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(Two episodes completed) Meh. Even with the whole "personality swapping" aspect to Shugo Chara with Amu's interactions with her guardian characters, this still has much of the typical feel of a mahou shoujo. The series pretty much builds on the same cliches you can expect of the genre and prominent shoujo ones: transformation scenes (not involving nudity fortunately), the guardians being the show's mascots, villain manipulating the doubts within kids for his own ends, super popular and influential student council also involved in fighting evil, female lead with feelings for one of the male leads involved in said student council, enough fangirls ogling for Amu and the council, enough babbling that said magic will lead to character growth for Amu. While this would seem like perfect bait for younger viewers to check out or anyone who is a sap for the mahou shoujo genre, I'm not too thrilled with what I'm seeing here. Guess I'll be dropping this much earlier than Stretch plowed through. Last updated Friday, April 13 2012. Created Friday, April 13 2012. | ||||||||
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pronounced Shugo Chara ,like character...
so,im about halfway done around episode 39 and so far out of 51 ep. in the first season ( second season starting this month or so), pretty solid all around! if you wiki this anime youll see that this has won the Kodansha Manga Award although im not so sure it shouldve won considering there are some adult hints that are a bit inappropriate. so,Amu Hinamori is in 5th grade, is a bit emo/punky and her classmates call her,"Cool and Spicy!" She comes out that way on the outside but on the inside...shes totally girly! she just cant let it out....then comes these eggs.... she wishes to be able to show her 'would be' self and next morning she has these cute, colorful eggs that hatch into these chibi characters that transform with her. plenty of love interests, a bit heartwarming at times, fairly funny this is worth renting. its amusing to see ordinarily quiet characters have egg characters that are totally different, causing them to sometimes burst out in silly scenarios against their will... update: ok! watched the 1st season , all 51 or was it 52?? episodes and its almost a buy, like a B ++. Last updated Saturday, October 18 2008. Created Thursday, October 16 2008. | ||||||||
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Last updated Thursday, January 24 2008. Created Thursday, January 24 2008. | ||||||||
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 Stretch
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(Five episode watched): When I saw the super cool Amu (complete with her school uniform modified into a Chou-Gal outfit) defend a small boy from being bullied, I experienced a sudden deja-vu for Chou-Gals! Kotobuki Ran. Having noticed that this was based on a Peach Pit production, I began to wonder if this might be a goofier take on that series, much like DearS was suspiciously similar to Chobits. Fortunately, before long it became clear that this show didn't have all that much in common with that one. One definite difference is Amu's hidden feelings of doubt about the false persona she projects. Actually, the silly SD sequences reminded me of yet another show, Kirarin Revolution. Another unexpected difference is the strange magical/supernatural element. Shugo Chara wasn't hilarious by any means, but was fairly amusing and left me with a smile on my face. It's too soon to say how clever the plot will be, but Amu seems likeable. I must (or at least should) become more discriminating in which anime series I devote my limited supply of time to, and became tempted to shelve Shugo Chara. After five episodes I couldn't say that the theme of "charas" particularly intrigued me; in fact, I found the notion that depression, anger, and unhappiness are all the result of the mischief of naughty "X-Charas" to be rather juvenile. Shugo Chara seems like a show that was targetted at children, to reinforce Japan's hyper-competitive code of "doing your best". At least the jokes on the sidelines are fairly good. But I became frustrated by the lack of a sophisticated plot and gave up on this one. It must be indicative of how frustrated I felt that I didn't even save the episodes so that I could start watching them again some day--I almost always do that. My favorite line: "Another weirdo. And what's with the cat ears?" --Amu Last updated Saturday, January 05 2008. Created Friday, October 12 2007. | ||||||||
Other Sites
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| Japanese Language Series Web Site | http://shugo-chara.com/ |
| Japanese Language Game Web Site | http://games.nakayosi-net.com/joho/anime/syugoanime.html |
| Wikipedia Entry - Shogo Chara!! | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugo_Chara%21 |
| Almost too much information about the anime series... but lots of fun!! | |
| Peach Pit (Japanese) - Series Web Site | http://p-pit.net/shugo/index.html |
