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is a manga series by Akira Kojima produced by Square Enix and Namco in their Monthly Gangan WING publication. It was adapted into an anime and broadcast on TV Tokyo on January 10 2005.This show has no relation to the similarly named anime series Maburaho or Mahoromatic.
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Plot summary
Ryūshi Shiratori is going to school to become a children book artist and needs lodging in Tokyo. He manages to secure it at an inn, Narutakisou. The landlady of Narutakisou is Kozue Aoba, a high school student and a forgotten childhood friend of Shiratori. However, the landlady is not all as she seems, and holds a mysterious secret of which even she does not know.Sidestories
Umeboshi is liked by Ryushi and Kozue and is used often for comedic reasons and as a plot device throughout the series
Children's storybook sidestory
Ryushi Shiratori's children's story which is seen many times throughout the anime involves the story of a prince. The prince, who is a represenation of Ryushi himself, discovers a castle with a princess living in it. The princess has a fondness for umeboshi and for various reasons concerning umeboshi, she multiplies into other princesses. These new princesses are the representations of Kozue, Saki, Chiyuri, Nanako and Natsume and the princesses appear in the same episode as each of the new characters are introduced.
Comic panel sidestory
Often during the anime a vertical comic-style sketch related to the main story is shown. The art style and music are consistantly used in this way as various situations are shown for comedic purposes. Each panel is displayed for several seconds until the next panel scrolls into view.
Characters
- Japanese names are given in the western order, given name first.
Narutaki Sou residents
| Kozue Aoba (蒼葉梢 Aoba Kozue) | Voice by: Satomi Arai | 
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| Landlady of Narutaki Sou. She attends the same high school as Tamami. She has several different personalities that come out when she is surprised, but returns to her original one after sleeping or passing out. Ryūshi is her second cousin. She is extremely nice and like all of her personalities, she enjoys umeboshi. | ||
| Saki Akasaka (赤坂早紀 Akasaka Saki) | Voice by: Satomi Arai | 
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| She has a very tough attitude and wears her hair with a pony tail in back. Despite this, she actually does care about others, even if she is embarrassed to admit it. She is an extreme lightweight, and unable to tolerate anything but umeshu (in the manga), in the anime she can't even smell liquor without passing out. Her other weakness is fear of butterflies. | ||
| Nanako Kanazawa (金沢魚子 Kanazawa Nanako) | Voice by: Satomi Arai | 
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| She has the personality of a 6 year old. Her hairstyle contains two "antennae". | ||
| Chiyuri Midorikawa (緑川千百合 Midorikawa Chiyuri) | Voice by: Satomi Arai | 
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| Loves cosplay. She also makes everyone else cosplay against their will, but only if it is against their will. If they don't care or want her to do so, she won't want to. She wears a large pony tail to the side. While she is in this personality, Tamami acts as her assistant, whom Chiyuri refers to as "my partner," while supplying Tamami many embarrassing photo-ops with which to fill her camera. Tamami, in return, calls Chiyuri "my sweetheart". "Correct!" is her catch phrase. | ||
| Natsume Konno (紺野棗 Konno Natsume) | Voice by: Satomi Arai | 
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| Very shy personality who initially avoided speaking to anyone at all. She is extremely skilled at sleight of hand and card tricks. Her hairstyle is high pigtails with a layer of hair in the back. She has a habit of ending her sentences with "... kamo," meaning either "maybe" or "I think" depending on the context. | ||
| Room 1 | ||
| Tamami Chanohata (茶ノ畑珠実 Chanohata Tamami) | Voice by: Yui Horie | 
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| Tamami is close friends and classmates with Aoba Kozue. She always has a camera and takes pictures of embarrassing situations and Kozue. She is also an inactive member ("Ghost member") of the occult club, along with Kozue. She is very strong physically, although she appears quite normal. | ||
| Room 2 | ||
| Ryushi Shiratori (白鳥隆士 Shiratori Ryūshi) | Voice by: Ryoko Shiraishi | 
