Onegai My Melody

My Melody

A year after the events of Kirara (a prequel series: see below), Kuromi and Baku are imprisoned in a dungeon in Mary Land. They make their escape with the Melody Key and the Melody Bow, but in their haste forget the instruction manuals. They flee to the human world and shortly after arriving, Kuromi discovers the power of the Melody Key, which makes wishes come true using the power of darkness. If the person who wishes enjoys the nightmare, he or she will produce Black Notes, which Baku promptly eats to store them. What neither one of them realize is that when 100 Black Notes are gathered, the Spirit of Dark Power will be revived to destroy the human world and devour all the human's dreams. Because Mary Land is formed from the dreams of humans, even the incompetent King is able to sense danger to his people. He gives the Melody Tact to My Melody and sends her to the human world, with a mission to collect 100 Pink Notes to create the Dream Power to combat the Spirit of Dark Power. Along the way, My Melody meets a human girl named Uta Yumeno, and her world is about to change forever...

KuruKuru Shuffle

Set a year after Onegai My Melody, the story revolves around Kuromi and Baku's second escape to the Human World as they this time, obtained a new Melody Key and the Melody Pick, an item associated with the Spirit of Dark Power. Because of this, the King of Mary Land appointed My Melody once again to capture both fugitives and prevent the Spirit of Dark Power from resurrecting for the second time. In the human world, Uta misses My Melody and wonders what is she doing right now back at Mari Land. But then a new student named Jun Hiiragi who arrived from England into Uta's school and she notices he's Keiichi's little brother. Baku and Kuromi also arrived at the Human world also and learned that if they collected black notes that coincides with the Solfège scale, their wishes will come true and decided to wreak havoc into the city once more. Back at Mari Land, Keiichi Hiiragi is being judged guilty on his crimes against Mary Land and to make up for it, he must help Uta and My Melody fight the darkness but in secret or he'll be severely punished. It's up to Uta and Melody to stop the Revival of the Spirit of Dark power once again, before it's too late.

Sukkiri♪

A year after the second defeat of the Spirit of Dark Power, My Melody and her friends went back to Mary Land until Baku "dropped a bomb" in the middle of the flower field, taking out black notes all over Mary Land and the human world. After a short while, Mary Land had their "High court" and took the King of the throne. When the time came to choose the next ruler of Mary Land, a black note came into the minister, turning him into a "Huff-Huff" which is left over residue of Dar-chan. My Melody refreshed him and was chosen to be a candidate for Princess. However, she has to pass a trial by turning all of the black into Twinkle Gems to put in her crown. As soon as Kuromi heard this, she was over raged because she wanted to become the Princess as well, but then a very Mysterious Woman gave her an intriguing offer. Kuromi now has to collect Anger Gems and put on her crown to become the Dark Princess and rule over Mary Land. The two decides to go the human world in their separate ways and collect every black note for them to become the next ruler of Mary Land. Not knowing to everyone...that the spirit again will make its rise as he intends to plunge both Earth and Mary Land into eternal darkness.

Kirara★

Set before the events of the Uta Arc, Mary Land is celebrating a special event which involves watching the Shooting Star on which they can grant someone's wish. In the Human World, Kirara Hoshizuki, a normal elementary girl is watching the stars that night until she was visited by the King of Mary Land, and invites her to his world. As the king takes her to Mary Land, she meets My Melody for the first time and became friends as they both watched the shooting stars. But in an unexpected predicament, the Wishing Star crashed into Mary Land and broke into pieces. Even worse, the passageway that connects back to earth is damaged as well. During the disaster, My Melo and Kirara met Prince Sorara, the prince of the star who somewhat transformed into a giant chick after the Wishing Star is broken to a million pieces and both My Melo and Kirara needs to collect all the pieces of the Wishing Star, for both Sorara and Kirara to go back to their respective worlds.

High School~

Set three years after the end of Sukkiri, Uta Yumeno, now a sophomore in High School, is living a good life in the human world with her family and friends. However back at Mary Land, Kuromi steals a dark item called Dokurobou, which contains powerful dark magic that can plunge Mary Land into chaos and again escapes into the human world with the said item. As she reaches the human world, she meets with Uta and Kakeru Kogure once more and starts to cause trouble. Luckily, My Melody comes to the human world as well and now must prevent the dark magic inside the Dokurobou from unleashing into the human world.

Characters

Interestingly in the series, the Characters in Onegai My Melody were both composed of both characters from the original character series as well as characters exclusively made for the series. The Dezinens of Mary Land were somewhat considered as Living Dolls, as referenced to Maki's Phobia on cute stuff. Some of the characters in the series became official in the Sanrio Canon. For instance, Kuromi, who appeared in the first series became an official character to the Sanrio franchise in 2005.

Several cameo characters from other Sanrio Franchises also appears in the anime as well. Hello Kitty appears in the eyecatches of the first and second series while Berry and Cherry appeared as narrators for the fourth series.

Music

The Music in all four series were composed by Cher Watanabe, who composed the soundtrack of the anime Maken-ki! and later worked on to produce the soundtrack of Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!. One of the songs was Shiawase no Hane

Onegai My Melody

Onegai My Melody ~Kuru Kuru Shuffle!~

Onegai My Melody Sukkiri♪

Onegai My Melody Kirara★

Sequels

Four official sequels were produced and each coincide with their respective story arcs. The first sequel, Onegai My Melody ~KuruKuru Shuffle!~ (おねがいマイメロディ 〜くるくるシャッフル!〜, Onegai mai merodi 〜Kurukuru shaffuru!〜, lit. Please My Melody 〜 Spin Around Shuffle!〜) ran from April 2, 2006 to March 23, 2007. The second sequel, Onegai My Melody Sukkiri♪ (おねがいマイメロディ すっきり♪, Onegai mai merodi Sukkiri♪, lit. Please My Melody Clear♪) ran from April 1, 2007 to March 24, 2008 as a segment to the show Anime Lobby

That series was followed by a third and final sequel, Onegai♪My Melody Kirara★ (おねがい♪マイメロディ きららっ★, Onegai♪mai merodi Kirara★, lit. Please♪My Melody Sparkle★), which ran from April 6, 2008 to March 29, 2009. before being replaced by Jewelpet in its timeslot.

On February 5, 2012, Sanrio announced that theatrical short named Onegai My Melody: Yū & Ai was in the works and would be released alongside the first Jewelpet film, Jewelpet the Movie: Sweets Dance Princess as a double feature.

A novel titled Onegai♪My Melody High School~ (おねがい♪マイメロディ はいすく～る, Onegai♪mai merodi Hai sukuru~, lit. Please♪My Melody High School~), serves as a continuation of the franchise, and was released by PHP Interface under the Smash label on March 8, 2013.

Reception

Although it only aired in Japan, Onegai My Melody was positively received by fans and has garnered a cult following. On December 11, 2011, United States-based anime distributor Funimation Entertainment set up a forum on its website gauging consumer interest in potential anime acquisitions. One title that was being requested was the first Onegai My Melody series.