Magical Girl Overload!

Continuing last week’s diversion from Urusei Yatsura into the J9 mecha shows, lets take a diversion into Studio Pierrot’s Magical Girl Shows, many of which were running concurrently to UY.

Creamy Mami

UY connections? Akemi Takada was character designer on both. Kazunori Ito was a writer on both. Saeko Shimazu (Shinobu in UY) was rival pop idol Megumi on Creamy Mami

Magical Fairy Persia

UY connections? Saeko Shimazu as Sayoko, Shigeru Chiba (Megane in UY) as Geragera one of the mascot kappa and Kazuhiko Inoue (Tsubame in UY) as Kenji. In fact, lots of the cast from this, Emi & Yumi did one shot roles in UY. More Akemi Takada character designs here too.

Magical Star Magical Emi

UY connections? Shigeru Chiba as Kokubunji, Rokuro Naya (Hanawa-sensei in UY) as Junichi, Yuko Mita (Benten in UY) as Misaki.

Magical Idol Pastel Yumi

UY Connections? Yes, that man’s back again! Shigeru Chiba was Kunimitsu, Yuko Mita was Momoko, Chika Sakamoto (Ginger in UY) was Kenta.

Magical Stage Fancy Lala

UY Connections? The big one is Akemi Takada returning for this belated final Magical Girl series. Director Takahiro Omori had directed UY: The Final Chapter Movie. Yoshiko Sakakibara (Elle in UY: Only You & the ghost Otama in a couple of episodes) was Mamiko. Animation director Shinichiro Minami had done key animation for a couple of UY films (Always My Darling & Lum The Forever). Episode director Takashi Ikehata had done photography on UY: Remember My Love.

Did you guess that there’s a lot more credit information for Lala in English than the others?