | May 14, 2014 | |
Cockatrices controlled by Mattheus attack the prisoner exchange, forcing David and Selma Kenworth to escape with Chaika while Toru, Akari and Red Chaika fight. Returning to their vehicle with Red Chaika, where Fredrika is waiting for them, Toru and Akari plan their next meeting. Meanwhile, the Gillette Corps are ordered by the Council of Six Nations to deal with farm riots much to Gillett's frustration. As Toru and Fredrika wait for Akari to return from arranging the next exchange, Red Chaika asks Toru why he is helping White Chaika, and offers him a place in her group. Both groups meet in Perimeral where they exchange hostages and Toru declines Red Chaika's offer. As they leave town, Chaika wonders if she really is Chaika Gaz but Toru doesn't care as what matters is that she's real. Red Chaika and David reappear and suggest that they join forces so that they can find Arthur's remains quicker. But, when Red Chaika reveals there can only be one Chaika Gaz, implying that she wants to kill White Chaika, Toru and Akari fight, forcing them to flee. As they continue, Toru is concerned that they will now have to deal with both the Gillette Corps and the other Chaikas as well. | |||
7 | "The Valley of No Return" Transliteration: "Kaerazu no Tani" (Japanese: 還らずの谷) | May 21, 2014 | |
Guy informs Toru and his group that the Hero, Simon Scania, was last seen at The Valley of No Return four years previously. However, before they can move on the information, they are ambushed by the Gillette Corps and escape using Fredrika's Dragoon form. Arriving at the valley, they notice it is filled with magic fog. When Chaika starts climbing down the valley wall, the others follow. Unexpectedly, the rock gives way beneath them and they fall into the fog. Akari, Chaika and Frederika, safe in a protective barrier, watch as Toru reacts to an illusion: Frederika was only able to find and catch Chaika and Akari in the fog, thus leaving Toru to suffer from the magic. They wait and eventually Toru stumbles into their barrier, freeing him from the influence of the magic. Reunited, the group makes their way along the valley floor where they find and destroy the machine that is creating the magic fog. With the fog cleared, the group finds Simon, now mad and delusional. Simon reveals that he created the fog machine to force people encountering the fog to experience the betrayal he felt when his wife and best friend betrayed him. After getting Arthur's leg from the machine, the group leaves Simon in peace. | |||
8 | "Empire of Consolation" Transliteration: "Nagusame no Teikoku" (Japanese: 慰めの帝国) | May 28, 2014 | |
The head of the Kleeman Agency, Konrad Steinmeitz, ask Albéric to take a break from searching for Chaika Trabant. Albéric decides to research the Emperor Arthur, but the lack of reliable evidence has increased his suspicions about his mission. Elsewhere, Toru and his companions encounter a group who calls themselves the "Neo Gaz Empire', who aim to bring back the Gaz Empire under a blonde haired girl whom they call "Princess Chaika". While Chaika befriends the princess, Toru, Akari and Fredrika have suspicions about the group. That night the princess goes out to rob a nearby mansion but is caught in an ambush. Toru's suspicions are confirmed when they are attacked by Neo Gaz's men. Toru and the girls easily overpower the group who admit that they are actually former Gaz Empire citizens who turned to thievery after being abandoned by the Six Nations. While Toru wants to leave, Chaika begs him to save the fake Princess Chaika, whose real name is Julia. Toru and comrades rescue Julia, for which she and her companions are grateful. Toru is disappointed that even though they were citizens of Gaz, these people know next to nothing about their emperor. Meanwhile, the Council of Six Nations decides to deal with a rebellion by Duke Gillard Gavarni who controls a floating fortress. | |||
9 | "The Value of Memories" Transliteration: "Kioku no Neuchi" (Japanese: 記憶の値うち) | June 4, 2014 | |
