Tokyo Underground

Tokyo Underground (東京アンダーグラウンド Tōkyō Andāguraundo) is a manga series by Akinobu Uraka and published by Enix. It became an anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and shown on the TV Tokyo Network from April 2 until August 6, 2002.

Synopsis

(Japanese names are in Western order with corresponding Japanese writing in parentheses.)

The series tackles a world which is under Tokyo's underground railway system aptly called the Underground (地下世界, chika sekai). The people living there are called Elemental Users because they can manipulate various elements.

When the Priestess of Life, Ruri Sarasa (ルリ・サラサ), and her bodyguard, Gravity User Chelsea Rorec (チェルシー・ローレック) escape to the surface and take refuge with swordsman Rumina Asagi (浅木留美菜 Asagi Rumina) and his bespectacled best friend Ginnosuke Isuzu (五十鈴銀之助 Isuzu Ginnosuke), the lives of the two boys are never the same after Rumina was killed during a battle with a henchman then resurrected by Ruri.

They find out that Ruri is a very important person in the Underground and is being pursued by evil powers there. Grateful for Ruri and his newfound Wind powers, Rumina vows to protect her, even if it means going to the Underground to rescue her from her eventual captors before she gets sacrificed.

External links

• Official Anime Website in Studio Pierrot
• Official Anime Website in TV Tokyo
• Official Manga Website
• you lucky guy: Official website of Akinobu Uraku