Edomae Elf

### Producer

Saturdays at 02:25 (JST)Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting System, Kodansha, Nikkatsu, NetEase, Heart Company, INSPION Edge

### License

Sentai Filmworks (JP), Medialink (SEA/SA)

### Episodes

12

***Edomae Elf*** (Japanese: 江戸前エルフ, Hepburn: *Edomae Erufu, A Sloven Elf Who Have Been from the Edo Period, Shut-In Elf/ Otaku Elf*) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihiko Higuchi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's *Shōnen Magazine Edge* since June 2019, with its chapters collected into eight *tankōbon* volumes as of March 2023. An anime television series adaptation by C2C aired from April to June 2023.

## Synopsis

Koito Koganei works as the teenage shrine maiden at the Takamimi Shrine, catering to the whims of its resident: a centuries-old elf who loves video games as much as she hates going outside! Line up your offerings for the otaku elf—some energy drinks, chips and video games will do nicely—and watch her new friends scramble to keep up!

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

## List of Published Books

### *Manga*

Written and illustrated by Akihiko Higuchi, *Otaku Elf* began serialization in Kodansha's *Shōnen Magazine Edge* on June 17, 2019. On October 18, 2023, Shōnen Magazine Edge ended publication, and the series was transferred to the *Comic Days* website starting on December 20. As of August 2023, eight *tankōbon* volumes have been published. In North America, Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the series in print and digital formats.

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## Eldarie Irma Fanomene

### Aliases:

* Elda (エルダ, Eruda)
* Shrine Deity

### Affiliation:

* Koganei Family
* Wind Spirit

### Allied:

* Tokugawa Ieyasu *(Bestfriend)*
* Haira *(friend)*
* Yord *(friend)*

## 「Biographical Information」

### Traits:

Summoned, Otaku, Spirit User, Shrine God, Natural Beauty

### Relatives:

* Koito Koganei *(Caretaker "Miko")*
* Koyuzu Koganei

### Hobby:

Watching Anime, Playing video games, Eating food and Drinking energy drinks

## 「Voice Actor」

### Japan VA:

Ami Koshimizu

Also known as Elda, she is 621 years old. She is an elf summoned from another world more than 400 years ago and enshrined as the deity of the Takamimi Shrine. She is a reclusive "bad guy" who enjoys modern civilization and hobbies, and spends his days "idly" playing with his laptop computer and buying otaku items and ordered sweets by mail order, but he is called "Takamimi-sama" by the shrine parishioners (people in the town), who love him. Even if she has something to hide, she is a compassionate character who confesses it when she is touched by the kindness of others.

Unlike humans, she is an immortal elf and has experienced many encounters and partings, and her occasional expressions of sadness sometimes make Koito worry. She has a wide range of otaku culture, and when she gets interested in something, she devotes himself to it to an unusual degree, sometimes spending a great deal of money. In particular, Elda has been interested in glass crafts since she saw an imported Guillaman during the Edo period, and he still collects a variety of empty bottles.

* When the daughter of the Koganei family becomes 16 years old and succeeds to the Miko priesthood, she and Takamimi Hime no Mikoto go around Tsukishima, lit only by lanterns, at midnight on the winter solstice in a ceremony to show the priestess to the shrine parishioners. As they pass by the house, the shrine parishioners sing a song praising Takamimi-biyomikoto's immortality.
 ***Summer Festival*** "Natsu Matsuri" (夏祭り（なつまつり）)
 ***Yumimimi Festival*** (弓耳祭（ゆみみみまつり）)
* The Yumimimi Festival is held every autumn to pray for peace at sea and a bountiful catch of fish. It is an archery event held on board a boat on the Sumida River, and the fertility of the year's catch is determined by how three arrows are used to hit the center of the target. In the first archery event in the Edo period (1603-1867), Erda was the archer and a shrine maiden was the target, but Erda slipped and fell into the sea, where she drowned and became traumatized. Since then, the shrine maiden has been the archer and Erda has been the target. Incidentally, the year Erda falls into the sea, there is a very good catch of fish, so the audience secretly hopes that Erda will fall into the sea. The generations of priestesses learned archery, but because Kikujiro did not like to force people to do so, his daughter Sayoko and granddaughters Koito and Koyuzu did not learn archery, and because Kikujiro was an expert in archery, Kikujiro became the archer.
* Until then, the town had been without a priestess, partly due to the death of the previous priestess, Sayoko, and for 10 years Erda had been parading around the town on a portable shrine in an "abbreviated; Shinto ritual," but this was restored when Koito succeeded her as the 15th priestess.
 ***Fuji Haruhai no Gigi*** "Fuji Worship Ceremony" (富士遥拝の儀（ふじようはいのぎ）)
* Fuji at dawn from the top floor of the tallest building in Tokyo on New Year's Eve, a ceremony held once every 50 years to pray to Tokugawa Ieyasu for protection from bad luck in Edo. Originally, after the founding of the Edo shogunate, Ieyasu spent much of his time at Suruga Castle, which he was deeply attached to, and also because of his deep attachment to Mt. During the Edo period, the ceremony was held at the Edo Castle's Honmaru keep, the tallest building in Edo, but after the name was changed to Tokyo in the Meiji period, the ceremony was held at the tallest building in Tokyo, and Erda, who is not fond of heights, complained, "Why do humans want to build tall buildings?" In the main story, the visit was held at the Tokyo Skytree. Originally, the visit was to be made only by Erda, but she especially accompanied Ieyasu to introduce Koito to Ieyasu as Takamimi Biyori.