Running low on magic fuel for their magic vehicle, Toru's group try to resupply, but find that the local shops have run out due to the people celebrating the Anniversary of the End of the War against the Gaz Empire. Despite Chaika offering to use her memories as a substitute magic fuel, Toru refuses after learning Chaika loses her memories after using them. Meanwhile, the Gillette Corps celebrate the Anniversary in their own way before being summoned for an emergency mission. While Toru's group searches for any shop still selling magic fuel, Toru tells Chaika about his childhood. Toru reveals he and Akari grew up in village called Acura where the people trained to become Saboteurs. Despite his eagerness to join the Gaz Empire War, his mentor Shin tells Toru he is reckless. Toru also tells of Jasmine, a woman who was part of a convoy of traveling merchants who traded with the Acura villagers, whom Toru regarded as a big sister figure. However, one night, the convoy was attacked by bandits who killed the merchants. Despite his efforts, Toru was only able to find a dying Jasmine, who comforted the boy in her last moments. Even though the villagers killed the bandits responsible, Jasmine's death deeply affected Toru, and shaped the man he is now. He tells Chaika to never forget her memories, both good and bad. Finally they find a shop that still has magic fuel to sell. Toru and Chaika learn from the shopkeeper that Duke Gavarni of Iveco has acquired one of Arthur's remains from one of the Eight Heroes and decide to head there. | |||
10 | "Fortress in the Sky" Transliteration: "Ten Tadashi ku Yōsai" (Japanese: 天征く要塞) | June 11, 2014 | |
Arriving at Iveco, Toru realizes that something is strange about town: there are no young girls. There is also an uprising lack of magic fuel given that this region is famous for its mines of magic fuel. They learn from a shopkeeper that Duke Gavarni has been using all of the town's magic fuel to power the floating fortress Soara and that his soldiers are kidnapping the town's girls and taking them to his fortress where they are never seen again. Toru's group sneaks into Soara by having Akari disguise herself as a girl from town. She is taken aboard the Soara and helps Toru, Chaika and Fredrika get in, unaware that Vivi and Zuita have sneaked in as well. Meanwhile, the Council decides to take action against Duke Gavarni by launching their own floating fortress, Stratus. Konrad warns Albéric to get Vivi and Zuita out before the Council forces destroy the Soara. Toru's group tries to find the Soara's magic engine only to be ambushed by the Duke's soldiers. Toru and Chaika escape, Fredrika is impaled and Akari is captured. Akari is brought before the wizard, Grad Lancia, and Ricardo, the Duke's youngest son, who reveals that he killed his father and family himself. Grad uses a mind control spell on Akari to force her to find and fight the others. Toru and Chaika encounter a girl named Layla whose asks for their help in rescuing the women captured by the Duke's men but leads them into a trap. She kidnaps Chaika while Toru faces off against a mind-controlled Akari. | |||
11 | "The False Princess" Transliteration: "Itsuwari no Himegami" (Japanese: 偽りの姫君) | June 18, 2014 | |
Vivi and Zuita rescue Toru and the three of them agree to work together to find the others and escape the Soara. Elsewhere, Layla leads Chaika to a room where she reveals that she knows who Chaika is. As they search the fortress, Toru, Vivi and Zuita learn the horrible truth of what happened to the girls captured by the Duke's men: they were all tortured by Ricardo (to sate his sadistic tendencies), and Grad is using their painful memories as magic fuel for the Soara. Meanwhile, Layla reveals that she too is a Chaika (Blue Chaika) and tells Chaika Trabant the terrible truth that neither she or any of the other Chaikas are the real Chaika Gaz. The Chaikas were created and implanted with false memories of being Arthur's daughter. Each girl was given a different personality and skills, and above all, the overriding need to gather Arthur's remains. Chaika refuses to believe Layla, who then says that after she learned the truth, she chose to follow her own path and has aided Ricardo in restarting a war to avenge herself against those who would have used her. Fredrika arrives to rescue Chaika only to be killed by one of Grad's abominations. Elsewhere, Albéric tries to convince the captain of the Council Forces to delay his attack so that his comrades can escape but when he refuses to do so, Albéric threatens his life. Cornered by a mind-controlled Akari and the Duke's men, Vivi and Zuita try to hold them off while Toru goes to rescue Chaika. | |||
