My Dear Marie

Description

Ever met the perfect girl but she already had a boyfriend? Well why not just build your own? An amateur mad scientist attempts to build a robotic duplicate of his dream girl, and Marie is the result. As you can probably guess, there are some unexpected complications. Stay tuned for mayhem and disaster!

Customer Reviews:

superb.......2006-11-06

This is an example from the early to mid nineties japanese animation, my favorite era. The piece is drawn wonderfully, the japanese voice acting is right on the mark, and the story is delightfully deranged and uniquely singular. I wish more japanese animation super-powered androids were like Marie.
My only complaint for this piece is that it never went beyond three episodes, a pity as there is certainly more material and depth that can be explored.
On this DVD my only complaint is that the trailer, viewable in the VHS edition is not present. Although to tell you the honest truth I really just like watching the trailer for the kinetic soundtrack that it has.
This DVD edition offers marked improvement to the accuracy of the subtitles over the VHS edition, and is definitely worth your investment in both time and money, although I personally am considering ordering the VHS anyway so I can get my hands on that trailer...
On another note, the japanese in this piece is notably easy to follow for beginner students of the language, and I also reccomend it for your study benefit.

Not Bad but Short.......2004-10-20

At only three episodes, this OAV series (based on the manga "Boku no Marii") is sadly incomplete. The premise is an old one with the nice nerd guy ending up with an android babe, this time one he created. Since Hiroshi is in love with Marie-san but can't work up the courage to ask her out on a date, he builds Marie who looks exactly like Marie-san, save for her hair color. Hiroshi explains Marie is his sister (and she helps by always addressing him as "oniichan" -- big brother) so the potentially sticky issue of Marie-san privacy being violated is avoided.

The first episode sets the stage, then has Marie win a bet so that Hiroshi can go on a date with Marie-san. The second episode deals with a gangster high school girl who suddenly falls for Hiroshi. The third and final episode deals with Marie being given dream software and experiencing dreams for the first time. It was a really well-done episode and the dreams were actually like dreams rather than another reality. Marie's desires and fears are explored as she dreams and it was quite enjoyable.

As I stated, the problem is that the series is incomplete. There is no resolution to any of the threads laid out. I would have enjoyed seeing Hiroshi deal with his love for Marie-san, while dealing with Hibiki's love AND the potential romantic love of Marie as well. I guess I'll have to score the original Japanese manga to get the full story.

DVD-wise, again, I scold ADV for turning "-chan", "-kun", and "-san" into "Mister" or "Miss" in the subtitles. *sigh* Our honorifics aren't the same as theirs (similar, maybe) and since this IS a Japanese title which takes place in Japan, the honorifics should be left in. Otherwise, I detected no obvious translation errors, so they do get kudos there.

Bottom line: if you enjoy the android babe hooks up with nerdy nice guy genre, you should enjoy this as well, despite it being incomplete.

NICE TO WATCH.......2003-10-04

This anime is really enjoyable.What i didnt like was the nudity at the first of the film.I mean, no matter what anumies are cartoons and shouldnt include such stuff

Must own for serious collectors.......2003-01-13

This is simply one of the best "shorts" available. The art is good and the story extremely well done. Why this hasn't been put on DVD yet I have no idea. It's too bad they didn't make more then three episodes, but even incomplete, it's one of my favorite series, always in the front of my collection. You can't go wrong picking this up.

Do you like Nuku Nuku? Do you like Video Girl AI?.......2002-04-04

If you've seen either of those, then METAL ANGEL MARIE is probably for you. One thing you should know first is that the real title is MY DEAR MARIE and is the one given to the subtitled version, but for some reason was altered for the dubbed video. Here, nerdy young mad scientist Hiroshi develops a crush on the girl in his tennis club, Marie. So he does what any normal guy would do, make an android modeled after the girl he loves! She looks like the real Marie accept with pink hair. The two of them eventually meet up and Hiroshi claims that android Marie is his sister. However, real Marie decides to start dating Hiroshi anyway, making things strange from android Marie as she starts to realize she likes Hiroshi too. Then, along comes Hiroshi's childhood friend Hibiki who is a major punk that also gets a thing for this spastic geek boy. Who knew nerds in anime could be such chick magnets? Very cute and funny!

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