Manga Notes: Creamy Mami and the Spoiled Princess 1

With all the manga being translated into English and officially released over here these days, an “I’m surprised this got licensed” reaction might say more about the person making it than anything. I can admit my own latest reaction like that was on noticing a “manga based on anime,” that anime being an early-1980s “magical girl” series from years before Sailor Moon reconfigured the genre into “teenage warriors confronting evil.” It also mattered, though, that I’d already managed to see that older anime series several years ago. Curiosity about “something different” (which expands the amount of anime I see, but limits the amount of video not “animation from Japan” I watch) had mixed with a peculiar, perhaps-misguided sort of charity towards an effort at crowdfunding the official translation and DVD release of older anime, and that overcame a slight but distinct sense of embarrassment at the mere title “Creamy Mami.” The effort just managed to release all of the series and shut down afterwards; since then, though, Creamy Mami has started streaming on the niche-within-a-niche service RetroCrush, which could well have played a significant role in the manga making it over here. In any case, I was amused enough by that happening to buy a volume.
( The spoiled princess and the magical angel )