Zenki

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Zenki


caption =
ja_name = 鬼神童子ZENKI
ja_name_trans = Kishin Dōji Zenki
genre = ActionInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Kikuhide Tani
illustrator = Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
publisher = Shueisha
demographic = Shōnen
magazine = Monthly Shōnen Jump
first = 1992
last = 1996
volumes = 12Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Junichi Nishimura
studio = Studio Deen
network = flagicon|Japan TV Tokyo
flagicon|Taiwan China Television, Super TV
flagicon|Philippines ABS-CBN (1997), Hero TV
flagicon|Chile Etc...TV
first = 9 January 1995
last = 25 December 1995
episodes = 51

Nihongo|"Zenki"|鬼神童子ZENKI|Kishin Dōji Zenki|lit. "Demon Child Zenki" is a Japanese manga series written by Kikuhide Tani and illustrated by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa. It was serealized in the Shueisha publication, "Monthly Shonen Jump" from 1992 to 1996. "Zenki" was adapted into a fifty-one episode anime television series in 1995 by Studio Deen and also spawned five video games. Enoki Films handles the English language version of the anime.

ynopsis

Enno Ozuno, Master of the Enno temple used the demon guardian spirit Zenki to defeat the demon goddess Karuma. After defeating Karuma, he later sealed Zenki away in a pillar until needed again.

Centuries later, his descendant, a school girl named Chiaki Enno (役 小明, "Enno Chiaki", or Cherry Night in some dubs) is able to free Zenki, although the demon currently has the form of a brattish demon child. To transform this extremely defiant demon into the form that made him useful by her ancestor, she uses a bracelet that appeared on her wrist when servants of Karuma broke the seal that imprisoned a seed of Karuma. Zenki appears because the seeds of Karuma (which look like eyeballs) start appearing and turning people into monsters and Zenki needed again to eradicate this menace.

ZENKI

Zenki appears to be a child who transforms into his true and powerful demon form. In the early episodes, Chiaki needed to use the bracelet to transform Zenki into his true form. In the final episode, however, Zenki's anger allows him to transform into his true self.

With the help of the bracelet and Goki, another powerful demon spirit, Chiaki is able to transform Zenki into a super powerful demon spirit. The bracelet, however, is no longer necessary when Chiaki attains all of her full powers in the final episode of Zenki.

Zenki likes to eat the seeds of Karuma because for him, they are delicious.

ZENKI Manga

12 vols. Monthly shōnen jump

Reedition: 7 vols

ZENKI OVA

1997. 30 minutes

ZENKI video games

*Snes: 3 games
*Gamegear: 1 game
*Pc engine: 1 game

External links

* [http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/zenki.htm Official site]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/zenkimanga Fan site with ZENKI MANGA]