Kamunagara


Kamunagara: Rebirth of the Demonslayer is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Yamamura. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahosha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from 1999 to 2006, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. In North America, it was licensed by Media Blasters, who only released the first six volumes.

Plot

Hitaka Kugaya, a former kendo champion who often has a weird recurring dream about a mysterious woman, seems to be the only one in his class who is not interested in Takemi Kanata; he meets her in the music room, while she is playing Beethoven's The Tempest, and she warns him that a tempest is coming.
While going back home from school, he is followed by a dog, and when he gives him something to eat it opens a huge mouth, revealing itself as a demon. At the very last moment, when his hand is already in the dog's mouth, in it appears a sword, which splits the beast in half; after that, Takemi appears, and gets rid of the body with a strange mirror. Crying, she calls him Tohma, and reveals him that the beasts are "invaders from another world", and they're "guardians of the seal": the two worlds are separated by a seal, but the seal gets breached periodically, and the clan of the sword has the mission to stop the invasion.
At first he doubts Takemi's words, as he does not remember anything, but when he comes back home he finds his aunt murdered by a crow demon, and he is badly injured; when he awakes in a hospital, there is already no way out for him.

Characters

; Hitaka Kugaya
; Kanata Takemi
; Haruka Narugami
;Asami Sakura
;Kiju Togashi
; Tsubasa Saino
; Yukue Noume
; Mizuha Kagusa
; Takashi Amano

Publication

Written and illustrated by, Kamunagara was serialized in Shōnen Gahosha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from 1999 to 2006. Shōnen Gahosha collected its chapters in ten tankōbon volumes, released from August 2000 to April 2006; an additional gaiden volume was released in April 2005.
In North America, the manga was licensed by Media Blasters; they only released the first six volumes from October 2004 to September 2006, before announcing in 2007 that they had canceled its publication.