Nurse Angel Ririka SOS

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## Nurse Angel Ririka SOS

### Genre

Makeover Heroine
Girls Comic
Fantasy

## Nurse Angel Ririka SOS

### Genre

Makeover Heroine
Girls Comic
Fantasy

### Original・Draft, etc

Yasushi Akimoto
Koi Ikeno

### No. of Episodes

35

**Nurse Angel Ririka SOS** is a manga written by Yasushi Akimoto and drawn by Koi Ikeno, serialized from the January 1995 issue to the June 1996 issue of the shojo manga magazine "Ribon". Also, a TV anime based on it that was broadcast on the TV Tokyo network from July 7, 1995 to March 8, 1996.

# About

Yasushi Akimoto, who is said to be the original author, was the de facto drafter who invented only the concepts such as "fighting nurse" and "Queen Earth and the name of Dark Joker", and it was the manga version that devised the detailed work setting. Koi Ikeno was in charge of drawing.

# Anime

It was broadcast on TV Tokyo Network from July 7, 1995 to March 29, 1996, every Friday from 18:00 to 18:30.
All 35 episodes.
During the period from March 15th to March 29th, 1996, the first to third episodes of the musical will be broadcast.

Akitaro Daichi's first TV series director's work, and later directors such as "Sexy Commando Gaiden Wow !! Masaru-san" and "We Were There" also feature self-parody and homage to this work. ..
In addition, Yasushi Akimoto and Tetsuya Komuro of the original credit were in charge of the theme song.

It is a transformation heroine animation that follows "Sailor Moon" and is characterized by a serious route in contrast to the comical previous program "Akazukin Chacha".

The main sponsor is Takara (currently Takara Tomy).
The main item of the transformation heroine was newly produced. The element of Nurse Angel is reminiscent of the transformation heroine Magical Princess of the previous program "Akazukin Chacha".
This work is positioned as a post "Chacha" that can compete with the sponsor "Sailor Moon" by Bandai (currently Bandai Namco), and the same manga magazine, toy sponsor, TV station, advertising agency and production company and its staff are called " It became a form that slides as it is from "Chacha".

In addition, it is the same as "Chacha" in that the companion character who holds the side of the heroine is a man.
At that time, "Sailor Moon" was being aired, and the broadcast was shortened because children, who are the buyers, could not keep up with the serious story that was very different from "Chacha."
In addition, it was said that "Chacha" fans were repulsing the fact that "Ririka", a transformation heroine animation, started again after "Chacha", which had changed from the transformation heroine line to the original compliant, was ended at that time.
"Chacha" and this work have in common that they have no memory of their transformation at first and that they continue to fight even after the enemy organization is wiped out.

Ririka, who decided to save the planet in exchange for her life, and the final story, which depicts people suffering in front of her, received a surge in suicides that plagued bullying at the time of the broadcast. It is intended to send a message to those who have decided to die.
In the "Animedia" project "This Month's Famous Scenes", he won more than 150 votes and won first place.

Since Ririka had two birthdays within the eight-month broadcast period, it was confusing as to which was the official birthday.
Later, the staff issued an official opinion that the birthday would be July 7.
In addition, Ririka's birthday party is being held by fans and staff cast.

This work is a complete content to the last, and there are no plans for a sequel or later talks by OVA etc.
In addition, there was a plan to attach an OVA of "a later story about 25 years after the end of the main story" to the DVD-BOX released in 2004, but it eventually failed.

# Story

Ririka Moriya is an ordinary 4th grade girl who goes to private Shirobato school everywhere.
Another Earth, Queen Earth warrior Kanon (Nozomu Kanou), who transferred to the same school on Age 10's birthday, fights against the dark joker who plans to invade the earth as "Nurse Angel" and makes the earth. Entrusted with the mission to find the "flower of life" to save.
Ririka fights the Dark Joker with Kanon's help, but Kanon is eroded by a black vaccine that spreads illness and death.
Kanon, who misses the scarce green vaccine from the source of Nurse Angel's holy power, refuses treatment and dies.

