Sugar Sugar Rune
Sugar Sugar Rune (Japaneseシュガ シュ ガルーンShuga Shuga Run), also known as Sugar ² Rune is a manga series created by Moyoco Anno. It is aimed primarily at young girls and is the shōjo genre - assign. Based on the Magical Girl manga an anime television series was created.
Action
The ten-year Chocolat Meilleur (ショコラ=メイユール) and her brunette girlfriend Vanilla Meiux (バニラ=ミュー) are witches. Both want to be Queen of the Magic World. For this purpose, they need to go to the human world and collect as many hearts as possible boy there. The witch who collects the most heart, is queen. In contrast to the human witches have only one heart. If this is deep red, the witch must give it to her lover. There are also evil wizards, those who want the witches steal the hearts " Ogule ".
Chocolat and Vanilla go to the human world. While Chocolat was more popular than her friend because of their courage and their strength in the wizarding world, people may prefer vanilla because of their shyness and timidity. The two gain their first heart. Here, Chocolat in love with Pierre. This is a Ogul and wants to steal her heart.
The friendship of Vanilla and Chocolat is by frequent disputes increasingly fragile. Chocolat focuses, unlike Vanilla, less and less to the heart hunting, and threatens to lose its qualification for the spring exam. Chocolat can finally join in on the spring exam, as it has collected enough hearts on Valentine's Day. She wins the exam and gets a rank up.
From a dispute out decide Vanilla and Chocolat a competition. Drowning as Vanilla during this competition threatens Chocolat and saves her, Chocolat gets itself a shock and drowning. Pierre, who is also present, jumps into the water to save them. Chocolat and Pierre go to the forgotten path, where the two of them get closer unintentionally. You go to the infinite eternity, where their memories float by them. You end up in the wizarding world and get after some hardships back into the human world.
Publications
Sugar Sugar Rune appeared on the September 2003 edition by the May 2008 issue monthly in individual chapters in the manga magazine Nakayoshi. The Kodansha publishing house brought this single chapter from March 2004 onwards out in eight anthologies.
The manga is published in North America, Sweden, France and Germany. While Del Rey is responsible as a publisher for the English version in North America, brings the Heyne publishing the manga since August 2006 in German translation out. Since February 2008, all volumes have been published.
Filming
In Studio Pierrot an anime series created by the comic book series. Directed by Yukihiro Matsushita they produced 51 episodes with a running time of about 25 minutes. The character design designed Noriko Otake. The first broadcast of the series took place on 2 July 2005 to 24 June 2006 on the television station TV Tokyo. Later, the anime was released on 17 DVDs.
The series was also published in France and Italy and translated into Polish and Tagalog.
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Reception
Moyoco Anno won for the manga series 2005 Kodansha Manga Award in the category of children. The first seven anthologies sold in Japan more than 1.2 million times.
According to the German magazine manga scene the anime series bribe through their " beautiful baby design that closely follows the original manga " good voice actor and lovable characters. Although the anime was designed for a young audience, he always keep a more serious undertone.