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therealkittobitto · 7 months

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Introducing: The Ojamajo Doremi Classmate Bracket!

couldn't include all of them cus of the number but I got most of the important ones i think

First poll will go up shortly!!

#ojamajo doremi #magical doremi #magical girl #maho dou #poll bracket

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startwinklemashup · 8 months

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22. Star Twinkle Precure ED 3 x MAHO Dou (Ojamajo Doremi)

#star twinkle precure #ojamajo doremi #magical girl #precure #pretty cure #video #ed3 #maho dou #mahou dou #friend requested

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purplekoop · 6 months

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Things I Love #2: WATCH OJAMAJO DOREMI.

Okay so. context.

A while back, way earlier this year if memory serves correctly, my friend Dyna (y'know from the streams) found a peculiar song in the girl idol band rhythm game they like. Upon investigating, they learned that was an official cover of the theme song for a 1999 magical girl anime with a very niche cult following here in the states. They looked into it further, watched a video explaining why the show is so great, saw it for themselves, and after becoming thoroughly obsessed, convinced me somehow to watch the entire 200+ episode run with them.

And it. was.

Worth it.

I say it without an ATOM of hyperbole that this is genuinely one of the best shows I've ever seen. Like. Seriously, no bits no laughs no nothing, this silly little pastel-colored show is utterly phenomenal in more ways that I can do it justice. It's genuinely that good. It's hilarious, it's intense, and it made me cry and intensely hilarious number of times. It's legitimately a show that makes me happier to be alive when I think about it.

And one of the main cast members looks like this for the majority of the show.

...Okay maybe it deserves a little more context.

So, okay, plot summary:

Doremi (the pink one) is a silly, short-tempered, and chronically unlucky grade schooler who kind of sucks at... most things, to be frank. And one thing she sucks at that actually bothers her is her inability to muster up the courage to one day confess to a boy she likes. Logically, the only way she'd be able to confess is if she had magic, so she's also obsessed with witches, and one day becoming a witch herself. (Good news for her incoming.)

One day, she goes to a mysterious old house, and finds an equally mysterious woman inside with a cat. Just kind of, y'know, as a hunch. She accuses the woman of being a witch, which causes her to spontaneously turn into the green creature seen above.

This is Majo Rika, a genuine article but short-tempered witch, and the cat is secretly her fairy companion Lala. When a witch's identity is found out by a human, they get cursed into being a silly little creature known as a Witch Frog, and the only way to turn back into their original form is for the human who found them out to become a witch themself, and then use their magic to turn the witch frog back to normal. This, very conveniently, means Doremi now has to become a Witch Apprentice, learn magic, pass the apprentice exams, and eventually earn the honor of becoming a full witch herself.

Along the way, some of Doremi's friends get caught up in the secret, including her childhood friend Hazuki, the soft-spoken sweetheart (and my favorite of the apprentices but quite not my favorite character outright), and the new transfer student Aiko, the cool-headed tomboy who rocks the blue. Together, they all train to be witch apprentices, learning under Majo Rika, and working at her house, which is turned into a magical crafts shop, the Maho Dou. A few more witch apprentices join them along the way, but aside from them they have to keep their witchy business a secret from everyone else.

Now that we've established the basics, I think I'll continue the tradition of posting the show's theme song in each of these. Doremi has a 4-ish season run, with each season getting its own OP in standard anime fare, but I think the first and most iconic opening, Ojamajo Carnival, should suffice:

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Oh yeah, might help to explain what "Ojamajo" means. It's a pun that roughly means "bothersome witch", since "Majo" is "Witch" and "Ojama" means "bothersome" or "annoying." So the title would more directly be "Bothersome Witch Doremi" but literally everyone prefers "Ojamajo" so. yeah.

Anyways, theme song shows a lot about the show that's great.

For one is the art style, which I'd say is "pleasant" in the most intensely delightful sense of the word. The designs themselves are all nice, soft, and delightful, with hardly a sharp corner in sight and a real sense of childlike whimsy permeating through it all. The general color palette and style of the show also just has a nostalgic fuzziness, even after the show's technical quality improves over its 4 year run. And the animation I adored as soon as episode 1, with characters frequently deforming to goofy faces and round nub hands right out of Animal Crossing. Hey, I don't blame them, I wouldn't wanna draw full hands for over 200 episodes either.

