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Magical Star Magical Emi (TV)

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Alternative title:
Emi Magique (French)
La magia de Emi (Spanish)
Magica, magica Emi (Italian)
Magical Emi, the Magic Star
Mahō no Star Magical Emi (Japanese)
魔法のスター マジカルエミ (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, magic
Themes: magical girl
Plot Summary:
Kazuki Mai, an elementary schoolgirl, wanted to be a magician but her skills weren't good enough for here to join her grandparents' Magiccarat troupe. One day she sees a light enter a strange heart-shaped mirror. The light is actually a mirror fairy named Topo, who takes over her favourite stuffed toy, a flying squirrel and gives her a bracelet with the 4 card suits. The bracelet can turn into a bubble wand which transforms Mai into the 18 year old magician Magical Emi, who uses her magic to help people and participate in her grandparents' shows.
Kozuki Mai, an elementary student how wanted to be a magician but her skills weren't good so for here to join the Magicarat family a light ball got into a stuffed doll of flying squirrel that someway gave her the power to turn in to the 18-years old Magical Emi so she was abel to join the famly more or less...
User Ratings: 36 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Very good: 7 votes (sub:5, others:2
2 Italian dubbed
)
 Good: 12 votes (sub:7, ?:1, others:4
2 French dubbed
1 Italian dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:2, others:3
2 Italian dubbed
1 French dubbed
)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:1, others:2
1 French dubbed
1 Indonesian dubbed
)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 86 users, rank: #5583 (of 9777)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.167 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5899, rank: #3089 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 7.085 (Good), rank: #3246 (of 9919) (seen all: 7.33 / seen some: 6.55 / won't finish: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.189 (Good+), rank: #2628 (of 7496)
Number of episodes: 38
Episode titles: We have 38
Vintage:
1985-06-07 to 1986-02-28
1986-08-09 to 1986-10-04 (Italy)
1987-08-29 to 1988-01-07 (France)
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Fushigi-Iro Hapiness" by Obata Youko
Ending Theme:
"Anata Dake Dreaming" by Obata Youko
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 5
Review:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Takashi Anno
Script:
Akinori Endo (ep 8)
Azuma Tachibana (ep 23)
Hideki Sonoda (4 episodes
eps 12, 15, 26, 33
)

Hiroshi Konishikawa (12 episodes
eps 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 16, 18, 20, 25, 28, 35, 37
)

Junki Takegami (ep 30)
Kei Yuki (5 episodes
eps 13, 17, 24, 27, 29
)

Mami Watanabe (6 episodes
eps 2-3, 6, 19, 36, 38
)

Mie Hirano (5 episodes
eps 10, 14, 21-22, 34
)

Sukehiro Tomita (ep 32)
Yumiko Tsukamoto (eps 5, 18)
Storyboard:
Akira Shigino (ep 34)
Fumihiko Takayama (ep 26)
Kazuhiko Kobayashi (ep 33)
Kazuyoshi Katayama (eps 4, 16)
Masayuki Hayashi (ep 17)
Mitsuru Hongo (eps 22, 30)
Mizuho Nishikubo (ep 13)
Ryo Tachiba (7 episodes
eps 3, 6, 14, 19, 23, 27, 31
)

Takashi Anno (eps 1, 25, 38)
Tamiko Kubo (ep 10)
Tomokazu Kōgo (eps 20, 24, 28)
Tomomi Mochizuki (4 episodes
eps 7, 11, 15, 37
)

Yoriyasu Kogawa (4 episodes
eps 5, 9, 21, 29
)

Episode Director:
Fumihiko Takayama (4 episodes
eps 18, 26, 30, 34
)

Kazuyoshi Katayama (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 12, 16
)

Mitsuru Hongo (ep 22)
Ryo Tachiba (9 episodes
eps 3, 6, 10, 14, 19, 23, 27, 31, 36
)

Takashi Anno (eps 1, 25, 38)
Tomokazu Kōgo (eps 20, 24, 28)
Tomomi Mochizuki (4 episodes
eps 7, 11, 15, 37
)

Yoriyasu Kogawa (8 episodes
eps 2, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29, 35
)

Music: Keiichi Oku
Art Director: Satoshi Miura
Animation Director:
Atsuko Inoue (ep 21)
Junichi Hashimoto (ep 29)
Kiichi Takaoka (eps 19, 27, 32)
Kyōko Katō (8 episodes
eps 7, 11, 15, 20, 24, 28, 33, 37
)

Narumi Kakinouchi (ep 34)
Yoshiharu Fukushima (eps 4, 12, 22)
Yoshihiko Takakura (4 episodes
eps 8, 17, 23, 36
)

Yoshiyuki Kishi (9 episodes
eps 1, 6, 10, 13, 18, 25, 30, 35, 38
)

Yuji Motoyama (ep 14)
Yumiko Horazawa (6 episodes
eps 2, 9, 16, 21, 26, 31
)

Yumiko Suda (eps 3, 5)
Art design: Masahiro Satō
Sound Director: Fusanobu Fujiyama
Director of Photography:
Jūrō Sugimura (eps 1-14)
Yōsuke Moriguchi (eps 15-38)
Executive producer: Yūji Nunokawa
Producer:
Makoto Ohno (Yomiuri)
Tōru Horikoshi (Nippon TV)

Editing: Masaki Sakamoto
Finish Animation:
Atsushi Yahara (eps 1-38)
Yoshiko Takiguchi (eps 1-38)
In-Between Animation: Takashi Hashimoto (4 episodes
eps 8, 17, 23, 36
)

