Trivia / Magical Circle Guru-Guru

• Acclaimed Flop/Cult Classic: The 2017 reboot was not watched by many (probably due to it being a remake of the 1994 original, which was not released outside Japan and a few other countries). Those few who watched though sees it as one of 2017's best hidden gems, praising its light-hearted comedy and characters, in contrast to other anime airing nowadays.
• Acting for Two: In episode 20 of the 2017 series, Kukuri befriends a girl who sounds and somewhat resembles her named Miucha in Lef Island while they are trapped in a time loop, both being voiced by Konami Kohara. Doubles as Significant Double Casting later on when Miucha disguised as Kukuri to distract Triko, who has been watching Nike and Kukuri and keeping them from escaping from the islands with an energy barrier, so the latter two can break out of the barrier and away from the island.
• Channel Hop: The first anime aired on TV Asahi, the second anime and the 2017 anime aired on TV Tokyo
• Completely Different Title: In Latin America, the series is called "Los Caballeros de Kodai" ^note  "The Knights of Kodai"
• Crossdressing Voices: Nike in the Japanese version, averted in the Italian dub as well as the Latin American dub where he's voiced by Benjamín Rivera
• No Export for You: The only countries in the world to receive the manga ^note  China got all 16 volumes while South Korea only published 14 volume and Italy for 40 chapters. and both seasons of the anime outside of Japan were Italy, South Korea, and China. Latin America and the Middle East only got the first season of the anime and it was never brought over to North America.
  • Averted with the 2017 series since it's streaming on Crunchyroll
• The Other Darrin: Let's just say that some of the cast was replaced in Doki Doki Densetsu and then everyone was recast in the 2017 reboot and leave it at that.
• Overtook the Manga: When the original anime aired in 1994, the manga was still ongoing, so the part where Barckweiner tasked Nike in seeking the four elemental swords from the original was changed to him telling Nike and Kukuri to find and assemble the different pieces of a magical weather vane which can find Giri. All episodes after this then became anime original content with the anime ending with Nike and Kukuri postponing their battle with Giri so they can go on more adventures. Doki Doki Densetsu aired a few years later in 2000, retconning those events from the first series, this time following the manga's canon, then stopping as it got close to the manga's then-current chapter. The 2017 remake later reboots the first two series, adapting the entire manga, having been finished 14 years ago.
• Promoted Fangirl: Yo Taichi (Juju in the 2017 anime) was a fan of the series growing up.

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