Dark Gathering, a series currently being serialized in Jump SQ, is scheduled to be adapted into an anime in July 2023! In order to fight against the evil spirit that has taken away the spirit of the protagonist's mother, the protagonist must gather and combine the truly terrifying evil spirits that appear all over the place to create the ultimate evil spirit to fight back! The story combines spine-chilling horror elements with elements of Pokémon and Megami Tensei. Today, we'd like to introduce you to Takarazuki Yoyoi, one of the main characters of Dark Gathering, a genius elementary school student who struggles to save her from a terrible evil spirit!
Takarazuki Yoyoi's encounter with Gentogawa Keitaro!
The protagonist, Gentogawa Hotarutaro, has been living a semi-reclusive life due to his extremely powerful psychic abilities, which could potentially harm those around him. However, with the help of his childhood friend, Takarazuki Eiko, he is able to return to society and go on to college. After entering college, he takes a part-time job as a tutor, and is assigned to tutor Takarazuki Yayoi, Eiko's elementary school cousin. Even though she is only an elementary school student, Yayoi's psychic abilities are so strong that Hotarutaro, who is particularly sensitive to spiritual beings, can instantly recognize them.
Crazy Occult Troll, Takarazuki Yayoi!
As soon as Hotarutaro goes to tutor him, Yayoi takes him to a seriously haunted spot and encounters genuine paranormal phenomena. While this terrifying experience would normally be enough to drive anyone crazy, he remains completely unfazed, leading Hotarutaro to call him Crazy Occult Trolli.
He's also a crazy occult genius elementary school student!
Hotarou is Yayoi's private tutor, but Yayoi is so intelligent that she can easily solve even the most difficult questions on the junior high school entrance exam, making it unclear whether she even needs a private tutor. Yayoi's IQ has been assessed at 160 in intelligence tests. However, she wasn't originally a genius elementary school student; her IQ skyrocketed after a certain incident. The incident involved her parents being killed in a car crash. Yayoi was also caught up in the accident, but miraculously escaped injury, and her IQ skyrocketed immediately after the incident.
Yayoi Takarazuki has skull-shaped pupils that allow her to see both the real world and the otherworld!
Yayoi's skull-shaped pupils allow her to see both normal and dark scenes overlapping in one eye. After the accident a year ago, this blurring completely disappeared, allowing her to clearly distinguish between the real world and the otherworld. During the accident, she witnessed her mother's spirit being taken away by something powerful, and she began visiting haunted locations in an attempt to bring her mother's spirit back.
A genius girl with a calm and collected personality!
No matter how terrifying the evil spirits she faces, Yayoi remains calm and collected. She rarely changes her expression even in her everyday life, and has a very laid-back personality. Although she's a young girl with an inhuman quality that even evil spirits fear, she often acts without regard for her own life when facing death, especially when facing the lives of Keitaro and Eiko. However, even in such situations, she rarely changes her expression. Although she's an inhuman elementary school student, she has a kind and humane personality.
He's actually a regular elementary school student!
While you might think he doesn't attend school because he regularly goes out to capture evil spirits, deals with dangerous demons, and has a private tutor, he actually does. As a freeloader living with Eiko, he doesn't want to cause trouble for her parents, but if possible, he'd like to devote all his time to collecting evil spirits.
A professional demon fighter! Aim to become an evil spirit master!
She has a vast knowledge of evil spirits and an extraordinary understanding of their nature and how to deal with them. It is her role to actually contain and defeat evil spirits, and she deals with even the most dangerous demons with quick thinking and judgment that are hard to believe for an elementary school student. She visits scary haunted places, seals away the evil spirits, and collects them in her room.
Evil Spirit Fusion! Dark Gathering!
She visits scary haunted spots to capture the terrifying evil spirits that haunt them and collect them in her room. However, her ultimate goal is to "make the captured evil spirits fight each other in the room, cannibalizing them and using the surviving, powerful spirits as a fighting force." The poisoned evil spirits become even more dangerous, but her ultimate goal is to use their power to defeat the mysterious "Kuun," who abducted her mother's spirit.
A young girl feared by evil spirits! Do weaker evil spirits not want to get close to her?
Yayoi's strong psychic abilities make him easily captivated by evil spirits, and he begins to capture spirits that sense his presence. However, Yayoi's psychic abilities are even stronger than Hotarutaro's, making him vulnerable to evil spirits. However, evil spirits rarely attack Yayoi himself. Hotarutaro analyzes that this may be because he captures evil spirits and poisons them, which is why evil spirits fear him.
The culmination of the Majiyaba Dark Gathering is the "Graduates" from the room!
The incredibly powerful evil spirits born from gathering and poisoning spirits cannot be kept in Yayoi's room because they could penetrate it and negatively affect the surrounding area. They are kept in a separate location. These powerful evil spirits are called "Graduates" because they have graduated from the room. While incredibly powerful, with a few exceptions, they are not friendly and can cause harm if used improperly. By gathering these "Graduates" and pitting them against Kuon, Yayoi hopes to achieve his ultimate goal.
[Dark Gathering] Takarazuki Yoyoi Summary
We've introduced Takarazuki Yoyoi, the occult-minded young girl who is one of the main characters in Dark Gathering, a summer anime scheduled to air from July 2023! This is a story about capturing, raising, and battling seriously evil spirits, a truly evil, fully-fledged Pokémon battle. Like the Pokémon anime, this story unfolds with truly terrifying encounters with evil spirits, and ultimately captures them. It's a scary horror story, but also somehow exciting! I think it will be a powerful horror story when it becomes an anime, so it's scary, but I'm looking forward to it!
