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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:The SoulTaker: Tamashii-gari / SoulTaker
- Official name:The Soul Taker 〜魂狩〜
- Chinese name:魂狩
- Other names:The SoulTaker / The Soul Taker 〜魂狩〜
- Premiered:April 4, 2001
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Fantasy / Combat / Seek novelty / Source original
- Original author:タツノコプロ企画室
- Director:新房昭之
- Scenario:植竹須美男 / 荒木憲一 / 関島眞頼 / 久保田雅史
- Storyboard:井之川慎太郎 / 新房昭之 / 坂田純一 / さとうけいいち / 工藤進
- Co-director:浅見松雄 / 松園公 / 大原実 / 鈴木吉男 / 武本康弘
- Studios:タツノコプロ・タツノコVCR
- Production cooperation:SHAFT
- Producers:「The SoulTaker」製作委員会
- Family:SoulTaker
- Rating:12+
The SoulTaker: Tamashii-gari
In a post-apocalyptic world, Date Kyousuke is searching for his sister Runa. She has been kidnapped by an organization called the Kirihara Group. Along the way, he discovers that he has the ability to transform into a powerful being, the Soultaker, whenever he is severely injured or killed.
He is also searching for the reason why his mother stabbed him, to then commit suicide.
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EP1 - The Crest of the Devil
One day, a horrible thing happened. A mother killed his son named Kyosuke Date. Is this the end for him? Or is it the start of a new adventure?
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EP2 - The World is an Illusion
Kyosuke asks his new found friend Shiro why his mother killed him but he was not a big help. Meanwhile, Kirihara captures Maya so that they could run experiments on her. At the same time, Kyosuke dreams about Maya's struggles and sees an amusement park. He runs off and heads to the amusement park. Can Kyosuke save Maya? And what new enemies are awaiting his arrival in the amusement park?
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EP3 - The Skull and the Maiden
A girl is being chased by unknown people. Meanwhile, Kyosuke heads to the church to look at his mother's diary. At the church his eyes starts to bleed and the girl shows up claiming that she is his sister. Is this girl really his sister? Or is it a trap set by the Kirihara corporation?
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EP4 - The Slithering Darkness
A boarding house in the middle of the forest is the home for another flicker named Sayaka Tachibana. Outside the boarding house Kyosuke, with Shiro, observes the boarding house. Later, the houses nurses says that she will help them. Is this nurse really going to help them? Or is she a minion of Dr. Narugami?
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EP5 - Beyond the Human Realm
Kyosuke decides to infiltrate Kirihara's base so that he could save a Flicker named Kasumi. Meanwhile, Shiro heads to the core of the base with the intentions of destroying the Flicker Searcher. Kasumi and Kyosuke were attacked and were separated. Kyosuke goes into a room where a doctor was waiting for him. He transforms into SoulCrusher. Can Kyosuke defeat this new foe? And is Shiro successful in destroying the Flicker Searcher?
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EP6 - The Malevolent Stratospheric Castle
The battle against the SoulCrusher might be over but the danger for Kyosuke is still great. Now he is flying straight down to Earth and nothing can save him until he was teleported a floating fortress. There he meets a Flicker named Megumi who he starts to trust and actually like. Also in the ship is Zabo but he is in a state of suspended animation. Later, Megumi finally reveals her true form and expresses his anger towards Kyosuke. Can Kyosuke defeat her?
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EP7 - The Last of a Woman
On the riverside, Shiro, Komugi, and Kyosuke perform a riverside ritual were they put candles on boats in memory of dead love ones. But a mysterious woman appears that says that she is Kyosuke's birth mother. There she explains that Megumi is wrong about the things she said. Then a couple of Hospital mutants appear and Kyosuke was able to defeat them but Kyosuke got injured. He later wakes up with his mother and Richard Vincent is there for a visit.
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EP8 - Mask of Hell
Shiro reveals to Kyosuke that his sister, Yui, is the actual leader of the Kirahara group. Shiro says that her sister wants the Flickers so that she could find Runa. Also Shiro tells Kyosuke that he could have saved his mother but decided not to because only the mental trauma that he experience was the only thing that could awaken his mutant powers. Meanwhile, Nogumi is about to fight Yui's new monster she calls the SoulAnubis.
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EP9 - Phantom of a Beautiful Dead Woman
Kyosuke arrives to help Nogumi and when he did the SoulAnubis sees his cross and returns back to his human form. Kyosuke recognizes the face and it was Maya. Then Yui explains that she combined flickers to create this new beast including Shiro's girlfriend Suki. Meanwhile, Richard Vincent spots Nogumi and starts to heal her.
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EP10 - Sacrifice for Nothingness
Runa's signal has been lost and a strange underwater entity has told Yui to cut off their ties with the aliens. Meanwhile, Kyosuke decides to his father Vincent but Komugi tries to talk him out of it. Will Kyosuke really fight his father?
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EP11 - Demon on an Isolated Island
Kyosuke's life story is revealed. What will he do with the truth?
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EP12 - Madonna in Black
Kyosuke faces the final showdown on the Moon colony
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EP13 - The Last Inferno
Has Kyosuke become a complete devil?