Another thing is the soundtrack. I don't know what terms to describe its genre, but beyond just the bombastic opening, with its cheery violin, twangy guitar, and overall exuberant joy, the soundtrack for each episode is also full of bangers. There's upbeat jazz to stir up excitement for energetic scenes, pleasant standard background tracks, and even some unexpectedly tense tracks for some dramatic scenes. This is also a show that will make you cry, and that includes even just from the ending themes. Here's season 1's:

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That plays during an episode and I become a sopping mess without fail. Gets me every time.

The other big thing is arguably the show's biggest strength: its cast. While I won't go in-depth on the main cast, both for the sake of spoilers and because people have done that better than me already, I will give the show its due respect for its more broad cast. As the intro implies, the girls' entire class are notable side characters. While a good number of episodes focus on magical trials and hijinks, the majority of the show actually has the girls encounter a problem their classmates are facing, and then secretly use magic to help solve that problem. It's a formula that not only keeps things fresh with making different side characters the spotlight of an episode, but also rewards following along as the show progresses. Even the most obscure background classmates (save for I think ONE exception) will be the focus of an episode, and remember how Doremi and the gang helped them out. You can even see characters from past episodes in almost every group shot, and get to go "oh hey it's that kid!" in a really satisfying way. It really helps add to the childhood feel of the show, since... yeah, back then, your classmates were the stars of each day's adventures, and even if you weren't close friends you still knew their names would hang out every day. The teachers are also great characters in their own rights, again hearkening back to elementary days where teachers really were there for you. The cast isn't limited to the classroom though. The girls' families often factor into their more personal episode plots as well. And the magical side of things has its own small recurring cast. Witches actually reside in, another dimension known as the Witch World, a pastel-colored world with a striking visual appeal of its own right, and is also home to a cast of additional witch characters that get introduced over the course of the show.

Of course, the only important one is the underhanded saleswitch who barges into the Maho Dou with a smile and a song:

Dela.

Yeah no she's the best character and nothing's changing that.

Not kidding about her song by the way:

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Literally every single time she appears, she sings a unique (shorter) version of this song to announce her arrival. It's fantastic.

So yeah, that's the basics of what makes this show great, but like... again, this show is insane, and there is SO much more I could say but won't, I'd rather people just experience it for themselves.

Which... brings us to how you experience this show yourself.

I should explain first that Doremi didn't take off in the west. Unlike her home country, which still has a dedicated fanbase who remembers the show fondly, English-speaking countries were stuck with...

*dramatic lightning crash*

the 4kids dub.

The dub, otherwise known as Magical DoReMi, is widely considered to be a downgrade from the original by fans. Look up the opening compared to the original and you'll see what I mean. Though the quality is one thing, the real way 4kids screwed the show over was by greatly limiting its airtime due to it being "another boring girl show", kneecapping its potential popularity severely. They only ever dubbed the first season, and the second half of that was limited to an online-only release if I remember right.

Now, while the show itself was a relatively failure over here, apparently toy sales didn't do too bad actually. And I know that specifically, because when I told my partner I was watching Doremi, they went "Wait WHAT" and proceeded to show me pictures of their childhood Doremi toys. Apparently they even came with a bonus DVD, though only for one episode. My friend Seven also had Doremi toys and a bonus DVD of that one episode too, so uh... small world, huh?

But yeah, with this in mind, it shouldn't be surprising that Doremi has such a limited english-speaking fanbase, and thus should be even less surprising that there is no official way to watch the show here. There is no newer dub of the whole show, and no official subtitles. I managed to watch the show thanks to the efforts of fanmade subs, and though there's some unfortunate dated language early on, it's otherwise an extremely commendable effort that I can't thank enough for making it possible. As for how to access this subbed version... I mean come on, if you're reading this, you're an adult on the internet, you can figure out how. I know pity for corporations is comically low on this site but if you need help feeling better about it, remember that there is no way to officially watch the show as an english speaker. If they do make official subs and stream the show somewhere, I'll let you know, but that seems extremely unlikely.

As for what you watch then, Doremi has 4 main seasons of roughly 50 episodes each, and then one weird bonus season. Each season after the first one has a subtitle: season 2 is Ojamajo Doremi Sharp, 3 is Motto, and 4 is Dokkan. There's also Naisho, a shorter set of about 17 episodes that takes place during the same time as Motto, but was made years after the main show originally ended. I watched episodes of Naisho sprinkled in with my watchthrough of Motto, but there's also merit to watching it in release order, at least the final episode. There are also two episode-length "movies" that take place about midway through a couple seasons: one for Sharp, and one for Motto. Finally, made for the 20th anniversary back in 2020, there's the feature-length film "Looking for Ojamajo Doremi", which was the final thing of the show I watched, and just finished tonight actually. It's not directly in the same "canon" as the show itself, but I highly recommend it as a great finale to a watchthrough of the show as a whole.

