Rental Magica
S01E22: Sleeping City
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 resurrecting the lost arts of Celtic Magic and are about to have an intimate moment but are interrupted by Fin Crue who has managed to save Nekoyashiki's cat Genbu but in the process got himself stuck up a tree. On returning to Astral's headquarters, Nekoyashiki rewards Fin with a generous helping of Cream Puffs. Honami returns with Mikan, who is home early from school, and it is revealed that Fin is in fact aware of Itsuki's status as Astral's President, was instrumental in Honami's resurrection of Celtic Magic and claims to be on assignment from the Association to investigation regarding a the breaking of Taboo that Itsuki's involved in somehow. Fin ends his investigation but is followed by Itsuki on leaving. After a short discussion between Fin and Itsuki about Glamsight and what it means to be a mage Itsuki's right eye begins to pain him and he becomes disoriented. A mist descends on the city and the non-magical folk appear to be frozen where they stand. Itsuki is attacked by a dragon hatchling but is saved by Sekiren who destroys the drakling mercilessly. Sekiren reveals that Itsuki's eye patch has been negated and that someone has broken the seals on the dragons. Itsuki concludes that Fin is behind these events and leaves Sekiren to confront him. Honami is assisting Fin in summoning the Dragon under the belief that it can heal Itsuki's tainted eye.
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
S01E02 A Witch's Vow
S01E03 Purification of the Gods
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
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
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
S01E07 Red-Headed Girl
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
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
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
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...
S01E11 The Flower that Blooms on the Dead
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
S01E13 Faith Initiation Rites
S01E14 Memories of the Stars
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
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
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
S01E18 The Bond of Solomon
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
S01E20 Demonic Festival
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
S01E22 Sleeping City
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
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
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
Kagezaki
Rie Kugimiya
Mikan Katsuragi
Mikako Takahashi
Adilisia Lenn Mathers
Jun Fukuyama
Itsuki Iba
Kana Ueda
Honami Takase Ambler
Junichi Suwabe
Ren Nekoyashiki
Shizuka Itoh
Manami Kuroha
Katsuyuki Konishi
Sekiren
Yuhko Kaida
Daphne
Fuyuka Ono
Itsuki Iba
Kaori Nazuka
Lapis
Hiroki Yasumoto
Judaicus Tholoide
