Ranked #186

Shugo Chara!! Doki

Spoiler warning if you are not caught up.

If this were the first season, you can believe I would've given this series a high rating. Unfortunately, it's not, so I didn't. Shugo Chara! Doki is basically the bullet in the gun that killed most, if not all of it's fans.

Story:
This sequel starts off by bombarding the viewer with filler after annoying, useless filler. And it continues for at least a full 15 episodes. It adds a stupid "plot twist" by introducing the idea that basically anyone who is momentarily depressed can Character transform. I hated this the most out of the whole story. I felt as though the whole premise in the first season (one can only transform with an actual chara and the ability to Chara Change)was completely ignored.

Art:
The art was probably the highest point in this series. Although it started out nice, it seemed that the more I watched it, the more deformed the art had become. Or perhaps I didn't notice it before...either way, I noticed that most of the deformities had been associated with the face. How the head and eyes had been enlarged and facial features began looking spaced too far apart. For the most part, I did enjoy the clothing, but that's mostly it.

Sound:
I liked the OPs and EDs for the first season. I found them to be quite catchy, "iPod" worthy I guess. But I didn't enjoy any of the OP's in Doki. They bored and annoyed me and I found them to be wayyyy to girly. x_X At points I thought the BGM was only there to sound cute, since it didn't seem to match the mood of the situation. The Seiyuus fit their roles nicely, though no one really stood out.

Character:
Basically Amu hasn't changed much except the whole "with Tadase" thing. Tadase, same except for the reason why he hates Ikuto is revealed. Yaya, annoying and same. Although when it comes to Ikuto, you basically learn about his story and how he actually doesn't want Amu to worry about him. Other characters are introduced, Lulu and her chara Nana. Lulu's basically a snob who wants to make her mother happy and her chara is probably THEE most annoying chara in the series. Then like 20 supporting characters introduced who do nothing except fill up the episode.

Enjoyment:
I greatly dislike this series. The humor that was once there is now gone, all that's left is crappy, awkward, forced comedy; the likes of which would put Rima to shame. It's filled with stupid fillers that make you want to tear your brain stem out. In my opinion, the only reason worth watching is to see what happens to Ikuto. I would have dropped this about 15 episodes back, except that I had hoped that it would get better. Now the only reason I'm sticking with it is because I would feel like all the time spent watching would be wasted if I didn't follow through. read more

HUOM ! My English is not really good, so don't care about little mistakes what I have made during this review :3

When I heard that there would be a second season of Shugo Chara! I was overjoyed. I was in love with the first season so of course I was excited. And, of course, first season stopped in a interesting part so I was just looking forward to next week, October 4th, when Shugo Chara!! Doki would start.

Well, October 4th finally came. The first episode was definitely a filler. We were just remembering what happened on first season. Well, I hoped that the next one would be better. Not a chance ! The next one was same, we were thinking what they have been going throught and stuff. It was pretty boring at time like that. But then, there was couple of more interesting episode and I was thinking, that maybe this season would be even better than the first one. Now I have seen eleven episodes and I'm thinking that will there ever be end of the fillers? This serie seems to like them a lot !

I'm happy that there is the same voice actors as on first season. Amu's, Ikuto's, Tadase's, Utau's, Rima's... they all have the same ! First was a little hard to be comfortable with Nagihiko's voice, when we were used to his girly voice on first season when he was acting "Nadeshiko". But hey, we get used to it and everything will continue in the way it used to be. Utau's new songs seems to be really nice too, so it's lovely to listen their speaking and singing. Minna no Tamago were first a little annoying, but when you listen it more, you will start listen it everytime you have a chance and you will dance the song from the start. So maybe it's more cute than annoying? Ending song, Rottara rottara, is from Buono! so I really liked it. I was a little desipointed when I heard that Buono! won't do the opening to Shugo Chara! anymore, but gladly they make endings.

Storyline is also the same. They are searching for embryo and wondering what the Easter really is. Amu is thinking, is Ikuto better than Tadase, or maybe Nagihiko, her bestfriend's twin brother, would be better. (well, Amu doesn't know that Nagihiko and Nadeshiko are the same person). But I think that the story won't work anymore. It was cute on first season, but how about this season takes also 51 episodes? It would be pretty boring so I guess that it's little ... boring already. They could have wait for couple of months before starting this season so Peach-Pit would have time to think some new stuffs to manga.

Sometimes it's seeming that animationstyle is different. But then, the next one have been same as normaly. I don't really get it. But I still think that the animationstyle is one of the best what I have seen, so that's why I just have to give some good points. And I have to say this; their hair are really, really looking great !

