Recommendation. Maria Watches Over Us
SynopsisThe prestigious Lillian Girl's School is a "garden of maidens", a place where conventional education is secondary to the cultivation of young, beautiful women. In such an environment, the students essentially rule the school - in particular, the Yamayurikai (Mountain Lily Council), which acts as the de facto student council, putting on events and initiating newer students into Lillian traditions.
The council is based on a "little sister-big sister" system, which means that each council member must find a "little sister" to succeed them, and each girl is a member of a line of students denoted by the name of a certain kind of rose. In French, of course.
Into this whole scene comes the slightly clueless, awkward, but cute and well-meaning Fukuzawa Yumi, a first-year student who has a huge crush on the stately, beautiful, raven-haired Ogasawara Sachiko. Sachiko, being a member of the Yamayurikai, needs a little sister to continue the unbroken line of "yellow roses", and Yumi happens to be in the right place at the right time.
But what starts out as a chance meeting quickly grows into something far, far deeper. Is Sachiko merely trying to manipulate Yumi for her own purposes? Will Yumi be able to handle suddenly being so close to the girl she's admired from afar? And what's with all this gratuitous French being thrown around anyway?
The answers can only be found at Lillian Girls School, under the patient gaze of the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Genre: Girls school drama
Length: Television series, 13 episodes, 23 minutes each, Season 1
Notes: Based on the novels by Konno Oyuki (serialized in the Cobalt paperback series), which have also been adapted into a manga (serialized in Margaret) under the same title, by Nagasawa Satoru.
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