The Curse of Minky Momo

I just feel like Japan has too many things going on

“Oh? You wanna stop funding us? Fine, we’ll kill the pink-haired-magic-girl” what an absolute power move

The answer is simple god was pissed off that they ended his favorite show.

The fact that your computer kept crashing while you were trying to make this shows that the curse of Minky Momo is true.

"Could you imagine if they ended Pokemon this way?" Yes, I can, because the same Takeshi Shudo was behind the show in its early seasons, and he was even thinking about ending it like something between The Birds and Planet of the Apes (the question is if Tajiri and other people in the production team would allow it). And maybe even ending it like Minky Momo would be better than how it really went after 1999 (let the main character hop from island to island never becoming the master, and kicking all the other main characters out).

Toy Company: We don't want to make toys anymore. Truck-kun: My anger won't be satisfied till the streets flood with the blood of anime protagonists.

"My computer crashed 110 times trying to edit this video" Even talking about her is a curse.

I REALLY miss this entire era of Japanese animation, there were just SO MANY GREAT and crazy shows that came out of the 80s and even the 90s. They had a style both in story and animation that you just don't see anymore. I really wish they'd bring it back.

Momo is just like: "hit me with a truck again and you'll soon learn that nuclear war avoidance is a privilege, not a right."

Toy Company: Stops sending money Minky Momo: I'm going to end this whole country's career

I remember watching the last episode as a really young kid. It didn't traumatize me or anything. It was just my second earliest "SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FOCK IS HAPPENING" moment in my life. The first one was when my uncle died in a traffic accident and I saw his corpse in my grandpa's house but that's totally unrelated.

Sir you have no idea how happy you've made me. Im 3yrs behind, but I have dug deep into my childhood memories to try and find this anime. My mom bought me one single VHS of this show somehow in like 2002 or so and i never ever could remember the name. Im almost 28yrs old and have searched for well over 15yrs for this show. I never could remember the plot or anything so IMDB'ing was impossible. Ofc Sailormoon and Sakura cardcaptor kept popping up and I was always like "NO DUDE...THIS IS A CHEAPER... OLDER VERSION!!" lol EDIT: I live in the U.S so i really have no idea how she got this tape lol

Japan: "Hey maybe we should broadcast this old magic girl anime." Minky Momo: "JUST LET ME DIIIE!!!"

Homura: being magical girl is suffering Momo: first time?

Actually Takeshi Shudo who went on to become the head writer of Pokémon, intended to kill off Ash in the first ever movie as a finale but due to the sheer popularity of the anime, the ending was re-written at the last moment (you can even see how the writing must have been hastened when Ash turns into stone and Pikachu keeps shocking him and the hints of his death are there in the first ever Japanese teaser of the film) I read somewhere that he had depression and anxiety which made him have a bad outlook towards life and he intended to portray how Ash have to move on from his "childhood" dream because they are mostly unachievable. But thankfully the writing team eventually took a different narrative after his departure and Ash is now a world champion!

I remember this being one of my favourite shows as a kid over 25 years ago. She's called "Haneen" in Arabic, which is a real Arabian name. I still listen to their opening every few years. Such golden days.

I was six when I watched that show. I was in love with her. I remember every time I got to choose what to draw, I would draw her. It was awfull when she died, I cound't understand. Then she came back, but it wasn't her, it was something like "this would have happened if she would have lived, but don't forget she's dead". I had many nightmares about it. I don't remember when I stopped drawing her. Many years later I remembered Gigi again, and I ask my friends if they knew her, but nobody knew who she was. And I repeated: the girl with pink hair, who transformed into profesional growned women, and died hit by a truck. I tought I was crazy. Until I discovered my 1° Grade school notebook at my grandma's attic and effectively, it had drawn Gigis all over it. So she was real. When Internet became a thing Gigi was one of the first things that I looked for. 0 results the first times. Years later I found out her original name was Minky Momo, and could download a couple of pictures. And after that more information become available. Thanks for explaining why the hell I lived traumatized all my childhood. I don't know if I feel better now, hahaha.

Imagine remaking the series? “We are considering cancelling your show” Writers: do you really want to take that risk?

It's so weird that this show was so influential. I lived in Japan for 10 years and I've never heard of it till now.

Momo looks a little like Madoka Kaname, whose anime became associated with the most powerful earthquake in Japanese history; the 2011 Tohoku quake, which struck the day after possibly the highest-rated episode of the show first aired. Maybe it was also a victim of the Momo Curse, due to the protags' resemblence?