Rental Magica

S01E13: Faith Initiation Rites

Overview

In a world where magical organizations - staffed by specialists wielding both Eastern and Western disciplines - vie for work, prestige and power. Destroying supernatural monsters... dispelling dark magic... It's all in a day's work for the mages of Astral.

Episodes

Magic Users for Rental

S01E01 Magic Users for Rental

October 8, 2007 30 min

S01E02 A Witch's Vow

October 15, 2007 30 min
Purification of the Gods

S01E03 Purification of the Gods

October 21, 2007 30 min
Itsuki arrives late for an appointment at a shrine due to allowing Mikan to buy souvenirs at a festival. The request is from Shinogi Minagi, who requests a saniwa, or spirit medium to convene with...

S01E04 You Are Not Alone

October 28, 2007 30 min
Itsuki is in the hospital with a broken leg, where he converses with Manami Kuroha, a ghost inhabiting the hospital. Kuroha is overjoyed that someone can talk with her, and she asks Itsuki about Astral...

S01E05 Magi Night

November 4, 2007 30 min
Due to the low amounts of jobs Astral has taken since Itsuki took over, Kagezaki threatens to disband Astral if they do not take on a difficult mission. They are assigned to remove the magical...

S01E06 Glamsight

November 12, 2007 30 min

S01E07 Red-Headed Girl

November 18, 2007 30 min
Itsuki meets a girl in a park, and seeing her alone, gives her his food and his business card. She later goes to the Astral residence, asking to obtain a basilisk eye, shocking the Astral...

S01E08 Hot Spring Magic

November 25, 2007 30 min
he Astral members go to a hot spring in order to cure Itsuki's eye, as hot springs are situated on magical ley lines, but note that the magic is too weak. They travel up the...

S01E09 Father's Successor

December 2, 2007 30 min
Adilisia raids Tholoide's lab, but is defeated by Tholoide and Lapis. Back in Japan, Kagezaki brings an item once owned by Tsukasa Iba, Itsuki's father, that the Association was holding to Itsuki, but reveals that...

S01E10 Tears of the Homunculus

December 9, 2007 30 min
Lapis uses her basilisk eye to steal Itsuki's sight, preventing him from using his Glamsight. However, she retreats after Adilisia arrives, and Adilisia dispels Lapis' spell. Elsewhere, Honami awakens in Tholoide's lab surrounded by a...
The Flower that Blooms on the Dead

S01E11 The Flower that Blooms on the Dead

December 16, 2007 30 min
Astral is approached by Diana, the president of the magic items provision corporation Trismegistus, to find a special flower that is seeded within a human body and blooms after their death. As the mission was...

S01E12 A Requiem Offered on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2007 30 min

S01E13 Faith Initiation Rites

January 7, 2008 30 min

S01E14 Memories of the Stars

January 13, 2008 30 min
Astral is contacted by Kei Isurugi, a member of the school of Onmyōdō that Nekoyashiki once attended, to perform a ceremony at a mountain. Itsuki accompanies Nekoyashiki and Mikan, but they are attacked by Kei...

S01E15 Legend of the Mermaid

January 20, 2008 30 min
Shinogi and Moroha Minagi request that the Astral members return a funadama they found to a shrine on a beach. When Itsuki and Kuroha attempt to return it, they are sucked into the past due...

S01E16 Red Spear

January 27, 2008 30 min
While training in the mountains, Itsuki is attacked by a larva, a magical creature that makes nightmares reality, and is saved by Sekiren, a traveling member of Astral. On Itsuki's request, Sekiren trains him in...

S01E17 Demonic Rebellion

February 4, 2008 30 min

S01E18 The Bond of Solomon

February 10, 2008 30 min
Daphne begins searching for Clive in order to find Adelicia, meeting Gara, Goetia's secretary, in the city. Gara is not aware of Clive's location, but after he leaves, Sekiren appears, and Daphne attacks him. Sekiren...

S01E19 The Medium's Hometown

February 18, 2008 30 min

S01E20 Demonic Festival

February 24, 2008 30 min
The oni traps Kaori and is subsequently trapped in the Katsuragi ceremony; however, Kaori receives severe pain when the Katsuragi clan members remove one of the oni's horns. Suzuka calls Mikan to be a sacrifice,...

S01E21 White and Black Dress

March 3, 2008 30 min

S01E22 Sleeping City

March 9, 2008 30 min
Sekiren becomes concerned after the Sekiren is disturbed by the errosion of a Buddhist idol that crumbles under his touch. Itsuki and Adelicia are enjoying a date. Itsuki and Adelicia are discussing Honami's diligence in...

S01E23 Changeling

March 16, 2008 30 min
Honami travels throughout the city, writing runes in her blood for the dragon summoning ceremony. Nekoyashiki explains to the remaining Astral members that Itsuki's father, Tsukasa Iba, chose for Astral's headquarters to be in the...

S01E24 Astral

March 23, 2008 30 min
The members of Astral go to the tower, and are confronted by the dragon. Sekiren, Mikan, and Kuroha begin to battle it, and the others continue into the tower. Nekoyashiki arrives first, but is stopped...

Cast

Daisuke Ono
Daisuke Ono
Kagezaki
Rie Kugimiya
Rie Kugimiya
Mikan Katsuragi
Mikako Takahashi
Mikako Takahashi
Adilisia Lenn Mathers
Jun Fukuyama
Jun Fukuyama
Itsuki Iba
Kana Ueda
Kana Ueda
Honami Takase Ambler
Junichi Suwabe
Junichi Suwabe
Ren Nekoyashiki
Shizuka Itoh
Shizuka Itoh
Manami Kuroha
Katsuyuki Konishi
Katsuyuki Konishi
Sekiren
Yuhko Kaida
Yuhko Kaida
Daphne
Fuyuka Ono
Fuyuka Ono
Itsuki Iba
Kaori Nazuka
Kaori Nazuka
Lapis
Hiroki Yasumoto
Hiroki Yasumoto
Judaicus Tholoide

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