Hana no Ko Lunlun

This anime is one of my all time favorites. I have recently downloaded and watched the episodes all over again; and it made me very nostalgic. What young girl wouldn't like the story of a young girl's adventure of searching for magical objects? The story is also good for teaching children the difference between good and evil. I believe this anime will remain a classic. However, there was one point that surprised me. I remember one particular episode in Hana no Ko Run Run, which was about a stage actress always playing the role of a damsel in distress, but Run Run had changed that actress' destiny and she was able to diversify her roles. I was really disappointed when I couldn't find that particular episode, as it was my most favorite. Other than that the whole series is quite enjoyable.

Another day, another anime that i decided to review after finishing it. And this time, it's TOEI Animation's old anime that has become a classic both in Japan and in other countries like France and Italy. Hana no Ko Lunlun is an original anime series that aired between 1979 to 1980 by, yours truly, TOEI Animation. The studio that has been famous for many magical girl anime series. Whether it's the early days of Maho Shojo like Himitsu no Akko-chan and Mahou Tsukai Sally or the beloved 90s anime Sailor Moon or the ever-so-popular Precure series. This one is yet another example of an iconic Magical Girl anime series that has become a classic after so many years after it's run thanks to many countries that aired and dubbed this anime like France, Italy, Brazil, etc. It was also known for being the first ever Maho Shojo anime to receive an english dub long before DIC Entertainment got to dub Sailor Moon. But unfortunately, only a few episodes were dubbed and never again was made more after that. Unfortunately, nothing has been heard about this anime again until TOEI Animation and Tencent announced that the remake is in production, but as of 2022, nothing has been announced any further than that. It's a shame really, because this anime is considered an classic by many 80s kids and fans of the show for years now. But the question remains, is it as good as many people make it out to be? That where i'll have to find out: Now before i start reviewing the anime, i'd like to inform you that i watched the anime with brazilian portuguese fansubs by Mastercorpfansubs, which has completed the entire anime in portuguese sub. so i went with that instead of finding the japanese RAW or the english subs. While the brazilian portuguese fansub isn't perfect, it's decent enough to understand the entire anime's story and characters as a whole. Anyway, with that said, let's get into the story: The story starts with two talking creatures by the name of Cateau and Nouveau, who are looking around the village for a girl who would accept the offer to go on a journey with them to find the flower of seven colors. In France, they found a girl by the name of "Lunlun Flower", an orphan girl who lives with her paternal grandparents at a flower shop. In there, they went ahead and explain everything that she needs to know before going on a journey. While Lunlun and her grandparents are surprised to see two animals talking like humans, they didn't mind it too much and took a listen to what they had to say. Anyway, Cateau and Nouveau explained that they wanted Lunlun to help them find the flower of seven colors and give it to her as an award for finding it. So, on Lunlun's 15th birthday, she decided to go with them and start their journey to find the flower of seven colors, where they encounter many people through out their journey. Whether to be begged for help or as an obstacle that keeps them away from getting it. And of course there are two evil people who will become Lunlun's one of those obstacles to her journey. And that is Togenishia and Yaboki. Who rather they try to stop her from getting the flower of seven colors, they want to follow her and keep her finding it. And once she finds it, they will do anything they can to capture it just so Togenishia would become the queen. Which of course they fail at making attempts either due to Yaboki's imcompetence or people like Serge (Lunlun's crush) or any other people preventing them from making such attempts. Also, just in case Lunlun stays protected, she's given the magical pin that can allow Lunlun to transfer the flowers' powers into her pin and give her each transformation to get past through many obstacles. So yeah, it's an long story of nothing but adventures, hardships, tribulations and battle to find this one flower of seven colors. The show is very episodic. Each episode, Lunlun and friends is met with many people who always either need help or they are there to get into trouble and it's up to Lunlun and her friends to try to resolve the problems they have. Some that have to do with the loss of their parents, others that has to do with finding a long lost friend/family member, one that was about stopping people from destroying a place they loved as kids, one that was about a teenager wanting to go on a journey to go back home to live on his own and so much more. Almost each and every story is very heartbreaking, yet wholesome to see Lunlun helping them out when needed. But of course they have to be cautious with Yaboki and Togenishia's antics that will ruin their goals and dreams. But each time they start an antic, Lunlun or another person in the episode finds a way to resolve the problems with no issues or stop both Togenishia and Yaboki from causing anymore troubles. And