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Characters Melmo also known as Lilly Melmo is a kind-hearted young girl who is frequently torn between her actual age and the things she encounters and wants as her older self (for example, a boyfriend or a husband, or to be able to breast-feed her baby brother Touch). The 19-year-old Melmo is quite beautiful and men frequently fall in love with her. In the last few episodes of the series Melmo's 19-year-old self acquires a boyfriend, Jiro, who she eventually marries. During the final episode - and several years after Melmo's and Jiro's wedding - Melmo gives birth to a baby girl, in whom resides her late mother's spirit, thus reuniting mother and daughter (and, interestingly, reversing their relationship with each other in the process). It should be noted that Melmo as a 19-year-old is no smarter or more experienced than her 9-year-old self, though at 19 she is given more opportunities to learn about adult matters than she would at the age of nine. Totoo Totoo is the eldest of Melmo's two brothers. He spends much of the TV series as a frog due to having eaten a red and a blue candy. As a frog he is too small to consume the candy which would return him back into a human, so Melmo spends almost half of the series trying to figure out how to turn him back into a human (which she eventually manages to do). Touch Touch is the youngest of Melmo's brothers (a baby, in fact). His role in the series is to give children some idea of what is required to raise a baby. Professor Waragarasu Professor Waregarasu is a citizen of a country called Chicchaina, and secretly opposes the country's authoritarian government. Melmo and Waregarasu escape from Chicchaina (where Melmo has been held captive) and Waregarasu spends the remainder of the series in Japan, though in the final episode he returns to Chicchaina. He acts as something of an advisor and occasional guardian for Melmo and her brothers, and also explains matters of human reproduction and sexuality to Melmo whenever she raises questions about the subject. Although he offers to adopt Melmo and her brothers in the final episode, and bring them back to Chicchaina with him, Melmo instead accepts an invitation from Jiro's family for the three of them to live in their home, thus solving their dilemma. Jiro Jiro is one of three brothers (the other two are Ichiro and Saburo) who all fall in love with the 19-year-old Melmo, and is the one that Melmo picks and eventually marries. He only appears in the last few episodes of the series. Melmo's mother and God also play small roles on occasion throughout the series. Availability Neither the manga or the anime have ever been available in the United States. The complete manga series has been collected and is available in Japan. A DVD set collecting all the episodes in the series was released in 2003, but according to some sources might now be out of print in Japan. During the '90s the series was available on a set of seven laserdiscs, as well as on a set of 12 VHS videocassettes. The complete anime series titled I bon bon magici di Lilly is available in Italy, collected in five DVDs. Some episodes have been shown on channel 47 in New York in the eighties in a Japanese program block. The series re-aired in 1998 on the Tokyo TV station Tokyo MX. The series differed from the original broadcast version since it was given new opening and closing credits, new voice dubs, and the image quality was restored. Since then it has also aired on the Japanese satellite channel Wowow. Differences between the manga and anime The manga and anime versions of Fushigi na Merumo are quite similar. In contrast to The Amazing 3, several Fushigi na Merumo manga stories were adapted and animated for the TV series. Other appearances As a member of Tezuka's Star System, both versions of Melmo made a number of other appearances in Tezuka manga throughout the 1970s; mostly in the Black Jack manga. The older Melmo (as two different women) is also a main character in 1970's Apollo no Uta (Apollo's Song). See also List of Osamu Tezuka anime List of Osamu Tezuka manga Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka's Star System References External links Fushigi na Merumo Entry about the manga version of Fushigi na Merumo on the Tezuka website. Fushigi na Merumo Entry about the anime version of Fushigi na Merumo on the Tezuka website. Categories: Manga series Anime series Anime of 1971 Manga of 1970 Japanese television series Magical girl anime and manga Osamu Tezuka anime Osamu Tezuka characters Osamu Tezuka mangaHidden categories: Articles containing Japanese language text We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Tool Cart , Chest & Cabinet for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Tool Chest.
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