Super Doll Licca-chan

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Super Doll Licca-chan

Poster for Licca-chan series.
スーパードール★リカちゃん
(Sūpā Dōru Rika-chan)
Genre Magical girl, Romance
Manga
Author Mia Ikumi
Publisher Flag of Japan Kodansha
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Nakayoshi
Original run November 1998 – October 1999
Volumes 2
TV anime
Director Gisaburō Sugii
Studio Geneon
Network Flag of Japan TV Tokyo
Original run 1998-10-06 – 1999
Episodes 52
Animated film: Super Doll Licca-chan: Licca-chan Zettai Zetsumei! Doll Knights no Kiseki
Director Gisaburô Sugii
Tetsuya Kumagai
Producer Naoto Hashimoto
Composer Katsumi Horii
Studio Madhouse Studios
Released July 31, 1999

Super Doll★Licca-chan (スーパードール★リカちゃん Sūpā Dōru Rika-chan?) is TV anime series which ran on TV Tokyo from 1998–1999. Kodansha also serialized a manga based on the anime series in its monthly manga magazine Nakayoshi. The story follows an ordinary elementary school girl named Licca Kayama (香山リカ Kayama Rika?) [1] [2] and the strange circumstances surrounding her origins, as well as the origins of her protector, Doll Licca.

The series is an original story spin-off inspired by the long-selling and popular Takara doll lineup "Licca-chan" (created by Miyako Maki, wife of Leiji Matsumoto), designed to expand the regular dress-up doll series into a line of action figures. However, the new figures were only a mild success, and did not remain in production for long.

The Show Premiered in Japan on the 6th of October 1998 came to a conclusion in 1999 after 52 episodes. Since it's release in Japan it has been translated into multiple languages, including Chinese, Italian and Tagalog, and has been broadcast internationally on various stations, including Taiwan's CTS and Hong Kong's ATV and TVB, Cartoon Network's Latin America service, and Italy's RaiDue.

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[edit] Staff

  • Created by Takara TOMY
  • Executive Producer: Tarō Maki (GENCO)
  • Planning Assistance: Weave
  • Series Organization: Mami Watanabe, Kazuhiko Sōma
  • Character Design: Tetsuya Kumagai
  • Music: Akihiko Hirama, Katsumi Horii
  • Director: Gisaburō Sugii
  • Animation Production: Madhouse
  • Produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu, GENCO

[edit] Theme songs

  • Ne (opening 1, Rooky)
  • Ashita no Kimi (opening 2, Tomo Sakurai)
  • Ne (Cutey Techno Mix) (ending 1, Rooky)
  • Wow! (ending 2, Rooky)
  • Love Wars Taisakusen (ending 3, Rooky)
  • Sono Yume ha Nani Iro (ending 4, Tomo Sakurai)

[edit] Trivia

  • When Tomo Sakurai performed on "Yoru on Hit Parade" Music Program, she made the announcement that she would be the voice actress(Seiyū) for the role of Doll Licca.[citation needed]

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