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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name         = Mirmo! Zibang
| image        = Mirmo! volume 1.png
| caption      = First {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volume cover
| ja_kanji     = ミルモでポン!
| ja_romaji    = Mirumo de Pon!
| genre        = {{ubl|[[Fantasy]]<ref name="Natalie1">{{cite web|script-title=ja:「ミルモでポン！」描き下ろしが17年半ぶりにちゃおに登場、ミルモの過去のエピソード|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/526979|website=[[Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609035757/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/526979|archive-date=June 9, 2023|language=ja|date=June 2, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>|[[Romantic comedy]]<ref name="Natalie1"/>}} <!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type         = manga
| author       = [[Hiromu Shinozuka]]
| publisher    = [[Shogakukan]]
| publisher_en = {{English manga publisher|SG=[[Chuang Yi]]}}
| demographic  = {{Transliteration|ja|[[Shōjo manga|Shōjo]]}}
| magazine     = [[Ciao (magazine)|Ciao]]
| first        = August 3, 2001
| last         = December 1, 2005
| volumes      = 12
| volume_list  =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type         = TV series
| director     = [[Kenichi Kasai]]
| producer     =
| writer       = Michihiro Tsuchiya
| music        =
| studio       = [[Studio Hibari]]
| licensee     = {{English anime licensee| NA= [[Viz Media]]}}
| network      = [[TX Network|TXN]] ([[TV Tokyo]])
| network_en   = {{English anime network|PH= [[Cartoon Network (Philippine TV channel)|Cartoon Network]]}}
| first        = April 6, 2002
| last         = September 27, 2005
| episodes     = 172
| episode_list =
}}
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'''''Mirmo! Zibang''''', known in Japan as {{nihongo|'''''Mirumo de Pon!'''''|ミルモでポン!}}, is a Japanese [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Hiromu Shinozuka]]. It was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Shōjo manga|{{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} manga]] magazine ''[[Ciao (magazine)|Ciao]]'' from August 2001 to December 2005, with its chapters collected in twelve {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes. [[Chuang Yi]] released the manga in English in Singapore.

A 172-episode [[anime]] television series adaptation, known in Japan as ''Wagamama Fairy: Mirumo de Pon!'' and produced by [[Studio Hibari]], was broadcast on [[TV Tokyo]] from April 2002 to September 2005. It was licensed in North America by [[Viz Media]].

The manga series was awarded in the 2003 [[Kodansha Manga Award]] and in the 2004 [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] for [[Children's anime and manga|children's manga]].

==Plot==
{{Main|List of Mirmo! characters{{!}}List of ''Mirmo!'' characters}}
Katie Minami, a cheerful but shy eighth-grader, finds a strange cocoa mug that summons Mirmo, a mischievous love fairy. Mirmo reveals he is a runaway prince avoiding marriage to Princess Rima, which has caused bounty hunters and his brother Mulu to chase after him. Their antics attract the attention of the bumbling Warumo Gang, whose careless experiments with time magic accidentally freeze the fairy world. Mirmo and his friends must perform an ancient ritual involving a magical door and a time bird to restore balance.

A new threat emerges when Darkman, a being born from negative emotions, begins manipulating people through transfer student Saori. Mirmo and his allies develop special combined magic techniques to counter this threat. After repeated battles, they finally defeat Darkman, though the victory temporarily severs the connection between worlds until their shared bonds repair the rift.

The group later assists Tako, a robotic octopus, in gathering seven emotion-based crystals needed to save his homeland. Overcoming various challenges, they help Tako harness the crystals' power. Meanwhile, Katie's romantic life becomes complicated when Koichi develops feelings for her while Haruka, the childhood friend of Katie's crush Dylan, enters their lives. After several misunderstandings, Dylan confesses his feelings to Katie. As Mirmo faces expulsion from the human world, an accident causes him to lose his memories and revert to rabbit form until Katie's intervention breaks the curse.

