Maria Holic
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Maria†Holic (Japanese: まりあ†ほりっく, Hepburn: Maria†Horikku) 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 initially licensed by Tokyopop in North America and picked up by One Peace Books in 2016 after Tokyopop lost the license in 2011. It has also been released digitally by BookWalker, Kadokawa's online digital shopfront. The series follows Kanako Miyamae who just got transferred to an all-girls private Catholic school to find a partner of the same sex.
Maria†Holic | |
![]() Maria†Holic's first manga volume cover featuring Mariya Shidō | |
まりあ†ほりっく (Maria†Horikku) | |
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Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Minari Endō |
Published by | Media Factory |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Comic Alive |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | June 27, 2006 – November 27, 2014 |
Volumes | 14 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Yukihiro Miyamoto Akiyuki Shinbo |
Produced by | Nobuhiro Oosawa (Genco) Kazuya Takahashi (Frontier Works) Hiromasa Minami (AT-X) Toshiaki Asaka (Media Factory) |
Written by | Masahiro Yokotani |
Music by | Tatsuya Nishikawa |
Studio | Shaft |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Chiba TV, AT-X, Sun TV, Tokyo MX, TV Kanagawa, TV Osaka |
Original run | January 5, 2009 – March 23, 2009 |
Episodes | 12 (List of episodes) |
Anime television series | |
Maria†Holic: Alive | |
Directed by | Akiyuki Shinbo (Chief) Tomokazu Tokoro |
Produced by | Hiromasa Minami (AT-X) Ryūtarō Kawakami (Egg Firm) Osamu Hosokawa (Hakuhodo DY) Sachi Kawamoto (Media Factory) Takashi Hijikata (Kadokawa) |
Written by | Masahiro Yokotani |
Music by | Tatsuya Nishikawa |
Studio | Shaft |
Licensed by |
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Original network | AT-X, TV Osaka, TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 8, 2011 – June 24, 2011 |
Episodes | 12 (List of episodes) |
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.