Alternative TitlesEnglish: Ultra Maniac Synonyms: Urutora Maniakku Japanese: ウルトラマニアック
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 25
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 2002 to Jan 2004
StatisticsScore: 7.651 (scored by 3287 users)
Ranked: #27492
Popularity: #451
Members: 5,366
Favorites: 172 1 indicates a weighted score
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comedy fantasy romance shoujo |
SynopsisNina Sakura is a defunct witch in training from the Magic Kingdom, studying on Earth in hopes of bettering her grades. When the popular Ayu Teteishi stumbles upon a PC she mistakens for a video game, she returns it to Nina. Nina decides to let Ayu in the secret that she's a witch from the Magic Kingdom, and the two become best friends, together dealing with the everydays of friendship and romance. (source: ANN)
Volume 2 contains Bonus Section with a story about Leo. |
Related MangaAdaptation: Ultra Maniac, Ultra Maniac OVA
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Higurashi
6 of 15 people found this review helpful
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25 of 25 chapters read
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9 |
| Story |
8 |
| Art |
8 |
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10 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
When I watched the anime a long time ago it had been the first romantic comedy I have ever seen. I both laughed and cried during that series and in my opinion that - the ability to make the viewer feel emotion - is what makes a story great. Today, about 4 years after having watched the anime, I finally got myself to sit down and read the manga.
Once again I was impressed by Ultra Maniac. The manga had a lot of similarities to the anime, but it also had a lot of differences too. One of the first things you will probably notice if you had watched the anime first is that Nina no longer uses her mahou shoujo outfit, which I think is a good thing. There are also some characters that weren't in the anime and some characters in the anime just did not appear at all. But like the anime, this series has interesting plot twists, light hearted drama, great romantic moments, and many scenes will make you laugh.
When you first look at the summary you are probably going to think this is just your typical shoujo... and in many ways, it kind of is. Like with most shoujo's this is a romance aimed at women and it has relatively few action scenes. So if you only watch Bleach and stuff like that you probably won't like this. If you do like shoujo though, this shouldn't bother you.
So to put things bluntly, if you like romantic comedies with some light hearted drama you will probably love this series. In my opinion it was good from the start, but it started to get really good around chapter 5. read more
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MisaTange
11 of 38 people found this review helpful
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25 of 25 chapters read
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6 |
| Story |
4 |
| Art |
6 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Ultra Maniac was the first manga I've read, but is mediocre compared to the other manga I've read. I've also watched some of the anime episodes, and was a great anime. I wasn't a noob to the anime industry, though. The character development was great, and my favorite character so far has to be Nina. The art is amazing and wonderful, and it's very enjoyable. I gave this manga a 6/10.
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I would have to say that these two manga are similar in the basic storyline ways. They both have the 2 girl friends that are out pursuing love or is falling in/in love. Both manga consists of the 2 girls looking for their love life, and usually one of them succeeds, but the other one has a bit of a hard time. However, in Ultra Maniac, one of the girls is a magician of some sort and it is more... lighter? in some ways? Urukyuu (Ultra Cute) may be more realistic and more deeper/sadder than Ultra Maniac. But I believe that both mangas are good and are great to read (for romances/shoujo fans~ ^-^ )
They both are romance manga. Urukyuu is the Japanese name, Ultra Cute is its English name.
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In both series magic girls from their own worlds arrive to the human world to compete and become the next queens.
A witch has to travel to the human world to earn her witch 'creds' and become queen, but has a hard time adapting to it because of the big differences. And then they fall in love.
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