The popular Japanese anime "Spell Return" also launched a movie version in the winter of 2021, and the fever continues! Want to understand what the plot of "Spell Return" is playing, this article helps you sort out the story content of comics and animations, as well as the life and death list of important characters who die and who survives, and people who are not afraid of spoilers will continue to watch!
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▋ "Spell Return" plot summary: the number of anime and manga episodes is compared, and the story of each chapter is introduced
Spell Return is a manga that began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen JUMP on March 5, 2018, written by Wasami Shimotsu. The work was broadcast in October 2020 in an animated version, produced by animation company MAPPA, with a novel world view, three-dimensional character descriptions, and gorgeous battle scenes, which has become a popular masterpiece, which is currently seen on major well-known OTT platforms in Taiwan, and Netflix is also on the shelves in June. The manga delicately lays out the personality and relationship of the characters, and the anime designs innovative "spells" and other fighting methods under the premise that the plot is faithful to the original, and it is recommended that people who like to work with gray and whimsical colors are recommended to watch it on both sides!
The anime has now aired one season (24 episodes), and the manga has launched 16 episodes as of June 4, 2021, so let's help you sort out the number of episodes of the manga and anime! (Click on the name of the number of articles in the key content column, you can jump directly to the content introduction of the chapter)
| animation | Manga corresponds to the number of episodes | Highlights |
| Episodes 1 to 3 | Episode 1 episodes 1 to 5 | The story begins |
| Episodes 4 to 5 | Episode 1 episode 6 ~ Episode 2 episode 9 | Spell tire wear heaven |
| Episodes 6-8 | Episode 2 episode 10 ~ Episode 3 episode 18 | Knotweed posthumous |
| Episodes 9-13 | Episode 3 episode 19 ~ Episode 4 episode 31 | Juvenile fish and reverse punishment |
| Episodes 14-21 | Episode 4 episode 32 ~ Episode 7 episode 54 | Exchange sessions |
| Episodes 22-24 | Episode 7 episode 55 ~ Episode 8 episode 64 | The beginning is the same |
| Not yet made | Episode 8 episode 65 ~ Episode 9 episode 79 | Past Chapters (Huaiyu Chapter, Jade Folding Chapter) |
| Episode 9 episode 79 ~ Episode 10 episode 82 | Supper festival | |
| Episode 10 episode 83 ~ Episode 16 episode 136 | Shibuya Incident | |
| Episode 16 episode 137~ | After the Shibuya Incident, death returns to the tour chapter | |
| Movie version of the content | Episode 0 | Ethyl bone worry too much |
The basic worldview of "Spell Return": negative emotions produce "spell spirits", and "spell spell masters" are responsible for fighting spell spirits
"Spell Return" takes modern Japan as the story stage, the basic setting is that when people have negative emotions such as bitterness, regret, and shame, they will form "spell spirits" that harm mankind, resulting in more than 10,000 "unknown deaths" or "disappearances" in Japan every year, and only spellcasters can fight with them and remove spells. There is a "Spell Higher Training College" in Tokyo and Kyoto, which is responsible for training potential people to become spellcasters, and each spellcaster can develop different combat skills through blood inheritance, experience or training.
If you want to know more about the basic settings of "Spell Return", you can refer to "3 minutes to understand what "Spell Back" plays!" essay!
The story begins: Knotweed becomes a two-faced "vessel" and enters the High School of Spells
The protagonist of the story, Knotweed Yujin, is a high school student with a super developed motor nerve, and in order to care for his hospitalized grandfather, he participates in the Psychic Phenomenon Society that can go home early. On the day of his grandfather's death, Fukuroe, a student who claimed to be from Tokyo's High School of Spells, told Knotweed that the "wooden box" he had picked up a while earlier was a dangerous special spell. However, the wooden box had already been handed over to the elder sister of the Psychic Phenomenon Society, and the two rushed to the school, and in a critical moment, Knotweed remembered his grandfather's last words to "save others as much as he could", so he swallowed the special spell "Curse Finger" to give himself the power of the spell and repel the spell.
