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* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Yoko has bright pastel [[pink:pink]] hair tied into drills, and Saki has [[blue:blue]] hair in a HimeCut. Along the way they meet characters with cyan, purple and even ''[[green:green]]'' [[green:green]] hair.
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* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Yoko has bright pastel pink hair tied into drills, and Saki has blue hair in a HimeCut. Along the way they meet more pink-haired, blue-haired and even ''green''-haired people.
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* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Yoko has bright pastel pink [[pink:pink]] hair tied into drills, and Saki has blue [[blue:blue]] hair in a HimeCut. Along the way they meet more pink-haired, blue-haired characters with cyan, purple and even ''green''-haired people.''[[green:green]]'' hair.
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* KidsDrivingCars: Yutaka is 16, and drives a fancy car to reflect his status as the heir of the wealthy Takudaiji conglomerate family. Ryo also drives a 40cc bike despite also being his age.
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* KidsDrivingCars: Yutaka is 16, and drives a fancy car to reflect his status as the heir of the wealthy Takudaiji conglomerate family. Ryo also drives a 40cc bike despite also being his age.
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* BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoRomanticFriendship.
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* BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoRomanticFriendship.PseudoRomanticFriendship.
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* BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoromanticFriendship.
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* BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoromanticFriendship.PsuedoRomanticFriendship.
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*RecycledSoundtrack: Budget strains meant that original music for the show couldn't be commisioned, hence many songs from ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' being re-used.
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* SharedUniverse: With ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko''. Remember Ichijuin from that anime? He appears as Kyoko's manager.
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* SharedUniverse: With ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko''. Remember Ichijuin from that anime? He anime appears as Kyoko's manager.
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* AnimeHair: Not just the titular character, who's pigtails are so massive they resemble a heart behind her head, but at least half the cast whether they're recurring or one-time characters.
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* AnimeHair: Not just the titular character, who's pigtails are so massive they resemble a heart behind her head, but at least half the cast whether they're recurring or one-time characters.characters have hair that encapsulates their entire head and covers part of their face, come in all sorts of shapes and colours, and are unaffected by wind and water.
*CostumePorn: Given how Saki is an actress and works at a theater company, this is a given. Many times, her and the crew wear elaborate outfits, especially in their ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' adaptation.
*CreatorProvincialism: Believe it or not, this anime was originally set in London (where Creator/TakeshiShudo lived for a while). However, since the rest of the staff weren't familiar with it, this was changed to Japan, particularly Shibuya and Tokyo.
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* ForeignCultureFetish: Yoko is enamoured with the Indian sun at the restauarant and later finds out that she really likes Indian curry.
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*{{Fanservice}}: Bare legs against frilly skirts, bunny-suit style spandexes with furs, skin-tight costumes that show sideboobs and sexy santa outfits [[note]][[https://www.fwinc.co.jp/HELLO_YOKO/ No, really]] [[/note]] are just SOME of the sort of things the female leads wear.
*FlowersOfRomance: Mu once tries to woo a female flying squirrel by giving her a flower.
* ForeignCultureFetish: Yoko is enamoured with theIndian Indian-style drawing of the sun at the restauarant restaurant and later finds out that she really likes Indian curry.
*FlowersOfRomance: Mu once tries to woo a female flying squirrel by giving her a flower.
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*MediumBlending: In the intro, we see live-action footage of Yoko Tanaka juxtaposed with her animated counterpart, the fictional Yoko-sa. The anime is actually based on her life and she sang the OP. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFWpWdojLM See here]].
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*PinkGirlBlueBoy: Subverted. Mu is a flying squirrel, but he has a ruffle of blue hair on his head, and in one episode he falls for a female flying squirrel who has purple hair.
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*WarIsHell: The elderly have horrible memories of the Allies' attacks to Japan in 1945, marked by mass civilian death and families being separated. Children got the worst part of the deal, watching their parents die and growing up with severe trauma.
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''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko (アイドル天使ようこそようこ)'', also known as ''Hello Yoko!'', is a 1990 anime series produced by Ashi Productions and TV Setouchi. It ran from April 2, 1990, to February 4, 1991 on the channel Creator/TVTokyo, ending at 43 episodes. The anime was directed by Tetsuro Amino while Takeshi Shudo was responsible for writing the script.