==Media==
===Manga===
Written and illustrated by [[Hiromu Shinozuka]], ''Mirmo! Zibang'' was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Shōjo manga|{{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} manga]] magazine ''[[Ciao (magazine)|Ciao]]'' from August 3, 2001,{{efn|It started in the magazine's September 2001 issue,<ref name="Gendai">{{cite web|script-title=ja:平成期の少女マンガ「ミルモでポン！」は珠玉のエンターテインメントだった！|url=https://gendai.media/articles/-/91853?page=1|website=Gendai Media|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241202040839/https://gendai.media/articles/-/91853?page=1|archive-date=December 2, 2024|language=ja|date=February 8, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> released on August 3 of that same year.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:小学館雑誌バックナンバー – ちゃお|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/sbc_mag2kback?zname=23&lpc=1&type=c&keitai=0&sha=1|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011222214305/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/sbc_mag2kback?zname=23&lpc=1&type=c&keitai=0&sha=1|archive-date=December 22, 2001|language=ja}}</ref>}} to December 1, 2005.{{efn|It finished in the magazine's January 2006 issue,<ref name="Gendai"/> released on December 1, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:雑誌＞バックナンバー＞小学館 – ちゃお|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_magback?sha=1&zname=06139&type=s&keitai=0|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227234644/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_magback?sha=1&zname=06139&type=s&keitai=0|archive-date=December 27, 2005|language=ja}}</ref>}} Shogakukan collected its chapters in twelve {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes, released from February 26, 2002, to March 31, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ミルモでポン！ 1|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4091350135|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051116151836/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4091350135|archive-date=November 16, 2005|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ミルモでポン！ 12|url=http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/comics/detail/_isbn_4091303986|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926034401/http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/comics/detail/_isbn_4091303986|archive-date=September 26, 2013|language=ja}}</ref> A special chapter was published in ''Ciao'' on June 2, 2023.<ref name="MantanWeb">{{cite web|script-title=ja:ミルモでポン！：恋の妖精が18年ぶり「ちゃお」帰還 描き下ろし新作 ミルモの過去が明らかに？ 舞台化記念|url=https://mantan-web.jp/article/20230602dog00m200005000c.html|website=[[Mantan Web]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|language=ja|date=June 2, 2023|archive-date=December 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210155452/https://mantan-web.jp/article/20230602dog00m200005000c.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The manga was licensed for English release in Singapore by [[Chuang Yi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mirmo! Zibang|url=http://www.chuangyi.com.sg/english/sud_pages/mir/mirmo.htm|publisher=[[Chuang Yi]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116093805/http://www.chuangyi.com.sg/english/sud_pages/mir/mirmo.htm|archive-date=January 16, 2010}}</ref>

