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Maria-sama ga Miteru
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Oniisama e...
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Maria-sama ga Miteru (and just about the whole of the shoujo yuri genre) owes a lot to Onii-sama e and, while the latter is far more melodramatic, the similarities are still very much visible, not least in the yuri subtext.
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,
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Recommended by wichuraiana
both stories are Yuri and they both are about a girl who is new in girls high school and in a different society .. but personally I prefer Oniisama because the story holds a deeper meaning .. the heroine's indulgence within the lives of the girls around her..
Nanako the heroine will be ingulfed inside the lives of the 3 adored girls in school : Fukiko (Miya-sama) the rich and powerful girl who's the head of a society called sorority and every girl is seeking her attention in school wanting to get in that sorority, Kaoru the head of the basketball team who has left school
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Recommended by Jewel-chan
Premise and overarching story are very similar: Elite all girls school, yuri relations and overtones, elite group within the elite (sorority/council), first world rich girl problems are key plot elements. In both stories a rather normal girl is selected into the elite group for mysterious reasons, and the overarching plot deals with the "why". The character archetypes found have similarities as well. Both are ensemble cast with one elevated main couple, who have a yuri relation.
The main difference is that Oniisama picks much darker themes (suicide, drugs, terminal disease) and creates over the top melodrama with them. Maria-sama picks trivial themes more common in school
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Vintage shojo about girls in a private school with yuri sprinkled on.
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