{"id":34,"date":"2007-02-24T22:45:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-02-24T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T22:45:27","slug":"maria-sama-oav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Maria-sama OAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maria OAV\" id=\"image33\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/marias1b.jpg\" \/><em>Yumi &#038; Sachiko<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably encountered the popular shoujo TV series &#8220;Maria-sama ga Miteru&#8221; &#8211; if not there has been plenty written about it elsewhere, and there&#8217;s a review on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/1animetx.htm\">website<\/a>. Now it has spawned a six-part OAV series, of which the first and second parts have appeared.<\/p>\n<p>OAV1 is a treat, as it opens with the main characters, Yumi and Sachiko having a girly squabble. The dialogue in this scene is a delight, and the faces seem drawn with a peculiar intensity. Yumi gets invited to rich-girl Sachiko&#8217;s summer residence, but has to contend with the ill-intentioned machinations of other girls of Sachiko&#8217;s circle who are jealous of Yumi because of her closeness to the alpha princess. Yumi&#8217;s simple honesty enables her to turn the situation around.<br \/>\nOVA2 was a disappointment for me, for the scenario seemed unconvincing, and the treatment weak. Essentially, the girls on the school council want to arrange some meetings with the council at a nearby boys&#8217; school with whom they hold a joint school festival. They have a problem with Sachiko, who dislikes men so much that she can&#8217;t bear to be near a boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yumi &#038; Sachiko You&#8217;ve probably encountered the popular shoujo TV series &#8220;Maria-sama ga Miteru&#8221; &#8211; if not there has been plenty written about it elsewhere, and there&#8217;s a review on my website. Now it has spawned a six-part OAV series, of which the first and second parts have appeared. OAV1 is a treat, as it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maria-sama OAV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}