The Melancholy of the Powderkeg Girls

On Sat, 28 May 2011 08:06:47 -0700 (PDT), hcobb <henry.cobb@gmail.com>
wrote:

Blossom,
she's paranoid and clingy.
Bubbles,
she's insecure and whinny.
Buttercup's
just an ordinary bitch.
Powderkegs ruin your day.

Waste of time,
trying to rule your world.
In your face, all the time,
The Powderkeg Girls.

They can explode any time,
at the slightest nudge.
Underfoot all the time,
The Powderkeg Girls.

Powderkegs!

The most common theme in Anime is "The Three Magical Girls".

For example:
Haruhi: bossy as Blossom.
Mikuru: distresses for attention like Bubbles.
Yuki puts on a callous face like she doesn't care about anything, but
just like Buttercup, she's got issues in the closet.

Alternatively:

Haruhi and Hikaru are driven by justice and so are acceptable rulers
of all creation.
Mikuru and Umi focus on the bonds they share with others.
Yuki and Umi look to local optimizations so they wind up in
comfortable nooks, if left to their own devices.

And their elements always remain the same.

Haruhi burns and when confined smolders.
Mikuru appears out of thin air as comforting as a gentle breeze.
And Yuki shifts the world like water around herself.

-HJC

You might be stretching a bit...

Usagi, Ami and Rei (first half of first season Sailor Moon) - Usagi
shifts the world but has the Mikuru/Fuu personality. And this story came
before Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (but, I'll grant, after Magic
Knight Rayearth).

Sae, Nanaka, and Akane (Magic User's Club) - Nanaka burns and shifts the
world around her, while Sae is both driven by justice and focuses on the
bonds she shares with others.

Homani, Alicia, Mikan, and Kuroha (Rental Magica) - first off, there's
four in the core group instead of three. Homani's bossy but is all about
the bonds she shares with the others; Kuroha is the gentle one, but
doesn't distress for attention; Mikan has hidden issues but burns and
smoulders; Alicia shifts the world around her because she's driven by
what she sees to be justice.

Moka, Kurumu, and Yukari (Rosario + Vampire) - Moka smoulders and shifts
the world, Yukari focuses on her bonds with others and is driven by
justice, Kurumu is bossy and distresses for attention.

--
Rob Kelk <http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/> e-mail: s/deadspam/gmail/
"I'm *not* a kid! Nyyyeaaah!" - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)
"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear
of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up." - C.S. Lewis