Shugo Chara!
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Hinamori Amu is a stylish punk rock girl who is liked and feared by her peers, but there's just one problem: she's actually a shy and quiet girl who can't seem to drop her self-fabricated facade! But when Amu finds three eggs in her bed, she had no idea her life would change forever. Out of the eggs pop Ran, Miki and Su, Amu's Guardian Charas; these being represent parts of Amu that she wishes she could be, even allowing Amu to transform into those parts at will! Now, with pressure from the other Guardians (including her crush, Hotori) to join their midst, dark sides of the psyche known as X Eggs to seal, and nefarious forces after a wish-granting egg known as the embryo, Amu's life has officially become more complicated!
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Card Captor Sakura
Kinomoto Sakura never imagined that by opening a book in her father's library, she'd be responsible for releasing wild magic into the world, yet that's exactly what she did. Too powerful to be let loose on the world, the magical Clow cards were sealed away long ago by their creator, Clow Reed. But all is not lost! For the guardian beast, Keroberos, was sealed along with the cards. Can Sakura, with the help of Keroberos, retrieve the cards before they wreak havoc on the town?
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add recI'm very suprised that noone has made this recommendation before, as I found the two shows to be very similar.
CCS for many is the definitive magical-girl anime series. SC is an up-to-date show that has a lot more comedy, and a slightly more adult tone to it. Amu and Sakura are very similar characters, falling in love easily, changing costumes frequently and having cute little sidekicks who constantly seem to be getting into trouble.
If you're looking for a good show after watching CCS, I recommend SC for its spunky turn on a usually mediocre genre.
These two are so alike and so different at the same time! But I would definitely say that their similarities are very prominant. Firstly, they're both centered around a girl with really good friends, rivals (that help them), guys that make you go AWwwwwwww! and of course, all that magical girl stuff =)
They're also both over 50+ eps (Altho Shugo is longer) with a lot of character development, especially in their secondary characters (*pst the guys!) And unfortunately, with A LOT of eps, you also get fillers. But I guess the ones in Shugo make more sense than CCS. However, whereas CCS has a concrete ending, Shugo is still heading towards it's second season.
Anyways! If you love one, I definitely recommend the other. I love BOTH Amu and Sakura =) they're both SO different and yet their characters really shine.
If you liked Shugo Chara, then check out Card Captor Sakura. Both rely on charming characterisation and lots of cute comedy to overcome their repetitive content. However, CCS is more successful at charming and humouring its audience. Moreover, the recycle plot structure does give way to a strong and powerful drama rivalling that of many other shows. If mahou-shoujo is your fare, you can't miss out on the seminal CCS.
I think you people would like this because 1. the outfits in ccs and shugo chara are similar 2. the whole school atmosphere and episode atmosphere's are the same basically. 3. they also go on alot of trips, house visits, shopping, christmas etc. 4. there's some romance in it
Card Captor Sakura is another magical girl anime that I believe would be a good anime to watch if you enjoyed Shugo Chara. I don't know what to say.. It just makes me feel like if you liked one, you'd like the other. :)
Sailor Moon
Alt titles: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Life can be tough when you're a teenager. Enter Tsukino Usagi, an average, if somewhat clumsy, junior high student whose voracious appetite for sweets and capacity for tears are offset by her enthusiasm for life. Her normal existence is suddenly turned upside down when a talking cat named Luna comes into her life. Suddenly, Usagi finds herself with the ability to transform into the superhero known as Sailor Moon. Fighting the occasional monster may be the least of her worries, though...
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add recBoth are about a girl who gains magical powers and then use them to help save the world witht he help of a team of their friends who also have powers.
Both are about love, the discovery of true potential, the protection of loved ones and their dreams. Never forget justice and the fight against evil. If you loved Shugo Chara!, You are sure to like Sailor Moon.
Magical girl.. transformation.. saving the people around them.. what else can I say? :)
I remember watching Sailor Moon when I was a kid. The transformatoins, daily monsters, luming threat, talking cats, tinge of romance, constant comedy and search for companions, continously gripped me in - and I loved it. When I watched Shugo Chara, I couldn't help but think that it reminded me of a more modern, slightly less complicated, more loveable and suited for a larger age range version of Sailor Moon. So yeah, I recommend these shows both ways.
Fruits Basket
- TV (26 eps)
- 2001
Tohru Honda is a compassionate girl who is down on her luck. Her mother having recently died, she has been forced to camp out in the woods for shelter. However, things start to turn around once she is invited to live with class hunk Yuki Sohma and his family... but all is not as it seems! Yuki's family is burdened with a dark curse which causes them to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac once hugged by a member of the opposite sex... and Honda may be the only one who can help them.
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add recI found these anime to be quite similar character-wise. Also, both of the storylines for these anime display values of being true to oneself and the value of displaying and being open with your feelings.
Amu (Shugo Chara!) and Tohru (Fruits Basket) are both girls who are determined and will never give up, no matter the circumstances. They each meet many different people and go through many different exeriences that will either make you laugh or sympathize with them.
I found Fruits Basket and Shugo Chara to both be in my top 5, top 3 even, animes. The way they roll fantasy (the transformations in both) into a light hearted, everyday way of life is truly loveable. You'll never get bored when watching the fun packed, romantic, comedic entertainment of both of these animes. When watching both of these you'll daydream about wanting to be part of their crazy, loveable worlds. There's so much about these that you'll love. No matter which one you've seen first or even if you haven't seen them yet - they're both a must see. Plus the moral behind both of the stories - about the hard life, school life, discrimination, treachery, home life, dreams, tragedies, romance, good laughs, and being who you want to be - is something that anyone and eveyone can relate to.
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
One clear festive evening, Lucia, a mermaid princess, rescues a young boy from drowning. With him, she leaves the source of her beautiful singing voice: a pink pearl necklace. Several years later, Lucia has grown into a young woman, and embarks on a quest to the human world to reclaim her pearl and find her lost love.
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add recThough Mermaid Melody is aimed at a much younger audience and has many, many more magical girl transformation sequences, I think it's a good fit with Shugo Chara. Both have a fairly loose and uninteresting plot with plenty of bright colors and characters -- and of course, plentiful amounts of transformations! If you liked the cuteness in one, try out the other.
More of an anime aimed at the younger audience.. but still good. Basically a younger version of Sailor Moon but with mermaids ;)
Princess Tutu
- TV (26 eps)
- 2003
Once there lived an eccentric author called Drosselmeyer who wrote grand tragedies - one of them was the tale of a prince who sealed away an evil raven by breaking his own heart into tiny pieces. However, before the story could be completed, the author died and the tale took on a life of its own. Now, in a town where fiction and reality meet, the story continues on its tragic course with Ahiru, a duck who transforms into the beautiful Princess Tutu in order to restore the prince's heart. But will Ahiru's act of love be enough to defy the story's terrible destiny and lead to a happy ending?
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add recThough Princess Tutu is much more plot-focused, it also has a very magical feel to it. Personally, I think PT is better than SC in most ways, from the cute creatures to the better story; nevertheless, if you liked the magical girl elements in SC, you'd like the much better PT.
If you liked Shugo Chara, you'll definitly like Princess Tutu. It is a magical girl anime, but I think that with all of the stories woven into the anime and her purpose of becoming Princess Tutu will keep you watching it until the very end. :)
