is a manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series by Akira Kojima

Akira Kojima

is a manga artist from Ibaraki prefecture who works for Square Enix. He is best known for Mahoraba, which was published in Gangan WING and adapted as an anime television show broadcast on TV Tokyo. He often represented himself in Mahoraba as a monolith with eyes and limbs.-External links:...

, which was later adapted into an anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

. It was serialized in Square Enix

Square Enix

is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...

's Monthly Gangan WING manga magazine between January 2000 and July 2006, spanning a total of 12 tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

 volumes.

The anime adaptation, entitled , was produced by J.C.Staff

J.C.STAFF

, is a Japanese animation studio founded in January 1986. Their first release was the three episode OVA Sengoku Kidan Yōtōden, in 1987. They have produced several well-known anime series, such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Excel Saga, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Shakugan no Shana, Toaru Majutsu no...

, premiered across TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

 on January 10, 2005, and ended on June 26, 2005, spanning a total of 26 episodes.

Plot

Shiratori Ryushi wants to become a children's picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-Sou (Narutaki Villa), in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. Narutaki-Sou is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn't fit in urban scenery. The complex is owned by his mother's cousin and the manager of the apartment is his second cousin, Aoba Kozue. They met each other when they were children, although Shiratori doesn't remember much of it. Kozue is in the second grade of a high school attached to Aoba Junior College.

There are seven residents of Narutaki-Sou. The first, Chanohata Tamami, lives in room #1 and she is Kozue's childhood friend and best friend. Shiratori Ryushi, the main character of the series, resides in room #2. In room #3 resides Momono Megumi, a person who goes her own way in life. Kurosaki Sayoko and her daughter Asami, who is in the first grade of middle school, live in room #5. Finally, in room #6, Haibara Yukio lives with his puppet Johnny.

Narutaki-Sou is filled with characteristic and eccentric people. However, the most eccentric person is Kozue herself. She has a secret of which even she does not know; when she is shocked at something, her personality changes. Not knowing this, Ryushi moves to Narutaki-Sou to realize his dream.

