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Angel Tales
Volume 1 DVD Cover
おとぎストーリー 天使のしっぽ
(Tenshi no Shippo)
Genre Harem anime
TV anime
Directed by Ochi Kazuhiro
Studio Wonderfarm, Tōkyō Kids
Network Flag of Japan WOWOW
Flag of Singapore Flag of India Flag of Thailand Flag of Philippines Flag of Indonesia Animax
Original run October 4, 2001 – December 20, 2001
No. of episodes 15
OVA: Tenshi no Shippo Chu!
Directed by Norio Kashima
Studio Wonderfarm, Tōkyō Kids
No. of episodes 13
Released March 6, 2003

Angel Tales (おとぎストーリー 天使のしっぽ Tenshi no Shippo?) is an anime television series, produced by Wonderfarm and Tōkyō Kids. It was broadcast by the anime television network, Animax across its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia, in English and other languages. The series was licensed for North American distribution by Bandai Entertainment.

Contents

[edit] Storyline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The main character, Gorō Mutsumi, has no luck at all, not with jobs, nor with his schooling, and especially not with women or girlfriends. That is until the day he meets a fortune teller who informs him that he will have a fateful encounter and gives him a cell phone with which she promises his luck will change for good. Gorō does not believe her as she just vanishes as he remembers all of his previous times of bad luck with women.

It is then seen that he meets three girls who are waiting for him back at his apartment. They say they are now his Guardian Angels, sent to Earth from the spirit realm by the Goddess. They are the first three of his twelve beloved pets who had died due to Gorō's poor luck to return to him on earth. Soon after more and more of his former pets return to him as guardian angels, and each desires to be seen as number one in his heart, as his favorite pet. Each also has fears which they must overcome, fears from their past lives, for to overcome them and to learn to live with each other as one big family is the only way they will ever stand a chance of helping Gorō turn his life around and gain some good luck that his life was missing.

These girls however are not the only ones on earth, because of Gorō's own past life, because of what he was in another time and another place, there are strange people out there trying to put a stop to these girls turning his luck around. For their own reasons these people fear Gorō and desire him out of the way. As the story progresses the girls learn they must protect Gorō not only from his own bad luck but from these other people, without fully understanding either who they are or why they want to harm their beloved master.

[edit] Characters


Humans
Gorō Mutsumi is a very unlucky man who lives alone in his apartment, he had 12 pets |in total in different stages of his life. All of whom died and transmigrated as his guardian angels. Hisayoshi Suganuma / Ted Sroka
The angels, who arrive in groups (sorted by age)
Name Age Animal Group Cause of death Seiyū / English voice
Yuki Yuki 18 Hebi (Snake) 5th Fire Kyoko Hikami / Karen Strassman
Yuki is a strong but calm woman. She usually remains quiet but will give useful advice when called upon. She acts and is seen as a mother to the younger angels. Mika uses "mother" as an insult towards her. She was a white snake in her pastlife. She became the goddess in the second season,replacing the current goddess who got punished for saying the forbidden word,love.
Mika Mika 17 Usagi (Rabbit) 3th Loneliness Yukana / Wendee Lee
Mika is extroverted and hyperactive. Her over the top antics usually result in her getting yelled at by Ayumi and Akane (rabbits have a history of rivalry with turtles and foxes). When she was a rabbit she died of loneliness which may account for her current personality, being an attention seeker. Unlike most of the other angels, she is very clearly romantically attracted to Goro. Her hairstyle represents a rabbit's ears.
Ayumi Ayumi 16 Kame (Turtle) 4th Suffocation Ayako Kawasumi / Hunter MacKenzie Austin
Ayumi was a turtle and always wears a green beret-like hat that symbolizes her turtle-shell in her past life.
Ran Ran 15 Kingyo (Goldfish) 1st Drowning Rie Tanaka / Michelle Ruff
Ran is a calm and caring girl, though she fears water from her time as a goldfish. Throughout the anime she gains the most screen time and is used in advertising the show more than the other angels. In fact, the series opens with her death as a goldfish and not the other angels' deaths as pets. She also is in love with Goro.
Tsubasa Tsubasa 14 Inko (Parakeet) 1st Falling down Sakura Nogawa / Zarah Little
Tsubasa was a parakeet in her pastlife, she was rescued by Goro and took care of her. To |show her appreciation, she tried to fly but fell from a relatively high altitude and died.[citation needed]
Kurumi Kurumi 13 Hamster 1st Starvation Mayako Nigo / Sandy Fox
Kurumi was a hamster and she maintained her hamster-instincts; to eat a lot so that she wouldn't starve to death again.
Akane Akane 12 Kitsune (Fox) 4th Hunter's Gun Saeko Chiba / Tricia Dickson
Akane is an introverted and misunderstood girl. She is mature for her age but fears dogs from when she was a fox who was killed by hunting. She is initially quite scared of Nana because of this. She appears to be cold but is actually very friendly and warms to Midori more than the other angels.
Midori Midori 11 Tanuki (Raccoon) 5th Food poisoning Akiko Kobayashi / Jessica D. Stone
Midori is often seen with Akane working in an Udon store which is a reference to Japanese mythology. She and Akane have also been known to shapeshift - a power that tanuki and kitsune have been known to possess in Japanese mythology.
Tamami Tamami 10 Neko (Cat) 2nd Car accident Chiaki Osawa / Carrie Daniels
Tamami is very catlike and has many catgirl personality traits. She fears traffic for she was run over by a car when she was and died.
Momo Momo 9 Osaru (Monkey) 5th Electrocution Aya Hirano / Kay Jensen
Momo is shy, this could be one of her traits as a monkey in her pastlife.[citation needed]
Nana Nana 8 Inu (Dog) 3rd Exhaustion Shizuka Hasegawa / Lauren Bendik
Nana has a tomboy-ish personality, and is hyper-active just like in her past life being a dog. She enjoys walks but tends to get lost. Her hairstyle represents a dog's ears.
Ruru Lulu 7 Kaeru (Frog) 5th Cold (Freezing) Mei Shimizu / Rachel Hirschfeld
Lulu, being the youngest of the group, is a rather spoiled girl.
Spoilers end here.

[edit] Music

Tenshi no Shippo by P.E.T.S

One Drop by Sakura Nogawa

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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