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Maria Holic (TV)

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Alternative title:
Maria-Holic
Maria†Holic
まりあ†ほりっく (Japanese)
瑪莉亞狂熱 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: comedy
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: A sophomore named Kanako who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria—except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy.
User Ratings: 1188 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 77 votes (sub:75, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Excellent: 260 votes (sub:242, dub:7, raw:5, others:6
2 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Very good: 290 votes (sub:244, dub:19, raw:5, ?:1, others:21
10 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
3 French subtitled
3 Italian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 260 votes (sub:226, dub:18, raw:5, ?:1, others:10
5 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Decent: 127 votes (sub:112, dub:8, raw:2, ?:1, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
)
 So-so: 67 votes (sub:61, dub:4, others:2
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Not really good: 35 votes (sub:31, dub:3, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 39 votes (sub:34, dub:2, raw:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 17 votes (sub:12, dub:2, others:3
2 Russian dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:7)
Seen in part or in whole by 2196 users, rank: #527 (of 10087)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.279 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.915, rank: #2737 (of 10248)
Weighted mean: 7.202 (Good+), rank: #2869 (of 10248) (seen all: 7.42 / seen some: 5.99 / won't finish: 4.18)
Bayesian estimate: 7.205 (Good+), rank: #2612 (of 7718)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2008-12-30 (Advanced Broadcast)
2009-01-04 to 2009-03-22
Release dates: We have 7
Opening Theme:
"HANAJI" by Yu Kobayashi
Ending Theme:
"Kimi ni, Mune Kyun" (君に、胸キュン) by Yu Kobayashi, Asami Sanada and Marina Inoue
Official website:
まりあ†ほりっく (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 11
Review:
Maria Holic DVD Complete Collection (Feb 20, 2010)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Maria Holic - Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2014-03-04 (from $31.00)
    Maria Holic - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) 2021-08-17 (from $33.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    Maria Holic - Complete Collection (DVD) 2014-03-04 (from $17.92)
    Maria Holic - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2010-02-23 (from $44.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director:
Akiyuki Simbo
Gekidan Inu Curry (ED)
Tatsuya Oishi (OP)
Series Composition: Masahiro Yokotani
Script:
Masahiro Yokotani (8 episodes
eps 1-4, 6, 9-10, 12
)
Miku Ōshima (eps 5, 7-8, 11)
Storyboard:
Kenichi Ikuhara (ep 5)
Naoyuki Tatsuwa (6 episodes
eps 2-3, 6-12 even
)
Nobuyuki Takeuchi (ep 1)
Tatsuya Oishi (OP)
Tomoyuki Itamura (eps 4, 7, 9)
Yasuhiro Mori (ep 11)
Episode Director:
Kenichi Ikuhara (ep 5)
Kenichi Ishikura (ep 9)
Masayuki Iimura (ep 6)
Naoyuki Tatsuwa (eps 3, 10)
Tomoyuki Itamura (ep 4)
Yasuhiro Mori (eps 2, 7, 11)
Yukihiro Miyamoto (eps 1, 8, 12)
Music: Tatsuya Nishiwaki
Original creator: Minari Endo
Character Design: Hideyuki Morioka
Art Director: Hisaharu Iijima
Chief Animation Director:
Hideyuki Morioka
Hiroki Yamamura
Animation Director:
Hideki Furukawa (eps 2, 7, 11)
Hideyuki Morioka (OP; ep 1)
Hiroki Yamamura (ep 1)
Ippei Masui (ep 8)
Kazuya Shiotsuki (3 episodes
eps 1 coop., 4, 6
)
Nozomi Ushijima (2 episodes
eps 5, 9 assist.
)
Rondo Mizukami (ep 6)
Shūji Miyazaki (eps 5, 9)
Yasutoshi Iwasaki (eps 3, 10, 12)
Yoshiaki Itō (eps 3, 6)
Yuka Kudō (ep 12)
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
Director of Photography: Rei Egami
Producer:
Hiromasa Minami
Kazuya Takahashi
Nobuhiro Ōsawa
Toshiaki Asaka

