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Title (English) | The Magic Mirror (series 1) |
Title (Japanese) | Himitsu no Akko-Chan | Advertising Fantasy Novel |
Notes | It.="Lo Specchio
Magio" Eng.= "The Secret Akko-Chan" Based on manga by Fujio Akatsuka. |
Classification | shoujo |
Synopsis | Akko breaks a mirror given her by her father who brought it back from India. She buries the fragments in the garden, but the spirit of the mirror gives her a new one. The magical mirror allows her to teleport, or change into a bird etc. The spirit warns her to keep the powers of the mirror a secret. |
Review | Akko & friend
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old "magical girl" series, seen in Italian with a Polish overdub.I identified this as Himitsu no Akko-Chan (The Secret Akko-Chan), listed in Vince
Ho's Shoujo
Anime List, as the little girl has a powder compact mirror, and a ship
appears in two of the episodes. Each episode is a self-contained story,
often involving the same child characters, and usually Akko(?) teleports
or transforms into a bird, using her mirror. In one episode a baby is shut
inside a scrapped refrigerator, in another an artist is tormented by a
malicious parrot, in a third a manga artist (rather good!) draws parodies
of the children who are then 'drawn' into a lurid fantasy adventure. There's
also a fairy that sometimes appears to help her.
Tekkamuyumayakon! Tekkamuyumayakon! Another
shape-shifting Magical Girl. Just that this one has
been around for many years, has undergone several
remakes, predates the Sailor Moon phenomenon, and is
practically unknown in the U.S. (and, by contrast,
very well-known and loved in Japan). The stories
center around Kagami ("Mirror") Atsuko (Akko-chan),
her friends, and the neighborhood they live in.
Akko-chan has a magic mirror that allows her to
transform herself into anyone else, and she uses her
shape-shifting ability to get herself and her friends
out of (or, in many cases, into) trouble.
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Credits | |
Episodes | 94 |
Release | It:TV, Pol:TV |
TV Showing | See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here. |
Date | 1969 |
Production | Toei, NET |
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References & Help | Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information. |
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