Sugar Sugar Rune

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Sugar Sugar Rune


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Sugar Sugar Rune is currently being subbed, although it's far from currently airing by a longshot. Has anyone else seen this filler-tastic anime?

I'd describe SSR as an old-school Magical Girl series with modern sensibilities. It's got some of the classic elements, like a "magical world" separate from the normal world, and girls who come from that world to test their worthiness to be queen. Sure, it's very cute and fluffy, but it avoids getting over-sentimental thanks to the character interactions. The "best friends forever" elements are decently balanced by sarcasm and good-natured bickering among the cast.

Unfortunately, I don't call it filler-tastic for no good reason. To put it one way, the events in episode 39 of 51 take place in manga volume 3 of 8. Naturally, there's a lot of filler, and even entire anime-original characters created to take up time. So the plot takes awhile to really get going, but once it does, it's pretty good.

I'll stop there as I wasn't planning to post a full critique, but I thought I'd create this thread since I didn't see one for SSR in the index.