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1* AdaptationDisplacement: Nobody knows the original manga, which could be because it ran as a tie-in concurrently with the anime.
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3** Both the Japanese opening and ending, which brought back ''Manga/CutieHoney'' vocalist Yoko Maekawa.
4** The Italian theme song (used for both opening and ending), albeit in a much cuter, more kiddie way. Although it's also an example of SoundtrackDissonance, as this cutesy kiddie song plays while Meg behaves flirtatiously toward a group of boys (including her own "foster brother" Rabi) and while Chou-san leers at her through a telescope hoping to see her undergarments.
5* FoeYayShipping: Meg and Non. Chou even [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lampshades it during their final battle,]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is physical to the point of resembling sex]]. Years later, Creator/{{CLAMP}} [[http://download.minitokyo.net/CLAMP.438054.jpg makes a note of it]], and even officially licensed products back in the show's day [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/45e46a49916d442415ecf93f23def11b/tumblr_nf60tzOYvM1qg653uo1_540.jpg had fun with it.]]
6* GenreTurningPoint: The series was an important milestone in early MagicalGirl shows, as it was [[MultipleDemographicAppeal the first show to be marketed to boys as well as girls]], and featured a number of developments--it was the first MagicalGirl show with a tomboyish heroine, a rival to the heroine, a ''really'' [[BigBad evil]] villain, and also the first that includes {{Fanservice}} tropes (with LovableSexManiac characters), and serious issues like DomesticAbuse, extramarital relationships, drug abuse, death etc. Essentially it took the traditional magical girl genre as established with shows like ''Manga/SallyTheWitch'' and ''Manga/HimitsuNoAkkoChan'' and gave it a shot of ''Manga/CutieHoney''-style spiciness.
7* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although considered a cult favorite in Japan today, the series wasn't particularly popular when it first aired, and it would be the last magical girl series Toei Animation made until 1979 as the studio moved on to the more realistic melodrama of ''Manga/CandyCandy''. However, it became ''very'' popular when it reached Italy in the early '80s, and some of the subsequent European releases of the show were redubbed from Italian rather than the original.
8* TheScrappy: The show is rather obscure, but when people these days do speak of it in favor, they usually tend to hold [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Chou-san]] in contempt, half because he's annoying, and half because his whole shtick is pretty unfunny, particularly in several episodes where he comes dangerously close to rapist territory.
9* {{Squick}}: Rabi takes rather too much of a liking to Meg's body, considering that as far as he's concerned thanks to his mother's magic, Meg is his sister.
10* TearJerker:
11** When Meg gets sick in the first episode, and is in danger of dying.
12** And [[spoiler:the final episode, when Meg learns that she's been called back to the magical kingdom for her final queenliness test and must leave her MuggleFosterFamily behind. She is devastated, and watching Meg's reaction as Mammi erases Meg from the memories of her husband and children is heartrending. Of course, it worked out okay for Meg in the end... sort of.]]
13** The show's ending song, "Meg Is All Alone", which in itself, is very melancholic for an anime ending theme, following in the same vein as that of ''Anime/CutieHoney'' (and sung by the same vocalist).
14* ValuesDissonance:
15** In the first episode, Papa slaps Meg when she argues with him, and Mami claims that he wouldn't have done it if he didn't love Meg. Albeit he was immediately sorry and did apologize for it, such an act would be called abuse nowadays.
16** Also, Rabi's inappropriate behavior often goes unpunished, he gets away with much of it without so much as a scolding, and it is uncomfortable now to watch him try various schemes to peek at Meg naked or in her underwear. And also in episode one, Papa basically tells Meg that Rabi's antics are just something she has to put up with because she's the older sister and is supposed to be more mature. Not such a great message for today's girls.
17%%** Same for [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Chou-san]]
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