#goldfish warning

[classic-shoujo]

Goldfish Warning (1991)

[stungunmilly]

[bepisode]

Goldfish Warning frame redraw

[calpicoboys]

[bunnymajo]

As if this show couldn’t be any more wholesome fun they included actual fan artwork they got from kids into the show. Amazing.

[megankoumori]

[littelguys]

[kinasin]

Goldfish Warning! (Episode 1)

[hakonohanayome]

BAKEMONOGATARI - Tsubasa Cat Part Four

[majokkoradio]

“Wapiko Genki Yohou” - Kingyo Chuuihou! - January 12, 1991

[classic-shoujo]

Goldfish Warning (1991)

[stungunmilly]

[muttonchopsalley]

Goldfish Warning episode 23 (b)

[kuuderekun]

Goldfish Warning! would not be assumed to be Shoujo if it came out today.

And that is fascinating given my thesis that a lot about modern Otaku Anime is the product of 90s and early 2000s Otaku being influenced by Classic Shoujo.

The basic plot description of this show's Pilot seems so much like a modern Cute Girls Anime adapted from a Seinen Manga, I was also reminded of it during the Nokotan Pilot yesterday.  

It's eccentric Pink Haired co-protagonist seems like the kind of wacky Genki Girl Anime character that a Western Anti-Moe "Oldtaku" would assume could only have been written by a Creepy Man for Creepy Men.

I myself still have a lot of ignorance about the history of Shoujo Manga and Anime adapted from them, so I have no idea if Goldfish Warning! originated any of it's Tropes I'm thinking of here.

Goldfish Wanring! is often treated as if it was not very influential in it's own right, being historically significant only for it's role in the Pre-History of Sailor Moon.  It's Manga being published in the same Shoujo Magazine, and then preceding it in the same Tv Asahi Timeslot while also being the prior work of all of it's directors.

But maybe not, it aired in an important timeslot and so could have had maybe at least a subconscious influence on many Japanese TV watchers of the Millennial Generation.

[bunnymajo]

[megankoumori]