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''Shōkōjo Seira'' is a 2009 Japanese drama of 10 episodes, adaptation of the he children's novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Starring Shida Mirai as Seira, Tanabe Seiichi as a French teacher and Higuchi Kanako as the Japanese counterpart to Miss Minchin, Mimura Chieko. This version took more liberties with the original material than the anime ''Anime/PrincessSarah'', making Sarah/Seira an adolescent, and giving her a love interest.
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''Shōkōjo Seira'' is a 2009 Japanese drama of 10 episodes, adaptation of the he children's novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Starring Shida Mirai as Seira, Tanabe Seiichi as a French teacher and Higuchi Kanako as the Japanese counterpart to Miss Minchin, Mimura Chieko. This version took more liberties with the original material than the anime ''Anime/PrincessSarah'', making Sarah/Seira an adolescent, and giving her a love interest.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Either the adults are downright evil (Mimura Chieko), clueless (Mimura Emiko) or genuinely want to help (Aran-sensei) but doesn't have the power to.
* AffablyEvil: As the series continues, we see that both [[DeanBitterman Director Chieko]] and [[RichBitch Maria]] have HiddenDepths and despite treating Seira horribly, they aren't entirely irredeemable.
* AloofAlly: Kaori openly expresses disgust at the way Maria treats Seira and is the only one who actually stands up to Maria and can get away with it. However, she expresses more of an interest in why Seira puts up with Maria than actually wanting to help her.
* AlphaBitch: Who else but Takeda Maria, the counterpart of Lavina?
* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite Kaori saying her family aren't close, her older brother comes in to visit her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Yukari acts all friendly and cute, but really, she's a nasty piece of work, purposely stepping on Seira's injured foot to give her the advantage. And when Masami was helping, she [[AndYourLittleDogToo nearly stepped on Masami's hand]] to stop her.
* BreakTheCutie: It's like everyone is after the poor girl. In fact, Kaito, Masami and the two mice might be the only reason why Seira hasn't broken completely.
* BumblingDad: To the surprise of many, Maria's father is this.
* CatchPhrase: Seira often says that "all girls are princesses". It means much to her because her deceased mother used to say it as ''her'' catch phrase.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: According to Kaito's friend Yukari, he promised her this when they were kids.
* CuteAndPsycho: For most of the time, Director Mimura Chieko is [[TheStoic calm and cool]] as a cucumber. However, when Seira (or when she's reminded of Seira's dead mother) appeals to her [[BerserkButton in a wrong way]], she utterly snaps and begins shrieking and slapping said victim (usually Seira).
* DaddysGirl: Seiri is close with her father, after her mother had died when she was very young.
* DeanBitterman: Mimura Chieko who runs the school and absolutely hates Seira, saying it right to her face.
* DistaffCounterpart: Kaito is essentially Becky. Only male.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Mimura Chieko had quite a grudge against Seira's mother. But since Seira's mother is dead, she would just it out on the next closest thing: her daughter. It doesn't help that Seira acts almost identical with her mother.
* DotingParent: Seira's father dotes and spoils her, but in a subversion, she is SpoiledSweet.
* DrowningMySorrows: When she is insulted by her sister or feeling depressed, Emiko has a few rounds and starts to ramble angrily about her dominating sister.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Both Seira and Kaito do this to each other. While waiting for the train, Seira [[SleepCute falls asleep]] and Kaito simply kisses her on the forehead. And before Seira left the school, she gives Kaito a kiss on the cheek.
* EasilyForgiven: As with the anime, Mimura Chieko and Maria, despite treating Seira like dirt, were forgiven and they both treat Seira much nicer in the ending. Interestingly, it was subverted with the cook, who was demoted to Seira's job and moaned how she should have treated Seira better.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Seira, despite not being a princess. And both her and her mother like to say how "all girls are princesses".
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: [[MrFanservice Aran-sensei the French teacher]]
* FallenPrincess: Despite not being a princess, Seira is one, having went from riches to rags.
* FlashBackEcho: So, so much. In fact, there are certain things that affect Mimura Chieko whether positively or negatively, though we don't know the reason until we see her FlashBack.
** When they first meet, Seira fixes Maria's tie. In Mimura Chieko's flashback, it was Seira's mother who fixes Chieko's tie when they first meet.