12 | "Those Left Behind" Transliteration: "Nokosareshi Mono" (Japanese: 遺されしもの) | June 25, 2014 | |
The commander of the Stratus is unfazed by Albéric's pleas for time and orders the Stratus to fire on the Soara. As the Soara and Stratus fire at each other, Zuita is able to free Akari from Grad's mind control. The continued battle between the sky fortresses has severely damaged the Stratus and caused the Soara's cannon to misfire, with Albéric and the unfortunate ground forces of the Alliance caught in the misaimed blast. The only trace of Albéric that Leonardo is able to find is his sword. Despite the revelations of her true origins, Chaika resolves to continue her quest to gather's Arthur's remains. Unable to aim Soara's cannon, Layla suggests to Ricardo that they crash the Soara into Cadwell, the capital of the Wiemac kingdom. This plan is thwarted by the Stratus which rams the Soara, sending both of the fortresses into the lake below. On their way to rejoin Toru, Akari, Vivi and Zuita discover that Fredrika, having created a second body, is still alive. They split up to search and Akari heads to the bridge where she kills Grad, ending his control of his minions. Chaika, wandering the fortress in search of her companions, stumbles upon Layla and Ricardo and is about to suffer the same fate as the girls from the town when an injured Toru rescues Chaika, and they flee after retrieving Arthur's left leg. Layla, angered that Chaika has decided to continue her quest despite learning the truth, shoots Toru with a crossbow. She is about to shoot Chaika but is distracted by Guy, allowing Chaika to shoot her with her Gundo sniper rifle. Chaika rescues Toru from drowning, and with the help of Fredrika in her dragoon form, she, Toru, Akari, Vivi and Zuita escape the Soara before it sinks to the bottom. Layla, seriously injured, makes her way to a dying Ricardo so that they can die together. On rejoining their companions, Vivi and Zuita learn of Albéric's death. Vivi screams in grief and her hair and eyes turn white and purple, respectively. Back at their vehicle, Chaika reveals her true origins to Toru, Akari and Fredrika as well as her determination to continue her quest. The others agree to help her and they drive off to their next destination. |
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1 | "The Princess Who Gathers the Remains" Transliteration: "Itai Atsumeru Kōjo" (Japanese: 遺体あつめる皇女) | October 8, 2014 | |
During the last days of the war, Emperor Arthur Gaz orders one of his official to be in charge of a secret project codenamed Chaika. A month after the events of the Soara, Toru, Akari, Chaika duels with Lady Claudia Dodge, another of the Eight Heroes and her men but Chaika loses to Claudia. Despite this, Claudia allows Chaika and her companions to stay at her estate. Toru and the others learn after the war, Claudia hired out of work soldiers to her vineyard and despite being one of the Heroes, she is willing to give Arthur's heart to Chaika if she and her companions beat her in a duel tomorrow. Taking Claudia's advice, Chaika tries to learn to shorten her incantations in order to fire her spells faster. Meanwhile, with the Council now taking the Chaika threat more seriously, Konrad orders the Gillette Corps to continue their mission with Nikolai promoted as Captain of the Corps after Albéric's death. Elsewhere, Vivi is confronted by Guy and refuses to believe him when he tells her she is another Chaika albeit one that did not transform completely. Despite being a half-Chaika, Guy believes Vivi can still help in gathering Arthur's remains. The next day, despite being unable to learn short incantations, Chaika insist on beating Claudia fair and square as she, Toru and Akari battle Claudia in their duel. | |||
2 | "A Wizard's Pride" Transliteration: "Uizādo no kyōji" (Japanese: ウイザードの矜持) | October 15, 2014 | |