Narutaki Sou residents

Kozue Aoba (蒼葉梢 Aoba Kozue)	Voice by Seiyu Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and... : Satomi Arai
Landlady of Narutaki Sou and Ryūshi's second cousin. She attends the same high school as Tamami. She has several different personalities Dissociative identity disorder Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities , each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment....  that come out when she experiences different emotions, but returns to her original one after sleeping or passing out. Each of her different personalities has a different hairstyle involving the bells she ties her hair up in and each personality has a different eye color. Kozue's eye color is a bluish green. She is extremely nice and like all of her other personalities, she enjoys umeboshi. In the manga, she begins going out with Ryūshi from chapter 39. Near the end of the manga, it is revealed that her other personalities are designed by herself after Ryūshi teaching her to write picture stories; and the cause of illness is her sad past where the people she loves kept going away (starting with her great grandpa passing away and then her father & mother by divorce) At the end, in the epilogue, it is shown that she is married to Ryūshi, having four kids, most likely representing her other personalities. At the start of the series, she is sixteen years old and her birthday is on December 21.
Saki Akasaka (赤坂早紀 Akasaka Saki)	Voice by: Satomi Arai
Saki, whose eyes are red, has a very tough attitude and wears her hair with a pony tail in back. She is also very strong physically (shown to be able to break apart a tree near the end of the manga).Despite this, she actually does care about others, even if she is embarrassed to admit it. She appears when Kozue is surprised or angered. She is an extreme lightweight, and unable to tolerate anything but umeshu Umeshu is a Japanese liqueur made from steeping ume fruits in and sugar. It has a sweet, sour taste, and an alcohol content of 10-15%. The taste and aroma of umeshu can appeal to even those people who normally dislike alcohol. Famous brands of umeshu include Choya and Takara Shuzo... (in the manga), in the anime she can't even smell liquor without passing out. Her other weakness is fear of butterflies Butterfly A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured... .
Nanako Kanazawa (金沢魚子 Kanazawa Nanako)	Voice by: Satomi Arai
Nanako has the personality of a 6 year old. Her hairstyle contains two "antennae". She has yellow eyes. She appears when Kozue is embarrassed.She is usually better behaved after she becomes "Shiny." One other noteworthy feature of Nanako is that of all the other personalities that Kozue goes through, Nanako is the only one given an actual age. According to the manga, Saki, Chiyuri, and Natsume all are of unknown age, though it is safe to assume that all of the others have the same age as Kozue.
Chiyuri Midorikawa (緑川千百合 Midorikawa Chiyuri)	Voice by: Satomi Arai
Chiyuri loves cosplay Cosplay , short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction... . 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 appears when Kozue is clumsy or frightened. She wears a large pony tail to the side and has green eyes. 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
Natsume has a very shy personality who initially avoided speaking to anyone at all. She is extremely skilled at sleight of hand Sleight of hand Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain, is the set of techniques used by a magician to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly....  and card tricks. The first time she talked was when teaching Ryushi one. Flowers will spontaneously pop out of the top of her head (a parody of the first magic trick she shows Ryushi) when she's happy. Her hairstyle is high pigtails with a layer of hair in the back. She has blue eyes. She has a habit of ending her sentences with "... kamo," meaning either "maybe" or "I think" depending on the context. She appears when Kozue is saddened.
Room 1
Tamami Chanohata (茶ノ畑珠実 Chanohata Tamami)	Voice by: Yui Horie Yui Horie is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress. She is sometimes affectionately nicknamed by her Japanese fans.She hosts a radio show called and is the founding member of the singing group, Aice5. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai, with the name YUIEL...
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 Occult The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...  club, along with Kozue. She is very strong physically(usually K.O street punks in one hit), although she appears quite normal, if not short and weak. A perpetually smiling evil genius, Tamami is cold, sarcastic, cruel, manipulative, inconsiderate and condescending towards those she deem to be her moral/intellectual inferiors; which in other words mean everybody besides Kozue-Chan (and her other personalities). This is explained by her usually being isolated for her extreme geniuses before meeting Kozue. Of course, Tamami also goes to Seika Tandai Fuzoku High School with Kozue, and she says "desu" at the end of her sentences. In the manga, it is revealed that she is actually a very emotional person, crying all the while during Momono's departure. (Whether she and Momono is especially close or she just loves everyone in Narutakisou is unknown). Her birthday is November 8 and at the start of the manga and anime, her age is the same as Kozue's. At the end of the manga, she becomes a world-class photographer that frequently travels oversea.
