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Type
Manga
Volumes
16
Chapters
97
Status
Completed
Published
2001-09-05 to 2009-08-05
Genres
Drama
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
Supernatural
Seinen
Serializations
Comic Flapper
Authors
Kou Yaginuma (Story & Art)
Futatsu no Spica
Asumi Kamogawa is a small, 14-year-old girl with a burning passion for the cosmos, especially the stars. Since her early childhood, she has been learning about space from a man she calls "Lion-san," a wise and friendly ghost wearing a giant lion head. Despite a rough family dynamic, Asumi decides to enroll in the Tokyo Space School. Asumi soon makes a group of friends at school: Shinnosuke Fuchuuya, Asumi's childhood friend with glasses and somewhat brutal honesty; Kei Oumi, a very friendly girl who was inspired by Neil Armstrong's pictures of the first lunar landing; Marika Ukita, an unsociable yet beautiful girl with some secrets of her own; and Shuu Suzuki, a bold yet intelligent boy with a very laidback outlook. Set in an alternate future where Japan's first man-made rocket crashed in 2010, Futatsu no Spica is a coming-of-age story revolving around these young high schoolers and their path toward the stars. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Characters
Asumi Kamogawa
Main
Lion-san
Main
Marika Ukita
Main
Kei Oumi
Main
Shuu Suzuki
Main
Kyouko Kamogawa
Supporting
Yuuko Suzunari
Supporting
Tomorou Kamogawa
Supporting
Ringo Sakashita
Supporting
Takahito Sano
Supporting
Kasane Shibata
Supporting