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{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name image = Mai, the Psychic GirlMaithepsychicgirl1.jpg
| image caption = First ''[[File:Maithepsychicgirl1.jpg|200pxtankōbon]]'' volume cover
| caption = The first issue.
| ja_kanji = 舞
| ja_romaji = Mai
| genre = [[Action fiction|Action]], [[science fiction]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sands|first1=Ryan|title=Mai The Psychedelic Girl|url=https://www.samehat.com/2010/03/mai-psychedelic-girl.html|website=Same Hat!|access-date=September 14, 2022|date=March 21, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022165919/https://www.samehat.com/2010/03/mai-psychedelic-girl.html|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Genres should be based on what reliable sources list them as and not on personal interpretations. Limit of the three most relevant genres in accordance with [[MOS:A&M]]. -->
| genre = [[Supernatural]]▼
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| author = {{ill|Kazuya Kudō|ja|工藤かずや}}
| illustrator = [[Ryoichi Ikegami]]
| publisher = {{ubl|[[Shogakukan]], |[[Media Factory]] (reprint)}}
| publisher_en = United{{English Statesmanga publisher|NA=[[EclipseViz ComicsMedia|Viz Communications]], /[[VizEclipse MediaComics]]}}
| demographic = ''[[Shōnen manga|Shōnen]]''
| magazineimprint = [[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]] Comics
| firstmagazine = [[Weekly Shōnen = 1985Sunday]]
| last first = 1986March 20, 1985
▲| genrelast = [[Supernatural]]April 2, 1986
| volumes = 6
| volume_list =
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{{nihongo|'''''Mai, the Psychic Girl'''''|舞|Mai}} is a Japanese [[manga]] series written by {{ill|Kazuya Kudō|ja|工藤かずや}} and illustrated by [[Ryoichi Ikegami]]. It was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Shōnen manga|''shōnen'' manga]] magazine ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' from March 1985 to April 1986, with its chapters collected in six ''[[tankōbon]]'' volumes; it was later republished by [[Media Factory]].
'''''Mai, the Psychic Girl''''', known simply as {{nihongo|'''''Mai'''''|舞}} in Japan, is a [[manga]] written by [[Kazuya Kudō]] and illustrated by [[Ryoichi Ikegami]].
 
''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' is one of the first manga series to be fully published in English; it was published by [[Viz Media|Viz Communications]], in partnership with [[Eclipse Comics]], in a bi-weekly [[comic book]] format starting in 1987 and republished in collected volumes a few years later.
The main character is Mai Kuju, a 14-year-old Japanese girl with powerful [[extrasensory perception|psychic abilities]]. She is being pursued by the Wisdom Alliance, an organization which secretly strives to control the world. The alliance already controls four other powerful psychic children, and it has hired the Kaieda Intelligence Agency to capture Mai.▼
 
==MediaStory==
▲The mainstory character isfollows {{Nihongo|Mai Kuju|久住 舞|Kujū Mai}}, a 14-year-old Japanese girl with powerful [[extrasensory perception|psychic abilities]]. She is being pursued by the Wisdom Alliance, an organization which secretly strives to control the world. The alliance already controls four other powerful psychic children, and it has hired the Kaieda Intelligence Agency to capture Mai.
 
