Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia Cover Volume 7
黄昏乙女×アムネジア (Tasogare Otome × Amunejia)
Genre	Harem, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
Manga
Written by	Maybe
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Gangan Joker
Original run	April 22, 2009 – ongoing
Volumes	8 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Shin Ōnuma
Written by	Katsuhiko Takayama
Music by	Keigo Hoashi, Ryuuichi Takada
Studio	Silver Link
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Network	Tokyo MX, Chiba TV, TV Kanagawa
Original run	April 8, 2012 – June 24, 2012
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (黄昏乙女×アムネジア Tasogare Otome × Amunejia^?) is a manga written and illustrated by Maybe (めいびい Meibii^?). It was published by Square Enix and serialized on Monthly Gangan Joker magazine on April 22, 2009. An anime adaptation by Silver Link aired between April and June 2012. It has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.

Plot

Story

The story revolves around a first-year middle school student, Teiichi Niiya who had just enrolled at Seikyou Private Academy. When he gets lost in one of the school's old building, he meets a girl named Yuko Kanoe who reveals herself as a ghost with no memories. Teiichi then decides to investigate her death by looking through the school's seven mysteries revolving around her. Throughout the story, Teiichi and Yuko discover the truth about these ghost stories and help those who are troubled.

Characters

Teiichi Niiya (新谷 貞一 Niiya Teiichi^?)

Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga

The main protagonist. He joins the Paranormal Investigations club made by Yuko in order to find more information on Yuko's death. As he interacts with Yuko, the two eventually fall in love with each other.

Yuko Kanoe (庚 夕子 Kanoe Yūko^?)

Voiced by: Yumi Hara

Mainly known as "Yuko-san" from the ghost stories in the school, she is the infamous ghost of Seikyou Academy and the President of the Paranormal Investigations club. She is cheerful and enjoys tricking people, but gets very jealous and angry when a girl tries to get close to Teiichi. She is flirtatious towards Teiichi, often teasing him and does not mind to have her "body" being seen by him, except her skeleton. The various ghost stories of the school are related to Yuko in some ways.

Momoe Okonogi (小此木 ももえ Okonogi Momoe^?)

 

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen

A member of the Paranormal Investigations Club. She is indebted to Teiichi for saving her from the Underground demon legend (which was fabricated by Yuko) and looks for many ghost stories in the school to help the club. She is the only member of the club that cannot see Yuko despite learning of her existences. She admires Teiichi and likes him.

Kirie Kanoe (庚 霧江 Kanoe Kirie^?)

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

A member of Paranormal Investigations club and Yuko's grandniece. She is the only character other than Teiichi to be able to see Yuko and has a fear of ghosts. She originally believed that Yuko was an evil spirit until she learns the truth that she wasn't. Kirie resembles Yuko albeit with short hair as her grandmother is Yuko's younger sister. She has some feelings for Teiichi.

Media

Manga

The manga has been serialized in Monthly Gangan Joker on April 22, 2009 and as of December 2012, eight compiled volumes have been released.

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	August 22, 2009	ISBN 978-4757526556
2	January 22, 2010	ISBN 978-4757527799
3	September 22, 2010	ISBN 978-4757529397
4	January 22, 2011	ISBN 978-4757531284
5	July 22, 2011	ISBN 978-4757532939
6	March 22, 2012	ISBN 978-4757535305
7	April 21, 2012	ISBN 978-4757535695
8	November 22, 2012	ISBN 978-4757537927

CD

A drama CD of the manga was published by Frontier Works and released on July 22, 2010.

Anime

An anime adaptation by Silver Link was announced in the January issue of Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Joker and aired in Japan between April and June 2012 with 12 episodes^[1][2] with a 13th episode included in the 6th DVD/Blu-ray volume. It was also simulcasted by Crunchyroll.^[3] The opening theme is "Choir Jail" by Konomi Suzuki whilst the ending theme is "Karandorie" (カランドリエ Karandorie^?) by Aki Okui with a special version sung by Yumi Hara in episode 11. The anime has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.^[4]

