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4	In a little town in Germany called Mühlenburg lives a girl named Saga, a talented pianist who [[CreatureOfHabit lives by a rigid schedule]] and hates the unexpected. One day, she comes across an adorable little fairy, who is hungry enough to devour a waffle. This fairy, a bringer of snow (InTraining) named Sugar, soon upsets Saga's delicately ordered life with her other weather-bringing classmates and their [[{{HilarityEnsues}} antics]].
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6	''A Little Snow Fairy Sugar'' (''Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar'') is an original anime produced by Creator/JCStaff, with character designs by Creator/KogeDonbo. The anime aired from October 2001 to March 2002 for 24 episodes. It also has a manga adaptation by Botan Hanayashiki (under the name BH Snow+Clinic) which was serialized in ''Dragon Junior'' while the anime aired and compiled into three volumes. Volume 1 was released not long after the anime premiered. The plot starts off identical to the anime but later takes a dramatic turn away from it. The manga also renamed the town Guttenburg.
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8	!!Tropes used:
9	* BathtubBonding: Saga and Sugar often share a bath while discussing the day's events. Salt and Pepper sometimes join in, too.
10	* {{Bifauxnen}}: [[spoiler:Cheryl when she is performing in the Bear Pianist play, much to the surprise of Norma, who gave her a bunch of flowers thinking she was a guy.]]
11	* BigEater: Some of the fairies, especially Sugar herself, are capable of eating several waffles per ''meal'', each individual waffle being larger than the average fairy.
12	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sugar passes her test, but vanishes as a result, as Saga can't see any fairies anymore after that (although she can apparently still see their starry flight trails). It's also hinted that Sugar still hangs around Saga, despite being unable to communicate with her directly.]]
13	* BlindIdiotTranslation: A minor moment in episode 14 with Pepper's friend Robby, referred to as "[[ALizardNamedLiz Robby the robin]]" in both the dub and official English subtitle track - in spite of the fact that Robby is very clearly a ''sparrow''.
14	* BookEnds: Both the beginning of the first episode and the ending of the second and final {{OVA}} have Saga ask the viewers if they know what season fairies are.
15	* ButtMonkey: Greta. Barely an episode goes by without something humiliating happening to her, to the point where it verges on a more benign version of BreakTheHaughty.
16	* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Saga is one very rare human who is able to see and hear season fairies.
17	* CatchPhrase: Sugar often cries out "WAFFO!" whenever waffles are shown or mentioned.
18	* CatsAreMean: A cat chased Sugar and Salt for interrupting his nap; Pepper's reasoning didn't work.
19	%%* CheerfulChild: Kanon.
20	%%* CoolBigSis: Saga to the Season Fairies. Ginger too.
21	%%* CrazyPrepared: Saga, until the fairies show up.
22	* CreatorProvincialism: The series takes place in Germany, and while many details are accurate, some would make more sense if the setting was Japan rather than Germany:
23	** Saga and her friends were stated to be 11 years old, and they are still in their elementary school year. In German school system, normally students graduated from elementary school (''Grundschule'') at 10 years old. By the time they reach 11 years old, they already enrolled in secondary schools (''Gymnasium'',''Realschule'', or ''Hauptschule'').
24	** In one story, the fairies are away on a trip and are delayed in getting home because of a typhoon in the area. Germany doesn't have typhoons (because they're tropical storms that form specifically in the Pacific Ocean), and a tornado outbreak would have been a more accurate type of storm to use for the setting.
25	%%* CreatureOfHabit: Saga.
26	%%* DistantFinale: In the {{OVA}}.
27	* DramaticIrony: Done for dramatic effect in Episode 6. As Saga and Sugar go to apologize to each other for what they did, we get to see both of their perspectives. [[spoiler:Sugar writes her apology unknowingly on Saga's beloved sheet music--the same music Saga's deceased mother played for her when she was younger. Meanwhile, Saga goes to bring cookies upstairs as an apology gift for Sugar. This makes it all that more tragic when Saga sees her ruined sheet music.]]
28	* EdibleThemeNaming: [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows Season]] fairies are all named after ''[[StealthPun seasonings]]''.
29	* {{Expy}}: Sugar and Saga are respectively reminiscent of two earlier lead characters from Creator/KogeDonbo: [[Manga/PitaTen Misha and Kotarou]]. The formers share [[GenkiGirl similar]] [[CuteClumsyGirl personalities]], [[ManicPixieDreamGirl relationships to the protagonist]], [[RoseHairedSweetie pink hair]], and have wings, whereas the latters are [[TheComicallySerious comically serious]], [[CreatureOfHabit constantly busy]], and [[LittleMissSnarker sarcasm]] [[DeadpanSnarker incarnate]] elementary school students with a MissingMom and [[ByTheEyesOfTheBlind both can see]] [[InvisibleToNormals supernatural things nobody else can]].
30	%%* FairyCompanion: The fairies.
31	* {{Flashback}}: Saga's early childhood, [[spoiler:when her mother was still alive]], is often seen.
32	* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Sugar and the other faeries seem to sometimes forget they can fly when it's convenient to the plot.
33	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Salt is Choleric, Saga is Melancholic, Pepper is Phlegmatic, and Sugar is Sanguine.
34	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Pepper has a strong connection with animals and can speak their "languages."
35	* FuroScene: Quite a few, often combined with {{bathtub bonding}} between Saga and Sugar. Don't expect any {{fan service}}, though.
