STARFALLTHE MARTIAL AGE
Mali and the world of The Martial Age, in anime-inspired illustration

An original martial-fantasy manga Book II

A blade.
A rival.
An unfinished fate.

Mali wanted a name the great schools could not dismiss.
A stolen teaching gives them a reason to remember it.

Pages 01 & 02 & 03 preview available · Full episode in production

THE QUEST FOR I-CHINGStory & creation by Lim Boon Chuan

A new way into Starfall

Winning was supposed
to end it.

A visiting disciple challenges Mali’s school. She answers. A clean yield should settle the evening.

Instead, a concealed attack turns her defeated rival into a witness she must keep alive. Beyond the yard lie feuding schools, unfamiliar weapons and teachings whose history was never safely buried.

Discover the manga
Anime-era Mali: black tied hair, crimson cords and ivory-and-charcoal fighting clothes
Current manga-era artwork

The heroine

Mali.
Still learning.
Still dangerous.

Gifted, fiercely competitive and funnier when she is embarrassed. Mali wants to stand at the Assembly of Blades under her own name—not forever as somebody’s promising pupil.

One sabre. A red sash. A school worth defending. Being good enough to win is only the beginning.

Meet the Balanced Blade

The world beyond the gate

Different schools.
Dangerous answers.

Enter the martial world →
01

Eagle-Talon Hall

A grip on more than the fight.

02

Coiled Dragon Lodge

Follow the body, not the claws.

03

Reedblade School

An oath travels with the blade.

Anime-style concept illustration of VESPER’s four adult members—Sori, Rin, Mae and Sena—performing together on a lantern-lit festival stage.

Music lives here too

Meet VESPER.

Four performers, a growing following and an Assembly festival engagement that could change their future. Meet Sori, Rin, Mae and Sena.

Discover VESPER →

Ensemble concept artwork · Main manga appearance later in the Assembly storyline.

Old echoes. New destinies.

The first heroes broke the signal.
They did not destroy it.

Three thousand years later, a martial age inherits what survived. Start here—Book I is history to explore, not homework to complete.

Book I & history ↗