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Oniisama e...
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Maria†Holic
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You have to know Onii-sama e to really get Maria Holic. Onii-sama e and similar series are what Kanako is hoping for when she enters her all-girls school. When she's feeling particularly sentimental about a girl, she'll transform into Onii-sama e style - sometimes in a pose directly lifted from the pages of the manga.
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Maria-sama ga Miteru
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Maria†Holic
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Maria Holic is a parody of the entire shoujo yuri genre in all its floweriness, but especially of Maria-sama ga Miteru. The school in Maria-Holic is Lillian Jogakuen with the over-the-top prettiness pushed to the next degree. Several of the characters are similar. Even the soundtrack seems based on Marimite's at times. No one would like Maria Holic more than a real Marimite-holic.
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Maria-sama ga Miteru
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Oniisama e...
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While Oniisama e undoubtedly tops Maria-sama ga Miteru in both storytelling and art, both are great series and they have a lot in common. Both are set in exclusive, extremely idealized all-girls schools in Tokyo. Both feature childish, naive protagonists who, completely unexpectedly, become involved with elite groups in their schools. Both groups are populated by ridiculously beautiful, wealthy, talented, etc. girls who often carry heavy burdens. Both protagonists are ambivalent about whether they belong in the group and both experience some amount of ostracization by the rest of the school because they clearly don't (although Yumi is definitely better off than Nanako here). And, of course, both are centered around pure love between girls.
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Ace wo Nerae!
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Oniisama e...
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Many of the characters, in their personalities, designs, and interactions, are virtually identical in the two series. Their conflicts are also similar - a newcomer is unexpectedly chosen to be part of an elite group instead of another, more recognized girl, and is bullied because of it.