The Fairy Anime America’s Never Heard Of 

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I swear as the OP started playing, I IMMEDIATELY flashbacked to my highschool days of watching this on a local dub channel. (Mirumo de Pon was dubbed in Tagalog on Hero TV, basically the go-to anime localization channel... aside from very other big network that also did dubs for morning an afternoon runs for as early as the early 90s before Toonami reached us.)

i'm from Latinoamerica and my sister and i were OBSSESED with this show, i remember asking her to record a few episodes on a VHS tape (we recorded the beach episode and i don't remember what else) and i also sang the OP in front of my class once (it was very cringey, girl did NOT know how to sing), it's kind of insane to know that the Latin American dub is mostly lost media now, and it's part of the reason i want to try and fix our VHS player to see if i have any lost episode recorded somewhere. Thank you for talking about this show! I didn't know about the new manga but i hope that Mirmo becomes bigger so we can get the rest of the show translated as well as maybe a new anime for the new serialization 👀lemme dream big

Mirumo's opening lives rent free on my mind.

This was my childhood. The Cartoon Network in my country broadcasted this during weeknights. Good times

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Your makeup looks have been so creative and colourful lately, I’m absolutely loving it!! 💖

I used to watch this as a child on DVDs in Portugal, I remember the Halloween/haunted house episode from season 1 very vividly! The theme song and ending are also very present in my head (noticed your background music). So nostalgic...

This was super popular in france !! love to see you do a video on it

This show was so beloved in Latin America where I live the opening was just so cute.

omg this makes me want to watch itttt 🥺🩷🫶 the part with teacher had me cringing so hard though 😂 idk why 2000s animes loveeeee that trope, its so uncomfortable and wrong 😭😭😭 your editing was peak 🤭🩷🫶 ps I love your blue and green makeup look!!

22:05 - I went through the 5 stages of grief... in like 10 seconds only to get backhanded to the moon. What the fu- Thankfully it was only *an evil clone.*

"By default" *VINE BOOM SOUND*

..."because its you kaede-----" WHATTTTTTGTTRTfkhqsfdkjgh You had me on EDGE

you unlocked a memory, I used to watch it all the time, and even my little brother has a "Mirmo inspired" name (not really but he has a close enough name that we called that with my sister)

Awww yes!! I loved Mirumo, it was huge here in Italy! ✨ I used to watch it with my little brother when he was a tiny baby and he loved it when i called him Murumo 🥺🩷 Thank you Imani for covering this! 💕

I've always wanted to get around to this one!

I've never watched this anime but I remember back in the early Wild West days of the internet, I remember stumbling across the opening to Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon Wonderful (not the OG series I think?) and falling in love with it on a site that is most definitely gone by now so this was a super interesting video to see what I missed out on

I don't remember the main thing about it but I remember the green and pink fairy VERY fondly

Hidden memory unlocked.

This was a fun dive into a fairy anime that's under the radar ^^ The plushie of the main fairy you got is super cute ^^ Maybe I'll give it a go sometime ^^ Great video as always ^^

Just the other day I was in a shop that had a couple of unsold Mirmo backpacks in the clearance section 😅 It made me feel so nostalgic since I loved that show when I was a kid and it was a big hit in Italy! However, maybe it's because of its episodic nature but I barely remembered the story. What I do remember is the italian opening sung by Cristina D'avena. A BOP. I still listen to it.

YAYY ITS HEREEE i was so excited for this video when you were teasing it!! Mirumo de Pon was one of those animes I was obsessed with when i was in elementary school but never really got to fully indulged on it since there were barely any eps available to watch in ENG online. I opted to just watching the OPs and imagining what the show was about LOL Thank you for making this video!!!

Watching this sent me back to the early 2000s, where I discovered this series completely by accident while on a trip to Japan. My host family taped Mermaid Melody Pichipichi Pitch for me and Mirumo De Pon just happened to come on after, so they taped that, too. And the rest was history. I bought so much merch on that trip, including all the manga that was out, a few DVDs of the first season, and even one of the GBA games. I was even lucky enough to be there when the duet CDs came out. I was super hoping it would come out over here, too, but it was not meant to be. And yes, Matsutake was the best of the main humans. Man, now I want to dig out my CD collection and see if I can find the soundtrack....