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''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko (アイドル天使ようこそようこ)'', also known as ''Hello Yoko!'', is a 1990 anime series produced by Ashi Productions and TV Setouchi. It ran from April 2, 1990, to February 4, 1991 on the channel Creator/TVTokyo, ending at 43 episodes. The anime was directed by Tetsuro Amino while Takeshi Shudo Creator/TakeshiShudo was responsible for writing the script.
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Yoko Tanaka (Creator/MikaKanai) is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While on the train, she encounters Saki Yamamori (Creator/MegumiHayashibara), a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins a great journey.
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Yoko Tanaka (Creator/MikaKanai) is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer.an IdolSinger. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While on the train, she encounters Saki Yamamori (Creator/MegumiHayashibara), a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins a great journey.
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*HeadPet: Mu enjoys sitting on Yoko's head or on her shoulder.
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* TaremeEyes: Every character is drawn with this style, and the ones that don't fall into NonStandardCharacterDesign. Contrast to the predecessor anime ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' where only Eriko and her close friends have these eyes.
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* TaremeEyes: Every character is drawn with this style, and the ones that don't fall into NonStandardCharacterDesign. Contrast to the predecessor anime ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' where only Eriko and her close friends (and occasionally, Kazuki) have these eyes.
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--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Yes. A long time ago..."''
--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Yes. A long time ago..."''
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Yoko Tanaka (Creator/MikaKanai) is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, she encounters Saki Yamamori (Creator/MegumiHayashibara), a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their great journey.
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Yoko Tanaka (Creator/MikaKanai) is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters on the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, train, she encounters Saki Yamamori (Creator/MegumiHayashibara), a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their a great journey.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: Of two rural girls with big dreams forging their own destiny in metropolitan Tokyo, with their goal being to break into the showbiz industry. Because of their young ages, there's a lot they don't know about the real world, and face a CultureClash because Shibuya is much different from their new home, but brave through to become idols.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: Of two rural Both Yoko and Saki are tender-aged young girls with big dreams forging who leave their homes to forge their own destiny in metropolitan Tokyo, with their goal being to break into the showbiz industry. Tokyo. Because of their young ages, there's a lot innocence and CountryMouse upbringings, they don't know about the real world, and face a CultureClash because Shibuya is much different from {{Culture Clash}}es and are seen as outsiders, but do their new home, but brave through best to become idols.famous like they wanted to while overcoming their own insecurities.
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Yoko Tanaka is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, she encounters Saki Yamamori, a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their great journey.
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Yoko Tanaka (Creator/MikaKanai) is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, she encounters Saki Yamamori, Yamamori (Creator/MegumiHayashibara), a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their great journey.
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* AdjectiveNounFred: ''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko''. Though she's not an angel.
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* AdjectiveNounFred: ''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko''. Though she's not an angel.angel, she certainly is an idol.
*AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: In the DistantFinale, Future!Yoko is nowhere to be seen. Her friends and associates, who are now old, are looking at her fondly on their TV screens, even though she's young. Are they thinking about how she inspired them from an early age? Or did the [[DeathOfAChild worst possible option]] happen?]]
*AnimeHair: Not just the titular character, who's pigtails are so massive they resemble a heart behind her head, but at least half the cast whether they're recurring or one-time characters.
*BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoromanticFriendship.
*AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: In the DistantFinale, Future!Yoko is nowhere to be seen. Her friends and associates, who are now old, are looking at her fondly on their TV screens, even though she's young. Are they thinking about how she inspired them from an early age? Or did the [[DeathOfAChild worst possible option]] happen?]]
*AnimeHair: Not just the titular character, who's pigtails are so massive they resemble a heart behind her head, but at least half the cast whether they're recurring or one-time characters.
*BetaCouple: Kyoko and her boyfriend, who she has to hide because of ContractualPurity. There's no "alpha" couple, even if Yoko and Saki are a case of PsuedoromanticFriendship.
*ChristmasEpisode: In the Christmas episode, Yoko reveals that she believes in Santa Claus, but Saki says she'd rather receive a gift from a boyfriend than Santa. It also doubles as a [[GreenAesop Green Episode]] since the girls visit a farm and are told that if they don't take care of the environment, Earth's oxygen levels will fall 3% by 2020.
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*GreenAesop: Mr. Daichi mourns that lush greenery is disappearing from Shibuya and fears that in the future, Earth will be near unrecognizable to new generations. He tells Yoko and Saki to always think of the Earth and nature.
--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Starting with a single drop of rain, plants, animals, and all living things must work together.''''
--> '''Yoko:''' ''"Humans too?''''