===Anime===
A 172-episode [[anime]] television series adaptation, titled ''Mirmo! Zibang'' and known in Japan as {{nihongo|''Wagamama Fairy: Mirumo de Pon!''|わがまま☆フェアリー ミルモでポン!||Selfish Fairy: Mirmo de Pon!}}, was broadcast on [[TV Tokyo]] from April 6, 2002, to September 27, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:わがままフェアリーミルモでポン！ごおるでん　☆次回予告☆|url=https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/mirumo/story/story_mirumo.htm|publisher=[[TV Tokyo]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|language=ja|archive-date=June 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604235607/https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/mirumo/story/story_mirumo.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:わがままフェアリーミルモでポン！ごおるでん　(ちゃあみんぐ) ☆次回予告☆|url=https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/mirumo/story/story_mirumo.htm|publisher=[[TV Tokyo]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|language=ja|archive-date=June 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604235607/https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/mirumo/story/story_mirumo.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In North America, the series was licensed by [[ShoPro Entertainment]];<ref>{{cite web|last=Alexander|first=Isaac|title=ShoPro USA Gets New Name and Titles|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2003-01-17/shopro-usa-gets-new-name-and-titles|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|date=January 17, 2003|archive-date=November 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241125100310/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2003-01-17/shopro-usa-gets-new-name-and-titles|url-status=live}}</ref> the company would later merge with Viz Communications to form Viz Media, with the series marketed as available for broadcasters.<ref>{{cite web|last=Macdonald|first=Christopher|title=New Viz Properties from NATPE|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-01-30/new-viz-properties-from-natpe|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=December 2, 2024|date=January 30, 2006|archive-date=November 13, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113000254/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-01-30/new-viz-properties-from-natpe|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Season 1 (2002–03)====
* Episode 1 – Fairy Mirumo has arrived!
* Episode 2 – Love from Rirumu!?
* Episode 3 – Meet Ninja Yashichi! 
* Episode 4 – Kaede's Magical Diet
* Episode 5 – Mini Mini Kaede's Large Adventure
* Episode 6 – Was love taken away?
* Episode 7 – Let's Repair Love
* Episode 8 – Mirumo vs Murumo 
* Episode 9 – Super Obochama, Matsutake-kun 
* Episode 10 – Love's Four-cornered Battle
* Episode 11 – Father comes, and returns immediately!
* Episode 12 – Rirumu and Mogu-chan and...
* Episode 13 – A Very Tiring Day
* Episode 14 – Mirumo's Failure!?
* Episode 15 – This is bad! The Warumo Group 
* Episode 16 – Kaede, off to Mirumo's hometown...
* Episode 17 – Gift from the Gaia Tribe
* Episode 18 – Summer! The Sea! I am Matsutake!
* Episode 19 – Fireworks and Magic and Grandpa
* Episode 20 – Mirumo, can you fit in!? 
* Episode 21 – Caught in the Haunted Mansion!? 
* Episode 22 – Yashichi's First Love 
* Episode 23 – Rirumu's Fairy Fortune-Telling
* Episode 24 – Murumo's Decayed Tooth 
* Episode 25 – This is even serious! The Warumo Gang
* Episode 26 – Rescue Mirumo's Hometown!
* Episode 27 – Let's go to the Fairy School 
* Episode 28 – Do your best for the Double Athletic Meet
* Episode 29 – Rirumu's Important Day 
* Episode 30 – What, Mirumo is part of the Warumo Gang!?
* Episode 31 – It's Kinta!
* Episode 32 – Murumo's Rival, Papi
* Episode 33 – Goodbye, Azumi
* Episode 34 – Mumotaro's Demon Extermination
* Episode 35 – Movie Star? Yuuki-kun
* Episode 36 – Mirumo has been captured!
* Episode 37 – Mirumo vs Mekamirumo
* Episode 38 – Leave it to Oiratachi!
* Episode 39 – Nandakawakannaino?
* Episode 40 – Chocolate Event of the Snow Mountains
* Episode 41 – The Fairy Sugoroku Meet
* Episode 42 – Mikan and Kotashi
* Episode 43 – Kinta, again!
* Episode 44 – All the best! Fairies
* Episode 45 – Love through Oto's Chocolate? -
* Episode 46 – News, 3 Daughters
* Episode 47 – Is it so?
* Episode 48 – The Fairy's Doodle Note
* Episode 49 – Touching Matsutake's Fight!
* Episode 50 – Defeat Mirumo of the Past!
* Episode 51 – The Fairy World which has Stopped in Time
* Episode 52 – Move! Mirumo's Hometown

