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Gate 7 (ゲート セブン, Gēto Sebun) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It was originally published as a one-shot in December 2010, and later began serialization in the March 2011 issue of Shueisha's monthly shōnen manga magazine Jump Square. It concerns a young student who visits a shrine in Kyoto and meets a beautiful childlike female-looking warrior who invites him to fight supernatural enemies. The manga is licensed in English in North America by Dark Horse Comics.[2]
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| Gate 7 | |
Cover of the first volume as published by Shueisha featuring Hana | |
| ゲート セブン (Gēto Sebun) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fantasy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Clamp |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Jump Comics SQ. |
| Magazine | Jump Square |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 2011 – February 2013[lower-alpha 1] |
| Volumes | 4 |
Gate 7 follows Chikahito Takamoto, a secondary school student whose strong interest in history brings him to Kyoto, where he meets a beautiful childlike warrior named Hana, who fights supernatural enemies with the aid of Tachibana and Sakura, two young men with magical powers of their own. The trio of Hana, Tachibana, and Sakura are members of the Urashichiken Hanamachi, a secret society dedicated to waging battle against otherworldly creatures that appear in Kyoto.
As Chikahito soon learns, the Urashichiken's battles go back to the Sengoku era in Japan, when warlords and other key figures attempted to defeat their rivals by forming blood contracts with powerful spiritual beings known as Oni. Since then, many of masters of the Oni have reincarnated in the present, with the Urashichiken's current leader being the reincarnation of Toyotomi Hidetsugu, and they struggle to find the long-missing body of Oda Nobunaga in order to obtain the most powerful Oni of all. Chikahito inexplicably finds himself in the midst of the otherworldly spaces where the battles are fought as he begins his new life in Kyoto.
Gate 7 debuted as a one-shot in the monthly shōnen manga magazine Jump Square in the December 2010 issue,[3] before returning to the magazine as a serial in the March 2011 issue.[4] Four bound volumes have been compiled and published by Shueisha from June 3, 2011, to February 4, 2013.[5][6]
Dark Horse Comics licensed the series for an English-language translation in North America and published the four volumes from October 19, 2011, to July 17, 2013.[7][8] It has also been licensed in Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.[1]
In 2013, Clamp announced the series would go on a short break due to a member's illness.[9] However, as of 2014 the series was officially announced to be on indefinite hiatus, and was removed from Jump Square's online catalog.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 3, 2011[5] | 978-4-08-870251-3 | October 19, 2011[7] | 978-1-59582-806-4 |
| 2 | November 4, 2011[10] | 978-4-08-870344-2 | February 29, 2012[11] | 978-1-59582-807-1 |
| 3 | May 2, 2012[12] | 978-4-08-870410-4 | August 29, 2012[13] | 978-1-59582-902-3 |
| 4 | February 4, 2013[6] | 978-4-08-870544-6 | July 17, 2013[8] | 978-1-59582-961-0 |
Gate 7 received mixed reception during its publication run. In Japan, only volumes 3 and 4 ranked on Oricon's comic ranking charts, peaking at fourth place[14] and fifth place[15] respectively, for one week each. Total sales for volume 3 came out to 186,288 copies,[16] while total sales for volume 4 dropped to 174,362 copies.[17] Praise was given to the beautiful and highly detailed art style, akin to Clamp's older series RG Veda, but many critics pointed out that scenes were often too cluttered and sometimes hard to read. However the majority of non-Japanese readers mainly criticized the amount of historical Japanese knowledge that was required in order to understand the plot and character references. Lesley Aeschliman of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote, "The only drawback to this series is the fact that a reader does need to have at least a little bit of knowledge of Japanese history in order to truly understand some of the concepts introduced".[18] Though Dark Horse Comics included a glossary of terms and translations in the back of the book, Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network wrote, "[F]lipping to that glossary every time a new Japanese word is introduced (or repeated, if you're short on memory) is annoying and detracts from the experience of reading a story. While their commitment to authenticity is admirable, in this case it is a detraction."[19] Silverman gave an overall rating of C+.[19]
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