Hatena Illusion


Hatena Illusion is a Japanese light novel series by Tomohiro Matsu, with illustrations by Kentaro Yabuki. A manga adaptation by Pochi Edoya began serialization online via Niconico Seiga website in November 2018. An anime television series adaptation by Children's Playground Entertainment premiered from January 9 to June 3, 2020.

Synopsis

Makoto Shiranui dreams of becoming a magician and arrives in Tokyo to become a student of the world-famous illusionist Mamoru Hoshisato, a friend of his family. At the station, he is robbed, and when he arrives at the teacher's mansion, it turns out that Kana, the daughter of his future teacher, has changed a lot. And now they do not understand each other at all.

Characters

;Makoto Shiranui
;Kana "Hatena" Hoshisato
;Yumemi Hoshisato
;Emma Sakurai
;Jeeves Wodehouse
;Mamoru Hoshisato
;Maeve Hoshisato
;Mariah Grene
;Kokomi Kikyōin

Media

Light novel

have published four volumes of the light novel series since 2014 under their Dash X Bunko imprint, with the latest volume published in November 2015. The series is unfinished owing to the author's death in May 2016. Shueisha later launched a new series, Hatena Illusion R, with the first volume being published on August 23, 2019.

''Hatena Illusion R''

Manga

Pochi Edoya launched a manga adaptation of the series in Niconico Seiga online website in November 2018. Shueisha published the first tankōbon volume on January 17, 2020.

Anime

In March 2017, an anime adaptation of Hatena Illusion was announced at AnimeJapan. The adaptation was later announced in 2019 to be a television series animated by Children's Playground Entertainment and directed by Shin Matsuo, with Tatsuya Takahashi handling series composition, Ruizu Nakano designing the characters, and Kenichi Kuroda composing the music. The series premiered from January 9 to June 3, 2020 on BS NTV, MBS, and Tokyo MX. Liyuu performed the series' opening theme song "Magic Words", while Aina Suzuki performed the series' ending theme song "Hikari Iro no Uta". Funimation has licensed the series for a simuldub.
Due to "various reasons", the 12th and final episode was postponed to June 3 from its April broadcast.