She meets a mysterious women, a former witch who gave up magic and traveled the world. Episode 40 of season 4, Doremi, at a crossroads in life, can’t envision a future for herself. Hosoda doesn’t hide his feelings over how things went down at ghibli, and brings those emotions to the series. Mamoru Hosoda, who at the time was just let go from Ghibli and returned to toei, getting fired by Ghibli everyone assumed his career was over, but Takuya Igarashi had other plans, He handles two episodes in the fourth season. Ojamajo Doremi isn’t as ever present as some of its peers, but it will stay with you your whole life due to its incredible writing. You can tell the conscious effort to grow with the kids watching at home. Whether its understanding the feelings of adults around them, finding out some problems can’t be solved so easily, or even if its just the kids becoming more aware of romance.
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As the series goes on, the problems they face are more complex, their feelings are more complex, the world around the starts to feel less black and white. And Doremi isn’t afraid to tackle very serious subject matter, its an incredibly daring kids show, always taking risks and reaching for the stars. The staff put a lot of their own childhood memories into the series, and even researched what childhood was like for kids at the time of making it. But its not just the leading crew, The series is filled with fantastic episode directors, making this 200 episode series remarkably consistent in quality, seldom a weak episode. With so many reoccurring characters, its great to have designs like that, so when someone comes back a season later, you can go “Oh I remember them!” There’s no limit to the fun energy and expressions the characters have, no one handles these designs better then Umakoshi, his episodes always look the best. Its so fun and expressive, and every character is instantly recognizable from their silhouette alone. The great Yoshihiko Umakoshi, best know for Heartcatch Precure and My hero academia, designed the characters and overall look of the show. Igarashi creates some of the most impressive layouts of any toei production, with such inventive and impressive shots and editing that establishes mood, and he makes it look easy. The series was taken over by Takuya Igarashi, another Ikuhara alumni, who helmed shows like star driver, bungo stray dogs, and Ashita no Nadja, even a few episodes of Utena. Season 1 series director is Junichi Sato, who came from sailor moon and later directed the masterpiece Princess tutu. Everyone feels like their on the same page, all working to create something great.
A mix of old veterans and young ambitious talent that help create a balance, lifting it’s a modest budget with passion. The series has no shortage of legendary staff. It’s a delightful little magical girl anime that has a lot more going on then you see on from the basic premise. The girls go on various adventures in the witch world, and help out friends and class mates with a little bit of magic. Majorika ropes the girls into being her witch apprentices, and working at her store so they can turn her back to human form. Its about a self described world’s unluckiest pretty girl Doremi and her friends Hazuki, a soft spoken girl who struggles with speaking her mind, Aiko, a brash girl from osaka who is sometimes a little too honest, accidentally reveal the shop owner Majorika’s identity as a witch, turning her into a magic frog. These past few months I’ve been watching through all of Ojamajo Doremi, a magical girl series from 1999-2004.
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