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Cipher Academy (暗号学園(あんごうがくえん)のいろは, Angō Gakuen no Iroha, lit. "Iroha of Cipher Academy") is a manga series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Yuuji Iwasaki, currently serializing in Weekly Shounen Jump.

Background[]

Premise[]

Iroha is an average student newly enrolled in Cipher Academy, a Spartan school where students must crack code after code after code with barely enough time to catch their breath! Then a mysterious person named Kogoe gives Iroha an unusual pair of glasses with a crazy secret behind them![1]

Main Cast[]

 Kogoe
     
Kogoe Horagatouge
 Yukako
     
Yukako Omomuro
 Tayu
     
Tayu Yuugata

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Title[]

The original Japanese title of the series features the first name of the main character, Iroha, which also doubles as a reference to the Iroha, a Japanese poem which doubles as an ordering for the hiragana syllabary, similar to the English ABCs.

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