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  • Adaptation Displacement: Nobody knows the original manga, which could be because it ran as a tie-in concurrently with the anime.
  • Awesome Music:
    • Both the Japanese opening and ending, which brought back Cutie Honey vocalist Yoko Maekawa.
    • 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 Soundtrack Dissonance, 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.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Meg and Non. Chou even lampshades it during their final battle, which is physical to the point of resembling sex. Years later, CLAMP makes a note of it, and even officially licensed products back in the show's day had fun with it.
  • Genre Turning Point: The series was an important milestone in early Magical Girl shows, as it was the first show to be marketed to boys as well as girls, and featured a number of developments—it was the first Magical Girl show with a tomboyish heroine, a rival to the heroine, a really evil villain, and also the first that includes Fanservice tropes (with Lovable Sex Maniac characters), and serious issues like Domestic Abuse, extramarital relationships, drug abuse, death etc. Essentially it took the traditional magical girl genre as established with shows like Sally the Witch and Himitsu no Akko-chan and gave it a shot of Cutie Honey-style spiciness.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: 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 Candy♡Candy. 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.
  • The Scrappy: The show is rather obscure, but when people these days do speak of it in favor, they usually tend to hold 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.
  • 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.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • When Meg gets sick in the first episode, and is in danger of dying.
    • And 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 Muggle Foster Family 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.
    • 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 Cutie Honey (and sung by the same vocalist).
  • Values Dissonance:
    • 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.
    • 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.


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