A Little Snow Fairy Sugar

Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar (Japaneseちっちゃな雪使いシュガー) is an anime television series from the year 2001. The manga series was released on in Germany under the title Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar.

The work is about the girl Saga Bergmann and Jahreszeitenfee Sugar and can be classified in the genre Comedy and Drama.

Action

Eleven year old Saga Bergmann lives with her grandmother Regina in the small German town Mühlenburg. Sagas mother, a well-known concert pianist and composer, died three years ago in an accident. After that saga was very closed and could hardly get out of themselves, yet they are always friendly and polite. Really happy it is only when they can play on the piano her mother, which (since they can not be accommodated in the house) is in the shop of a fellow music retailer.

One day saga hits the small Jahreszeitenfee Sugar, which saves them from starvation. Sugar is still quite young and complete still in training, and to this, must find the Sugar kirameki who brings her magic flower to the full flowering; However, she does not know what is the kirameki. The seeds of the flower, the plant has to Sugar for the duration of their training in their home, germinates soon Sagas toy piano, so Sugar equal moves in with her. It can and other fairies only be seen by Saga, but not from other people.

Soon dive yet other fairies in training on, the impulsive Salt, a Sonnenfee, and the prudent Pepper, a Windfee. Due to the presence of the little fairies and their search for the kirameki Sagas life is messed up, so that people begin to continuously surprised in their surroundings, which is actually going on with Saga. But in the end is helped by Saga Sugar to find the kirameki at a point where it is the little fairy would at the very least suspected ...

Characters

• Saga Bergman: After her mother's death Saga lives with her grandmother Regina, her only living relatives. Saga works part time at a cafe, plans everything in advance and is a perfectionist, she also takes a bath every night. By Sugar and the other fairies, however, their life first begins to turn into a battlefield, because she is the one who can see and hear.

• Sugar is a little snow fairy, whose dearest wish is to be an equally clever and warm-hearted Schneefee like her mother. Sugar acts like a toddler who is very clumsy and easily distracted - qualities that often with Sagas meet orderliness. However, Sugar is also very enthusiastic and open-hearted, and she and Saga are slowly close friends. Sugar has the habit of kissing people they like, and to create snow, she plays on a piccolo.

• Pepper is a Windfee in training and use her harp to control the winds. She is very quiet, polite and gentle and tries to get along well with everyone. For the duration of her training, she lives in a veterinary clinic, its operator, a newborn baby around which Pepper cares. In addition to her Feenfähigkeiten she also has the gift to talk to animals.

• Salt is a male Sonnenfee in training and used his magic for a trumpet. First, he wants to be just like his father a Sonnenfee, but later he finds more pleasure in it, to be a Wolkenfee.

• Norma and Anne are Sagas best friends and classmates. While Anne is gentle, polite and quiet, Norma is a lively cross- head, which is very much for the latest - interested in fashion trends - and unusual.

• Greta is a classmate of Saga and also its - self proclaimed - arch rival. She herself comes from a wealthy family, but does not have long sagas popularity and therefore tries (in vain normally) outdo on all possible occasions. Despite the rivalry, however, it is not a bad person basically and at the end of the series an important key figure for the success of Sugars training.

• Ginger is a young, beautiful Rain fairy that makes it rain with her violin. She is in love with the Wolkenfee Tumeric, but is fiercely courted simultaneously by the elders.

• Turmeric is a male Wolkenfee who summon the clouds with his harpsichord at will and can mold. He is with the female fairies because of his good looks and his quiet way very popular, but his whole interest is mainly perfecting his skills.

• The oldest is the highest of the Jahreszeitenfeen. He is able, with his wand (or rather more of a conductor 's baton ) summon how any weather. Although he is supposed to supervise the training of the young fairies, he takes also often the time to win the heart of pretty Ginger.

• Vincent is the young star of the Hammond - theater group " The Bear Pianist" has become famous especially by their melodrama. Vincent is also a talented piano player who adores Sagas mother as a role model, but his way to make his opinion without much second thought, is his relationship with Saga initially no good star. In addition, Vincent seems to be able to perceive the Jahreszeitenfeen, even though he strangely not as intense as it reacts to the saga.

• Grandmother Regina is a good-natured old lady and Sagas only relative. It is very much appreciated by Saga and Sugar because of their friendly and calm nature and good food.

• Phil, a classmate sagas, is an avid, albeit less successful junior inventor, who frequently sneaks with his friends and assistants Jan and Alan at their workshop at the scrap yard, there to tinker all sorts of crazy things.

• Basil and Cinnamon are a male and a male Donnerfee ice fairy who can summon respectively with drum and hand basin lightning and ice. Both, however, are quite a troublemaker, the more to use their powers to play pranks and have lots of fun. At the end of the series yet they succeed in spite of their attitude to find their kirameki and thus complete their education.

• Miss Hannah, Sagas class teacher, is a soulful young woman very concerned about the welfare of their students.

• Luchino is the operator of cafes, works in the saga and it passes virtually even. A rather pleasant fellow who nibbles on a biscuit again and again.

• Henry is the guardian of a tower ( a popular lookout point) to the city wall, which also monitors the drawbridge, which is embedded in the tower. Used by Saga, passing regularly brings him coffee, as a kind of guinea pig for their experiments Blend " abused ".

• Paul is a young employee in the music business, in which the piano of Sagas mother is. Whenever passes Saga and his stern -looking boss is not present, he leaves her in the business play the piano.

• Joe is a thieving raven that appears usually as an antagonist of the fairies, especially when it comes to sparkling objects he hoarded jealously.

Production and publication

The studios broccoli and JCStaff produced the 24 - episode anime series from 2001 to 2002 according to the idea of Haruka Aoi and Koge Donbo. Directed by Shinichiro Kimura, the character design designed Keiko Kawashima and the artistic director took over Shichiro Kobayashi. The series was broadcast on 2 October 2001 to 26 March 2002 the Japanese station TBS.

From 21 to 28 August 2003, the series was followed by a Summer Special Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar titled Special, aired by BS -i. The history of the Specials playing four years after Sugar has completed their training; Saga finds an old costume which she had worn for a theatrical performance in her school, where Sugar, Salt and Pepper found the taste for drama. It is also a question is clarified, which has been come into the series with the language, but never answered.

The anime, including special was broadcast by several TV stations in the Philippines and appeared at Geneon Entertainment in North America. The series was also translated into Korean.

Synchronization

Music

The music of the series was composed by Shinkichi Mitsumune. The header title Sugar Baby Love comes from Yoko Ishida is a cover of the same song the Rubettes from the year 1973-74. As the credits songs you used Snow Flower by Maria Yamamoto and for the last episode Sugar Baby Love.

Manga

As of December 2001, a manga released in Japan for the anime series in Dragon Magazine Junior Kadokawa Shoten of the publisher, which was implemented by the character team BH SNOW CLINIC. Later, the manga was published in three anthologies. The plot adheres closely to that of the anime.

In German published in spring 2006, all volumes at Egmont Manga and anime titled Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar. The translation is by Costa Caspary. An English translation was published by ADV Manga in the U.S..