She has a good memory and a deep knowledge of customs and culture from the Edo period (400 yrs) to the present, which she explains to Koito and his friends every time she speaks to them. Elda exercises his fingers through plastic models and video games, but since she has not exercised much for 400 years, his muscles other than those of his fingers have deteriorated to the point that his legs ache the next day even after just a run around the neighborhood. She drinks Red Bull ("*Red Bell*" in the original story, the actual name in the anime version) to stay up late at night, but she is restricted by Koito to one bottle a day.

> "*Just like I thought... Being alone is a blast!*"
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Therefore, she sometimes drinks "Mon-Energy" instead of Red Bell, which is also an energy drink. In his original world, she was born in an island area and had never seen the ocean or even swam until she was summoned to Japan. She is fond of tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce and sweetened with soy sauce), which helped him overcome his dislike of white rice when he was first summoned to Japan from another world.

### Abilities

Her only magical talent is making telepathic contact with other persons. Despite her faults and her extreme shyness, she is immensely popular in the local neighborhood, mostly because of her unaging nature.

A spirit (wind spirit) summoned by Elda's summoning magic. She is entrusted with the role of connecting thoughts (conversations) to a distant target, but she has to go to the target's location, and is a hard worker (?) who travels all over Tsukishima to look for the target every time. She is a hard worker who travels all over Tsukishima in search of the target every time. When Elda was addicted to smartphones, she was once rejected by her.

She gets along well with the fungi in the air, and was once famous at Takamimi Shrine for the excellent sake made by the spirits, but since the liquor tax law was enacted in the early Showa period, she is no longer able to make it.

## Ending Theme

### ED Composer:

Cody Lee

An anime television series adaptation was announced in June 2022. It was produced by C2C and directed by Takebumi Anzai, with scripts written by Shōgo Yasukawa, character designs handled by Takeshi Oda, who also serves as chief animation director, and music composed by Akito Matsuda. The series aired from April 8 to June 24, 2023, on the Animeism programming block on MBS and other affiliates. The opening theme song, "Kien Romance" (奇縁ロマンス), was performed by Nanawo Akari, while the ending theme song, "Odoru Hikari" (おどる ひかり), was performed by Cody Lee.

* ***Staff***
	+ Original work - Akihiko Higuchi
	+ Director - Takefumi Anzai
	+ Series composition/screenplay - Shogo Yasukawa
	+ Character design - Takeshi Oda
	+ Prop Design - Yuki Yokoyama
	+ Color design - Shigeru Saiso
	+ Art setting - Yumiko Kondo & Chikako Shibata
	+ Art director - Atelier Macaria
	+ 3DCD - Sho Yamada, Ryoto Kuwara
	+ Director of Photography/Special Effects - Jun Kubota
	+ Editing - Ayumi Yamagishi
	+ Sound director - Akiko Fujita
	+ Music - Akito Matsuda
	+ Music Production - Heart Company
	+ Music producer - Shigeru Saito
	+ Music Director - Mamoru Tanoue
	+ Producer - Shintaro Yoshitake, Hiroyuki Aoi, Noriyuki Akita, Naoya Sato & Satoshi Cao
	+ Animation producer - Ryosuke Yamada
	+ Animation production - C2C
	+ Production - "*Edomae Elf*" Production Committee (Nikkatsu, Mainichi Broadcasting, Kodansha, NetEaseGames)

Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, and they streamed it on Hidive. Medialink licensed the series in Asia-Pacific and they streamed on the Ani-One Asia YouTube channel.

### Web Radio

The "***Kō mimi jinja no go shintai rajio: watashi, goriyaku naikedo na!** (高耳神社のご神体ラジオ 〜私、ご利益ないけどな!〜, Takamimi Shrine's Shintai Radio: I don't have any blessings though!)*" was distributed every Thursday from April 13 to June 29, 2023 on *Onsen* and *YouTube*'s Nikkatsu Anime Channel.

A special program was also broadcast live on the channel on May 7.

## Reception

Alex Henderson of *Anime Feminist* reviewed the first episode, stating that the series understands the importance of having "endearing character dynamics and deeper themes", with Elda not only loving gaming, but has a "deep sense of care for the community" she cares for, and described it as a supernatural comedy with silliness grounded in characters that are not "one-off jokes", without any fan service.

## External Link

* *Edomae Elf* *─* Work information (Manga official website) | Shonen Magazine Edge
* *TV Anime "Edomae Elf"* Official Website
* *TV Anime "Edomae Elf"* Official (@edomae\_elf) - Twitter X
* *Edomae Elf* *─* Wikipedia **JP**
* *Edomae Elf* *─* Wikipedia **EN**