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(former) Released May 25, 2000 – August 25, 2000 Runtime 30 minutes (each) Episodes 3 Angel Sanctuary (: 天使禁猟区,: Tenshi Kinryōku) is a fantasy (targeted towards girls) manga series written and illustrated. Appearing as a in the from July 1994 to October 2000, the 120 chapters were collected and published in twenty by from February 1995 to February 2001. It focuses on Setsuna Mudo, a teenager who learns that he is the reincarnation of an angel who rebelled against Heaven. After the death of his sister, he travels through and to reunite with her. Angel Sanctuary is licensed by for an English-language release in North America.

Viz published it from March 2004 to June 2007. The manga was adapted into a three-episode (OVA) by and. Originally licensed by, the OVA is currently licensed. A series of based on the other story arcs was also released.

See also: Beginning in late twentieth-century Japan, Angel Sanctuary focuses on, a 16-year-old troubled high-school student who is in love with his 15-year-old sister. While struggling with his incestuous feelings for his sister, he learns that he is the reincarnation of, who led a rebellion against her fellow angels after witnessing their slaughter of the Evils, a group of demons, after God's disappearance. At the conclusion of the revolt, she sealed away her younger twin brother, within the Earth, emotionally unable to fulfill his request to be killed before he became insane and destructive.

Captured and branded a, Alexiel is punished by having her body frozen and her soul endlessly reincarnated as a human whose life is full of misery. While Rosiel is freed by his subordinate, Setsuna finds his life and Sara's endangered by various attempts to awaken Alexiel's dormant soul within him. Realizing they cannot bear to be separated, Setsuna and Sara run away together and consummate their love, in hope of starting a new life together. Sara eventually dies protecting Setsuna from one of Rosiel's subordinates. Devastated, Setsuna awakens Alexiel's soul, causing widespread damage.

Adam Kadamon, the angel closest to God, intervenes by turning back time to just after Alexiel's awakening and freezing time on Earth; she then tasks him with freeing her from her imprisonment. To search for Sara's soul, sent to Hell for incest, Setsuna's body enters a near-death state, and his soul searches for hers, eventually learning that it has been taken to Heaven. Sara, meanwhile, awakens in the body of, the archangel of water held captive; revealed to be her reincarnation, Sara is eventually returned to her original body, but finds herself impregnated by the angel, whose soul resides in his brother's body and who hopes that she will bear him a body.

After Rosiel absorbs him to gain his power, an act which speeds up his physical and mental decay, Sandolphon's remnants her, causing her to see Setsuna as a monster. Assisted by, ruler of the demons who loves Alexiel, Rosiel unseals the Tower of Etenamenki, where God rests, with Alexiel's body. Intent on restoring the Earth, Setsuna follows him, with Kurai and the and; along the way, he aids an injured Katan, who hopes to save Rosiel before he loses his to do so.

At the tower, Rosiel kills Katan, only to realize that he had killed the one he loved and tried to protect from himself; he then goes into a state of destructive despair. Awakening in her own body with Setsuna's help, Alexiel reveals to him that she had always loved him: because he had been born the opposite of his healthy sister, she bargained with God to save his life in exchange for her imprisonment, from which she later escaped with Lucifer, and an agreement to never show him any compassion. She then kills him, and absorbs him into her womb so that they will never be apart again. Before dying, Rosiel passes along his power to Setsuna.

Setsuna and his group find Adam Kadamon's head, used to nourish the unborn angels, and learn that she attempted to prevent God's plan of destroying humanity by hiding him and the tower from the angels and freezing time in hopes that Alexiel's reincarnation could save them. Because God draws power through Adam Kadamon, the archangels and Kurai seal her up, while Setsuna confronts God and encounters Sara and Lucifer there.

Sara overcomes her possession to cast out Sandolphon, and Setsuna defeats God with Lucifer's help. Time returns to normal on Earth, where Setsuna and Sara joyfully reunite at last. Development. Archangel Michael Hurls the Rebellious Angels into the Abyss (1666). As a middle-school student in her second year, Yuki found the story of, particularly, fascinating; in Angel Sanctuary, she offered her own interpretation of fictional angels, which differed from her thoughts on actual angels.: p.29 According to, the concept for Angel Sanctuary has been with her 'for the longest time.'