What a good little dive into the series, even with somewhat limited resources! It's funny, maybe last year or so, I randomly remembered this series and tried to read it. The manga scans I found were old af and pretty low quality, both visually and in translation. I dropped it in the early chapters because of this. But I remember thinking it was pretty weird how little info there is on this series all these years later. Seems like something people would go back to and commit to. I thought it was a classic. I would love if a team picked up the series up because of this video! The teacher section is so....(sigh). I had hope when he talked to Kaede. Man. That part of the video was so well done btw. Showing your reactions to each story beat was so real. This trope, too, is a stain on the shojo/magical girl genre. (LOOKS AT CLAMP)

Ohhh Mirmo Zibang! Yeah, it was kinda popular with kids that had cable tv here in Brazil haha (together with other anime like Kaleido Star and Ashita no Nadja). I have a custom-printed mug with the pattern from Mirmo's mug, it was a gift from my aunt.

oh my goodness, I clicked so fast when I saw the thumbnail in my recommended vids! I'm from Brazil, and although I was probably "too old" for this anime (I was probably around 15 I think?), I LOVED Mirmo Zibang, it was just so silly and cute! I still know the BR dub versions of the OP and EN songs by heart. The 2000's had so many obscure animes like that, I was OBSESSED about Kaleido Star, for example. This was such a cool video, thank you for this nostalgic trip down memory lane, haha

So many times I've found an old show and thought "gosh, 12 yo me would've ADORED this." It's always a joy to find an old gem :D

Mirumo de Pon is also based on an eponymous manga by Hiromu Shinozuka.

I loved Mirmo so much as a child!!

Being Italian, I'm lucky, cause anime was a big thing unil the early 2010's so my childhood was filled with lots of anime, including this. And not to brag, but lots of out Italian opening are the best thing ever, again, including the Mirmo one sang by Cristina D'Avena.💅🏽💅🏽💅🏽

Im from Spain, and one of the areas of Spain (Valencia) had this series on their local TV. I'm not from thst area, but from a neighbour one, close enough that I still got the TV signal. It was on their local language, but thanks to god I could speak it, because I would never had noticed this series otherwise.

I’m sorry to be that person, I have never heard of this 😭😭 but after watching this video I might check it out! (the available episodes at least)

YES I KNOW THIS YE I KNOW THIS YUES I KNOW THIS YES I KNOW THIS YES I KNOW THIS OH MY GOD NOBODY EVER SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO HELP ME REMEMBER THIS ANIME BUT I ALWAYS SAID SHIT LIKE DO YOU KNOW THE SHOW ABOUT A LITTLE BLUE GUY FLYING AROUND WITH LITTLE FEATHERS AND NO ONE COULD HELP ME FIND IT!! BUT YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!! THANK YOU!! ah ahem. sorry. i recall seeing bits of an episode when i was quite young on tv and it stuck to me how cute and interesting the characters looked but i could never find out the title until people online were able to help me. its so good to see someone talk about it! and from your description it sounds like a good time (mostly anyway), i will definitely try to check it out!!

Thanks for unlocking this memory. Used to love that show in Brazil.

EL MIRARTE ES COMO UN TIRAMISÚ ES AGRIDULCE Y LIGERO 🗣️🗣️ I love mirmo zibang ❤

Omg, I live in the Philippines and this was my shit back then when we had cable 😭😩 It had a Tagalog dub and I remember looking forward to watching the anime every Saturday since it has a marathon every weekend to catch up on episodes I didn't watch.

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I watched Mirumo when I was really young, and later revisited the show to notice how it was even better than what I remembered, but also to my disappointment finding out that it there were no dub nor subtitles I could find after some point. I also never heard someone talk about this show, and its good to know there are more people around there who liked Mirumo as much as I. Anime of this quality should certainly get more attention, be studied and preserved for future generations! My favourite character was Azumi, and the one I liked the least was Yuuki! I really, really loved the world, the art and the music!!

I had a vague memory of watching this show when i was younger and couldn't remember the name for YEARS thank you for making this video!!

Imani, Basic Boi, and Colleen blessing my Saturday feed like the holy trinity. 👏

Oh my GOD I forgot about this!!! I used to watch this one as a kid EVERY DAY. This channel had a block right after lunch that would air both mirumo(localized as mirmo) and Sgt frog(keroro) back to back! Iirc, jewelpet was airing during that time on a different channel too. Italian kids were eating good during those years :')

MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD IN PORTUGAL 😭 ❤❤❤ I would fight my uncle to watch it because every episode was scheduled at 8PM on a channel called Canal Panda here, when it was also the time the news started to air which was routine for him to watch lol

