Hyde & Closer

Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Closer
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Genre	Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Manga
Written by	ASOU Haro
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	2008 – ongoing

Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Closer (呪法解禁!!ハイド&クローサー, Juhou Kaikin!! Haido & Kurōsā) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by ASOU Haro. The manga is serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.

The manga began its first run in 2008, and is currently a new manga with only four chapters as of April 12, 2008. Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Crowther is not licensed in America yet.

Interestingly, "Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde & Crowther" has a plot similar to Akira Amano's manga Reborn!. Both the main protagonists are looked down upon harshly at school, and seem to run away from problems they would deem dangerous. But their lives change one day when a new character comes into play, (For Reborn!, the baby Reborn, and for this manga, Hyde) both characters are then caught into some unwilling training from both characters.

Storyline

The story begins with a tale of explaining magic. The main protagonist, is a 13-year-old teenager named Shunpei Closer. he is viewed as a weak, and timid teenager, similar to Tsuna Sawada of the manga Reborn!. His grandfather, Alsyd Closer, was a magician, not the magician with tricks up their sleeves, a real magician. Alsyd would travel around the world constantly, only stopping in Japan every now and then to tell tales of his journeys to Shunpei. Before leaving to Africa on Shunpei's 7th birthday, Alsyd gave Shunpei a teddy bear named Hyde. Shunpei quickly grows attached to the teddy bear, stating he was Shunpei's best friend. Six years have passed, and Shunpei comes home one day, only to receive a package that had a stuffed animal in it. Soon, Shunpei is attacked by the toy, and is almost killed. But before getting killed, Shunpei is cornered into his room, and as the toy was about to strike, the teddy bear Shunpei's grandpa gave him comes to life, and protects Shunpei against the enemy. Shunpei is frightened of the fact that Hyde came to life at first, but Hyde quickly calms him down, and explains how Shunpei, is the magician's number one target in the world. At this moment, the stuffed animal earlier is still alive, and ruthlessly attacks Hyde with knives, and forks. Leaving Hyde at a disadvantage because his only weapon is in his back, and he can't reach his back himself, meaning he needed Shunpei to do it for him. Shunpei struggles to get away from the fight, believing that if he runs away, everything would be fine, but he remembers how he was treated at school, and calls himself "Pathetic". Summoning up his courage, Shunpei returns to the fight, and brings out the Texas Chainsaw within Hyde. With this new weapon, the stuffed animal is easily destroyed. With the duo finishing up their first battle of many, Shunpei learns more about his grandfather more than he could have possibly dared, and to overcome the coward that he himself, and everyone else thought he was.

Characters

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Hyde(Left) and Crowther(Right)

Closer Shunpei (緊密な俊平, Shunpei Kuroosaa)

Crowther Shunpei is a 13-year-old timid teenager. He could be easily compared to Tsuna Sawada of the manga Reborn!. Shunpei is harshly looked down upon by his classmates everyday, as he seems to have no special abilities, and messes up at everything. (He even poured the right fluids together in a beaker, and still caused an explosion. In chapter 2, Shunpei uses magic for the first time. And in chapter 3, Shunpei is told by Hyde that Shunpei needs to able to learn more magic because of the fact that protecting Shunpei, and fighting a enemy is very hard since both of them are fighting stronger enemies as the story goes on. Shunpei at first, strongly believes that he can't do anything, but when Hyde came along, and corrected him, Shunpei began to think otherwise. Hyde states in chapter 4, that Shunpei has the potential to become a very strong magician. Otherwise, Hyde would've stopped hanging around Shunpei a long time ago.

Magic:

Barrier: the most basic spell it follows the rule of not allowing anything within a certain area without the casters permission. Once this spell is mastered more complex spell aren’t too far behind. Shunpei can perform it without an incantation something that is very hard to pull off.

Hyde (ハイド, Haido)

A teddy bear that was given to Shunpei on Shunpei's 7th bithday. Hyde has not shown any reaction, until a enemy attempts to assassinate Shunpei. Hyde seems to be similar to the character Reborn in the anime/manga Reborn!. Hyde is calm when outside of battle, and puts on a blank face that shows no emotion. (Just like a normal teddy bear) He seems to be nice to Shunpei. and his mother. Hyde states that he thinks that Hyde has potential, only he needs to toughen up a bit. Hyde is the one who has been proving Shunpei wrong when Shunpei thought of himself as weak, and a coward. In his back, he holds a chainsaw named the Texas Chainsaw. Oddly, the chainsaw stands about twice as tall as Hyde himself, but can easily fit inside Hyde. When he fights he normally gets an evil grin on his face showing he might enjoy the idea of getting rid of the doll and thereby getting rid of the user, when he uses his Texas Chainsaw his face become shadowed over making his grin more evil looking.

Magic:

Texas Chainsaw (probably named after the movie): a ridiculously large (its twice Hyde’s size) demonic looking chainsaw that Hyde can wield effectively to cut his enemies to pieces.

There seems to be some mystery to the Texas Chainsaw, as enemy dolls tend to freeze out fear, begin panicking, and then lose all their confidence when they see it.

Alsyd Crowther

Shunpei’s grandfather, he gave Shunpei Hyde on his 7th birthday. He would travel around the world and whenever he dropped by he would tell Shunpei about his travels and sometime show him magic “tricks”. He lives life “like a man” and tries to teach Shunpei that man decides his own path in life and that as long as they want to a man can achieve anything. He is really one the greatest magician king to ever live in the world and his little “tricks” are real magic spells that he can handle effortlessly. It seems most of the worlds magic users are after his blood so they become the strongest above the rest, but since he has been practically disappeared off the earth all the attacks are now focused on Shunpei. He normally calls Shunpei “Shun my boy”.

Enemy Curse users

Those who wish to gain the powers of the Crowther bloodline. Most dolls have their own distinctive laugh.

Unknown and Monkey Doll: the 1st pair to attack Shunpei, the User disguised himself as a deliver man and handed Shunpei the package contenting the doll. The monkey doll explained why it was trying kill Shunpei and that his life would be in constant danger for the rest of his life. In battle the Monkey favored anything that could stab or cut. Hyde destroyed the Monkey Doll, which resulted in the user driving off a bridge to his death.

Laugh: Ukokoko (like the sound a monkey makes)

Hollow Blackness: the doll’s shadow becomes multiple hands to attack with many weapons at the same time.

Chirdski and Harawataski: the second to attack, Chirdski is a Russian curse user who wears a walrus skin like a fur coat (even if he complains about japans hot weather). Chirdski was struck with appendix problems after his doll was destroyed, he was rushed to a hospital. After which Hyde and Crowther went looking for him (Hyde uses this as a means to stop being ambushed) and convinced him to help (Hyde does something to his face which causes anyone who sees him to laugh uncontolablly) to show how many other magic users were out to get Crowther (1000 in total). Chirdski after more "convincing" reveled information on 'The Six' the strongest magic users out of the rest well soon start moving in to attack.

Harawataski is a skull jack-in-the-box doll he says he loves to eat humans lustful desires. His weapons are a pair of tongs and a small crowbar.

Laugh: Vahyahaha

Death House: it allows Harawataski to appear (with party confetti) from any closed opening (a door, a desk drawer, windows, etc.) it also stops anyone from enter or leaving effectively trapping anyone in the room his taken over. Breaking the dolls concentration can temporarily stop the spell.

Minor Characters

Shunpei's Mother: She appears few times and doesn’t seem to be at all scared of Hyde moving by himself. She seems to know about Shunpei’s grandfather being a magician, and is currently un-named.