Renkin 3-kyū Magical? Pokān(錬金3級 まじかる?ぽか～ん,Renkin San-kyū Majikaru? Pokān) is an anime series that tells the story of the everyday life of four princesses from the Netherworld who are oblivious to the happenings in everyday life in the human world. The name of the anime is often shortened to Magipoka.
The story depicts the misadventures of four princesses from the Netherworld: Uma the Witch, Pachira the Vampire, Liru the Werewolf, and Aiko the Android along with Keimie (the princess' invisible chaperone). These princesses are adapting to life in the human world and reside in their Garakuta House (a makeshift treehouse complex with the name being a homage to the author of the same name) in Hikarigaoka (a fictional Japanese city that's not to be confused with Hikarigaoka Station). The girls are faced with small self-centered problems such as finding a boyfriend, blending in to society, learning about Earth's cultures, and staying one step ahead of Super Doctor K-Ko.
Characters
Uma(ゆうま,Yūma),
Voiced by: Momoko Saitō
It is revealed that Uma is a witch although she is not yet adept at spell casting due to her being a "third rate alchemist." She has a happy personality and finds joy in exploring the human world. When she makes a discovery about the world, she quickly and proudly points it out to the other girls only to be generally the last to discover such things becoming disappointed when others learn faster than she does. When she is not trying to master spells, Uma reads romance manga. Sometimes when Uma is casting a spell, her skirt lifts up revealing her panties. Her overall design is reminiscent of a rabbit-girl ranging from her hair style that occasionally moves, her pet rabbit-like creatures, and the carrot cushion that she sleeps with.
Pachira(パキラ,Pakira)
Voiced by: Aya Hirano
Pachira is seen during the course of the anime as a vampire with pointy ears and two small black bats riding on her hair ribbons. While she displays the common weakness of vampires such as a weakness to garlic and holy water, her biggest weakness (at least in her mind) is her small breast size which she hopes to have expanded whatever way possible. She has the ability to fly by sprouting wings, extends her fingernails into claws, and is seen eating regular food as well as having a vampire's lust for drinking blood (although she mainly drinks tomato juice). She turns to ash in sunlight, but it is not fatal as noted in the prologue of episode one as she just ends up in a burnt state. Pachira wears a long coat and cardboard box over her head whenever she goes out. When she goes to the beach, Pachira wears a heavy coat of sunscreen on her skin to prevent her from getting burned. Though Pachira wouldn't show up on any camera due to her not casting a reflection, she can be seen on a thermographic camera.
Liru(りる,Riru)
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame
It is explained to the audience that Liru is a werewolf with her wolf-like ears and tail exposed in her normal form. She appears as a tan blonde-haired teenager dressed in a brown leather harness that go across her breasts, brown fingerless gloves with gold-spiked bracelets on them, blue denim shorts, and white thigh length boots. Liru has an energetic personality and has animal traits such as the ability to leap great distances with little effort, and has enhanced strength, speed, stamina, and senses. Like all werewolves, she is lycanthropic and her wolf form looks similar to a yellow puppy. A minor recurring theme in the episodes is when Liru sees a full moon-shaped object, she immediately changes into her wolf form (though strangely enough she seems somewhat resilient to the real moon's effects). Liru is also shown to have a weakness to silver. Being a werewolf, Liru enjoys eating any type of meat and her favorite type of meat is Matsuzaka Beef.
Aiko(鉄子)
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka
Aiko is an android with silver hands and silver boot-shaped feet, an outdated CPU, and low memory size. Her name is a pun of Aiko (愛子,lit. love child). It is a common girl's name, but the "Ai" in her name is written with the kanji for "Iron" rather than "Love". Aiko performs housekeeping duties for the other girls like cooking, shopping, and laundry because of her devoted mind making her the housekeeper of the group. Her weight is 300-kilogram (660 lb) or more which causes problems since her weight tends to break things (examples being an elevator and a ski lift). Being an android, Aiko doesn't eat or drink which came in handy one time when two snow people served cold food that temporarily froze the other three princesses. She always hopes to get her own human-type body through whatever way possible. When at the beach, Aiko uses a wind-up submarine-type suit to go swimming after getting herself waterproofed.
Keimie(ケイミィ,Keimī)
Voiced by: Nomico
An invisible woman that serves as the chaperone of the four princesses. Though she does not appear very often except in a narrative part in episode one and narrative parts at the end of some episodes or heard saying something to the princesses in some episodes, her most notable scene involving an English Speaking game where she served a bad-tasting Nattō drink to the princess that messes up by speaking Japanese with her also drinking Nattō when Aiko messed up. In "The Spell of Ifs is Dr. ○×△□," she was dressed as a nurse with bandages to cover her invisible body when the episode shows each princess as a doctor.
Jun(ジュン) and Tan(タン)
JunVoiced by: NomicoTanVoiced by: Wataru Hatano
Uma's pet rabbit-like creatures. Jun is a peach-colored rabbit-like creature and Tan is a black rabbit-like creature. They can spin his ears around like a helicopter propeller to fly, use the end of their ears as hands, and occasionally float around. Tan can also change into Uma's hat when Uma is occasionally seen in her black cape.
Super Doctor K-Ko(スーパードクターK子,Sūpā Dokutā Kē-ko)
Voiced by: Shōko Tsuda
A semi-regular character who serves as the primary antagonist of the series. She is a busty scientist and an expert on the Netherworld that is constantly trying to get the "scientific community" to see how bad the four princesses are....for her own status gain. Super Doctor K-Ko wants proof of the supernatural to gain admittance into the scientific elite and what better than one or all of the princesses either captured in her traps or exposed on TV....if her plans didn't have a tendency to go awry.
Hongo(本郷,Hongō)
Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama
Hongo is Super Doctor K-Ko's midget assistant. He assists Super Doctor K-Ko in her quest to expose the princesses as Netherworld monsters.
Episodes
Each of the episodes were split into two segments.
The following episodes were exclusive to the DVDs.
Staff
Original Story: Garakuta House
Director: Kenichi Yatagai
Composition, Script: Yasunori Ide
Character Design, General Production Director: Katsuzō Hirata
