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Maria Watches Over Us (TV)

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©OYUKI KONNO/SHUEISHA • YAMAYURIKAI


[ related to Maria-sama ga Miteru (manga) ]

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Alternative title:
Ang Birheng Maria ay Pumapatnubay sa Iyo (Tagalog)
La Vierge Marie Vous Regarde (French)
La Virgen María nos observa (Spanish)
Maria nos Mira (Spanish)
Maria-sama ga Miteru (Japanese)
MariMite (Japanese)
Santa Maria, Rogai por Nós (Portuguese)
The Virgin Mary is Watching You
マリア様がみてる (Japanese)
瑪莉亞的凝望 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, romance
Themes: shoujo-ai, yuri
Plot Summary: Yumi is a first year student at the Lillian School For Girls, an exclusive all girl's catholic school. The school has a tradition that older girls take a younger girl as their little sister or "soeur" in order to instruct and look out for them. Though Yumi admires Sachiko, a reserved second year student who is a member of the student council, she has no hopes of being chosen as her soeur. When an innocent encounter leads Sachiko to impulsively ask Yumi to be her soeur, Yumi is suddenly brought into the inner circle of the Roses, who are the members of the student council. With Sachiko at her side, Yumi begins to unravel and understand the relationships between the Roses and their soeurs and figure out her own feelings for Sachiko.
Video:
User Ratings: 761 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 106 votes (sub:95, dub:11)
 Excellent: 193 votes (sub:185, Spa.sub:3, raw:2, dub:2, ?:1)
 Very good: 190 votes (sub:176, dub:9, Spa.sub:3, Swe.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Good: 141 votes (sub:133, dub:2, raw:2, ?:2, Rus.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Decent: 62 votes (sub:52, dub:6, Por.sub:1, raw:1, ?:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 22 votes (sub:21, raw:1)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Weak: 20 votes (sub:19, dub:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 1352 users, rank: #451
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.770 (Very good-.23), std. dev.: 1.8308, rank: #647
Weighted mean: 7.658 (Very good-.34), rank: #647 (seen all: 7.98 / seen some: 6.03 / won't finish: 3.73)
Bayesian estimate: 7.656 (Very good-.34), rank: #462
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2004-01-07 to 2004-03-31
2006-01-28 (Philippines)
Opening Theme:
"Pastel Pure" by Mikiya Katakura 
Ending Theme:
"Sonata Blue" by Mikiya Katakura
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 5
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Related reviews:
    Maria Watches Over Us Season 1 DVD

Related releases:
    Maria Watches Over Us - Season 1 Collection (S) (TV) (DVD) 2008-07-29 (from $30.60)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yukihiro Matsushita

Scenario:
Chiaki Manabe (eps 6, 9)
Genki Yoshimura (eps 4-5)
Natsuko Takahashi (eps 12-13)
Reiko Yoshida (7 episodes

eps 1-3, 7-8, 10-11
)

Storyboard:
Daisuke Tsukushi (ep 6)
Kazuhiro Furuhashi (eps 3, 9, 11)
Kazuhiro Soeta (ep 2)
Takaaki Ishiyama (ep 8)
Takeshi Kagetsu (ep 12)
Tatsuya Abe (ep 10)
Tetsuhito Saito (ep 4)
Toshiya Niidome (ep 7)
Yukihiro Matsushita (eps 1, 5, 13)

Episode Director:
Daisuke Tsukushi (eps 6, 10)
Kazuhiro Soeta (ep 2)
Makoto Sokuza (eps 5, 9, 13)
Shunji Yoshida (eps 3, 7, 11)
Takeshi Kagetsu (ep 12)
Tomoko Hiramuki (eps 4, 8)
Yukihiro Matsushita (ep 1)

Music: Mikiya Katakura

Original story: Oyuki Konno (novel series)

Original Character Design: Reine Hibiki

Character Design: Akira Matsushima

Art director: Nobuto Sakamoto

Animation director:
Akira Matsushima (eps 1, 13)
Hirofumi Morimoto (eps 3, 7, 11)
Minoru Mihara (ep 12)
Miyako Tsuji (eps 5, 10)
Takako Shimizu (ep 6)
Tateru Namikaze (ep 4)
Yukie Sako (ep 8)
Yukiko Akiyama (eps 2, 9)

