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| Magic Knight Rayearth | |
 Cover art of Tokyopop's re-release of Magic Knight Rayearth I Volume 1, featuring Hikaru Shidou | |
| 魔法騎士レイアース (Majikku Naito Reiāsu) | |
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| Genre |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Clamp |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| English magazine | |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | November 1993 – April 1996 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Toshihiro Hirano |
| Produced by | Mikihiro Iwata Michihiko Suwa Shigeki Nakamura Masahito Yoshioka |
| Written by | Keiko Maruo Nanase Ohkawa |
| Music by | Hayato Matsuo |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | NNS (ytv) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 17, 1994 – November 27, 1995 |
| Episodes | 49 |
| Original video animation | |
| Rayearth | |
| Directed by | Toshihiro Hirano |
| Written by | Manabu Nakamura |
| Music by | Toshihiko Sahashi |
| Studio | TMS-Kyokuichi |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | July 25, 1997 – December 10, 1997 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Anime | |
Magic Knight Rayearth (魔法騎士レイアース, Majikku Naito Reiāsu) is a Japanese manga series created by CLAMP. Appearing as a serial in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from the November 1993 issue to the February 1995 issue, the chapters of Magic Knight Rayearth were collected into three bound volumes by Kodansha. They were published from July 1994 to March 1995. A sequel was serialized in the same manga magazine from the March 1995 issue to the April 1996 issue. It was published by Kodansha in three bound volumes from July 1995 to April 1996.
The series follows three eighth-grade girls who find themselves transported from modern-day Japan into a magical world, where they are tasked with rescuing a princess. Rayearth combines elements from the magical girl and mecha anime genres with parallel world fantasy. The manga was adapted into two anime series in 1994 and an original video animation (OVA) in 1997. A new anime project has been announced.[citation needed]
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