Alternative Titles

Information

^L represents licensing company

Episode list

No.	Title	Original airdate
01	"Ghost Maiden" "Yūrei Otome" (幽霊乙女)	April 8, 2012
In the school's Paranormal Investigations Club, Momoe Okonogi does her work, blissfully unaware of the presence of the club's ghost president, Yuko Kanoe, who can only be seen by the two other club members Teiichi Niiya and Kirie Kanoe. After investigating an allegedly 'haunted' food elevator, which is revealed to be Yuko's doing, Momoe brings everyone to the top of a hill where a memorial to Yuko is found. After Momoe and Kirie leave, Teiichi finds a bell underneath the memorial grave.
02	"Encounter with the Maiden" "Kaikō Otome" (邂逅乙女)	April 15, 2012
In a flashback into how Teiichi, Yuko and Momoe met, Teiichi finds himself lost in one of the school's old buildings, where he stumbles upon Yuko whom introduces herself as the ghost of the school. While he tries to understand how she came to be, he and Yuko want to start the Paranormal Investigations Club. Momoe asks him to help her with a paranormal problem. Momoe explains she played a game called "hide the demon" which only ends if you reveal the doll you use, but the doll mysteriously disappeared and she fears she will be killed. In truth, the doll was actually taken by Yuko, but she warns Teiichi that Momoe's paranoia will kill her if they do not solve it. In order to end her fear, Yuko and Teiichi play pretend where the latter performs an exorcism on the possessed doll in front of Momoe.
03	"Black Sunset Maiden" "Konkoku Otome" (昏黒乙女)	April 22, 2012
Teiichi receives a letter referring to Yuko, which leads him to meet Kirie. She warns him that Yuko might be an evil spirit planning to spirit him away. As Kirie points out what is thought to be Yuko's true form, a walking corpse, she reveals that Yuko is her grandmother's late sister. Kirie tries to target Yuko's remains but is scared off by Yuko. Afterwards, Teiichi overcomes his fear and manages to reform Yuko in his desired image. He then joins Kirie in inspecting Yuko's corpse for clues of her past, finding a shrine near her corpse. Realizing the evil spirit isn't Yuko but something else, Kirie decides to join the Paranormal Investigations Club to get to the bottom of the mystery.
04	"Daybreak Maiden" "Futsugyō Otome" (払暁乙女)	April 29, 2012
The Paranormal Investigations Club have a summer break sleepover at the old school building, to investigate another ghost story. In truth, Kirie wants to find the evil shadow ghost she saw before. Yuko and Teiichi spend the night together exploring the building, while she reveals two of the ghost stories of the school, the Ghost of the Old Night Duty Room and Rock of Curses, were actual pranks by her. She later brings Teiichi to her favorite spot when seeing the sunrise, and is glad they are spending time together. Meanwhile, the shadow ghost appears before a sleeping Kirie.
05	"Aspiration Maiden" "Shōkei Otome" (憧憬乙女)	May 6, 2012
As the club prepares a haunted house for the school culture festival, Kirie becomes annoyed with Yuko and Teiichi's friskiness and storms out with Momoe, only to get the both of them lost. As they look around the building, Momoe gets to know more about Kirie's sensitive side, and together they decide to explore the festival. Later, Kirie gets roped into a cosplay café and proves to be a hit. After the festival ends, as Kirie becomes frustrated after comparing herself to Yuko, she enters the haunted house and sees her fears of not being able to love herself. However, she becomes relieved after she learns Teiichi's reasons for liking Yuko and how he also sees Kirie as a girl.
06	"Revenging Maiden" "Fukushū Otome" (復讐乙女)	May 13, 2012
As the school festival continues, the Paranormal Investigations club learns about a rumor about Akahito, a masked blood-covered monster that kills anyone who stays late during school as a sacrifice. But the rumor turns out to be fact when Akahito is spotted during the festival. A student named Yuko Kirishima claims she was attacked by Akahito, which sends the superstitious students hysteric. However, Teiichi discovers Kirishima was behind the Akahito story, as she wants to destroy ghosts stories, because the students bully her for having the same name as the ghost Yuko. Kirishima makes a claim to her superstitious friends that the only way to stop Akahito from killing them is to sacrifice Yuko the ghost, but paranoid and hysteric, they intend to sacrifice Kirishima, believing she and Yuko are the same person. The club stops the superstitious students by having Yuko disguise herself as Akahito where she chases the students out for offering the wrong sacrifice. With her ordeal over, Kirishima leaves, but not before apologizing to Yuko. Meanwhile, Kirie and Momoe leave the bell tower after helping scare the superstitious students, until Kirie encounters the shadow ghost.
