| Strawberry Marshmallow - Cute Is as Cute Does (Vol. 1) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 48235
Category: DVD
Actor: Strawberry Marshmallow
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 100 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D12749D
UPC: 013023274990
EAN: 0013023274990
ASIN: B000F3AAMK
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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Description
Join Chika, Miu and Matsuri, as they go about their daily lives full of adventure and discovery. Follow the intrepid trio as they try to make a surprise birthday gift. Then meet Ana, a transfer student originally from England who pretends to be a foreigner. This becomes more difficult to pull off when the girls pay a visit to her happy home. And when Chika & Company find out where Nobue is working, they decide to pay her a visit... with disastrous results!
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The shojo (girls') broadcast series Strawberry Marshmallow plays like a junior version of the popular Azumanga Daioh. College student Nobue serves as the narrator, but the program focuses on Chika, Nobue's 12-year-old sister and her friends. Miu is their rambunctious, often obnoxious next-door neighbor; timid, slightly younger Matsuri whines a lot, British exchange student Ana sits next to Matsuri in class. Strawberry Marshmallow continues the trend toward anime verite: The girls go to school, play together, and have very ordinary adventures. Nobue takes a part-time job to pay for cigarettes. Ana pretends not to understand Japanese. There's no magic, no menace from a parallel world, and no romance. The ultra-cute characters in Strawberry Marshmallow will appeal to adolescent girls, the show's obvious target audience; older viewers and boys may find them cloying. (Rated 13 and older: alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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 How CUTE can you get? July 14, 2007
Strawberry Marshmallow is about 5 girls and their daily lives and what happens.
It's a very simple, charming, heart warming anime. If you're looking for action and things that blow up not here sorry. After seeing the whole series dubbed I just want to give the girls a hug as they left me with a smile. =)
Adopt them all! September 3, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This show does for cute o' holics what 88% cocoa content chocolate does for chocolate lovers.
If you're the type that melts at pictures of cute kittens and puppies then these rambunctious fab 4 will win your heart instantly!
Although the English dub is excellent, because of an ongoing "English Language" joke in the series, it is best to watch the Japanese version first (it'll make it easier to "get")
As to who is my favorite? They are all so adorable but Miu steals the price (literally, she would probably steal it if there was one).
For a SERIOUS lack of another analogy, I would probably describe Miu as the Cartman of the group (except MUCH cuter) as she drives the plot and creates the action. A self-aware and intent show stealer.
Strawberry Marshmellow -- Don't Miss It July 18, 2006
Strawberry Marshmellow is another show in a genre that's become quite popular in Japan and is becoming popular with American anime fans -- girly anime aimed at young adult men. Other stories that share a similar niche are Azumanga Daioh and the manga Yotsubato. This genre is usually identified by youngish characters and places an emphasis on humor over exploring relationships between characters. Oftentimes, these sorts of shows star attractive, adolescent characters and place a priority on fanservice, but thankfully Strawberry Marshmellow does not contain much of that. (though the original Japanese manga does for those who may have some more deviant tastes)
Don't fret however, female viewers. Just because its 'aimed at male viewers' doesn't mean it's only enjoyable by that gender, but the same applies to most every good anime show, so saying a statement like that is a rather moot point. Explore the comedies of the world of the four elementary-school aged girls Chika, Miu, Matsuri, Ana, and their college-aged friend Nobue as they go on from their day-to-day lives in this normal, everyday life show. Its not often an anime can manage to make itself hilarious with nonstop laughs without using too many supernatural gimmicks and plot devices.
FOUR GIRLS WHO WILL WIN YOUR HEART July 4, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
How interesting could the lives of four cute grade school girls be and why would anyone make an anime about them? WHO CARES!? Strawberry Marshmallow is one of the funniest anime I have ever seen and radiates a warmth and innocence that an American production couldn't even come close to.
As the show begins we see a young girl named Nobue who says she's a 16-year old high school student, but when she pulls out a cigarette, we learn the truth, that she's actually 20 years old and it becomes readily apparent that she's a chain smoking borderline alcoholic, but I use those terms in the most positive way. She's not very equipped to handle the adult world. Nobue even has to constantly ask her younger sister Chika for money, which she uses as a lever to castigate her in a weird role reversal. Chika's next door neighbor, Miu, is an annoying, but energetic and hilarious ball of kineticism who instead of using the front door, leaps over from her roof to Chika's and through her window (where she occasionally falls flat on her face). Speaking of, when she says something that Nobue doesn't like, the next scene generally shows Miu lying facedown after Nobue takes her out! Matsuri is the girl's other friend, and is a shy demure intelligence who constantly has a deer-in-headlights look of fear on her face when someone addresses her. The group is rounded out by a new transfer student who happens to be a foreigner named Ana Coppola. Her parents are English but she's lived in Japan so long that she fears that she is losing her cultural identity. She even thinks in Japanese now. In an effort to stem this absorption she plans to act like she can't speak Japanese and act like an ignorant gai-jin. Of course, her plans go awry when Chika, Miu, and Matsuri overhear her talking to herself in perfectly fluent Japanese! Their secret will bind Ana to their circle, even if they all make fun of her strange last name.
I loved everything about this first volume of Strawberry Marshmallow. First of all, it is hilarious. The director handled the show in such a way that the humor is always controlled without moving too fast and getting too wacky, such as in a show like Kodocha. Marshmallow is much more quieter than that and achieves much of its punchlines in stillness and reaction shots. But don't get me wrong, there's plenty of slapstick, such as when the girls are hitting each other over the head with Osaka fans to keep each other awake to make Nobue an ashtray for her birthday. The character designs are cute, simple, and beautiful and the animation makes them flow well. The Japanese voice acting is strong. The problem you can run into with shows like this is the ever-present danger of annoying little girl voice actresses. Thankfully, there is no problem with that here as all the girl's voices sound natural and pleasant to the ear. You can tell lots of effort went into designing the look and feel of these girls. The dvd also features a short 5-minute Episode #0 in which the girls and Nobue are on a spaceship trying to land on Earth with cigarette supplies running low! I feel as though this will become one of my favorite all-time anime and is an instant classic!
I would also recommend Azumanga Daioh, Bottle Fairy, Nanaka 6/17, and Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat.
Love It June 27, 2006
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I just rented this dvd and I loved it. It was great. I am half Japanese (I don't know how to speak Japanese) and half american so I thought it was great to see a japanese anime. I really think this is a dvd you should buy.
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