Room 2
Ryushi Shiratori (白鳥隆士 Shiratori Ryūshi)	Voice by: Ryōko Shiraishi Ryoko Shiraishi is a voice actress from Nara, Japan who works for Aoni Production. Due to her low and gentle voice, she is often cast as either the effeminate-and-kind young man or the sexually mature but sweet-and-sensitive supporting lady...
The male protagonist of the series. Ryushi is an aspiring children's book artist. He moved into Narutaki Sou so he could attend the Sumeragi Design School in Tokyo. Second cousins with Aoba Kozue. He had apparently met Kozue when the two were younger, but he doesn't remember about this at the start of the series. In the beginning, he is eighteen years old and his birthday is September 9. His personality is both childish as well as passive to the point of never objecting when anyone does anything wrong to him which happens a lot. In the manga, he becomes lovers with Aoba Kozue from chapter 39. At the end, in the epilogue, he is shown married to Aoba Kozue, with four girls, possibly representing Aoba's other personalities.
Room 3
Megumi Momono (桃乃恵 Momono Megumi)	Voice by: Masumi Asano Masumi Asano is a Japanese voice actress from Noshiro, Akita who works for Aoni Production. She is also known by her nickname, Masumin.- Notable voice roles :Anime* Saga in A Little Snow Fairy Sugar...
Megumi attended Washida University for one year, but it turned out to be too expensive so she took a year off. Her hairstyle features an ahoge. 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. In the manga her character is much more developed as she is portrayed with a darker past, in connection with her brilliant piano skills in which she comments have given her bad memories. In volume 9(out of 10) of the manga tankubon it is revealed she had attempted suicide when she was younger over the pressure of her parents forcing her to perfect her piano skills. She has razor scars hidden on her wrist as a result. Eventually in the manga, she leaves Narutaki Sou to be with her boyfriend, whom she had told all about the residents. He has proposed marriage to her, which she has accepted. In the epilogue, she is shown with one daughter, Ruri, who is a fan of Ryūshi's children's book. In the anime, she remains at Narutaki Sou, telling her boyfriend to ask her to join him again once he has finished his studies and fulfilled his dreams. Near the end of the manga, she admits to herself to have liked Shiratori for a split moment, to which she describes as "can't help liking a guy who chases after his dreams" before deciding to move in with her boyfriend. At the start of the series, Megumi is twenty years old (claimed to be nineteen) and her birthday is February 13.
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 initially suicidal, though this aspect of her character was cut out in the transition to the anime. (Also, none of her attempts at suicide are even remotely successful so they are normally just for gags.) Despite this change, however, she 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 in her youth over her choice of her husband; rather than let her parents choose a fiancé for her, she eloped with the estate's gardener. Her favorite food is Mizuyōkan Yokan is a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar. It is usually sold in a block form, and eaten in slices. There are two main types: neri yōkan and mizu yōkan. "Mizu" means "water", and indicates that it is made with more water than usual... . Despite her evident uselessness throughout the series, she really cares for Asami. Though her age isn't revealed in the manga, her birthday is October 17. It should also be noted that despite her poor skills in living, she possesses great skills in stuffs like chess (to which Momono depicts as a useless skill in life) and in arts (capable of making artpieces out of almost anything(sand, snow, wood,...even food)), possibly inheriting her father's skills. At the end of the manga, she is seen to work as a freelance sculptor, making an expensive looking wooden dragon. It is also revealed that she isn't really lazy or bad at working but rather, simply having low or no confidence and motivation.
Asami Kurosaki (黒崎朝美 Kurosaki Asami)	Voice by: Umi Tenjin Umi Tenjin is a Japanese voice actor.-TV:*Battle B-Daman *Cojicoji *Digimon Adventure *Digimon Adventure 02 *Digimon Frontier *Digimon Savers *Digimon Xros Wars...
Asami lives in room 5 with her adopted mother while her adopted father died when she was younger. 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. At the beginning of the series, she is twelve years old and her birthday is June 26.
Room 6
Yukio Haibara (灰原由起夫 Haibara Yukio)	Voice by: Kenyuu Horiuchi
Yukio doesn't speak directly, but rather uses ventriloquism Ventriloquism Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy"...  to speak through his puppet, Johnny. In the anime, he is at one point mistaken for Aleister Crowley by Vermilion, to his and Johnny's considerable distress. In the manga, Haibara's character is more explained. It is revealed that his father died when he was at a young age. Also it shows that he was very popular as a high school student. Haibara is Kozue's caretaker after her parents left. Only in the manga, Haibara speaks using his own voice once when placing hope on Shiratori to heal Kozue.
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 Haibara is the extra part. It is revealed near the end of the manga that the Johnny is "born" when Haibara panics as how to get attention of the small Kozue who was abandoned, sad and lonely.

