Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us)

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Synonyms: MariMite, La Vierge Marie Vous Regarde, The Virgin Mary is Watching You

Japanese: マリア様がみてる

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 8, 2004 to Apr 1, 2004

Premiered: Winter 2004

Broadcast: Thursdays at Unknown

Producers: Rondo Robe, TV Tokyo Music

Licensors: Nozomi Entertainment, Maiden Japan

Studios: Studio Deen

Source: Light novel

Genres: Drama, Girls Love

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.30¹ (scored by 21,900 users)

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Ranked: #2785²

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Popularity: #2588

Members: 70,406

Favorites: 699

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When Yumi Fukuzawa entered the Lillian Girls' Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, she never imagined she would catch the eye of beautiful and demure Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the school's most popular students. Now Sachiko has offered to be Yumi's soeur, her "sister" and guide for all her years at the academy. The whole idea has Yumi completely flustered—after all, they hardly know each other!

The entire campus is abuzz with rumors about the two of them, but Yumi is conflicted over accepting Sachiko's offer. While she admires Sachiko, being her soeur would also mean constantly being at the center of the entire school's attention!

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Adaptation:	Maria-sama ga Miteru
Sequel:	Maria-sama ga Miteru: Haru
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Characters & Voice Actors

Satou, Sei

Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi
Japanese

Ogasawara, Sachiko

Main

Itou, Miki
Japanese

Fukuzawa, Yumi

Main

Ueda, Kana
Japanese

Toudou, Shimako

Main

Noto, Mamiko
Japanese

Shimazu, Yoshino

Main

Ikezawa, Haruna
Japanese

Mizuno, Youko

Main

Shinohara, Emi
Japanese

Hasekura, Rei

Main

Itou, Shizuka
Japanese

Torii, Eriko

Main

Nabatame, Hitomi
Japanese

Kanina, Shizuka

Supporting

rino
Japanese

Fukuzawa, Yuuki

Supporting

Ichiki, Mitsuhiro
Japanese

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Matsushita, Yukihiro

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Iwanami, Yoshikazu

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Yoshida, Shunji

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Sokuza, Makoto

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Opening Theme

"pastel pure" by Mikiya Katakura

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"Sonata Blue" by Mikiya Katakura

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Apr 6, 2022

OneFaintingRobin

Recommended

This is going to be a quick one, a little pit-stop as I finish the first season. I'll shy away from story details for now, because there's still so much to go. That said, 13 episodes in, this is definitely shaping up to be a gentle but incredibly satisfying series.

Part of it is the smaller details. There's a stiltedness to the dialogue and the general tone of conversations, which sounds like a criticism but in reality is the opposite; the stuffiness makes the show feel tonally akin to the writing of authors like Jane Austen, who I love. Absolutely, a queer-as-hell Austen-esque story is ...

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Nov 22, 2021

The_Namer

Recommended

This review covers all four seasons.

In this catholic school GL romance, girls in the higher years each 'adopt' a girl from a lower year as their soeur, their sister. The greatest prestige comes from being made the little sister of a member of the student council, since that's seen as a fast-track to membership in the council and grants access to the mansion on school grounds that acts as the student council room. There are a lot of strong personalities on the council when Yumi starts as a first year, and she soon gets caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting agendas and jealousy when ... Sachiko, one of the student council members, offers to be her big sister on the day they meet.

This show came from the tail end of the Class S era of GL, when it often wasn't made explicit whether the feelings the girls have for each other are sisterly affection or romantic love. It sways back and forth on that line, leaning more in one direction or the other for the various trios of sisters the show focuses on. Yes, I said trios, and that's the main source of conflict in this series. Given that there are three years in Japanese high school, that makes a chain of three sisters in most cases. As a first year, Yumi is thrown in the deep end of this situation, and has to figure out the dynamics at play between Sachiko and herself, between Sachiko and her big sister, and between all the other council members. Combine this with the fact that council members are variously referred to by their first or last name by different people, their titles (based on types of roses), or the French names for those roses, and you have a recipe for confusion until you get a handle for who all these girls are and who is whose sister.

That last point is what made me bounce off the show after a couple of episodes the first time I tried it, but I recently started it again and I'm glad I persisted. The first season can be quite messy with how many characters it throws at the viewer, but it finds its feet more as it progresses. The show's four seasons cover Yumi's first two years at high school. The first three of those split their time between all the girls on the student council, but with a particular emphasis on Yumi growing closer to Sachiko as her little sister. The final season shows Yumi starting to mature as a second year, as she begins to look for a little sister of her own. Interestingly, the more Yumi matures the more the show locks us out of her internal monologue, making her a closed book and shifting the emphasis to the girl who is the prime candidate to be her little sister. Perhaps the idea here is that the maturity of the big sisters (who are still high schoolers themselves) is something of an illusion that can only be maintained when viewed from the outside.

It's an enjoyable show once you get past that first hurdle of remembering who everyone is, and only gets better as it goes along. Those looking for explicitly stated romance or a sense of how these girls' lives will progress after high school may be a little frustrated though, since the focus here is on Yumi first learning what it means to be a little sister, and then slowly maturing into a big sister herself, even if there are many times when it seems that there's something else between her and Sachiko.

Season 1: 7/10
Season 2: 7/10
Season 3: 8/10
Season 4: 8/10

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Aug 26, 2023

decaol

Mixed Feelings

It's good, but it's too slow. The lovers are treated like best friends, even though one of them is already engaged. 💀

Initially, I thought it looked so much like my dear brother. During the first episode, I became confused because it seemed like I had already seen it before. It's almost identical. Hopefully, the rest of the story will develop differently.

The characters are quite basic. I mean, there's the sweet girl, the cold one, the tomboy – and that's it.

I'm looking forward to the next season to see what more can happen, but I'm only watching because it's a classic in sapphic anime.

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