Kaitou Saint Tail
I picked up the first volume of this series because the idea of a magical girl as sort of a Robin Hood type thief sounded interesting. The music is good, the opening and closing themes were nice and the BGM was a pleasant violin melody. The weakest part of the show is probably the characters and animation. They're predictable and cookie-cutter mahou shoujo type characters. They're supposed to be in 8th grade but that's ridiculous, they look like (and act like) 5th grade at oldest. The art makes them look like little kids. Meimi wasn't too terribly interesting and Asuka Jr. (everyone seems to call him junior, ugh) was boring. The entire premise of the show is weird, Meimi goes to a private catholic school where her best friend, Sara (Seira, whatever) is a "nun-in-training" (wtf?) and takes the "information" that she gets out of taking confession and TELLS it to Meimi so that she can steal something BACK for some unfortunate person. Right. First of all, are you even allowed to start training to become a nun in 5th grade? I don't care if they're officially in 8th grade, they don't look like it or act like it at all so I I'm going to refer to these kids as 5th graders. Second, nuns don't take confessions, and even if they did 10 year old nuns-in-training wouldn't do it, and even THEN telling ANYONE what someone told you in a religious confession is strictly forbidden. Even if it would help people, you just can't.
So ignoring the liberties that the creators have taken with Christian or catholic customs, the show is pretty bland anyway. Every episode follows the same ploy, Saint Tail goes out and gets the item back and Junior (ugh) tries but fails to catch her with his incompetence, with his stupid official badge from the mayor thing.
If you want a good magical girl series, watch Cardcaptor Sakura, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, or Fancy Lala. Leave Saint Tail for a rental.
Last updated Sunday, November 03 2002. Created Sunday, October 20 2002.
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