Suggestion for a Magical Pack Around Unicorns

Hello to the entire team,

As a big fan of The Sims universe, I was very intrigued by the recent reference to a unicorn in the horse-related content. It reminded me of an episode from a Japanese animated series from the 1980s that I believe could serve as a good idea for a future pack centered around unicorns.

Animated series : Creamy Mami
Year of production and release : 1983
Country of origin : Japan
Episode title : The Enchanted Forest (17)

Detailed plot summary :

Yū (aka Creamy Mami) has to create a drawing for a school assignment, but she procrastinates. To help her, her magical mascots, Posi and Nega, suggest she visit a mysterious forest known for inspiring artists.

One day, Yū, Toshio, and Midori go for a picnic in that forest. Midori tells the legend of Miya Nakahara, a 13-year-old girl and a drawing prodigy who disappeared ten years earlier in that very same forest.

While trying to draw, Yū sees a beautiful sketch appear in her notebook without having drawn it herself. She then gets lost and meets a unicorn (named “Unicorn Meijin”) who leads her into a parallel world, frozen in time, where Miya now lives.

Yū discovers that Miya refuses to leave : she lives in a time loop, a space outside reality. Yū tries to convince her to return, but Miya is hesitant.

The unicorn reveals that he saved Miya from a deadly illness ten years earlier by keeping her in this magical limbo where she doesn’t age — but where she remains alone.

Eventually, Miya agrees to help Yū return, opening a portal. But at the last moment, she stays behind, stopped by the unicorn, who closes the magical world.

At the end, Yū wakes up alone in the real forest. It wasn’t a dream: the sketch remains in her notebook, proof of the adventure.

Why this episode is special :

- A magical and poetic universe : Miya and the unicorn, the timeless world… it’s a true animated fairytale, visually enchanting.

- Deep themes : artistic inspiration, sacrifice, renunciation, time standing still, refuge in imagination.

- Melancholic rhythm : there’s a soft nostalgia for this young girl frozen in a world outside of time.

- Not childish despite being for kids : although the series targets a young audience, this episode delicately addresses solitude, the choice to stay in an unreal world, and the link between creativity and isolation — without ever oversimplifying its message.

Pack idea for The Sims (inspired by this episode) :

Since your expansions like Realm of Magic, Vampires, Werewolves, or Enchanted by Nature, it’s clear that you have a real desire to explore magic and nature. And when I saw a unicorn appear in Horse Ranch, I wondered if maybe a unicorn-themed pack is in the works ?

Here’s what this episode could inspire in The Sims :

- A parallel world accessible via a portal, an enchanted forest, or a magical object

- A guardian unicorn watching over a girl frozen in time, inspired by Miya

- Supernatural events tied to creativity: drawings that appear on their own, magical sketchbooks, sources of mystical inspiration

- The possibility to help a trapped spirit move on or stay behind…

- Dreamy visual atmospheres, with soft filters, pastel color palettes, and a slower pace

- This would be a rare opportunity to offer a magical pack that’s not comedic, but melancholic and poetic — accessible to both children and adults — like an interactive fairytale, Sims-style.

Thank you for taking the time to read. I just wanted to share something that moved me, in case it might inspire something someday.

Warm regards,
Annette Merlyss

P.S. If you're curious, the episode (La forêt enchantée) can be watched here on YouTube. It's in French, but English subtitles are available in the video settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G95bcGDxodY

P.S.2 The series Creamy Mami is almost completely unknown outside Japan. It had a small following in Italy and a brief broadcast in France during the 1980s, but beyond that, it remains a very niche and little-known show internationally.
Additionally, since the series is now 42 years old, even in Japan it is not very widely remembered or known by younger generations anymore.