Tokyo Ravens

About the story

The story follows events surrounding Harutora Tsuchimikado, a boy born into the Tsuchimikado family. "I will become your shikigami, always stay by your side, and protect you forever." Long ago, a little boy made that promise to a girl, before he even understood what the "future" meant. During the war, the Imperial Japanese Army reestablished the Onmyo Agency to apply sorcery to military purposes and appointed Yakou Tsuchimikado, the brilliant head of the Tsuchimikado family and a descendant of the legendary onmyoji Abe no Seimei, to lead it. He successfully reformed Japan's magical world and became the father of modern sorcery. Near the end of the war, the losing army demanded that Yakou carry out a large-scale ritual to reverse its fortunes. The ritual failed: Yakou died performing it, and Tokyo's spiritual energy was violently disrupted, leaving the capital overrun with supernatural beings. After the war, the agency became the Onmyo Bureau, responsible for spiritual disasters throughout Japan, mainly in Tokyo. Though descended from a renowned line of onmyoji, Harutora has no aptitude for their arts and lives an ordinary life. One summer, he meets his childhood friend Natsume, a girl who is also the family's next head. The two once made a promise but have since followed separate paths. Their reunion sets the Tsuchimikado family's history in motion, gradually leading him toward the future he once glimpsed—a future full of twists and turns. Ravens dance in the darkness in this fantasy of yin and yang that transcends space and time!