Guin Saga

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Guin Saga
Cover art of the first Guin Saga novel
グイン・サーガ (Guin Sāga)
Genre	Epic fantasy[1] Heroic fantasy[2] Sword and sorcery[3]
Novel series
Written by	Kaoru Kurimoto
Illustrated by	Naoyuki Kato (1–19) Yoshitaka Amano (20–57) Jun Suemi (58–87) Shinobu Tanno (88–147)
Published by	Hayakawa Publishing
English publisher	NA: Vertical Publishing
Original run	1979 – 2020
Volumes	147
Novel series
Side Stories
Written by	Kaoru Kurimoto
Published by	Hayakawa Publishing
Original run	1979 – 2020
Volumes	26
Manga
The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi
Written by	Kazuaki Yanagisawa
Published by	Media Factory
English publisher	NA: Vertical Publishing
Magazine	Comic Flapper
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	2000 – 2003
Volumes	3
Manga
Written by	Hajime Sawada
Published by	Jive
Magazine	Comic Rush
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 2007 – June 2010
Volumes	6
Anime television series
Directed by	Atsushi Wakabayashi
Written by	Shōji Yonemura
Music by	Nobuo Uematsu
Studio	Satelight
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired)
Original network	NHK BS2
Original run	April 5, 2009 – September 27, 2009
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Anime and manga portal

Guin Saga (グイン・サーガ, Guin Sāga) is a best-selling heroic fantasy novel series by the Japanese author Kaoru Kurimoto, in continuous publication since 1979. A record 100 volumes were originally planned,^[4] but the final total stands at 147 volumes and 26 side-story novels, with the last seventeen volumes and five side stories being published posthumously.^[5] She was working on the 130th volume of Guin Saga up until May 23, 2009, after which point she became too ill to write and died three days later.^[6] After the 100th book in the series was published in 2005, an event to celebrate this was held in Tokyo, with 600 attending.^[7] Guin Saga is the longest single-writer's work in the world,^[8] with total sales of 30 million copies.^[5]

The main story of Guin Saga resumed on November 8, 2013, four years after the passing of the original author. Yū Godai published Volume 131 Parro no Ankoku on that date, followed by Yume Yohino's Volume 132 Cylon no Banka in December 2013.^[9]