It's a long ride, but it's worth it. I genuinely wouldn't skip any episodes, as again, even minor characters are worth remembering for later. It's not a show with "filler", because what you're there for is a simple and relaxing slice of life style show that takes it easy to appreciate the mundane joys of just being nice and helping others. Plus, it makes the absolutely fantastic gut punch of a finale all the more worth it.

I really can't say enough about this show. It's genuinely better than I can put into words. If you have the time (and a soul) then please, PLEAAAASE consider giving it a watch, I swear it's worth it.

So that's this Things I Love. Not sure what the next one will be actually. These won't all be shows, so maybe expect a game next? Could also be a show that I'm due to finish a watch or rewatch of too, like a certain other show where a weird girl stumbles into a witch and her creature companion, and then learns to be a witch herself. We'll see though. In the meantime, uhhh... Rabbids? I think I was talking about Rabbids for some reason.

#things I love #koop's things i love #ojamajo doremi #doremi #Youtube

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koholint · 4 months

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today's playlist:

Chiaki Takahashi - Suteki na Holiday

Saori Goto - Omoide Christmas

Erena Kaibara - Egao ni Merry Christmas

Hiromi Tsuru, Miyuki Muroi, Run Sasaki - Jingle Bells ga Nakunatta

Susumu Hirasawa with Wakako Shimazaki - Africa no Christmas

Tomoko Tane - X'mas

MAHO-Dou - White Christmas

Midori Karashima - Hoshizora no Christmas Party

The Whispers - It's Christmas

Caoli Cano - Last Christmas

Lord Nelson - Party for Santa Claus

Klezmonauts - Oy to the World

The Free Design - Christmas is the Day

Megumi Nakajima - Ranka no "Kutsushita no Uta"

thanks for listening!

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hanatagami · 1 year

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Dad! All Might x Ojamajo! Child! Reader (Part 1)

A ojamajo doremi x bnha crossover nobody but me wanted. Oh well. A certain song inspired this for me, but I may leave it and reveal it in another part...

Part 2 Part 3

It was sad. This whole situation...it was sad. But it was supposed to be happy. As you looked at the Witch Queen’s veiled face you think back to how you got here.

You hadn’t intended on becoming a witch apprentice...when you had entered that magic store, you were earnestly only looking for a charm.

A charm that would improve your life at home...

You loved your dad, you loved him a whole bunch. But being Japan’s number one hero took a lot of time, and he placed that priority over you often.

Too often.

So you had entered Majo Rika’s shop in hopes of magic being able to help, cause you didn’t know what else to do. I mean you were a kid.

You vividly remember the scary appearance of the Maho-Dou before you came along, and Majo Rika’s fitting scary image before she was...frogged.

You had been slowly going over every single magical item, trying to find the best one to use. You can’t exactly remember what she had said in that moment, but you remembered it was rude. You remember not being able to hold back a snarky “witch” under your breath. Though looking back your glad you did, cause it was the moment Majo Rika became a magical frog and needed you to enter witch training to turn her back.

That was the start of being happy again. Happy you hadn’t felt in a long time. Majo Rika and Lala filled the absence of a parental figure you had been missing out on.

Though you could tell your dad tried, he really did. Every second he wasn’t working was spent with you, or resting, but mostly with you. It was really nice when he could...but as you got older that time got shorter and shorter. And you could see it hurt him as much as it hurt you, but at this point you couldn’t bring yourself to care.

All the events he’s missed stand out even more in your head. A recital you had worked so hard on, missed. He promised he’d come but he didn’t. And as you played for the crowd, you hoped you hid the tears welling up in your eyes well enough. You hoped no one noticed the gaps in your performance, or the off notes. It wasn’t until you got to the Maho-Dou and both Majo Rika and Lala complimented your performance, watching through a crystal ball. You remember how they began to panic when you broke down that night, but now for two reasons and not just one. That night your dad had let you down once more, but that was also the night you had realized- Majo Rika and Lala have become more of a parent to you then your actual parent. It hurt to realize that.

Your apprenticeship really made you look back on your relationship with your dad and realize how flawed it really was. How do you not notice your child sneaking out at night to a random magic shop? Well its easy when your not home to notice. Though staying out of the eyes of patrolling heroes in a brightly colored witches uniform was hard.

It’s sad when you don’t need your fairy to help you trick your parents when sneaking out.

