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Magic User's Club (魔法使いTai!, Mahō
Tsukai Tai!
?) is a magical girl/boy anime, released as a six part OVA in 1996 and then a
13-episode TV series in 1999, which was broadcast by WOWOW, and then by the anime
television network, Animax,
across its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia,
South Asia and other
regions. The original plan was done by anime director Junichi Sato, with
animation produced by Triangle Staff and Bandai Visual.
There were also two manga series
made, a shōjo manga version by Tammy Ohta (太田 多美
Ōta Tami) and shōnen manga
version by Shamneko (紗夢猫). The Magic User's Club anime is released
in North America by AnimeWorks.
Plot
OVA
series
An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship named "the Bell" (釣り鐘
Tsurigane) by humans descended upon Earth one day.
Military forces attacked this entity but their attempts were in
vain, as the Bell easily vaporized all human technology. The Bell
sent out robotic probes to explore and analyze human civilization
and, since the probes didn't cause any harm, people soon adapted
and went about their everyday lives. A group of high school
students at Kitanohashi High School's "Magic User's Club" attempt
to combat the alien menace using magic.
TV series
The Bell has been defeated, but a massive cherry blossom tree
stands in its wake. The Magic Club must meet once again to solve
the problem of the giant tree, which is blocking off sunlight for
the city. A mysterious figure descends from the tree and watches
over the members of the club as they continue to deal with magic in
their daily lives.
Episodes
OVA
series
- 1. I'll Follow You
- 2. We Leave a Magic Club
- 3. Magic Is So Easy, Isn't It?
- 4. I Wish You... Wh... What?
- 5. I See We Are the Same
- 6. Well, Believe Yourself
TV
series
- 1. Sae, the Magic Club, and the Cherry Blossom Tree
- 2. Nanaka, a Cake, and the Dangerous Evening
- 3. Aburatsubo, Morning Face, and the Parent Teacher
Meetings
- 4. Sae, The Bathroom, and the Door
- 5. Akane, the Hiccups, and a Strange Relationship
- 6. Takakura, Origami, and the Secret Date
- 7. Sae, a Tomato, and the Dance of the Paint Brush
- 8. Alice, Railroad Tracts, and the Cracker
- 9. Kimonos, Short Shorts, and the Age of Joy
- 10. Snow, the Colt, and a First Kiss
- 11. Akana, the Mirror, and the End of Year Sale
- 12. The Kite, the Whirlwind, and Micky
- 13. Sae's Magic, Sae's Feelings, Forever
Characters
Magic
Club
Sae Sawanoguchi (沢野口 沙絵, Sawanoguchi Sae
?)
- Voiced by: Hiroko
Konishi (Japanese), Misty Daniels (English)
- 2nd year student at Kitanohashi High School and a new member of
the Magic Club. Sae is eager to learn magic, but often has setbacks
due to her clumsy nature. She looks up to Takakura as a great
mentor. Although she actually has feelings for him beyond that, she
is too shy to express them. Of the five members, Sae has the
greatest amount of power to utilize, but lacks the training and
concentration to fully tap into this potential.
- Sae displays a clear ineptitude to flying on a broomstick in
the OVA series, but her skills progress and by the TV series, she
can fly on different pole-sized items without any problems, even
without using her wand.
- According to character designer Ikuko Itoh, her own mother was an influence
for the character of Sae, who has a similar klutzy nature.[1]
Nanaka Nakatomi (中富 七香, Nakatomi Nanaka
?)
- Voiced by: Mayumi
Iizuka (Japanese), Lisa Ortiz (English)
- A 2nd year and a friend of Sae since childhood. She just wants
to be a normal high school girl and gets frustrated with Sae's
obsession with the Magic Club, although she is proficient in magic
herself. Nanaka has a crush on Aburatsubo but is afraid to admit
her feelings because she knows they won't be returned. She self
described her family as "all over the place", and though she is
often embarressed and aggrivated by their respective antics, she
loves them dearly.
Akane Aikawa (愛川 茜, Aikawa Akane
?)
- A 1st year and another new member of the Magic Club. Akane is a
spoiled rich girl who often misses going to club meetings in order
to go on dates with boyfriends. She seems to be a natural at using
magic, and it comes very easily to her (such is her inant skill
that she is able to make makeshift wands out of rudimentary
objects, though they are rather primative and weak compared to her
regular wand)[2][3], though
it can't be said the same for her flying[4]. Akane
often uses magic for selfish reasons against what Takakura has
taught, which causes Sae to lecture her in several instances. In a
cute touch, anything affected soley by her magic spins
before the spell's true effect come to pass, something which she
has no control over.
- In the TV series, Akane works as a model and appears in
clothing advertisements throughout the city. Her mother is a famous
actress.