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| Ryushi is an aspiring children's book artist. He moved into Narutaki Sou so he could attend the Emperor's Design School in Tokyo. Second cousins with Aoba Kozue. | ||
| Room 3 | ||
| Megumi Momono (桃乃恵 Momono Megumi) | Voice by: Masumi Asano | |
| Megumi attended Washida University for one year, but it turned out to be too expensive. Her hairstyle features an antenna. She is now staying at Narutaki Sou all the time. She is in a long distance relationship with her Middle School boyfriend who is studying cinema overseas. She loves films (particularly poor attempts at horror) and in her room are lots of DVDs. She's also a heavy drinker and likes to party with Johnny in Shiratori's room, much to his dismay. | ||
| Room 5 | ||
| Sayoko Kurosaki (黒崎沙夜子 Kurosaki Sayoko) | Voice by: Mioko Fujiwara | |
| Sayoko has a very dark personality and is not very responsible. In the manga, she is suicidal, though this aspect of her character was cut out in the transition to the anime. Despite this change, however, she's still remains irresponsible in both productions, but wants to make Asami happy and to live with her for a long time. Their room is filled with cardboard boxes, which they use as furniture and bedding, being extremely poor. Her father is a rich sculptor, with whom she became estranged from in her youth. |  | |
| Asami Kurosaki (黒崎朝美 Kurosaki Asami) | Voice by: Umi Tenjin | |
| Asami lives in room 5 with her adopted mother. She is a Junior High student. She keeps things together in spite of her mother's problems, pulling most of the workload and keeping track of expenses. | ||
| Room 6 | ||
| Yukio Haibara (灰原由起夫 Haibara Yukio) | Voice by: Kenyuu Horiuchi | |
| Yukio doesn't speak directly, but rather uses ventriloquism to speak through his puppet, Johnny. | ||
| Ryuusei Johnny (流星ジョニー) | Voice by: Kenyuu Horiuchi | |
| Yukio Haibara's hand puppet of a brown dog that Yukio always speaks through with ventriloquism. They both act as if the puppet were really the one speaking; "Johnny" often speaks as if it were Haibara who was the extra part. | ||
Sumeragi (Imperial) Design School
- * Note - these character's names are nicknames In the drama CD "", the names for the three friends of Shiratori are semi-officially named (by a drunk Momono) 友人A "Friend A" for Tsubasa, B子 "Friend B-Ko" for Mizuho, and C子 "Friend C-ko" for Risou. As a bonus gag, the three of them are named as a group and "()" is appended to the end.
- Miyabi Shirogane (しろがね みやび Shirogane Miyabi) - Shiratori's teacher. Students who are disobedient or forget their homework are treated to "the closet".
- Tsubasa/Ero boy * (Hikaru Tokita) - He is a classmate of Shiratori who is always trying to charm high school girls and young women (but has no interest in Middle school or younger girls). He happened to meet Shiratori when he was dressed as a girl due to a prank and fell in love with "her". Without a name to call this newfound love, he nicknamed her "Reiko", not realizing that she was really Shiratori.
- Risou Nara/Homo-suki *: She is a classmate of Shiratori who wears glasses. A devoted fan to manga (especially that of the yaoi and yuri sort), Risou aims to become a dojinshi author. She has a fear of white goats that may eat her manga manuscripts.
- Mizuho/Nail bat */Megaphone Girl *: She is a classmate of Shiratori who uses her batting skills to punish Tsubasa for his womanizing. She would normally use a customized baseball bat with spikes, but "because of the adults' circumstances", her bat was taken away and replaced with a plastic megaphone.
Seika Tandai Fusoku High School
- Occult club president (ぶちょう, Shizuka Itou) - She is the head of the occult research lab, of which Tamami, as well as Kozue is technically a member. She is never named and only referred to as "club president".
- Hiro (ヒロ) - Orchestra club president and the conductor. The group which she leads contains only 3 members. She is the younger sister of Sakura. (Side note: Sakura is one of Sayoko's father's maids, and the lady who Shiratori and Kozue help earlier in the series)
Asami's schoolmates
- Sa-chan (Akeno Watanabe) - She is Asami's classmate and speaks Osaka-ben. She tries to keep control of Mi-chan's haughty attitude, often with heavy texts such as dictionaries or telephone books.
- Michiyo (Riku Moriyama) - She is Asami's classmate and is rich and slightly snobby, often having a blase attitude and striking old-fashioned poses with her fan. Even if she won't freely admit it, she just wants to be friends with Asami. Her nickname is Mi-chan.
Futaba Ginza shops
- * Note - these character's names are nicknames.
- Asabi * - She works for the bakery, which is famous for its taiyaki.
