Maria†Holic

In search of true love, Kanako Miyamae transfers to Ame no Kisaki Catholic school, inspired by how her parents fell in love with each other there. There is just one difference, though: because men make Kanako break into hives, she has actually come to the all-girls school to find a partner of the same sex.

When she meets the beautiful Mariya Shidou, Kanako believes she has found that special someone; however, there's more to Mariya than meets the eye—it turns out that Kanako's first love is actually a cross-dressing boy. Mariya threatens to expose Kanako's impure intentions unless she keeps his real gender a secret, and to make things worse, he also replaces her original roommate so that he can now keep a close eye on her.

Maria†Holic follows Kanako as she looks for love in all the wrong places and searches for the girl of her dreams—that is, if she can survive being Mariya's roommate!

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Aired online on December 26, 2008. The earliest TV airing was on January 4, 2009.

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Sequel:	Maria†Holic Alive

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Shidou, Mariya

Main

Kobayashi, Yuu
Japanese

Shinouji, Matsurika

Main

Inoue, Marina
Japanese

Miyamae, Kanako

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Sanada, Asami
Japanese

Dorm Mistress

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Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Kanae, Touichirou

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Sugita, Tomokazu
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Shidou, Shizu

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Hirano, Aya
Japanese

Inamori, Yuzuru

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Gotou, Saori
Japanese

Yonakuni-san

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Matsuki, Miyu
Japanese

Ishima, Ryuuken

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Kaida, Yuuko
Japanese

Kiri, Nanami

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Kanda, Akemi
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Kubota, Mitsutoshi

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Oosawa, Nobuhiro

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Takahashi, Kazuya

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Ooshima, Miku

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Opening Theme

"HANAJI" by Yuu Kobayashi

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"Kimi ni, Mune Kyun (君に、胸キュン)" by Yuu Kobayashi, Asami Sanada and Marina Inoue

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Jan 28, 2024

clabsauce

Recommended

People really like to shit on this show but it is actually one of my favorite SHAFT animes. This probably just has to do with my personal sense of humor, but I find huge cartoonish nosebleeds, sadism, and comical degeneracy to be hilarious. This really is just weird SHAFT humor at its peak IMO; the grotesque excess of the bizarre parody that this show is is really the entire point. I can understand why someone would find it offputting but again the kind of over-the-top, absurd humor that this show employs is right up my alley. It is also decked out with many classic VAs ...

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Dec 28, 2022

spookynya

Mixed Feelings

it is an anime.

maria+holic truly has to be one of the animes released in 2009. the voice acting is fine. The anime has storytelling and the show was animated. The side characters were along with kanako and maria was a guy. The jokes were sentences. This anime really is one of the animes of all time, if not the last two decades. A lot of the time it was just kinda boring or "what is going on??" but it did have some entertaining moments throughout it. It's a fine watch it just feels like it gets less interesting as it goes on.

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Jan 16, 2014

Nolifeking13

Not Recommended

DON'T WATCH THIS CRAP.

I usually enjoy watching series only for comic reliefs and for laughs but this I didn't have a single shred of enjoyment.

I forced myself into completing the series since I usually complete a whole series whenever I start one but this anime is one of my worst experience.

All the characters annoying, no story not that it matters in this type of series but each and every time I watch an episode I just wanna hang myself.

This review is from my worst experience and I don't want others to experience the same so don't watch this anime.

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