Mahou no Idol Pastel Yumi

Yumi is a girl who likes flowers and comics. When Kakimaru and Keshimaru, flower fairies, see Yumi in trouble, they decide to help her. They tell Yumi that flower fairies give magic tools to children who take care of flowers. Kakimaru and Keshimaru, which sees Yumi's pure affection towards flowers, decide to give her a magic cane and a pendant. By using the cane, any pictures she drew in the air takes form and becomes real. However, once the pendant starts to flash, there are only 30 seconds left before the power of the magic disappears. Yumi always tries to use her magical power in a good manner, but she is hasty and goofy. As a result, her magic often causes a big trouble around her. This is the fourth series of Magical Girl Series.

(Source: Studio Pierrot)

Hanazono, Yumi Main

Shiga, Mariko Japanese

Kunimitsu Supporting

Chiba, Shigeru Japanese

Hanazono, Dankichi Supporting

Tomiyama, Kei Japanese

Musutaki Supporting

Kameyama, Sukekiyo Japanese

Tsuyoshi Supporting

Satou, Ai Japanese

Mrs. Fukurokouji Supporting

Maruyama, Hiroko Japanese

Hanazono, Momoko Supporting

Mita, Yuuko Japanese

Keshimaru Supporting

Fuchizaki, Yuriko Japanese

Misawa, Kyouhei Supporting

Mizushima, Yuu Japanese

Misawa, Kenta Supporting

Sakamoto, Chika Japanese

Shigino, Akira Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Fujiyama, Fusanobu Sound Director

Katayama, Kazuyoshi Episode Director

Murayama, Kiyoshi Episode Director

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Feb 17, 2023

ProxyLain

Recommended

English is not my language.

Mahou no Idol Pastel Yumi, one of the pioneers of Mahou Shoujo in the 80s.

Well, the anime is a lot of fun.
The story is about a girl who loves flowers, and one day two little animals appear to her, Kakimaru and Keshimaru.

The anime follows an episodic pattern, focused more on comedy.
It's fun to watch. Every episode has a plot, in which Yumi usually uses her magical powers to help herself or someone else.

... It can be quite repetitive, but it's worth it because it's funny.
The comedy is really good. Early on, Yumi is late for school, and she decides to wear a costume made with magic to go to class, but the magic has a time limit (not set, which generates script conveniences), and the costume disappears and she leaves. running only in her panties on the street (looks more like a diaper haha).
Another example is your grandfather "fighting" a gorilla who escapes from the zoo.


Characters usually have a small plot in the story. Most are pretty cool, even if it's nothing grand.

My biggest problem with this anime is magic. As it does not have a time limit, it is conveniently used. For example: sometimes the spell ends too quickly, and sometimes it takes a long time.
Another thing I didn't like was some episodes that used flashback to recap. It was boring to see the same thing with another character telling what I've already seen. As it's kind of a recap, it lasted a long time in the episode.
The ending wasn't so good either. It's very convenient and also has inconsistencies in what was going on.

Anyway, it has its positive points and its negative points like every anime. But as a whole it is good anime episode by Mahou Shoujo.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 22, 2019

LacrimaMosa666

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Mahou no Idol Pastel Yumi, anime quite forgotten, shame on u, dear mal users. While it's not the best in the genre it's definitely worth your time and remembering. Especially from the art style point of view. Sweet piece of animation for kids but I can say it's easily for anyone who like this type of animes. Pretty problematic piece to review again - but we all like it. It was quite funny journey this time...

STORY: 5
Quite low, I know, but it's bloody mahou shoujo from the mid of 80s, from the guy who brought one of the best in genre - Magical Emi, just ... look at the characteristics in art and characters. But goin' back to the story.
Yumi is a sweet, nature-loving girl that always takes care for it, especially the flowers. One day she meets two flower fairies who touched by her commitment for the flowers gave her magic power, the magic cane and the beautiful pedant. When she uses cane to draw, anything she draws becomes real as long pedant is not flashing, because after it starts to flash there's only about 30 seconds before the magic power dissapears. And that's the main source of the gags. It's quite mediocre story about clumsy, sweet girl that receives magic power and has to deal with the responsibilities and everyday life. The good thing is that the series is only 25 episodes long. What back in 80s was a quite short series.

ART: 8
That's the best part of the show. Especially as the creators were working on few other mahou shoujjo animes before, especially mentioned already Magical Emi. There's a lot of similarities and and cuteness known from that anime. The colors are beautiful, full of pastels and beautifully drawn backgrounds, not to mention godly presented main character. Of course please keep in mind we talking about mid 80s anime. So art was great 30 years ago, but hardly can be called good in 2019. Keep that in mind.
The animation is quite smooth itself and there's not much downs with it after all. Moves and details are decent so are characteristics and anatomy.

SOUND: 5
Weakest part of the series but nothing uncommon back in the day AND today especially as the copy I get wasn't quite... good. Main seyiuu was good as well as some of the characters but music was forgettable, voice and sound quality very, very poor, sometimes I had problems with understand dialogues because of poor recording quality. But as I said - I'm used to it and I'm sure u can find better quality or even some subs/dubs.

CHARACTER: 6
There's only one character that is worth to mention, Yumi, the main. Everything is about her, her character development is quite decent but nothing much original or over the 'mahou shoujo' style. Reliable building and backstory combined with lovely character design and writing gives fair, sweet girl that anyone can love.

ENJOYMENT: 9
And that an hella high score, I know. Apart fromo all downs that the series have the enjoyment os godly. Gags and jokes typical but keeping u smiling all the time, story is bit mediocre but for some reason keeps u by the screen episode after episode, main character becoming ur best friend in a second. Art style, beautiful setting, colorful world and sweet mc gives u no other choice but love it. And love a lot.

OVERALL: 6
Can ask after that review: ONLY? Yeah, 6 is an fair rating for this anime. Considering all it's flaws and downs, sound and story especially I'm suprised how well the anime is maintaining to keep you interest through the whole 25 episodes so by the end I was actually suprised that is end already. As responsible writer I need to mention again - it's VERY typical mahou shoujo anime, mostly for genre maniacs like me, but I can actually suggest it to anyone with open mind and viewers who want to know something more about japanese animation itself.
It's a good piece of anime, hovewer, have troubles with the time passing. Nothing to be scared after all. It's sweet story for basically everyone, especially kids.

Dear mal users, really, this anime should be remembered. Not with 344 users ratings, but at least with ten times that amount. Go for it guys, it's still available to watch. Go for it before it dissapears forever.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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