And speaking of your fairy, Soso, you were so happy when they had come to you. You had gained a family member! One you could take home, and make your home life less lonely. You guys had so much good times at home together, and you never had to hide them. You guys enjoyed having fashion shows together, it was always so funny to see your baby fairy in doll clothes trying to be modelesque. It was nice.

Especially when your relationship with your dad had began to fall apart. You guys were fine. But as you got more into your apprenticeship, and your dad came home less frequently, you guys had begun to argue. It started off with small things, and maybe it was your fault but you had gotten so fed up. But they began to escalate with every broken promise. You would raise your voice, he’d want to defend himself and began to get angry and try to scold you for talking to him like that which only made you angrier. Your relationship of recent hadn’t been the greatest. But what could you do?

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There were two parts of your apprenticeship that stood out to you the most in this moment. It strange how your tests bring up good memories with him, when your recent memories have been so bitter.

The first was your 6th level test. The test itself wasn’t all that significant, but what it did was. To combine an instrument that means something to you with your wand.

You were lucky that what you choose counted! It was a music box. Your favorite music box. You still remember the day you got it, even when it was so long ago. It was one of the few days your dad had off, and he took you out with him shopping. You were really young, but you remember having so much fun. You got to sit on his shoulders, which was incredible because he was so tall. He was in his skinny form too, so no one would interrupt you guys...

But the most memorable thing from that day was the music box. You had found it in a store, and had asked him about, confused. You had never seen one before after all.

He grabbed it and twisted the crank and you can still remember the magical feeling you felt when it started playing. The little woman began to turn on the box and the most beautiful song you had ever heard began to play and you were instantly enamored.

You think you remembered your dad laughing at you when he handed it to you, but honestly you can’t remember. You were so entranced by it you hardly noticed anything else! Needless to say, you had gone home with it, and it became your most precious item. You would sit and listen to it for hours. Your dad would play it for you when you went to bed, when you woke up, when you guys were just hanging out...

It was your guy’s special item. Your guy’s special song. No matter the situation, time, you guys made sure to listen to it together. Even recently, before it had merged with your wand, you guys had listened to it together on the rare time he was home. After you guys would fight. It would help calm you guys down. You couldn’t help but tear up at the new wand, completely full of seeds, and when it played your favorite melody for every spell you cast. It always reminded you of your dad and the good times you had, that seemed so few and far between now. But it also brought up the more recent times...the bad times.

The second test was your final test, the one that had happened just before this moment. Your test was to do something for someone using magic and to get them to thank you, and though it was risky, you knew exactly who you wanted to help. You followed him in secret all day, scanning for the best opportunity to help him. After a long time of waiting for your chance you had got it, though it was something small. He had sat down for a break and you magicked up a bottle of water. You made yourself invisible and handed it to him over his bulked up figure with a “Here you go!” You made sure to put on some kind of voice, something he wouldn’t be able to recognize.

and quickly stepped back a bit when he grabbed it.

“Thank you!” He said turning around, and you took the moment to gaze at his confused face as he looked around, before he looked down to look at the water.

You were lucky you still had your broom out so you didnt have to make any noise when you left. You couldn’t bring yourself to stay longer then that.

With that you had finished your final test, and with that you had earned the right to become a fully fledged witch. But with becoming a witch came one consequence.

You must give up your life in the human world.

You must give up your life with your dad.

Perhaps the saddest part to you in this moment was how easy the answer came to you.

You would.

You would leave the human world behind...cause there wasn’t really anything waiting for you there.

Not anymore.

You could feel the heartbreak when your dad discovered you gone but...you just couldn’t bring yourself to stay with him when you had this opportunity in front of you.

So though you’d pick the witch world over your own, your found family over your blood...you hope you’d at least be able to watch over him from afar. Watch him find a groove back to life with you gone, without an answer to your disappearance. You weren’t sure if what you were feeling is regret. You don’t regret choosing to be a witch...

But maybe you regret leaving your dad so clueless of the situation. Leaving him in the dark. Leaving him thinking that things had been fine. Leaving the memories you guys had made together...but you won’t take it back. Maybe one day...

You’ll meet again.

#bnha #ojamajo doremi #all might #x reader #dad might #angst

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lunargoddess40 · 2 years

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Sugar Crystal Empire: The brand NEW ”Pretty Witch Doremi” Glass Painting (NEW Ojamajo Doremi 16’s July 2022 Birthday Edition- On Sale Right Now for $150.00!!!!)

NEW ”Pretty Witch Doremi” Glass Painting on Sale Now- $150.00!!!!