Sumeragi (Imperial) Design School

* Note - these character's names are nicknames

• Miyabi Shirogane (銀 雅 Shirogane Miyabi) - Shiratori's teacher. Students who are disobedient or forget their homework are treated to "the mysterious closet", which is a frightful ordeal that definitely gets her message across. She has similar antic to Tamami such as always having her eyes half open and talking very cheerfully until certain moments. At one point she and Tamami meet and get along quite well(With her giving Tamami advices), much to the characters' terror. She usually wears a kimino on normal days and normal clothes on festivals.

• Tsubasa Yamabuki (山吹 翼 Yamabuki Tsubasa)/Ero boy/Erofreak * (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.

At the end of the manga, he is seen to have become porn manga author, giving up the fairy tail books

• Risona Aizawa (藍沢 理想奈 Aizawa Risona)/Homo-suki * (Riku Moriyama
  Riku Moriyama
  , also credited as , is a Japanese voice actress.- Television :* Mahoraba: Heartful Days , Archer Girl A , Micchan, Mummy girl , Risona Aizawa , Yo-chan- Original video animations :...
  
  ): She is a classmate of Shiratori who wears glasses. Her name is based on the famous bank in Japan"Resona Bank
  Resona Holdings
  is the holding company of , the fourth-largest banking group in Japan.The company was originally established on December 12, 2001 as Daiwa Bank Holdings, Inc., the result of the consolidation of Daiwa Bank, Kinki Osaka Bank, and Nara Bank...
  
  "(Mizuho and Asahi are also named based on a famous Japanese bank.) A devoted fan to manga (especially that of the yaoi
  Yaoi
  In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
  
   and yuri sort), Risona aims to become a dojinshi
  Dojinshi
  is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels. Dōjinshi are often the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular industry. The term dōjinshi is derived from and . Dōjinshi are part of a wider...
  
   author. She has a fear of white goats that may eat her manga manuscripts.

• Mizuho Amane (亜麻根 瑞穂 Amane Mizuho)/Nail bat */Megaphone Girl * (Nozomi Masu
  Nozomi Masu
  ' is a seiyū.-Voice roles:*Desert Punk *Fushigiboshi no Futagohime *Fushigiboshi no Futagohime Gyu! *Ga-rei -Zero- *Girls Bravo *Kure-nai *Lucky Star...
  
  ): She is a classmate of Shiratori who uses her batting skills to punish Tsubasa for his womanizing. Her name is based on the famous bank in Japan"Mizuho Bank
  Mizuho Financial Group
  , abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan...
  
  "(Risona and Asahi are also named based on a famous Japanese bank.) 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. In the epilogue of the manga, she is shown to have become an editor, despite studying to be an author (this is possibly because of her lack of talents in drawing).

Seika Tandai Fuzoku High School

• (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 "" until the final chapter of the manga. "Erika Vermillion" is a stage name for her fortune-telling business. She has a masochistic slant as well, and painfully enjoys Tamami's talent for insults and other unusual tortures. When inside a shrine, she is strangely purified into a person exactly opposite (bright and kind, to a point of using a lot of money to wish for happiness of everyone)

• (Sayaka Kinoshita
  Sayaka Kinoshita
  is a female Japanese voice actress from Chiba, Japan.-Anime cast in:*Aki Sora as Sora Aoi*Elemental Gelade as Lapis*Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha as Director Makihara ; Player ; Student ; Woman...
  
  ) - 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 whom Shiratori and Kozue help earlier in the series)

Asami's schoolmates

• (Akeno Watanabe
  Akeno Watanabe
  is a Japanese voice actor born in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. She works at Osawa Office and her nickname is Akenon. She currently stars in Pokémon Best Wishes as Ash's newest rival, Shooti and from Episode 17 onwards has begun voicing Ash's Scraggy.-Anime:...
  
  ) - 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.

• (Riku Moriyama
  Riku Moriyama
  , also credited as , is a Japanese voice actress.- Television :* Mahoraba: Heartful Days , Archer Girl A , Micchan, Mummy girl , Risona Aizawa , Yo-chan- Original video animations :...
  
  ) - 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.

Futaba Ginza shops

Because of a slight misunderstanding on the phrase , practically every merchant in the Futaba Ginza shopping area thinks Kozue and Ryūshi are going out, with Kozue blissfully unaware of this.

• - She works for the bakery, which is famous for its taiyaki. Her name is based on the famous bank in Japan"Asahi Bank"(Risona and Mizuho are also named based on a famous Japanese bank.)

• - 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 Hanako Suzuki.

• 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
  Shinpachi Tsuji
  is a Japanese voice actor.-Anime:*Arc the Lad *Berserk *Brain Powered *Code Geass *Digimon Tamers *Fairy Tail *Fantastic Children...
  
