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| The Lost Village | |
 Main key visual | |
| 迷家-マヨイガ- (Mayoiga) | |
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| Created by | Diomedéa Pony Canyon |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Written by | Mari Okada |
| Music by | Masaru Yokoyama |
| Studio | Diomedéa |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | WOWOW Prime, TBS, MBS, CBC, BS-TBS |
| Original run | April 2, 2016 – June 18, 2016 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Mayoiga ~Tsumi to Batsu~ | |
| Written by | Subaru Fuji |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Ura Shōnen Sunday Comics |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | April 8, 2016 – November 5, 2016 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Novel | |
| Written by | Tsukasa Tsuchiya |
| Illustrated by | Kei |
| Imprint | Ponican Books Light Novel Series |
| Demographic | Male |
| Published | September 17, 2016 |
The Lost Village (迷家-マヨイガ-, Mayoiga) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Diomedéa, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and written by Mari Okada, with character designs by Naomi Ide and music by Masaru Yokoyama. The series began airing on April 2, 2016, and finished airing on June 18, 2016.[1][2][3] The title, Mayoiga (迷い家, "Illusion House"), originally stands for a Japanese folklore.
A group of 30 young men and women go on a bus tour to Nanaki Village, a shadowy village with an urban legend of being a utopia. Many seek either to start a new life or escape the troubles of their old one. Upon arrival, they discover the village has no inhabitants, with small signs of life that are slowly deteriorating. The truth of Nanaki Village has yet to be discovered.
The opening theme titled "Gensou Drive" (幻想ドライブ, Gensō Doraibu) was sung by Ami Wajima, while the ending theme titled "Ketsuro" (結露) was sung by Rina Katahira.
| No. | Official English title Original Japanese title[5] |
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| 1 | "Look Before You Leap" "Tekkyō o Tataite Wataru" (鉄橋を叩いて渡る) | April 2, 2016 | |
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30 people using online pseudonyms gather on a single bus to head to the mysterious Nanaki Village to start a new life or escape from their old one. After getting annoyed by Valkana, the bus driver snaps and threatens to crash the bus and commit group suicide until Masaki pukes on his uniform. At a rest stop, a woman named Koharun appears to guide the bus group to a bridge shrouded in fog that supposedly leads to the village. | |||
| 2 | "Blinding Mist" "Issunsaki wa Kiri" (一寸先は霧) | April 9, 2016 | |
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Valkana yells at the bus driver to keep moving forward as the path narrows until the bus itself tumbles off a short cliff. The group decides to abandon their wallets to pay the driver for his trouble and continue along until they reach the village. However, the village is completely abandoned, with dust covering everything as if no one had used the houses in a year. While searching through a house, Yottsun decides to try to seduce Masaki, dragging her away from the main group. The bus driver reappears and decides to join the group in the village, as others wonder where Yottsun and Masaki went. | |||
| 3 | "Aloof" "Bōjaku Bujin" (傍若無人) | April 16, 2016 | |
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The group forms a search party to find the missing members - Yottsun and Masaki - but find what seems to be a large bear. As Mitsumune runs away, he spots a bruised and cowering Masaki. The group tries to interrogate her on Yottsun's whereabouts, but she provides little information as Mitsumune defends her. Later, Dahara tries to calm down the group by organizing sleeping arrangements and dinner. In one of the rooms, Jack gets angry with Hyoketsu when he accuses him of copying his persona, and attacks him with a hoe. The boys restrain him as Lovepon screams for his execution, but Mitsumune and Maimai plead for mercy, and Valkana defuses the situation by throwing Jack in an underground cell he found. Later, Valkana reveals his backstory to Koharun. That night, Mitsumune runs into Maimai while going to see Jack. Lovepon then reappears, hoping they wish to execute him. When Mitsumune refuses, Lovepon tries to kill him instead. Mitsumune manages to throw her off when he spots Yottsun's body floating down the river in front of him. | |||
| 4 | "Yottsun's Drowning" "Yottsun no Kawanagare" (よっつんの川流れ) | April 23, 2016 | |
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The group loses sight of Yottsun's body in the river. After discussing the safety situation, Mikage decides to leave the village and the majority of the group joins him to get back to the bus, while nine members of the group stay behind. After failing to get the bus unstuck, Mikage's group try to navigate through the forest on foot, but find themselves going in circles as the mysterious animal voices continue to frighten them at every turn. Hyoketsu spots an escaped Jack and slips off a cliff. Mikage's group find some old train tracks and try to walk along them until Maimai spots a "giant Mitsumune" in the train tunnel. Meanwhile, back at the village, the bus driver catches a glimpse of what appears to be his long-dead daughter. | |||
