#Marvelous Melmo

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Vintage Marvelous Melmo stickers

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Source: Osamu Tezuka official website

All 12 artworks for the 2025 Osamu Tezuka calendar have been revealed! Of note: many obscure characters within the Tezuka Star System are featured in the artworks this time around.

The 2025 Osamu Tezuka calendar will be released on October 1, 2024 according to the official Osamu Tezuka website.

[showamagicalgirls]

Marvelous Melmo (ふしぎなメルモ), 「箱の中の毛虫の巻」

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As someone who originally followed for your Futurama art, I can't tell you how happy I am to see you posting about Tezuka's works, especially Hamegg!!

I personally ended up getting into his works after watching Futurama, and now it's nice to see another person who likes both as well✨

If you ever consider painting/drawing Tezuka's characters, I hope you have fun :)

We all have good taste.And I have a wide range of hobbies, but I seldom draw fanart.

I really like Marvelous Melmo. It's a short comic, but I like every story. I recently watched Don Dracula. This is a funny comic with black humor and adult jokes. There are some shadows of old Hollywood in it, such as Don Dracula, the protagonist. I think he may be influenced by Bela Lugosi.

Finally, our dear Hamegg, I have always liked Osamu Tezuka, but posted his work because I know Hamegg was inspired by Peter Lorre.

If you are happy, please also see see Peter Lorre, he is a great movie actor!😚😚

[kawaii-miracle-witch]

“Magical girl shows started with Sailor Moon” no it didn’t

Princess Knight (1953), a manga by the famous Osamu Tezuka, the man also responsible for series such as Mighty Atom/Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion and Dororo, and generally regarded as the ‘father’ of modern anime and manga. Although its status as a ‘magical girl’ series is debated, it’s one of the first plot-oriented shojo manga and thus deserves a mention due to the domino effect it caused - it also has heavy influence from the all-girl Takazura Revue theatre troupe, which several subsequent shojo manga share (including Sailor Moon itself and one of its core influences in Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles)

Himitsu no Akko-Chan (1962) and Sally the Witch (1966) (originally serialized as Sunny the Witch), the first manga and anime unambiguously considered part of the ‘magical girl’ genre respectively - the latter is explicitly influenced by the American TV series Bewitched (1964), which would therefore make that show the first magical girl TV series period.

Marvelous Melmo (1970) (originally serialized as Mamaa-chan), another series by Tezuka, this time unambiguously in the now-extant magical girl genre. This is the first series to have the now-staple ‘transformation sequence’ thanks to Melmo’s divine age-altering pills.

Cutie Honey (1973), the first magical girl series with tokusatsu influences (specifically The Seven Disguises of Kotohime) and a focus on action - it has also explicitly been stated as an influence on Naoko Takeuchi’s work, and even gets paid homage to in a chapter of Codename: Sailor V!

Hana no Ko Lunlun (1979), arguably the first Japanese magical girl show to get an official English-language release of any kind in the form of ‘Angel’ (if you don’t count the previously mentioned Princess Knight as part of the genre) - only a few episodes were ever dubbed, but the show was released in both the US and Canada!

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1985), the first magical girl series I’ve found to be written by a woman, Eiko Kadono (and yes it’s a series, there are 9 children’s novels in Japanese)

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I wanted to try drawing as many of Tezuka's characters using Abisalli's expression meme.

This week and next week are gonna be busy for me so I decided to just post what I finished recently. I plan to keep going.

[makoami]

Since I November I have been trying to watch as many magical anime as a can from oldest to newest because I'm obsessed with evolution. That and I want to do an analysis on how magical anime went from Sally the Witch, to Sailor Moon, to Precure and so on. In addition I' also give my opinion on which ones I enjoyed the most or least. For this post though I'll just go over the 60s and 70s magical girls I've seen. Some elements I'm looking out for in the "magical girl formula" are: 1. Animal Sidekick, 2. Transformation sequence, 3. main romance subplot, 4 saving the day, 5. Special Attacks, 6. Becomes someone older, 7. Becomes an Idol, 8. Magical powers.

First is Sally the Witch - 1966

Sally the Witch fits into both 4 and 8. She has magical powers, she does end up using them to both pull pranks, make life easier, or save the day. As a show it's pretty good. It reminds me a lot of Bewitched and seemed to be a huge influence. There's a crow character who pretends to be her younger brother in human form but I'm not sure if he counts as an animal sidekick. The anime has a lot dated moments and some I wasn't a fan of. I alsp had a hard time getting used to some of the 60s designs of characters. Unfortunately, I was not able to watch all episodes in order so that was a bummer. Other than that, Sally was a pioneer for more magical girls to come.

