Magical Circle Guru Guru
| Magical Circle Guru Guru | |
Cover of the first DVD Box featuring main protagonists Kukuri and Nike | |
| 魔法陣グルグル (Mahōjin Guru Guru) | |
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| Genre | Fantasy comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Etō |
| Published by | Enix |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Gangan |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | July 11, 1992 – August 12, 2003 |
| Volumes | 16 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Nobuaki Nakanishi |
| Produced by | Masakazu Ida Nobuaki Tanaka |
| Music by | Nobuyuki Nakamura |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Original network | ANN (ABC) |
| Original run | October 13, 1994 – September 14, 1995 |
| Episodes | 45 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Nobuaki Nakanishi |
| Produced by | Nobuaki Tanaka |
| Written by | Hideki Mitsui |
| Music by | Nobuyuki Nakamura |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Released | April 20, 1996 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Doki Doki Densetsu Mahōjin Guru Guru | |
| Directed by | Jun Takagi |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Hideki Mitsui |
| Music by | Nobuyuki Nakamura |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
| Original run | April 4, 2000 – December 26, 2000 |
| Episodes | 38 |
| Manga | |
| Mahoujin Guru Guru 2 | |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Etō |
| Published by | Square Enix |
| Magazine | Gangan Online |
| Original run | November 1, 2012 – present |
| Volumes | 20 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Ikehata |
| Written by | Hisaaki Okui |
| Music by | TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
| Original network | TV Tokyo, TVA, TSC, TVO, TVh, TVQ, AT-X |
| Original run | July 11, 2017 – December 19, 2017 |
| Episodes | 24 |
Magical Circle Guru Guru (Japanese: 魔法陣グルグル, romanized: Mahōjin Guru Guru) is a Japanese manga by Hiroyuki Etō, which was serialized in Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 1992 to 2003. It was later adapted into an anime series on October 13, 1994. A second manga series was serialized in Gangan Online in 2012.
Mahōjin Guru Guru is a light series aimed at older children. It contains occasional toilet gags and some innuendo. It also is a parody of early role-playing video games (RPGs), particularly turn-based games, such as those in the Dragon Quest series. Information boxes are often displayed on screen with accompanying narration in the traditional RPG style. The overall goal of the two main characters, Nike and Kukuri, is to defeat Giri, the ruler of the darkness. Since the anime is based on an RPG, several side quests need to be completed before they are able to locate him.
A new series based on the manga animated by Production I.G aired from July to December 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the anime, marking the first anime from the Mahoujin Guru Guru franchise to receive an official English release.