07	"Memory Lapse Maiden" "Bōkyaku Otome" (忘却乙女)	May 20, 2012
Teiichi notices Yuko has been acting strange, as she unknowingly keeps lashing out everytime he spends time with Momoe. He confides this with Kirie, who tells him she saw the shadow ghost again. With the strange things she's been noticing lately, Kirie concludes the shadow ghost is actually a literal split personality of Yuko, which contains the darker side of her. Soon Kirie, Teiichi and Yuko encounter "Shadow Yuko", who reveals to them she is the embodiment of Yuko's hatred and the painful memories she wanted to forget. Yuko runs away denying what the Shadow said, Teiichi eventually catches up with her at the Rock of Curses, when he notices it is actually a memorial stone dedicated to the towns folk who died in a plague 60 years ago, which includes Yuko's name. Realizing all of the school's ghost stories are actually connected to Yuko, Teiichi now knows how Yuko died; she was offered as a living sacrifice to stop the plague 60 years ago. Shadow Yuko appears again, revealing the harsh truth that Yuko doesn't want to hear; Yuko was made as a sacrifice against her will. The next day, Yuko continues to hang around with Teiichi, but is much more quiet. Believing Teiichi is seeing her as Shadow Yuko, Shadow Yuko takes over Yuko and pushes Teiichi off the stairs, to Yuko's horror. When a healed and bandaged Teiichi returns to the club room, he encounters Yuko but much to his shock, she doesn't recognize who he is.
08	"Recollection Maiden" "Tsuioku Otome" (追憶乙女)	May 27, 2012
Yuko tells Teiichi to leave her alone, believing she has forgotten him for causing her painful memories. Kirie concludes everytime Yuko experiences a painful memory, she has it removed from her mind and into Shadow Yuko. Unable to bear seeing Yuko not recognizing him, he starts spending time with Momoe to the point where he can no longer see Yuko. Kirie confronts him if he just going to forget Yuko like that, when she is mysteriously pushed away from him. After talking with Momoe and reading her logbook about the Paranormal Investigations club, Teiichi begins to remember Yuko and his feelings for her. Wishing to bring her memories back, he rushes to the club room and drags Yuko to her favorite spot, telling her about the times they spend together and confesses his love for her. Yuko finally remembers who Teiichi is, and tells him she loves him as well. At the club room, Kirie finds an old picture of Yuko when Shadow Yuko arrives, realizing it was she that pushed her. But in a sudden twist, Shadow Yuko asked Kirie who she is.
09	"Malice Maiden" "Onnen Otome" (怨念乙女)	June 3, 2012
Shadow Yuko approaches Kirie but disappears thanks to the timely arrival of Momoe. She tells about her encounter with Teiichi and Yuko, but to Kirie and Teiichi's shock, Yuko tells them she has never met Shadow Yuko nor does she know about the school's mysteries. They soon realize Yuko has selectively pushed her negative memories into Shadow Yuko again, after noticing she has become more stubborn and embarrassed than before. As the Paranormal Investigations club heads home, Yuko feels hurt and lonely without Teiichi, having a brief flashback of her past. Shadow Yuko appears before Yuko, telling her she has hated Yuko for pushing their negative memories into her, and that she is bitterly jealous that Yuko has Teiichi, who loves her. As she tries to force Yuko to remember their past, Teiichi saves her from Shadow Yuko. They try to escape from school but Yuko cannot leave the school grounds. As Shadow Yuko tries to grab Yuko, Teiichi pushes her away from Yuko, only to see flashbacks of Yuko's past. When he wakes up, Teiichi finds himself seeing Yuko's past from her body.
10	"Defeated Maiden" "Sōshitsu Otome" (喪失乙女)	June 10, 2012
