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Shugo Chara! (Translates to: "My Guardian Character!" wink

Type: Anime & Manga

Summary: Everyone thinks Amu Hinamori is a cool and spicy character. But, on the inside, she's a totally different person. One night, she wishes for the courage to find her "would-be self." When she wakes up, she finds 3 different colored eggs - red, blue, and green - in her bed!! What could they possibly be?!
At her school, Seiyo Elementary Academy, there is the Guardians, a group of students who act as the student body. Amu happens to have a crush on the "King", Tadase Hotori. They find out she has these eggs, and they explain to her what they are.
These eggs are her "would-be selves", or what she wants to be. When they hatch, they become tiny "guardian characters" - Ran, the cheerleader/athlete, Miki, the artist, and Suu, the chef. They can "character change" with her so that she can combat X-Eggs, which are the corrupted form of shugo chara eggs.
She is put into the Guardians (she finds out all of the Guardians have guardian characters, as well) as the "Joker". She meets plenty of interesting people, and finds that there is a group trying to harvest X-Eggs to find what is called the "Embryo", which will grant any wish you desire. This enemy is called the Easter Company, and two of the people enlisted there are Ikuto Tsukiyomi and Utau Hoshina, both having guardian character(s) of their own.
Amu, with the help of her new-found friends, has to find the X-Eggs and purify them so they can go back to their owners, but Ikuto and Utau, as well as the Easter Company, stand in her way. Watch as she becomes more open and friendly as she, too, finds strength and support in the friends she makes along the way.

Review: Great series, whenever Ikuto enters it makes me squeal. lol For a bunch of elementary students, the Guardians sure are a lively bunch of characters! However, the manga and the anime are quite different, since the anime has more filler episodes, and the characters are introduced in different places. I liked the anime better because it went farther in explaining what happened after certain points of the manga (ha, you thought I was going to give away the end! I think not). Also, the anime ended abruptly, and many questions are left unsolved. The manga is continuing, but not in the way I'd like it to, since it's just a bunch of side stories that don't include Amu (at least, not yet!). It's still great, funny and sometimes sad. Not my most favorite, but definitely something to watch and/or read!

Rating out of 5: heart heart heart heart