36	* GenerationXerox: Saga's mother, Ingrid Bergman, was a talented pianist as well.
37	%%* GenkiGirl: Sugar and Kanon.
38	* HeroicBSOD: Saga, after [[spoiler: one of her ''friends'' received as a birthday present her [[MissingMom mother's]] piano, which she didn't actually own, from the music shop she just played it at, and ''offered to let her play it any time.'']]
39	* HistoryRepeats: Later on in the show, [[spoiler:Saga eventually teaches a child she has to babysit how to play a song on the miniature piano she owns, the same way her mother taught her (and also the same song she learnt)]].
40	* HopelessSuitor: The Fairy Elder is ''obsessed'' with Ginger, even though she already has feelings for Tumeric.
41	* HyperspaceArsenal: The pouches that the season fairies keep their instruments in are entirely too small to fit them.
42	%%* IdiotHair: Saga, Sugar, Norma and Kanon all have this.
43	%%* InvisibleBackupBand: ''Literally'', in one episode.
44	* InvisibleToNormals: The Season Fairies are visible to very few humans.
45	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Greta.
46	* ALizardNamedLiz: Robby the Robin, although, he's actually a sparrow.
47	%%* LargeHam: Greta, which she apparently got from her father.
48	* {{Leitmotif}}: Each of the Season Fairies has one built around the melodies played on their respective instruments; there's also Greta's dramatic violin theme and, most importantly, the piano piece written by Saga's mom (called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikKSgmHPkY Memory of Mother]] on the soundtrack).
49	%%* LonelyPianoPiece:
50	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4h1Lg9TdFs The Theme of Kirameki]].
51	%%** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peOnLOMezF0 Separation]].
52	* MadScientist: One of Saga's friends Phil wants to be an inventor. He can get [[ScaryShinyGlasses carried away]] when discussing or showing off his creations.
53	* MagicMusic: The Season Fairies control the weather using musical instruments, except the Elder.
54	* MascotsLoveSugar: Sugar has to have at least one waffle every day.
55	* MissingMom: Saga's mother is not around anymore, so she lives with her grandmother. [[spoiler:It's eventually shown that she died.]]
56	* NobleWomansLaugh: Greta laughs like this whenever she talks to her rival Saga.
57	* NoAntagonist: The show is mainly a SliceOfLife work, save for the obvious mystical element. The closest this series has to a villain is [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Greta]], and not only is she more like Saga's SitcomArchnemesis than an actual AlphaBitch, [[spoiler:but she and Saga eventually become friends]].
58	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The story takes place in the fictional city Mühlenburg (as can be deducted from the Mühlenburg Festival in episode 18 and episode 23's title "Tiny Miracle at Mühlenburg") In the manga, the city is called Guttenburg. Either way, its based on Rothenburg ob der Tauber, with is a small bavarian city famous for its well-preserved medieval old town.
59	* OnceAnEpisode: Every episode has a scene with Saga [[FuroScene taking a bath]], except Episode 22 which shows Greta taking a bath instead.
60	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Fairies are small, winged beings that few people can see, and they use MagicMusic to create the weather, with each fairy specializing in a different kind of weather and musical instrument.
61	%%* OriginalVideoAnimation: ''A Little Snow Fairy Sugar'' Summer Special.
62	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:No mention is ever made of Saga's father, and her mother is dead.]]
63	* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The fairies use their instruments to create the weather.
64	* RichBitch: Greta tries to act this way, waving her wealth and high-brow lifestyle around to brag to people, but she is most often [[UnknownRival ignored]]. And the one time her actions actually affect Saga--it's not at all the way Greta wanted it to.
65	%%* SceneryPorn: See ShownTheirWork below.
66	* ScheduleFanatic: Saga. She planned out her entire day to the minute [[HilarityEnsues until the fairies arrived]].
67	%%* SchoolPlay: In the OriginalVideoAnimation OVA
68	%%* SeriesGoal: Finding the Twinkles.
69	* ShownTheirWork: The team who did the anime version of ''Sugar'' did some pretty in-depth research on various German towns before they designed Saga's hometown. DVD extras show how many things in Saga's hometown line up nicely with various actual landmarks and buildings in RealLife.
70	* SolemnEndingTheme: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H5Gh6jd1aY ending theme]], Snow Flower, is much more serious and sad than the upbeat opening.
71	* SquirrelsInMyPants: Well, fairies in Greta's shirt and her hair.
72	* StationaryWings: Sugar and her fairy pals' wings seem to be little more than decorations. They fly simply because they want to.
73	* ThoseTwoGuys: Norma and Anne for the girls, Jan and Alan for the boys, and Basil and Cinnamon for the fairies.
74	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sugar really digs waffles, which she calls "waffo". It becomes her CatchPhrase later on.
75	* TragicKeepsake: Saga holds the sheet music of her mother's piano music very dearly to her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Sugar unknowingly writes over it when she tries to write a letter to Saga.]]
76	%%* UnknownRival: [[{{TheOjou}} Greta]], for Saga.
77	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Norma finds out the "guy" actor she crushes on is a ''woman''. She still thinks she's cool, though.]]
78	* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The closest things has to a "villain" would be Joe Crow, who is not so much that as [[{{Jerkass}} just a typical bully]]. Ginger is fairly callous, [[ThoseTwoGuys Basil and Cinnamon]] are rather mischevious, Greta is a rich snob and sees Saga as a rival, but everyone else in the show is usually super-nice to one another.
79	%%* YouCanSeeMe: Sugar to Saga in episode one.

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