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Ah! My Goddess is a Manga of Kōsuke Fujishima.
Titrate Japanese: ああっ女神さまっ ( Aa! Megami-sama! ).
Still in progress in Japan, it is published in French at Pika Edition.

Short summary of the history

Keiichi Morisato, student young person, make one day a wrong number and call “S.O.S Goddess Friendship”. The operator says to him whereas a goddess will come exaucer one from her wishes… and an young woman, Belldandy, leaves the mirror behind our héros.
She explains to Keiichi that she is a Goddess and can to him exaucer a wish, any, but only one and unique.
Keiichi, believer who it is about a joke of his comrades, wishes whereas a goddess as Belldandy remains near him for always. The wish is granted to him, with its great surprise: Belldandy thus will remain to live with him on Terre.
However to live with a Goddess proves not to be of any rest…

List characters

Belldandy (ベルダンディー)
Urd (ウルド)
Skuld (スクルド)
Peorth (ペイオ - ス)
Keiichi Morisato (森里螢一)
Megumi Morisato (森里恵)
Mara/Marller/Maleurr (マーラー)
Sayoko
Aoshima
Tamiya
Otaki
Sora
Banpei
Hild
Welsper
Sigel

Manga

Japanese Edition

editor: Afternoon (prepublication), Kōdansha (publication)
date of first publication: 1988
many left volumes: 35 (in progress)

French Edition

editor: Pika Edition
date of first publication: March 2001
many left volumes: 33 (left the 4/18/2007) (volume 34 the 10/17/2007)
format: 12 X 18 cm

Adaptations

OAV

5 OAV (1993 in Japan, 1995 in French version).

It is the first adaptation of the manga which thus takes again the history since the beginning. It takes a treatment more dramatic and less comic than original work.

Data sheet

Year: 1993
Realization: Hiroaki Gohda
Creative original: Kosuke Fujishima
Music: Takeshi Yasuda
Animation: AIC
Laid off in France by: Kaze
Many episodes: 5

Cartoon film

The history becomes to some time after OAVs with the arrival from Celestin the former instructor from Belldandy which had disappeared since from the years. But hardly it happened that this one makes him lose the memory and propagates a virus which devastates the celestial data-processing network yggdrasil, threatening the whole world!

Data sheet

Year: 2000
Realization: Hiroaki Gohda, Makoto Bessho
Character design: artistic Hidenori Matsubara
Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
Creative original: Kosuke Fujishima
Music: Shirou Hamaguchi
Animation: AIC
Laid off in France by: Kaze
Lasted: 105 minutes

External bonds

Critical of the DVD of Film on dvdanimet.net

Series TV

more faithful Adaption of the manga than OAVs, it takes again the history since the beginning.
Televised series which is composed of 25 episodes for season 01 and of 24 episodes for season 02. The first diffusion took place on January 6th, 2005 on Japanese chain TBS. The first season is also made up of two episodes no-claims bonus, which are only available in the DVD of the series.

Data sheet

Year: 2005
Realization: Hiroaki Gohda
Character design: artistic Hidenori Matsubara
Director: Hiroshi Kato
Directing of animation: Hidenori Matsubara
Creative original: Kosuke Fujishima
Music: Shirou Hamaguchi
Animation: AIC
Laid off in France by: Kaze

Many episodes: Season 01 (26 + 1 special placed between the 12 and the 13), Season 02 (24)

List episodes

Season 01 :

01. Es you a goddess?
02. Are Ah, the Believer saved?
03. Ah! Training, my house and a goddess.
04. Ah! The Queen and the Goddess.
05. Ah! Under the same roof.
06. Ah! A blessed object found by chance.
07. Ah! The place which transports your feelings.
08. Ah! The test of the Love, with a handicap of thirty points.
09. Ah! The secrecy of the Queen and the Goddess.
10. Ah! Can the Club Car gain?
11. Ah! The arrival of the demon Misfortune?
12. Ah! Are the Goddess and the Queen on a balance?
13. Ah! With which belongs Onee-sama?
14. Ah! A method of teaching called humility?
15. Ah! A heart stolen by a Goddess?
16. Ah! Catastrophes in series. A sign of bad omen?
17. Ah! Talent and eagerness?
18. Ah! The confession under the so much awaited moon!
19. Ah! Why do you devour me eyes?
20. Ah! Saves the Goddess if you are a man!?
21. Ah! I admire the Angel with the white wings!
22. Ah! Is the call of the Demon inside the ballot box?
23. Ah! Is the saver in the flute?
24. Ah! I will be always with you?
25. Ah! Little story of love of Urd!
26. Ah! To be an adult is so palpitating!?
27. Ah! An exchange of diary with the goddess (special episode being located between episodes 12 and 13)

