Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 4, 2008
Status:
Completed
Summary:
Now Utau has left Easter and restarted her singing career, while Ikuto still remains at Easter. To replace Utau Easter hires a new character, Lulu. Lulu has the power to create question mark eggs, instead of x-eggs. Throughout this season we start to see all the love interests more so then in the first season. Tadase and Amu seem to be a couple now, but they have their problem, especially when Amu starts hiding Ikuto in her room. She lies to Tadase, her family and all the Guardians about it, which in the end causes more problems then she expected. Easter also has a new plan to control Ikuto. Using his violin Easter controls Ikuto so that he transforms into Death Rebel. The sound of his violin turns all the heart eggs with in distance into x-eggs. With a large amount of x-eggs gathered, the embryo will soon turn up.
Shugo Chara! Doki is the sequel to Shugo Chara!, the popular anime about a schoolgirl named Amu who pocesses 3 Shugo Charas (or Guardian Characters) and joins her group of Shugo Chara-wielding friends to fight off evil. It may sound a bit average mahou shoujo with that, but actually, Shugo Chara! is pretty okay, and so is Doki. The only thing is that the storyline, which could have been fine with 25-30 episodes, is stretched out into more than 50, which makes watching the anime a bit tedious in a sense. However, the enjoyment rate for every episode is about a 4/5 to a 5/5, so you won't really feel the boredom sink in that much.
The characters are absolutely adorable and you'll be rooting for them all the way. Every episode is guaranteed to deliver a good laugh, and overall, the whole anime's pretty hilarious; it keeps up the comedy part very well. In addition, the love storyline is developed and spread out very nicely over the sequel, and although it does not occur in every episode, the occasional dose of romance is just about enough for you to hurriedly go through all the next episodes to find out how it all resolves. The romance is just so sweet and kawaii.
Like many mahou shoujos, the repetitiveness isn't gone. In almost every episode, you will witness the "Watashi no Kokoro, UN-LOCK!!!!" and you'll see that over and over again, until you have the whole line memorized, like me.
Very cute artwork and great animations. The plot rolls very well, though it's a bit too long. A very nice anime if you have the time to appreciate all 50-something episodes. The romance doesn't disappoint, and the liveliness and comedy keeps up from the previous series into this one.
