Nazca (TV series)

Nazca
時空転抄ナスカ (Jikū Tenshō Nasuka)
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroko Tokita
Produced by	Motoki Ueda Yasuyuki Ueda
Written by	Tsunehisa Ito (eps. 1-3, 5) Naruhisa Arakawa (eps. 4, 6-7, 9-12) Katsuyuki Sumisawa (ep. 8)
Music by	Tsuneyoshi Saito
Studio	Radix Ace Entertainment
Licensed by	NA Geneon
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 6, 1998 – June 23, 1998
Episodes	12
Manga
Written by	Akira Himekawa
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Magazine	Ace Dash
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 27, 1998 – March 25, 1999
Volumes	2
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Nazca (時空転抄ナスカ, Jikū Tenshō Nasuka, Dimensional Movement of Nazca) is an anime series created by Yoshihiko Inamoto. It is about a group of people who are reincarnations of ancient Inca warriors who have returned to re-enact a civil war that resulted in the fall of the Inca Empire.

Miura Kyoji, a dedicated kendo student, discovers that his instructor, Tate Masanari, is a reincarnated Inca warrior named Yawaru who wishes to destroy the world to purify it. Kyoji himself is the warrior Bilka, who foiled Yawaru's plans in their previous lives. As Yawaru gathers other awakened spirits to give him ever more power, Kyoji faces conflicting loyalties; he must decide if he is merely a vessel for the reincarnated soul, destined to fulfill a role given to him and destroy a person he liked and respected in order to save the world, or if he is a free individual who can bring Masanari to his senses and break the cycle of rebirth and human possession.

Episodes List[]

There are 12 episodes that aired from April 6, 1998 to June 23, 1998.

Popular culture[]

• Two clips from episode 3 of Nazca are used in the opening titles of the American sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.^[1]
• The opening song, Ai no Fugue, is widely inspired by the Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 from Johann Sebastian Bach.
• The subject from another song, Kuuchuu Shinden, is inspired by a leitmotif hearable in the 1st movement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9.
• The ending song, Condor wa Tonde Iku, is a slightly modified Japanese version of El Cóndor Pasa.

References[]

External links[]

• Nazca (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Nazca from THEM Anime Reviews
• Review from EX

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