2nd Key Animation:
Ayumi Miyamoto (eps 1, 10)
Hiroyuki Yoshida (ep 1)
Masato Okada (eps 1, 3-4)
Naoko Takahashi (eps 1, 4, 10)
Sayaka Tokunaga (eps 1, 3-4)
Takahito Fukuyama (ep 1)
Yūji Shibata (ep 6)
Animation producer: Mitsutoshi Kubota
Assistant Animation Director: Hiroki Yamamura (OP)
Assistant Director: Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Color design: Izumi Takizawa
Conceptual Design: Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Editing: Rie Matsubara
End Card Illustration:
BLADE (ep 8)
Eiji Usatsuka (ep 1)
Hekiru Hikawa (ep 4)
Jin Kobayashi (ep 2)
Koin (ep 5)
Kōji Kumeta (ep 9)
Minari Endo (ep 12)
Nozomu Tamaki (ep 11)
Rururu Kondoh (ep 3)
saxyun (ep 6)
Ume Aoki (ep 7)
Yun Kouga (ep 10)
Ending Animation: Ayumi Shiraishi
In-Between Animation:
Ayumi Hirayama (Magic Bus Niigata; ep 8)
Kenta Eiji (SHAFT; 5 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 6, 10
)
Mami Akagawa (Magic Bus Niigata; ep 8)
Mizue Kuwamoto (eps 3, 6)
Saori Yoshida (Magic Bus; ep 8)
Yui Kaneda (Magic Bus; ep 8)
Yuko Shibuya (Magic Bus Niigata; ep 8)
Yūri Ichinose (Magic Bus; ep 8)
Key Animation:
Ai Maeda (ep 10)
Akio Kitahara (ep 10)
Ayumi Miyamoto (eps 2-3, 6)
Beom Seok Hong (eps 4, 12)
Chie Tanaka (eps 4, 6, 10)
Fukuya Araki (ep 11)
Genki Matsumoto (OP; eps 1, 3, 6, 10)
Hideki Furukawa (ep 2)
Hidenori Miyahara (eps 4, 6, 10)
Hidetoshi Ōmori (eps 2, 11)
Hiroyuki Ōkaji (OP)
Hiroyuki Yoshida (6 episodes
eps 2-3, 5-6, 10, 12
)
Itsuki Takemoto (eps 4, 6, 10)
Junichi Hashimoto (eps 4, 6, 10)
Kana Hashidate (eps 1, 3)
Kaori Itō (ep 12)
Katsunori Shibata (ep 12)
Kazunori Ozawa (eps 9, 11)
Keiichi Honda (ep 1)
Keiichi Sano (ep 1)
Keita Watanabe (ep 8)
Kenta Mizusaki (ep 11)
Mai Takazawa (eps 2, 5, 9)
Maki Ando (ep 12)
Maki Fukui (eps 6, 10)
Mako Aboshi (eps 1, 3, 5-12)
Manabu Morishige (eps 4, 6, 10)
Manabu Yasumoto (ep 8)
Mariko Kawamoto (ep 1)
Mariko Wada (ep 12)
Masakazu Yamazaki (ep 8)
Mayo Koike (eps 2, 5, 8-9)
Miai Kanazawa (eps 7, 9, 11)
Miho Ayabe (eps 1-3, 6)
Mika Inoue (ep 11)
Miki Konno (ep 10)
Minoru Yamazawa (ep 8)
Misako Izumi (OP; eps 1, 3, 6, 12)
Mitsuru Nakata (eps 4, 6, 10)
Moe Miyoshi (eps 5-11 odd)
Motoharu Taniguchi (ep 3)
Motohiro Taniguchi (eps 6, 10)
Naoto Nakamura (OP)
Naoto Yoshida (ep 11)
Nobuyuki Takeuchi (eps 1, 6)
Nozomi Ushijima (eps 5, 9)
Ryo Imamura (OP; eps 1, 10)
Ryōtarō Akao (ep 3)
Satoshi Sakai (ep 8)
Sayaka Tokunaga (eps 10, 12)
Shigeki Sunada (OP)
Shinichi Iimura (ep 8)
Shinichi Suzuki (ep 8)
Shinpei Tomooka (OP)
Shunta Sakamoto (ep 1)
Takashi Kojima (4 episodes
eps 4, 6, 10, 12
)
Takayuki Chiba (ep 6)
Takeo Yoshioka (eps 9, 11)
Tatsuyuki Maeda (eps 2, 7, 9)
Tetsuya Ishikawa (ep 3)
Tetsuya Wakano (ep 8)
Tomokazu Shimabukuro (ep 4)
Tomoki Kōda (ep 8)
Toshiyuki Nanto (ep 3)
Toshiyuki Satō (ep 8)
Tsuyoshi Sugawara (eps 4, 6, 10)
Yasutoshi Iwasaki (eps 7, 10, 12)
Yoh Yoshinari (OP)
Yōko Asanuma (ep 11)
Yoshiaki Itō (OP)
Yoshiaki Iwasaki (ep 6)
Yoshino Honda (ep 6)
Yūichi Fujimaki (eps 9, 11)
Yūji Shibata (eps 3, 12)
Yūki Hara (ep 12)
Yūki Yamashita (eps 4, 6, 10)
Yumi Shimizu (ep 12)
Yumie Wada (eps 4, 6, 10)
Planning:
Atsushi Iwasaki
Takeshi Oikawa
Tarō Maki
Yasuhiro Mikami
Sound Effects: Katsuhiro Nakano (Sound Box)
Theme Song Arrengement: Dai Murai
Theme Song Composition: Dai Murai
Theme Song Lyrics: Satomi Arimori
Theme Song Performance:
Asami Sanada (ED)
Marina Inoue (ED)
Yū Kobayashi (OP/ED)
Visual Effects: Motoi Sakai
Asami Sanada as Kanako Miyamae
Marina Inoue as Matsurika Shinouji
Yū Kobayashi as Mariya Shidō