Although the spell spirit was repelled, the knotweed shared its body with the two-faced sukuto of the cursed finger, known as the king of the curse, and became a "dangerous person" in the eyes of the spell world, and was even sentenced to death. However, under the sponsorship of Gojo Goku, the teacher of Tokyo Spells High School and known as the strongest spellsman, the suspended knotweed became a student of Tokyo Spells High School, and in addition to learning the technique of removing spells, he also had to lead the crowd to find the other fingers of the squire as a "reconnaissance device", and then be executed after all of them were recovered. Later, another female classmate, "Spike No rose", also joined the Spell High School.
The Trio goes on a mission and Knotweed dies
Knotweed, Fukuro, and Naosaki were sent to the Western Tokyo Shonen Temple, where the special spell spirit "Curse Tire" appeared, to investigate whether there were any survivors inside. As soon as the three of them stepped into the facility, they were trapped in it, and the knotweed dragged the special spell spirit, asking Fukuro to rescue Nailsaki first, and then let SuKuro dominate the body to fight against the special spell spirit. Although successfully victorious, knotweed was unable to regain its body for a while, so Su Dai engaged in a fierce battle with Fukuro and dug out the heart of Knotweed to balance Fuhei. When Fu Hei is in danger, Knotweed chooses to regain his body to save his partner, and in the end, Knotweed dies of losing his heart.
After the Death of Knotweed: Knotweed is resurrected and specially trained, and Fukuro Nailsaki prepares for the exchange meeting
After the death of knotweed, he was brought back to the high school, but suddenly resurrected, it turned out that when he died, he made a contract with Su Dao, and when he woke up, he was forced to forget the contents of the contract. In order not to let the knotweed be designed by people with hearts, Gojo Gojo first hid him and began special training. Fukuro and Nagasaki, who thought that knotweed was dead, joined the second-year senior sisters, Cat Bear, Zenin Masaki, and Inuyasha to prepare for an exchange meeting with the Kyoto School of Spells.
The cursed master "Xia Youjie", who had planned a large-scale curse attack on the "Hundred Ghosts night walk", secretly planned with the special spell spirit "Leaky Hu" to seal the Five Goku on October 31 and annihilate mankind. Missing Hu chose to sneak up on Wujo in one night, but was completely crushed by Wujo's powerful combat power, and was rescued by the spell spirit partner "Hana Yu" in the chaos.
Juvenile Fish and Reverse Punishment: The Shunhei Incident of Yoshino, the Curse Spirit "True Man" Who Meets The Enemy
Knotweed and a first-class spellcaster "Seven Seas Kenjin" investigate a strange murder in a movie theater in Kanagawa Prefecture, and find that high school student "Shunpei Yoshino" has appeared at the scene, and in order to investigate Shunping, Knotweed and Shunpei contact and become friendly after getting along. The Seven Seas confronted the special spell "Real Man", who committed the murder in the cinema, and both sides were injured.
Shunping's mother was killed by a curse, and through the malicious inducement of the real person, Shunping mistakenly believed that it was the bully of the school, so he performed the magic of the real person to wreak havoc in the school. In order to persuade Shunping to fight against him, Knotweed once calmed Down Shunping, but the real person suddenly appeared and performed a magic "Inaction Transformation" to transform Shunping into a reformer, resulting in Shunping's death. The grief-stricken knotweed joined forces with the arriving Seven Seas to strike together, and finally the real man was defeated.
Exchange Session: Tokyo School vs. Kyoto School, Spell Chaos Enters the War
On the day of the exchange meeting, knotweed finally met with Fukuro and Nichizaki and their party to go to Kyoto School together. The head of the Kyoto school, Rakuganji Yoshinori, as a conservative leader in the field of spells, regarded the knotweed that shared his body with Suzuku as a thorn in his eye and asked the students to find an opportunity to get rid of the knotweed during the exchange meeting. Due to the temporary entry of knotweed, he was responsible for dragging the strongest 3rd grade student in Kyoto School, "Higashido Aoi", in the battle, Higashido thought that knotweed's personality and preferences were very compatible with him, so he regarded him as a "brother", stopped the raids of other Kyoto school students, and had to have a one-on-one duel with knotweed.