** Maria as Juliet fumbles her lines briefly in the RomeoAndJuliet play. Which reminded Director Chieko of how she messed up her lines when she acted as Juliet. We find out that [[spoiler:Seira's mother was originally suppose to be Juliet, but fell sick and Chieko had to take her place last minute. And Chieko knew that her performance was nothing compared to Seira's mother's would-be performance.]] Similar to how most people knew Seira was the better choice for playing Juliet compared to Maria.
** Similar with the above example, Seira was re-enacting Juliet's part on stage after the performance had long ended. Her actions and expressions were exactly like her mother's. [[spoiler:Even their circumstances were similar, as Seira was denied the role and Seira's mother was sick and both of them perform Juliet's role secretly]] Also how Chieko had accidentally stumbled upon their performances is quite similar.
** As Romi throws a temper tantrum, Seira gathers her up in her arms and hugs her until she calms down. When [[spoiler:Aran-sensei was a child]] and had gotten lost, Chieko was the one doing this to him.
* TheFool: Emiko, who is this and TheDitz. She cannot make a decision on her own, letting her sister run everything and despite having good intentions, she does nothing to help Seira, who she knows is suffering.
* FriendToAllChildren: Seira was the only person who was able to calm Romi's tantrum and after that, Romi followed her around like a little puppy.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Seira isn't afraid of the two mice in her room, even feeding them scrapes of her food. Same thing with Kaito, who was first shown befriending the mice.
* GenkiGirl: Seira's mother was constantly cheerful, energetic and always smiling.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Masami]] was in fact adopted. And in the end, Seira gets adopted by her father's friend.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: The orphaned Seira brings out many [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming moments of heartwarming]], even in the face of despair and loneliness.
* HopeSpot: Maria told the chef, his wife, Kaito and Seira that they will be participating in the play with them. Almost immediately, Seira hopes that she would be able to play Juliet, the role she always dreamed of playing, despite knowing Maria hates her. And Maria doesn't disappoint, cruelly slamming her back to reality by giving her an offstage role, not even allowing her to appear in the play. Another character lampshades this, showing disgust at how cruel Maria was to do it to Seira.
* HotTeacher: With Tanabe Seiichi playing a French teacher, we all knew this was going to happen.
* InsultBackfire: While cleaning up spilt soup that Maria purposely spilled on Seira's head, Maria sneers that she looks like a mouse. Seira returns it by thanking her and replying that she likes mice.
* KickTheDog: More like slap the dog. Poor Seira. The chef and his wife treat Kaito and Seira quite cruelly, bullying and snapping at Seira on the first day of work, not even offer any condolences that she just found out her father was dead. And in their first appearance, when Kaito hopefully expresses the desire to go to high school to study, they merely laugh in his face and tell him that it's better if he gives up. They continue to do this for the rest of the series.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Seira is like her mother in so many ways, all of which annoy the school director very much, as she had went to school with her mother.
* LoveTriangle: Emiko likes Aran-sensei who's more interested in Chieko. And later, we get Kaito's old friend getting jealous of his and Seira's relationship.
* ManChild: Emiko is a cheerfully childish woman who still sleeps with a stuffed animal, in contrast to her stricter and colder sister.
* {{Meido}}: Seira is forced to wear this after she loses her fortune and has no money.
* NiceGuy: Kaito.
* NiceToTheWaiter: ''The'' trait that Seira, no matter what the version, always has. She is kind to everyone, even if they treat her like dirt and order her around. Subverted by many others, such as the chef and his wife who mercilessly bully Kaito and Seira around.
* {{Odango}}: Romi, the cute little girl adopted by Seira, wears these.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Seira's mother was an only child and it can be assumed so is her father (or if he had siblings, they are dead), since Mimura Chieko remarks that Seira has no relatives to come and claim her.
* ParentalSubstitute: Seira becomes Romi's mother during her stay at the school.
* PetTheDog:
** Director Mimura Chieko treasures her student badge very much, since she earned it through hard work and determination. When Seira returns it, she is visibly happy and holds the badge tenderly. And a bit before that, she formally accepts Seira as an employee of the school and hands Seira her first paycheck.
** And after Emiko embarrasses herself in front of the parents, Chieko cheers her up in her own way and says that parties are more of her strength and even casually mentions that she herself is bad when it comes to parties.
** When Maria sees that Kaito's friend Yukari is bullying Seira, she tells Yukari to leave. Whether she [[EvenEvilHasStandards doesn't like what she sees]] or simply doesn't like the fact that they have an outsider intruding and disrupting the peace of the school. You could say that the pride she has in the school is her PetTheDog.
