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 ====== Super Gals! ======
-**{{ruby|超|ちょう}}GALS!**(Super Gals!) also known as **{{ruby|超|ちょう}}GALS! {{ruby|寿蘭|ことぶき}}**((:fn:>In English it's also called ‘Super Gals! Kotobuki Ran’.)) is a manga and anime series about **[[lb:supagyaru:Kotobuki Ran]]** – a shiro-[[lb:gyaru]] and the de-facto Queen of Shibuya – living her day-to-day life filled with chaos and fun.
+**{{ruby|超|ちょう}}GALS!**(Super Gals!) also known as **{{ruby|超|ちょう}}GALS! {{ruby|寿|ことぶき}}{{ruby|蘭|らん}}**((:fn:>In English it's also called ‘Super Gals! Kotobuki Ran’.)) is a [[lb:manga]] and [[lb:anime]] series about **[[lb:supagyaru:Kotobuki Ran]]** – a shiro-[[lb:gyaru]] and the de-facto Queen of Shibuya – living her day-to-day life filled with chaos and fun.
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 ===== Reviews =====
 So far I've only watched the anime, but I plan to read the manga at some point in the near future.
 ==== Anime ====
-I ended up watching the whole anime in a relatively short amount of it because I was having so much fun.
+I ended up watching the whole anime in a relatively short amount of time because I was having so much fun.
 However, I can’t comment //that// much on the story since I watched it raw in Japanese, so I didn't always get the nuance or details of what was going on (still being in the process of learning Japanese). That said, it was able to maintain my attention and I could still understand what was up.
-All that said, I do think the series suffers from one thing in particular, which is that sometimes very ridiculous and downright impossible things happen. It leans a bit more cartoony at times, which makes it hard to be super immersed. I consider this a bit of a downside because – unlike with something like [[lb:Totally Spies]] – it's hard to tell what is or isn't real in some cases.((:fn:>To elaborate on what I mean exactly, there's this footnote.\\ Basically, I interpret ‘cartoony’ things as being an exaggeration of something that really happens for the purposes of entertainment. So, for example, when someone gets punched into the sky and there's a star shine after they become invisible...it can be assumed that they aren't literally exiting the atmosphere...it's just for the sake of emphasis/comedy at that point. Especially if they reappear just a few seconds later.\\ However, there are a few cases where this doesn't really happen (anything to do with [[lb:supagyaru:honda mami|Mamirin]]'s wealth and technology for example). The effect is that it's a little harder to take things seriously, especially when it gets a bit more angsty and serious.))\\
+All that said, I do think the series suffers from one thing in particular, which is that sometimes very ridiculous and downright impossible things happen. It leans a bit more cartoony at times, which makes it hard to be super immersed. I consider this a bit of a downside because – unlike with something like <cite>[[lb:Totally Spies]]</cite> – it's hard to tell what is or isn't real in some cases.((:fn:>To elaborate on what I mean exactly, there's this footnote.\\ Basically, I interpret ‘cartoony’ things as being an exaggeration of something that really happens for the purposes of entertainment. So, for example, when someone gets punched into the sky and there's a star shine after they become invisible...it can be assumed that they aren't literally exiting the atmosphere...it's just for the sake of emphasis/comedy at that point. Especially if they reappear just a few seconds later.\\ However, there are a few cases where this doesn't really happen (anything to do with [[lb:supagyaru:honda mami|Mamirin]]'s wealth and technology for example). The effect is that it's a little harder to take things seriously, especially when it gets a bit more angsty and serious.))\\
 I think there could be a way to do it properly, but it didn't really handle the balance between cartoony/immersive/serious very well at times.
 Overall I think it's a really good series though. There's a lot of content and a lot of fun stuff happens in there. Plus it does get serious at times, though how well that lands I can’t really say...those were coincidentally the parts that I understood the least.
-I also think that //Kotobuki Ran// is a very very fun character. One of the other characters (**Asou Yuuya**) describes her as a ‘dream girl’ and I think that's a very apt description, at least for someone like me. She's also incredibly stylish, so she's usually wearing some pretty nice-looking outfits.\\
+I also think that //Kotobuki Ran// is a very very fun character. One of the other characters (<span smcp>Asou Yuuya</span>) describes her as a ‘dream girl’ and I think that's a very apt description, at least for someone like me. She's also incredibly stylish, so she's usually wearing some pretty nice-looking outfits.\\
 The fashion and variety in the outfits here is actually really nice in general.
+There's something I forgot to mention before: the music.\\
+The music in the anime is very memorable because it sounds particularly unique (compared to everything else I've seen). Some of the tracks are obviously mimicking the sound of [[lb:eurobeat]] which, y'know, makes a lot of sense. Those are also my favorites.
 ===== Trivilinks =====
   * [[anidb>475|aniDB]]
   * [[anila>1728|AniList]]