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Akazukin Chacha
赤ずきんチャチャ (Red Riding Hood Chacha)
Genre	Magical girl
Manga Akazukin Chacha
Authored by	Min Ayahana
Publisher	Shueisha
Serialized in	Ribon Magazine
Original run	1991 – 2000
No. of volumes	13
TV anime Akazukin Chacha
Directed by	Hatsuki Tsuji
Studio	Nihon Ad Systems
Network	TV Tokyo (JP) ATV (HK)
Original run	7 January 1994 – 30 June 1995
No. of episodes	74
OVA Akazukin Chacha
Directed by	Hatsuki Tsuji
Studio	Nihon Ad Systems
No. of episodes	3
Release dates	6 December 1995

Akazukin Chacha (or "Red Riding Hood Chacha", 赤ずきんチャチャ) is a manga series created by Min Ayahana in 1991, which was serialized by Shueisha in Ribon Magazine in Japan between 1991 and 2000. Its 74-episode anime series was created by Nihon Ad Systems, and first ran by TV Tokyo in Japan from 7 January 1994 to 30 June 1995.

Its 3-episode OVA series was also created by Nihon Ad Systems between 6 December 1995 and 6 March 1996.

In 1998 Cartoon Network aired an english dubbed Akazukin Chacha anime in South East Asia. It bacame a hit especially in the Philippines. But the english version had a lot of mispronounciation with names and words, some examples were Riiya's name being pronounced as Liiya and Magical Serine Arrow was pronounced as Magical Sylene Arrow.

Contents 1 Story 1.1 Part One (Season 1) 1.2 Part Two (Season 2) 1.3 Part Three (Season 3) 1.4 OVA 2 Characters 2.1 Manga & anime 2.2 Anime only 2.3 Manga only 3 Opening and Ending Themes 3.1 Anime 3.2 OVA 4 Games 5 External Links

Story

Akazukin Chacha is the story of a young magical girl named Chacha. Living with her in a cottage on Mochi-mochi mountain is Seravi, which is her teacher and also the world's greatest magician. Chacha is clumsy in casting her spells, every time she summons something, it often turned to something else that she don't expected. But when she and her freinds are in trouble, her spells do work. Living on the same mountain is a boy gifted with enormous strength named Riiya. Riiya came from a family of giants which can instantly change into a wolf whenever they want. Quite far from Mochi-mochi mountain lies Urizuri mountain. Dorothy, also a well known magician in their land, lives on a castle in Urizuri mountain. Living with her is Shiine, her student. Shiine is good when it comes to casting spells, he is a young wizard and most of his knowledge about magic came from Dorothy.

The first 2 seasons were originally created by the anime team. Most of the stories in season 3 are truely based from the manga.

Part One (Season 1)

When Chacha was about to go to school, Seravi gave her a pendant called princess medallion and gave the magical bracelet and ring to Riiya and Shiine respectively. The princess medallion enables Chacha to transform into a beautiful warrior-type lady, which will beat Daimaou's minions. She shouts the phrase "Let Love, Courage and Hope -- Magical Princess Holy Up!" (Magical Princess is the name of the princess). The transformation will only work if the 3 of them get together.

Chacha, Shiine and Riiya got to their school everyday and the 3 of them are in section banana with their teacher named Rascal who holds a whip, looks strict but he is really very kind. By the way, their school's name is Urara School named after their principal Urara. On the same class is Kurozukin or black hooded Yakko and Orin. Yakko admires Seravi deeply and even called him a prince. Orin or Szu-zu is a ninja and is good at camouflage. Orin is probably the the most truthful character on the story, she develops a crush on Shiine when they first met. On another section is Marin who loves Riiya very much. She constantly chases Riiya around like a frenzy.

Part Two (Season 2)

When Chacha's weapon, the Magical Serine Arrow, is unable to beat one of Daimaou's minions, they started to search for another much powerful weapon which is called the Phoenix Sword. Of course they've encountered many obstacles in finding the Phoenix but they succeeded. It was on this part when Daimaou's full body was revealed to the viewers. Daimaou is a devil who want to conquer their land and devastate it. A long time ago, Daimaou attacked the land's castle and turned the King and Queen to stone statues. The father of the King, who is Seravi's teacher, sacrificed himself in order to trap Daimaou inside the castle. He forms a barrier of crystals around the castle which forms a shield around the castle and trapped Daimaou inside. Daimaou have to send his minions to do his nasty works for him.