Takeo Takakura (高倉 武男, Takakura Takeo
?)
- Voiced by: Masaya
Onosaka (Japanese), Jamie McGonnigal (English)
- President of the Magic Club and 3rd year student at Kitanohashi
High School. Takakura often has a tendency to show off in front of
the girls and has perverted daydreams at inopportune times. He
loves Sae, but will not admit his feelings because he is nervous
and self-conscious of his position as Sae's mentor and
upperclassman.
- Hiding from his childhood nemesis, Miyama, Takeo found a
magical textbook called the Grimoire, along with the magic wand he
later replicated.
Ayanojyo Aburatsubo (油壷 綾之丞, Aburatsubo Ayanojō
?)
- Voiced by: Takehito
Koyasu (Japanese), Kevin T. Collins (English)
- A 3rd year and the vice president of the Magic Club. Aburatsubo
is homosexual, but only shows affection toward Takakura; he never
shows signs of being interested in any other boy. Takakura is
uncomfortable with Aburatsubo's flirting, but doesn’t think much of
it; though Aburatsubo continuously flirt with Takakura, he
understands that Takakura will never return his feelings [5]. He has
a variety of talents and is involved in many other clubs besides
the Magic Club, such as the tennis team and drama club.
- The tv series establishes that doesn't have a very good
standing towards his mother, who constantly babies him, though he
does love her.
Other
Magicians
Jeff-kun (ジェフくん , Jefu-kun
?)
- Voiced by: Satoru
Nakano (Japanese), Michelle Medlin (English)
- Jeff is both the name of a mysterious silhouetted magician Sae
met when she was a child and a stuffed teddy bear that he gave her.
When Sae gets in tough situations, Jeff-kun the teddy bear aids
Sae's magic powers. She meets the real Jeff again (only as a
silhouette) when the rest of the club are trapped inside the Bell
and he gives her the confidence to rescue them. Appears in the OVA,
and at the end of the TV series.
Jurika Jinno (仁乃 樹里加, Jinno Jurika
?)
- Voiced by: Nami
Miyahara (Japanese), Michelle Newman (English)
- Jurika is a magician that seems interested in the members of
the Magic Club and the use of magic, for reasons that are not clear
at first. Jurika is highly androgynous, officially
male as a student but having a very feminine look for the most
part. He has the ability to read and translate the Grimoire that
Takeo uses to teach the other Club members, going so far as to
identify the Club's copy as "an older version that has mistakes in
it".
- Jurika is actually a magical construct given life and
personality by Sae's fondest wishes and ideals about magic. As a
being of pure magic, he has the ability to manipulate his
appearance, exist in multiple times and places, read minds,
interact in the dreams of others and other numerous abilities.
Since he is a byproduct of Sae's mind, he is aware of the
personalities and relationships between the Magic User's Club
members and utilizes this knowledge to manipulate them into using
more magic. At the end of the TV series, he is absorbed back into
his creator, Sae. Appears only in the TV series.
Miki Mizusawa (水沢 美樹, Mizusawa Miki
?)
- Voiced by: Miho
Yamada (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)
- Nicknamed "Micky-senpai" (ミッキー先輩, Mikkī-senpai
?) by Sae. Miki is a friend and former
mentor of Sae who lives in England. She was in the Magic User's
Club for an unknown amount of time before leaving to England. Sae
writes her constantly in the TV series, telling her what has been
going on. Miki's father is a "grandmaster" sorcerer/magician based
in England and she presumably has trained under him. She has enough
magic training to fly without using a broom and can summon a
magical serpent to aid her. Appears only in the TV series.
Journalists
Mitsuru Minowa (箕輪 充, Minowa Mitsuru
?)
- Voiced by: Akio
Ohtsuka (Japanese), Mike Pollock (English)
- Minowa is a journalist bent on learning the truth behind the
Bell. He investigates the Magic Club to find out if they have any
connection with the Bell.
Yoshito Yoshimoto (吉本 吉人, Yoshimoto Yoshito
?)
- Voiced by: Tomohiro
Nishimura (Japanese), Michael Tremain (English)
- Yoshimoto is a photographer and constant sidekick of Minowa,
though he doesn't take the Bell issue as seriously as his
boss.
Manga
Club
Mizuha Miyama (深山 瑞葉 , Miyama Mizuha
?)
- Voiced by: Rei
Sakuma (Japanese), Suzanne Gilad (English)
- Miyama is the bossy President of the Manga Club, which is right
next door to the Magic Club. She uses her enormous breasts to
intimidate Takakura, and she's been teasing him since childhood.
Miyama is constantly trying to dissolve the Magic Club and keeps
taking back the space that was loaned to the club.
- In the tv series, Miyama's experience from being examined by
the Bell (due to a spell cast on her by Akane) goes completely to
her head and makes her declare herself as the planet Earth's
"representative".