--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Yes. A long time ago..."''
*HopeSpot: In the first episode, Yoko and Saki realize that if they band together, there's a chance their talents can carry both of them to success. It doesn't take long for them to find a talent manager afterwards.
* KidsDrivingCars: Yutaka is 16, and drives a fancy car to reflect his status as the heir of the wealthy Takudaiji conglomerate family. Ryo also drives a 40cc bike despite also being his age.
--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Starting with a single drop of rain, plants, animals, and all living things must work together.''''
--> '''Yoko:''' ''"Humans too?''''
--> '''Daichi:''' ''"Yes. A long time ago..."''
*HopeSpot: In the first episode, Yoko and Saki realize that if they band together, there's a chance their talents can carry both of them to success. It doesn't take long for them to find a talent manager afterwards.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Yoko's pet flying squirrel, Mu. He has a fluffy head, big, round eyes, and looks like a walking ball of fluff.
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*SensualSpandex: A good chunk of the girl's outfits are {{stripperiffic}} and show off their bodies, especially their legs. Yoko, being the main character, gets a lot of scenes where she's wearing an AgeInappropriateDress to her audience.
* SharedUniverse: With ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko''. Remember Ichijuin fromthere? that anime? He appears as Kyoko's manager.
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*{{Shoujo}}: The "FishOutOfWater in the big city" kind.
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**At one point a gigantic advertisement of Music/{{Madonna}} is seen in the center of the city.
**The finale is called "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice In the Wonderful City]]".
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**At one point a gigantic advertisement of Music/{{Madonna}} is seen in the center of the city.
**The finale is called "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice In the Wonderful City]]".
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Ashi Production's second major idol-themed work after ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'', it is based on the life of Yoko Tanaka, who was a part of the agency HoriPro and won various awards and nominations left and rights at music festivals in Japan. She was a starlet in making, and the anime was made to promote her popularity.
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Ashi Production's second major idol-themed work after ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'', it is based on the life of Yoko Tanaka, who was a part of the agency HoriPro [=HoriPro=] and won various awards and nominations left and rights at music festivals in Japan. She was a starlet in making, and the anime was made to promote her popularity.
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*ProductPlacement: An InUniverse example happens when Yoko is asked to be the face of a curry brand. Since she's never had curry before, President Yamashita takes her to a restuarant so she can try different flavours.
--> '''Yoko:''' ''Wow♪ All of a sudden, my mouth feels like India♪! Wow, that's spicy!"...''
*RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Yoko's pet flying squirrel, Mu. He has a fluffy head, big, round eyes, and looks like a walking ball of fluff.
--> '''Yoko:''' ''Wow♪ All of a sudden, my mouth feels like India♪! Wow, that's spicy!"...''
*RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Yoko's pet flying squirrel, Mu. He has a fluffy head, big, round eyes, and looks like a walking ball of fluff.
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*TokenWhite: Johnny, an American who came to Japan to study music.
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''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko (アイドル天使ようこそようこ)'', also known as ''Hello Yoko!'', is a 1990 anime series produced by Ashi Productions and TV Setouchi. It ran from April 2, 1990, to February 4, 1991 on the channel Creator/TVTokyo, ending at 43 episodes. The anime was directed by Tetsuro Amino while Takeshi Shudo was responsible for writing the script.
Yoko Tanaka is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, she encounters Saki Yamamori, a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their great journey.
Ashi Production's second major idol-themed work after ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'', it is based on the life of Yoko Tanaka, who was a part of the agency HoriPro and won various awards and nominations left and rights at music festivals in Japan. She was a starlet in making, and the anime was made to promote her popularity.
In Japan, the anime is '''infamous''' for the disastrous TroubledProduction that went in it's making, the disagreements behind the scenes, the bizarre writing as a result of Shudo commissioning random writers to finish the scripts and the ugly fights between the staff and the sponsors that resulted in financial discrepancies. Even Yoko Tanaka has stated that she received a lot of stress from the series. On the Japanese Wikipedia page for the anime, the sections about the controversy are even longer than the sections about the anime itself. The anime was put out of it's misery when Shudo defied the wishes of the sponsors and toy manufacturers and went along with his own artistic vision. One by one, sponsors and toy manufacturers started pulling out and the funding had to be cut, while episode drafts had to be re-arranged. What happened next was Ashi Productions being the subject of mass scrutiny and demands of requitals from investors.
The material that didn't manage to make it to the anime (as a result of it being CutShort) would later be repurposed to make ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo''.
