Anime Review; Shugo Chara

Ok everyone here’s my anime review on the anime Shugo Chara 

*collapses from exhaustion* god this anime took forever to finish, but good god it was worth it ((three freaking seasons to get threw -.-”))

This anime to me was great, I’m so happy that i was able to finish it seeing that i started watching it last year but stopped half way threw. So at the beginning of last month i decided to watch it again and actually FINISH IT ¬_¬.

Ok now character introductions;

We start off the anime and come across a girl called Hinamori Amu; a girl with pink hair, brown/gold eyes and wears gothic lolita school clothing.

Two boys are picking on a younger class man who apparently has a game that they want to have. Amu arrives on the scene and says that their blocking her path, the boys soon realize who she is. It comes to show that Amu is shown as a scary upper classman who is known for her “cool and spicy” outer character. The boys take off screaming down the street screaming, meanwhile the boy who had been picked on thanks Amu for saving. Amu responds by saying “Are you stupid? Your blocking the way too shrimp” and leaves the scene.

It is shown not long after that Amu’s “cool and spicy” outer character isn’t her real self. The reason she acts all non caring or as anime terms called it Tsun-Tsun ((Tsundere)) is because when she’d transferred to the school she didn’t know how to act in front of the students when being introduced to her class. As a result she’d cracked under pressure and acted like it wasn’t a big deal.

We then see Amu eating at the table with her two parents and younger sister Ami, watching a program about a psychic who is telling everyone how they have a guardian angel watching them. Their would be self’s.

Amu later heads upstairs to her room and sits on her bed thinking about what the lady on the tv had said on the program. Curling up into a ball Amu prayed that she’d have more courage, so she could act more like herself and not like her outer character.

The next morning Amu wakes up two find Three eggs in her bed  ((i couldn’t find a image from the anime, sowwy ;A;))Amu takes the eggs to school not wanting her parents to find the eggs and takes them to school in a side bag.

It’s at this point in the anime which we meet the school guardians, a group of kids who take care of the school and keep things in order.

It consists on the kings chair; Tadase Hotori 

Queens Chair; Nadeshiko Fujisaki 

Jack’s Chair; Kukai Souma 

And Finally Ace Chair; Yaya Yuiki 

((The guardians are easy to spot seeing that unlike the other students they wear a cape.))

Anyway, it is shown that Amu has a crush on Tadase Hotori. She wishes that she could get him to notice her and wishes that she could tell him her feelings for him. At this point one of Amu’s eggs ((the pink/red one with the hearts on it)) starts to move, frantically she tries to hide it. But Tadases notices her eggs and grabs her arm, he is about to ask her about them but Amu’s outer character shows up before anyone starts gossiping. Amu puts on her “cool and spicy” character and ends up says “don’t act like we’re friends or something shorty” ((it shows that Amu is infact a little taller than Tadase)) and walks off cursing herself for talking to her crush like that.

Later on we come across a character called Ikuto Tsukiyomi, a 17 year old boy with blue hair and blue eyes 

When we first meet Ikuto, he is seen with blue cat ears and tail. At this point in the anime Amu’s red egg had hatched into her first “shugo chara” called Ran. Who represents Amu’s desire to be more honest and athletic 

Ikuto attempt’s to take Amu’s remaining unhatched eggs with his shugo chara Yoru It’s shown later in the anime that Ikuto can character transform with Yoru into Black Lynx 

Amu realizes that if Ikuto takes her unborn eggs then he’s basically taking away her would be self’s. Amu lunges forward and knocks the eggs out of Ikuto’s hand and ends up falling off a ongoing construction building. Ran tells Amu to believe in herself and as a result Amu ends up character transforming into Amulet Heart  in which she harness’s more powerful athletic abilities, and the desire to be more energetic and honest.

As the anime progresses we find out that the academy’s guardians also have shugo chara’s ((here comes order time *hitches my glasses*))

Tadase’s Shugo chara is Kiseki, who was born out of Tadase’s desire to become stronger and his dream of world domination.  Later on in the anime he and Tadase can character transform into Platinum Royal   ((And i swear if this outfit doesn’t shout GAY then i honestly don’t know what does -.-))

Nadeshiko’s shugo chara is Temari, who was born out of Nadeshiko’s desire to be more mannered and become a Japanese dancer. It’s shown that Nadeshiko and Temari can chara transform into Yamato Maihime 

Kukai’s shugo chara is Daichi, who was born when Kukai wanted to do many sports but had to choose. Kukai and Daichi  are shown to chara transform into Sky Jack  later in the anime 

And finally Yaya’s shugo chara is Pepe, who was born from Yaya’s desire to become a baby again and to get more love from her parents. Yaya and Pepe are shown to character transform somewhere in the middle of the first season i think, Into Dear Baby  ((in all honesty her character transformation scares me 0__0)

As the series goes on we meet Amu’s other shugo chara’s; Miki who was born from Amu’s desire to be more cool, artistic, and also disobedient and level-headed.  With Miki Amu can character transform into Amulet Spade 

And Su who was born from Amu’s desire to be more caring and improve her domestic skills . With su, Amu can character transform into Amulet Clover  ((This outfit seriously made me go Wtf?!))

While Amu learns about being a member of the guardians they find out about things known as X-Eggs, basically it’s when someone has put an X on their would be self ((given up on their dreams)). Amu learns that threw her character transformations she can purify the eggs by using her attack Open heart.

 

*Collapses* God going threw all the character transformations is a pain, oh well. As the story progresses it tells u more and more about peoples backstorys and i honestly liked that. I liked finding out why people put X’s on their hearts egg or why their shugo chara was born. Ok i honestly don’t want to give too much away in this review cause it probably contains certain spoilers and i don’t want people to read this and feel like they’ve basically watched the whole anime.

Now art style wise, i absolutely loved it. There where times when they did keep to it but when they went into chibi mode it just made me laugh till my sides were sore.  The overall transformations where amazing as well, certain times I questioned certain things but now i just try to ignore it. Grafics where amazing as well and the overall design was amazing. It has that vibe to it that you WANT to get from a magical fantasy anime, they have girly transformations you want great design and colors and that’s what this anime gives you.

The plot to the story it self is pretty good as well, I think the reason I stop watching it after the first few episodes the first time though is because to me it didn’t really pick up at first. But now that I’ve seen all of it I think to myself “Why the hell didn’t i watch this sooner or bloody finish it the first time i started to watch it?!”. I think there were certain parts where it lagged though and i think that was really the only flaw to it. I think that they could of provided more information on certain characters and maybe could of gone into more detail with them as well.

Other than that though the anime was great, i love everything about it. Now certain girly anime’s like  Sailor moon or princess Tutu don’t really catch my attention, but animes like Shugo chara and Tokyo mew mew are the type of girly animes that i like. They have a way of actually grabbing my attention and they make me want to rewatch the anime over and over and over again.

I give this anime a  9/10 , the reason being like i said it lacked in certain criteria.