| 5 | "Three Yunas Is A Crowd" "Yūna Sannin Iru to Magirawashii" (ユウナ3人いると紛らわしい) | April 30, 2016 | |
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As Mikage's group returns to the village sans Hyoketsu, the group discusses the strange sounds they keep hearing, and how each person hears a different sound. Mikage publicly accuses Koharun of being a killer while Lion claims to see ghosts of dead people and claims Mitsumune disappeared in front of her for a second. The group also discover Jack's cell empty with a broken lock, but are unsure of who let him out. Mikage gathers Nyanta, Jigoku and Lovepon to help him interrogate Mitsumune, who he suspects of somehow being involved. That night, Lion tells Mitsumune she can't actually see dead people, but walks away muttering that she can sense when people are about to die. Mitsumune is captured by Mikage's partners and thrown in the cell, but before Lovepon can torture him, Masaki sets a fire to distract Mitsumune's captors before busting him out. As she is about to reveal some information to him, Mitsumune spots a giant beast that he calls "Tokimune." | |||
| 6 | "The Monk's Immorality" "Bōzu no Fudōtoku" (坊主の不道徳) | May 7, 2016 | |
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Masaki and Mitsumune flee from the giant monster while Mikage's team confirms the fire was a controlled burn meant to distract them. Suddenly, one by one their fears take on the shape of giant beasts as flashbacks reveal their tragic pasts: Lovepon had a harsh childhood with a corrupt monk who abused her and her mother. Nyanta was relentlessly bullied by other schoolgirls and tied down underneath a beehive after she got back at them. Jigoku trained for months to become a JGSDF Ranger, tried having silicone injected into his head to pass the height requirement, but still failed the initial exam. Mikage was an ambitious manager at a toy train company who made a big mistake that caused his peers to laugh at him. As the group brings Mikage's team back to the village, Koharun talks about an old news article she found, reporting Masaki as missing years ago. | |||
| 7 | "When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play Mischief" "Oni no Inu Ma ni Warudakumi" (鬼のいぬ間に悪だくみ) | May 14, 2016 | |
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Mitsumune falls off a short cliff, and briefly flashes back to the past where his twin brother Tokimune died trying to show off to him. In the hospital, Mitsumune's mother refused to believe Tokimune was dead, and the family kept using Mitsumune as a stand-in for him. When Mitsumune regains consciousness, Masaki leads him to a train tunnel that she claims will lead him back to his past life, but he must face his own monster first. However, the monster punches him back. Mitsumune then wanders back to the village, where the rest of the group is convinced that Masaki is a ghost. Later, the group captures Masaki and ties her up to a post, thinking her death will stop the monsters. Mitsumune tries to stop Hayato and the others from cutting her when Masaki decides to tell everyone the truth. | |||
| 8 | "Visit Nanaki Before Doubting Masaki" "Nanaki Tazunete Masaki o Utagau" (納鳴訪ねて真咲を疑う) | May 21, 2016 | |
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Masaki tells the group a story of how she first found Nanaki Village in the past with her cousin Reiji, who saw a beast that she could not. She claims to have fallen off a cliff and then awoke near a highway, later joining the bus tour to find Reiji again. However, the others interrogate her for the discrepancies between her story and the newspaper article that says she went missing and was never found. The crowd tries to kill her again until the bus breaks through a fence and the driver reappears, taking Masaki and Mitsumune with him, along with Hayato who had gotten stuck in the door as it closed. While the group tries to figure out how to catch the bus, the driver begs Masaki to summon his daughter, convinced she is a ghost. Later that night, Nanko and Lion chat with Maimai by the river about recent events. Valkana and Koharun sneak out to test their own theory when they find themselves under arrow attack by a fearful Hyoketsu. | |||
| 9 | "Hyoketsu in the Moonlight" "Gekka Hyōketsu" (月下氷結) | May 28, 2016 | |
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After being stopped by Valkana, Hyoketsu mentions a man who rescued him and told him to attack anyone approaching the tunnel, before being shot by an arrow himself. Meanwhile, the bus driver decides to try driving through the tunnel to find his daughter again, over Masaki's objections. The bus driver abruptly vanishes after seeing what appears to be his daughter on the bus. Masaki, Hayato and Mitsumune all find themselves in a similar but different village as Masaki finds a message that Reiji left awhile ago. After Masaki excuses herself, Hayato tells Mitsumune about his past, how he was abused by his parents for even the slightest deviation from their plans for him. He found escape in transferring his emotional abuse to Mitsumune, and begs him to continue their relationship, but Mitsumune refuses and runs away. Mitsumune runs into Valkana and the two encounter their own monsters, but Mitsumune's monster appears a lot smaller than before as he chases it over a cliff. Nanko tries to have Maimai test her theory about coming to terms with their respective pasts, when Jack appears and attacks the women, only to be blindsided by a different boy. Later, Mitsumune awakens in an unfamiliar room. | |||
