The Magician's Basic Rhythm
TIP
Translated by Abdu11 with help from Comun and isillor.
Aozaki Aoko
| Birthday | 07/07 |
| Height | 163 cm |
| Weight | 51 kg |
| Likes | Faithful dogs |
| Dislikes | Faithful dogs |
| Day of decisive battle | Ruins in the snow |
| Magecraft system | Processing magical energy from a numerological crest, converting it, and outputting it. True Magic, Blue. |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | E |
| Quality | C |
| Composition | Normal (Exceedingly simple) |
Kinoko Nasu:
The newest Magician. Aoko-san, the heroine in slender clothing. She seems like a stoic person, but she actually has many different facial expressions. She seems like a flawless superwoman, but she is actually the hard-working type. She's the earliest heroine of Nasu Kinoko's fiction. She's the initial archetype of Azaka, Akiha and Rin. Koyama's Aoko had her breast volume increased by 20%, I don't know what to do with all that sex appeal! Two options were discussed for the extra chapter's fan-service scene: "Just out of the bath" and "Maid outfit". But for some reason "Bunny girl" which wasn't even a candidate got chosen. While Redshifting in the second episode she'll say the catchphrase "I still have two transformations left!" to drive the opponent to despair. As expected of Aoko.
Hirokazu Koyama:
She is the character I drew the most including half of the standing up sprites and the discarded materials. I can't tell you how many times my designs for her casual clothes got discarded. We wanted to show more of her girlish side so there were talks about including event CGs about miniskirts, out of the bath getup, and getting shoulder rubs while studying. Alas, when I saw the amusement park battle I thought "So this is Aoko" and became convinced that in the end a simple sweater and jeans suited her the best. Aoko's outfit in the final battle (aka Super-Aoko) was also a difficult one to settle on. The Sci-fi option was discarded early. Although it would've been cool to have a bunch of lenses attached to her hands and feet to shoot beams (Laughs).
Kuonji Alice
| Birthday | 09/30 |
| Height | 152 cm |
| Weight | 42 kg |
| Likes | Plain persons |
| Dislikes | Dishonourable persons |
| Day of decisive battle | Tower of London |
| Magecraft system | Yumina |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | A++ |
| Quality | A+ |
| Composition | Abnormal |
Kinoko Nasu:
The last witch, heir to a system of Magecraft unlike any other within the fiction of Type-Moon. To her, the distinction between Magecraft and Magic is almost meaningless. Even making a world is within her ability. But then again, what is a witch? Sadly, you won't get an answer until next time. She has a cool and collected demeanor, but her girlish creativity makes her the number 1 dreamer in this work. Her mother named her Alice after the character in the "Alice in wonderland" book. Both mother and daughter are fairy tale characters. The fact that she barely shows any skin yet still looks so erotic is an example of the Koyama Magic. The mannequin aura in her casual clothes is very strange. The penguin costume is simply cheating. That too is an example of the Koyama Magic.
Hirokazu Koyama:
It was easy to draw a cold and quiet beauty, but I found drawing the subtle differences in her expressions to be difficult. However, Nasu-san's comment, "The inside of Alice is that of a child," solved that issue for me. From those early days to the character she is today, it is all connected. That was the biggest or second biggest paradigm shift during the production, but ever since then she became dramatically easier to draw. Her school uniform is a slightly modified one from the Reien Academy which Touko also attended. And because I wanted to make use of Alice's slim body, I might have made it a little too tight.
Shizuki Soujuurou
| Birthday | 04/12 |
| Height | 172 cm |
| Weight | 61 kg |
| Likes | (No comment) |
| Dislikes | Unjustified violence |
| Day of decisive battle | Perseverance will prevail |
| Hobbies/Special skills | Gardening, Walking |
Kinoko Nasu:
A simple young man that came from the countryside. Even though he's simple, he isn't naïve; and even though he looks like a passive man, sometimes he gets fired up like a beast. To tell you the truth, he's the hardest character to comment on. In the original novel version he was close to 180cm tall, but in the game version he changed classes to that of a fresh young man. Soujuurou's aloof yet funny mannerisms in the main story were really brought out by Koyama's drawings. A natural master at being both the straight-man and butt of the joke, the human air conditioner of the Kuonji mansion (for both cooling and heating). By the way, even though he's not generally good at household chores and doesn't seem to enjoy doing them, he still cleans up during his free time.
Hirokazu Koyama:
Takeuchi's original design had this wild atmosphere to it, but I persuaded the mushroom to make him look cuter while keeping that atmosphere. The inside of Soujuurou is still the same, but I hope the difference is noticeable. In the Beo battle scene I made many facial expressions that give a glimpse into Soujuurou's original look. He's a plain person who wears the school affiliated coat even in his downtime. I think he makes the logical choice to dress based on function rather than design. For example, pants with lots of pockets or shoes that are easy to run in.