Season 02 :

01. Ah! A wish, once again!
02. Ah! The concerned queen of revenge
03. Ah! I offer this feeling in this Christmas day before to you
04. Ah! I want that the world is filled with happiness!
05. Ah! The wavelength which captivates the love!
06. Ah! It is that the jealousy!?
07. Ah! I will carry out your wish!
08. Ah! I want to be with your help!
09. Ah! An appointment for the gaining goddess!
10. Ah! This word which I cannot say!
11. Ah! Seized your dream with this hand!
12. Ah! Tears of a goddess and her dream with him!
13. Ah! Awake! This feeling!
14. Ah! My dear Cupid!
15. Ah! Me: The goddess and the demon?
16. Ah! Darkness does not fear, shines of thousand fires!
17. Ah! The arrival of the big boss of the demons!
18. Ah! Do the demons have a dignity?
19. Ah! The love of a goddess can save the ninjas!
20. Ah! It does not matter the place, since one is both!
21. Ah! Is this a problem if I am a demon?
22. Ah! The declaration of love of a goddess!
23. Ah! The destiny of each one!
24. Ah! The love is a song which makes palpitate the heart!

second season of the series in 2006 under the title Aa! Megami-sama: Sorezore No Tsubasa (Ah! My goddess - wings of each one)

Doubling

Mythology

Ah! My Goddess is a work which freely draws from the Scandinavian Mythologie.

Nornes

The three goddesses heroins of the manga are in fact the three Nornes of Scandinavian mythology:

Belldandy is Verdandi, the norne which represents the present. In the manga, it is the boyfriend of the hero. One can notice that Verdandi and Belldandy can be written exactly in the same way in kana, because the Japanese Langue does not know the sound v (equivalent with the B ) and does not make the difference between R and L .
Skuld, which manufactures without stop of new inventions in the manga, is the norne which represents the future.
Urd, the elder one of the three sisters, which frabric without stop of the potions in any kind, is the norne which represents the past.

Yggdrasil

In mythology, Yggdrasil is the tree which supports the world and auprès of which take care the three nornes. In the manga, it with the same function, but he appears himself as a computing system which the goddesses must maintain in operating condition. Urd is in charge of its administration and Skuld drives out the bugs of them.

Runes

The name of the Peorth goddess comes from the character runic ᛈ which is called perthro (into Germanic), peorth (in Anglo-Saxon) or perdo (as Scandinavian old man), and which evokes the idea of chance and destiny. Moreover, it is associated with the nornes in mythology. In the Italian edition, the name of Peorth is " Peitho" , the goddess of persuasion.

Sleipnir

In volume 2 of the manga, Belldandy tells that once, Urd had left to horse to seek a drug to him. This animal was not other than Sleipnir, the horse with eight legs of Odin.

Fenris and Midgard

In volume 6, Fenris and Midgard are a virus and an antivirus.

Derived series

In 1998 left to Japan a series TV 48 episodes 5 minutes each one. It left to France in 2004 at Kaze Animation .

French Title: adventures of the mini-goddesses

original Title: ああっ女神さまっ小っちゃいって事は便利だねっ (Aa! Megamisama: Chicchaitte koto wa benri da! - Ah! My goddess! To be small, it is practical!)

Synopsis: This series is an adaptation of the little stories in four boxes included in the manga and tells the adventures mild nutters of the goddesses SD (Super Deformations) accompanied by a rat named Gan-chan.

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