History Anime / MajokkoMegChan

* AnAesop: Meg matures and learns many lessons through her adventures on Earth, including the meaning of friendship and the importance of family - concepts that were completely foreign to her before.

* EvilDetectingDog: Gombei. Normally a good dog, he reacts often to evil characters as Chou. He reacts similarly to Non in their first episode together, but in that case it's do to instinct-based [[FantasticRacism prejudice toward witches]] that he [[AnAesop learns is wrong by the end of the episode]] and is civil toward her from then out out.

%%* BigFriendlyDog: Gombei, especially towards Apo.
%%* BlindWithoutEm: Roko in episode 2.

%%* TheBully: Boss, the school bully.
* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: Chou who often ends, deservedly, wounded and humiliated.

* ComedicSpanking: In an episode, Meg moves a train in garden by her magic, but she can not control it well so her dad is nearly run over by it...Her mom stops this train and then she has Meg bend over and starts to spank her. Naturally, DirtyOldMan Chou-san watches the spanking with glee.

* TheDragon: Chou secretly work for Saturn.

* DubNameChange: In the Italian dub, Meg's name is changed to Bia and Non becomes Noa, but most of the other characters' names are not changed. Meg is also known as Maggie in the Latino Spanish dub and retains her original (Anglicized, as her name in Japanese is actually Megu) name in French.

* HotterAndSexier: The series featured {{fanservice}} in the form of {{panty shot}}s, slight nudity, {{lingerie scene}}s, blatant female/female ShipTease between Meg and Non, and Meg being a FilleFatale. It also included characters as the DirtyKid Rabi (Megu's stepbrother) and DirtyOldMan Chou.

* {{Slapstick}}: Meg, Rabi, and Chousan and his minions receive the worst of it, but few characters are spared.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Non has light blue skin, and Chou is grayish.

* CatsAreMean: One of Chou's sidekicks is a cat, the other being a crow.

* DirtyOldMan: Chou spent most of his time spying on Meg and devising ways to publicly humiliate her. In a memorable scene in episode 23, Chou-san rigged Megu's bathtub with wheels, causing it to race around the city while Megu was bathing. Earlier in that same episode, Chou attempted to trick Megu into taking off all of her clothes by hypnotizing her with a magical cuckoo clock; only Non's intervention at the last minute saved Megu from stripping herself totally naked.

** MrFanservice: Not all of the implied/non-explicit nudity is female. Chou's gambit in episode 23 also ensnares a (male) teacher, who begins {{streaking}} around the campus. (Hey, this was 1974.) In another episode, Rabi loses his swimming trunks during a swimming race due to another of Chou's pranks (Meg had given him inflatable trunks so that he wouldn't sink in the pool, but Chou's crow makes the trunks malfunction and destroys them).

* ThePeepingTom: Chou spent most of his time spying on Meg (also in the opening) and caught her in compromising situations. On one occasion, he enjoys watching her get spanked by Mami, but ends up falling from his tower.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Despite the opening theme song likes which portray Meg as a flirtatious coquette, many of her fanservice situations are the result of pranks by Rabi and Apo or Chou-san in which she is ''not'' a willing participant. Although she does [[BreakingTheFourthWall flirt with or try to titillate the viewer]] at times.

* {{Slapstick}}: Meg and Chou-san and his minions receive the brunt of it.

* Slapstick: Meg and Chou-san and his minions receive the brunt of it.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Meg's name, in Japanese, is actually Megu, which may be short for Megumi, a common feminine Japanese given name. At the same time, this made it easy for her name to be romanized as Meg, which it was in the French dub (other dubs changed her name entirely, i.e. Bia in Italian, Portuguese, and Polish or Maggie in Spanish).

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Chou has light blue skin.

* FlyingBroomstick: More in the opening (and in some promotional artwork) than in the series.

* SenpaiKohai: Leon sees Meg as her ''sempai''.

In addition to its success in Japan, the series was later broadcast in several European countries, including Italy (where the heroine was renamed Bia and where the show is still fondly remembered), France, and Poland. It was also dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese, but there is no official English version.

The story centers on Meg, a young witch who has been sent to Earth as part of her MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest. She is adopted by former witch Mami Kanzaki and her muggle family and spends the series learning about human relationships, battling magical enemies, and maturing into a woman worthy of claiming the throne of the Witch World.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Meg is not immune to this since the first episode.

* OffModel: The show's animation is pretty poor in general and there is barely an episode without any glaring animation mistakes. One particular bad example is one medium shot (!) where the animators forgot to put Meg's still frame into the scene, so she just suddenly appears out of nowhere when it's her turn to talk.
** Furu Furu may be the worst consistently animated characted in Anime history. In all of her appearances her design goes off model, and even in scenes were she doesn't move, she is poorly drawn.
** Generally speaking the episodes with the best animation were those in which character designer Shingo Araki served as animation director, especially those from late in the series run, which have some of the best quality 1970s TV anime had to offer.
** Two particular animation directors - Takao Hanata and Yutaka Tanizawa - stand out in particular with how their character designs differed from Araki's, although the quality of their animation was generally not that bad.

