Shugo Chara!
Shugo Chara! Characters
Shugo Chara!
Plot:
Amu Hinamori is a student at Seiyo Elementary, where she has a reputation for being cool and spicy. However, her real personality is that of a very shy girl who has trouble showing her true self. One night, Amu makes a wish that she could have the courage to be reborn as her “would-be” self, and the next morning Amu finds three brightly colored eggs—red, blue, and green—in her bed. Each egg eventually hatches into a Guardian Character: Ran, Miki, and Su. Guardian Characters are angel-like beings that aid a person into becoming their “would-be” selves and fulfill the person’s dreams. With the Guardian Characters, Amu’s life becomes much more complex as she now struggles to deal with her “would-be” selves and the Guardians—a special student council of Seiyo Elementary—who recruit Amu to search for, and seal, the X Eggs and X Characters, which are the corrupted forms of peoples’ dreams.
Characters:
Amu Hinamori
Amu Hinamori, the series protagonist, is currently a 6th grade student at Seiyo Elementary. Amu’s classmates see her as a “Cool and Spicy” girl and exaggerate subjects like her family occupations and her talents in rumors, but Amu is actually extremely shy and timid, since she transferred to Seiyo while in the 5th grade. Part of the reason for this misunderstanding is the trendy punk goth clothing her mother buys for her as well as the way in which she expresses her shyness and avoids doing new things. However, when Amu wishes for the courage to be reborn as her “would-be self”, three colorful eggs appear the next morning, which hatch into Amu’s three Guardian Characters: Ran, Miki, and Su.
During Character Change and Character Transformation her hair clip changes (Ran→Heart, Miki→Spade, Su→Clover, Dia→Diamond). The characters Amu becomes are good at certain activities; like Amulet Heart who is athletic, Amulet Spade who is artistic, Amulet Clover who is a skilled house-worker or maid, and Amulet Diamond who is a musician/singer.
Tadase Hotori
A kind-hearted and quiet boy, the same age as Amu who serves as the K-Chair (King’s Chair). His alias is “Prince”, as he is a bishōnen, but whenever he is called “Prince” or even hears the mention of the word (or anything similar); he changes into an egotistical king who wishes to rule the world. Because of this, he does not do a Character Change with Kiseki unless it is absolutely necessary. Actually, he too is a shy person and is not a public speaker. Because of this, he wished to become another, stronger character, like Amu. He lives in a traditional Japanese house with his grandmother, who taught him to be what would later be his would-be self (which would later result in Kiseki being born) until she became ill. He had a precious dog named Betty who died recently, and is still upset about it.
Nadeshiko Fujisaki
The elegant but somewhat enigmatic Q-Chair (Queen’s Chair), who is the same age as Amu. When Amu rejected the offer to join the Guardians, Nadeshiko tried many ways to convince Amu, such as bribing Amu with photos of Tadase sleeping. She is good friends with Amu, and she looks over and supports Amu in her love life. Nadeshiko has yet to do a Character Transformation with Temari, however her character after Character Change is a battle-hungry yakuza type who speaks in Hiroshima slang and carries a naginata. Temari says “Chin, Ton, Shan” during the Character Change.
Kukai Souma
The upbeat and energetic J-Chair (Jack’s Chair), he is one year senior to Amu. Although the former captain of the Soccer Club, he loves and excels all sports. Once, in the school magazine, he and Amu are mistaken to be a couple, as a student got a picture of him holding Amu after she came out of her Character Change, and lost her strength. Now he has graduated, which is the reason he has been replaced. Saaya appears to have a crush on him, as when she saw the picture of him with Amu, she was furious. Through the power of the Humpty Lock, he and Daichi do a Character Transformation, forming “Sky Jack.”
Yaya Yuiki
A childish and spoiled girl serving as the A-Chair (Ace Chair), she is one year junior to Amu. Yaya often acts too immature for her age, such as having an enormous sweet tooth, a great soft spot for items like ribbons as well as tending to be hyperactive. She is also a ballerina, though a rather clumsy one. She has a newborn baby brother named Tsubasa, who, she claims, gets all her parents’ attention. It is because of this that her Guardian Character, Pepe, who is a baby, was born. Though she acts jealous around Tsubasa, Yaya does have a responsible side, once personally taking him to the doctor when he had a fever, as no other option was possible.
Easter Company
A company set up by the Hoshina family; it is the main antagonist of the story. In appearance it is a large cooperation which deals in many industries, but underneath it plans to use the Embryo to accomplish an unknown objective. Ikuto and Utau belong under the talent production business that is under the “Easter Music” label.
Ikuto Tsukiyomi
A boy who wants the Embryo to obtain his freedom. During Character Change, he grows cat ears, and can turn his hand into a paw with metal claws. His Character Transformation is known as “Black Lynx”. During Character Transformation, he uses gloves with metal claws on his left and wears a leather two-piece with boots. His Guardian Character is Yoru and has the form of a cat. This could possibly be because Ikuto wants his freedom and cats are free. In chapter 31, Ikuto Character Transformed with an X Egg and became Death Rebel. He uses a sythe to attack. In the anime, he used a claw to attack.
Yuu Nikaidou
In order find the Embryo, he joined Seiyo Elementary and became in charge of Amu’s class in the guise of a ditzy but kind-hearted teacher. His dream when he was a child was to become a robot engineer but when his mentor quit thanks to his ailing wife and his parents opposed the idea, he lost sight of his dream and became a twisted person. But he recovered with help from Amu and Su. He resigned from Easter Company and officially become the teacher in charge of Amu’s class. A running joke is that he calls Amu; Himamori meaning “leisure time”. Though as his appearance ceased, so did the gag.
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Review:
New attraction, from the characters and genre for sure this will a bit annoying but as far as the story is concern this will more likely be fascinating. I saw the first few episode of this series and I find quite amusing. The way she, the main character, dressed up and acts in front of the crowd and how people look at her with majesty is just hilarious imagine she became popular not because of her style or social status but rather because of her misunderstanding choice of words toward people and her friends.
What do you expect, if you are a transferee and you happen to be a shy person and want to be cool and friendly but couldn’t act as one because you are afraid to be center of attraction but as you don’t expect it to happen you mislead everything and turned out not to be your self and when you want to change your attitude you are afraid because they might not like you anymore. That is really a big problem among children especially when their friends are much socialized people.
Anyway, the characters are lively and enthusiastic so as the story. I guess this will not just take me away from boredom and stress but for sure this series will really entertain me and my friends. The cinematography is very extravagant. I just remember digimon in this series although they are not really belonging in the same category. Digimon however is somewhat pg13 and I supposed this is approved for all audiences.
Moreover, I’m not really fan of watching this kind of genre, because I prefer shonen anime series but since most of the those series I watch is not progressing, in short they are just fillers and that doesn’t quite entertaining especially if it is total a side story, that means doesn’t really affect or at least revolve in the main story. Bleach for instance is really not fun to watch at all. However Naruto shippuuden I think it’s filler but at least it was revolving to one of the characters and eventually it will be a part of the main story. Some of them are already license and I can’t find any sites which actually have a live streaming.
By the way, if you guys happen to know some live streaming site on gundam 00, deathnote, and prince of tennis nationals please leave a comment here. I really appreciate it. And if you want to exchange links we can, although my site is just newly made. But you can check 13th anime St. for some anime. See you.