Akemi Kanda as Nanami Kiri
Aya Hirano as Shizu Shidō
Miyu Matsuki as Ayari Shiki
Miyuki Sawashiro as Dorm Leader-sensei
Ryoko Shintani as Sachi Momoi
Saori Gotō as Yudzuru Inamori
Yūko Kaida as Ryuuken Ishima

Akeno Watanabe as Jaiano Enjouji (ep 12)
Erino Hazuki as Natsuru Maki
Hatsumi Takada as Honoka Tsutsui
Megumi Toyoguchi as Fumi Kumagai
Miyu Matsuki as Yonakuni-san
Tomokazu Sugita as Touichirou Kanae
Yōji Ueda as Narration
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Buyuu (ep 1)
Frontline
GoHands
Nakamura Production
SILVER LINK.
Studio Mark
TNK
Wai Wai Company
Yumeta Company
Animation Production: SHAFT
Assistance: Tokyo Animator Gakuin (eps 1-12)
Backgrounds:
FAI (ep 3)
Ryūbidō (eps 1-12)
Broadcaster:
Aichi Television Broadcasting (2009-01-08)
AT-X (2009-01-08)
Chiba Television (2009-01-04)
Sun TV (2009-01-07)
Television Kanagawa (2009-01-04)
Television Saitama Co., Ltd. (2009-01-09)
Tokyo MX (2009-01-06)
Composition:
DIGITAL@SHAFT
Studio Elle (ep 6)
Cooperation: Tokyo Animator Gakuin
Finish Animation:
AI
DEXS
Frontline
Hayashi
M.S.J Musashino Production
Magic Bus Niigata
In-Between Animation:
AI
DEXS
Frontline
Hayashi
M.S.J Musashino Production
Magic Bus
Magic Bus Niigata
SHAFT
TNK
Music Production: Media Factory
Production:
AT-X
Frontier Works
GENCO
Media Factory
Production Cooperation:
Magic Bus (ep 8)
Studio Pastoral (eps 2, 5-11 odd)
Recording Studio: OP Requiem Studio
Sound Effects: Sound Box
Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion
Video Editing: P's Studio
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Christopher Ayres
Translation: Kaoru Bertrand
ADR Script: Clint Bickham
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Toru Iwakami (2021 release)
Producer:
David Del Rio
Griffin Vance (2021 release)
John Ledford

ADR Engineer:
Adrian Heredia
Brent Marshall
Ricardo Contreras
Art Manager: Larry Koteff (2021 release)
BD Authoring: David Williams
Blu-Ray Authoring:
Joel McCray (2021 release)
Ryan Anthony (2021 release)
Blu-Ray Menu Design: Sarah Cain (2021 release)
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Mixing: Brent Marshall
Packaging Design:
Larry Koteff
Sarah Cain (2021 release)
Production:
Crystal Ruiz (2021 release)
Janice Williams (2021 release)
Joey Goubeaud (2021 release)
Son Phan Le (2021 release)
Production Assistant:
Alexandra Bedford (2021 release)
Brittany Deans
Bryson Baugus (2021 release)
E.W. Rector, III (2014 & 2021 releases)
Holly Dorsett
Iman Kibble (2021 release)
Jessica Williams
Kayla King
Luke La Padula (2021 release)
Mariana Valverde (2021 release)
Ned Gayle (2021 release)
Ryan Anthony (2021 release)
Production Coordination: Janice Williams (2021 release)
Production manager: Son Phan Le (2021 release)
QC Manager: Crystal Ruiz (2021 release)
Sound Design: Brent Marshall
Subtitle Script & Timing: Dwayne Jones
Subtitle Timing: Nathan Lopez (2021 release)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Caitlynn French as Matsurika Shinouji
Jessica Calvello as Kanako Miyamae
Monica Rial as Mariya Shidou

Beth Lazarou as Ryuken Ishima
Brittney Karbowski as Dorm Supervisor "God"
Carli Mosier as Nanami Kiri
Margaret McDonald as Sachi Momoi
Monica Rial as Shizu Shidou
Nancy Novotny as Ayari Shiki
Shannon Emerick as Yuzuru Inamori

Allison Sumrall as Honoka Tsusuri
Beth Lazarou as Ayano Enjoji (ep 12)
Christopher Ayres as Mr. Berlin (ep 10)
Genevieve Simmons as
Ei Hitsosubashi
School Nurse Tonomura
George Manley as Narration
Illich Guardiola as Touichiro Kanae
Juliet Simmons as Chifumi Satsuki
Molly Searcy as Fumi Kumagai
Tiffany Grant as
Mii Habutae
Yonakuni-san
Tiffany Terrell as Maki Natsuru

Emily Neves
Kalin Coates
Krystal LaPorte
Marianne Bray
English companies
Distributor: Section23 Films
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Subtitled & Dubbed)
Hulu
The Anime Network
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production:
Sentai Studios (2021 release)
Seraphim Digital
Translation: JN Productions
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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