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Track Two: Shugo Chara!
Jan 16th
Shugo Chara! is a ‘pure’ magical girl show that follows the adventures of Amu, a popular schoolgirl who hides a hidden desire to be accepted for her true self. This wish is manifested in the Guardian (Shugo) Chara, little entities that represent a future personality of someone – for Amu, it is the athlete, Ran, the artist, Miki, and the chef, Su. Amu is forced into a elite group of students known as the Guardians, people who have sworn to protect the dreams of innocent children everywhere. They do this by transforming (“character changing”) into their envisioned future self with the help of the Guardian Chara, and purifying “X Eggs” – negative wishes – back into their original state. Amu’s situation really gets complicated as she begins to get torn between Tadase, the King Guardian and guy of her dreams, and Ikuto, the soft-spoken gothic character who appears to be working for a mysterious but no doubt nefarious company known as Easter…
1/23/08: Episodes 14 + 15
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Of Men and Magical Girls
Dec 5th
Who watches these shows anyway?
Apparently, we do. Magical girl shows have a surprising reputation and an even more surprising fanbase – at least gauging the English anime blog opinion, there seems to be a lot of positive reviews of the genre, or at least microcosms of it – Cardcaptor Sakura is the classic, some of us (me) stand by more recent ones such as Nanatsuiro Drops, and now the latest hit, Shugo Chara.
Admittedly the middle one was originally an eroge but what all three of these have in common, which is why I find this trend surprising, is that they are all ‘pure’ magical girl shows, unlike what I would like to dub “magical lolicon” shows which pander to more directly of a male base.
Somehow, ‘pure’ magical girl shows have managed to gather quite the male audience themselves, despite being aimed at an audience half (a third, one-fourth, etc) the age and with twice the X chromosomes. I mean, look at it. (Link through Canned Dogs)
Why is this?
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Breaking a Few Eggs: Shugo Chara 1-3
Nov 25th
Shugo Chara is a “pure” magical girl show that’s receiving a lot of praise across the English anime blogging community, which either means that most bloggers are eight-year-old girls, that they’re still embracing their inner child, or that this show has more merit than a first glance would show.
So I gave Shugo Chara a try and I ended up waking up in a gutter the next morning with half my teeth missing. It was just that sugary.
Granted there were a lot of appealing aspects that looked like they could be turned into something good, but the rest of the show was so drowned in Bishie Catguys, LOL Fangirls, and Hay Guys English is Cool abuse, that I didn’t see them being able to overcome the flaws.
Remember, coming from a guy who liked Cardcaptor Sakura and Nanatsuiro Drops.
Naturally, however, since (with very few exceptions) first episodes never click with me I forged on with Shugo Chara into the second and third episodes and found things improved – or at least changed – to an extent.
And my quick judgment would be that Shugo Chara is a passable show that’s worth trying, especially if you – and even if you don’t – have the fortitude to stand more pink than a barrel full of Kirbies.
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