My Dear Marie Review
Metal Angel Marie
Boku no Marie
ぼくのマリー

Since the Community Anime Reviews site frequently has issues, I’m republishing some of my OG reviews from there. I have corrected obvious spelling errors though. I will add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB  note.”  😅 I won’t count these as part of the “Back to the Vaults” series as I have not rewatched them.

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(ANB note: This series was originally reviewed on 20-Oct-2004. Also, shout out to fellow OG anime/manga review blogger Anime Diet who told me Marie should have been in my Top Five AI Anime Characters list, even as an honorable mention.)

Community Anime Review of My Dear Marie

After finishing the 3rd episode of this series, it was clear to me that there was much more story to tell, but sadly we’ll never see it unless we read the manga. The incomplete feel of the series was its main weakness.

The premise of the series is an old one with Hiroshi being in love with the pink hair Marie-san, but since he’s a geek/nice guy, he can’t do anything and builds an android copy of her instead. Yeah, there are countless series with the nerdy, nice guy who gets the great android babe somehow. I have a weakness for this genre though, so I don’t get tired of it. It does show Hiroshi working on Marie as part of maintenance, which doesn’t happen often in the android-babe series. However, sometimes I wondered if this work done is just to have an excuse to have Marie naked.

As is also common with this kind of series, Hiroshi suddenly finds luck with other women, in this case, Hibiki. She’s a gangster type, and her whole attempts to blackmail Hiroshi to sleep with her were interesting. Had this gone on, having her in the mix would have been interesting. Hiroshi loves Marie-san, creates Marie (with blue hair) as a substitute, but then deals with another girl being in love with him. I think that would have been fun to explore, but sadly, no further episodes were created.

The final episode dealing with Marie’s dream software was really good as we get to explore Marie’s thoughts, desires, and fears in her dreams. The dreams are done in a very dream-like manner, which is a first that I’ve seen. Usually, dreams are shown like reality, but Marie’s dreams feel like a dream with things flowing, yet changing. Just a really good job.

Bottom line:

Had My Dear Marie gone on further, I may have rated it higher. As it is, I enjoyed the series. If you like the android-babe genre, you should enjoy this as well.