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Maken-ki (2011)

Maken-ki poster
Original title
マケン姫っ!
Genre
harem, romantic comedy anime and manga
Country
Japan
Length
2 seasons, 22 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 57 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy enrolls in a school where students use magical weapons called Maken. He ends up living in a dorm with multiple girls and gets drawn into their battles and romantic antics.

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What happens

Maken-ki! (マケン姫っ!, Makenki'!) is a Japanese manga series by Hiromitsu Takeda. It was published by Fujimi Shobo's magazine Dragon Age Pure, and later Monthly Dragon Age, after the former magazine ceased publishing. It has been adapted into an anime series by AIC that aired on Tokyo MX in the fall of 2011. It is licensed in North America by Crunchyroll (also known as Funimation until 2022) under the title Maken-ki! Battling Venus. Two OVA episodes animated by AIC and Xebec were released at February 29, 2012 and September 25, 2013. They were bundled with the eighth and eleventh volumes of the manga respectively. A second season, titled Maken-ki! Two (マケン姫っ!通, Makenki! Tsū), was animated by Xebec and aired in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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