Silver NX

**Silver NX** (銀NX(エン・エックス), *Gin En Ekkusu*) is an online OEL manga series co-created by Harry Harrup and Alex Guy, with the former writing its story and the latter supervising and illustrating the series. It is the successor and spin-off/sequel series to the original *Silver Days*. It drew influence from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*, *Persona*, *The Boys*, *Yu-Gi-Oh!*, *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX*, and *Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS*; like the original series, *Silver NX* begins on a more whimsical and comedic note, with a slightly episodic style very early on. Unlike the original, *NX* keeps its comedic elements until towards the end of the series, where it employs a dark and serious atmosphere.

The series follows Shunichi Takahashi and his friends, Team Monolith, who are introduced as students at the prestigious school, Universal Academy.

## Story Arcs

1. Return Arc
2. Matrix Arc
3. Demora Arc
4. Finale Arc

## Characters

### Main Characters

**Shunichi Takahashi** (高橋(たかはし) 俊一(しゅんいち), *Takahashi Shun'ichi*) / **Epsilon** (エプシロン, *Epushiron*)
The main protagonist of the *Silver NX* series, Shunichi is a soft-spoken young man who had previously awoken from a coma with retrograde amnesia. He enrolls into Universal Academy and becomes best friends with Judai Rhodes, Serena Tenjoin, and Tatsuya Honda, before later including Joeri Higashikata and Mizuki Natsuno in his group. After Judai's disappearance, Shunichi descends into darkness and learns the art of XYZ, an ancient form of dark magic, to battle Daisuke Morimoto. During his journey, when succumbing to stress, injury, and anger, he becomes possessed by an evil alter-ego nicknamed "Darkness." After going on a journey to stop Theodore Heinrich, it is eventually revealed that Shunichi is actually the spirit of the medieval knight, Epsilon. Successfully defeating Theodore, regaining his memories, and finding the Twilight Note, Epsilon/Shunichi use it to separate himself from Darkness, after which Epsilon defeats him in one final battle.
**Judai Rhodes** (十代(ジュダイ)・ロードス, *Judai Rōdosu*)
**Serena Tenjoin** (天上院(てんじょういん) 静香(セリーナ), *Tenjōin Serīna*)
**Tatsuya Honda** (本田(ほんだ) 達也(たつや), *Honda Tatsuya*)
**Joeri / Yuri Higashikata** (東方(ひがしかた) 遊里(ゆうり), *Higashikata Yūri*)
Later, he begins to go by "Yuri" instead of Joeri.
**Mizuki Natsuno** (夏野(なつの) 美月(みずき), *Natsuno Mizuki*)
**Darkness AKA Shunichi Takahashi** (ダークネス, *Dākunesu*)
The final antagonist of *Silver NX*. He is initially believed to be Shunichi's evil secondary personality formed during the coma, and served as a malicious ally to the team by killing opponents through the use of magic. Eventually, it is revealed that Darkness is, in fact, the original personality of the body and his real name is Shunichi Takahashi, with Shunichi himself being a spirit of the knight, Epsilon. After Theodore Heinrich's defeat, Alpha/Shunichi uses the Twilight Note to separate himself from Darkness, and the two battle in the Forgotten Realm to determine who stays on Earth, a battle that Darkness loses.
### Major/Secondary Characters

**Daisuke Morimoto** (森本(もりもと) 大輔(だいすけ), *Morimoto Daisuke*)
## Production

After the production of the original *Silver Days* manga reached its end, Alex Guy had insisted that there would not be a sequel series. However, inspired by *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX*, *Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!*, and *Dragon Ball Super*, Harry Harrup expressed desire to create a sequel series and continue the story of the *Silver* universe with a brand new story. Titled "*Silver NX*", with NX standing for "***Next***", this series expanded Silver's universe.

Eventually convinced by Harry Harrup, Alex Guy went through with the creation of *Silver NX* some time after the original series had concluded. He later stated that he struggled with the series, running out of ideas but eventually pulled through. An anime series, "*NX Class*", was planned but was ultimately not made due to lack of desire from Alex Guy's studio, SEVENS.