The tension! The tension!

[elfs]

Alright, 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.

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Well, that depends. If they're licenced in the US, I get them from Wonderworld books (http://www.wonderworldbooks.com/wwabout.html), which is in the same town. If they're not licenced, I tend to get fansubbed versions from a number of different bittorrent sites, mostly Inevitability Anime (http://www.inevitability.net/) and The MIRCX Tracker (http://anime.mircx.com/).

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! I was actually getting most of my files through http://www.downloadanime.org/. :)