Bakumatsu Mahoushi

is a Japanese light novel series written by Suo Tsukasa, with illustrations by Nao Saeki. The series began publication on February 10, 2010 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint.

Synopsis
The time is the end of the Edo period. A turbulent era in which the Joi faction and the Kaimei faction compete.

Iori Kuze, a young Dutch scholar and magician who studied at Osaka Tekijuku, went to the Matsue Domain in Izumo Province to translate a esoteric spellbook at the behest of the head of the school, Koan Ogata. Iori wanted to finish the translation as soon as possible and return to Osaka, but what was handed over at the invited mansion was the technology and magic metal Mithril silver lost due to the ancient "great collapse" that caused the loss of his late father. It was a book that describes the smelting furnace of.

The spirited away that occurs in the village around Iori who started the translation, the assassination of the magician Kanamori Tobune, the sword of the swordsman who suddenly attacks. In front of Iori and Touma, a red-eyed scholar who pursues the mystery, the unfortunate darkness hidden in Mithril training spreads!

Bakumatsu fantasy played by the magical melody!