As Chaika, Toru and Akari try to find a way to beat Claudia, elsewhere, Red Chaika and her group defeats another Hero, Glen Donkervoort, acquiring Arthur's right arm and heading towards an island as suggested by their informant Guy. Eventually, Chaika manages to shorten her spell and defeat Claudia after the latter is distracted by Fredrika in her cat form. Claudia congratulates the group by hosting a tea party to celebrate. Meanwhile, Konrad's secretary Karen Bombardier gives Vivi Albéric's investigation notes on Emperor Arthur before rejoining the Corps with Albéric's sword in hand. Back at Claudia's estate, she reveals to Toru's group why she has no interest with Arthur's remains and gave hers to Chaika and tells her secret. During the end of the war, the Eight Heroes learn one of Arthur's officials escape with Arthur's hidden fortune and most of his magic research work to a secret island, and despite the Council attempts, they could not find the island or Arthur's magic research. After giving Toru's group the location of the other Heroes, Claudia bids them farewell. Soon Toru's group learns Red Chaika has already claim one of Arthur's remains from Glen while Chaika wants to find the secret island to learn about her origins. | |||
3 | "The Harbor of Phantom Dreams Recollected" Transliteration: "Meimu oboeshi minato" (Japanese: 迷夢覚えし港) | October 22, 2014 | |
Arriving at a seaside town ruled by Clay Morgan of the Eight Heroes, Toru and group disguise themselves as a comedy troupe to enter Clay's mansion. When Clay learns the groups attentions and sees Chaika, he runs away screaming while Toru and Akari chases him. Chaika tries to find clues of where the secret island is which she finds a lead at the Evil Sea. Toru and Akari find and defeat Clay, learning he's been scared of Emperor Arthur after fighting him and Chaika since she was beheaded by the leader of the Eight Heroes, King Stephan Hartgen, so he gives up Arthur's ears so he won't have to see Chaika or the remains again. After acquiring Arthur's ears, Guy appears and tells Toru and Akari to head to the secret island but both of them are now wary since Guy knew about the other Chaikas. Meanwhile, Shin informs his master Stephan that all of Arthur's remains will soon be arriving which Stephan promises his daughters Irina and Alina they will get to see it. Meanwhile, Toru and Chaika have an argument as the latter wants to find the secret island which the former refuses believing it's too dangerous which leads her to firing Toru. After Akari convinces Toru to make amends with Chaika, they learn too late that Chaika has left to find the island with Fredrika. Both of them chase after her on Clay's ship where Red Chaika and her group have sneaked in but the ship is sunken by a Kraken. Chaika and Fredrika finally found the secret island but are attack by Dragoons. | |||
4 | "The Writhing Island" Transliteration: "Ugomeku shima" (Japanese: 蠢く島) | October 29, 2014 | |
Chaika, Red Chaika and her companions manage to make it to the island safely only to be later captured by demihuman led by Kiril under orders from his master Viktor Izhmash. As Akari is reunited with Fredrika, an imprisoned Chaika befriends one of the demihumans named Ursula before she is rescued by Toru who manages to sneak into the island's facility. Toru and Chaika finds themselves in an underground lake filled with the bodies of dead Fayla and a dying intelligent Kraken. The Kraken reveals how magic was first used by Fayla before humans did until Arthur Gaz revolutionized the use of magic and Viktor was trying to mass produced clones of demihumans and Fayla. The Kraken also warns Chaika that her quest to gather Arthur's remains will lead to something terrible in the future. Soon, Kiril captures Chaika and Toru. Meanwhile, the Gillette Corps learns that floating fortresses were made much earlier by the Gaz Empire during the war. Toru, White Chaika and Red Chaika are brought to Viktor in lab with a mysterious blue haired girl in a capsule. Viktor reveals the awful truth to the Chaikas that there never was a Princess Chaika and all of the girls who claim and look like Chaika are actually young girls orphaned from the war who were brainwashed and given skills as part of Arthur's plan to gather his remains. While Red Chaika refuses to believe it, White Chaika, remembering what Layla told her before, falls into despair after finally accepting the truth as Viktor plans to dissect the girls for his experiments. | |||
5 | "The Emperor's Fortune" Transliteration: "Kōtei no isan" (Japanese: 皇帝の遺産) | November 5, 2014 | |
