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“Young designer Miho, mocked by family, uses magic to create a dress for a disco contest.”
Fashion Lala: The Story of the Harbour Light
ハーバーライト物語 ファッションララより
5.44
13,199 rank · 3,005 viewers · 1 favorites
Drama
Visual Arts
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Synopsis
Young designer Miho, mocked by family, uses magic to create a dress for a disco contest.
A Cinderella story of sorts, Fashion Lala stars a little girl named Miho who doesn't get along with her family. Miho loves to design clothing, but her aunt and three cousins don't believe that such a young girl is capable and mock her designs. Meanwhile, a contest for the new "Disco Queen" is coming up, and Miho wants nothing more than to be able to design a dress for someone to wear to the competition, since she's too young to enter herself. With determination and a little bit of magic, Miho's dreams just might come true!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
5.1
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
40%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 4
σ 1.45
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.45 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.3 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.7
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Score over time
↑ 2.13
Running avg · Mar 2009 → Dec 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I recently heard a friend describe this anime as conflicting with it’s internal parts, but I disagreed. I felt everything worked together well to produce a single narrative. The point of the OVA is...”
- 6 “This anime is targeted mainly for children. If you want something cute to watch with young children give this anime a chance. The anime has very cute art style and lovely music that is fitting for...”
- 6 “This actually sucks, but it's a retelling of Cinderella in the context of a seaside port town obsessed with an upcoming dance-off where a hapless teenage girl (blue hair, but everyone else in the...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 13%
Long · 50%
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A Ova Production
Studio Pierrot.- Format 1 × 48′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 48m all episodes
- Aired Mar 1988 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-2949 catalog