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Tactics (タクティクス, Takutikusu) is a Japanese manga series written as a collaboration between Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama. It was serialized in Comic Blade Masamune. Kinoshita supplied the character "Kantarou," and Higashiyama supplied the character "Haruka." While the manga was previously licensed for released in English in paperback by both ADV Manga and Tokyopop, the manga is now only available in English in digital format on JManga.
The animation studio Studio Deen adapted the Tactics manga into a 25-episode anime series, which ran on Japanese television from October 5, 2004 to March 29, 2005. The English dub of the anime was distributed by Manga Entertainment in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Set in Japan during the Taishō period (in the anime, the manga is set during the late Meiji period), Tactics is the story of Kantarou Ichinomiya, a young man with the ability to see youkai and other mythical beasts. When he was a child, this ability resulted in him being ostracized by humans. His youkai friends told him that in order to be stronger, he must find the oni-eating tengu. The young Kantarou then vows to find it and name it. By naming one, a human becomes master and the name contract is only broken if the master chooses. As Kantarou grows up, he finds a career as a folklorist and a part-time exorcist, alongside his youkai friend Yoko. An assignment leads Kantarou to a mountain where a shrine marks the place where the tengu had been sealed away. Calling upon the tengu by the name Haruka, Kantarou breaks the seal and becomes Haruka's master. As time goes on, Kantarou, Yoko, and Haruka develop a close friendship. However, this relationship is threatened by Haruka's returning memories and his yearning to know more about his past.
Can't stop, won't stop Shootin Stars baby
And we, we get down baby
We get down
Say the girls the girls they love us
Groupie love on the bus and we touch til we, bust
I'm a Shootin Star and no I can't help it
I'm gettin green like a maf***in Celtic
Now my name ringin, like a bell is
This is where the sales is, buddy I'm a salesman
Lookin for some profit and I don't mean a God
I'm a reap the benefits of gettin on my job
Yeah gettin on my job, from every aspect
If she trippin then I'm out bounce like a bad check
Tactics and she know me cuz she heard Go Fish
She heard of Hush too, we about to blow quick
Hope she bout to blow too, no drama to go through
Only here for one night, so we can't get to know you
Yeah, and I don't mean to be rude
But I don't want a prude I'd rather see you in the nude
Now I got her bitchin bout me sayin that I'm crude
But I'm one cool dude and I hate that you assume
That you know me, cuz you really don't
No not at all, you livin in a fantasy world if you think you ballin
I'm all in, flyin to the sky while you crawlin
My stock steady risin the rest of y'alls fallin
Fallin, Fall is what you do like the season
Bringin emcees in I'm leavin em bleedin
Beat em to a pulp, insulted is how they feelin
I'll never burn out you will never catch me peelin
Can't stop, won't stop Shootin Stars baby
And we, we get down baby
We get down
Say the girls the girls they love us
Groupie love on the bus and we touch til we, bust
Yeah, bust til I brush, my n***s on her guts
Pluck like a duck, f*** like a buck
Cluck, cluck hit her with a truck
Then I Swiffer up her blood, yuck
Yeah, I'm a critter in a tux, sicker than the mugs
And my wee wee lookin rough
Tough, yeah I kiss em and they blush
Then I piss in they rush yeah they diss and never touch
Shucks, why these rappers on that s***
Cuz my flow so vicious and they, tweek
Twitch, man youz a lil b***
It's Wolf Magic in this b*** man I'm spazzin in this b***
Ah, you lookin tacky in this b***
No Tactics, man I'm so happy in this b***
S***, now turn around and let me pound
Leap frog, now turn that ass back around
Ugh, yeah now take it take it down south
Slouch, wit a baby in her pouch
Makin money, that's the thing that I'm about
Now, put this d*** up in ya mouth
Can't stop, won't stop Shootin Stars baby
And we, we get down baby
We get down
Say the girls the girls they love us