* ThePollyanna: Seira defines this trope. Even after hearing that her father is dead and she has to work as a servant, she doesn't give up.
* PromotionToParent: After Romi decides that Seira will be her new mother after her real mother died.
* RichBitch: Maria, Maria, Maria. Even when her kind father wanted to visit her at school, she directly told him not to and also renamed herself, so she wouldn't have the name that her father had gave her.
* ShoutOut: Like the anime, Seira reads "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" to a few children in the first episode, foreshadowing the parallel between herself and Cinderella. She even tells the children listening that even if things look bad now, they willl turn out for the better.
* SiblingYinYang: Friendly, naive Emiko to strict, calculating Chieko.
* SlowClap: Kaori mockingly does this to Maria, mentioning how the only reason why Aran-sensei left her the job to greet the French teacher who was coming to the school was because Seira wasn't there.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite being very rich, pretty and is doted endlessly by her father, Seira turned out kind and helpful to those who need her help.
* StepfordSmiler: Seira, even when she's feeling down or plain miserable, she keeps on a smile and her cheerful attitude.
* TheStoic: Kaori who rarely shows her emotions and prefers to stay away from people to keep from getting hurt. Turns out she's NotSoStoic.
* TagalongKid: Romi couldn't stand being seperated from her "mother" Seira for even a second, so they had no choice but to have her shadow Seira while she works.
* TakingTheBullet: Not as dangerous as a real bullet, mind you, but still very traumatic. Maria and the rest of the class were throwing tomatoes at a submissive, humilated Seira. When Seira's friend Masami was bullied into throwing the last tomato, Kaito comes in last second to take the hit instead and spare Seira of being hit by her own friend.
* TastesLikeFriendship: After Seira returns to her room after a long day's work with minimal food, her friend Masami often comes by at night, sneaking in food for her.
* TemptingFate:
** One of the last things Seira says to her father is for him to promise not go to anyplace dangerous.
** And after Seira gets kicked out from the school for not looking after the school, Maria remarked that it ended too soon and it was a boring ending. Of course, if you've read the [[Literature/ALittlePrincess original book]], you know it's far from over and not boring in the least.
* TrueCompanions: It would have been quite lonely and depressing for Seira if it wasn't for Kaito, the two mice and Masami helping her.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Kaito's friend Yukari, who Kaito is not interested in.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Surprisingly, Mimura Chieko was this, particularly towards [[spoiler:a young Aran-sensei.]] In fact, when she was younger, Chieko wanted to be the Director of the school so she could teach girls who are less fortunate.
* WealthyEverAfter: After having her assets unfrozen, along with being adopted, Seira is wealthy once again.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Either the adults are downright evil (Mimura Chieko), clueless (Mimura Emiko) or genuinely want to help (Aran-sensei) but doesn't have the power to.
* AffablyEvil: As the series continues, we see that both [[DeanBitterman Director Chieko]] and [[RichBitch Maria]] have HiddenDepths and despite treating Seira horribly, they aren't entirely irredeemable.
* AloofAlly: Kaori openly expresses disgust at the way Maria treats Seira and is the only one who actually stands up to Maria and can get away with it. However, she expresses more of an interest in why Seira puts up with Maria than actually wanting to help her.
* AlphaBitch: Who else but Takeda Maria, the counterpart of Lavina?
* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite Kaori saying her family aren't close, her older brother comes in to visit her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Yukari acts all friendly and cute, but really, she's a nasty piece of work, purposely stepping on Seira's injured foot to give her the advantage. And when Masami was helping, she [[AndYourLittleDogToo nearly stepped on Masami's hand]] to stop her.
* BreakTheCutie: It's like everyone is after the poor girl. In fact, Kaito, Masami and the two mice might be the only reason why Seira hasn't broken completely.
* BumblingDad: To the surprise of many, Maria's father is this.
* CatchPhrase: Seira often says that "all girls are princesses". It means much to her because her deceased mother used to say it as ''her'' catch phrase.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: According to Kaito's friend Yukari, he promised her this when they were kids.
* CuteAndPsycho: For most of the time, Director Mimura Chieko is [[TheStoic calm and cool]] as a cucumber. However, when Seira (or when she's reminded of Seira's dead mother) appeals to her [[BerserkButton in a wrong way]], she utterly snaps and begins shrieking and slapping said victim (usually Seira).
* DaddysGirl: Seiri is close with her father, after her mother had died when she was very young.