When the various sides were fiercely fighting, the spell spirit invaded the high school campus, and Fukuroe, Inuka Date, Zenin Masaki, Kamo Kenki of the 3rd grade of Kyoto School, and Hana Go, were defeated one after another, and finally stopped by the combined forces of Higashido and knotweed, plus the fatal blow of Gojo to force back the spell spirit. However, the real person hiding in the shadows has stolen the special spell in the custody of the high school, including the other fingers of the suku. After the incident, the exchange resumed, and the second game, which had been a personal duel, was changed to a baseball game under the decision of the lottery, and finally the exchange meeting was won by the Tokyo School.
The beginning of the same chapter: Fu Hei past chapter, the trio combat strength to a higher level
After the meeting, knotweed, Fukuro, and Nichizaki went to Saitama Prefecture to investigate three cases of curse killings with the same precursor, and all three victims graduated from the same national high school, which was Fukuro's alma mater. After the investigation, it was found that the three victims had also had experience bouncing at the height of the "Eighty-Eight Bridge", which is known as a suicide resort in the local area, and Fukuro's former classmate Fujinuma contacted them and mentioned that he had also tried his guts, and Fukuro's sister Tsumaki also went with them because she was worried about everyone.
Fukuro confesses to the two that Tsumiko is still in a coma after being cursed, and in order to prevent her sister from encountering danger, the three decide to remove the spell immediately. The three of them encounter the "Nine Phases of the Curse Fetus" brothers who cooperate with Xia Youjie's faction, "Bad Phase" and "Blood Coating", and finally successfully remove the spell spirit. Through a series of events, Knotweed, Fukuro, Nailzaki, Makoto, and Cat Bear are recommended as first-class spellcasters. The plot of the first season of the animation came to an end here, the popular anime title song "廻廻奇谭" MV laid out a lot of in line with the plot, listen to the song to take a break, and once again feel the interesting world view of "Spell Return"!
Past Chapter (Huaiyu Chapter): Gojo Xiayou High School Era
The story jumps back 12 years, when Gojo Goku and Natsuya were still students at Tokyo Spell High School. The thousand-year-old spellcaster "Tianyuan", who possessed the immortal spell, was weakening day by day, and it was time to assimilate with the suitable human body "Star Pulp Body". Spell High School 2 students Gojo and Natsuyu are assigned the task of protecting the Star Pulp, the human girl Ritsuko. Although the two are powerful, the religious group "Panxing Sect" secretly bribes "Fuheier", known as the sorcerer's killer, and although Shir has no spell power, he has superhuman physical ability because of "Heaven and Spell Binding", and Shir successfully kills Wujo, defeats Xia You, and successfully kills Tian.
After Shir handed over the body of the heaven to the Panxing Sect, Gojo suddenly appeared, and it turned out that Gojo used the reversal technique to revive himself and finally kill Shir. Before his death, Shir revealed to Gojo that he had sold his son Fukuroe to his own Family Zen-in family. Gojo and Xia You went to the Panxing Sect to regain the corpses in the sky, but looking at the unrepentant smiles of the believers, the two of them were shaken and changed in their hearts.
Past Chapter (Jade Fold): Gojo Xiayou parted ways due to different ideals
Gojo, who was promoted to the 3rd grade, became a special spellcaster with Natsuyu. However, after his death within a few days, Natsuo wavered in his belief in "using spells to protect ordinary people without spells", and after talking to another special spellcaster, "Ninety-Nine Yuki", he began to have the idea of "killing all non-magicians". After trusting his descendants to die on a mission, Xia You witnessed the tragic situation of the two spellcaster girls who were abused by the villagers, and finally he killed the villagers in turn, and defected from the spell master and spell world, stealing the position of the leader of the Panxing Sect. Natsuo is determined to create a world of only magicians, gojo wants to educate new blood to change the corruption of the spell world, and the strongest partners part ways.
