Mahou Tsukai Chappy | |
Chappy and friends
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魔法使いチャッピー | |
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Genre | Magical girl |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
Yugo Serikawa Hiroshi Ikeda (2 episodes), etc. |
Written by |
Shun'ichi Yukimuro (1 episode) Masaki Tsuji (head writer) |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Original network | Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (then NET) |
Original run | 3 April 1972 – 2 December 1972 |
Episodes | 39 |
Mahōtsukai Chappy or Chappy the Witch (魔法使いチャッピー?) is an anime series that debuted in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (then known as NET, or Nihon Educational Television) in 1972. It is the fifth magical girl anime in history (the sixth if one counts Osamu Tezuka's Marvelous Melmo), and the fifth produced by the Toei Animation studio. While the show was fairly popular, it was not as popular as Toei's earlier magical-girl series, and is relatively obscure compared to its predecessors.
In addition to its success in Japan, Chappy has been dubbed into Italian, French, and Spanish and broadcast on TV in Italy and in various Latin American nations such as Mexico, Peru, or Chile. A manga adaptation of the story was drawn by Hideo Azuma, who later became more famous for his manga-turned-anime works, Little Pollon and Nanako SOS.
Chappy, along with other Toei magical girls such as Akko-chan, Sally, Cutie Honey, Megu-chan, Lunlun, and Lalabel, is a playable character in the 1999 Sony PlayStation game Majokko Daisakusen: Little Witching Mischiefs.