Aozaki Touko
| Birthday | 08/08 |
| Height | 165 cm |
| Weight | 52 kg |
| Likes | Creators |
| Dislikes | Destroyers |
| Day of decisive battle | Abandoned school building in the snow |
| Magecraft system | Runes, Human Engineering, General Architectural |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | B+ |
| Quality | EX |
| Composition | Normal |
Kinoko Nasu:
As you may have noticed, Touko-san is the total-participation all-purpose handyman of the Type-Moon fiction. Her legs are erotic. It's the kind of erotic that makes you think "What's up with this person!?". It's the design that best projects Koyama's overflowing pure passion, don't you agree? By the way it was stated in the character material released in 2006 that "Touko is 2 years older than Aoko", but with the release of the game various things were changed. In the most recent edition, the age difference is 4 years. But she is still young, so for those who want to see an adult Touko, please switch to Kara no Kyoukai. The younger sister powers up as she ages, while the older one upgrades her version and rejuvenates herself. What is it with these sisters?
Hirokazu Koyama:
When thinking about her circumstances I can't help but sympathise with her. But since she managed to rebuild her life from there, she is such a strong person. I enjoyed drawing her particular glasses on/off modes. I wanted to include more drawings in the game of before she cut her hair. The two sisters' severed relationship might be conclusive, but I still want to see more dialogue between them. Her clothes were designed to be far from ordinary with an emphasis on sexiness and style while seemingly usable both indoors and outdoors. They definitely don't look very magus-like, do they?
Lugh Beowulf
| Birthday | 01/01 |
| Height | 134 cm |
| Weight | 35 kg |
| Likes | The person who gave him his first defeat |
| Dislikes | Annoying things |
| Day of decisive battle | None in particular |
| Magecraft system | None in particular |
| Regression to the Age of gods/Quantity | C |
| Quality | A |
| Composition | Phylogenetic Tree up to the 18th century |
Kinoko Nasu:
A still living, genuine phantasmal species. His origin itself was long, long ago, but it wasn't until the 18th century that he fell as a droplet on the werewolf village. A two thousand year class vintage monster. He is the natural enemy of the magi of the Common Era. In a contest of pure magical energy, attacks may still work on him, but when it comes to magecraft, it'll be absolutely invalidated. He's a life-form that's sort of like a relative to Arcueid, so he has an aura similar to Arc. It is a bit boorish to mention, it but he doesn't have the concept of gender. Although it is very unlikely, in the case that he found a partner, he would be able to freely choose his own gender to compliment theirs. It's just like the manga "They Were Eleven!"
Hirokazu Koyama:
As a werewolf, I drew various forms of him. Between the complete wolf form and bipedal form, Beo can transform on the spot into the most fitting form for the action that he wants to do. Just as humans don't put any conscious thought into moving each individual finger when they eat food with chopsticks, if he wants to run he does it on 4 feet, and if he wants to grab something he does it with his "hands". Conversely he's also able to consciously control them. Normal werewolves can't take the form of a full wolf and their transformation is slow. In Beo's opinion, that's so half baked it's meaningless, and it's so funny to look at that it spoils his mood. That's all I know. His clothes are supposedly to Touko's taste.
Tsukiji Tobimaru
| Birthday | 09/12 |
| Height | 177 cm |
| Weight | 63 kg |
| Likes | Cold relationships |
| Dislikes | Warm relationships |
| Hobbies/Special skills | Walking around town, dictatorial leadership |
Kinoko Nasu:
He's a young man that's pleasant to write about, that one. Pessimistic, socially righteous, a delinquent way of talking, but despite that he still seems like a prince. If you understand those 4 points, you'll get his personality. He has a bad mouth, but his disposition is meticulous and rational. He won't hesitate to say that while the elite's ideas are good, the elite themselves are basically scum. Of course, Tobimaru himself is included among them. The reason I asked for him to have a coat like Detective Columbo is because I wanted him to be a handsome man who looked good even if he dressed sloppily, like a relic of the 80s. Even a woolen pink sweater would surely look good on him. He is just too handsome.
Hirokazu Koyama:
Although he's a sub-character, his design was unexpectedly a difficult one to settle on. Although his original Takeuchi design draft wasn't made public, it seems that it was something roughly like this. He had the combination of a well raised effeminate daintiness and a naughty wild side coexisting. In my opinion, he is probably mentally mature without being distorted or unreasonable. I think his design turned out to be one I couldn't have come up with alone. It appears that he forms quite the nice combination together with Soujuurou; I wonder if we will get to see more of their activities moving forward.
