Boku no Marie

My Dear Marie is a fairly old anime series with little in the way of story or artistic value. It's very average. BUT the english dub is pretty frickin funny. If you like old anime and you're in for some laughs, check this out.

(I originally wrote this as a youtube comment so I hope it's cool if I plagiarize myself) I really liked this show. It's about this guy named Hiroshi who really likes this chick Marie but he doesn't have the confidence to ask her out (we've all been there). However, instead of wallowing in self pity like a normal guy, he decides to take matters into his own hands, and sets up a camera to take sneaky pics of Marie while she's playing tennis one day. He uses the image data to make a robot version of Marie, which he rather stupidly names Marie (thus making the rest of this review pretty damn confusing). They look identical except she has pink hair while non robot Marie has purple hair. Hiroshi's cover is that robot Marie is his sister. The first episode introduces the plot (all the shit I just wrote) but is mainly about robot Marie discovering her new powers. She challenges real Marie to a game of tennis (if she wins, real Marie has to go on a date with Hiroshi, while if real Marie wins, fake Marie has to go on a date with this pervy dude). Robot Marie wins the game easily, and they have a nice (although kinda awkward) date. Robot Marie is kind of overprotective and keeps trying to follow them, but she keeps seeing people who are in danger and rescuing them (she's an android so she apparently has super strength). The date ends without Robot Marie's situation, and Hiroshi kind of comes to her rescue since she's all burnt up and stuff from her "superhero" escapades. The second episode is about this chick Hibiki (who holds the record for most tsundere character I've seen so far in an anime). At first, we're introduced to a flashback of her approaching Hiroshi in the street pretending to be a hooker. However, she beats him up and steals his wallet once they get to a hotel room. After she sees him when Marie beats her up for being in the mob and beating the shit out of some gangster, she falls in love with Hiroshi and decides to return the wallet to him. She almost does it but beats the shit out of him instead (again, pretty damn tsundere), but I think she left the wallet on the ground by accident or something, idk. During this, she sees Marie getting charged with tons of cables and shit sticking out of her (I think you can tell which one I'm talking about here) so she threatens to reveal Marie's secret unless Hiroshi goes on a date with her. The date goes pretty poorly and ends with Hibiki trying to have sex with the obviously terrified Hiroshi but then Marie comes in and rescues him. There's a couple other fights and stuff before Hiroshi reveals to Hibiki that he remembers her from his childhood. She gets all pissed at him since she thinks he hit her in the face for no reason when she was a kid and runs away, but it turns out he was protecting her from a dog/wolf. The whole "Hibiki being less of a bitch to Hiroshi because he saved her from a wild animal" thing doesn't really get explored though. The final episode is about robot Marie getting jealous of real Marie's dream stories, so she gets Hiroshi to write her a software update so she can dream. The rest of the episode is kind of crazy (as you'd expect because it's a ton of dreams that aren't for exposition or something like in most other media) so it feels like actual dreams. They get a bit crazy near the end with all this "dream within a dream within a dream" stuff so it must have been a pain to write. All the dreams are about robot Marie's internalized issues with pretty much being a clone of real Marie and how Hiroshi probably likes real Marie more than robot Marie. The episode ends with Marie thinking that she likes reality more than dreaming. In conclusion, it's a good use of 90 minutes but it's annoying that none of the story arcs got explored further. It's a shame that the manga this OVA was based on never got released here (or translated at all to the best of my knowledge) but at least what we got was pretty good.

Story 7/10 : The story isn't Completed it's enjoyable anime but they need to make More in my opinion Art 8/10 : I Loved this anime art it's like Classic Shoujo Anime Art Style. Sound 8/10 : Sound is good there's nothing wrong with that. Characters 9/10 : I Really loved characters of this anime Enjoyment 8/10 : I Really enjoyed this anime and this anime is my type Overall 7/10 : Wish they Make a Sequel of this anime. If you want anime with a good story this anime is not for you but if you like anime with Fan Services this anime for you.

*My Dear Marie* follows Hiroshi, a student who creates an android based on the girl he likes, Marie, who shares the same appearance. The first two episodes briefly introduce us to the story and its characters, who undergo some development. However, the anime has an almost entirely episodic structure, with conflicts that rarely reach enough depth or continuity to produce significant development. As a result, the events have a limited impact on the characters' growth and the progression of the story. Nevertheless, I consider the third episode to be the best part of this anime, as it introduces a much more interesting thematic dimension. When the human Marie tells the android Marie that she had a dream, the latter becomes curious and asks Hiroshi to install software that allows her to dream. Although her first dreams are rather trivial, the last one is particularly interesting, as it can be interpreted as a representation of the thoughts and insecurities that the android Marie has accumulated throughout the three episodes. In this dream, the human Marie questions the android Marie's identity, making her feel that, because she is a copy, she will never measure up to the original and has no right to love Hiroshi or even attempt to become human. It also reflects her insecurity about the possibility of the human Marie eventually taking Hiroshi away from her. However, what makes this interesting is that these feelings go beyond romantic jealousy and reveal a deeper conflict related to her own existence. From this, I believe the episode raises two interesting questions: Can a machine experience genuine emotions? And why can two beings who share exactly the same appearance become different individuals? Personally, I lean more toward the second question. I believe the android Marie is not simply trying to become human to deserve Hiroshi's love, but rather to find her own identity and stop defining herself as nothing more than a copy of the human Marie. Her conflict is not solely about feeling inferior to the original, but also about questioning who she is and what value her existence holds beyond what she was created for. These themes remind me of Rei Ayanami from *Neon Genesis Evangelion*, particularly because of the questions surrounding identity, individuality, and what it means to exist as an independent being. Although both works explore these ideas from different perspectives and with different levels of depth, I find the thematic similarities interesting. Ultimately, I believe the third episode gives *My Dear Marie* a special value by introducing philosophical questions that go beyond its romantic comedy premise. However, I feel these ideas are never fully explored due to the brevity of the adaptation, which has only three episodes to explore its potential. I really loved the art of this show and the characters. This show is a 7.5/10