I am so surprised that you mentioned this. I live in the English speaking Caribbean, and our US Cartoon Network randomly got swapped with the Latin American Cartoon Network up until maybe 2009? When you mentioned the cruise, I knew it had to have been to Latin America or the Caribbean, because I mainly hear about Mirmo in Spanish-speaking communities. But I remember watching this, Nadja, Kaleido Star and a lot of other anime that aired in Spanish (some shows aired in English, strangely enough). Nadja has some popularity in the English-speaking west, but Kaleido Star and Mirmo are definitely forgotten by time unless you grew up in regions where it aired. Mirmo's opening theme was burned into my head, and that clip seriously took me back, I still remember the lyrics. I understood the basic plot setups for each episode and it was a fun show. I kept waiting for Kaede to get her magical girl item and transform, but it never came and I was so confused because the setup for the show was exactly like a magical girl one. Really fun show regardless. I missed out on Toonami and Sailor Moon when it aired on CN, but I'm pretty glad I got to become familiar with stuff like Mirmo and Nadja. We even got the non-4Kids dub (this was also strangely in English) of Winx Club on CN LA.

oh gosh, this was literally my childhood! I was fortunate enough to watch Mirumo from start to finish because this aired on Cartoon Network here in the Philippines. Plus, a local anime channel called Hero TV also aired this in Tagalog. Coincidentally, both versions aired the same episodes on the same day. I was able to watch the same episode twice both in English and Tagalog. if i ever missed the Tagalog one which aired in the afternoon, I can still watch it in English in the evening. I'm just glad Stardust Fansubs is still working on this. For the longest time, there were only 37 episodes fansubbed.

One of the reasons why I loved TV back in the day was being able to catch and watch shows and movies I would have never of otherwise. I didn't think I'd watch all of Mirmo as a kid but the funny and sweet moments got me hooked, I remember watching marathons during the weekends and debating whether I should watch Mirmo or Cyber Cat Kurochan.

Another one that was aired in Latinoamerica is corrector Yui and, unlike other maho shojo, this one is about a magical girl fighting against a artificial intelligence on the internet

Oh I LOVE this one!! So glad to see you do this video

I used to watch this show all the time when visiting family in Taiwan

loved mirmo

i found out about this anime via mob psycho 100 fanart certainly a place (not bad just unexpected)

I REMEMBER THIS AHHH , THANK U FOR TALKING ABT ITTT

Always watched Mirmo as a kid (I’m Italian)

The algo blessed me today! I still miss the Mirmo toy I used to have and lost 😭

god you brought it up from the back of my mind i loved it when i was younger thank you

Wow, it’s been years since the last time I’ve heard about this show. The childhood memories are already coming back to me. I remember watching it on the regular in my grade school days. Although I have zero memory of the few sus stuff in it, like Yashichi being a pervert, his crush being a dude (I guess one of the dubs I saw censored it by making his crush a girl that just grew facial hair) & the creepy teacher. I guess my walnut kid brain didn’t register those sus things at the time, or they got censored. Other things I can recall that weren’t mentioned in the video were an octopus looking robot side-character, some traditional to anime tournament arc & robot duplicates & aliens being a thing in certain episodes. I don’t think I saw the finale, just the set up for it where Mirumo reincarnated as a rabbit & the other characters trying to kickstart his past memories. I guess I missed the premiere at the time. I definitely recognize the English dub you showed here, as I recognized Kaede’s dub voice. My sister & cousin also had a plush of Mirumo’s brother. Nice throwback video you made here. Makes me wanna try looking for this show again & check out the college continuation.

It aired on my local TV station in English when my sister and I were kids, and watching some episodes were enough to convince our parents to buy a CD pack of 6 episodes (which came with additional Japanese audio). I remember a few of them: being stuck in a haunted mansion due to the relentless blizzard; a board game where everyone competed to get tickets to a theme park; Dylan (Yuki) being a replacement actor for some star who got soccer ball'd in the face. I used to watch them over and over... Good times.

The bland brunette love interest reminds me of Ichigo's love interest from Tokyo Mew Mew lol. Always resented him as a kid for having no personality

OMG THANK YOU, IVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS ANIME AND NONE OF MY FRIENDS EVER KNOWS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

loved this video i love being educated (i am one of many who have in fact not heard of this show)... watching 2000s shows is always such a mixed bag i could sympathize w your feelings about the iffy plots and gags so strongly LOL

Mirumo was so loved in itly during 2000's

Omg I used to watch a dvd of this all the time as a kid !!