Kinomi Housuke
| Birthday | 08/30 |
| Height | 169 cm |
| Weight | 59 kg |
| Likes | Himself |
| Dislikes | Math, Men who are a little more handsome than him |
| Hobbies/Special skills | Life, sturdy skull |
Kinoko Nasu:
He is a young man that's pleasant to write about, that one. Stupid, a little sly, stupid, and a bad influence. If you understand those 4 points, you'll get his stupid personality. Later on, he would become Makidera Kaede. Even if Aoko was to shoot him with a beam, he would say "What?! You aren't human after all, prez?! Oh my God for real, stop shooting me with that beam!" and use his innate special skill to go through it and pretend that he didn't see it. Had this guy witnessed the magecraft battles of Aoko and Alice, "5. Mahoutsukai no Yoru/Misery" would have started. By the way, the Kumari family are his neighbours as they live next to him and to the horror of Kojika, they are actually childhood friends.
Hirokazu Koyama:
A disappointing character. His facial features are pretty good, so if he were to shut up he would probably be quite handsome. He is a character that I was relatively free to design, so he was quite easy to draw. In that time period, I think that with a haircut like his, the teachers would have kept an eye on him, but at his core he's a pretty good guy (laughs).
Kumari Kojika
| Birthday | 11/10 |
| Height | 149 cm |
| Weight | 40 Kg |
| Likes | Intellectual lifestyle |
| Dislikes | Hot blooded people, helping at home |
| Hobbies/Special skills | Collecting accessories, Chinese cooking |
Kinoko Nasu:
Misaki Town's miracle. If she had any friendliness, she could have aimed to be the best in the whole world. Her first name Kojika (meaning Golden Deer) was borrowed by her father from the name of Captain Drake's ship as he is a massive sea pirate fanatic.
Soujuurou: "So are you a deer or are you a bear?"
Kojika: "No, I'm a pelican."
An exchange like that might have happened.
When she comes home from her part time job at 11 P.M., she turns on the only lamp in the store, organises the messy cash register, and makes entries in the account book for that day, such is her daily routine. To be blunt, if Kojika wasn't there that Chinese restaurant would have likely failed in the span of only one month. Because Kumari's mother passed away, Kojika has difficulty looking after her brothers. As such she has the status of a Mother-lite.
Hirokazu Koyama:
According to Tsukuri-san, the true heroine. Although her active roles are few. Because she is a character that didn't initially exist in the first place, she was the last one of the students to be designed. I think the last order was for her to be the picture perfect Tsundere without the Dere. She's a good character, so I wanted her to be given more active roles. I had a lot of fun playing with the designs of her casual clothes and her Sweets Hearts version.
Fumizuka Eiri
| Birthday | 05/25 |
| Height | 191 cm |
| Weight | 79 kg |
| Likes | Impartiality |
| Words that he wonders about | Duty |
| Day of decisive battle | Cathedral |
| Magecraft system | None |
| Hobbies/Special skills | Self discipline , single stroke |
Kinoko Nasu:
A staple of Type-Moon fiction, the Priest of the suspicious Church... Although one might say as a warrior-priest his disposition is completely different from Tsukihime's Ciel and Fate's Kirei and Caren. I gave Koyama-san his background setting which wasn't shown in the first episode, and then he gave me various rough designs. Eiri is a product of the latter half of the 90s when I was writing the original version of the story. Back then, I was still devoted to the archetype of "transcendent strength with transcendent beauty" in characters. These days, such a straightforward approach is still valid, so I decided to keep his old setting. If Soujuurou has a wild beauty to him, then Eiri has something like a mechanical and stylish beauty to him. His turn to shine isn't in the first episode though!
Hirokazu Koyama:
The enigmatic Mr. Priest. He is surely hiding something under his cloak. His design was rejected many times. How about you quit the Church and try Shintoism or something? —I drew him with that kind of vibe. His design was another one that Nasu-san already had a mental image of in his mind, so we just settled on that. It seems that the true role of this person will be shown after this story.
Suse Yuika
| Birthday | 01/07 |
| Height | 158 cm |
| Weight | 49 kg |
| Likes | People who work without complaining |
| Dislikes | Irresponsible people |
| Magecraft system | Eighth Sacrament, dulls the body with stigmata |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | D |
| Quality | D |
| Composition | Abnormal (No holy resistance) |
Kinoko Nasu:
She is the person with the most common sense in the world and at the same time the one who usually ends up with the short end of the stick. Due to my bias of nuns being physical labourers never changing, Sister Yuika is the same archetype as Ciel. Thus she has became the "Level up until you can destroy the laws of physics" kind of person. I have no regrets. Her original concept was that of a female doctor on the battlefield... or perhaps I should say a Nightingale who's become stained by blood while pinning down struggling soldiers, gouging, picking, and binding their wounds. Aside from her being a sadist or not, her lack of visual information makes it difficult for her to sympathize with the pain of others.
