History Manga / MarvelousMelmo

** Well, occasionally you do see nipples, but only in bathing scenes and in one instance when she tries to breastfeed Touch, her youngest brother (who is a baby).
* BattleOfTheSexes: The plot of episode 3, 'Beating the Boys'. After the boys are assigned cleaning duty, they start a prank war with the girls, leading Melmo, who simply wants the prank war over, to report it to her teacher, but this only results in her [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished getting ganged up on by some of the boys with dodgeballs]]. Ultimately this ends when [[spoiler: Melmo intercepts a prank and turns it into a peace offering with her candies.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 13 of the anime is this. The plot involves Melmo finding a baby abandoned in a train station. She and her friends help reunite the boy with his parents, and Melmo uses her aging candies to teach a lesson to a greedy executive (who shut down the father's division of the company).

* MagicSkirt: Melmo had this in the manga, the outfit she needed would magically appear on her, but in the anime she does not.

* BattleOfTheSexes: The plot of episode 3, 'Beating the Boys'. After the boys are assigned cleaning duty, they start a prank war with the girls, leading Melmo, who simply wants the prank war over, to report it to her teacher, but this only results in her getting ganged up on by the boys with dodgeballs. Ultimately this ends when [[spoiler: Melmo intercepts a prank and turns it into a peace offering with her candies.]]

* CoolBigSis: Naname to Melmo. Melmo's school has an older sibling/younger sibling system, so they are together a lot at school, with Melmo being in third grade and Naname being a six-grader. Naname buys her snacks and defends her from bullies.

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Melmo's aunt, a [[{{Gonk}} hideous]] [[FatBastard woman]] simply known as 'Obaa-san.' In the first episode, she shows her unpleasantness by forcing Melmo and her brothers to call her mom, and by making them do countless chores not appropriate for their ages, one of said brothers is a ''baby''. Later on in episode 21, she and one of her goons kidnap Toto after he runs away and is so neglectful that he gets pneumonia, on top of leaving him (and her goon) to die in a fire.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: CoolBigSis Naname doesn't look like a sixth grader

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Melmo's aunt, a [[{{Gonk}} hideous]] [[FatBastard woman]] simply known as 'Obaa-san.' In the first episode, she shows her unpleasantness by forcing Melmo and her brothers to call her mom, and by making them do countless chores not appropriate for their ages, one of said brothers is a ''baby''. Later on in episode 21, she and one of her goons kidnap Toto and is so neglectful that he gets pneumonia, on to of leaving him (and her goon) to die in a fire.

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Melmo's aunt, a [[{{Gonk}} hideous]] [[FatBastard woman]] simply known as 'Obaa-san.' In the first episode, she shows her unpleasantness by forcing Melmo and her brothers to call her mom, and by making them do countless chores not appropriate for their ages. Later on in episode 21, she and one of her goons kidnap Toto and is so neglectful that he gets pneumonia.
* FakedRipVanWinkle: in the episode '3,650 Days of Terror,' Melmo and Professor Waragarasu do this to two unsuspecting theives, making them think they've been asleep for 10 years when in reality, it's only been an hour or so. This goes south fast when the larger thief believes his daughter died due to not receiving a life-saving surgery

* GenerationXerox: Apparently when Melmo ages up, people note she looks exactly like Hitomi and she has used this to her advantage.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Melmo is improbably good at throwing candies into the mouths of people and animals alike, even if they're a good distance way and/or trying to attack her.

** When Melmo starts abusing the power of the candies, by using them for selfish reasons, the ''angels'' responsible from empowering them withold their blessing. Too bad Melmo [[DisproportionateRetribution had just transformed herself in a dog]]. After refusing to change her back for a whole episode, eventually the angels settle for giving Melmo her powers back, but with a finite number of candies (before, they used to renew themselves in the jar).

* FrinedToAllLivingThings: Melmo makes friends with most that come her way, human or animal

* BattleOfTheSexes: The plot of episode 3, 'Beating the boys'

* CoolBigSis: Naname to Melmo, but not by blood. Melmo's school has a older sibling/younger sibling system, so they are together a lot at school. Naname buys her snacks and defends her from bullies.

