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Magic Knight Rayearth (manga)

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Alternative title:
魔法騎士 (マジックナイト) レイアース (Japanese)
Guerreiras Mágicas de Rayearth (Portuguese)
Luchadoras de Leyenda (Spanish)
Rayearth
魔法騎士雷阿斯 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Themes: magical girl
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, girls from separate schools, find themselves linked together as they fall through the floor during a field trip to the Tokyo Tower. They land in a place called Cephiro, where their will controls what happens. They meet with Guru Clef and find out that they were summoned to save Princess Emeraude who has been imprisoned by High Priest Zagato. They learn magic and acquire weapons on their quest to save Cephiro from the evils of Zagato.
User Ratings: 443 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 35 votes (Eng:13, sub:10, dub:7, raw:2, others:3
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 German
)
 Excellent: 80 votes (Eng:33, dub:23, sub:15, ?:3, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:3
1 Spanish
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Very good: 118 votes (Eng:57, dub:21, sub:20, ?:5, raw:2, raw:1, edit.dub:1, others:11
3 French subtitled
3 Portuguese
1 Russian
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian
1 German
)
 Good: 113 votes (Eng:63, sub:24, dub:13, ?:5, others:8
1 German subtitled
1 Portuguese
1 Swedish subtitled
1 Danish
1 Chinese (Taiwan)
1 French dubbed
1 German
1 French
)
 Decent: 52 votes (Eng:28, dub:8, sub:7, ?:2, raw:2, raw:1, edit.dub:1, others:3
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 French
)
 So-so: 27 votes (Eng:19, sub:2, ?:2, dub:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 Portuguese
)
 Not really good: 10 votes (sub:5, Eng:4, others:1
1 French edited dub
)
 Weak: 7 votes (Eng:6, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Bad: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1106 users, rank: #51 (of 6694)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.483 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5297, rank: #2247 (of 7414)
Weighted mean: 7.398 (Good+), rank: #2685 (of 7414) (seen all: 7.56 / seen some: 6.69 / won't finish: 4.88)
Bayesian estimate: 7.401 (Good+), rank: #1757 (of 3483)
Number of tankoubon: 3
Vintage:
1993-11 to 1995-02 (serialized in Nakayoshi)
2006-08-25 to 2006-10-25 (Sweden)
Release dates: We have 24
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Graphic novel
    Magic Knight Rayearth (GN 1) 2003-08-05 (from $7.84)
    Magic Knight Rayearth (GN 2) 2003-10-14 (from $4.99)
    Magic Knight Rayearth (GN 3) 2003-12-09 (from $2.49)
    Magic Knight Rayearth - Box Set (GN 1-3) 2002-11-19
    Magic Knight Rayearth [Omnibus] (GN) 2007-06-12 (from $50.00)
    Magic Knight Rayearth [Omnibus] (GN) 2011-07-19 (from $6.31)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: CLAMP
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Kodansha
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Anita Sengupta
Melissa Tanaka (2019)

Adaptation: Jamie S. Rich
Associate Editor:
Jake Forbes (Vol. 4-5)
Katherine Kim (Vol. 5-6)
Copy Editing: Bryce Coleman
Cover Design:
Patrick Hook
Phil Balsman (2019)
Design: Kat Larson (Omnibus)
Editorial Assistant: Annie Gullion (Omnibus)
Graphic Assistant:
Dao Sirivisal (Vol. 6)
Steve Kindernay (Vol. 4-6)
Graphic Design: Akemi Imafuku
Layout: Monalisa DeAsis
Lettering:
Abigail Blackman (2019)
John Clark (Omnibus)
Production manager: Fred Lui
Publisher: Mike Richardson (Omnibus)
Retouch:
Aristotle Licuan (Vol. 3)
Carol Conception (Vol. 5)
Henry Liao (Vol. 3)
Jinky De Leon (Vol. 5)
John Clark (Omnibus)
Paul Kahle (Vol. 3)
Romualdo Viray II (Vol. 6)
Roselyn Santos (Vol. 5)
Wilbert Lucana (Vol. 4, 6)
Special Thanks To:
Jake Forbes (Omnibus)
Jemiah Jefferson (Omnibus)
John Schork (Omnibus)
Kiyokazu Fujimoto (Omnibus)
Michael Gombos (Omnibus)
Yoshie Yokoi (Omnibus)
VP of Publishing: Henry Kornman
(none)
English companies
Licensed by:
Dark Horse Comics (2011)
Kodansha Comics (2019)
Tokyopop
French cast
French staff
Translation:
Myriam Saint-Pierre (Vol. 1)
Raphaël Pasquier (Vol. 1)

Adaptation: François Jacques (Vol. 2-6)
(none)
French companies
Publisher: Pika Édition
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation:
Nacha Medrano (Spain)
Noriko Kishimoto (Spain)

Design: Verónica Casas (Spain)
Digital Editing: Ximena Bolbarán (Spain)
Digital Edition: Fernando Miranda (Spain)
Editing: Mari Carmen Vila (Spain)
Logo Design:
Ferran Delgado (Spain)
Pere Olivé (Spain)
(none)
Spanish companies
Licensed by:
Editorial Ivréa (Argentina)
Kamite Comics (Mexico)
Publisher:
Norma Editorial (Spain; 2009)
Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Spain)
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Norma Editorial)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Director: Claudia Bovini
Translation: Rie Zushi

Adaptation: Andrea Baricordi
Amnistration: Maria Grazia Acacia
Lettering: Sabrina Daviddi
Printing: Grafiche Bovini
Proofreader: Monica Carpino
Publishing Director: Giovanni Bovini
Technical Supervision: Sergio Selvi
(none)
Italian companies
German staff
German companies
(none)
Publisher: Carlsen Comics
German cast
(none)
Portuguese cast
Portuguese staff
Translation: Arnaldo Oka (both editions)
(none)
Portuguese companies
Publisher: JBC
Swedish staff
Swedish cast
Translation: Simon Lundström
(none)
Swedish companies
Publisher: Bonnier Carlsen
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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