Title: Shugo Chara!

Genre: Comedy, Magical Girl, Romance, Supernatural

Episodes: 51

Year: 2007-2008

Description:

Hinamori Amu is a new student at Seiyo Elementary school, all her classmates thinks of her as “cool and spicy” since she seems more mature and confident, but her real personality is of a shy girl who doesn’t show her true feelings easily.

One night Amu wishes to be more confident and be true to herself the next day when she wakes up there are 3 eggs in her bed. These eggs represent her different personalities and they are known as the Guardian Character (Shugo Charas). Each egg will be born when Amu accepts each one her different personalities.

The red egg is Ran she represents the athletic one and is more honest with her feelings. The blue egg is Miki, she is good in arts and is more intelligent and there’s the green egg Su who is good at domestic skills and more caring.

Later on Amu discovers she can change personalities and make a transformation with each one of her guardian characters, thanks to the Humpty Lock but when a boy suddenly appears wanting to steal Humpty Lock, Ikuto Tsukiyomi who has the Humpty Key and is looking for the Embryo a egg that can any wish to the one who possesses it.

Then when the guardians of the school become aware of Amu’s powers the king decides to make her one of them as the Joker. The Guardians are the 4 more popular students of the school, The King Tadase Hotori and his guardian Kiseki. The Queen Nadeshiko Fujisaki and her guardian Temari. The Jack, Kukai Souma who has Daichi as his guardian, and the Ace Yaya Yuiki with her Guardian Pepe. Together they search for X Eggs and X Characters, the corrupted forms of the children’s souls.

But there’s also other enemies like the Easter Company who is using Ikuto Tsukiyomi and Utau Hoshina, two siblings who also have Guardian Characters and are employed by the Easter Company to search for the Embryo. There’s also the teacher of the school Yuu Nikaidou that can change the eggs into X personalities and Yukari Sanjo, Utau’s manager that use her songs to find the Embryo and mass-produce X Eggs.

Eventually, Nadeshiko leaves the country and Kukai graduates and leaves for middle school. So the Guardians are replaced by Rima Mashiro the new Queen  she’s little and beautiful girl who has Kusukusu as her Guardian and represents her desire to laugh. Kairi Sanjo the new Jack who is uptight, very organized, and blunt about faults. Kairi’s Guardian Character, Musashi represents the personality of a samurai.  Kairi later leaves and is replaced by Nagihiko Fujisaki (Nadeshiko’s real identity).

Sequel: Shugo Chara!! Doki

Episodes: 52-90 (ongoing)

Year: 2008-2009

Description:

As the story continues… Amu is more powerful now and a fourth Guardian Character appears the yellow egg Diamond, she represents Amu’s desire to shine and be noticed in front of others. But for some reason Amu is unable to transform with Dia (Diamond) and so new powers comes with new enemies like Lulu de Morcerf, she is the new Easter Company worker who can turn Heart’s Eggs into Mystery Eggs (or enigma eggs) using a ruby necklace. (Lulu only appears in the anime)

Now Easter’s new plan to get the Embryo is using Ikuto’s power to collect the X eggs, this time fighting Easter can be even more dangerous. Will Amu and her friends be able to save Ikuto and finally find the Embryo?

You can watch this anime at: Crunchyroll

The Manga

Title: Shugo Chara!

Mangaka: PEACH-PIT

Length: 8 Volumes (ongoing)

Licensed: Del Rey Manga