- Yo-chan - She works for the bakery, but is notorious for going through several, vastly unrelated jobs in quick succession-- most likely because she is known for frequent slip-ups. Before she was a department jewelry store clerk, fortune teller, lifeguard, and various other jobs. She calls herself Suzuki Hanako, but her actual name is Joan Yowari.
- Grocer / Yaonaga - He runs various prize-games such as for futon warmers and refrigerators. He often tells bad jokes and puns, mostly for his own amusement.
- Bookstore clerk - Bookstore business hours: AM10:00-PM8:00.
Minazuki residence
- Ushimitsu Minazuki (水無月 丑三 Minazuki Ushimitsu, Shinpachi Tsuji) - Sayoko's father and a wealthy sculptor. He has a tendency to be a tad controlling.
- Yu Minazuki (水無月 夕 Minazuki Yū, Kotono Mitsuishi) - Sayoko's mother. She cannot stand sunlight and is as a result much healthier at night. She walks around with a cane, which she sometimes applies to her husband's foot when he is rude.
- Mahiru Minazuki (水無月 まひる Minazuki Mahiru) - Younger sister of Sayoko and, respectively, Asami's aunt, though they are closer to sisters in terms of their relationship. She has been living in Italy since childhood, so she is somewhat awkward at speaking Japanese. She speaks little, and tends to employ a kind of formal monotone to her voice when she does.
- Tachibana - She is the senior maid of the Minazuki household. She is an extremely skilled maid and is a capable martial artist and especially skilled with darts. Despite her tough appearance, she has a soft spot for things like teddy bears, and owns one who she has named Kuma.
- Sakura - (Yuka Inokuchi) - She is a maid of the Minazuki household. While her heart is in the right place, she is extremely careless and clumsy, a flaw which often lands her in trouble.
- Chauffeur - The personal chauffeur of the Minazuki household.
Anime
Episodes
- Welcome to Narutaki-sou (ようこそ鳴滝荘へ)
- The Landlady's secret (大家さんのひみつ)
- Important place (たいせつな場所)
- Carefree (ぬくぬく)
- Nega-Posi (ネガポジ)
- Tama check (珠チェック)
- Hide and Seek (かくれんぼ)
- Shopping (おかいモノ)
- Correct-o (これくと)
- Sketch (スケッチ)
- Affection (想い…)
- Summer! Swimsuits! Ocean trip! (夏だ！水着だ！海水浴だ！)
- Narutaki-sou's treasure (鳴滝荘のタカラモノ)
- The end of summer (夏の終わりに)
- ...Maybe (…かも)
- House visit (千客万来)
- Color of the Sky (そらのいろ)
- Meow Meow Meow (にゃーにゃーにゃー)
- Everyone's day (みんなの一日)
- School festival (学園祭にて)
- Parent - Child (親・子)
- Important... (大事…)
- The red leaves of fall (紅葉の中で)
- Bell (すず)
- Night of Revelation (告げる夜)
- Mahoraba (まほらば, Heartful Days)
Theme songs
Opening
- Daiji Da・I・Ji (大事▽Da・I・Ji) by Saiki Mia and Shiraishi Ryoko
- Boku no SPEED de (僕のスピードで) by Chihiro Yonekura
Manga
| Name | Date published | ISBN | Name | Date published | ISBN | |
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| Mahoraba volume 1 | July 2001 | ISBN 4757505019 | Mahoraba volume 6 | December 2003 | ISBN 4757511159 | |
| Mahoraba volume 2 | January 2002 | ISBN 4757506252 | Mahoraba volume 7 | September 2004 | ISBN 4757512783 | |
| Mahoraba volume 3 | July 2002 | ISBN 475750750X | Mahoraba volume 8 | December 2004 | ISBN 4757513291 | |
| Mahoraba volume 4 | December 2002 | ISBN 4757508484 | Mahoraba volume 8 [1] | December 2004 | ISBN 4757513291 | |
| Mahoraba volume 5 | September 2003 | ISBN 475751039X | Mahoraba volume 9 | March 2005 | ISBN 4757514158 | |
| Mahoraba volume 5 (Special limited edition) | September 2003 | ISBN 4757510403 | Mahoraba volume 10 | October 2005 | ISBN 4757515316 |
References
External links
- #redirect [Mahoraba ~Heartful Site]: Anime official website
- #redirect [Mahoraba]: Manga official site
- #redirect [TV Tokyo Anime X-Press Mahoraba ~ Heartful days]
- #redirect [tender blue]: Manga fan site
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