This is the mahou shoujo show that keeps smiling at you while it explains that adults gave up. The sea Momo arrives from Marinasa with the same job the first one failed at, restoring humanity's dreams before two kingdoms die, and the format looks identical until you notice the episode problems are divorce, poverty, loneliness and grown-ups who stopped believing anything can change. Takeshi Shudo wrote this and you can feel him getting angrier across 62 episodes, hiding social criticism inside a toy-friendly transformation format that still has her chanting pipiru piru piru pipiru pi before she turns into whatever competent adult the situation demands. Watching a little girl cosplay as a functioning grown-up to fix problems actual grown-ups created is the joke, and it stops being funny around the point you realize it isn't one. Fans who came for cute stayed because the show trusted them with sadness.

A new fairy princess comes to Earth with an urgent task. Minky Momo hails from Marinasa, a land of dreams and magic resting on the sea floor, and her kingdom and its sister land Fenarinasa both face extinction because people have stopped believing in their dreams. To save them, she sets out to rekindle humanity's hopes, finishing the work the first Momo left undone. On Earth she lives with human parents who run a hotel, and her magic lets her cast spells as well as transform. The structure mirrors the earlier series, but the story is heavier, with real social problems serving as the themes of many episodes. A mahou shoujo series that pairs its fantasy with serious subject matter.