Shugo Chara!

I don't think there are words to describe how riled up this series gets me. I'm not saying this series is horrible, but there are so many ideologies presented in the anime that just make me infuriated. I'm not going to really comment on the story and the pacing of this show. If I have to quickly say something about it I'd say the pacing is mediocre and there are far too many characters introduced who go nowhere and are just one-dimensional and hollow.

No, this review is going to be...special. I am a lover of character writing and world building. What do your characters ... believe? What is acceptable in their world? What are their personalities and how do they clash with the other characters...ext. This anime shot my love for characters in the chest, and the saddest part has I enjoyed it at first..sort of. I think I'm being a bit dramatic.

The first few episodes had me interested and I was okay with it. I had a few characters I had one character I particularly enjoyed. Just one and that was the character by the name of Kukai. He wasn't the best character sure, but every moment with him made me giggle he had motivations, but I think the best part about him was the fact that he actually acted like a kid for his age would. While every other character acted like they were high schoolers.

This just makes me wonder towards the mangaka...why in gods name did you write these characters in elementary school/middle school if you gave them highschooler attitudes. I really don't think it would've affected the plot that much and the characters basically look like high schoolers so I really don't understand the point.

As I was saying a particular episode came along that made me hate whoever was writing this story. I am a person who watches a lot of law and order svu and when I see a relationship that is creepy. I freak out. This mostly spawned from the fact that Kukai had a friend who was going to college please note that Kukai was a 6th grader while this person was a graduating high schooler probably about 18. What annoyed me was the fact that Kukai's friends were saying that romance would spark between him and his childhood friend! Then, Amu brought up a very good point the very large age gap between him and his friend, but they simply said "No, love has no age!" and she just believed it. By the end of the episode, he receives a hug from his friend and says "maybe it just is love" or some shit. Which is tolerable I guess I can understand why little 5th and 6th graders might think that falling in love with someone way older than you is okay as long as the older character didn't act on it.

However, then I found out that the character of Ikuto was a senior. A senior and he were flirting with and making sexual remarks about a 11/12-year-old girl. To anyone who is saying I'm exaggerating I'm really not. He brings up her small breast size on multiple occasions. Anyone who says they ship them together regardless of the age, then I wonder would any of you let your little sibling date someone who was that much older than them. I really don't think you would.

(spoilers ahoy) The scene that made me drop the show was a scene with the lock and the key. Ikuto decides to put his key in Amu's lock and what follows is a really weird scene. Cue Amu blushing and there being a particular emphasis on her looking slightly frightened and both of them blushing and he puts the key in the hole. I really thought I was exaggerating, but then I remembered there have been scenes that put Amu in a really uncomfortable looking position for a girl her age. Like the scene where she is sitting on his lap and they're both licking the same ice cream cone or some shit. It was really creepy and I felt gross all over just watching the key and lock scene and finally she screams "I"m scared!" and the key is no longer able to fit.

I feel really disgusted that an adult wrote these situations about a young girl. They shouldn't be making shows for preteens and teenage girls because she's shoving her beliefs in other people's faces and trying to make huge age gaps "cute.". I'm really glad I watched this show now instead of when I was younger because I don't know how I would've turned out if I believed Ikuto and Amu's love was "so pure and perfect."

Sorry if I didn't really write a technical review, but I really needed to get this off my mind.

This is my first review so please bare with me.
Shugo Chara! is a magical girl anime. Its sort of like Madoka, but Madoka has a bunch of twist. When i saw the cover i said why not give it a try. I watched 1 and i liked it , but then it began to go downhill on like episode 7 . The storyline is about the same, Easter tries to find the embryo by using schemes, Amu destroys them, and thats about it. Also i don't think they should be using romance in elementary school. I mean save it till middle school at least?
The art ... was good ,but i saw better. The sound i liked, but i think Amu's voice was too high pitched. I didn't enjoy it very much, and the only character i liked was Utau . Sorry for the bad score . I have to say that this anime seems too perfect, it need like a little tragedy ,like Ikuto hating her for like a week , then they make up.

I remember that this was in fact one of the very first anime series, that I have watched, after a friend had recommended this to me. Overall, the show was fine, but for me it was not exactly the type of anime I would watch again. Everything is found to be really ''girly'', and focusing on a typical theme of magic powers, and a group of girls that go out to save the world. In fact, a lot of previous tv shows, as well as anime have a similar concept, such as the Power Puff Girls, and Tokyo Mew Mew. Of course, I'm not saying ... that the series does not have any potential, but it just wasn't exactly the series for me. If perhaps you enjoy such story lines, then go for it, but it's simply not my thing.