  ) - 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
  Kotono Mitsuishi
  is a prolific Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. As a young girl, Mitsuishi lived in Nagareyama, Chiba. Mitsuishi graduated from high school in 1986, and entered the Katsuta Voice Actor's Academy. While attending the academy, she began working part time as an elevator girl in the Sunshine 60 building...
  
  ) - 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.

• - 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 projectile weapons such as darts
  Dart (missile)
  Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal...
  
  . Despite her tough appearance, she has a soft spot for things like teddy bear
  Teddy bear
  The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal in many countries, often serving the purpose of entertaining children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become collector's items...
  
  s, and owns one who she has named Kuma. She is very conscientious of her height, thinking herself to be too tall (at the shrine, her wish is to shrink). She is extremely protective of Mahiru, even requesting to be given the joker from her in a card game.

• - (Yuka Inokuchi
  Yuka Inokuchi
  Yuka Inokuchi is a female seiyū who is affiliated with Ken Production. She is originally from Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture.-TV anime:* Ai Yori Aoshi * Buso Renkin...
  
  ) - 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.

Other

• Tobita Haruka - an artist who happened across Sayoko's carvings. After multiple attempts of tracking her, she is now producing and selling sculptures with Sayoko. Considers her a genius.

Sidestories

Children's storybook sidestory

Ryushi Shiratori's children's story that is seen many times throughout the anime involves the story of a prince. The prince, who is a representation of Ryushi himself, discovers a castle with a princess living in it. The princess has a fondness for umeboshi

Umeboshi

Umeboshi are pickled ume fruits common in Japan. Ume is a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus, which is often called a plum but is actually more closely related to the apricot. Umeboshi are a popular kind of tsukemono and are extremely sour and salty...

 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 personalities 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 consistently 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. Usually there are four per situation, reflecting the same yonkoma

Yonkoma

thumb|right|150px|Traditional Yonkoma layout, a comic-strip format, generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom...

 device that is used in the manga.

Episodes

1. Welcome to Narutaki-sou (ようこそ鳴滝荘へ)
2. The Landlady's Secret (大家さんのひみつ)
3. The Precious Place (たいせつな場所)
4. Warm and Fuzzy (ぬくぬく)
5. Nega-Posi (ネガポジ)
6. Tama Check (珠チェック)
7. Hide and Seek (かくれんぼ)
8. Shopping (おかいモノ)
9. Correct-o (これくと)
10. Sketch (スケッチ)
11. Affection (想い...)
12. Summer! Swimsuits! The Beach! (夏だ!水着だ!海水浴だ!)
13. Narutaki-sou's Treasure (鳴滝荘のタカラモノ)
14. The End of Summer (夏の終わりに)
15. ...Maybe (...かも)
16. Guests After Guests (千客万来)
17. Color of the Sky (そらのいろ)
18. Meow Meow Meow (にゃーにゃーにゃー)
19. Everyone's Day (みんなの一日)
20. School Festival (学園祭にて)
21. Mother and Daughter (親·子)
22. Important... (大事...)
23. Among the Red Leaves (紅葉の中で)
24. Bells (すず)
25. Night of Revelation (告げる夜)
26. Heartful Days

Theme songs

Opening

• Daiji Da·I·Ji (大事▽Da·I·Ji) by Saiki Mia and Shiraishi Ryoko

Ending

• Boku no SPEED de (僕のスピードで) by Chihiro Yonekura

Together with King Records (Starchild label).

Manga

Manga volumes

Name	Date published	ISBN		Name	Date published	ISBN
Mahoraba volume 1	July 2001	ISBN 4-7575-0501-9		Mahoraba volume 7	September 2004	ISBN 4-7575-1278-3
Mahoraba volume 2	January 2002	ISBN 4-7575-0625-2		Mahoraba volume 8	December 2004	ISBN 4-7575-1329-1
Mahoraba volume 3	July 2002	ISBN 4-7575-0750-X		Mahoraba volume 8	December 2004	ISBN 4-7575-1329-1
Mahoraba volume 4	December 2002	ISBN 4-7575-0848-4		Mahoraba volume 9	March 2005	ISBN 4-7575-1415-8
Mahoraba volume 5	September 2003	ISBN 4-7575-1039-X		Mahoraba volume 10	October 2005	ISBN 4-7575-1531-6
Mahoraba volume 5	September 2003	ISBN 4-7575-1040-3		Mahoraba volume 11	April 2006	ISBN 4-7575-1675-4
Mahoraba volume 6	December 2003	ISBN 4-7575-1115-9		Mahoraba volume 12	July 2006	ISBN 4-7575-1728-9