Hirokazu Koyama:
The blind and very scary Sister. The younger twin sister. Her setting changed so many times that I don't remember much of it anymore, but the fact that she is blind never changed. The design with the empty eyes was supposed to be Ritsuka's. Based on the settings from back then, I thought they looked exactly alike. That appearance was then given to Yuika, and a brand new design was later made for Ritsuka. I wanted to show her wearing casual clothes too.
Suse Yuika
| Birthday | 12/20 |
| Height | 161 cm |
| Weight | 50 kg |
| Likes | Detective novels, holidays |
| Dislikes | Spoilers |
| The day of their decisive battle | This woman doesn't have such a thing |
| Magecraft system | Black magic (metamorphosis, self-sabotage curses) |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | C |
| Quality | C |
Kinoko Nasu:
A useless human with a peaceful heart, and the one among the Suse twin sisters to live a comfortable life. She originally came from a good family of the Church, but at an early stage she decided to switch sides to the Mage's Association and has been active as a double agent ever since. She herself doesn't have a favourite and thus doesn't care which one gets the upper hand. Based on her mood on that day, she changes her appearance and strolls around the shopping street. Actually, she is a resident of the apartment that Soujuurou used to rent. She is Yuika's older sister, but has none of the dignity that should come with such a role. She is expected by the staff to play the role of a "Kohaku-type woman" in the future or something.
Hirokazu Koyama:
Unbelievable, to think that she would become such a disappointing older sister type character... the oldest of the twin sisters. Well, at least she became a pleasant character. I will never forget her brilliant style in the bonus scenario. I wonder if this person also wears nun clothing. They are fraternal twins, so their appearance is different, mainly in terms of style. Although, this person also has good style, doesn't she?
May Liddell Archelot
| Birthday | 05/01 |
| Height | 162 cm |
| Weight | 50 kg |
| Likes | Nothing |
| Dislikes | Most things |
| Magecraft system | Modern black magic |
| Magic circuits/Quantity | D |
| Quality | A |
| Composition | Normal (signs of mutation) |
Kinoko Nasu:
A character that I don't have much to say about. Of course it's natural since she showed up in the extra chapter "You absolutely can't laugh in the Kuonji Mansion" which happens in the fall after Aoko and the others became third year students. What happened in Misaki city and the Kuonji mansion between January and August, right now I can't talk about it. Either way, when I gave Mr. Koyama an order to come up with a girl that would look good in Hot Pink, he came up with the ideal type in one shot. When she is added to the regular cast, those extraordinarily noisy days will become an everyday occurrence.
Hirokazu Koyama:
Pink. She made a sudden appearance in the extra chapter. Her initial concept was similar to a Vocaloid, singing with twin tails and knee high socks. She is a character with mood swings who has a lot of extreme ups and downs. According to a certain reliable source, from now on she will have live show scenes, so I hope you don't mind. I came up with her design relatively early on, so I'm sure there's a setting where she removes her jacket or something. There's something of a gap between her droopy eyes as well as her strong willed words and actions. There sure are a lot of female characters with harsh words and actions, aren't there?
Yamashiro Kazuki and Tokitsu Yurihiko
Kinoko Nasu:
This is the adults group. Yamashiro-sensei is the "He looks reliable at first glance but now that I look closely at him, this guy isn't trustworthy at all!" kind of teacher who goes along his own pace. The old man Tokitsu was designed as a fun retired old man. Yamashiro-sensei's "You can do anything as long it has no risk to me" is an example of his broad-mindedness. Tokki's "A gentleman doesn't care about how the world views him, Alice. By the way, mass media should die!!" is an example of his youthful purity. I like both of them. ...After commenting, I now realized that there actually are no decent adults in Mahoyo.
Hirokazu Koyama:
Yamashiro-sensei is probably as mean as he looks. I thought of making a naughty looking version of him too. I thought it would be interesting to see he and Aoko argue back and forth in this version. Old man Tokitsu was the last character to get his standing up sprites drawn. I designed with the concept of him being something of an artist. He too seems to be a child in the inside. I wonder if his sparkling eyes ran out or something. But he can't get understood by the people around him, so everyone including him has a hard time, that sort of thing.