“Magical princess Sally flees to Earth, befriends girls, uses secret powers, and stays to enjoy human adventures.”
Sally the Witch
魔法使いサリー
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Synopsis
Magical princess Sally flees to Earth, befriends girls, uses secret powers, and stays to enjoy human adventures.
Sally, the kind but mischievous princess of the Land of Magic, has developed an interest in the human world. Wanting to experience it for herself, she runs away and meets two girls her age—Yoshiko "Yocchan" Hanamura and Sumire Kasugano—at a department store. They quickly become friends and spend time at Sally's mansion, which she conjured with magic. The two girls realize they forgot something at the store, and despite it having closed for the night, they leave to fetch the item. Sally and her younger brother Cub, who had been sent by their parents to retrieve her, follow them and discover that they have been captured by a pair of thieves who were attempting to rob the store. Utilizing their magic, Sally and Cub drive the thieves away and rescue the girls, who remain unaware of Sally's powers. Attached to her new friends and the fun of the human world, Sally decides to stay, taking up the surname Yumeno and attending school with Yocchan and Sumire. Cub chooses to live with her and together they make a variety of new friends and go on various adventures, all the while spicing up their lives with magic.
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- 9 “Mahou Tsukai Sally, A.K.A. the magical girl show that spawned a whole slew of copycats cannibalizing every single frame of this series at least circa early 2000's, it was definitely really good....”
- 10 “First of all Mahoutsukai Sally was the first anime directed to the Shoujo demographic. And when it comes to shoujo demographic in the 60s the manga scene there was already some kind of identity to...”
- 8 “45 hours, 109 episodes, non stop. What a great journey it was! That's pretty tough piece to review, not only bacause of it's age, but as well it's the very first mahou shoujo anime out there....”
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A Tv Production · Winter 1967
Toei Animation.- Format 109 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 45h 25m all episodes
- Aired Dec 1966 – Dec 1968 Winter 1967
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-2969 catalog