Supper Festival: "Undercover" and Yukiyoshi's counterattack, Shibuya Incident outpost battle
The point in time goes back to now. A series of incidents occurred at the high school, so it has always been suspected that there is an undercover agent who is in contact with the spell spirit and the curse master, and it turns out to be a second-year student of the Kyoto School of Spells High School, "Yoyukiyoshi" (Mechanical Maru). Influenced by the "Heaven and The Curse", Yuyukiyoshi was born with a disability but had powerful spells, but the endless pain of his body made him miserable, so he made an agreement with the real person, asking the other party to treat his body through the "Transformation of Inaction", on the premise that he would not shoot kyoto school students, he would exchange information from the high school in exchange. After Yukiyoshi's body was healed, he used a huge armored golem to fight with the real person, and finally died in the battle with Yukiyoshi.
Shibuya Incident: The strongest spellcaster Gojo Goku is sealed, and the two camps suffer heavy casualties
On October 31, 2018, the "tent" of isolated internal and external space was lowered near Shibuya Station, and ordinary citizens did not know that they had become hostages. Gojo went to solve the problem alone, and the others also went to the Shibuya area one after another to stand by. When Gojo and the other spell spirits were fiercely fighting, Xia You, who had been secretly arranging in the past and never showing his face, suddenly appeared in front of him and activated the special spell "Prison Gate Frontier". Gojo hesitates when he sees the dead Natsuo, and is sealed, and he discovers that the person in front of him is not Natsuo, but "someone" who usurped Natsuo's flesh. Gojo is sealed, and the "Mini Mechanical Pill", an insurance mechanism set up by Yukiyoshi during his lifetime, is activated, and the knotweed and his party are informed of the current situation of the seal of Gojo and the truth about the fake summer oil.
In order to snatch the five sealed ones, the spellcaster, the spell spirit, and the curse master fought fiercely. The knotweed that was fed its fingers was temporarily usurped by Su Yu and killed him, killing Him at the same time. Fukuro loses consciousness after summoning the destructive god "Demon Void" that has not yet been subdued, and is saved by Suzuku. After knotweed regains consciousness, he witnesses Thatizusaki being hit by Makoto's magic and falls to the ground, and Seven Seas, who was seriously injured after fighting with Fuhu earlier, was also killed by Makoto in front of Knotweed. Furious, knotweed and zhenren are about to be defeated, fake summer oil appears and absorbs the real person into his body, ninety-nine Yuki rescues the knotweed and his party, and false summer oil finally leaves with the prison gate frontier sealed five.
After the Shibuya Incident, Death Returns to the Tour: "Savior" Otoko joins in and opens a new chapter
After the Shibuya Incident, Tokyo became a ruined city ravaged by curse spirits, and the spell community also issued orders to execute (fake) Natsuo, natsu oil's "accomplice" Gojo Goku was permanently exiled by the spell world, "instigated" Natsuyu and Gojo's Tokyo Spell High School Principal NightMoth Masamichi to be executed, revoked the "probation" of knotweed and executed immediately, and the Tokyo Spell High School 2nd grade student and special spellcaster "Otome" also returned from overseas to Japan as the executioner of knotweed.
At the same time, the head of the Zen-in family, Zen-in Naobi, died of his wounds in the Shibuya Incident, and was originally designated to be inherited by Naoya, a concubine, but was restricted by the condition that "if Gojo Goku dies or loses his ability to become the head of the Zen-in family", Naoya holds a grudge and is determined to kill knotweed and Fukuro. Knotweed kills when he is controlled by Su Dao, blessing himself for not returning to the high school, so he echoes outside to remove the spell spirit as his survival goal, and one of the nine phases of the spell fetus, the special spell spirit "Swelling Phase", has been with him, because he discovers that the knotweed may be the truth of his brother.
