Plot
List of Shugo Chara! characters
The heroine of the story Amu Hinamori, is a student at Seiyo Elementary. At first glance, her classmates refer to her as "cool and spicy" and rumors speculate about her personal life. However, her real personality is that of a very shy girl who has trouble showing her true personality. One night, Amu wishes for the courage to show her "would-be" self, and the next morning finds three brightly colored eggs — pink, blue, and green — in her bed. These eggs hatch into three Guardian Characters, or "Shugo Charas": Ran, Miki, and Su. The Guardian Characters aid Amu in discovering who she truly is and help fulfill Amu dreams. Amu's life becomes much more complex as she struggles to deal with her "would-be" selves and the Seiyo Elementary's Guardians, who each have a Guardian Character of their own. People with Guardian Characters can "chara-nari" (character transform) or "character change". Each transformation has special powers mainly for attacking or defending. Character changes have special powers, too, but have more practical uses. Later on, they recruit a girl named Amu as the "Joker" to search for X Eggs and X Characters, the corrupted forms of people's dreams, so the Guardians can purify their dreams.
Meanwhile, the Easter Company is extracting people's eggs in search of a special egg called the Embryo. The Embryo is believed to grant any wish to the one who possesses it. However, the process creates X Eggs and X Characters.
Later on in the series, a fourth (yellow) egg named Diamond is born. Unlike Amu other Guardian Characters, she is only seen a few times in the series. Due to Amu mixed feelings before Diamond was born, she becomes an X character and is "stolen" by idol singer Utau Hoshina, who uses Diamond to character change for her concerts planned by Easter as part of their plan to get the Embryo. Later on, Diamond is purified and becomes a regular Guardian Character. She would then appear in times of heavy crisis.
There is a lot of hinted romance, such as Amu's crush on Tadase as well as her mixed feelings for Ikuto.
In the second season of the series, the Guardians face a new type of egg: the ? Egg, which is Easter's newest plan to find the Embryo. A new character is introduced, Lulu, an Easter employee, who character changes with her guardian character and uses a magical necklace to extract people's Heart's Eggs. The Heart's Eggs then turn into ? Eggs, and the person whose egg has turned into a ? Egg character transforms into a corrupted form of who they want to be.
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