Fancy Lala: V.4 Double Duty [DVD]

Features

• Type: DVD
• Studio: Bandai Entertainment
• Language(s): english, japanese
• Director(s): Atsushi Yabe, Jun Takada, Katsumi Minokuchi, Kazunari Kume, Ken'ichirô Watanabe, Kiyotaka Ohata, Takahiro Ômori, Takashi Ikehata
• Actor(s): Candice Moore, Victor Atelevich, Reiko Oimori, Shinobu Adachi, Katie Rowan, Jeffrey Watson, Kappei Yamaguchi, Omi Minami, Michiko Neya, Maureen Jones

Third-grader Miho Shinohara has some problems with the trains when she visits her grandparents in the country. She finally reaches their village and discovers that Soichiro, the boy who teased her three years earlier, has grown into a polite and handsome junior high school athlete. Her "dinosaur-fairies" Pigu and Mogu cause a their usual ruckus in the countryside. Miho transforms into 15-year-old Fancy Lala and co-anchors a TV show about the local "water imp" (actually a kappa, a dangerous water spirit in Japanese folklore) with heartthrob Hiroya. As Lala, Miho learns that Shoichiro's girlfriend Haruka lives next door to him and that he used to be as obnoxious as Taro, the boy who lives next door to Miho. These parallels offer the heroine a possible vision of her own future, and suggest that Lala is helping her grow up. (Rated 7 and older: suitable for all ages) --Charles Solomon