Seikon no Qwaser

The Trembling Night

The series begins with a schoolgirl from St. Mihailov's Academy being killed for data about the Tsar Crowning icon. The next morning, schoolgirls Mafuyu Oribe and Tomo Yamanobe pray in the campus church after beginning another school day; a tap on Tomo's head later, an encounter with Teresa Beria gives way to having demonstrated an example of the ridicule directed at Tomo and Mafuyu along with their arch-nemeses Miyuri Tsujidou and Hana Katsuragi. As Tomo and Mafuyu return home, however, they discover an infirm boy named Alexander 'Sasha' Nikolaevich Hel who later intercedes for her when the Magnesium Qwaser Pax Romania igniting the paintings in an attempt to torture Mafuyu instigates a battle that serves as a tutorial for defining Qwasers and their soma-synthesizing Maria partners along with demonstrating the necessity of soma in driving their chemistry-based powers over their assigned element; if that is not confusing enough for Mafuyu, Sasha is ultimately far more austere than his playful-sounding nickname suggests as he sees no reason to adhere to Miyuri's student government nor the standard social protocols of civilization. (Source: Wikipedia)

Masked Friendship

While Tomo sleeps to resolve the delirium from her fever, Mafuyu compares notes with the sympathetic Ayana Minase who offers her assistance upon request before the bell prompts the girls on their way to class as the priest Yuuri Noda prosecutes a soliloquy about the 'Tsar's Crowning'. Waylaid with no practical recourse, Sasha explains Mafuyu about the 'Tsar's Crowning' icon along with the fanatical zeal driving the Adepts' pursuit thereof. Mafuyu's opprobrium of all Qwasers being murderers strikes a nerve within Sasha whose languishing into unconsciousness after holding her at bay causes a glimpse of Sasha's prologue in refining his iron-based Qwaser powers and gives way to a dexterously prepared apology pot of borscht from Mafuyu. Teresa admonishing caution of Mafuyu prior to departing with Sasha is the only warning of an innocuous bathtime session of girl talk becoming the preamble for Ayana showing her true colors as the Magnesium Qwaser as she wields Tomo in an obverse abduction; the ultimate irony of the whole confrontation is that even with her powers energized by Tomo's soma, Sasha successfully turns the tables on Ayana using an iconoclastic strategy in spite of his rage. (Source: Wikipedia)

Those Who Seek

Resolving the aftermath of the subterfuge availed by the Magnesium Qwaser appears as child's play when Mafuyu challenges Sasha appraising Tomo's breasts one night and rushes to his side when he wakes up from reliving the inception of his revenge with the Qwaser of Gold. While Mafuyu bristles in frustration at Sasha's anti-social conduct and how he turned the tables on her that morning, Miyuri is shocked to have her overture rejected and her persecution perverted to her detriment yet again; later that evening, Mafuyu prepares a room for Sasha only to find that housing Sasha as per Father Yuri's volition is far easier said than done when he twice ignores her ground rules and nearly spears her with a projectile toss. Meanwhile, the Copper Qwaser Ekaterina Kurae is nearly finished with her voyage to Japan when a trio of gunmen charges her the relinquishment of her gynoid guardian Anastasia; a very violent counterstrike on the three men gives way to Miyuri fawning over Ekaterina after her arrival in Japan prior to initiating the shopping spree whose ultimate irony is that it is the forum for Ekaterina to prove her hypothesis of Hana making an excellent Maria partner for her. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Queen and I

While Ekaterina continues appraising Hana's soma, Mafuyu leads Sasha through a girls' day out at the mall with Tomo and Teresa in which Sasha has to haul all of the recently purchased payload like a beast of burden as punishment for ignoring her house rules. A last-minute visit to a lingerie shop at Tomo's request for a bigger brassiere sets the stage for Tomo and Teresa's abduction at the hands of some voyeurs from the fitting room right under Mafuyu and Sasha's noses; a bit of detective work and an expedient intercession from Sasha later, the voyeurs are easily defeated but prove themselves a warm-up compared to the fully charged Ekaterina who decides to appraise the efficacy of Hana's soma. Even with Teresa recharging his soma, Ekaterina easily stalemates Sasha's close-range attacks and would have finished him off if not for Mafuyu and Teresa's combined interjection for temperance; while Mafuyu and Teresa perform the necessary housekeeping with the voyeurs and explaining about Athos, Ekaterina ultimately makes herself at home in Hana's apartment as she wastes no time in refining Hana as her Maria partner. (Source: Wikipedia)

White Lilies of the Battlefield

The Princess’ Egg

Bleached White Maria

Atomis of Two Faces, Part 1

Atomis of Two Faces, Part 2

House-Sitting for the First Time?

Witch’s Crucifix

Stigmata Sword

Night of the Communal Hot Spring

The Melancholy of Miyuri Tsujido

Anglo-Russian Entente

The Condemned Phoenix

Gospel of Flames

The Trap of Ouroboros

Secret Garden

The Paper-Mache Empress

The Shrine of Water

Trinity/Gehenna

The Deadly One, Sasha

Live Thy Life of Youth