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Moyoco Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune Manga Gets New Anime Projects
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Yusuke Matsui (CG animator and CG animation director for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time) and Studio Khara producer Kohei Fujiwara introduced a 20th anniversary "Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières" anime short for Moyoco Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune manga at Japan Expo on Friday. Matsui also revealed that production on a separate, full-fledged anime project using similar CG animation has also been green-lit.
"Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières" serves as a prologue to the original manga.
Matsui was a CG animation director for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, Gravity Rush: The Animation - Overture, and Yoiko no Rekishi Anime: Ōkina Kabu. He was the CG lead animator for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo.
North American publisher Udon Entertainment licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
In the Magical World, the future queen is chosen by selecting two young witches and sending them to the Human World, where they'll compete to capture the hearts of boys. Whoever has collected the most by the end of the competition is crowned queen. This generation's Queen Candidates are best friends and polar opposites Vanilla Mieux and Chocolat Meilleure, the daughters of the current queen and her former competitor (respectively). They're aided by their assigned mentor and guardian, pop idol witch Rockin' Robin, and their two animal familiars, Blanca the mouse and Duke the frog. But the girls have more to deal with than just competing for hearts at school. There's something weird about the cool, mysterious middle school boy Pierre, who resembles the evil king Glace—and he seems to be after Chocolat. Now, both trapped within their own new goals, the two witches must fight their way and retain a friendship which no magic can defeat.
Anno serialized the manga in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine from 2004 to 2007 and Del Rey previously licensed and released all eight volumes in English. A television anime adaptation premiered in 2005.
Source: Comic Natalie
