Pretty Sammy
| Magical Girl Pretty Sammy | |
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魔法少女プリティサミ～ (Mahō Shōjo Puriti Samī) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Magical girl parody |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Kazuyuki Hirokawa Takeshi Aoki Yasuhito Kikuchi |
| Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
| Studio |
AIC Pioneer LDC |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | March 24, 1995 – August 24, 1997 |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Related series | |
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (魔法少女プリティサミー? Mahō Shōjo Puriti Samī) is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series produced by AIC, and released from 1995 to 1997 as three videos. It features character Sasami from the Tenchi Muyo! series as a magical girl, and is noted for recasting the Tenchi Muyo! characters in new roles. It has been dubbed into English by Pioneer USA. It also spawned two television series: Magical Project S, and Sasami: Magical Girls Club, the latter of which recasts the characters another time.
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy originated not in animation but in voice drama, beginning in 1993 with the release of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki CD Special 1 (Creation of the Universe Journey Across Space-Time). Here, Washu's newest invention, the Dimensional Controller, is glitched by the girls, creating several parallel Tenchi! worlds. Stories from the drama would later be adapted for Tenchi Universe's "Time and Space Adventures" arc (episodes 11-13). A second CD release, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki's Christmas, incorporated ideas revisited again in the series, drawing on tsunami as the source of Pretty Sammy's magical powers.
The music video for "Pretty Sammy, the Magical Girl", originally part of the Tenchi Muyo! Soundfile, marked Pretty Sammy's anime debut. After having a kiss between her and Tenchi interrupted by the villainous Kiyone, Sasami must transform into her magical alter-ego to save her love and teach his kidnappers a lesson. Though the Soundfile was never released officially in the U.S., this short can be seen during the end credits of the Mihoshi Special.
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