Sugar Sugar Rune
Sugar Sugar Rune or Sugar² Rune is a Japanese magical girl manga series written and illustrated by Moyoco Anno and serialized in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from September 2003 to May 2007. The series was collected into eight volumes published by Kodansha from September 2003 to May 2007. Sugar Sugar Rune was adapted into an anime television series produced by Studio Pierrot, which aired on TV Tokyo from July 2, 2005, to June 24, 2006. A new anime adaptation produced by Studio Khara has been announced.
Sugar Sugar Rune won the 29th Kodansha Manga Awards in the children's manga category.
Plot
In the Magical World, the future queen is chosen by selecting two young witches and sending them to the Human World, where they'll compete to capture the hearts of boys. Whoever has collected the most by the end of the competition is crowned queen.This generation's Queen Candidates are best friends and polar opposites Vanilla Mieux and Chocolat Meilleure, the daughters of the current queen and her former competitor. They're aided by their assigned mentor and guardian, pop idol witch Rockin' Robin, and their two animal familiars, Blanca the mouse and Duke the frog.
But the girls have more to deal with than just competing for hearts at school. There's something weird about the cool, mysterious middle school boy Pierre, who resembles the evil king Glace—and he seems to be after Chocolat. Now, both trapped within their own new goals, the two witches must fight their way and retain a friendship which no magic can defeat.
Characters
; Chocolat Meilleure/Chocolat Kato; Vanilla Mieux/Vanilla Aisu
; Rockin' Robin
; Duke
; Blanca
; Pierre Tempête de Neige
; Houx and Saule
; Queen Candy
; Cinnamon Meilleure
; Waffle
Media
Manga
The eight-volume manga was written and illustrated by Moyoco Anno. In comparison to the anime, which ended before its serialization in Nakayoshi, the manga more strongly emphasizes the struggle between the witches and the ogres. It was initially published in English by Del Rey Manga, but Udon Entertainment currently has the rights.Anime
In 2005, Sugar Sugar Rune was adapted into an anime television series produced by Studio Pierrot under the direction of Matsushita Yukihiro. Consisting of fifty-one episodes with scripts composed by Reiko Yoshida and music by Yasufumi Fukuda, Yutaka Minobe, Tomoko Sasaki and Yasuharu Konishi, the series was broadcast on TV Tokyo in Japan between July 2, 2005, and June 24, 2006.Three pieces of theme music are used—one opening theme and two closing themes. The opening theme is "Crazy for Chocolat" by Karia Nomoto. The closing theme for the first twenty-nine episodes is "The World Beyond the Moon" by Karia Nomoto and the last twenty episodes is "Date Date" by the series starring voice actresses Marika Matsumoto and Juri Ibata.
A CG short anime ONA titled Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières, produced by Studio Khara and directed and written by Yusuke Matsui for the anime's 20th anniversary and serving as a prologue to the original manga, was initially released at Japan Expo 2025 and later released on YouTube. At the same time and event, it was announced that a separate new anime adaptation by the same studio and director is also in production.