Gin no Guardian

The Silver Guardian/Gin no Guardian (simplified Chinese: 银之守墓人; traditional Chinese: 銀之守墓人; pinyin: Yín Zhī Shǒu Mù Rén) is a Chinese web manhua created by Zero League and illustrated by Moon Cake. It was published by Tencent through their Tencent AC Web Comic service, compiling the series into 237 chapters. A Chinese-Japanese anime television series adaptation produced by Emon and directed by Masahiko Ōkura premiered on Tokyo MX on 1 April 2017. The series is licensed by Funimation. A second season premiered in January 2018.

Synopsis
High school student and gamer Suigin Riku attends the prestigious Shinryou Private Academy, a school for the elite and the children of the wealthy. But rich or wealthy are not words that describe Suigin; in fact, he is dirt poor and must work many part-time jobs to pay for his tuition. During one such job, he dives into a pool to save his pet cat, fully aware that he cannot swim. Luckily, he is saved by Rei Riku, the beautiful and popular daughter of a game developer, and he falls in love with her.

He is also drawn to another girl: a new friend he meets in Dungeon Century, his favorite online RPG. But when the game is scheduled to shut down, he knows his adventures with her will soon end. However, the day after the game is shut down, he finds out that Rei and the online girl are one and the same. Soon after, Rei gives Suigin a new game meant to replace Dungeon Century—a tomb-raiding game called Grave Buster. But when Rei is suddenly kidnapped, Suigin is pulled inside Grave Buster to save her.

Gin no Guardian follows Suigin as he plays through Grave Buster to save Rei while uncovering the secrets hidden within the game.

TV Anime
In Japan, from April 1st to June 2017, the first period will be broadcast on TOKYO MX every Saturday from 21:00 to 21:30 on the Haoliners frame. From the second half of the Japanese version 8th episode (Chinese version 7th episode) to the Japanese version 10th episode (Chinese version 9th episode), the Japanese version and the Chinese version branch into different stories.

Staff

 * Original work - Zero League Workshop (Haikou, Min㝵)
 * Producer/General Director (Phase 2) - Gouring Lee
 * Director - Masahiko Okura (1st term), Ken Ando (2nd term)
 * Series Composition (Phase 1) - Hidefumi Kimura, Masahiko Okura
 * Character design - Yoshiaki Tsubata, Yasutoshi Niwa (1st term, Dungeon Century Part)
 * Art Director: Shigemi Ikeda, Yukiko Maruyama (Atelier Musa, 1st term), Tomoya Asami (2nd term)
 * Color setting - Kunio Tsujita
 * Cinematographer - Tatsuo Noguchi
 * Editing - Fumi Hida (Phase 1), Yoshiko Onodera (Phase 2)
 * Music - Minako Seki
 * Acoustic Director - Hajime Takakuwa
 * Sound Production - Delphi Sound
 * Recording Studio - 3S Studio
 * Animation Producer - Aki Takahashi (Phase 1)
 * Production Producer - Noboru Yoshida (2nd term)
 * Animation Production - Emu, BLADE (Phase 2)
 * Production - Silver Guardian Production Committee

From January 2018, the second period "The Silver Guardian II" will be broadcast in a 30-minute frame. Narrated by Takayuki Sugo. All 6 episodes.

Character
The main character of this work. He is a hard student who attends the private Shinryo Academy (Jinyang Senior High School) a school for the elite and the wealthy. However Suigin is anything but; in fact, he is very poor and has to work many part-time jobs just to pay for his tuition. One day while he is working a pool cleaning job one of his many jobs, he sees a cat drowning and without hesitation jumps in to save the kitty. To much surprise, it turns out he can't swim either and flails around drowning, but even then, he's a gamer who keeps his computer plugged in.

Dungeon Century's avatar is "Gin" known in his favorite online RPG, a legendary non-charge Meister who defeats enemies with the lowest rank equipment of underwear except for a full helmet.

He met Riku Rei in the girls' dormitory near his part-time job and later learned that he was the same person as "Rei", who became friends in Dungeon Century and became one-sided. After that, her Rei confessed that she knew the identity of her avatar and became close to her at once, but she was entrusted with her will to protect her from Shichi Rikuyu who died on the same day. However, she is kidnapped by a man who calls himself Silicon, saying, "Wait in the Grave Buster," and transfers her to somewhere else.

He is the grandson of Rikuyu Shichi, Rei's father, but he only has memories of his childhood, and when he sees a video of his funeral ceremony, he vaguely remembers their relationship. With regard to this, the seal was lifted by a donation called a trial within the Gravebuster, and confirmation was obtained from his grandfather.

Abilities
Riku is capable to analyze and deducing the abilities of their opponent while fighting, and making the quick judgment to make strategies to defeat them using anything at his disposition, like his environment and inclusive use of their abilities to his advantage.

Riku possesses a ton of money after his grandfather's death, he inherits all money that his grandfather owns over a billion.

Reception
As of March 2016, the comic had been viewed over 418 million times.

External Link

 * Gin no Guardian — Official Web Manga Page
 * TV Anime "Gin no Guardian S1" Official Website | Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
 * TV Anime "Gin no Guardian S2" Official Website | Tokyo Metropolitan TV program official website (Archived, stored in the Wayback Machine)
 * TV Anime "Gin no Guardian" Official (@ginno_guardian) - Twitter
 * Gin no Guardian — Wikipedia  JP 
 * Gin no Guardian — Wikipedia  ZH 
 * Gin no Guardian — Wikipedia  EN 

Trivia
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