* DeanBitterman: Mimura Chieko who runs the school and absolutely hates Seira, saying it right to her face.
* DistaffCounterpart: Kaito is essentially Becky. Only male.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Mimura Chieko had quite a grudge against Seira's mother. But since Seira's mother is dead, she would just it out on the next closest thing: her daughter. It doesn't help that Seira acts almost identical with her mother.
* DotingParent: Seira's father dotes and spoils her, but in a subversion, she is SpoiledSweet.
* DrowningMySorrows: When she is insulted by her sister or feeling depressed, Emiko has a few rounds and starts to ramble angrily about her dominating sister.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Both Seira and Kaito do this to each other. While waiting for the train, Seira [[SleepCute falls asleep]] and Kaito simply kisses her on the forehead. And before Seira left the school, she gives Kaito a kiss on the cheek.
* EasilyForgiven: As with the anime, Mimura Chieko and Maria, despite treating Seira like dirt, were forgiven and they both treat Seira much nicer in the ending. Interestingly, it was subverted with the cook, who was demoted to Seira's job and moaned how she should have treated Seira better.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Seira, despite not being a princess. And both her and her mother like to say how "all girls are princesses".
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: [[MrFanservice Aran-sensei the French teacher]]
* FallenPrincess: Despite not being a princess, Seira is one, having went from riches to rags.
* FlashBackEcho: So, so much. In fact, there are certain things that affect Mimura Chieko whether positively or negatively, though we don't know the reason until we see her FlashBack.
** When they first meet, Seira fixes Maria's tie. In Mimura Chieko's flashback, it was Seira's mother who fixes Chieko's tie when they first meet.
** Maria as Juliet fumbles her lines briefly in the RomeoAndJuliet play. Which reminded Director Chieko of how she messed up her lines when she acted as Juliet. We find out that [[spoiler:Seira's mother was originally suppose to be Juliet, but fell sick and Chieko had to take her place last minute. And Chieko knew that her performance was nothing compared to Seira's mother's would-be performance.]] Similar to how most people knew Seira was the better choice for playing Juliet compared to Maria.
** Similar with the above example, Seira was re-enacting Juliet's part on stage after the performance had long ended. Her actions and expressions were exactly like her mother's. [[spoiler:Even their circumstances were similar, as Seira was denied the role and Seira's mother was sick and both of them perform Juliet's role secretly]] Also how Chieko had accidentally stumbled upon their performances is quite similar.
** As Romi throws a temper tantrum, Seira gathers her up in her arms and hugs her until she calms down. When [[spoiler:Aran-sensei was a child]] and had gotten lost, Chieko was the one doing this to him.
* TheFool: Emiko, who is this and TheDitz. She cannot make a decision on her own, letting her sister run everything and despite having good intentions, she does nothing to help Seira, who she knows is suffering.
* FriendToAllChildren: Seira was the only person who was able to calm Romi's tantrum and after that, Romi followed her around like a little puppy.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Seira isn't afraid of the two mice in her room, even feeding them scrapes of her food. Same thing with Kaito, who was first shown befriending the mice.
* GenkiGirl: Seira's mother was constantly cheerful, energetic and always smiling.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Masami]] was in fact adopted. And in the end, Seira gets adopted by her father's friend.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: The orphaned Seira brings out many [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming moments of heartwarming]], even in the face of despair and loneliness.
* HopeSpot: Maria told the chef, his wife, Kaito and Seira that they will be participating in the play with them. Almost immediately, Seira hopes that she would be able to play Juliet, the role she always dreamed of playing, despite knowing Maria hates her. And Maria doesn't disappoint, cruelly slamming her back to reality by giving her an offstage role, not even allowing her to appear in the play. Another character lampshades this, showing disgust at how cruel Maria was to do it to Seira.
* HotTeacher: With Tanabe Seiichi playing a French teacher, we all knew this was going to happen.
* InsultBackfire: While cleaning up spilt soup that Maria purposely spilled on Seira's head, Maria sneers that she looks like a mouse. Seira returns it by thanking her and replying that she likes mice.
* KickTheDog: More like slap the dog. Poor Seira. The chef and his wife treat Kaito and Seira quite cruelly, bullying and snapping at Seira on the first day of work, not even offer any condolences that she just found out her father was dead. And in their first appearance, when Kaito hopefully expresses the desire to go to high school to study, they merely laugh in his face and tell him that it's better if he gives up. They continue to do this for the rest of the series.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Seira is like her mother in so many ways, all of which annoy the school director very much, as she had went to school with her mother.