* SempaiKouhai: Leon sees Meg as her ''sempai''.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Meg is the recipient of one from Papa in episode one after she reacts violently to one of Rabi's pranks at mealtime. The slap stuns not only Meg, but Papa, who immediately has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction.

* ShesGotLegs: Meg. In some circumstances are put well in evidence her legs and having a very short skirt help.

* BigFriendlyDog: Gombei, especially towards Apo.
* BikerBabe: Non often ride a motorcycle.
* BlindWithoutEm: Roko in episode 2.

* TheBully: Boss, the school bully.

** Non, whose hobby is [[BikerBabe wearing a black leather jumpsuit and riding around on a motorcycle]], may also qualify.

* HotterAndSexier: The series featured {{fanservice}} in the form of panty shots, slight nudity, {{lingerie scene}}s, blatant female/female ShipTease between Meg and Non, and Meg being a FilleFatale. It also included characters as the DirtyKid Rabi (Megu's stepbrother) and DirtyOldMan Chou.

* MsFanservice: Meg who often wears a green see-through negligee end has many panty shots in her regular minidress. There is some brief implied or non-explicit nudity as well although not nearly as much as in Anime/CuteyHoney.

* HotterAndSexier: The series featured {{Fanservice}} in the form of {{Panty Shot}}s, slight nudity, {{lingerie scene}}s, blatant female/female ShipTease between Meg and Non, and Meg being a FilleFatale. It also included characters as the DirtyKid Rabi (Megu's stepbrother) and DirtyOldMan Chou.

* MsFanservice: Meg who often wears a green see-through negligee end has many {{Panty Shot}}s in her regular minidress. There is some brief implied or non-explicit nudity as well although not nearly as much as in Anime/CuteyHoney.

* MsFanservice: Meg who often wears a green see-through negligee end has many PantyShots in her regular minidress. There is some brief implied or non-explicit nudity as well although not nearly as much as in Anime/CuteyHoney.

* PantyShot: Plenty of times with Meg, often as the result of one of Rabi and Apo's pranks, Chou-san's voyeurism, or Meg's occasional clumsiness. Bra Shots too.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Meg's skirt is very, very short. And it is not "[[MagicSkirt magical]]".

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Roko.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Non has blue hair.

** MrFanservice: Not all of the implied/non-explicit nudity is female. Chou's HypnotizeThePrincess gambit in episode 23 also ensnares a (male) teacher, who begins {{streaking}} around the campus. (Hey, this was 1974.) In another episode, Rabi loses his swimming trunks during a swimming race due to another of Chou's pranks (Meg had given him inflatable trunks so that he wouldn't sink in the pool, but Chou's crow makes the trunks malfunction and destroys them).

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Chou comes up with a brainwashing device that makes girls take off their clothes. [[http://dc306.4shared.com/img/mI4JkCd7/s7/0.5219427718621532/MegEP23c.jpg Meg falls under its influx and starts stripping]]... until Non destroys it. It is worth noting that Megu is a potential heir to the throne of the Witch Kingdom, making her a literal hypnotized princess in this case. Interestingly, this episode was NOT one of the ones cut out in the European versions.
** HypnoPendulum: Meg is hypnotized in this manner. To elaborate, the pervert Chou fantasizes about using a pendulum to hypnotize Meg, and later uses a cuckoo clock. It gets Meg down to her undergarments before Non intervenes.

* TitleMontage: The French dub consists of a montage of scenes primarily from Episode 2. Most other Western releases used the original Japanese OP animation.

* ThePeepingTom: Chou spent most of his time spying on Meg (also in the opening) and caught her in compromising situations. On one occasion, he enjoys watching her get spanked by his mom, but ends up falling from his tower.

** One episode shows Meg watching Anime/CuteyHoney on the television. In addition, she's tuned to channel 10, which itself is a shout-out to NET (Creator/TVAsahi), which broadcasts on channel 10.
** In another episode, a model of Anime/GreatMazinger is seen in the window of a toy shop. Cutey Honey and Mazinger were both also Toei Animation shows, and Honey and Meg shared many of the same staff, including the character designer, composer, and screenwriter Masaki Tsuji.

* BackstoryInvader: In the first episode, Mami bewitches her husband and their two children, Rabi and Apo, into believing that Megu has always been the eldest child of the family.

** This time, the narrator (Meg) does the boasting herself, bragging about how [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey her breasts are proof that she can do anything and how she can manipulate boys into doing what she wants.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Meg's name, in Japanese, is actually Megu, which may be short for Megumi, a common feminine Japanese given name. At the same time, this name it easy for her name to be romanized as Meg, which it was in the French dub (other dubs changed her name entirely, i.e. Bia in Italian, Portuguese, and Polish or Maggie in Spanish).