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Princess Comet aka ''Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san" is a Magical Girl anime about Comet, the 12-year-old princess of Harmonica Star, who is sent to Earth in order to find the prince of Tambourine Star. Comet quickly becomes fond of life on Earth and the people who live there, but her life is made more complicated by Princess Meteor, a rival princess who is also searching for the prince and wants to claim him for her own.
This series provides examples of:- Annoying Younger Sibling: Averted for Tsuyoshi and Nene.
- Cheerful Child: Everyone under age 15. Subverted with Meteor, who is too jerkish, and Shun, who is too mature.
- Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Meteor and Shun.
- Cute Witch: Comet is this type of Magical Girl.
- Dark Magical Girl: Meteor
- Defrosting Ice Queen/ Took a Level in Kindness: Meteor grows less obnoxious and more caring to others as the series progress.
- Easy Amnesia: Keisuke
- Everything's Better with Princesses
- Fairy Companion: Rababou (a dog-like creature) and Mook (a bird-like creature). And Rabapyon (Aunt Spica's fairy companion, who is rabbit-like creature).
- Fish out of Water: Comet gets hit with this hard when she first arrives on Earth. By the end of her first day, she's reduced to tears because she can't figure out how to get food, since she has no Earth money.
- Half-Identical Twins: Nene and Tsuyoshi.
- Harmless Villain: With the dash of type 1 anti-villain, thanks to her pride. In fact, she's more effective in doing good than doing evil things.
- Idol Singer/ Teen Idol: Shun Imagawa, a Rare Male Example. Also a rare example where the idol looks more like late Paul McCartney than Justin Bieber.
- Jerkass: Meteor
- Hidden Heart of Gold: That doesn't mean she's totally heartless, though. Sometimes she even willingly helps Comet with problems she can't handle on her own. It helps that in such cases, Comet doesn't hesitate to ask nicely.In some cases, she even helps Comet before Comet asks for help, especially if the problem irks her pride.
- Love Hurts: When the Prince is found and she had to return to her world, Meteor decides to wipe out Shun' memories about her. Comet calls her on this, which is pretty strong because Comet is such a sweet girl she rarely lost her temper, also because Meteor had grown into likeable character at this point. Meteor's response is one of the most poignant scene in this series. Played for Laughs in the last scenes of the series, where Meteor comically regrets her decision to mindwipe Shun.
- Magic Wand: They don't call her "baton girl" for nothing.
- Muggle Foster Parents: Comet is taken in by a kindly muggle family during her stay on Earth. On the other hand, Meteor barges into an old couple's house and casts a spell on them to make them think they've always known her.
- Nice Girl: Comet, in spades. She won't look out of places as Sakura's friend.
- Nice Guy: Shun Imagawa, Up to Eleven.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Anti-Villain: *sigh* She should listen to Mook more.
- Panty Shot: There is a brief one in episode 4 while Comet is climbing onto a boat.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Well, heroic princesses do.
- Punch Clock Villain/ Only Sane Man/ Hypercompetent Sidekick: Mook, true to her name, is not terribly thrilled to be Meteor's partner and spends a lot of time trying to dissuade Meteor from carrying out her nastier ideas. Since most of her "nastier" ideas tends to put her on the huge risk of making fool of herself.... Yeah.
- Rababou tends to act as Only Sane Man, nagging Comet to do her job to find the Prince while all Comat wants is to explore the world.
- Rebellious Princess: Comet is a very mild-mannered example. When we first meet her, she's at a betrothal party complaining about her uncomfortable ball gown and wishing she could just ditch the party to go star-gazing, and when she's sent to Earth to find the prince, she's far more interested in exploring this strange new world than she is in chasing after some guy she's never met.
- Interesting cases with Meteor. After Comet denounces her betrothal with the Prince of Tambourine Star near the end of the series, Meteor does the same, announcing that she has no intention of marrying a wishy-washy Prince. She rather find her own way to become queen. Hearing this, her mother, who is the one who pushed her to pursue relationship with the Prince. actually pleased with this answer, since this means that Meteor had develops a backbone befitting for a queen.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Meteor
- The Rival: Meteor
- Rose-Haired Girl: Comet
- Royal Brat: Meteor is as obnoxious as Comet is sweet.
- Runaway Fiancé: Comet considers running away from the party where the prince will be betrothed either to her or Meteor, only to find that the prince beat her to it by running away himself.
- Sleepyhead: Shun Imagawa. Justified; Being a Teen Idol is very demanding job, and he took it very seriously; Even his own manager thinks that he is too sweet to his fans.
- Theme Naming: The other worlds all have musical names: Tambourine, Harmonica, Castanet, etc.
- Transformation Sequence
- Transformation Trinket: Comet's pendant. It also serves as a hammerspace for Rababou to hide in.
- Verbal Tic: Rababou says "-bou" after all his sentences.
- "Well Done, Daughter" Girl: A mild case with Meteor. In reality, her mother actually wanted her to develop her own strong personality and ability to decide for herself, so she could be a strong queen.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Mild case with Comet, but definitely strong with Shun Imagawa.
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