

Maria Holic
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.
Cast

Ryoko Shintani
Sachi Momoi (voice)

Saori Goto
Yuzuru Inamori (voice)

Marina Inoue
Matsurika Shinōji (voice)

Akemi Kanda
Nanami Kiri (voice)

Miyuki Sawashiro
Dorm Leader (voice)

Asami Sanada
Kanako Miyamae (voice)

Yu Kobayashi
Mariya Shidō (voice)

Yuhko Kaida
Ryūken Ishima (voice)

Miyu Matsuki
Ayari Shiki (voice)

Erino Hazuki
Maki Natsuru (voice)

Aya Hirano
Shizu Shidō (voice)

Tomokazu Sugita
Tōichirō Kanae (voice)

Hatsumi Takada
Honoka Tsutsui (voice)

Megumi Toyoguchi
Fumi Kumagai (voice)

Nobuhiko Okamoto
Rindō Shinōji (voice)
Seasons

E1A Mischievious Kiss
Jan 4, 2009
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.

E2Sweet Pain
Jan 11, 2009
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.

E3Budding Masochism
Jan 18, 2009
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.

E4The Price of Pleasure
Jan 25, 2009
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.

E5The Forbidden Scent / Secret of Maidens
Feb 1, 2009
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.

E6The Perverted Sick Bay
Feb 8, 2009
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.

E7The Suspicious Black Underwear
Feb 15, 2009
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.

E8Soiled Virgin Mary. First Part
Feb 22, 2009
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.

E9Soiled Virgin Mary. Last Part
Mar 1, 2009
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.

E10Faux Pas of the Flat Chest
Mar 8, 2009
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.

E11An Offering to God
Mar 15, 2009
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.

E12A Swimming Meet Full of Pretty Girls, and There will be Nip-slips too
Mar 22, 2009
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.

E1The Forbidden Women's Dorm
Apr 7, 2011
Kanako hears the rumours about the first girl's dorm, who was abandoned due to the traps placed by Mihoshi no Mori students. Despite being dangerous, Kanao enters the dorm and starts facing the traps inside it.

E2Playing the Immoral Game / Secret Reception / The Reward of Shame
Apr 14, 2011
It is raining and everyone is having some tea at Mariya and Kanako's room. To pass the time, everyone takes out their card games.

E3Greed's Tremor
Apr 23, 2011
Kanako starts a diet and ends up not eating anything. At night, she bites Yonakuni as she was starving and God decides to judge her.

E4Imprisoned Maiden
Apr 30, 2011
It is Kanako's trial, and she is defended by Matsurika while Mariya is the prosecutor and God is the judge. Most of the characters come to testify.

E5Sullied Sisters / Fingertip of Mischief
May 5, 2011
Kanako fails all subjects, and she gets imprisoned in a time cage for a week, but for her is a year. When she returns, she discovers all the fads that have started during the time she was imprisoned.

E6Heart Pounding Mission: School Scramble!
May 12, 2011
Set in the week when Kanako was imprisoned, this episode tells how all the fads started.

E7The REAL Swimming Competition Full of Pretty Girls
May 19, 2011
Set on the same day as the 12th episode of the first season, Kanako gets caught in one of Rindo's traps after the flying tops incident and has to apologize.

E8Sullied Innocence
May 26, 2011
It's Sachi's birthday and the school pulls out a big party at the church for her. Kanako is very excited and starts looking at an album with many pictures of Sachi, which is soon confiscated by Mariya. At the party, Kanako has the intention of giving her present to Sachi (an erotic lingerie set) but gets also confiscated by Mariya. After Kanako runs away from the party, Mariya gives to Sachi Kanako's album, saying it was Kanako's present but she forgot it at her room. As a punishment for her nasty attitude, Kanako doesn't have the right to talk during the next episode.

E9The Precocious Fiance
Jun 3, 2011
We meet Tota, a 10-year-old boy who is in love with Ryuken and acts as her fiancé. Kanako doesn't want to lose Ryuken, so she starts a beetle competition with him.

E10The Living Sacrifice of the Clergyman / Banquet of Lewd Dreams / Forbidden Relationship / The Nape in the Summer
Jun 9, 2011
Matsurika gives Kanako a rosary with a curse: it makes the holder see a young girl who doesn't let him sleep at nights. Trying to help her, father Kanae uses various methods to make her sleep, and at the end Kanako loses her consciousness. As a gift for his help, Mariya gives father Kanae the rosary. However, even if she can sleep now, Kanako misses the little girl, and tries to get back the rosary. At the end, God finds them in a dispute and takes the rosary, as it was the one she had when she was a child.

E11Younger Sister's Sweet Secrets
Jun 16, 2011
Miki, Kanako's little sister, visits Ame no Kisaki. She met Mariya when she was in elementary school, and has been in love with her since then. She wants to date Mariya when she enters high school, but Kanako tells her she's a boy. Despite this, Miki promises to enter Ame no Kisaki when she's older and to date Mariya.

E12Kanako's Birthday
Jun 24, 2011
It's August 31st, Kanako's birthday. Her classmates, Ryuken and the seniors, Shizu and father Kanae plan to make different parties for her, but at her birthday, she doesn't find anyone. Trying to run away from the expanding seaweed, she ends up at the church, where everyone has made a party for her.
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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.
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