* LoveTriangle: Emiko likes Aran-sensei who's more interested in Chieko. And later, we get Kaito's old friend getting jealous of his and Seira's relationship.
* ManChild: Emiko is a cheerfully childish woman who still sleeps with a stuffed animal, in contrast to her stricter and colder sister.
* {{Meido}}: Seira is forced to wear this after she loses her fortune and has no money.
* NiceGuy: Kaito.
* NiceToTheWaiter: ''The'' trait that Seira, no matter what the version, always has. She is kind to everyone, even if they treat her like dirt and order her around. Subverted by many others, such as the chef and his wife who mercilessly bully Kaito and Seira around.
* {{Odango}}: Romi, the cute little girl adopted by Seira, wears these.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Seira's mother was an only child and it can be assumed so is her father (or if he had siblings, they are dead), since Mimura Chieko remarks that Seira has no relatives to come and claim her.
* ParentalSubstitute: Seira becomes Romi's mother during her stay at the school.
* PetTheDog:
** Director Mimura Chieko treasures her student badge very much, since she earned it through hard work and determination. When Seira returns it, she is visibly happy and holds the badge tenderly. And a bit before that, she formally accepts Seira as an employee of the school and hands Seira her first paycheck.
** And after Emiko embarrasses herself in front of the parents, Chieko cheers her up in her own way and says that parties are more of her strength and even casually mentions that she herself is bad when it comes to parties.
** When Maria sees that Kaito's friend Yukari is bullying Seira, she tells Yukari to leave. Whether she [[EvenEvilHasStandards doesn't like what she sees]] or simply doesn't like the fact that they have an outsider intruding and disrupting the peace of the school. You could say that the pride she has in the school is her PetTheDog.
* ThePollyanna: Seira defines this trope. Even after hearing that her father is dead and she has to work as a servant, she doesn't give up.
* PromotionToParent: After Romi decides that Seira will be her new mother after her real mother died.
* RichBitch: Maria, Maria, Maria. Even when her kind father wanted to visit her at school, she directly told him not to and also renamed herself, so she wouldn't have the name that her father had gave her.
* ShoutOut: Like the anime, Seira reads "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" to a few children in the first episode, foreshadowing the parallel between herself and Cinderella. She even tells the children listening that even if things look bad now, they willl turn out for the better.
* SiblingYinYang: Friendly, naive Emiko to strict, calculating Chieko.
* SlowClap: Kaori mockingly does this to Maria, mentioning how the only reason why Aran-sensei left her the job to greet the French teacher who was coming to the school was because Seira wasn't there.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite being very rich, pretty and is doted endlessly by her father, Seira turned out kind and helpful to those who need her help.
* StepfordSmiler: Seira, even when she's feeling down or plain miserable, she keeps on a smile and her cheerful attitude.
* TheStoic: Kaori who rarely shows her emotions and prefers to stay away from people to keep from getting hurt. Turns out she's NotSoStoic.
* TagalongKid: Romi couldn't stand being seperated from her "mother" Seira for even a second, so they had no choice but to have her shadow Seira while she works.
* TakingTheBullet: Not as dangerous as a real bullet, mind you, but still very traumatic. Maria and the rest of the class were throwing tomatoes at a submissive, humilated Seira. When Seira's friend Masami was bullied into throwing the last tomato, Kaito comes in last second to take the hit instead and spare Seira of being hit by her own friend.
* TastesLikeFriendship: After Seira returns to her room after a long day's work with minimal food, her friend Masami often comes by at night, sneaking in food for her.
* TemptingFate:
** One of the last things Seira says to her father is for him to promise not go to anyplace dangerous.
** And after Seira gets kicked out from the school for not looking after the school, Maria remarked that it ended too soon and it was a boring ending. Of course, if you've read the [[Literature/ALittlePrincess original book]], you know it's far from over and not boring in the least.
* TrueCompanions: It would have been quite lonely and depressing for Seira if it wasn't for Kaito, the two mice and Masami helping her.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Kaito's friend Yukari, who Kaito is not interested in.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Surprisingly, Mimura Chieko was this, particularly towards [[spoiler:a young Aran-sensei.]] In fact, when she was younger, Chieko wanted to be the Director of the school so she could teach girls who are less fortunate.
* WealthyEverAfter: After having her assets unfrozen, along with being adopted, Seira is wealthy once again.
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