Sound director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Director of Photography: Masayuki Kawaguchi

Colour Setting: Shinji Matsumoto

Editing: Masahiro Matsumura

Ending Animation: Atsuko Nakajima

Music producer: Yoshiyuki Ito

Planning:
Akihiro Kawamura
Hiroya Nishimura
Mitsuteru Shibata

Series Organisation: Reiko Yoshida

Sound Production:
Satoki Iida (Dax International)
Tetsu Hirata (Dax International)

Theme Song Arrangement: Yoshihisa Hirano (OP/ED)

Theme Song Composition: Mikiya Katakura (OP/ED)

 

Kana Ueda as Yumi Fukuzawa

Miki Itou as Sachiko Ogasawara

Emi Shinohara as Youko Mizuno

Haruna Ikezawa as Yoshino Shimazu

Hitomi Nabatame as Eriko Torii

Mamiko Noto as Shimako Toudou

Megumi Toyoguchi as Sei Satou

Rina Satou as Tsutako Takeshima

Shizuka Itou as Rei Hasekura

Ai Matayoshi as Kindergartner (ep 9)

Akari Higuchi as Sasaki (ep 10)

Akeno Watanabe as Miyuki Oyamada (ep 4)

Akiko Nakagawa as Shiori Kubo (eps 10-11)

Asami Waragai as Student (eps 1, 7)

Chiwa Saito as Mami Yamaguchi

Hitomi Kato as Classmate

Kiyotaka Furushima as Shop assistant (ep 10)

Megumi Kojima as Classmate (ep 2)

Michi Imase as Chairman (ep 6)

Mikako Takahashi as Chisato Tanuma (eps 8, 12-13)

Minami Takayama as Former Rosa Gigantea (ep 11)

Misato Eguchi as Student (ep 1)

Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Yuuki Fukuzawa

Mitsuyo Kondo as Student (ep 7)

Miyoko Asou as Academy Principal (ep 11)

Natsuko Kuwatani as Tomoko (ep 9)

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Suguru Kashiwagi

Noriko Shitaya as Katsura

rino as Shizuka Kanina

Sayaka Ohara as Yamamura-sensei

Tetsu Hirata as Referee (ep 5)

Tomoko Miyadera as Seiko Kasuga (eps 10-11)

Yuki Masuda as Mifuyu Uzawa (eps 8-9)

Yuko Kaida as Minako Tsukiyama

Japanese companies 

Animation: Studio DEEN

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

DVD Distribution: Geneon Entertainment, Inc.

Music Production: Lantis

Music Production Cooperation: TV Tokyo Music

Production:
d-rights
Rondo Robe

English cast 
English staff 

Translation:
Feng Xiong
Shoko Oono

Executive producer: Shawne Kleckner

Producer: Kris Kleckner

Assistant producer: David Olsen

Design: Greg Hillsman

Website Design: Eric Hansel

Candice Moore as Sachiko Ogasawara (Animax dub)

Sarah Hauser as Yumi Fukuzawa (Animax dub)

Candice Moore as
Former Rosa gigantea (Animax dub)
Rei Hasekura (Animax dub)
Yoshino Shimazu (Animax dub)

Emily Woo Zeller as
Shimako Toudou (Animax dub)
Tsutako Takeshima (Animax dub)

Sarah Hauser as Eriko Torii (Animax dub)

Candice Moore as
Seiko Kasuga (Animax dub)
Yuuki Fukuzawa (Animax dub)

David Lee Mckinney as Suguru Kashiwagi (Animax dub)

Sarah Hauser as Tomoko (Animax dub)

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Animax India
The Anime Network

Licensed by: The Right Stuf International

Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel

DVD Distribution: Jonu Media (Spain)

Spanish cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Mega-Anime

Russian cast 
(none)

Tagalog cast 
Tagalog staff 
(none)

Sherwin Revestir as Yumi Fukuzawa

Yvette Tagura as Sachiko Ogasawara

Katherine Masilungan as Youko Mizuno

Margo Borgona as Eriko Torii

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: ABS-CBN

Dubbing: ABS-CBN

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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