==Media==
===Manga===
Written by {{ill|Kazuya Kudo|ja|工藤かずや}} and illustrated by [[Ryoichi Ikegami]], ''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Shōnen manga|''shōnen'' manga]] magazine ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' from March 20, 1985,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:週刊少年サンデー 1985年14号|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578537|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|language=ja|archive-date=March 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329220706/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578537|url-status=live}}</ref> to April 2, 1986.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:週刊少年サンデー 1986年16号|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578485|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|language=ja|archive-date=March 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329220702/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578485|url-status=live}}</ref> Shogakukan collected its chapters in six ''[[tankōbon]]'' volumes, released from August 1985 to August 1986.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:舞 1|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M247654|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|language=ja|archive-date=September 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915010435/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M247654|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:舞 6|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M247647|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|language=ja|archive-date=September 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915010435/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M247647|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Media Factory]] republished the series in three ''[[bunkoban]]'' volumes, released from 2002 to 2003,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|script-title=ja:舞―Mai, the Psychic Girl (1) (MF文庫)|publisher=[[Media Factory]]|date=December 2002|isbn=978-4-8401-0694-8|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|script-title=ja:舞―Mai, the Psychic Girl (3) (MF文庫)|publisher=[[Media Factory]]|date=March 2003|isbn=978-4-8401-0730-3|language=ja}}</ref> and in two ''[[wideban]]'' volumes in 2006.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|script-title=ja:舞 1 目覚め 編 (MFコミックス)|publisher=[[Media Factory]]|date=October 2006|isbn=978-4-8401-1625-1|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|script-title=ja:舞 2 飛翔 編 (MFコミックス)|publisher=[[Media Factory]]|date=November 2006|isbn=978-4-8401-1634-3|language=ja}}</ref>
''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' is one of the first manga series to be fully published in English.<ref group="note" name="published">Several manga had been published in English before ''Mai'', but they were all one-shots or series interrupted before their completion.</ref> It, along with ''[[The Legend of Kamui]]'' and ''[[Area 88]]'', were published in [[North America]] by [[Eclipse Comics]] and [[Viz Media|Viz Comics]] in a bi-weekly [[comic book]] format starting in May 1987.<ref name="Manga60">Gravett, Paul. ''[[Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics]]''. New York: Collins Design, 2004. ISBN 1-85669-391-0.</ref> As it was one of the forerunners of manga popularity in the West, ''Mai'' was chosen for localization due to its middle-ground artwork: neither "too Japanese or too American."<ref name="Manga60" /> It was presented in the "flipped" format that was the norm with early localized manga. ''Mai'' proved popular enough that second printings were needed of the first two issues.<ref name="Manga60" />
 
''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' is one of the first manga series to be fully published in English.<ref name="Manga60" /> Along with ''[[The Legend of Kamui]]'' and ''[[Area 88]]'', ''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' was one of the first three manga published by [[Viz Media|Viz Communications]], in partnership with [[Eclipse Comics]].<ref name="JT-1000">{{cite web|author=Thompson, Jason|author-link=Jason Thompson (writer)|title=Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga – Mai the Psychic Girl|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2013-03-07|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|date=March 7, 2013|archive-date=July 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705175126/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2013-03-07|url-status=live}}</ref> It was published in a bi-weekly [[comic book]] format starting in May 1987.<ref name="Manga60">{{cite book|author1=Gravett, Paul|author1-link=Paul Gravett|title=[[Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics]]|date=2004|publisher=Harper Design|isbn=1-85669-391-0|page=155}}</ref> As it was one of the forerunners of manga popularity in the West, ''Mai'' was chosen for localization due to its middle-ground artwork: neither "too Japanese or too American."<ref name="Manga60" /> It was presented in the "flopped" format; panels and pages read in the left-to-right reading order instead of the Japanese style of right-to-left, that was the norm with early localized manga.<ref>{{cite web|last=Aoki|first=Deb|title=Manga Answerman - How Come Some Manga Are Still Published "Flopped"?|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-09-14/.136806|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=September 14, 2022|date=September 14, 2008|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416072845/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-09-14/.136806|url-status=live}}</ref> Along with the other two series, ''Mai'' proved popular enough that second printings were needed of the first two issues.<ref name="Manga60" /> The series was later reprinted in a 4-volume edition by [[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]] in 1989,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl, Vol. 1|publisher=[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]|date=May 1989|isbn=978-1-85286-197-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl, Vol. 4|publisher=[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]|date=December 1989|isbn=978-1-85286-205-3}}</ref> and by Viz in 1990;<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl, Vol. 1|publisher=[[Viz Media|Viz Communications]]|date=October 1990|isbn=978-0-929279-25-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl, Vol. 4|publisher=[[Viz Media|Viz Communications]]|date=October 1990|isbn=978-0-929279-28-2}}</ref> the edition featured a brief nude scene that had been edited out of the comic book edition.<ref name="JT-1000"/> The series was later re-released in 3-volume edition, titled ''Mai, the Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection 1|publisher=[[Viz Media|Viz Communications]]|date=March 7, 1996|isbn=978-1-56931-070-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kudo|first1=Kazuya|last2=Ikegami|first2=Ryoichi|title=Mai, the Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection 3|publisher=[[Viz Media|Viz Communications]]|date=March 7, 1996|isbn=978-1-56931-059-5}}</ref>
In 1989, Viz publications eventually released a four-volume collection of ''Mai, the Psychic Girl''. The collection featured a brief nude scene that had been edited out of the comic book edition. This was one of the first manga to be released in the "digest" format that serialized manga series are printed in, when they are collated into a collection. The series was later re-released in three volumes as ''Mai, the Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection.''
 
