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The episode where Ririka's dad bonds with Herb and befriends Miyuki is funny and unexpectedly touching, and the Valentines Day episode is a cute and bittersweet story about Karin with some nice flourishes in the animation.
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In the final episode they sing Happy Birthday to You! and everything just to twist the knife a bit more. Birthday Episode: The first episode and especially the final episode focus on Ririka's birthday.Occupancy there shifts from him, to Buros, and finally to Mimina so there's continuously reasons to set action here. Kanou-senpai's mansion is a major location.Ririka's friend Anna seems to come from money she lives in a gated house with with a big yard and her parents have a mansion-caliber summer house in the mountains as well.Big Fancy House: Ririka and Seiya live near a pretty ritzy neighborhood, and mansions regularly figure into the story.The core classic set of Woodland Creatures even puts in an appearance. Arcadia: Queen Earth is depicted as an idyllic land of green fields and fairytale castles.Annoying Younger Sibling: Shou, Ririka's precocious, kindergarten-age brother.Animated Armor: The first Monster of the Week is a possessed suit of armor.Alternate Continuity: The anime seems to use the manga as a springboard more than a model.While the manga settled the relationships in a Dénouement Episode, the anime is left vague. None of the many precocious crushes amount to anything.
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#TV TROPES HAPPY TREE FRIENDS SERIES#
Nurse Angel Ririka started out as a manga series by Koi Ikeno and Yasushi Akimoto, published in Ribon from 1995-96 the 35-episode anime adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi started airing about six months after the manga began and ran concurrently with it. With help from Kanou and her friend and neighbor Seiya Uzaki, she soon learns to fight as Nurse Angel to keep Earth from sharing Queen Earth's misfortune. Ririka soon learns that Kanou is actually an alien whose home world, Queen Earth, has been overrun by the evil organization Dark Joker. The gift is a magical cap that allows Ririka to transform into the heavenly guardian, Nurse Angel. Kanou-senpai) gives her a birthday present out of the blue. The story follows fourth-grader Ririka Moriya, whose life gets turned upside down when super-cool transfer student Nozomu Kanou (a.k.a. While great for audiences interested in a harder-hitting magical girl, it turned out to be not so great for the corporate sponsors or the show's longevity. Despite the young age (10-years-old) of the lead character, Ririka SOS courted the cross-demographic appeal of the genre through a down-to-earth atmosphere, a focus on drama, and a sense of dark-and-edginess that steadily built over its run. A fighting magical girl series that debuted in the height of the mid-Nineties Sailor Moon craze.