====Season 2 (2003–04)====
* Episode 53 – Marakasu has been Destroyed!?
* Episode 54 – Mysterious Transfer Student, Shiori
* Episode 55 – Hidaka-san's Brother?
* Episode 56 – Cake Talk
* Episode 57 – A Flower by the name of Rirumu
* Episode 58 – Mirumo and Murumo's Ship
* Episode 59 – The Warumo Group has finally disbanded!?
* Episode 60 – Murumo's Things
* Episode 61 – Dangerous Risaitaru
* Episode 62 – Kinta and Ponta
* Episode 63 – Lady, I am Kabi!
* Episode 64 – In any case, it's Powerful Magic (Part 1)
* Episode 65 – In any case, it's Powerful Magic (Part 2)
* Episode 66 – Either one or Both?
* Episode 67 – Whose Fault
* Episode 68 – Super Sister, Momo-chan
* Episode 69 – Important Friends
* Episode 70 – Confined with the Animals
* Episode 71 – Sorry
* Episode 72 – Please meet Yamane
* Episode 73 – Shall we Retreat?
* Episode 74 – The Bouchama Quest, Mystery of the Perapera Sword
* Episode 75 – Protect the Secret Base!
* Episode 76 – Let's go to the TV Station!
* Episode 77 – The Revival of Daaku
* Episode 78 – Golden Mirumo!?
* Episode 79 – Hello, I am Mirumo!
* Episode 80 – Shiiru is Haruna
* Episode 81 – The Way to Become Friends with Fairies
* Episode 82 – Fairy Concert
* Episode 83 – Charge! The Race of Wilderness
* Episode 84 – Wild Shakebi
* Episode 85 – The Honest Fairy, Mirumo?
* Episode 86 – Tragedy of Kokanemochi Clan
* Episode 87 – Attttack, Rrrrecive
* Episode 88 – Fairy Stick Clock~Chapter 1~
* Episode 89 – Fairy Stick Clock~Final Chapter~
* Episode 90 – Story of Princess Kaederara
* Episode 91 – Raise up! Warumo Kids
* Episode 92 – Rirumu and Akumi's 30 Minutes Cooking
* Episode 93 – Fairy In Love
* Episode 94 – Super Dangerous! Mimomo Shop
* Episode 95 – Fairy M's Lightning Proposal!?
* Episode 96 – Must See! Fairies go on an Onsen Trip
* Episode 97 – Doki! Date with Shiori
* Episode 98 – Friendship that became Parapara
* Episode 99 – Stinky Music Fair
* Episode 100 – My Name is Daaku
* Episode 101 – Melody that Saves the World
* Episode 102 – Goodbye Mirumo...Ahh!

====Season 3 (2004–05)====
* Episode 103 – It begins from Tako
* Episode 104 – It's really Carl
* Episode 105 – I Like P Man
* Episode 106 – Our Treasure
* Episode 107 – The Rock Cannot be Broken
* Episode 108 – Fairy Ninja! Garagara Battle
* Episode 109 – It's really Doji! The Warumo Group
* Episode 110 – That kind of Love, this kind of Love
* Episode 111 – Tako's Crystal Battle
* Episode 112 – The Fairy Pick!
* Episode 113 – Run, jump and then, swim
* Episode 114 – Goal of Tears
* Episode 115 – How is the Squid?
* Episode 116 – Fourteen-Love
* Episode 117 – Quiz: Search for the Warumo Kids!
* Episode 118 – Baramo has arrived!?
* Episode 119 – Akumi and Shiori
* Episode 120 – Legend of Rorerai
* Episode 121 – Do not say Clumsiness!!
* Episode 122 – Watermelon and Pool
* Episode 123 – Cake Crumbles
* Episode 124 – Goodbye, Kikuki-kun
* Episode 125 – Strongest Duel! Aishi vs Koishi
* Episode 126 – Okay! Yoimo Gang
* Episode 127 – Rabbits are Scary
* Episode 128 – Tako's Hometown
* Episode 129 – Kaede, Motetemoote
* Episode 130 – It's alright for Incho to become the Committee Head?
* Episode 131 – Want to become a Woman
* Episode 132 – It's Afro, it's Satoru, it's P Man!
* Episode 133 – Why, the Warumo Group is really Strong!?
* Episode 134 – Warrior of the Darumi Tribe. Kinta!?
* Episode 135 – Kaitoh Papan
* Episode 136 – King Mirmo
* Episode 137 – It's really the King Mirmo!?
* Episode 138 – Journey to the West
* Episode 139 – Tako's Secret
* Episode 140 – Meet TV Ninja!
* Episode 141 – Murumo and the Flying Baby
* Episode 142 – I am, Shinigami!
* Episode 143 – F. D. C VS K. T. C
* Episode 144 – The Warumo Group has Fallen in Love
* Episode 145 – The Last Crystal
* Episode 146 – Shock! The Seven Trials
* Episode 147 – Tako's Kako
* Episode 148 – Crystal Land
* Episode 149 – Hole of Azase!
* Episode 150 – Forever, Kumocho