===Film===
Beginning in the late 1980s, new wave rock band [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] attempted to make ''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' into a musical, with interest from [[Tim Burton]]<ref name=Gall/> and [[Carolco Pictures]],<ref>{{cite news | author = Jay Carr | title = Batman to battle DeVito's Penguin | work = [[The Boston Globe]]| date = 1991-03-03}}</ref> who purchased the [[film rights]] in August 1991. Carolco hoped Burton would start production in 1992, but he chose to work on ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' and ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' for Disney.<ref>{{cite news | author = Jeff Yang| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/06/apop080609%2Fg%2Fa%2F2009%2F08%2F06%2Fapop080609.DTL| title = The Pokemon generation grows up | work = [[San Francisco Chronicle]]| date = 2009-08-06| accessdate = 2010-11-06| archive-date = 2009-10-05| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091005092959/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2009%2F08%2F06%2Fapop080609.DTL| url-status = live}}</ref> The option on the film rights eventually expired, and Burton dropped out.<ref name=Gall>{{cite news | author = Joseph Galliano | url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article6895801.ece| title = Striking Sparks with Bergman| work = [[The Sunday Times]]| date = 2009-10-30 | accessdate = 2010-11-06| archive-date = 2011-06-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110615085000/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article6895801.ece| url-status = live}}</ref> [[Francis Ford Coppola]] later developed the property in the 1990s. In June 2000, [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] started on a new different project with [[Kirk Wong]] attached to direct.<ref name=SPE>{{cite news | author = Dana Harris | url = httphttps://www.variety.com/article/VR1117782459 | title = Wong to helm SPE's 'Psychic' | work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date = 2000-06-11 | accessdate = 2010-10-26| archive-date = 2012-11-06| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121106211616/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117782459| url-status = live}}</ref> By February 2001, a script had been written by Lisa Addario and Joey Syracuse for Sony's [[Columbia Pictures]].<ref>{{cite news | author = Claude Brodesser;| author2 = Cathy Dunkley | url = httphttps://www.variety.com/article/VR1117794526 | title = U opens its heart to Addario, Syracuse spec| work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date = 2001-02-18 | accessdate = 2010-10-26| archive-date = 2012-11-06| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121106211641/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117794526| url-status = live}}</ref> The release of ''[[The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman]]'', a radio musical by Sparks, in August 2009, was informed by the six years the band spent trying to get their ''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' produced. The album generated new interest, and gained a "second wind,", vocalist [[Russell Mael]] explained. "The music is all ready and we are hoping that this still might see the light of day".”<ref name=Gall/> In 2010, Burton expressed renewed interest in adapting the property.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://screenrant.com/tim-burton-mai-psychic-girl-ross-60405/ |title=Tim Burton Directing 'Mai, the Psychic Girl'? |last=Miller|first=Ross|publisher=Screenrant.com |date= 2010-05-18|accessdate=2014-03-14|archive-date=2014-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314031750/http://screenrant.com/tim-burton-mai-psychic-girl-ross-60405/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==NotesReception==
''Mai, the Psychic Girl'' was well received by critics and readers in America (more than in its native Japan), and is recognized as an important first step in the gradual popularity of manga in America. Many praised the series for avoiding typical superhero cliches and for also introducing many readers to the world of manga.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Misiroglu, Gina|author2=Roach, David|author2-link=David Roach (comics)|title=The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-book Icons and Hollywood Heroes|date=October 1, 2004|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-154-1|pages=325–326}}</ref>
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last=Napier Darius|first=Susan J. Julian|authorlinkauthor-link=Susan J. NapierJulian Darius|title=TheWhen WorldsManga ofCame Japaneseto Popular CultureAmerica: Gender,Super-Hero ShiftingRevisionism Boundariesin and Global Culture |editor=Martinez'Mai, Doloresthe P.Psychic Girl'|year=1998 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press Sequart Organization|isbn=0-521-63128-9 |chapter=Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor9781940589039 Scouts}}
*{{cite book|last=Napier|first=Susan J.|author-link=Susan J. Napier|title=The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture|editor=Martinez, Dolores P.|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-63128-9|chapter=Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worldsofjapanese0000unse }}
 
==External links==
* [http://sequart.org/magazine/29389/on-mai-the-psychic-girl/ "On Mai, the Psychic Girl"] by Julian Darius at Sequart▼
* {{annAnime News Network|manga|2443|Mai the Psychic Girl|noparen=true}}
▲*[http://sequart.org/magazine/29389/on-mai-the-psychic-girl/ "On Mai, the Psychic Girl"] by Julian Darius at Sequart
 
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