Mirmo!
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Selfish Fairy Mirumo de Pon (わがまま☆フェアリー ミルモでポン! Wagamama Fearī Mirumo de Pon!?), also known as Mirmo! and Mirmo de Pon!, is a manga series by Hiromu Shinozuka. It was published by Shogakukan in Ciao magazine and collected in 12 tankobon volumes. The series won the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.[1][2] It is published in North America by Viz Media. The series was adapted as an anime television series. In Japan, it aired on TV Tokyo; in North America, the series is licensed by VIZ Media and ShoPro Entertainment and is broadcasted by Warner Bros. Television under the title Mirmo Zibang!.
StoryThe main character, Katie Minami (Kaede Minami in the original Japanese versions), is a cheerful and energetic eighth grader who is shy around her male classmates, making it difficult for her to date. One day, on her way home from school, she walks into a mysterious shop and buys a blue cocoa mug. When she arrives at home, she peeks into the bottom of the mug and discovers an engraved note which says, "If you read this message aloud while pouring hot cocoa into the mug, a love fairy ("muglox") will appear and grant your every wish." The skeptical but curious Katie follows the directions and announces her wish to date Dylan Yuki (Setsu Yuuki in the Japanese versions), her crush. A love fairy named Mirmo (Mirumo) appears. At first she was afraid of him but later understood that he was a muglox. Katie soon finds out that Mirmo prefers eating chocolate and creating mischief over helping Katie. It turns out Mirmo is prince of the muglox world. Horrified at the prospect of having to marry Rima (Rirumu), his princess bride-to-be, Mirmo escaped the muglox world. Hot on his heels, however, are Rima, Yatch (Yashichi) the bounty hunter, Murumo (Mirmo's brother), and many other muglox as well. CharactersThe main characters of Mirmo! are four human teenagers and their mugloxes, or love fairies. The muglox Mirmo has been assigned the task of granting Katie Minami's wishes, though he spends most of his time eating chocolate and running away from Rima, a female muglox assigned to Dylan Yuki, the boy Katie is infatuated with. Yatch, Mirmo's muglox archrival, is assigned to by Azumi Hidaka, a girl who also loves Dylan and is jealous of Katie. Mirmo's brother, Murumo, is assigned to to Kyle Matsutake, a boy who falls in love with Katie. The muglox fairies use musical instruments as their magical tools. ReceptionMirmo! achieved enormous popularity in Japan.[citation needed] The manga received both the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.[1][2] The anime received TV Tokyo's award for top-rated new program in 2003.[citation needed]
MediaMirmo! was published by Shogakukan in Ciao magazine from 2001 to 2006 and collected in 12 tankobon volumes. The series was adapted as a 172-espisode anime television series broadcast in Japan on TXN in four seasons. After the show was cancelled partway through season four, the remaining episodes were broadcast on the Internet as Murumoya. It was also adapted as two drama CDs and a series of video games. References
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