Kanako's quest for a girlfriend takes a turn for the absurd when the girl of her dreams turns out to be a sadistic cross-dresser.
In search of true love, Kanako Miyamae transfers to Ame no Kisaki Catholic school, inspired by how her parents fell in love with each other there. There is just one difference, though: because men make Kanako break into hives, she has actually come to the all-girls school to find a partner of the same sex. When she meets the beautiful Mariya Shidou, Kanako believes she has found that special someone; however, there's more to Mariya than meets the eye-it turns out that Kanako's first love is actually a cross-dressing boy. Mariya threatens to expose Kanako's impure intentions unless she keeps his real gender a secret, and to make things worse, he also replaces her original roommate so that he can now keep a close eye on her. Maria+Holic follows Kanako as she looks for love in all the wrong places and searches for the girl of her dreams-that is, if she can survive being Mariya's roommate.—MAL Rewrite
Kanako is a sophomore who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria-except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy.—Sentai Filmworks
Kanako likes girls and guys literally give her the hives, so she thought that attending an all-girls school would be the perfect place to meet the perfect girl. Then her hot new roommate turns out to be a guy in drag. Yikes. And when the most popular girl in school catches Kanako's eye, our poor heroine has to compete with all of the school's OTHER similarly obsessed girls... which seems to be most of them. To further complicate things are her roommate's rude maid, their cat-eared dorm leader, her roommate's identical twin sister, and WAY too many other attractive girls, and the question is whether Kanako will die from frustration first, or her almost constant nosebleeds. Still, she may be the girl voted least likely to succeed, but Kanako's not ready to give up on love just yet in MARA HOLIC.—Sentai Filmworks