!!''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko'' contains examples of:
*The90s: UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo is mentioned to have happed "45 years ago", which places this story in 1990. Though you can tell anyway because of how the characters sing and dress.
*AdjectiveNounFred: ''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko''. Though she's not an angel.
*CelebrityCameo: Madonna, Micheal Jackson and Mick Jagger [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yokosoyoko.png appear]] in one episode.
*ComingOfAgeStory: Of two rural girls with big dreams forging their own destiny in metropolitan Tokyo, with their goal being to break into the showbiz industry. Because of their young ages, there's a lot they don't know about the real world, and face a CultureClash because Shibuya is much different from their new home, but brave through to become idols.
*CreatorsCultureCarryover: One episode centers UsefulNotes/WW2 being told from the Japanese point of view. The term "Great Tokyo Air Raid" is used to describe the events of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945) 9-10 March 1945]], when in the US it's called "Operation Meetinghouse".
*CutShort: It was originally slated for 60 episodes, but the ugly squabbles behind the scenes led to the eventual output being 43.
*KidsDrivingCars: Yutaka is 16, and drives a fancy car to reflect his status as the heir of the wealthy Takudaiji conglomerate family. Ryo also drives a 40cc bike despite also being his age.
*AGodAmI: One episode has Yoko encounter a boy who calls himself the God of Shibuya. He turns out to be very nice and they go on a date together.
*GratuitousEnglish:
** Some signs are in English (like the opening/closed signs of the ice cream shop) despite the work taking place in Japan.
**Actually a plot point in one episode - Riko wants to become a Broadway star, but to do that she must be proficient in English. Problem is, she's BookDumb...
*LegFocus: In spite of being fourteen, Yoko and Saki wear racy costumes that show off their legs, and go through near-pornographic territory with some of their outfits. [[https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e1126923910 Example]].
*LighterAndSofter: ''Yokoso Yoko'' lacks the BreakTheCutie {{melodrama}} of ''Eriko'', and is more of a CuteGirlsDoingCuteThings sort of show. Though there's one dark episode dedicated to the fatalies of Operation Meetinghouse during World War 2 in Japan.
*MerchandiseDriven: Before the anime aired, the sponsors produced many Yoko-themed merchandise, but Saki proved to be more popular and beloved by audiences. Shudo was told to tone her appearances down and promote Yoko more (even though she was already the main character). He refused, so they threatened to quit funding. And this is just the tip of the TroubledProduction iceberg.
*NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
**Yoko (voiced by Creator/MikaKanai) is based on Yoko Tanaka.
**Saki (voiced by Creator/MegumiHayashibara) is based on Sachiyo Takihana, a RealLife stage actress who was Mika Kanai's best friend at the time of airing. The two were co-workers for years and Takihana actually wrote some of the anime's episodes herself.
*RotatingProtagonist: Though Yoko is who the story centers around, many episodes take a detour from her to focus on the other idols in the business, her friends, and their lives.
*SharedUniverse: With ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko''. Remember Ichijuin from there? He appears as Kyoko's manager.
*ShownTheirWork: In episode 7, we see a statue of the faithful dog [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko Hachiko]] in Shibuya.
*TaremeEyes: Every character is drawn with this style, and the ones that don't fall into NonStandardCharacterDesign. Contrast to the predecessor anime ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' where only Eriko and her close friends have these eyes.
*WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Yoko has bright pastel pink hair tied into drills, and Saki has blue hair in a HimeCut. Along the way they meet more pink-haired, blue-haired and even ''green''-haired people.
''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko (アイドル天使ようこそようこ)'', also known as ''Hello Yoko!'', is a 1990 anime series produced by Ashi Productions and TV Setouchi. It ran from April 2, 1990, to February 4, 1991 on the channel Creator/TVTokyo, ending at 43 episodes. The anime was directed by Tetsuro Amino while Takeshi Shudo was responsible for writing the script.
Yoko Tanaka is a 14 year old girl from rural Shibuya who's always dreamed of becoming a singer. To make her dream come true, she travels to Tokyo to make her debut. While she enters the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo, she encounters Saki Yamamori, a girl near her age who's run away from home and is also headed to Tokyo. The two decide to become famous together, and there begins their great journey.
Ashi Production's second major idol-themed work after ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'', it is based on the life of Yoko Tanaka, who was a part of the agency HoriPro and won various awards and nominations left and rights at music festivals in Japan. She was a starlet in making, and the anime was made to promote her popularity.
