Maria Watches Over Us

This anime really isn't for everyone, maybe not for me at all. Even though it only has 13 episodes, it took me 2 weeks to watch it because I couldn't take more than one episode a day. The first anime where I really and unreservedly hated all the characters. I was praying for some improvement: “Please throw a small nuke at their school", “Let some nice mecha fall on that statue of the Virgin Mary and blow everything up", “Some good guy could write all their names in the Death Note" and so on. To be clear – I WAS REALLY BORED. But I watched it because I was trying to understand how something like this could have 4 seasons. Unfortunately, I still don't get it. I didn't care about their problems, anxieties, tribulations, if they all died out of the blue I'd pop the cork – which is already clear from the previous. Plus, it's got way too much Catholicism on top of my aversion to the Church, so another “positive" point. The opening and ending themes are much like the rest of the series: completely uninteresting. The characters are like that, too. But as I said at the beginning – this anime is not for everyone and I really didn't like it. But if you like the “slice of live" genre, girls everywhere you look (in long skirts never showing a speck of underwear), and a hint of shōjo-ai, you might like this. (23/06/2010)