Magical Mermaid Show. For some reason I though it came out later than this. Created by the prolific anime screenwriter Michiko Yokote. One of Kazunori Ito’s disciples she broke in on Patlabor and wrote a number of the Patlabor novels. In this decade she started working as Head Screen Writer on a variety of shows, just from this year you’ve got her on this, Airmaster and Haré+Guu. I think her best work is when she’s working with Haré+Guu’s Tsutomu Mizushima. Or rather his best work is when he’s working with her. But more on that later.