- She secretly harbors feelings for Takakura, despite her
incessant tormenting of him. When a truth spell was cast on her,
she confessed her true feelings about him, as well as the fact that
she didn't actually enjoy tormenting him as a child. Also, in the
TV series, she devotes a manga project with allegories to
Takakura.
Katsuhito Kubo (久保 克人 , Kubo Katsuhito
?)
- Kubo only appears in the OVA series and is a faculty member who
is club supervisor of the Magic Club and the Manga Club. He doesn't
try to resolve any issues between the students, saying "Education
is love". Kubo has a habit of giving his business card to everyone he talks
to.
Rinpun (リンプン,
Rinpun
?) & Kojin (コージン, Kōjin
?)
- They are two boys who are Miyama's constant lackeys. Rinpun
& Kojin do all kinds of menial tasks for Miyama and are
sometimes called to spy on others for her.
Family
Saki Sawanoguchi (沢野口 早紀, Sawanoguchi Saki
?)
- Sae's older sister who looks after her in Tokyo. Saki has
problems with a boyfriend in the TV series, though they reconcile
near the end. It's never defined whether or not she has any
knowledge of the goings on in the Magic User's Club.
Sawako Sawanoguchi (沢野口 佐和子, Sawanoguchi Sawako
?)
- Voiced by: Kumiko
Takizawa (Japanese), Suzanne Gilad (English)
- She is Sae's mother, a woman with an energetic personality.
Sae's parents own a ranch in Hokkaidō.
Sakae Sawanoguchi (沢野口 栄, Sawanoguchi Sakae
?)
- He is Sae's father, seemingly a man of few words. Sae's hairstyle was inherited
from him.
Naoki Nakatomi (中富 直紀, Nakatomi Naoki
?)
- Voiced by: Kouki
Miyata (Japanese), Michelle Newman (English)
- He is Nanaka's younger brother, who is bratty and tends to
annoy her.
Naoko Nakatomi (中富 菜緒子, Nakatomi Naoko
?)
- Voiced by: Urara
Takano (Japanese), Camille Diamond (English)
- She is Nanaka's mother who runs a health food store. She also
grows her own vegetables. Nanaka is frustrated when she doesn't
seem to care about attending parent-teacher meetings, and when she
acts in an embaressing bahavior when she does.
Azusa Amano (天野 梓, Amano Azusa
?)
- Voiced by: Gara
Takashima (Japanese), Lisa Zlotnick (English)
- She is Akane's mother who is a famous actress. Though somewhat
critical of her daughter's acting, the two seem to genuinly enjoy
each other's company.
Takako Takakura (高倉 貴子, Takakura Takako
?)
- Voiced by: Sawa
Ishige (Japanese), Amy Fitts (English)
- She is Takeo's younger sister. Takako seems annoyed by her
brother's eccentricities and makes sure he does regular exercise
routines.
Akiko Aburatsubo (油壺 亜希子, Aburatsubo Akiko
?)
- Voiced by: You Inoue
(Japanese), Deborah S. Craig (English)
- She is Aburatsubo's mother, who treats Aburatsubo very
childishly and affectionately. Aburatsubo can't stand her.
Aburatsubo Safety
Committee
Michiko Mikote (御小手 ミチコ, Mikote Michiko
?)
- Voiced by: Umi
Tenjin (Japanese), Amy Fitts (English)
- She is the President of the "Aburatsubo Safety Committee", a
group of girls who are obsessively devoted to Aburatsubo in the TV
series. Michiko is the most confrontational and jealous of the
girls, and she insists that only she may call Aburatsubo "Aya-sama"
("His Ayeness" in the English dub).
Madoka Masuko (増子 まどか, Masuko Madoka
?)
- Voiced by: Nanae
Katou (Japanese), Camille Diamond (English)
- Madoka is another member of the committee who is highly
obsessed with Aburatsubo. She has the habit of breaking the rule
against calling Aburatsubo "Aya-sama" and gets slapped by Michiko
when she does so.
Hikaru Hirasaka (平坂 光, Hirasaka Hikaru
?)
- Voiced by: Momoyo
Kodama (Japanese), Elizabeth Wood (English)
- Hikaru is another member of the committee who has long bangs.
She sometimes goes on small tasks for Michiko, like checking in the
men's bathroom whenever Aburatsubo can't be found. She often dogdes
Michiko's back swings when she slaps Madoka.
Notes
- ^
"Ikuko Itoh at Ushicon: Q
& A, and other fun". http://community.livejournal.com/princesstutu/57459.html. Retrieved September 7,
2006.
- ^
Magic User's Club OVA 3
- ^
Magic User's Club Tv 2
- ^
Magic User's Club OVA 4
- ^
Magic User's Club OVA 5
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