With Ririka's childhood friend "Seiya Uzaki", who inherited the power of Kanon, as a partner, Battle and the search for flowers of life continue.
And while being hurt by Kanon's betrayal, which was revived as a dark joker, the green vaccine that had consumed everything was once replenished by Dewey who separated from the dark joker, and Ririka was a dark joker with the help of Seiya and Dewey. Defeat Bros, the master ball.
She also revived as a dark joker with the power of Bros' black vaccine and succeeded in rescuing Kanon who was being manipulated.

but, Ririka has to fight the monsters produced by the black vaccine that is spreading all over the world even after defeating Bros because Dewey accidentally scattered the black vaccine when stealing the vaccine from Bros. lost.
While the green vaccine diminishes each time it fights the Dark Joker, no flower of life is found. The day before Ririka's Age 11 birthday, Mimina, the second princess of Queen Earth, who came to support Ririka on behalf of Kanon, looked into Ririka's Memory and revealed her astonishing truth. become.

A long time ago, Ririka's predecessor, Nurse Angel, contained a flower of life that was about to be abused by a dark joker.
The seed of the flower of life you were looking for is sealed in Ririka's life, and you must sacrifice Ririka's life to release the flower of life.
Mimina tells Kanon and Helena everything, and Kanon goes to Ririka to tell Ririka the painful fate that has been set for a long time.

Ririka suffers when her favorite senior tells her that she is dead, and her "life" and "world life" are weighed down.
In order to protect the earth and his loved ones, it seemed that after the birthday party, he overwhelmed the opposition of Seiya and Dewey and disappeared in exchange for the blooming flowers of life, but Ririka looked at the flowers all over. Awake, she finds herself alive.

# Characters

* Ririka Moriya
	+ Nurse Angel

# Terms

## Nurse Angel

A legendary girl who is said to be the guardian deity of Queen Earth.
She is the only one who can purify the dark joker with the green vaccine as her source of power.
She is very painful, but she can also convert the black vaccine to a green vaccine.
She can cleanse the monsters embodied by the black vaccine and return humans infected with the black vaccine to real humans.
There is a difference in the settings between the manga version and the anime version.

## Green Vaccine

A vaccine that is the source of the fighting power of nurse angel.
It can heal and rejuvenate creatures' illnesses and injuries, and purify the black vaccine in dark joker.

## Black Vaccine

A vaccine that is the source of the power of Dark Joker.
It weakens people and plants by illness and withering, and turns humans into dark jokers.
The Nurse Angel has the power to turn a black vaccine into a green vaccine, but it must endure severe pain.

## Flower of Life

A medicinal plant that is said to exist on a planet full of life.
Both the green vaccine and the black vaccine are made from this flower.
In the manga version, there is a difference in the shape of the leaves between Earth and Queen Earth, and it was planned to be followed in the anime version, but it failed due to the shortening of the broadcast.
Kanon was looking for a flower of life that should have been somewhere on Earth, as all the flowers of life of Queen Earth were stolen by the Dark Joker and turned into a black vaccine.
According to botanist Ririka's father Kazuhito, it has already become extinct.

## Queen Earth

Another earth that exists in a universe different from the earth, and the paired earth is the so-called fate community.
Once a beautiful planet in full bloom, it is in danger of being destroyed by the invasion of the Dark Joker.
All Queen Earth humans have supernatural powers, but with the exception of Princess Minina, they are weakened on Earth.
Princess Helena shares her life with Queen Earth, and the destruction of Queen Earth means the death of Princess Helena.

## Dark Joker

With the black vaccine as the source of power, it is considered to be an evil thought body that controls death and destruction and wanders in the universe.
Invade Queen Earth without anyone noticing, and follow Kanon who escaped to aim at the Earth and Ririka.
The hideout is hidden behind the moon during the invasion of the earth.
There is a blue spade mark on the back of the right hand of the dark joker.
It seems that humans infected with the black vaccine and monsters embodied by the black vaccine are separated, and Bros, the chief, is said to be the latter.