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Angelic Layer (エンジェリックレイヤー Enjerikku Reiyā) is an anime and manga series released by the manga team CLAMP. The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English by TOKYOPOP. The television series aired from April 1–September 30, 2001 and ran for 26 episodes. Seven volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD. Angelic Layer is related to CLAMP's later work Chobits, and like it, deals with the relationship between humans, human-created devices, toys and godlike power.

The main character of Angelic Layer is Misaki Suzuhara (鈴原みさき Suzuhara Misaki), a seventh grader who just moved in to Tokyo to live with her aunt, Shouko Asami (浅見 祥子 Asami Shōko). Arriving in the city, she watches the battle doll Athena on televison and becomes interested in learning about the amazingly popular toy called Angelic Layer, a game in which players (called Deus) buy and custom-design dolls known as Angels. Angels can move by mental control when on a field called "layer". Layers are very expensive, and most people pay to use them by hour in establishments resembling cybercafes.

An eccentric man wearing a white lab coat, calling himself "Icchan" (Itchan), encourages Misaki to purchase and create her own angel. She names the angel Hikaru, after Hikaru Shidou from CLAMP's Magic Knight Rayearth, because she wants the angel to be "a short girl, but strong and happy" like Hikaru and herself (it is implied that Rayearth is a fictional history in Angelic Layer's world, and Misaki identifies herself with Hikaru). Even though she's clueless about the game, Misaki soon begin to compete in tournament, being assisted and watched carefully by Icchan. Later Icchan's identity is revealed as Ichiro Mihara (三原一郎 Mihara Ichirō), the co-creator of the Angelic Layer toys.

Misaki also begins studying in the Eriol School, an educational institution covering from kindergarten to high school (it seems to be named after Eriol Hiiragizawa from Cardcaptor Sakura). There she becomes friend with Hatoko Kobayashi (小林鳩子 Kobayashi Hatoko), a very intelligent kindergarten girl who is also a famous Deus and an expert about Angelic Layer. Her supernaturally fast angel Suzuka is a favourite contender in tournaments. Misaki also befriends Hatoko's older brother Koutarou Kobayashi (小林虎太郎 Kobayashi Kōtarō) and his friend Tamayo Kizaki, a girl fascinated by martial arts. Both turn out to be Misaki's classmates.

During tournaments she'll meet many more Deus, including:

• Ohjiro Mihara (三原王二郎 Mihara Ōjirō): an attractive Deus who handles Wizard. Called the Prince of the Layer, he is the younger brother of Icchan.
• Ringo Seto (瀬戸林子 Seto Ringo): a pop idol who escapes her manager and plays Angelic Layer in her spare time. She encouraged Misaki when she was losing to the male Misaki.
• Kaede Saitou (斉藤楓 Saitō Kaede): a demure Deus who considers the doll Blanche her child.
• Sai Jounouchi (城乃内最 Jōnouchi Sai): handles the White Princess Shirahime, an angel which wears white kimono.

Misaki pursues her ultimate goal of finding her mother, whom she has not seen since preschool. Eventually she learns that her mother co-created the Angelic Layer in her quest to find a cure for her debilitating nerve sickness. Her mother is also the Deus of Athena, the champion of Angelic Layer.

The manga series is set a few years before Chobits, a CLAMP work in the same universe as Angelic Layer. In the manga, Icchan plays an important role in Chobits' storyline, but this connection was removed from the anime. Kaede's younger brother Minoru is also a Chobits character.

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