The Adventures of Mini-Goddess

Infobox animanga/Header
name = The Adventures of Mini-Goddess


caption = Title of the series featuring the three goddesses Urd (top), Belldandy (left), Skuld (right)
ja_name = ああっ女神さまっ 小っちゃいって事は便利だねっ
ja_name_trans = Aa Megami-sama: Chicchaitte Kotoha Benridane
genre = ComedyInfobox animanga/Anime
director = Hiroko Kazui, Yasuhiro Matsumura
studio = Oriental Light and Magic
licensor = flagicon|USA flagicon|Canada Geneon
flagicon|UK MVM Films
flagicon|Germany Anime Virtual
network = WOWOW
network_other =
first = 1998-04-06
last = 1999-03-29
episodes = 48 (7 min.)
episode_list = List of Oh My Goddess episodes

"The Adventures of Mini-Goddess", also known as Nihongo|"Ah! My Goddess: Being Small is Convenient"|ああっ女神さまっ 小っちゃいって事は便利だねっ|Aa Megami-sama: Chicchaitte Kotoha Benridane, is a 48-episode TV series featuring super deformed versions of Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld of "Oh My Goddess!" fame in a comedic super deformed style. The series aired from early 1998 through early 1999.Fact|date=January 2008

It premiered as a part of the omnibus show Anime Complex on WOWOW and is distributed in North America by Pioneer Entertainment (now Geneon Entertainment). This series departs the most from the basic manga storyline, and indeed, shares next to no continuity with the previous series. However, in several volumes of the manga series (and in a collective volume of its own) several episodes of the show had their debut as short comic strips.

Notably, this is one of the few times Kikuko Inoue was not able to do Belldandy's voice work throughout, as she was on maternity leave for the first thirteen episodes.

Plot Outline

The series basically revolves around the three goddesses and their rat companion Gan-chan's adventures in their temple home. The goddesses remain constantly in miniaturized form, for apparent freedom of space and in order to properly interact with Gan-chan. Most of the humor in the show is centered on the relationship of the goddesses - particularly Urd and Skuld - with Gan-chan. From episodes 25 and 26 ("Chu Hard") on, Marller joins the cast and provides additional hilarity with her futile attempts to eliminate the goddesses once and for all.

Most of the original characters from the mainstream series are not featured, although in one episode Keiichi has a small vocal cameo, and the ninja trio created by Marller - Kodama, Hikari and Nozomi - appear as antagonists in the double episode "Rules of the Ninja".

oundtracks

# "Denwa Shite Iwa-chan" by Yuki Ishii (eps 01-24)
# "XXX (Kiss Kiss Kiss)" by Splash! (eps 29-48)

Cultural spoofs

*In episode #31.Goddess Love Theater - Goddess Blade, Skuld appears as Guts and Urd appears as Griffith from the manga/anime series "Berserk".
*In episodes 7, 8 and 11, Gan-Chan is transformed into a (comparatively) giant monster, Gabira, who in appearance and actions is an obvious reference to Godzilla. The robot Gan-chan Skuld unleashes in episode 11 is likewise a pun on Mechagodzilla.
*Episodes 25 and 26, "Chu Hard" I+II, are direct spoofs of the "Die Hard" action movie.
*In episode 19 titled Kitchen Fighters, some characters came from different boxing anime such as "Ringu ni Kakero" (which is supposedly the anime "Ring ni Kakero" who similarly also has his sister as his coach), "Hajime no Sambo" (which supposedly should be "Hajime no Ippo" and is also a champion of Eastern Japan, just like Ippo, and also has a mouse version of Kamogawa for a coach). And in the end of the episode, Ganchan is shown sitting in his corner's chair colored in gray, a very reminiscent last scene from "Ashita no Joe".

ee also

*List of Oh My Goddess episodes

External links

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