One day, he has a fateful encounter with Benio Adashino, a girl around his age and a well known exorcist from the east. According to prophecy, Rokuro and Benio are the 'Twin Star Exorcists', and are destined to marry and have a child known as the Miko, which will be the ultimate exorcist, capable of cleansing all evil spirits, or Kegare, from the world and ending the war that has lasted over a millennium. Media [ ] Manga [ ] Yoshiaki Sukeno began serializing the manga in 's magazine on October 4, 2013.
A special chapter was published in in April 2016. Licensed the series for publication in North America, with the first volume released on July 7, 2015. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN English release date English ISBN 1 February 4, 2014 July 7, 2015. Main article: An television adaptation was announced on the January 2016 cover of Jump Square on December 4, 2015. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by, with animation. Additionally, Shishō Igarashi is serving as assistant director, Kikuko Sadakata is designing the characters, and Itsuko Takeda is serving as chief animation director.
The series' first opening theme song is 'Valkyrie -Ikusa Otome-' ( Valkyrie -戦乙女-, lit. 'Valkyrie -War Maiden-') by, while the first ending theme is 'Eyes' ( アイズ, Aizu).
The second opening theme, 'Re:Call', is performed by the, while the second ending theme, 'Yadori-boshi' ( 宿り星) is performed by the two-man group Itowokashi (Kashitarō Itō and Ryō Miyada). The third opening theme, 'sync' is performed by lol, while the third ending theme 'Hide & Seek' is performed by Girlfriend. The fourth opening theme, 'Kanadeai' is performed by Itowokoashi, while the fourth ending theme 'Hotarubi' is performed by Wagakki Band. The series began airing on April 6, 2016 on and other stations, and later on. Animax Asia aired the series with English Subtitles. Is the series worldwide outside of Asia, and will also release the series on Blu-ray + DVD with an English dub. Part 1 (Episodes 1-13) has been released on July 24, 2018 with a collector's box to store the later three parts, and Part 2 (Episodes 14-26) on September 18, 2018.
Part 3 (Episodes 27-40) will be released on November 13, 2018, and Part 4 (Episodes 41-50) on January 8, 2019. Chinese streaming site has listed the series with fifty episodes. The anime is licensed in North America by (with home video distribution from ) and in the UK. Light novel [ ] As of August 2016, three light novel adaptations have been published and released by in Japan. The light novels are titled in the following order; Sōsei no Onmyōji: Tenen Jakko (双星の陰陽師 ―天縁若虎), Sōsei no Onmyōji: Shiga Kenbyaku (双星の陰陽師 ―士牙繭闢), and Sōsei no Onmyōji: Santen Haja (双星の陰陽師 ―三天破邪). Each novel features a back-story from the perspective of different characters from the main series, serving as prologues to the main story. The light novels are written by Hajime Tanaka and supervised by Yoshiaki Sukeno.
Japanese release date Japanese ISBN 1 August 4, 2016 2 March 3, 2017 3 December 4, 2018 Spin-off manga [ ] As of March 2017, two spin-off manga volumes have been published and released by in Japan. The first spin-off volume, Sōsei no Onmyōji: SD Nyoritsuryō!! (双星の陰陽師 SD如律令!!) is a comdey spin-off comic, written by koppy (Twitter: @koppy1122) and supervised by Yoshiaki Sukeno. It is published at the official website of the original manga, as well as the magazine.