The tension! The tension!
May. 18th, 2004 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsAlright, another anime on which to get painfully hooked. I just finished watching episode one of Maria-sama ga Miteru (Holy Mary is Watching).
Now, that doesn't sound like something I'd watch, does it?
Ah, you see, that's the beauty of it. This story was clearly cooked up for us silly otaku who want nothing more than to have an all-girl version of yaoi, and the Lillian Catholic School for Girls gives such shoujo ai by the truckload. So far, not much in the way of fanservice, though.
The set-up is quite, um, set up. It's a four-year finishing school for girls where seniors give their rosaries to younger students and promise to look after them and help them. There are three seniors known as "The Roses," and they basically make up the school's student council. They pick juniors who will replace them, and their juniors in turn pick "little sisters" to watch over and groom for positions on the council. When one of the junior girls picks a young, bashful first-year girl without going through the normal process of politicking (or getting her rose's approval) all sorts of internecine struggles with jealousy, envy, and love break out.
Whoo. Sounds like fun.
Now, that doesn't sound like something I'd watch, does it?
Ah, you see, that's the beauty of it. This story was clearly cooked up for us silly otaku who want nothing more than to have an all-girl version of yaoi, and the Lillian Catholic School for Girls gives such shoujo ai by the truckload. So far, not much in the way of fanservice, though.
The set-up is quite, um, set up. It's a four-year finishing school for girls where seniors give their rosaries to younger students and promise to look after them and help them. There are three seniors known as "The Roses," and they basically make up the school's student council. They pick juniors who will replace them, and their juniors in turn pick "little sisters" to watch over and groom for positions on the council. When one of the junior girls picks a young, bashful first-year girl without going through the normal process of politicking (or getting her rose's approval) all sorts of internecine struggles with jealousy, envy, and love break out.
Whoo. Sounds like fun.
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Date: 2004-05-18 01:54 pm (UTC)A more pernicious myth
Date: 2004-05-18 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: A more pernicious myth
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Date: 2004-05-18 02:49 pm (UTC)On the other hand Maria-sama ga Miteru I liked much more... You ask my why I liked it I still can't pin down a reason I can put into words. It has no fanservice at all as far as I can remeber. The character interations I felt were very well done.
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Date: 2004-05-19 10:48 pm (UTC)Where are you getting these, Elf? :)
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Date: 2004-05-20 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 10:57 am (UTC)Sounds a variant of this other title...
Date: 2004-05-20 08:56 am (UTC)You've got your exclusive (co-ed) school, 4 rich boys at the top of the social pyramid called the "Flower 4/F4", "red notes" handed out to signal the student body to shun the reciever, and a principled first-year girl trying to fly under the radar when she gets mixed in with the F4's high-roller lives.
I know there's a "You know you're in a Magical Girl Anime when..." list, I wonder if there's an equivalent for shoujou anime.
I'd recommend "Princess Nine", but it deserves a sequel that will probably never come.
--Gon