| 10 | "Danger Past, God Forgotten" "Kurushii Toki no Kamisama Danomi" (苦しい時の神様頼み) | June 4, 2016 | |
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Mitsumune wakes up in a hospital where he is surprised to discover his dad referring to him by his real name. After chatting with his dad, he heads to the roof of the hospital to find Yottsun telling him they were both saved by "God." The God in question turns out to be Professor Kamiyama. Elsewhere, Nanko, Maimai and Lion find they were saved by Masaki's ex-partner, Reiji. Kamiyama and Reiji tell their respective groups about how Nanaki Village preys upon the dark secrets hidden within people's deepest psyches (the "Nanaki"), and only by facing them can they return to the real world, but abruptly cutting off the Nanaki within will lead to problems with their real bodies as well. Meanwhile, the majority of the group starts feeling lethargic and irritable, Valkana and Hayato try to find Masaki, and Hyoketsu and Jack try to apologize to their "boss," who turns out to be Koharun. | |||
| 11 | "Get In the Bus, And It'll Get the Song In You" "Basu ni Noreba Utagokoro" (バスに乗れば唄心) | June 11, 2016 | |
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Valkana and Nanko's group return to the village to find most of the group lazing around on the floor for unknown reasons. Nanko talks about the Nanaki affecting everyone when Hyoketsu and Jack start shooting flaming arrows at the building. After taking a couple girls hostage, Jack and Hyoketsu tell them about Koharun and her plans to raise an ultra-powerful Nanaki. Meanwhile, Koharun plays off Hayato's deep insecurities, increasing his own Nanaki. Elsewhere, the bus driver comes to terms with his daughter's death. Mitsumune tries to re-enter the village but finds he cannot, as he had partially dealt with his own issues already. However, the bus driver arrives and takes both Mitsumune and Yottsun back to the village, but not before his own Nanaki tells Mitsumune that Reiji himself is a Nanaki. Suddenly, the driver disappears again, forcing Mitsumune to crash the bus in the forest where Mikage and Lovepon have hunted down Masaki, still seeing her as a witch. As Mitsumune gets off the bus, a giant, scaly Nanaki appears in front of the group. | |||
| 12 | "Nanaki Mirrors Your Soul" "Nanaki wa Kokoro no Kagami" (ナナキは心の鏡) | June 18, 2016 | |
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The giant monster turns out to be Hayato's Nanaki, complete with a tiny birdcage on top for entrapping Mitsumune's own Nanaki. Hayato attacks the group and captures Mitsumune, but Mitsumune manages to talk him down. However, Koharun riles Hayato up by playing on his insecurities again, causing his Nanaki to rage out of control. While the group tries to run back to the village, Koharun chats with Kamiyama on a two-way radio. She turns out to be his daughter, looking for a way to revive his Nanaki to stop his rapid aging by creating a super-powerful Nanaki with the bus tour, though Kamiyama asks her to leave him be. Meanwhile, Hayato decides to face his Nanaki head-on and both of them disappear. Reiji appears at the village to fill in the rest of the bus tour group on the truth about Nanaki. Mitsumune goes back to rescue Masaki and both of them come to terms with their respective Nanaki, which also leads to Masaki realizing that Reiji was an imaginary friend she could never let go. With Mitsumune's help, both of their Nanaki disappear inside them. Back at the village, the members of the bus tour decide to split up between those who wish to return, and those who wish to stay in the village. The leaving party finds themselves back on the bus with the bus driver at the wheel, as he drives them back home. | |||
A manga adaptation titled Mayoiga ~Tsumi to Batsu~ (迷家～ツミトバツ～) was drawn by Subaru Fuji.[6][7] It was serialized online on Shogakukan's MangaOne app between April 8, 2016, and November 5, 2016, and has been published by Shogakukan in three tankōbon volumes.[8]
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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| 1 | June 10, 2016[9] | 978-4-09-127314-7 |
| 2 | October 12, 2016[10] | 978-4-09-127392-5 |
| 3 | February 10, 2017[11] | 978-4-09-127520-2 |
A spin-off novel written by Tsukasa Tsuchiya and illustrated by Kei, titled Mayoiga: Yami yori Idete, Yami yori Kuroshi (迷家-マヨイガ- 闇より出でて、闇より黒し) features an original story that focuses on Lion and was released on September 17, 2016.[12][13]
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