Also in this part is the quest for the Bird Shield, the third weapon that the magical princess must acquire in order to defeat Daimaou's minions. At the end of this part is when Daimaou is defeated. Chacha, Shiine, Riiya, Orin, Yakko, Marin, Dorothy and Seravi get together and help each other inside the castle. They are called the 8 paladins of love, courage and hope. After Daimaou was defeated, the castle changes back to it's original shape and color. It is here when Chacha discovers that her parents are the King and Queen of their land.

Part Three (Season 3)

After Daimaou was defeated, a magical thing which is called the King's seal is being stolen by one of Daimaou's minions. Who ever possess the King's seal can make the world decent or evil. The Magical Princess fought the enemy and by accident, they had broken the barrier between their land and the other side. Monsters crawled out of the hole and started devastating their land. Seravi said that in order to seal the broken barrier again, they must use things that are from Gods or Goddess. The Pendant, Bracelet and Ring are given to them by Queen Jones, now a Goddess, so they sacrificed the 3 items to save the world. Chacha now can't change into Magical Princess Holy Up. But her family gave her 3 magical items, the magical brooch, compact and bracelet. Whenever she is in trouble she calls up a boomerang which in turn will bring her the items that can solve her problems. At the end of the story, Seravi settled and intended to be married with his childhood classmate and friend, Dorothy.

OVA

The OVA series follows the effort of the elite Momiji School as they try to find out why the greatest witches and wizards in the world come from Urara School. A psionic named Popy is sent to infiltrate the school, but things will not prove too easy when Chacha and friends try to befriend Popy instead.

Characters

Manga & anime

• Chacha (Seiyū: Masami Suzuki)
• Riiya (Seiyū: Shingo Katori)
• Shiine (Seiyū: Noriko Hidaka)
• Seravi (Seiyū: Toru Senrui) - Chacha's teacher of magic
• Dorothy (Seiyū: Junko Otsubo, later Miina Tominaga) - Shiine teacher of magic
• Elizabeth (Seiyū: Junko Otsubo, later Miina Tominaga)
• Marin (Seiyū: Tomo Sakurai)
• Yakko (Seiyū: Mayumi Akado)
• Orin (Seiyū: Noriko Namiki)
• Principal Urara (Seiyū: Sumi Shimamoto) - Principal of Urara School
• Teacher Rascal (Seiyū: Taiki Matsuno) - Teacher of banana class
• Teacher Oyuki (Seiyū: Miina Tominaga)
• Teacher Barabaraman (Seiyū: Tsutomu Kashiwakura) - Teacher of apple class
• Teacher Mayachon (Seiyū: Chieko Honda) - Teacher of orange class
• Access - Shiine's father
• Doris - Dorothy's younger brother, but usually dressed as a woman
• Dr. Mikeneko
• Kan Kan & Ran Ran
• Pikapon
• Popy (Seiyū: Rika Matsumoto)
• Principal Momiji - Principal of Momiji School

Anime only

• Magical Princess (Seiyū: Masami Suzuki)
• Daimaou (anime)
• Piisuke

Manga only

• Katan, King of Karuta
• Sanae - Riiya's elder brother
• Dolphinga
• Yanta - Yakko's younger brother
• Rinnosuke - Orin's younger brother
• Nami - Marin's younger sister
• Chuchu - Chacha's younger sister
• Ichimatsu
• Hohoemi Senshi Egaon
• Heihachi
• Naruto - Popy's younger brother
• Daimaou (manga)

Opening and Ending Themes

Anime

Opening

1. 「君色思い」/"Kimi Iro Omoi" by SMAP

Endings

1. 「笑顔が好きだから」/"Egao ga Sukidakara" by Shoko Sawada (Episodes 1-31)
2. 「チャチャにおまかせ」/"Chacha ni Omakase" by Masami Suzuki, Tomo Sakurai & Mayumi Akado (Episodes 32-56)
3. 「ようこそマジカル・スクールへ」/"Youkoso Majikaru Sukuuru e" ("Welcome to the Magical School") by Masami Suzuki & Magical Study (Episodes 57-74)

OVA

Opening

1. "Make me SMILE" by Yuki Matsuura

Ending

1. 「願いはひとつ」/"Negai wa Hitotsu" by Yuki Matsuura

Games

• Akazukin Chacha (Game Boy, TOMY, 1995)
• Akazukin Chacha (Super Famicom, TOMY, 1996)
• Akazukin Chacha: Osawagase! Panic Race! (PC-FX, NEC Home Electronics, 1996)

External Links

• Akazukin Chacha Online Encyclopedia
• Akazukin Chacha Fansite

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