Teiichi experiences Yuko's life 60 years ago, where she lived with her sister, Yukariko Kanoe, Kirie's grandmother. Despite a plague killing the townsfolk, Yuko continued taking care of Asa, a young girl whose family was killed by the plague, believing everything will get better. However, Yuko and Yukariko eavesdrop on a meeting between the sick town elders, whom believe the plague was punishment by the gods for building the school over a destroyed shrine. To appease the gods, the elders plan to sacrifice a young child and cover it up by claiming the child was another victim of the plague. Fearing for Asa's safety, the Kanoe sisters bring her into their home, but Asa is kidnapped when the sisters went bathing, which Yuko runs to the school to save her. Asa, who is forced by the elders to play the role of Akahito to choose a sacrifice, unknowingly chooses Yuko. The hysterical elders grab Yuko and throw her into the underground shrine, sealing the entrance. As she slowly bleeds from a broken leg and her cries for help unanswered, Yuko dies peacefully, refusing to blame anyone for her fate, glad Asa and Yukariko were safe. However, this leads to the birth of Shadow Yuko, who hates Yuko for not blaming anyone, including the elders for her death and Yuko becoming a ghost with no memories of her past.
11	"Bitter Tears Maiden" "Kōrui Otome" (紅涙乙女)	June 17, 2012
Teiichi wakes up from his dream of Yuko's past to find that almost no time has passed in the "real" world. Upon touching Teiichi's hand, the memories he now has of her resurface, and Yuko is unable to see or hear him. Teiichi feels like giving up but is slapped by Kirie for trying to forget about Yuko. As he communicate with Yuko via the club's logbook, Teiichi gets an idea thanks to Momoe where he asks Kirie to let him see her grandmother Yukariko. Yukariko, who is also the chairman of the school, reveals to Teiichi that she too can see Shadow Yuko and the elders died from madness after seeing Shadow Yuko. Armed with this knowledge, Teiichi manages to make Yuko see him again by her getting her attention by vandalizing the club room which also attracts Shadow Yuko. Teiichi reveals to Shadow Yuko that he saw her past when he touched her but she angrily confronts him on how can he understand the pain and suffering she had. Teiichi admits watching what happened to her and unable to do anything hurt him very much. Despite that, he accepts both Yuko and Shadow Yuko as they are both the same girl he loves. Both Yukos reconcile with each other and become one, accepting both their good and bad memories. Later, Teiichi reveals from what Yukariko told him that Asa is his grandmother. With joy, Yuko declares that her sacrifice was not in vain because thanks to it, she could meet him.
12	"Dusk Maiden" "Tasogare Otome" (黄昏乙女)	June 24, 2012
Winter arrives and the Paranormal Investigations club learns Yukariko has found her sister's body and is given a proper burial. With the club room shut down until the school can move the shrine out from the basement, Yuko has Teiichi go on date around the school with her after her burial. Teiichi wonders why Yuko is insistent on this date until he learns the truth; because her hatred, the regret that kept her soul staying on earth, has been resolved, her spirit is passing on to the afterlife. As they both spends their last moments together in the club room, Teiichi tearfully says goodbye and kisses Yuko before she finally departs. As the new school terms begins in the spring, the club learns the school's old building will not be demolished due to its historic value. Teiichi heads to the clubroom and much to his surprise and joy, Yuko returns as her last kiss with him made her regret and she is now bound to him.
13	"Exorcism Maiden" "Taima Otome" (退魔乙女)	November 28, 2012 (DVD Release)
Tired of Yuko's antics for causing more ghost stories to be spread amongst the students, Kirie challenges her to a series of games which if Yuko loses, she must now behave. But to Kirie's anger, Yuko wins the contest. Momoe shows an old letter to the Paranormal Investigations club which contains ghost stories which predate before Yuko enrollment to the school. With Momoe interested, the club decides investigate the stories one by one which leads to many funny moments and embarrassments for everyone. After the awkward time with the haunted bath story, the club discovers the letter was written in invisible ink done by the "Paranormal Investigations club". Momoe realizes the stories were in fact written by the original Paranormal Investigations club for fun in the past before they became the current newspaper club. Realizing they were just like their predecessors, Teiichi and the girls decides to wear yutakas and play fireworks at the school rooftops that night.