“Two witch friends compete to be queen by collecting human hearts without falling in love themselves.”
Sugar Sugar Rune
シュガシュガルーン
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Synopsis
Two witch friends compete to be queen by collecting human hearts without falling in love themselves.
Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux are both witches and childhood friends, pitted against each other in a contest to see who will become the next queen of the Magic World! In order to win, the two queen candidates must attend school in the human world, cultivating relationships to bring out their classmates hearts of friendship and love... But if a witch gives their heart to a human, they'll die?! In an exciting adventure filled with transformations, mystery, jealousy, and romance, join Chocolat and Vanilla as they work alongside their knights to protect the kingdom from the threat of the Ogres and do their best to become the next queen!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 26 sampled reviews
What 26 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.60 · some divergence
6.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 2.0
↓ 0.88
Running avg · Nov 2008 → Mar 2026
- 9 “Sugar Sugar rune is of the reasons I became more into anime. I was into anime but this pushed me over the top. I always got a weird feeling in my stomach whenever they played the creepy music and...”
- 9 “It was really cute to watch...actually ultra cute! heh heh heh! It's about these witches on ajourney to become queen, by winning hearts! There are some moments where you want to laugh out loud, and...”
- 7 “Initially started this series on a whim, found its opening on YouTube and thought "hey this anime looks cute why not give it a try?". After DEFINITELY giving it a try I can say that this anime is...”
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A Tv Production · Summer 2005
Studio Pierrot.TV Tokyo · Marvelous Entertainment
- Format 51 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 20h 24m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2005 – Jun 2006 Summer 2005
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-1494 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
- Marvelous Entertainment Producer
- TV Tokyo Music Producer