Sugar Sugar Rune
| Sugar Sugar Rune | |
Cover of the first manga volume
|
|
|
シュガシュガルーン (Shuga Shuga Rūn) |
|
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, Romantic, Magical girl, Tragicomedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Moyoco Anno |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| Original run | August 2004 – April 2007 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yukihiro Matsushita |
| Produced by |
Koichi Ohata Seiji Uda |
| Written by | Reiko Yoshida |
| Music by | Yasuharu Konishi |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | 2 July 2005 – 24 June 2006 |
| Episodes | 51 |
Sugar Sugar Rune (シュガシュガルーン Shuga Shuga Rūn?) or Sugar² Rune is a manga by Moyoco Anno and an anime TV series based upon it. The anime series' time slot was replaced by Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z in mid-2006.
In the Magical World, the future queen is chosen by selecting two young witches and sending them to the Human World, where they'll compete to capture the hearts of boys. Whoever has collected the most by the end of the competition is crowned queen.
This generation's Queen Candidates are best friends and polar opposites Vanilla Mieux and Chocolat Meilleure, the daughters of the current queen and her former competitor (respectively). They're aided by their assigned mentor and guardian, pop idol witch Rockin' Robin, and their two animal familiars, Blanca the mouse and Duke the frog.
But the girls have more to deal with than just competing for hearts at school. There's something weird about the cool, mysterious middle school boy Pierre, who resembles the evil king Glace—and he seems to be after Chocolat. Now, both trapped within their own new goals, the two witches must fight their way and retain a friendship which no magic can defeat.
"Hearts" are representations of an emotion someone feels towards another person, that can be extracted and crystallized by witches. Capturing a human's heart dulls the emotion they were feeling, but if their feelings are particularly strong a new heart of equal value may reappear quickly.
Hearts are a crucial part of the Queen Candidacy challenge, as the Queen Candidates are supposed to become popular with human boys and take as many hearts as possible. The Magical World uses human hearts as a source of energy. Hearts are ranked and given monetary value equal to their difficulty to obtain.
Chocolat Meilleure/Chocolat Kato (ショコラ・メイユール/加藤 ショコラ Shokora Meiyuuru/Kato Shokora?)
...
Wikipedia