I need some actual magical girl icons to go with all these Utena ones

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Two-and-a-half episodes in, and I am enjoying Creamy Mami a lot more than I expected to! Especially for something that came out eleven years before I was born. I like that it's not a fighting show, the way magical girl things usually are—not that I don't like those fighting shows, but they feel very formulaic. Creamy Mami is quite different; the main plot so far concerns her reluctant recruitment as a singer for an idol company. It's pretty eighties (well, as much as I can recognize as eighties) which probably makes it better rather than worse.

Also, and this is kind of a shallow reason, but I really love the main character's hair. Her character design as a whole is pretty cute, actually. If I'm not careful I might start looking for Creamy Mami everything the way I look for Hello Kitty everything.

I would be okay with this, I think.

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Two-and-a-half episodes in, and I am enjoying Creamy Mami a lot more than I expected to! Especially for something that came out eleven years before I was born.

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Oh god, I remember being in undergrad watching that in anime club when it had just been released on fansubbed VHS tapes.

*slithers away to go mushroom in a corner a la Tamaki*

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It's not that you're old, it's that I'm really young. :D

I just did the math—this anime was aired almost thirty years ago. oh my god. Now I feel old.

[annotated_em]

*amused* Well, I'm not quite that old, but I had a moment of "oh my god" there.

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the main plot so far concerns her reluctant recruitment as a singer for an idol company

Ah, the sweet smell of old-school magical girldom! MOST OF THEIR PLOTS ARE LIKE THIS. It's no less of a formula than the modern magical-soldier template is, really - it's just a very different sort of formula, and yeah, it's nice to have that around to clear the air after a while.

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Clearly, I should watch more old-school magical girl shows! I find secret identity entertainment world hijinks far, far more interesting than secret identity fighting hijinks. (As shown by all the terrible, terrible idol manga I read when I should be doing something else.)