at the end of the episode, Serge comes in to give the person in each episode the seeds for the flowers as a thanks for helping out and understand Lunlun better. Each episode also ends with how the name of the flowers mean. Whether it's about love, care, effort, sadness, betrayal, happiness, etc. Now that we got how the story and the format of the episode works, let's give a look at some the characters. First we have Lunlun Flower, who is the main character of the show. While she can be a pretty tomboyish and outspoken girl who loves to have fun, she can be a nice person and does anything she can to help those in need. But she also can get pretty frustrated and even sad when a person that she's helping does something that she does not like. Whether they are lying to her about their past or trying to cause her more trouble than giving her a hand. Then you have Lunlun's friends, Cateau and Nouveau. both Cateau and Nouveau serves as Lunlun's friends to help out to find the flower of seven colors and of course as the body guards to prevent her from something terrible happening to her. They also make sure that they can sense any danger that comes around them just in case Togenishia or Yaboki don't get in their way. Speaking of Togenishia and Yaboki, they are the main villains of this anime. With Togenishia being the selfish and whiny girl who only cares about getting the flower of seven colors just to become the queen, while Yaboki serves as her servant who always plans and makes desperate attempts to get to ruin people's lives, but not once has ever worked. Their only goal is to follow Lunlun in every step she's in to find the flower of seven colors just so once she finds it, they would capture it and get Togenishia to become the queen. And then there's Serge Flowa. Who usually comes at the end of the episode to give flower seeds to the people that helped and did everything for Lunlun to find the flower of seven colors as a thanks. He also at times comes in to rescure Lunlun whenever she's in a serious danger, as well. He's also the guy that Lunlun whose she has a crush on. Each episode introduces an character that would either be troubled with issues or they are there the cause troubles. Whether they are childrens, teenagers or adults. Not gonna spoil the whole anime just to ruin the characters' arc. But i will say that my personal favorite character arc so far is the one with Darif going to africa to visit his hometown and live there forever. It's a very serious but a nice arc to see how much he wants to go there to see his hometown. Now what about the animation? Well, it did aged well to a certain degree. Sometimes it's colorful, other times it's depressing, but for the most part, it's very beautifully crafted to the point that i'm amazed with how much detail they put to the background animation just as much as the character designs thanks to Shingo Araki's design on the characters, even for 1979 standards. Sure there are moments where the animation can look a bit weird at times, but hey, it's an old anime, we can't expect too much from the 70s to have the same high standards as today's animes. Just accept that it's an product of it's time. And a goo…

This classic anime series like flower angel which is commonly known as Hana no Ko Lunlun Is the most pinnacle to early magical girl anime coming out in the late 70s to early 80s especially from the work of toei animation the same studio that brought you many classic anime that came out in the 70s such as Candy Candy, Mazinger Z, UFO Robot Grendizer Dr Slump and others of all things This anime came out on 1979 Probably in the same hour run as The Rose of Versailles, Future Robot Daltanious and Mobile Suit Gundam Like most older anime come out in the 70s this was one of them. This anime series is very episodic and it's how own little certain ways of how this representing a story of how this anime has become an well known acclaimed to be popular among the older anime made by Toei animation Considering that this classic anime series was popular among other countries such as Latin America France and Italy. Story: The story revolves around 12 year-old daughter Of a flower seller in the French countryside named Lunlun Along with A talking dog named nouveau And a cat named Cateau Which they are the missionaries from the king of the floral planet called Flowern Until the bad queen Until the bad queen named has seized control of the kingdom Until the bad queen named has seized control of the Until the bad queen named has seized control of the kingdom always send her servant named Until the bad queen named tolganicha has seized control of the kingdom always send her servant named yaboki Always disguised as a tanuki As the magical flowers always found on earth, When Lunlun Who can transform into the girl with special powers with her flower key travels all all around the world with Noveau and Cateau To collect the plants just before yaboiki. So this is basically of how the story of how this represents considering how very episodic of how this particular series like this has gotten to the whole thing has been going from out of the blue as well as however you want it to come across when you want it to discover a story like this anime. Plot The plant spirits The plant spirits and fairy-like creatures that have always wanted to live in harmony with mankind gradually as the humans begin to rise towards cruelty and greed just as the Plant spirits Am I grated to another world where they dub the flower star as their legacy remain to the people who truly knew the