12 Beast

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Written by Okayado Demographic Shōnen Original run May 9, 2013 – present		Published by Fujimi Shobo Imprint Dragon Comics Age Magazine Monthly Dragon Age

English publisher Seven Seas Entertainment Publishers Seven Seas Entertainment (US), Fujimi Shobo Genres Action fiction, Adventure, Fantasy Similar Monster Musume, Nurse Hitomi's Monster I, Isuca, Iris Zero, A Centaur's Life

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12 Beast (Japanese: トゥエルヴビースト, Hepburn: Tueruvu Bīsuto) is an ongoing Japanese action adventure shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Okayado. The series is published by Fujimi Shobo in Japan, and by Seven Seas Entertainment in the United States.

Summary

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Touga Eita is a highschool student and video-game otaku. He is the heir to the Touga style Ninjitsu, and he has never kissed a girl. All this changes when a voluptuous girl with wings and taloned feet named Aero appears and calls on Eita to help save her people-the harpies of Re-Verse-from the merciless onslaught of giant robot monsters known as Gigas. Aero revels that she was sent to find him, by his missing brother. Eita will follow his newfound harpy friend into a whole new world, filled with monster girls and fantastical creatures beyond his wildest dreams.

Characters

Touga Eita (刀（とう）牙（が）衛（えい）太（た）, Tōga Eita): A teenage boy who just wants to be left alone to play video games. His grandfather is a ninja who trains him him every day in order to have him inherit his dojo, despite he refuses to do so. Tough suffers from a severe inferiority complex, due to his elder brother seducing every woman he comes into contact with. After being summoned to Re-verse, he obtains a gauntlet from Asterio that has the power of fusing with any of his companions, to increase his powers.

Aero (エアロ, Earo): A female Harpy who asks Eita to help her save her world, taking him to Re-verse and becoming his first traveling companion. She is the first to fuse with his gauntlet, providing him with extreme speed and strength.

Jawea (ジャウェア, Jawea): A female Harpy war leader who has her doubts about Eita, but joins him nonetheless as his second traveling companion, and eventually comes to trust him. During the battle for the fish-people's village, she lost her right wing and decided to leave Eita's party. It should be noted that before leaving she exchanged email addresses with Eita.

Asterio (アステリオ, Asuterio): A female Minotaur and master blacksmith who forges a new gauntlet for Eita and later joins him as his third traveling companion. When she fuses with his Gauntlet, she grants him the ability of metal remolding.

Steela : A Sea witch, with the lower half of an Octopus. She joins them and provides them with transportation in the form of her house, a huge hermit crab, whose shell functions as her house. She sleeps in a jar.

Freki : A member of the werewolf clan, and the fifth addition to Eita's gang. Flake is the werewolf clan's strongest lone wolf, due to the fact that she hunts alone, resulting in her feared reputation, this is actually a facade, and she is really just very shy. She attempts to start a conversation with Eita when trapped in a cave, but only distances herself.

Kouki Touga : Eita's elder brother, his endless womanizing is what ends up turning Eita into a recluse. Not wanting to inherit his grandfather's dojo, he left a year before the story begins on a "worldwide-girl experiencing trip". It is revealed that he actually came to Re-verse, his current location is unknown.

Release

Okayado launched the series in the June 2013 issue of Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine on May 9, 2013. When Age Premium was shut down on July 9, 2015, the series was one of five titles transferred to Monthly Dragon Age. The chapters have been compiled into four tankōbon volumes as of June 2016.

North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced their license to the series on July 30, 2014.

Reception

On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave volume one an overall grade of C, calling the story generic and textbook. She found the art to be interesting and that the characters distinctive, comparing the series to Okayado's Monster Musume characters. Also on Anime News Network, Lynzee Lamb listed the series at number four on a list of "7 Manga for Monster Girl Lovers".

Two volumes of the English translation have made it onto the New York Times Manga Best Sellers list:

Volume 2 stayed for one week, debuting at number 3.

Volume 3 stayed for two weeks, debuting at number 3.

References

12 Beast Wikipedia

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