3/20/2006

Lagoon Engine (distributed in English by Tokyopop) is a manga by Yukiru Sugisaki, which is a supposedly pre-story of Lagoon Engine Einsatz. It features two main characters: 12 year old Yen Ragun, and his little 11 year old brother Jin. While Yen is intelligent, calm, and thinks tactically, Jin is hotheaded and rushes into battle.

The Ragun family is dedicated to defeating ghosts, evil spirits, etc. - all known as ‘Maga’! Yen and Jin just happen to the successors of the family, and they have to fight Maga too. In short: Yen and Jin are Gakushi. Both Yen and Jin have Maga - though not evil maga (obviously). Yen’s Maga is called Koga, while Jin’s maga is named Sora. Koga is good with gathering information, analyzing, and remembering things, though he’s extremely bad at attacking. On the other hand, Sora has no intellectual power whatsoever, but his attack power is very high.

Lagoon Engine was created by Yukiru Sugisaki, the successful creator of several other successful anime/manga. Sugisaku is probably most well known for D.N.Angel and Candidate for Goddess.

Source: Wikipedia