Omg Mirumo de pon! Of course I know about it. I have been trying to watch it for years. Years ago I could only find some episodes subbed in English and the rest were all in Spanish lol. Dead end for me back then just like Ashita no Nadja was for a bit. I did eventually finish Nadja so maybe I should be on the hunt for this one again too. Thank you for refreshing my memories ❤

I WATCHED THIS ON CARTOON NETWORK sorry for yelling 😭 it's just so much memory flooding back to me just seeing that pic

I sort of knew of this show's existence because the kfc here had a kid's meal event with these toys of the fairies sticking out of the mugs but I never watched the show, nor was it aired in the usual channels that i liked to watch. I saw a portion of an episode after some time but never knew the name of the show because it was playing at a friend's house on a channel i didn't know of. I found the toy recently and wondered what show it was from when i came across your video. Now I'm gonna check the while thing out

YYYYYAAAAYYY MIRUMO MENTION!! And boy, do I agree with you on the ups and downs of the show 😂😅

Omg i watched this like from over a decade ago 🤯. Never knew that someone else has heard abt it. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Hii I’m not too familiar with your channel (subscribed last video), but I’m currently watching Fushigi Yuugi and it’s great! It’s an Isekai from the 90s and I’d be curious to know your opinion on it 😸 What really ropes me into the show is the friendship between the main character and her bsf, it’s a lot and tbh I don’t wanna spoil but from all the older opinions I saw on certain episodes the bsf is very misunderstood and I think it could be a great topic to talk about 😊 Also great video, was very enjoyable 💞

i'm from south america and this was my first anime!! they aired it on cartoon network!

Being Italian I was lucky enough to have it dubbed in my language, watched it all as a kid and sometimes still so a rewatch. The only problem was that in those years, dubs would always change the name in either Americanized ones or Italian ones and let me tell you, sometimes they chose weird names. Same with Sailor Moon, in Italian they changed all the names😂😂😂😂

I remember this anime I watched it when I was 5 years old and the op song is iconic

FAESBEFOREBAES!!!! I always liked the word Bae and now I can use it.

I mostly remember the show because of that robot octopus named Takostu because he sounded like Doraemon.

The teacher student relation thing was handled well in my opinion, the way the students gossiped and looked grossed out, the ominous music, it all was hinting that something was wrong and this "love story" shouldn't be praised.

It aired on my country GET IT FELLOW USA RESIDENT!

I remember watching this one on CN

22:30 this is crazyyyyyyy

Oh hey! I haven't seen this one in a while! When I was little I used to watch this one in Cartoon Network. No idea if they ever passed in the US, but I think I got to see most of the chapters in CN here in Mexico. I still remember part of the opening. Can't say it was popular but I quite liked it at the time

I'm from South-East Asia and I've definitely seen this show before. I barely remember anything from it though, other than the mugs.

ENGLISH DUB!? IV'E NEVER THOUGHT IT ACTUALLY EXISTED

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We got Mirumo anime (except the Saori and teacher part) on TV in Europe and we even got the manga when i was little (i remember jumping on it cause i was so frustrated we didint get the end of the Anime ;A;) Manga was more faes focus and we can see more of Kaede and Yuuki story progression !

I know this anime! I saw the Spanish dub when I lived in Latin America. I was literally trying to find the episode where they parody famous Japanese folktales, which I found freaking hilarious! UPDATE: just found it!!

Extremely sorry for the Live Blogging but you reminded me of something that REALLY ticked me off! I WANTED KAEDE TO BE A MAGICAL GIRL SHE GETS AN ATTIRE IN THE OPENING AND WE NEVER SEE IT IN THE ANIME.

i totally forgot about this anime until I saw a merch in your previous video. I used to really enjoy this series although I have never finished it. I watched it in Cantonese sub, gosh i wish I can find those DVD again. Btw, have you ever watched Wedding Peach, another less-known magic girls series for some reasons.

That teacher needs to go straight to jail. Other than that it seems like a sweet show

My sister had the giant mug of mirumo, who opened and turned into a house with a mini mirumo inside and had also a fucking giant mirumo😂😂😂😂

Qu'est-ce que what? There's a french dub??? Ah ok upon further research I was barely 4 when it aired, it's missing the 4th season, and it also suffers from the OD curse of only having the first 14 episodes on DVD. Guess it's added to the remaster list now lol Ok but that girl has some MASSIVE eyes like they're down to her mouth x) Also! That video had a great production value! Good comedic timing and jokes, script on point, crazy cute makeup and hair... Excellent!

Didn't watch yet but MIRMO YEEEEEEES

I can't believe i watched mirmo in English on pirated India cartoon network (although at lunch time when few kids watched tv here) and no American or English person i talked to knows it only Espanol crowd recognise it

Unfortunately the latin american dub of Mirmo Zibang is lost media...only few episodes exist online.

I had toys of this thing!!!

I looove Mirmo. Do you also know Keroro?

Are you a fan of Mamoru and Usagi? Because that’s just as problematic as the teacher and student😂😂😂😂😂😂

WHERE CAN I WATCH THISSS 😩😩

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Now that I've grown and I have read the manga, it's the only piece of media of mirmo I like (besides the songs)😭 it's so much better, and I truly recommend it if you haven't read it❤️ P.d: the reason the anime is not as good is because the manga and the anime were being made at the same time, so the author didn't have time to check on the anime🧍