Gate 7


Gate 7 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It was originally published as a one-shot in December 2010, and later began serialization in the March 2011 issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine. It concerns a young student who visits a shrine in Kyoto and meets a beautiful childlike female-looking warrior who invites him to fight supernatural enemies. The manga is licensed in English in North America by Dark Horse Comics.

Plot

Gate 7 follows Chikahito Takamoto, a secondary school student whose strong interest in history brings him to Kyoto, where he meets a beautiful childlike warrior named Hana, who fights supernatural enemies with the aid of Tachibana and Sakura, two young men with magical powers of their own. The trio of Hana, Tachibana, and Sakura are members of the Urashichiken Hanamachi, a secret society dedicated to waging battle against otherworldly creatures that appear in Kyoto.
As Chikahito soon learns, the Urashichiken's battles go back to the Sengoku era in Japan, when warlords and other key figures attempted to defeat their rivals by forming blood contracts with powerful spiritual beings known as Oni. Since then, many of masters of the Oni have reincarnated in the present, with the Urashichiken's current leader being the reincarnation of Toyotomi Hidetsugu, and they struggle to find the long-missing body of Oda Nobunaga in order to obtain the most powerful Oni of all. Chikahito inexplicably finds himself in the midst of the otherworldly spaces where the battles are fought as he begins his new life in Kyoto.

Characters

Main characters

;Hana
;Chikahito Takamoto
;Tachibana
;Sakura

Historical figures

;Toyotomi Hidetsugu
;Tokugawa Iemitsu
;Date Masamune

Publication

Gate 7 debuted as a one-shot in the monthly Japanese manga magazine Jump Square in the December 2010 issue, before returning to the magazine as a serial in the March 2011 issue. Four bound volumes have been compiled and published from June 3, 2011 to February 4, 2013.
Dark Horse Comics licensed the series for an English-language translation in North America and published the four volumes from October 19, 2011, to July 17, 2013. It has also been licensed in Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Volume list

Reception