Otome, Knotweed, Bulbophyllum, and Naoya clashed, Otome killed Knotweed, and Otome defeated Naoya, and when Otome treated Naoya, he was required to report to the top that Knotweed was dead. Later, Ethyl uses the reversal technique to revive the Tiger Tent and causes knotweed to meet Fukuro. Fukuro tells Knotweed that the new death game "Death and Death Return" has been launched, and his sister Tsunami has also been involved, hoping that Knotweed can help him.
Led by Ninety-Nine Yuji, the group travels to the Xuexing Palace where Tianyuan is located to obtain more information about the Death and Destruction Return Tour. Tianyuan also explained that two of the five seals had been broken by the five of themselves, and the only remaining key was the spellcaster "Laiqihua", who claimed to be an angel and was also involved in the journey of death and destruction. Tianyuan demanded that someone must stay as his bodyguard, and finally ninety-nine and Bloat were in charge.
Shinki returns to the Zen temple house in order to recover the spell, only to be knocked down by her father Zen temple fan, and her sister Zhenyi is also seriously injured. The two sisters are thrown by their father into a room full of second-level spells and are usually used for training or execution, and Zhenyi uses all his strength to make weapons for Zhenxi, and before dying, he takes away all the spells on Zhenxi's body and asks Zhenxi to "destroy everything". Losing his spell power, Makoto became like Fukuhei, who had the "Heaven and The Curse", and with his enhanced physical ability, he killed the Zen Academy's "Body Club" and key members. (This is the progress of the 150th episode published on May 31, 2021)
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Strange things often happen to high school student Otoko, who is possessed by the Ome Bamboo Horse "Kibunrika", who has died and transformed into a powerful spell spirit. One day, Rika attacks four students who bully Otome, stuffing them into a locker, and their uncontrolled actions are discovered by the High School of Spells. Otome was sentenced to a secret sentence and originally bent on death, but at the suggestion of Gojo, he entered the Tokyo Spell High School to learn how to remove spells, and met his classmates Cat Bear, Zen Yuan Makoshi and Dog Roll, and cultivated feelings during training, while gradually discovering the strength of Rika's ability.
The cursed master Natsuyu saw The powerful power of Rika's spell and launched the "Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk" incident, releasing a thousand curse spirits in Shinjuku and Kyoto, and issuing a massacre order. He took advantage of the lax defense to go deep into the high school, intending to kill the Otoko and take away Li Xiang. Xia You severely injured the Spell Master, Cat Bear, Zhen Xi, and Dog rolled up and were seriously injured, and in anger, Otoko released a complete form of Li Xiang at the cost of his life to repel Xia You, and Xia You encountered Wu Jo when he fled, and was finally killed by Wu Jo himself. After investigation, it was found that Otoko and Gojo were descendants of the three major Japanese spirits "Sugawara Michimasa", so they all had powerful spells, and Otoko could not accept it because he witnessed Rika's death, so he let Rika's soul become a curse, and after Otoko was released, he decided to release Rika's soul free.