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Melmo's aunt, a [[{{Gonk}} hideous]] [[FatBastard woman]] simply known as 'Obaa-san.' In the first episode, she shows her unpleasantness by forcing Melmo and her brothers to call her mom, and by making them do countless chores not appropriate for their ages. Later on in the series, she gets custody of the kids again and is so neglectful that Toto gets pneumonia.

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Melmo's aunt, a [[{{Gonk}} hideous]] [[FatBastard woman]] simply known as 'Obaa-san.' In the first episode, she shows her unpleasantness by forcing Melmo and her brothers to call her mom, and by making them do countless chores not appropriate for their age. Later on in the series, she gets custody of the kids again and is so neglectful that Toto gets pneumonia.

* MissingMom: Melmo's mom dies in the first episode.

* TsurimeEyes: Nitako

''Marvelous Melmo'' is an early MagicalGirl {{Manga}} and {{Anime}} created by Creator/OsamuTezuka about a nine-year-old girl named Melmo, who must raise her two younger brothers after their mother is killed in a car accident. To help with this, her mother briefly returns as a ghost and gives Melmo a bottle of magical candies: the blue candies will make her older, and the red ones will make her younger. The story follows Melmo as she attempts to take care of her brothers and navigate the confusing world of adults, despite still being mentally nine years old.

* GenerationXerox: Apparently when Melmo ages up, people note she looks exactly like her mother, Hitomi, and she has used this to her advantage.
** [[spoiler: Melmo's daughter is a reincarnation of her mother, Hitomi, so another example.]]

* PromotionToParent

** [[spoiler: Melmo's daughter is a reincarnation of her Hitomi, so another example.]]

[[spoiler: Melmo's daughter is a reincarnation of her Hitomi, so another example.]]

[[ spoiler: Melmo's daughter is a reincarnation of her Hitomi, so another example. ]]

[[Melmo's daughter is a reincarnation of her Hitomi, so ]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: In one episode, a mysterious man seems to bring Melmo's mother back from the dead. "Mom" turns out to be [[spoiler: a doll implanted with a snake's soul. But then the snake-doll actually [[DoAndroidsDream develops motherly feelings]] towards the children and ultimately [[TearJerker commits suicide]] by immolation.]]

''Marvelous Melmo'' is an early MagicalGirl {{Manga}} and {{Anime}} created by OsamuTezuka about a nine-year-old girl named Melmo, who must raise her two younger brothers after their mother is killed in a car accident. To help with this, her mother briefly returns as a ghost and gives Melmo a bottle of magical candies: the blue candies will make her older, and the red ones will make her younger. The story follows Melmo as she attempts to take care of her brothers and navigate the confusing world of adults, despite still being mentally nine years old.

* DealWithTheDevil: Melmo gives the mysterious man her bottle of candies in exchange for bringing her mother back to life. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's not really her mother.]]

* {{Tsurime Eyes}}: Nitako

* {{Reincarnation}}: The final episode shows Melmo, now a married woman, using her last candies [[spoiler: to find out that her mother had somehow reincarnated in her own granddaugther, thus reuniting both women but with swapped roles]].

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* AlphaBitch: Nitako, who comes complete with a GirlPosse and is appropriately cast as the wicked stepmother in the school's production of "Literature/SnowWhite".

* ShapeShifting: Early in the series, Melmo discovers that, by consuming both types of candies at once and thinking to a certain animal, she could de-age herself to embryonic stage and re-age as the animal she was thinking to, as, according to the evolutionary theory, a human embryo is genetically connected to every other lifeform. That's [[YouFailBiologyForever not exactly how science works]], but for Melmo is close enough.

* AnimeAnatomy: Melmo is the Prime Example of this trope.

* AlphaBitch: Nitako, who comes complete with a GirlPosse and is appropriately cast as the wicked stepmother in the school's production of SnowWhite.

* QueenBee: Nitako, who comes complete with a GirlPosse and is appropriately cast as the wicked stepmother in the school's production of SnowWhite.

* AlphaBitch: Nitako, who comes complete with a GirlPosse and is appropriately cast as the wicked stepmother in the school's production of SnowWhite.

* TheLibby: Nitako, who comes complete with a GirlPosse and is appropriately cast as the wicked stepmother in the school's production of SnowWhite.