I have always like the characters. It's hard to decide who is annoying and who is the best of all, but it always makes it hard to decide who is the best of all. Well, Easter guys are annoying and pathetic, but shugo charac can be annoying too. I don't normally like the main character, but this time, Amu is sometimes pretty interesting, even if she is sometimes very clishe person.

Well, I really enjoy when I'm watching this anime. Characters are cute, voice is great and art is lovely. Story is interesting and they have always something were you should just laugh ! But this anime loves so much fillers, when it's pretty annoying when the story doesn't get any further but characters have time to think, what kind of wheather is tomorrow. Even if they are cute, itäs still annoying.

I'm really hoping that fillers are going to stop soon. I will not like if there is agaiin 51 episodes where over half is just filler after filler.
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Shugo Chara Doki!! is the continuation of the Shugo Chara!, where the main character Amu is still in the same grade as she was at the end of Shugo Chara! The guardians face new enemies, meeting old friends and creating new friends. Their main goal is still to get the embryo, with Easter trying new schemes to get the embryo first.

The story has a nice flow, seeing as i haven't really read much of the manga it seems to be moving towards to current chapters out.

It is a very enjoyable anime to watch overall its, if you love Shugo Chara then you should defiantly watch the sequel.

I personally love Shugo Chara Doki!! and i look forward to watching it every week read more

Okay, let me start off by saying that this series SUCKS literally. As it is my opinion I'm have the right to say that as I've watched the whole first season which I thought was actually very good...but the second season is completely STUFFED with filler after filler and fillerrr ! and it is so annoying that you'd think for once they'd get back to the main situation!? I don't know whats going on with the producers- maybe they can't think of anything, or what ? but I hope they clean up their act before they lose all their fans. With the exception of a couple, there has been about atleast 20 episodes of FILLERS, and I just gave up now after watching about 15 of them. Now I'll wait for the episode that gets back on track then maybe I'll start watching again. read more

No one has written a review after viewing all the episodes yet, so I thought I should. Despite all the fillers in the first half, it was the second quarter that ruined this series for me. They had canon, manga material to work with - and they completely butchered it, rewriting it so that the story made no sense and the characters were out of character.

The story is about Amu and her love life just as much as it is about the Embryo, and it's important to the story and character development that we see that Amu is starting to fall in love with Ikuto, who loves her for who she is. The manga is a lot more obvious about this than the anime. In the manga, Amu is obviously falling further and further in love with Ikuto, and as he leaves to search for his father, she rushes to him at the airport. He kisses her and tells her 'I'll definitely make you fall in love with me - be prepared' before he boards the plane. This was obviously a very important moment, but was cut completely from the anime.

The airport scene was replaced with Amu telling Tadase how much she loves him and not Ikuto, which makes no sense at all. Amu even admits to herself that she's falling in love with Ikuto, and her Shugo Charas realize it as well, so why such a butchered ending? I can't see how the third series is going to fix it, either.

There were also a lot of other 'Amuto' scenes cut from this series and a lot of romance between Tadase and Amu added. From the bedroom scenes between Amu and Ikuto, where they snuggled a lot more than is shown in the anime, to Amu wrapping her arms around Ikuto, and Tadase realizing that she's in love with Ikuto as well. They were replaced with 'shout your love contests' and dates between Amu and Tadase. Amu is meant to be developing from a 'confused and lost' girl who had a crush on the popular 'prince' who only loves one side of her, to a mature character who has fallen in love with somone who really needs and understands her. The anime completely ruined this development, and Amu hasn't matured at all like she has in the manga.

The music and art weren't bad, although I don't think Ikuto's songs were as sad as they were described in the manga, and I preferred the music from season one.

All in all, I was very disappointed, and recommend that Ikuto fans read the manga instead in order to understand the true magnitude of Ikuto's and Amu's relationship.

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first time i saw this i was like wtf, what happened to shugo chara? then i learned it was the continuation of it and i was like O-O really...then i was all like fan girly and ^^" how could i have not known that. the series is actually a bit better than the original cause its a bit less tense and serious-serious about utau and amu and ikuto and x-eggs and characters and such. i was a bit suprised at the new character, her shugo chara, and her new form of ? Eggs (bit like 'XD') overall, i like the ikutoXamu thing, so go shugo chara doki!
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To be honest when i saw tittle for new season Shugo Chara Doki! i was excited to see more going on between characters buuuuuut when you think omg it got exciting it somehow goes back to other minor characters and Amu just forgets about Ikuto.Filers,i don`t mind them really but after a while it gets annoying.Especially when Ikuto gets in trouble,he comes to Amu for help she chase him out because of something stupid and then she just forgots about him and goes saving others and being all lovey dovey with Tadase 0.0 Not to mention he was and always is there when she needs him.
Overall this anime is funny and cute as much as first season and i love it read more