Occultic;Nine

***Occultic;Nine*** (オカルティック・ナイン *Okarutikku Nain)* is a Japanese light novel series written by **Chiyomaru Shikura**, the creator of *Steins;Gate*. The series is licensed in English by **J-Novel Club**. A manga, illustrated by **Ganjii**, began serialization in October 2015. An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired in Fall 2016 for 12 episodes, beginning on October 9. A visual novel adaptation for **PlayStation 4**, **Vita** and **Xbox One** was released in Japan on November 9, 2017. An expanded version of the visual novel titled ***Occultic;Nine New World*** was planned for **Nintendo Switch**, before being cancelled.

*Occultic;Nine* is part of the larger *Science Adventure Series,* serving as its fifth mainline entry.

Originally, *Occultic;Nine* was presented as a **Science Visual Novel** (SVN), a series **separated from the mainline entries**, as well as *Anonymous;Code* which should have been the second entry of this series, but later they were included as part of the main *Science Adventure Series*.

The anime is licensed in America by **Aniplex USA** and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. Aniplex released the series with an English dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment in 2 Blu-ray sets, with Volume 1 releasing on September 26, 2017 and Volume 2 releasing on December 26, 2017.

## Setting

*Occultic;Nine* takes place at **Kichijoji** during the year **2016**, the story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the **“Kirikiri Basara”** occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student **Yuta Gamon**. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.

## Plot

A blog disproving the supernatural, co-run by NEET teenager Yuta Gamon and his enthusiastic best friend Ryoka Narusawa, becomes the catalyst that would bring together a group of people who supposedly have nothing to do with each other.

These individuals include high school fortune teller Miyuu Aikawa, who joins Yuta to work on the blog; realist Sarai Hashigami, who is stunned when tragedy strikes his family; doujin artist Ririka Nishizono, who has an uncanny ability to predict the future with her art; black magic practitioner and local curse expert Aria Kurenaino and her ghostly friend; Shun Moritsuka, a seemingly childish otaku detective; and reporter Touko Sumikaze.

As this unlikely group, bound only by the strings of fate, find their way to each other, they are confronted with murder and other events that are shrouded by the presence of the supernatural. They must band together to solve the mysteries interlacing the city and their lives.

## Relation to the *Science Adventure Series*

*Occultic;Nine* is the only main SciADV title to be incompleted, probably the 4th volume of the light novel will be more consistent with the new mechanics introduced in *Anonymous;Code*.

It is important to note that all 4 versions of *Occultic;Nine* are differents and no one is really a full adaptation of the other.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.kirikiribasara.com/2018/05/11/what-the-future-holds-for-occulticnine-visual-novel/