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Maria Holic

Maria Holic
★ 5.3/10•2009•30m•TV-14•Animation•Comedy
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Maria†Holic is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minari Endō, the author of Dazzle. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive on June 27, 2006, and is published by Media Factory. The manga was licensed by Tokyopop with the first volume in English being released in September 2009. The first anime adaptation animated by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2009. A second anime season, Maria†Holic: Alive, premiered on April 8, 2011. Both seasons of the anime series have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks, and the first season is being distributed by Section23 Films.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageJA
First Air DateJan 4, 2009

Episodes

Episode 1 - A Mischievious KissE125m

A Mischievious Kiss

Kanako Miyamae enrolls into the the all-girls school, Ame no Kisaki. On the way to the Girls Dorm she meets a girl named Shidō Mariya with her maid, Shinōji Matsurika. However, Kanako later discovers that Mariya turns out to be a boy. With Kanako's knowledge of the fact that Mariya is a boy, the former roommate of Kanako (Ryuuken Ishima) is replaced by none other than Mariya himself.

Jan 4, 2009

Episode 2 - Sweet PainE225m

Sweet Pain

It's the first day of school for Kanako. After a troublesome morning with her roommate Mariya, she goes to the class without having any breakfast. Afterwards a welcome speech is held by Mariya and the school student council.

Jan 11, 2009

Episode 3 - Budding MasochismE325m

Budding Masochism

Mariya lends Kanako his rosary which is of great value. Unfortunately, she leaves the rosary in the classroom. As she went back to get it, three girls, who are fans of Ryuuken and are jealous of Kanako because she is on good terms with her, found it and threw it out of the window. Kanako runs outside to search for the lost rosary. On the same day, Ryuuken tells her that she will protect her.

Jan 18, 2009

Episode 4 - The Price of PleasureE425m

The Price of Pleasure

Ryuuken held her promise and "protects" Kanako. She always stays beside her and attends classes together with her, although she is a class above Kanako. She even stays overnight at Kanako's room. But Ryuuken's protection causes Kanako more pain than ease. A classmate of Kanako (Kiri) notices it and to help her, she tells Kanako that they are going out.

Jan 25, 2009

Episode 5 - The Forbidden Scent / Secret of MaidensE525m

The Forbidden Scent / Secret of Maidens

Kanako tries desperately to become friends with Kiri. Therefore she asks her Sachi for help. The dorm mistress checks the rooms of the girls for forbidden items. Afterwards, she piles them up on a table and judges how good an item was hidden. Amongst the things found, Kanako's bag, which has a live unidentified mysterious animal residing in it, is also there. She is then told to hide it again, and if she passes the supplementary test, she can then keep it.

Feb 1, 2009

Episode 6 - The Perverted Sick BayE625m

The Perverted Sick Bay

The physical examination will be held this afternoon. However, in spite of Mariya being a boy, he attends the examination and Kanako finds out what's behind Mariya's attendance at Ame no Kisaki. Shizu, Mariya's twin sister, makes her debut in the series.

Feb 8, 2009

Episode 7 - The Suspicious Black UnderwearE725m

The Suspicious Black Underwear

Yuzuru notices that Kiri and Sachi are getting along very well. Because of that, she gets jealous and thinks that Sachi could become better friends with Kiri than she is with her. She starts to act strange towards Sachi and Kiri. It turns out that Sachi was helping Kiri to pick a birthday present for her. Afterwards, all of them (together with Kanako, Masturika and Mariya) celebrate Yuzuru's birthday.

Feb 15, 2009

Episode 8 - Soiled Virgin Mary. First PartE825m

Soiled Virgin Mary. First Part

The Virgin Mary Festival is going to be held. After Kanako was voted to be a member in the planning committee, she asks the student council president for advice because she doesn't know much about the festival.