: p.119 Yuki conceived Angel Sanctuary after reading Nocturne, a book which focuses on an possessed by a demon, which a demon prince and princess wish to destroy; she was inspired to write about angels and demons in Tokyo. Later, she chose Setsuna for the protagonist of the series. During her research on angels, she learned about the, which she included in the series. The first character Yuki designed was Sara, originally named Sana, while the first episode imagined was one in which the protagonist's love interest 'was actually a living angel.'

The original title for the series was Coming of the Seraphim, which Yuki later decided against in favor of Angel Sanctuary, as she thought that 'angel' should be included in the title and 'sanctuary' had a sense of something 'forbidden' or 'against God'. She decided to set Angel Sanctuary in Japan in 'near future,' partially because the setting would be largely unchanged and partially because she had a wish to draw modern clothing styles and sailor uniforms.: p.57 As she had been already working on a successful, the mystery manga, she faced opposition towards her wish to begin another.: p.204 Initially, she was allowed only ten installments of Angel Sanctuary, which led her to worry about being able to properly end the story.: p.204 At that time, she had the character development up to Zaphikel's death scene and fragments of the plot. She found it difficult to construct a story to join the scenes she wanted to draw. Additionally, the original character designs underwent changes, only Kato's remained unchanged. Several angels were planned to make an appearance, but never did; among them were the Angel of the Yoke and the leader of the angels, Sakaki. During the serialization of Angel Sanctuary, she mistakenly titled the Gehenna as the Yetzirah arc, and was unable to correct it as several chapters had already appeared under the title; she corrected it for the tankōban release. As the manga takes place in July 1999, Yuki expressed a goal to complete the series by then.

For the conclusion, she originally had planned to use a tragic ending, but decided against it in favor of a, because she thought that it would be too upsetting for the fans to read after twenty volumes.: p.215 She wrote in her final that Setsuna and Sara have reached emotional maturity after their adventures and will live happily together.: p.215 Cultural references and influences In Angel Sanctuary, Yuki incorporated references to several mythologies. The series includes references to, with allusions to the,: pp.76–82 the mythical location, and.: p.66 Additionally, the demon Arachne takes her name from the weaver.: p.155 References to also appears, with allusions to and the dragon. Other mythologies alluded to include and; Yuki used quotes from the Bible periodically in the series.

Additionally, Yuki included references to real-life people, literature, and music. The character Katan shares his name with Katan Amano, a dollmaker. Kira's name is a reference to Japanese music group 's, while the minor character Kirie takes her name from a song.

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Moonlil, another minor character, was based on Japanese idol singer Hirosue., Yuki's German publisher, wrote that the in, and rock bands with androgynous musicians influenced the clothing of the angels and demons in the series. References to literature appeared in the series, such as Lewis Carroll's children's novel and the '.: p.92–3 Themes According to Yuki, 'forbidden love' served as the theme of Angel Sanctuary.: p.57 Reviewers have focused on a range of themes. Melinda Beasi, who has reviewed for PopCultureShock and, wrote that the theme of 'gender, and particularly unhappiness with one’s biological gender,' appears in the series. Active Anime's Holly Ellingwood commented that the issues examined in the series included, 'good and evil, the nature of humanity, and the essence of one’s soul'.

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States that Angel Sanctuary 's portrayal of incest adhered to 'a more classical tormented sense' which results in 'guilt, madness, and the punishment of heaven' for the characters. Media Manga. Main article: The chapters of Angel Sanctuary appeared twice a month as a in the from the 5 July 1994 issue to the 20 October 2000 issue. Collected and published the 120 chapters in twenty from 17 February 1995, to 19 February 2001. Hakusensha later re-released the series in ten volumes from 14 June 2002, to 13 June 2003. Angel Sanctuary is licensed by for an English-language release in North America, and published the series from 25 February 2004 to 12 June 2007. A digital edition was also published.

Angel Sanctuary has been translated into a variety of languages, among them Chinese, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, French, Russian, and Spanish. Audio drama.

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