Super Doll Licca: Episode List

1- "Shinpi-tekina ningyō no kishi" ("The Mysterious Doll Knights")
(神秘的な人形の騎士)

Airdate: 6 October, 1998

Upon seeing a newspaper article about the Fantasy Kingdom setting up a museum exhibit in her hometown, Nanae Kayama reaches for a suitcase to examine one of the three dolls in it, predicting rough sailing ahead for her granddaughter Licca. The Fantasy Kingdom's collaborative prologue with Nanae and her daughter Orie is briefly but vividly illuminated when Licca is given the Doll Licca Calling Ring along with her bento lunch; while Licca races to join her classmates, Dr. Scarecrow gives his henchmen Pull and Wire some last minute zero-hour instruction that details the goal of their group: successfully capturing and transporting the crown princess to the Doll Kingdom. Dr. Scarecrow declares zero hour for the operation to begin upon Sister Chiaki arriving at the museum with her Saint Terejia Gakuen students; in spite of some conspicuous red flags raised by their chosen techniques, the operation runs like clockwork. Tomonori Michitani and Sumire Shinohara detect several red flags but fare no better at freeing themselves or even derailing the operation than their other classmates except for Licca and her suitor Dai Takabayashi who have broken away from the pack to explore the rest of the museum on their own. A chance encounter with the university student Rui Makiyama who tells them about the Doll Kingdom and the Doll Knights prior to rushing off to class becomes the genesis of Licca developing a crush on Rui in contrast to Dai being jealous of the "weird" young man before both kids soon discover that there is something wrong when they are the only ones at the lunchtime rendezvous point. Things quickly come to a head when Pull successfully isolates and illuminates Licca as the Doll Kingdom crown princess prior to Dr. Scarecrow's hasty capture attempt which ultimately implodes the whole operation when Nanae bootstraps Doll Licca for battle when her granddaughter's Calling Bracelet activates; a short battle later, Doll Licca demolishes the entire operation and easily foils her mistress's abduction.