Happy Birthday to everyone’s favorite cute pink Magical Ojamajo & leader of the Magical Ojamajos from Maho-Dou, Doremi Harukaze, from Ojamajo Doremi as Sugar Crystal Empire introduces the 1st ever “Pretty Witch Doremi” Glass Painting on sale today!!!!!

For the 1st time ever for the Ojamajo Doremi franchise from Sugar Crystal Empire on sale for $150.00, this special glass painting brings in the “Ojamajo Doremi 16” manga featuring Doremi all grown up in her Pink Magical Ojamajo form from Season 1 of the series as she’s all bright and cheerful with a bright smile and a fancy white photo frame finish!!!! Really happy and excited to start Ojamajo Doremi as well as Doremi starting off the collection as she’s also my #1 favorite Ojamajo, I enjoy working on her designs and it helped me start on improving my skills on glass paintings!!!!! Very proud of this one, this is also for you Doremi and may you forever & always be the powerful Ojamajo for Maho-Dou, Happy Birthday!!!!!

This glass painting of Doremi is officially on sale right now for $150.00 if you guys want her!!!! Please follow me on @lunargoddess40 to leave comments and get her!!!!! Thanks for your continuing support for Sugar Crystal Empire!!!!!

This is a FanArt painting made by me.

P.S. Sugar Crystal Empire rightly belongs to me, but Ojamajo Doremi rightly belongs to Izumi Todo & Toei Animation!!!!!

#ojamajo doremi #happy birthday #doremi harukaze #toei animation #art business #artshop #anime #manga #cartoons #magical girls #pop culture #glass painting #paintings #art #masterpiece #art commissions open #picoftheday

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theofficialdorklore · 2 years

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What if Rayman was a shoujo anime?

Here is a few ideas if Rayman was a shoujo anime:

The anime's name would possibly be called "Rayman: Red Lums Junior Academy!" (レイマン：レッドラムズジュニアアカデミー!).

The location of the anime is a fictional town in Tokyo called "Ubisoft" (ウビソフト).

The opening might be "Ojamajo Carnival" by Maho-Dou 3.

The ending might be "Aishite ne♥Motto" by Kayo Aiko (or Aipii).

The school (the anime's main location) would be called "Red Lums Middle School" (レッドラムズ中学校) and no uniform is required.

Almost all the students are aged to 12-14.

Grand Minimus's name is "Léon del Ray" (レオン・デル・レイ) and is a member of the main cast alongside Rayman and Globox.

All the characters would be human.

The anime would feature Ubisoft's other characters.

#what if #rayman #rayman anime #rayman au #anime #shoujo anime #shoujo

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ojamajoprincessart · 3 years

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07.09.2021

I thought the MAHO DOU Tokyo ☆ 2021 fairy tale designs were really cute :)

#ojamajo doremi #my art #digital art #doremi harukaze #harukaze doremi

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garuparadio · 3 years

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Ojamajo Carnival!! (MAHO-Dou Cover) - Hello, Happy World!

#BanG Dream!#bang dream #bandori #hello happy world!#hello happy world #ハロー、ハッピーワールド！#ハロハピ

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magicalgirlpictureencyclopedia · 2 years

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The magical girl for tonight is Doremi Harukaze!

Anime: Ojamajo Doremi (1999)

Age: 8-12 (Ojamajo Doremi, estimated), 16+ (Ojamajo Doremi 16)

Seiyuu/VA: Chiemi Chiba (1999-present)/Amy Palant (2005-2008)

Doremi Harukaze is the kind hearted but airheaded 3rd grader attending Misora Elementary. She doesn't have it easy, as her grades are bad and her sister's a bratty prodigy. A big fan of witches, Doremi visits a dreary shop advertising known as the Maho-Dou that claims to sell magical charms. Accidently exposing the owner, Majo Rika, for a witch, she is now tasked to become a witch apprentice in order to turn her back from her witch-frog form.

Eventually, other apprentices join and Doremi must balance learning magic and keeping her true identity hidden - because nobody wants to become a witch frog. However, she's always getting into trouble no matter what - the anime title's reference to a troublesome witch (ojamajo). Despite her scatterbrained nature and occasional insensitivity, Doremi is a good person at heart.

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lolmagicalgirl · 10 months

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The Maho-dou has a lot of shop themes in every ojamajo doremi season! Tell me tell me! What’s your favorite?

For me the Sweet house it’s kinda special to me, maybe cuz I love baking? haha💕✨

#ojamajo doremi #doremi harukaze #aiko senoo #hazuki fujiwara #onpu segawa #momoko asuka #hana makihatayama #magical girl #mahoucore #mahou shoujo #magical doremi #majo rika #my post

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meryizza · 4 years

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