Bottle Fairy

Anime Review

"What it feels like being a human?"

Bottle Fairy

Plot

The Bottle Fairies, who have come from another world, are attempting to learn many things about the world so they can gain knowledge and turn into humans - a feat they finally achieve in episode 12, set in the twelfth month, thus making the series span a whole year. However, as their wish to stay together is stronger than their wish to become human, they merge into one human, while retaining their several personalities. The thirteenth episode shows the fairies attempting to function as a single human girl, before eventually splitting into four fairies again. This extra episode makes Bottle Fairy the typical length of a small anime series.

The Bottle Fairies

The Bottle Fairies are often identified by their eye colors, their individual quirks, and their associations with a certain season (represented by which fairy sings a season song for the ED sequences of the series). They sleep in appropriately colored jars.

• Kururu is the blue Bottle Fairy; she has pink hair and blue eyes. She is associated with the season of spring. Kururu plays the part of the hyperactive character, and what she imagines is often very extreme. Kururu often assumes a leadership role.

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Mari Daniel (English)

• Chiriri is the yellow Bottle Fairy; she has blond hair and yellow eyes. She is associated with the season of summer. She is friendly and slightly reserved. Despite her prim and ladylike personality, her imagination is very surreal, and she is obsessed with daytime soap operas. She is the only fairy to wear a hat, is never seen without one, and expresses an obsession with hats or anything she could potentially wear as a hat.

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Mia Bradly (English)

• Sarara is the red Bottle Fairy; she has grey hair and red eyes. She is associated with the season of autumn. She is the tomboy of the group, so what she imagines tends to be fighting and sports related, or concerned with samurai or ninjas. While the other fairies wear feminine clothing in most of their fantasies, Sarara is consistently shown wearing masculine clothing instead.

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Vicky Green (English)

• Hororo is the green Bottle Fairy; she has black hair and green eyes. She is associated with the season of winter. She is a somewhat distant character, with a slow, rambling personality. Hororo is always thinking about food and changing words into words of food that sound like them.

Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Jennifer Sekiguchi (English)

• Kusachiho, the combined human form of all four Bottle Fairies is called Onee-chan by some fans and Uni-chan by others^{[citation needed]}. Her name is a contraction of the fairies' names by using the first Japanese character of each. Predictably, she has what may be classified as dissociative identity disorder, and has the personality traits of all the Bottle Fairies. Which fairy is in control is indicated by the color of her eyes and her voice. Her color is orange. She only appears in the final two episodes.

• Rere is the purple Bottle Fairy; she appears in illustration book Bottle Fairy Funbook illustrated by Tokumi Yuiko (ISBN4-7577-3099-3). She is not associated with the seasons. She has an energetic, serious character and almost always repeat her phrases twice with another different way of talking. Although Rere is serious-type and tried to push other fairies to work in order to become human, she always swayed or distracted by other fairies' happy-go-lucky and ended up running gags with them.

Other characters

• Oboro is a small feline toy with wings that was enchanted by the Bottle Fairies. Oboro is white. It floats gently up and down when it is not being held or played with (usually it plays with Hororo). He is a silent character, and has only one facial expression, the one that it was made with (generally suggested to be bored or exacerbated).
• Sensei-san, who is never given a real name, looks after the bottle fairies. He is represented by the colors brown and green. It is given that his character teaches them things about the world, but his appearances in the series are rarely significant. However, a love letter in the third episode is a crucial plotpoint to the third episode. Though his job is never stated, the last episode shows that he is a teaching assistant at a university. Kururu also develops a crush on him by the end of the series, although it is hinted that the other fairies develop feelings for him as well.

Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama (Japanese), Yuri Lowenthal (English)

• Tama-chan is the (approximately 10 year old) next door neighbor of the Bottle Fairies and Sensei-san. She is represented by the colour purple and wears crayons in her hair with a large white ribbon down the back. She is happy to help the Bottle Fairies, who trust her (usually misleading) advice since she seems so self-assured. She occasionally expresses surprise at how childlike the fairies are even though they are supposed to be older than she is. Additionally, she was the mascot of the magazine Magi-Cu.

Voiced by: Haruko Momoi (Japanese), Reba West (English)

• Hanana is a plant that appeared in only one episode, and was cared for by the Bottle Fairies. It was enchanted to be immortal and stay in bloom forever, but they removed the spell when they realized Hanana would want to have children and spread around other flowers. Hanana does not have a color.

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