====Season 4 (2005)====
* Episode 151 – Separating, Meeting, A New School Term
* Episode 152 – Quarreling Shop of Love
* Episode 153 – Teach me the Forces of Love
* Episode 154 – I am Panta!
* Episode 155 – Stomach black strike
* Episode 156 – Love of Lavender
* Episode 157 – Love of Lavender (Muglox Edition)
* Episode 158 – Kikuki-kun's First Love!?
* Episode 159 – Tako and Panta's arrival!
* Episode 160 – Counterattack of the pine bamboo
* Episode 161 – Large Confound Conflict! Chick Wars
* Episode 162 – It is the U-Ray! The Warumo Group!
* Episode 163 – Method of drawing a comedy manga!
* Episode 164 – It's summer celebration! The large decisive battle!
* Episode 165 – Sumita VS Kikuki-kun! Battle of love!
* Episode 166 – The storm of love raging...
* Episode 167 – The increase of shaking love!
* Episode 168 – Work harder, Kaede Minami!
* Episode 169 – Rescue Panta!
* Episode 170 – Decision of each one!
* Episode 171 – Kaede's wish, Mirumo's leave!
* Episode 172 – Let's all Mirumo De Pon!!! (Finale)

===Music===
Thirteen CD soundtracks and character song compilations have been released for the ''Mirmo'' series. One was released by [[Toshiba-EMI]], four by [[Tokuma Japan Communications|Tri-M]], and the rest by [[Konami]]. In addition, [[Konami]] released two drama CDs for ''Mirumo''.

===Video games===
Seven ''Mirumo'' video games have been created and released by [[Konami]].

*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Legend of Golden Maracas'' (May 2002, [[Game Boy Advance]])
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Mirumo goes Magic School'' (March 2003, [[PlayStation]])
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Knight Soldiers'' (September 2003, Game Boy Advance)
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The 8Man's Fairy'' (December 2003, Game Boy Advance)
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Dream of Cake'' (July 2004, Game Boy Advance)
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Kagi and Tobira'' (December 2004, Game Boy Advance)
*''Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! – The Dokidoki Memoreal Panic'' (September 2005, Game Boy Advance)

==Reception==
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The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation.<ref name="MantanWeb"/> It received the 2003 [[Kodansha Manga Award]] and the 2004 [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] for [[Children's anime and manga|children's manga]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html| script-title=ja:過去の受賞者一覧 : 講談社漫画賞 : 講談社「おもしろくて, ためになる」出版を| publisher=Kodansha| language=ja| access-date=2007-08-21| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202153805/http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html| archive-date=2012-12-02| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html|script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者|publisher=Shogakukan|language=ja|access-date=2007-08-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109115811/http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html|archive-date=2010-01-09}}</ref> The anime series received [[TV Tokyo]]'s award for top-rated new program in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mirmo! Story|url=http://www.mirmo-zibang.com/story.html|website=mirmo-zibang.com|access-date=December 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102021322/http://www.mirmo-zibang.com/story.html|archive-date=November 2, 2008}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/mirumo/ Official TV Tokyo ''Mirumo de Pon'' website] {{in lang|ja}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061115233629/http://www.shopro.co.jp/tv/archive/mirumo/index.html Official Shogakukan Production Mirmo! anime website] {{in lang|ja}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212070142/http://www.mirmo-zibang.com/ Mirmo! Official English anime website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051025003035/http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/mirumo/ Official Konami Mirmo! video game website] {{in lang|ja}}
* {{Anime News Network|manga|5938|Mirmo de Pon!}}

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