Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season – 13 (Final)
LET ME BE YOUR IMOUTO. My final impression is included.
Summary:
With time running out in the competition, Sachiko finally takes action by asking Yumi to stand. This is interrupted by Touko’s rushed entrance into the Rose Mansion, though Yumi certainly stands upon her appearance. Touko quickly asks for Yumi to make her a souer, shocking those who are in the mansion. The competition is soon announced to have ended, and when it comes to the red card, Sachiko decides that it is Touko’s belonging. The competition ends as planned, but a bit after, Yoshino and the others begin asking what Yumi plans to do about Touko. When Yumi next meets Touko, in hopes of handing her the rosary, the two decide to go on a date. This brings the girls to travel around the country via train and bus later, until the girls finally reach Touko’s grandfather in a hospital.
While visiting various places and meeting people in the hospital, Touko finally reveals her circumstances to Yumi. Her true parents were lost in a car accident, though she was saved as a small baby. Her current adoptive mother was actually a friend of her true mother’s at Lillian. Touko had overheard her parents talking about her true mother at times, and she followed her mother’s footsteps by pursuing drama. Touko eventually started to feel as if she was hurting her current parents despite how much she loved them, and had even previous left home because of her fate. Touko tells all of this to Yumi because of her wish to be closer to her, and on the train ride home, Touko describes how much she once despised her. Despite her belief that she couldn’t be with such a cheerful person though, Yumi had proved otherwise. With this, Yumi suggests that Touko would only have to wait a bit longer.
Impression:
Really? …….really? Looking forward to season five, guys!
Well, despite not being made official yet, Yumi and Touko did finally end up together by the end. So…..I guess I’m satisfied. This episode had a lot of highs, but a lot of lows to counter them as well. I was getting really giddy throughout the episode, from things like:
- Yumi’s using her butt to hide her card (who’s gonna touch that…ew!)
- The tsun tsun tsun DERE radar going off like crazy towards Touko
- Touko’s running around while holding a book in one of the most awkward positions ever
- Yumi’s constantly getting rosary-blocked
- Yumi and Touko holding hands and hugging
…..and quite a few other ridiculous things that normal people shouldn’t giggle uncontrollably at. But while I understand how necessary it was to go over Touko’s background, and exactly why she was always acting the way she was, the exposition laid out for this really made what should have been a climax a little slow. And adding to all that, the rosary scene from last week’s preview only ended up being some vision Yumi had of the future. Does this mean half of the fifth season will be just as draggy!? I kid, but still…
Final Impression:
Let’s be honest here. There were two shows this season that I normally wouldn’t have blogged on normal occasion, and one of them was definitely Marimite. I had already expressed my hesitation about covering the show at the beginning of the season, but as I always seem to do, I ended up doing it at the urge of fans. That said, this season of Marimite ended up being not too unlike the seasons proceeding it. While I enjoyed myself overall, I didn’t feel as enthused as veteran fans, and there were some parts that were too slow for me to feel in touch with. Still, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy writing about the show (I had quite a bit of fun with a lot of the episodes, actually), and the series was a guaranteed watch after the first three seasons anyways. I don’t have much to say to top the season off, since there will be a fifth season (according to novel readers and the open ending after this week’s episode), but I hope fans were at least able to put up with my silliness for the majority of this season.
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Yumi’s using her butt to hide her card (who’s gonna touch that…ew!)
Do you really have to ask?
Anyways, I feel kinda sorry for taking my time in watching this season. It was certainly a letdown from the last season. Pretty much forgot a lot of what happened in the past episodes. Hell, I don’t even know if they even did any of those “Maria-sama ni wa naisho” bits for this season.
>Yumi’s using her butt to hide her card (who’s gonna touch that…ew!)
You mean, while she’s still sitting on it? I would.
I loved this season. I thought it might have been the best since season one, and much more enjoyable than season three. Sure it was slow, but that gave time for feeling people’s emotions more deeply. And the apotheosis of Touko turning from my most hated to a newly beloved character was a trip.
I was actually partial to Kanako before this season, but I never hated Touko.
This season did make me a bigger Yumi fan over Sachiko though, which is kind of ironic.
I waited half the season for the last 5 seconds… THE LAST FIVE SECONDS!! At least Yumi finally caught herself a Touko, and at the very least we get some OVAs comming up
I’d rank this season below 1 and 3, but well above season 2. The massive flood of DERE comming out of Touko this episode was a tad extreme, but it was also awesome to see her finally opening up. I’m lookin forward to season 5!!
They skipped all the non red rose stuff from the last 5 novels or so, pretty much focused on Yumi and Touko, too bad.
NEEDS MOAR SACHIKO x YUMI.
Yep, that’s the only thing that really ticks me off… don’t get me wrong… Yumi and Touko are okay but wth… MORE Sachiko please. She is a great character and perfect for Yumi. I hope to god they get together at the end of this series.
I totally agree with Drocr. I mean c’mon Sachiko is the most interesting character of the series. She and Yumi go so well together I was kind of hoping they’ll develop their relationship at the begining of the season but it wasn’t meant to happen
We’ll se in the fifth one.
sachiko is good and awesome but she is not the protagonist, maria sama ga miteru is about yumi afterall, this season was about yumi and her feelings towards touko
1 and 3 season have a lot of sachikoXyumi, a lottt,
not get me wrong, i love that couple, but we have seen so much. the thing with yumi and touko is cute and thats why a lot of people liked this season a lot more like others
P.S: this is the season of marimite that have more pre-orders in japan, even more than season one, and of course, they did those ni wa naisho for this season, just search
Marimite is good anime but could’ve been better, all 4 seasons is good but not great, as they miss many stuff from novel but 4th season was… A LOT IS MISSING since they only focus 4th season’s story about Yumi and Touko’s relationship, so it really went quick for me(not draggy at all)btw missing stuff from novel briefly mentioned on previews on each episodes.