is a

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series written and illustrated by

Toshio Maeda is an erotic manga artist who was prolific in the 1980s and '90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for original video animations (OVA) including '' La Blue Girl'', '' Adventure Kid'', '' Demon Beast Invasion'', '' Demon Warrior ...

, published by Wani Magazine. The series was adapted into a six-part

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of the same name in 1990, followed by in 1995.

Plot

Millions of years ago,

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was inhabited by a race of

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giant

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s that can grow tentacles. Following an ecological disaster, the Earth's atmosphere had started to become inappropriate for their

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and they migrated to the planet Quasar PHL-5200. Nevertheless, they did not forget about Earth and have started to send successive vanguards. Referred to as Demon Beasts by the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency operatives that try to stop them, the aliens are seeking to create a race of human/alien hybrids which would adapt to the Earth's atmosphere and to rule the Earth by proxy. The story is centred on Muneto Ungyōsai and Kayō Asakura, two college students living in

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is presented as an eschalotogical opponent to the end-days to be brought by the alien invasion.

Main characters (anime)

Episode 1 *Muneto Ungyōsai: A timid college student and the son of a Buddhist temple master, Muneto is a junior operative of the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency. *Kayō Asakura: The high school love interest of Muneto, Kayō had started a relationship with Tsutomu Kawai, Muneto's high school friend. Her body is exceptionally suitable to create human/alien hybrids. *Shin'ichi Kasu: A former school teacher of modest means, Kasu is the veteran operative of the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency. *The Vanguard: A demon beast who after several "unsuitable" women, he has sex with Kayō in Tsutomu's guise and impregnates her. Episode 2 *Jun'ichi Yagami: The ambitious Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency operative assigned to Muneto as a partner after Kasu's death. *The Hybrid: Son of Kayō with the Vanguard, he grows to an adult alien in half a day and starts to implement the invasion plans. *Miki: A friend of Kayō, she mutates into an alien minion after she is seduced by the Hybrid. Episode 3 *Ash: The leader of the all-female extraterrestrial task force assigned by the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency after Muneto and Yagami fail to kill the Hybrid. *Ms. Satomi: A teacher of Kayō, she is kidnapped and used by the Hybrid to lure her. Episode 4 *Miyuki: Kayō's cousin who is under training at Ōyama to become a

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but she is possessed by the Hybrid. *Mr. Ungyōsai: Muneto's father and a temple master, he thinks that the alien presence is the result of the family

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. *Munechika Ungyōsai: Muneto's

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uncle who helps him to fight the Hybrid. Episode 5 *Mei Ling: A Chinese girl who escapes

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henchmen and takes refuge in Hong Kong. *G7: An Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency operative with the mission to abort Triad plans of joining forces with the Hybrid. Episode 6 *Iyō: A local girl who mutated into the minion of the Hybrid and helps him to find Kayō. *Irimote: Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency Demon Beast Buster sent to save Kayō and Muneto from the Hybrid. *Professor: The teacher who leads the school trip to a remote Ryukyuan island.

Demon Beast Resurrection

Purgatory (Episodes 1 & 2) *Miki: A

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chosen to give her body for the resurrection of Ash who was killed by the Hybrid. *Dee & BB: The lieutenants of Ash in the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency task force. *Captain O: The commander of the Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency spaceship's all-female crew. Soul Survivor (Episodes 3 & 4) *"The Mailman": A member of Miyuki's Demon Beast cult that seeks to resurrect the Hybrid, he is assigned to kidnap Kayō. *The Slave: A loyal female minion of Miyuki.

Allegations of promoting obscenity

In 1999, Jesus Castillo, a clerk at Keith's Comics in

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, was accused of promoting

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for selling an issue of the ''Demon Beast Invasion'' manga to an undercover officer. He was fined $4000 and sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation after the original six-month prison term sentence was suspended.

References

External links

* * * * * {{Official website, http://urotsukidoji.jp, Toshio Maeda official website—contains the original Demon Beast Invasion manga, as well as all Maeda's other works 1989 manga 1990 anime OVAs 1995 anime OVAs Anime 18 Japanese disaster films Hentai anime and manga Horror anime and manga Seinen manga Supernatural anime and manga Wanimagazine manga