In-Between Check: Toshiaki Hokari
Key Animation:
Akiko Tsukui (eps 1, 18)
Atsuko Inoue (13 episodes
eps 2, 4-5, 9, 12, 14, 25, 27, 30-32, 35, 38
)

Atsuo Tobe (eps 13, 21)
Fusatoshi Hoshino (eps 24, 30)
Hideaki Anno (ep 1)
Hiroki Takagi (5 episodes
eps 11, 15, 20, 24, 38
)

Hiroko Kazui (eps 24, 28, 33)
Hiroshi Hara (4 episodes
eps 11, 15, 20, 28
)

Hiroshi Kawabata (eps 27, 29)
Junzo Chiba (eps 2, 6, 21)
Katsutoshi Tsunoda (ep 36)
Kazuhiro Sasaki (Anime R; eps 3, 19, 34)
Kinji Yoshimoto (uncredited)
Kumiko Kawana (eps 1, 18)
Masahide Yanagisawa (Anime R; 6 episodes
eps 3, 10, 13, 19, 34, 38
)

Masahiko Itojima (Anime R; 5 episodes
eps 3, 10, 13, 19, 34
)

Masahiro Koyama (eps 28, 33)
Michitaka Kikuchi (6 episodes
eps 1, 10, 16, 18, 26, 38
)

Noboru Furuse (ED)
Reiko Suzuki (eps 15, 24)
Shinsaku Kōzuma (ep 1)
Shizuka Hayashi (eps 17, 23, 31)
Susumu Nishizawa (5 episodes
eps 26-27, 30, 32, 37
)

Takashi Hashimoto
Takeshi Nagai (5 episodes
eps 5, 14, 16, 21, 25
)

Tatsuya Furukawa (4 episodes
eps 3, 6, 14, 25
)

Tomoko Ootaki (eps 1, 16, 18)
Tomomi Mochizuki (ep 15)
Toshiko Sasaki (ep 36)
Yasuko Miyazaki (6 episodes
eps 2, 4, 12, 14, 32, 37
)

Yoshihiko Takakura (ep 31)
Yoshiya Shigebayashi (eps 17, 23, 31)
Yukio Okano (8 episodes
eps 10, 14, 16, 21, 26, 30, 32, 37
)

Yumiko Horazawa (ep 6)
Opening Animation: Yuji Motoyama
Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki
Special Effects: Kenji Ikeda
Theme Song Performance: Yōko Obata (OP & ED)
Yōko Obata as Mai Kazuki / Magical Emi

Yū Mizushima as Shou Yuuki

Atsuko Mine as Haruko Nakamori
Daisuke Gouri as Shigeru Koganei
Hideki Fukushi as Dannoura (ep 11)
Jouji Yanami as Yousuke Nakamori
Kazue Ikura as Musashi Koganei
Kazuki Junichi as Naya, Rokurou
Masaaki Tsukada as Shiroyama-sensei
Maya Okamoto as Yukiko
Nana Aoki as Yōko Kazuki
Naoki Tatsuta as Topo
Rokurō Naya as Junichi Kazuki
Shigeru Chiba as Kokubunji
Shinya Ohtaki as Akira
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Akira Matsuo
Yūko Mita as Misaki Kazuki

Japanese companies
Backgrounds: Design Office MECAMAN
Development: Tokyo Laboratory
DVD Distribution: Bandai Visual
In-Between Animation:
Studio Look (28 episodes
eps 1-6, 9-10, 12-14, 16, 18-22, 25-27, 29-32, 34-35, 37-38
)

Studio Mars (28 episodes
eps 1-6, 9-10, 12-14, 16, 18-22, 25-27, 29-32, 34-35, 37-38
)

Key Animation:
Anime R (11 episodes
eps 3-4, 6, 10, 12-13, 19, 22, 29, 34, 38
)

Photography:
Gallop (eps 1-14)
Studio Wood (eps 15-38)
Production: Pierrot
Recording: Shinzaka Studio
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production
Sound Production: Zack Promotion
French cast
French staff
French companies
Broadcaster:
AB 1 (from 12 December 2000)
AB Cartoons (from 10 September 1997)
La 5 (from 29 August 1987)
Mangas (from 6 November 1999)
TMC
Distributor: Déclic Images
Dubbing Studio: PM Productions
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Theme Song Lyrics: G. Ledem (Spain dub)
Theme Song Performance: Sol Pilas (Spain dub)
Ana Begoña Eguileor as Maï/Emi (Spain dub)

Paul Muniain as Ronny (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Telecinco (Spain - from 1990)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Guido Rutta

Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena
Alessandra Karpoff as Emi/May Kazuki

Angela Cicorella as Fiorella
Antonio Paiola as Zio Alfredo
Dania Cericola as Bibi
Daniela Fava as Giko
Debora Magnaghi as Giuppi
Diego Sabre as Germano
Donatella Fanfani as
Pilasi
Rodolfo
Donato Sbodio as Daniele
Federico Danti as Pellecchia
Gianfranco Gamba as Enrico
Ivo De Palma as Ronni
Lella Costa as Anny
Marcella Silvestri as Sherry
Paolo Torrisi as B. Junior
Pietro Ubaldi as Moko
Riccardo Mantani as Giovanni
Vittorio Bestoso as Bartolomeo
Italian companies
Broadcaster:
Boing (from 20 November 2007)
Canale 5
Hiro (from 21 January 2011)
Italia 1 (from August 1986)
Italia 2 (from 28 May 2019)
Italia Teen Television (from 11 October 2004)
Distributor:
Medusa Film (VHS)
Merak Film
Yamato Video (DVD)
Dubbing: Merak Film

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