History Anime / FairyMusketeers

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** The girl Souta meets when he enters the various chapters of the two worlds story often gets translated as "Marlene" Due to the sound of her name (Mah-ren) and the trouble with L and R in Japanese. However, [[spoiler:in addition to being Cendrillon's younger form]] her story is actually based on the Fairy Tale, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Maleen "Maid Maleen"]].
** Similarly, the name for "mundane" world, "Ehrde", is pronounced as "Ehlde" (again, due to standard L/R swap convention), but it is actually "Erde", German for "Earth".

%%* DarkMagicalGirl: Gretel

* TookALevelInBadAss: This trope may apply, by extension, to the original, real-world Fairytale versions of the characters. The majority of the characters are based on fairytale characters, often ones who were quite soft and/or generally defenceless in their original stories. Little Red Riding Hood is suddenly [[spoiler:a knife-wielding demi-fire mage,]] Snow White has become [[spoiler:the most dangerous ice mage in Fandavale]], and Sleeping Beauty [[spoiler:has to remain in a permanent state of half-sleep lest she accidentally wreak havoc on her surroundings]]. Hansel and Gretal have become [[spoiler:a dark mage and DarkMagicalGirl / Heavy Swordsman respectively]]. And Cinderella.. we get to see her [[spoiler:''go'' badass as Marlene, twisting a city's symbol of hope into a power source-slash-mind-control device for the horde of zombie dark mages she'd created in the process.]]

%%* HaremCast: Akazukin, Ringo, Ibara-hime and Shirayuki-hime tend to behave like this sometimes, though most of the time they are just TrueCompanions to Souta, mainly because of age demographics.

%%* MusicalEpisode: Episode 18 has to be the most THINLY disguised attempt at [[TheMerch trying to sell]] [[ImageSong Image Songs]] [[TheMerch to the show's audience]]. I mean, the girls are [[AssPull conjuring 'song' attack cards out of nowhere]] and while they're singing we're [[ClipShow shown snippets from past episodes]]. They didn't just break into song, [[spoiler:they broke into ''music video''.]]

* AllMythsAreTrue: All Fairy Tales are true.
* AngelsPose: Juushii~!
* AccidentalPun: Juushi is somewhat [[http://konachan.net/post/show/4027/akazukin-galaxy_angel-gretel-ibara-hime-kinoshita_ pronounce]] as JUICY.
* BigDamnHeroes: All the time in the early episodes. After reaching Fandavale, Hamelin takes over this role.

* BlackMagicianGirl: Shirayuki-hime
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Hansel is [[MindControlEyes pretty obvious]]. Also [[spoiler: Trude who is actually Souta's mother]]

* CallingYourAttacks: Shining Edge!

* ClingyJealousGirl: Ringo
* DarkMagicalGirl: Gretel
* DefeatMeansFriendship: All but a few major bad guys perform a HeelFaceTurn later.

* FantasticRacism: Jed, who hates humans in general
* FrillyUpgrade: Princess Mode.

* HaremCast: Akazukin, Ringo, Ibara-hime and Shirayuki-hime tend to behave like this sometimes, though most of the time they are just TrueCompanions to Souta, mainly because of age demographics.

* LighterAndSofter: From OVA to TV series.
* LittleRedFightingHood: With Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, they form a MagicalGirl trio.

* MusicalAssassin: Hamelin

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ibara-hime

* OneToMillionToOne: The flea nighmarian that the crew fight in one episode are like that.
* PowersAsPrograms: TV series only.

* StandardFemaleGrabArea: GenderFlip Inversion: The DarkActionGirl restrains the male lead Souta like this.

* TransformationSequence: When Akazukin powers up to Princess Mode.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Parodied. Hameln descends from virtually nothing. Lampshaded by Ringo who calls him up on it. Hameln, being who he is, answers with "It's a secret".
* IllGirl: Ibara-hime, though she's more sleepy than ill.

* MusicalEpisode: Episode 18 has to be the most THINLY disguised attempt at [[TheMerch trying to sell]] [[ImageSong Image Songs]] [[TheMerch to the show's audience]]. I mean, the girls are [[AssPull conjuring 'song' attack cards out of nowhere]] and while they're singing we're [[ClipShow shown snippets from past episodes]]. They didn't just break into song, [[spoiler:they broke into ''music video''.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Shirayuki-hime

''Fairy Musketeers'' was, at first, a single-episode 2005 OVA which came with an Akazukin figurine, aimed more at figure collectors than at anime fans. However, the OVA had some popularity with the PeripheryDemographic, and so the concept was soon retooled as a standard children's TV show in the vein of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. The anime series aired from 2006 to 2007 for 29 episodes.

''Fairy Musketeers'' was, at first, a single-episode OVA which came with an Akazukin figurine, aimed more at figure collectors than at anime fans. However, the OVA had some popularity with the PeripheryDemographic, and so the concept was soon retooled as a standard children's TV show in the vein of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''.

* LittleRedFightingHood: With Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, they form a MagicalGirl PowerTrio.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Fairy tales need 'em.

* MusicalEpisode: Episode18 has to be the most THINLY disguised attempt at [[TheMerch trying to sell]] [[ImageSong Image Songs]] [[TheMerch to the show's audience]]. I mean, the girls are [[AssPull conjuring 'song' attack cards out of nowhere]] and while they're singing we're [[ClipShow shown snippets from past episodes]]. They didn't just break into song, [[spoiler:they broke into ''music video''.]]

The dream soon turns out to be reality, as history repeats himself when Souta is attacked by a monster on his way home from school. He is saved first by a strange talking wolf called Val and soon after by a girl wearing the same red clothes as the girl from his dreams. She introduces her as Akazukin (Little Red Riding Hood), one of the three legendary musketeers from the world of magic. Her mission is to find and protect the "key" which connects the two worlds: Souta himself.

Souta quickly acquires a QuirkyHousehold of strange magical characters, as Val and Akazukin are soon joined by ice mage Shirayuki-hime (Snow White) and the narcoleptic Ibara-hime (Sleeping Beauty). Souta's female childhood friend Ringo is not amused by this turn of events...

''Fairy Musketeers'' was, at first, a single-episode OVA which came with an Akazukin figurine, aimed {{moe}} at figure collectors than at anime fans. However, the OVA had some popularity with the PeripheryDemographic, and so the concept was soon retooled as a standard children's TV show in the vein of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''.

* KissingDescretionShot: [[spoiler: In the final episode, Souta and Akazukin share a goodbye kiss before the latter leaves to return home to Fandavale. Before they kiss, the camera pans down to their shadows, which shows the two kissing.]]

* TheCameo: Goemon of the GanbareGoemon series made a cameo via a cosplay contest.

* GenkiGirl: Akazukin
* GenreBlindness: Apparently, Grimm's Tales don't seem to exist in Souta's world (even though he's a fairy tale nut), since he doesn't raise an eyebrow to the fact that the girls are obviously well-known fairy tale characters. It ought to be noted that when they meet [[spoiler:Rapunzel]], it's Souta who comes up with the cure for the Prince's curse, by [[spoiler:asking them to go ahead with the marriage anyway. He's the only character unsurprised when Rapunzel's kiss changes the Prince back from a frog into a human, explaining that 'ThePowerOfLove [[AntiMagic cancels evil magic]]' is a standard of fairy tales.]] This makes him somewhat more along the lines of 'Selective GenreSavvy', as the show itself ''portrays'' him to be GenreSavvy concerning Fairy Tales to a scholarly point.]]

* TheMerch: Inverted with the original OVA which came as a bonus for buying the figurine, played straight with the TV series which is aimed more at children.

* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: Ringo.