Magical Stage Fancy Lala
Magical Stage Fancy Lala is the fifth Magical Girl series to be put out by Studio Pierrot.
One day, nine-year-old Miho Shinohara is given two stuffed dinosaurs by a stranger. The stuffed dinosaurs come to life and present her with a magic sketchbook and pen. Within limits, and subject to varying degrees of control, she can draw in the sketchbook and bring the drawings to life. Miho can also transform into a teenage girl, whom she names Fancy Lala. Fancy Lala is scouted by Yumi Haneishi, the president of the talent agency Lyrical Productions, and begins the long road to stardom.
This anime provides examples of:
- Art Initiates Life: The magic sketchbook does this.
- Bishonen: Hiroya
- Bittersweet Ending
- By the Power of Grayskull: "Toki no kioku ni omoi wo komete, ima, Fancy Lala ni karei naru seichou!" ("Bringing my thoughts into the memory of time, grow now magnificently into Fancy Lala!")
- Cinderella Circumstances: Miho in the pilot, but averted in the series
- Everythings Better With Dinosaurs: Especially if they're talking dinosaurs.
- Girlish Pigtails: Miho and Miki
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals
- Growing Up Sucks
- Important Haircut
- Magic Idol Singer
- Mysterious Protector: Mystery Man
- Non Human Sidekick: Mogu and Pigu, the stuffed dinosaurs.
- Older Alter Ego: Fancy Lala
- Pink Girl Blue Boy: Mogu and Pigu
- Precocious Crush: 9-year-old Miho has a crush on 19-year-old Hiroya.
- Potty Failure: Miho's older sister wets her bed during a flashback at one point
- The Rival: Miki, a fellow Idol Singer.
- Sexy Mentor: Hiroya
- Transformation Sequence
- Transformation Trinket: The pen, which is decorated with a small clock whose hands spin forward during each Transformation Sequence.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Lala’s hair is a mix of blue and green.