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1) An inexact but working
translation
of the title of the
Japanese
anime
, "
Kiko-chan Sumairu
." It's a half-hour long
TV show
about a very, VERY odd little girl called Kiko-chan. Not for children, but for adults who remember the utter surrealness (is that a word?) of being a small child in an alien adult world. Kiko-chan is drawn in a most un-cute way, having a huge head and large but beady eyes (not big googly
Sailor Moon
kawaii
eyes). She has a strange
cat
who is really an
angel
, but lest you think that's another
cute factor
in the form of the necessary
small furry animal
, think again. She also has a beleaguered kindergarten
teacher
, Megumi, who
is
all sweet and anime-girly, but completely ineffectual against Kiko-chan's
rampant weirdness
. All students have to say "GOOD MORNING!" to their teachers when they arrive, but Kiko-chan always refuses to say it out loud despite Megumi's wobbly-eyed best effors. Instead, she writes it somehow (not the same way twice, so far). Kiko-chan is very, very quiet most of the time, but occasionally erupts into
incoherent rant
s and lectures. She has a pair of baffled
parents
who aren't quite sure what to do with their strange daughter. They're very much
in love
and tend to have
tender moment
s just when Kiko-chan actually does have something to say. Kiko-chan thinks adults are rather silly.
Lots of humor, biting satire, and nostalgia. Highly recommended, but it'll never be released in the
USA
. Based on a
manga
that runs in
Be-Love Parfait
, an older teen through
office lady
magazine.
2) "The Kiko-chan Smile." Quoting from the TechnoGirls' website, from their search to find out about this phrase after I noticed it in a Japanese press release and brought it to their attention: This appears to be a reference to the warm smile of Kiko Kawashima, who married the second son of the present
Emperor of Japan
, becoming
Princess Akishino
. The phrase "a Kiko-chan Smile" became heard at the time of the royal wedding, in the press.
Ah yes, the lovely, bright smile of a beautiful young princess? Heh, heh. The
irony
in the title of the
anime
...
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