History Manga / NurseAngelRirikaSOS

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Perhaps it's better this way - Seiya never confesses his feelings to Ririka. None of the many [[PrecociousCrush precocious crushes]] amount to anything. While the manga settled the relationships in a DenouementEpisode, the anime is left vague.

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A [[MagicalGirlWarrior fighting magical girl]] series that [[FollowTheLeader debuted in the height]] of the mid-Nineties ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' craze. Despite the [[KidHero young age]] (10-years-old) of the lead character, Ririka SOS courted the [[PeripheryDemographic cross-demographic appeal]] of the genre through a down-to-earth atmosphere, a focus on drama, and a sense of [[DarkerAndEdgier dark-and-edginess]] that steadily built over its run. While great for audiences interested in a harder-hitting magical girl, it turned out to be not so great for the corporate sponsors or the show's longevity.

The story follows fourth-grader Ririka Moriya, whose life gets turned upside down when [[SchoolIdol super-cool]] [[NewTransferStudent transfer student]] Nozomu Kanou (a.k.a. Kanou-senpai) gives her a birthday present out of the blue. The gift is a [[TransformationTrinket magical cap]] that allows Ririka to transform into the heavenly guardian, Nurse Angel. Ririka soon learns that Kanou is [[AlienAmongUs actually an alien]] whose home world, Queen Earth, has been [[AlienInvasion overrun]] by the evil organization Dark Joker. With help from Kanou and her friend and neighbor Seiya Uzaki, she soon learns to fight as Nurse Angel to keep Earth from sharing Queen Earth's misfortune.

''Nurse Angel Ririka'' started out as a manga series by Koi Ikeno and Yasushi Akimoto, published in ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}'' from 1995-96. The 35-episode anime adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi, one of his earliest projects under the director's chair, started airing about six months after the manga began and ran concurrently with it.

** Chacha of ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' and Himeko Nonohara of ''Manga/HimechansRibbon'' show up in the background in episode 31. Doubles as a production reference since all three shows were not only based on manga series published in the same manga, but also made by the same production company, with those two shows being the last two shows they worked on.

* ShoutOut: Chacha of ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' and Hime of ''Manga/HimechansRibbon'' show up in the background in episode 31. Doubles as a production reference since all three shows were made by the same production company and that those two shows were the last two shows they worked on.

* ShoutOut: Chacha of ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' and Hime of ''Manga/HimechanNoRibon'' show up in the background in episode 31. Doubles as a production reference since all three shows were made by the same production company and that those two shows were the last two shows they worked on.

* BirthdayEpisode: [[{{Bookends}} The first episode and especially the final episode]] focus on [[TheHerosBirthday Ririka's birthday]]. In the final episode they sing HappyBirthdayToYou and everything [[spoiler:just to twist the knife a bit more]].

The story follows fourth-grader Ririka Moriya, whose life gets turned upside down when [[SchoolIdol super-cool]] [[NewTransferStudent transfer student]] Nozomu Kanou (a.k.a. [[SenpaiKohai Kanou-senpai]]) gives her a birthday present out of the blue. The gift is a [[TransformationTrinket magical cap]] that allows Ririka to transform into the heavenly guardian, Nurse Angel. Ririka soon learns that Kanou is [[AlienAmongUs actually an alien]] whose home world, Queen Earth, has been [[AlienInvasion overrun]] by the evil organization Dark Joker. With help from Kanou and her friend and neighbor Seiya Uzaki, she soon learns to fight as Nurse Angel to keep Earth from sharing Queen Earth's misfortune.

''Nurse Angel Ririka'' started out as a manga series by Koi Ikeno and Yasushi Akimoto, published in ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}'' from 1995-96. The 35-episode anime adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi, in his first project under the director's chair, started airing about six months after the manga began and ran concurrently with it.

''Nurse Angel Ririka'' started out as a manga series by Koi Ikeno and Yasushi Akimoto, published in ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}'' from 1995-96; the 35-episode anime adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi started airing about six months after the manga began and ran concurrently with it.

* BirthdayEpisode: The first episode and especially the final episode focus on [[TheHerosBirthday Ririka's birthday]]. In the final episode they sing HappyBirthdayToYou and everything [[spoiler:just to twist the knife a bit more]].