I was not able to finds episodes of Himitsu no Akko-chan, Mako-chan or Majokko Tickle but if anyone knows how I could watch some episodes lmk.

Princess Knight - 1967

I really liked this one and I think this is my favorite 60s anime. The manga is from 1953 so this technically might be the first magical girl. It doesn't follow a whole lot of the magical girl formula but she does save the day. The main character, Sapphire, has a guardian angel name Tink who could sort count as the animal side kick and she has a horse that helps her out on her quest. Sadly I was not able to see the entire subbed series and I am considering just watching the dub to finish the series off. Overall though, this show was very girl boss for the 60s and was genuinely entertaining.

Marvelous Melmo - 1971

Marvelous Melmo is another show I really enjoyed and made me emotional at times. After Melmo's mom dies in a car accident, she gives her red and blue candy to tranform into someone younger or older. It also gives her the ability to transform into animal. And she does use said powers from the candy to save the day. The show itself was very educational on evolution and human development. I was several episodes in when I realized I was watching a version that was redubbed by a whole new cast of voice actors in Japan, back in 1998. I'm curious to see how the original 70s version was. Aside from that, I highly recommend this one.

Next is Cutie Honey 1973

Okay, I will be honest, I haven't seen Cutie Honey in a long time and need to re-watch it. If I find anymore elements to the magical girl formula for Cutie Honey, I'll make another post about it. What I do remember is that she does have a transformation sequence, she saves the day, and can also transform into someone older. I think their is an episode where she shape shifts into an old lady. In some ways, her heroic and fearless character reminds me of Princess Knight and I look forward to rewatching the series.

Majokko Meg-Chan - 1974

Majokko Meg-chan had a lot of similarities to Sally the Witch. Meg is a witch in training, she wants to get better at her magic. In terms of the magical girl formula, she has magical powers and does use them in scenarios to save the day or make life easier. In all honesty this was my least favorite and I couldn't finish the series. The show tries to teach Meg that family is important and that her family in the human world really loves her. But then Meg's younger siblings pull pranks on her...I don't want to go on a tangent because I'm sure there are people who really enjoyed it. It just wasn't for me. I did love the theme songthough, it's so damn catchy.

Hana no Lun Lun - 1979

Only 3 or 4 episodes were available for me to watch but I really wish I could finish the series. Lun Lun has two animal sidekicks, a talking cat and dog. Due to being the flower child, she is able to use flowers to change into different outfits. I can't remember many episodes where she saves the day but the show does follow the trope of Lun Lun having a kind heart forming friendships with the people she meets.

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I'm very tempted on getting animation cells but I'm also afraid that it get's fucking destroyed in the shipping process.

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Head's up! The official Tezuka YouTube channel has started releasing episodes of the sexy 70s magical girl series Marvelous Melmo, subtitled in English! It looks like they'll be uploading episodes on a weekly basis, so hopefully this means they intend to release the entire series. The audio is from their Japanese redub in the 90s, so the sound quality is actually very good! Check out the episodes through the video above.

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Osamu Tezuka character calendar stickers (2004)

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Marvelous Melmo toy mask, 1970s

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Source: Capcom Official Art Twitter; Tsunogai (X/Twitter); Tokiwa-so Manga Museum official website

The Capcom VS. Osamu Tezuka characters art exhibit is back once again!

Titled "CAPCOM VS. Osamu Tezuka Characters - Tezuka Fighting Universe 2" [ CAPCOM VS. 手塚治虫キャラクターズ －テヅカプファイティングユニバース2－ ] in 2024, it will be held at two locations: the Tokiwaso Manga Museum and the Tokiwaso Showa Retro Museum, both located in the Toshima ward of Tokyo, Japan.

The exhibit will be active from July 20, 2024 to November 24, 2024 at both locations.

The artwork on the poster is by official Tezuka Productions artist, Tsunogai.

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Mysterious Melmo (ふしぎなメルモ)

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Melmo painting I did at school

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Marvelous Melmo

Haga clik en el enlace para leer en español el manga de Fushigi Na Merumo (Marvelous Melmo).

En este otro enlace la serie de Marvelous Melmo en You Tube. En japonés von subtítulos automáticos en íngles y español. Ajuste los subtítulos para ponerlo en el idioma de su preferencia.

In this other link the Marvelous Melmo series on You Tube. In Japanese with automatic subtitles in English and Spanish. Adjust the subtitles to put it in the language of your preference.