The Adventures of Tweeny Witches
Maho shōjo Tai Arusu (Japanese魔法 少女 隊 アルス, maho shōjo tai arusu, dt " Magical Girl troop Arusu " ), also known under the official English title of Tweeny Witches, is an anime television series, 2004-2005 was erstausgestrahlt. This is the first real TV Series Studio 4 ° C. She tells a Magical Girl story from an idea by Keita Amemiya and is about a elementary school student whose dream to possess magical abilities, comes true.
Action
Arrival in the magical world
Ellis (アルスArusu, also Aluce, spoken by Sachiko Kojima ) is in the fifth grade of a Japanese elementary school. She lives alone with her mother, the father she has not seen for years. The father, who works as an archaeologist has, however, given to her before his disappearance still a book of spells and awakened in her great interest in magic. The lively girl wants to break out of his boring life and would rather live in a world full of magic. When the eleven year old once again annoyed her classmates, these take their spellbook away. She wants to take it back and throws it down with the book, several blocks from the roof of the school building. During the event, Ellis disappears and finds herself in a magical world again.
In the wizarding world, it holds initially for a dream, it is in the " Forbidden Forest " and meets once a goblin. Ellis is in the realm of witches and the target have set to catch all the hundreds of different goblins. The witches take Ellis and the Goblin, the last one is still missing them captive. The ten -year-old Eva (エバeba, spoken by Ryo Hirohashi ) is fascinated that Ellis is a man, and freed them from captivity. Eva can Ellis riding on her broom, something that normally can only be witches. In the wizarding world so Ellis has magical abilities. On the broom Ellis directed to chaos, by freeing the goblins and thus evokes the wrath of the leader of the witches. The serious, twelve -year-old Sheila (シーラShiira, spoken by Hoko Kuwashima ), who wants to be one of the best witches and who is responsible for the magical education of young witches and Eve are made responsible for the liberation of goblins and a curse, which they can not grow unless the hundred goblins are not recapture.
Maho shōjo Tai
Ellis magical abilities quickly get better. It says that magic is there to make you happy and that everyone, whether man or witch who can cast spells. Magic could work wonders. Sheila and Eva friends with Ellis and looking for a way to Ellis to return back to their world. While there is a way to the human world, but is extremely dangerous and has many did not make it about him to their destination. Usually only witches are sent through this path that can still perform no magic in a lavishly celebrated ceremony at a certain age. Ellis loses her magic book that turns out to be the "true" spellbook. Sheila focuses on capturing the goblins to get rid of the curse of not growing up, but Ellis gets in her way, as she is of the opinion that it was wrong to imprison goblins.
The witches do everything we can to catch the leprechauns vanished. The Mazoku, the male inhabitants of the magical world, which generally have a poor relationship with the female witches, they compete by also capturing goblins. While the witches reflect on the traditional values of magic and to their pride, the Mazoku are fixed on technological progress and science. Magic, they no longer apply. Only a few male inhabitants of the magical world are already familiar with magic, but they are a minority that lives underground. Ellis, Eva and Sheila found the team maho shōjo Tai to protect the goblins before the Mazoku.
Fight against doomsday
Sheila finds out in the realm of the Mazoku that the magic world is facing its downfall and destruction threatens soon. At the same time she learns of another way in the human world. The Mazoku under the leadership Grandes need Ellis "true " magic book that. Hundred goblins and witches with skills in black magic to wipe out the human world and to create in its place a replacement magical world to which they could escape the doom of the wizarding world Black magic is considered by witches as frowned upon as evil, only the legendary magic of the light could compete with them.
Sheila Ellis brings on a ship that travels to the human world, and plans to Eva later also to forward, so that the two are not consecrated together with the magical world from destruction. Ellis hits on the way to the human world to her half-brother Renon (レノン, spoken by Yūki Tai), who her when she fell from the roof of the school, called to the magic world. Renon is the son of Ellis father and Ateria (アテリア, spoken by Atsuko Tanaka ), which is one of the most powerful witches. Renon and Ellis return to the wizarding world. Ellis 's father is in the captivity of the Mazoku, also Ateria capture them. The Mazoku require the spellbook for the release of Ellis father. This, however, is already fled and Ellis, the book introduces for the release of Ateria from. However, the Mazoku do not keep their promises. Ellis father freed Ateria and finally sacrifices himself for Ateria so that she could flee.
The sinking of the wizarding world is coming closer. The sky has already turned the color of destruction and the kingdom of the Mazoku dissolves slowly. The Mazoku start practicing black magic, as they have the hundred goblins, the book of magic and a witch. As a witch acts Eva, who has let himself be persuaded by a ruse. Eva is unrecognizable, she engages with the black magic itself and Sheila Ellis on. Ellis is flying on the broom back into the human world and bring from there the sweet nuts that Eva likes to eat. Ellis, surrounded by the magic of light, are a nut in Eva's mouth and thus dispels the darkness from their hearts. The darkness gives way and the sky returns to its usual color. Ellis saved the wizarding world.
Eva and Sheila are from their curse, do not grow up to be, free and Ellis returns to the human world back to where everything is still as it left off. Ellis goes home prior to her mother and is also her father, from whom she believed that he had died in the magic world
Name
The name of the main characterアルス( Arusu ) is the name ofアリス( Arisu ) is similar, which is the Japanese form of the first name Alice. According to her name can be written in Latin letters as " Aluce ".
The channel Animax has in its English language version renamed the main character in Ellis. This name indicates the pronunciation Similarly, the association with Alice again.
Formation and Publications
Character designer and animator Keita Amemiya, who is also the original story to Iria, among other things: Zeiram - The Animation invented, had the idea to maho shōjo Tai Arusu. Although this should be implemented first as a live-action film, took over the cartoon at Studio 4 ° C, the reaction history. While Shinji Obara processed the idea for a script, and Daisuke Nakayama was responsible for the design of the characters and the setting, Yoshiharu Ashino took over as director. For synchronization you picked up the rarely used Actors Studio method, in which the voice actors infuse their roles prior to the completion of the associated animations life. The setting is deliberately designed unusual, because you look so from the traditional setting - design of most TV anime such as Fullmetal Alchemist wanted to dissociate.
The public television station NHK, which had a considerable share in the financing, was that all the episodes should have a running time of about nine minutes, so they would so perfectly fit into the broadcast schedule by NHK. It originated forty episodes. The entire implementation of the television series took about two years.
In March 2003, we announced the project at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair. From 9 April 2004 to March 4, 2005, NHK beamed the first forty episodes of television in Japan. In the anime channel Animax, the series ran then in many parts of Asia. From October 2004 to April 2005 they brought the series in Japan on seven DVDs out.
Reception
In the AnimaniA you praised the series throughout 2005. The brevity of the episodes of the series would do well because she was so full of content and suspense. The setting sorrow for true visual highlights and the soundtrack is atmospheric succeeded. Maho shōjo Tai Arusu belongs " indisputably the crème de la crème of Japanese anime TV entertainment. "
Adaptations
From May 2004 to January 2005 two pages per month published a manga based on the anime series in the manga magazine Ciao, which at this time per issue sold over one million times. The manga was drawn from May Shinna and poses a more humorous version of the story.
Also, the more a comedy than Arusu - titled The Adventure (アルスTHE ADVENTURE ) continuation of the anime, the animation appeared in November 2007 in six episodes as original video on three DVDs. This was supposed to be broadcast on television in 2005, this plan was later rejected.