meaning of love and kindness as a talking Dog and a cat pair named Cateau and Nouveau That were sent to earth to find 1 such person finding a magical flower which is basically the symbol of the flower stars ruling family just so the new ruler can ascend to the throne. In France where they meet Lunlun flower Who is a tomboyish announced by oaken young orphan who lives with her paternal grandparents who own a flower shop Her late mother turns out to be a descendant of the flower star people as her 15th birthday when they ask her to join them when she accepted it they had to tour all over Europe in pursuit of the bloom how they were offering assistance if they could have encounter , As they were traveling around the world everywhere part of Europe they were following by a bumblebee pair of villains 1 who is the selfish fairy and her servant named Togenisha and Yabouki Just to try to get them back on the road by force but they only failed as they were aided by serge who was a mysterious photographer who gives people of Packets of flower seeds which symbolizing the lessons of how they learned in the language of flowers for instance thistles of how this signifies independence Just as how it's given when the son of the farmer vows to follow his dreams when he left home Just as Lunlun Developing a huge crush on surge due to his kindness and he is implied to like her of how this goes. By this time the people that Lunlun Always help send flower seeds to her grandparents just to tell them their amazing grandfather in the end as the magical flowers found growing in his garden saving it from the destruction after the attack Always help send flower seeds to her grandparents just to tell them their amazing grandfather in the end as the magical flower is found growing in his garden saving it from the destruction after the attack from togenisha. Just as the photographer surge turns out to be the prince of the flower star when he confirmed that he loves Lunlun When he asked her to be his queen, but Lunlun Rejected his proposal Even though since she loves serge with all of her heart when she does not want to live in the star flower just as search sides to the throne to his younger brother so he could live on earth and marry her. She is given a magical pin from the king of the flower planet this pin when a flower is reflected it's own mirror gives her a new outfit for an activity such as mountain climbing about halfway through Goes on as the pin is broken when she falls from the branch over hanging a waterfall when trying to attract the attention from being caught in the dark wind which is basically the main form of attack from togenisha When she was lost in the river however the new pin is given to her in the shape of the royal crest with the warning if it's either lost or broken her life on earth will end if she is well able to figure out how it will be unable to return to the flower planet as the words activating this pin are fu flay Lu fey Lora. Animation The animation in this Series always has the pure 70s older anime like fashion has a little nod to classic anime such as Candy Candy has also has got to this which is very true just do whatever you want to come by for a good anime that has like good quality animation unlike anime of today Considering that this one is the real thing that how anime exists as well because for the whole thing as for the record though this one has all wanted to see how this was the animators work frame by frame on every shot whenever they worked on the animation as well as the backgrounds as well. Characters This magical girl anime series has some of the memorable characters in this 1 because This magical girl anime series has some of the memorable characters in this 1 because this is all for whenever you come by there's only a couple of Animal characters like the cat and dog pair in this series for example Nouveau A talking dog character in this anime Is the real reason of how just like other dogs in anime whether it's Sherlock hound Is the real reason of how just like other dogs in anime whether it's Sherlock hound, Dogtanian Or any character in general. Music The music in this anime is very good and it's gotten very well made at how this is a lot have got to the attention For example like there's 2 different Ways of how there's every versions of the theme songs as well in other countries like there is the English theme song which it goes by the name angel which is only in the ZIV international dub on the VHS really in the early 80s And you also have the Italian theme song called Lulu performed by Rocking Horse which opened the Italian dub for the original japanese anime which it sounded a lot very more Garage rock George Harrison guitar feel from the band rocking horse with British musician Douglas Meakin Which has the more attention for Italian audiences in Italy during the 80s in Europe, Unlike the japanese theme song the Italian theme song is a lot more classic rock kind of feel because This was available on the Italian DVD release by yamato video in Italy. And there is also the Spanish theme song for the original anime also performed by Memo Aguirre Which is a lot more very similar aside from the Italian theme song version by Rocking horse. My thoughts When I 1st watched this anime this anime has changed my life though because I wanted to find something very good and more important to this as well because this has all whatever you wanted to watch an anime that has like only 50 episodes like this magical girl classic as well Whenever you want to come by on listening to the s…