As the Chaikas are taken away, Viktor orders Kiril and Ursula to be killed, seeing no use for them now that he can mass produce clones of demihumans. Toru and both Chaikas escape their captors which both girls decide to join forces to escape the island and rescue the blue haired girl, Niva Lada. When White Chaika asks Red Chaika how she feels about the truth of their origins, the latter refuses to believe it as its up to her to decide whether its true or not. Elsewhere Akari and Fredrika rescues David, Selma, Kiril and Ursula where they agree to work together to escape the island and stop Viktor. Later, Toru rescues the Chaikas and Niva from Viktor's clone army and escape outside where they reunite with the others. As Viktor heads to a magical tower to mind control his clone army personally, Toru and the others fight their way to the tower so White Chaika can try destroy the tower. However, her gundo is not powerful enough to break the tower's shield. Niva decides to help Chaika, revealing she is in fact a human gundo when she turns into a giant gundo cannon which Chaika uses to destroy the tower, killing Viktor in the process. With the tower gone and no one to give them orders, the clones will soon die and Toru, Kiril and Red Chaika and their companions decide to leave from the island separately and peacefully. Meanwhile, the Council of Six nations are suspicious of Stephan Hartgen hosting a fighting tournament where the winner gets his remains of Arthur Gaz so they send the Gillette Corps to investigate. | |||
6 | "The Castle of Madness" Transliteration: "Kyōki no shiro" (Japanese: 狂気の城) | November 12, 2014 | |
As Toru and his companions head to the Principality of Hartgen to get the last of Arthur's remains, the Gillette Corps arrived at the Secret Island and learn from Kiril and Ursula what happened on the island before they arrive. At Hartgen, Red Chaika and her companions enter the tournament after defeating other contestants in the preliminary rounds. Toru and his companions also enter the tournament as well, in order to win Arthur's remains should they fail to steal it. Zita and Matthäus meet with King Stephan in order to convince him to cancel the tournament but to their shock, not only do they discover the King's daughters, Alina and Irina, are also Chaikas, but the King refuses to cancel the tournament. Meanwhile, Vivi and Nikolai enter the tournament as well where they are shock that the tournament allows the contestants to kill. Guy visits Albéric, whom latter is revealed to have lost his memories, that Guy rescued him because of the hatred in his heart. As most of the contestants rest for the night, Toru and Akari attempts to sneak in the King's castle to steal the remains while Chaika sees Niva leaving with Guy voluntarily. | |||
7 | "Black Agenda" Transliteration: "Kuroi omowaku" (Japanese: 黒い思惑) | November 19, 2014 | |
Toru and Akari attempt to infiltrate the castle in order to steal the remains but their mentor Shin appears, forcing them to escape. Meanwhile, Guy brings Niva to Stephan Hartgen, who is eager to start a new war, as he believes that warriors like him can be only worthy in combat. The next day, the tournament begins, and while facing other contestants, Toru and Chaika meet Vivi and Nikolai, but instead of fighting, they decide to share information instead, and learn about the twin Chaikas that are always beside Hartgen. Little they know that the twin Chaikas answer to a third one, who has her own agenda. As the Council of the Six Nations discuss if they should launch an attack on Hartgen, Konrad is informed about the situation there while the pairs composed of Chaika and Toru, Boghdan and David, Akari and Fredrika, and Vivi and Nikolai advance to the next stage of the tournament, oblivious to the fact that Stephan is aware of their presence and is making arrangements for them to fight each other. | |||
8 | "The Bells of Contention" Transliteration: "Tōsō no kane" (Japanese: 闘争の鐘) | November 26, 2014 | |
Chaika, Toru, Vivi and Nikolai continue into the tournament but are arrested by Hartgen guards supposedly for cheating and force into a tunnel. Akari and Fredrika sneak into the castle to steal the Stephan's remains only to encounter a group of Chaika warriors led by Shin and captured. Meanwhile, Zita, Leonardo and Mattheus rescues one of King Stephan's advisors who revealed how the King became depressed after the war ended until Black Chaika arrived and promises him to bring the war back. Chaika, Toru, Vivi and Nikolai arrived in an arena watched over by Alina, Irina and Black Chaika, who orders them to fight certain opponents. Vivi and Nikolai are forced to fight Albéric, who doesn't recognize his comrades. Vivi is forced to chop Albéric's right hand to stop from killing Nikolai. Thanks to the pain, Albéric regains his memories. Next, Chaika and Toru fight Red Chaika and David but after David gets seriously injured, Red Chaika admits defeat. Despite winning, Black Chaika demands Toru and Chaika the rest of Arthur's remains to her. After a severe beating by Shin and Chaika captured, Toru is told to bring the rest of the remains if he wants to see Chaika again. | |||
