Mamotte Shugogetten!

Name: Mamotte Shugogetten!
Rating: 6.85

Guardian Angel Getten
まもって守護月天！

Manga6.8564 votes11 volumes · 71 chaptersFinished

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Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Shichiri Tasuke is your ordinary junior high school student—well, sort of. His life is a little lonely since his family has left him alone at home while they go travel the world over, only occasionally sending letters and postcards. This lonely and uneventful life is shaken up the day Tasuke receives the magical Shitenrin ring from his father in China. From out of this ring appears Shao Lin, the Guardian Angel Getten. She proclaims that she is here to protect her new master from all forms of danger and will stay by his side forever. But having been locked in the Shitenrin for hundreds of years, Shao knows nothing on the modern world. Sometimes it seems she causes MORE problems than she solves. Now, Tasuke must learn how to handle this beautiful, naive and magical angel.

Publication notes

Mamotte Shugogetten! was first published in English as Guardian Angel Getten by Gutsoon! Entertainment, who published the first four volumes between November 11, 2003 and May 1, 2004, before becoming defunct. Tokyopop later picked up the license, and published the entire series in five volumes from April 8, 2008 to June 30, 2009, this time under its original title.

Published

Apr 1996 to Jan 12, 2000

Authors

Sakurano, Minene

External links

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MAL rank: #12173
Members (MAL): 1,635
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Sequel

Mamotte Shugogetten! Retrouvailles

Adaptation

Mamotte Shugogetten! (anime)

Main characters

Shaorin Shugogetten20 fan favorites
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A moon spirit who wears traditional styled costumes, she has little understanding of the human world after spending a few thousand years in the confines of the shitenrin. Throughout the anime her purpose is to protect Tasuke and she does so by summoning different assistants called hoshigami (星神, literally "star gods") through the ring. She initially causes trouble for Tasuke by destroying harmless household objects in her efforts to protect him. She is banned from going to the school after destroying some of it. Because of this, Shaorin sends Rishuu to protect Tasuke at school. In the manga her misguided efforts to protect him the first day cause Tasuke to order her to go away, saying that he can protect himself. A bit later she apologizes and asks his permission to protect him from loneliness. On that basis the manga continues. She develops feelings for Tasuke and gets jealous when Kaori shows up in episode 12 and in the last 2 episodes, she finally realizes what she feels for Tasuke. Her given name might be Shao, with "-rin" being an affectionate suffix. Vol 5 of the manga shows that people casually familiar with her think that she's an ordinary person and her family name (last name) is "Shugogetten". (Source: Wikipedia)
Tasuke Shichiri3 fan favorites
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The main character. He is a high school (middle school in the manga) student, son of a globe trotting archeologist father. Because his father and older sister travel and his mother is deceased (in the manga she is merely absent) he lives alone in his two story home at the beginning of the story. He is decisive and intelligent, but nonetheless beleaguered and is a similar character to Keiichi Morisato in both personality and situation. He has a crush on Shaorin just after he first meets her and his feelings for her develop even more throughout the series. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ruuan Keikounitten2 fan favorites
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Freed by Tasuke from a wand artifact, the kokutentou found in the same area as the shitenrin and sent to Tasuke by his father. Ruuan's role as opposed to Shaorin's is not to protect Tasuke but instead to make him happy which she does by giving inanimate objects life to do her bidding. In the manga she gets herself a job as Tasuke's homeroom teacher. Ruuan and Shao are sworn rivals and conflict often occurs as their roles of keeping Tasuke "safe" or "happy" aren't always equivalent (Source: Wikipedia)