Feb 22, 2009

Episode 9 - Soiled Virgin Mary. Last PartE925m

Soiled Virgin Mary. Last Part

The Festival's preparations are almost reading and the festival is about to begin. It is also revealed how Ayari's (the student council president) and Mariya's relationship soured years ago. Kanako is told of the current seven mysteries of Ame no Kisaki. After asking her teacher, Kuma, about them she learns about the original six ones. She is also told that if she knows all seven, something terrifying will happen to her. After Mariya told her the seventh one, God appears. It is also revealed that Kanako was the cause of many of the seven mysteries around the school, due to her constant explosive nosebleeds.

Mar 1, 2009

Episode 10 - Faux Pas of the Flat ChestE1025m

Faux Pas of the Flat Chest

Kanako has failed in several subjects in the mid-year examinations, so she has to take the supplementary exams. She decides then to study very hard. It turns out that before the exams Kanako was constantly distracted by Mariya, who decided to act like a roommate to Kanako for once and subsequently led to her failures. Thanks to Matsurika's sleep-hypnosis techniques, Kanako almost boycotts the exam and nearly fails again. However, she manages to pass all the exams. Yet, her troubles don't end as she's punished by God for not having passed the exams the first time round. Kiri is given a love letter by a man on a train. It turns out that the man is way older than her and she has no interest in him. Kanako, Yuzuru and Sachi try their best to find a way to reject the man's advances.

Mar 8, 2009

Episode 11 - An Offering to GodE1125m

An Offering to God

A new character is introduced—Father Kanae. He seems to have a crush on Mariya (not knowing that Mariya's a boy) and Matsurika, although he is twenty-seven and a teacher there. Mariya later lies that Kanako's "elder brother" died of the "Tchaikovsky syndrome" in B-minor. He asks him to help Kanako because Kanae reminds Kanako of her brother. In actuality, Kanako hasn't got a brother. So Father Kanae tries his best to help her. Unfortunately Kanako is allergic to males and he inadvertently (and unknowingly) causes her great suffering. He later falls in love with Ayari as well.

Mar 15, 2009

Episode 12 - A Swimming Meet Full of Pretty Girls, and There will be Nip-slips tooE1225m

A Swimming Meet Full of Pretty Girls, and There will be Nip-slips too

It's finally summer and so the swimming sessions begins. Kanako is very excited because at the swimming lessons she can see all the girls in their swimsuits. But during the fact that she daydreams and father Kanae interrupting (even once being out for the whole day because of food poisoning by way of eating raw liver), she collapses very often and because of that has to stay in bed. But she can go to the pool after all before the summer break begins and there she tries to reveal the fact that Mariya is a boy. However, it is revealed that Mariya got his twin sister, Shizu, to take his place.

Mar 22, 2009

Actors

Ryoko Shintani

Ryoko Shintani

Sachi Momoi (voice)

Saori Goto

Saori Goto

Yuzuru Inamori (voice)

Marina Inoue

Marina Inoue

Matsurika Shinōji (voice)

Akemi Kanda

Akemi Kanda

Nanami Kiri (voice)

Miyuki Sawashiro

Miyuki Sawashiro

Dorm Leader (voice)

Asami Sanada

Asami Sanada

Kanako Miyamae (voice)

Yu Kobayashi

Yu Kobayashi

Mariya Shidō (voice)

Yuhko Kaida

Yuhko Kaida

Ryūken Ishima (voice)

Miyu Matsuki

Miyu Matsuki

Ayari Shiki (voice)

Erino Hazuki

Erino Hazuki

Maki Natsuru (voice)

Aya Hirano

Aya Hirano

Shizu Shidō (voice)

Tomokazu Sugita

Tomokazu Sugita

Tōichirō Kanae (voice)

Hatsumi Takada

Hatsumi Takada

Honoka Tsutsui (voice)

Megumi Toyoguchi

Megumi Toyoguchi

Fumi Kumagai (voice)

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Rindō Shinōji (voice)

Yoji Ueda

Yoji Ueda

(voice)

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