9 | "The Throne That Invites War" Transliteration: "Ikusa maneku gyokuza" (Japanese: 戦まねく玉座) | December 3, 2014 | |
As Toru, Akari and Fredrika are kicked out of the castle, Red Chaika decides to give her remains to Chaika's group only to learn from Selma that Hartgen's men attack and stole if from her. Zita and Leonardo reunite with Vivi and Nikolai and learns Albéric is alive. With Fredrika weaken by Shin's poison, Toru and Akari have no choice but to give the rest of the remains to save Chaika. After informing his superiors on what happened, The Gillette Squad are ordered to take down King Stephan before any of the Six Nations attack, which will reignite the war. Toru and Akari arrive in Stephan throne room where Stephan, Alina, Irina, Black Chaika, Niva, Guy, Shin and Chaika awaits them with Albéric sneaking in. With all of the remains gathered, Black Chaika "consumes" the remains and starts giving birth with Guy's help, who reveals he is a magic mechanism to ensure the remains would be gathered. Black Chaika gives birth to a boy resembling Guy but with Fayla bodyparts who reveals himself to be none other than Arthur Gaz himself. Arthur thanks Black Chaika for using Fayla parts in her to resurrect him and kills Stephan with a spell without an incantation much to everyone shock. As Arthur sits on the throne and grows older, he explains to Chaika the truth that she and her "sisters" were never really his real daughters as the Chaikas were based on his mistress who was killed by Stephan during the war which he uses as a basis for all of the Chaikas looks. Arthur reveals his goal was to gather large amounts of magic fuel using several flying fortresses hidden in space to collect from people's emotions with war bringing out the most of their emotions. So he allowed himself to be killed and his remains scattered while the Chaikas fought to get them so the dread and fear about him would spread throughout the continent. To demonstrate his power, Arthur and Niva easily destroys a flying fortress sent to attack Hartgen. | |||
10 | "The Girl Who Carries the Gundo" Transliteration: "Gando ninau shōjo" (Japanese: 機杖担う少女) | December 10, 2014 | |
After destroying several of the Six Nations flying fortresses, Arthur heads to one of his space fortress along with Shin to begin his plans. Toru decides to make a pact with Fredrika by becoming a Dragoon Cavalier in order to fight Arthur while Akari, Vivi, Leonardo, Red Chaika and her companions face off against Black Chaika and her minions. Assisted by Chaika and her Gundo sniper rifle to enter the space fortress, Toru battles against Shin before finally defeating him. Red Chaika faces off against Black Chaika before giving her the finishing blow, ending the latter controls of Alina, Irina, and the Chaika warriors. Finally facing Arthur, the Emperor beckons Toru to join his side since he believes war is what all of humanity wants but Toru refuses and he and Fredrika are swiftly beaten. Before Arthur can kill them, Chaika casts a shield to protect Toru and Fredrika. Arthur tries to kill Chaika using Niva but Niva refuses and joins Chaika's side. With no more magic bullets to use, Chaika uses her memories as magic fuel for Niva's Cannon Gundo form where they finally kill Arthur and stopping his plans before Chaika loses conscious. In the aftermath, Albéric, now the new chief of the Kleeman Agency, reports to the Council of Six Nations that Arthur's plans were thwarted, Niva is under their custody and claims all of the Chaikas died. Elsewhere, Toru, Akari, Chaika, Fredrika and Red Chaika now live together where Toru helps a recovering Chaika. | |||
11 (OVA) | Transliteration: "Hitsugi no Chaika: Nerawareta Hitsugi/Yomigaeru Iseki" (Japanese: 棺姫のチャイカ ねらわれた棺 / 蘇る遺跡) | March 10, 2015 |
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