In Japan, the anime is '''infamous''' for the disastrous TroubledProduction that went in it's making, the disagreements behind the scenes, the bizarre writing as a result of Shudo commissioning random writers to finish the scripts and the ugly fights between the staff and the sponsors that resulted in financial discrepancies. Even Yoko Tanaka has stated that she received a lot of stress from the series. On the Japanese Wikipedia page for the anime, the sections about the controversy are even longer than the sections about the anime itself. The anime was put out of it's misery when Shudo defied the wishes of the sponsors and toy manufacturers and went along with his own artistic vision. One by one, sponsors and toy manufacturers started pulling out and the funding had to be cut, while episode drafts had to be re-arranged. What happened next was Ashi Productions being the subject of mass scrutiny and demands of requitals from investors.
The material that didn't manage to make it to the anime (as a result of it being CutShort) would later be repurposed to make ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo''.
!!''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko'' contains examples of:
*The90s: UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo is mentioned to have happed "45 years ago", which places this story in 1990. Though you can tell anyway because of how the characters sing and dress.
*AdjectiveNounFred: ''Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko''. Though she's not an angel.
*CelebrityCameo: Madonna, Micheal Jackson and Mick Jagger [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yokosoyoko.png appear]] in one episode.
*ComingOfAgeStory: Of two rural girls with big dreams forging their own destiny in metropolitan Tokyo, with their goal being to break into the showbiz industry. Because of their young ages, there's a lot they don't know about the real world, and face a CultureClash because Shibuya is much different from their new home, but brave through to become idols.
*CreatorsCultureCarryover: One episode centers UsefulNotes/WW2 being told from the Japanese point of view. The term "Great Tokyo Air Raid" is used to describe the events of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945) 9-10 March 1945]], when in the US it's called "Operation Meetinghouse".
*CutShort: It was originally slated for 60 episodes, but the ugly squabbles behind the scenes led to the eventual output being 43.
*KidsDrivingCars: Yutaka is 16, and drives a fancy car to reflect his status as the heir of the wealthy Takudaiji conglomerate family. Ryo also drives a 40cc bike despite also being his age.
*AGodAmI: One episode has Yoko encounter a boy who calls himself the God of Shibuya. He turns out to be very nice and they go on a date together.
*GratuitousEnglish:
** Some signs are in English (like the opening/closed signs of the ice cream shop) despite the work taking place in Japan.
**Actually a plot point in one episode - Riko wants to become a Broadway star, but to do that she must be proficient in English. Problem is, she's BookDumb...
*LegFocus: In spite of being fourteen, Yoko and Saki wear racy costumes that show off their legs, and go through near-pornographic territory with some of their outfits. [[https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e1126923910 Example]].
*LighterAndSofter: ''Yokoso Yoko'' lacks the BreakTheCutie {{melodrama}} of ''Eriko'', and is more of a CuteGirlsDoingCuteThings sort of show. Though there's one dark episode dedicated to the fatalies of Operation Meetinghouse during World War 2 in Japan.
*MerchandiseDriven: Before the anime aired, the sponsors produced many Yoko-themed merchandise, but Saki proved to be more popular and beloved by audiences. Shudo was told to tone her appearances down and promote Yoko more (even though she was already the main character). He refused, so they threatened to quit funding. And this is just the tip of the TroubledProduction iceberg.
*NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
**Yoko (voiced by Creator/MikaKanai) is based on Yoko Tanaka.
**Saki (voiced by Creator/MegumiHayashibara) is based on Sachiyo Takihana, a RealLife stage actress who was Mika Kanai's best friend at the time of airing. The two were co-workers for years and Takihana actually wrote some of the anime's episodes herself.
*RotatingProtagonist: Though Yoko is who the story centers around, many episodes take a detour from her to focus on the other idols in the business, her friends, and their lives.
*SharedUniverse: With ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko''. Remember Ichijuin from there? He appears as Kyoko's manager.
*ShownTheirWork: In episode 7, we see a statue of the faithful dog [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko Hachiko]] in Shibuya.
*TaremeEyes: Every character is drawn with this style, and the ones that don't fall into NonStandardCharacterDesign. Contrast to the predecessor anime ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' where only Eriko and her close friends have these eyes.
*WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Yoko has bright pastel pink hair tied into drills, and Saki has blue hair in a HimeCut. Along the way they meet more pink-haired, blue-haired and even ''green''-haired people.