Mahotarot(まほタロ)

A set of 22 tarot cards

Tarot

The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...

with Mahoraba's characters exist. The drawings are done by the author, and in addition to original cards, others such as mass-production versions (simplified background), fake tarot cards (different pictures for card number), and special editions (holographic) exist. These are supplements for related merchandises, and cannot be collected in its entirety solely by buying the books; thus, it is hard to complete the collection.

No	Card	Character	Merchandises bundled with card
I	The Magician	Natsume Konno (紺野 棗)	Volume 3, First Edition
II	The High Priestess	Mahiru Minazuki (水無月まひる)	Volume 4, First Edition
III	The Empress	Miyabi Shirogane (銀 雅)	Volume 4 + Gangan WING sweepstakes
IV	The Emperor	Mizuho Amane (亜麻根瑞穂)	Volume 4 + Gangan WING sweepstakes
V	The Hierophant	Risona Aizawa( 藍沢理想奈)	Volume 4 + Gangan WING sweepstakes
VI	The Lovers	Chiyuri Midorikawa (緑川千百合)	Volume 4 + Gangan WING sweepstakes
VII	The Chariot	Megumi Momono (桃乃 恵)	Drama CD "Travels, Happenings, Mahoraba!!" (旅だ、事件だ、まほらばだ!!), First Edition
VIII	The Strength	Saki Akasaka (赤坂早紀)	Volume 7, First Edition
IX	The Hermit	Yukio Haibara & Ryuusei Johnny (灰原由起夫&流星ジョニー)	Volume 8, First Edition
X	The Wheel of Fortune	Yu Minazuki (水無月 夕)	Gangan WING supplement, March 2005
XI	The Justice	Michiyo "Mi-chan" Asagi( 浅葱三千代)	Gangan WING supplement, April 2005
XII	The Hangedman	Ryushi Shiratori (白鳥隆士)	Gangan WING supplement, May 2005
XIII	The Death	Sayoko Kurosaki (黒崎沙夜子)	Volume 9, First Edition
XIV	The Temperance	Asami Kurosaki (黒崎朝美)	Gangan WING supplement, June 2005
XV	The Devil	Erika Vermillion (部長)	Gangan WING supplement, July 2005
XVI	The Tower	Tamami Chanohata (茶ノ畑珠実)	Gangan WING supplement, August 2005
XVII	The Star	Nanako Kanazawa (金沢魚子)	Gangan WING supplement, September 2005
XVIII	The Moon	Satsuki Matsuba (松葉五月)	Gangan WING supplement, October 2005
XIX	The Sun	Ryouko Shiratori (白鳥隆子)	Volume 10, First Edition
XX	The Judgement	Tachibana (タチバナ)	Volume 11, First Edition
XXI	The World	Kozue Aoba (蒼葉梢)	Volume 12, First Edition
0	The Fool	Tsubasa Yamabuki (山吹 翼)	Gangan WING supplement, February 2005
EX	The Wand	Sakura Utsuki & Hiro (空木 桜&尋)	Gangan WING supplement, November 2005
EX	The Sword	Ushimitsu Minazuki (水無月丑三)	Gangan WING supplement, November 2005
EX	The Cup	That Thing (それ)	Gangan WING supplement, November 2005
EX	The Pentacle	Hwang Yo "Yo-chan" Lee (黄有麗)	Gangan WING supplement, November 2005
SP	THANK YOU!	Narutaki Sou residents (鳴滝荘メンバー)	Gangan WING supplement, July 2006

External links

Mahoraba ~Heartful Site: Anime official website Mahoraba: Manga official site TV Tokyo Anime X-Press Mahoraba ~ Heartful days tender blue: Manga fan site