Eko Eko Azarak (manga)

Eko Eko Azarak (エコエコアザラク) is a Japanese horror manga series by Shinichi Koga. It has been adapted into a live action film series with six films, two Japanese television drama series and an original video animation.

Plot
According to her fellow students, Misa is a star student and an idol of the classroom. However, she is also a young witch who goes from school to school using black magic in order to enact chaotic and brutal justice. Along the way, her strange past is revealed.

Manga
The manga was published by Akita Shoten, with serialization in Weekly Shōnen Champion from September 1, 1975 to April 9, 1979 and compiled into 19 volumes published from March 1976 to July 1979.

After the end of the original series, a sequel, Majo Kuroi Misa was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 1982, and was compiled in 2 volumes.. A third series, Eko Eko Azarak II, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion and Suspiria, starting in 1993 and compiled into 6 volumes. Both these series were written and drawn by the series original creator, Shinichi Koga. In 2020, two years after the death of Shinichi Koga, a remake series by J-ta Yamada, titled Eko Eko Azarak: Reborn began serialization in Champion Red. The series ended serialization on March 17, 2023.

Films

 * Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
 * Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard (1996)
 * Eko Eko Azarak III: Misa The Dark Angel (1998)
 * Eko Eko Azarak IV: Awakening (2001)
 * Eko Eko Azarak: R-page (2006)
 * Eko Eko Azarak: B-page (2006)
 * "Eko Eko Azarak: Kuroi Misa First Episode" (2011)

Dramas
A live-action school horror drama series was broadcast from February 1 to May 31, 1997 on TV Tokyo, consisting of 26 episodes. The cast included Hinako Saeki as Misa Kuroi and also, , Jirō Dan and. In 2004, another horror drama series named Eko Eko Azarak -eye- (エコエコアザラク〜眼〜) was broadcast from January 6 to March 30, also on TV Tokyo, with 13 episodes. The cast included as Misa Kuroi and also Yoko Mitsuya,  and Aiko Kayō.

Anime
An anime adaptation by Toei Animation was released as an OVA on January 30, 2007.