As of the progress of the series, the life and death of important characters in "Spell Return"
► Spellcasters, spell masters
| role | Situation |
| Knotweed Yuren | [Survival] Meets Fukuro to rescue Fukuro's sister Tsumaki, who is caught up in the "Death and Death Return Tour" |
| Fukuroe | [Survival] Rendezvous with knotweed to rescue Fukuro's sister Tsumaki, who is caught up in the "Death and Death Return Tour" |
| Nailed to the wild rose | [Life and Death Unknown] He was "killed" by a real person during the Shibuya Incident, but because he was immediately taken away by his supporting partner, he has not yet said his whereabouts |
| Gojo Goku | 【Sealed】Sealed during the Shibuya Incident |
| Kento Nanami | 【Death】Seriously injured by Yukihu during the Shibuya Incident, he was finally killed by a real person, and before he died, he entrusted knotweed with "After that, please ask you" |
| giant panda | [Survival] After the Shibuya Incident, he was used as a bait to lure the night moth to the right way, and saw the night moth die at the hands of TheRagusa Temple |
| Zen-in Makoto | 【Survival】 In the Shibuya Incident, he was severely injured by Leakhu and was once in a state of near death, but after being cured, he still left burn scars, and when he returned to the Zen Temple, he was secretly calculated by his father and killed under the sacrifice of his sister Zhenyi |
| Dog roll dates | [Survival] During the Shibuya Incident, he was suspected of being implicated in the realm of Suzuku and lost his left hand |
| Ethyl bone worry too | 【Survived】After the Shibuya Incident, he returned to China to serve as the executioner of knotweed, and later used the reversal technique to revive knotweed, and left the team first in order to gather intelligence |
| Nocturnal moths are on the right path | 【Death】 After the Shibuya Incident, he was believed by the spell community to be the culprit in the incident, and was sentenced to death, and finally killed by the headmaster of the Kyoto School, Rakuganji Yoshinori |
| Itichi Ishi is high | 【Survived】Seriously injured in the Shibuya Incident, he was rescued after being discovered by the Seven Seas and handed over to his family for treatment |
| Higashido Aoi | 【Survival】During the Shibuya Incident, the left palm of his hand was cut off by a real person, and he could no longer use the "unjust game" |
| Zen-in Zhenyi | [Death] Together with Zhenxi, he was thrown into the practice and execution room of the Zen temple family by his father, and died after exhausting all his strength to make weapons for Zhenxi |
► Curser, Spell Spirit Faction
| Cord (false summer oil) | [Survival] During the Shibuya Incident, he absorbed the real person into his body, successfully sealed Gojo Goku, and then forcibly launched the "Death and Death Return Tour" mechanism, and also involved Fukuro's sister Tsumaki |
| Two-sided lodge | [Surviving] still inhabits the body of knotweed |
| Reality | 【Absorbed】Defeated by knotweed and Higashido in the Shibuya Incident, he was absorbed after asking for help from the fake summer oil |
| Leaky | 【Death】Killed by a curse during the Shibuya Incident |
| Flower Royal | 【Death】Gojo Gojo Exorcism During the Kaya Incident |
▋ It is recommended to read the viewing order: first watch the anime, then pick up the manga, and finally the 2021 Winter Movie Edition!
The Spell Returns series currently has one season of 24 episodes of anime, 16 episodes of manga, 1 episode of prequel manga, and 2 spin-off novels. If you want to start from scratch, it is recommended that you can start with animation, the first season of animation can be divided into episodes 1 to 13 of the "first part" and episodes 14 to 24 of the "second part", after watching the first part, you can basically grasp the world view and character relationship of the story, and the second part can be more fun. Next, you can go back to the manga version of the previous plot, or continue the plot to read the "Past Chapter" of the 8th episode of the manga, and learn more about the high school era and bondage of Gojo Goku and NatsuYuki, and clarify the relationship between Gojo and Fukuro.
Then it is recommended that you first make up the "Volume 0" of the manga prequel, which will be the main axis of the movie version, continuing xia youjie's actions after becoming a cursed master. After reading it, I will return to the manga and follow the chronological order to continue to watch the Suki Festival, the Shibuya Incident and the progress of the subsequent serialization. If you want to know more about the daily short stories that are not mentioned in comics and animations, you can read the novel version of "Spell Return, Summer to Autumn Return", "Spell Return" And "Spell Return to War The Road to the Thorn Jujube Before Dawn", if you want to know more detailed character settings, it is recommended to start a "Spell Return Formula Information Manual", which has many authors' ideas and QA for the work, but has not yet launched the Chinese version, and people who can't read Japanese have to wait first!
Since the broadcast of the animated version at the end of 2020, "Spell Return" has been applauded and applauded, taking advantage of the epidemic period is very suitable to make up, enjoy the dark and interesting world view, plus the launch of the movie version in 2021, it is really too much to look forward to! Regarding the latest news about the movie version and the second season of animation, Xiaobian will continue to pay attention to updates for everyone!
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