good anime for learning japanese. fun to watch occasionally in the mornings while eating your favorite cereal. makes me feel like a little jap schoolboy about to head off to school. maruko-chan is cute, but so is her sister... i like them both! the only character who gets on my nerves is the little twerp good two shoes fag baby bitch boy with the swirly spectacles. that kid reminds me of the nerd in sailor moon's class who has a crush on her.

>>39652 >maruko-chan is cute, but so is her sister I want Sachiko to be my secret girlfriend.

>>39652 >maruko-chan is cute, but so is her sister I want Sachiko to be my secret girlfriend.

>>39599 The most memorable episodes for me so far are 31-32 where she goes to the South Island and makes a friend. The ending of 32 made me cry a bit, very well done voice acting there. It brought to mind a time when I gave an offhanded goodbye to someone and realized too late I'd never see them again My favorite character (besides Maruko) would be Hanawa, I like his manerisms and hobby of Indian spiritualism stuff. It doesn't come up often but I do like his interactions with Migiwa, she's probably my 3rd or 4th favorite, I love her voice

>>39599 I just watched the first ep last night. It's funny but would get old very fast if I were to binge so I guess I'll just watch when I want to unwind before sleeping or something.

Tama-chan is cute. She's cute! CUTE!!

>>39867 It definitely isn't a binge type of show but it does have a lot of interesting episodes that completely depart from the usual school day formula and also many curve-balls within that formula. I've been watching an episode a week and its become something I always look forward to.

I always wanted to give this a proper go but the sheer volume of episodes is intimidating.

>>59873 The 1990 series is what counts, which means it's only 142 episodes. Everything else is just remakes and remixes of the 1990-92 episodes, and they're never as good, and the live action show may be fun but I don't consider it important. The first two movies are very good and totally in the spirit of the TV anime, and I've only watched those two. But basically what I'm saying is, the series is not that long, it seems long because over the decades they've remade and remixed it.

>>60313 >Only 142 episodes

>>60334 That's 3 seasons. Do you even know anime? Or, do you only watch movies and OVA?

>>60334 Slam Dunk is 101 episodes Yawara! is 124 episodes Fist of the North Star is 152 episodes Ranma 1/2 is 161 episodes Inuyasha, Gintama, Astro Boy and all of Jojo are about 200 episodes Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) is like 220 Yu-Gi-Oh GX is 180 Sgt. Frog is over 300 episodes Naruto/Shippuden together is just over 700 One Piece is over 1000, as are Doraemon, Pokemon, Shin-chan, and Detective Conan. Maruko-chan also has over 1k, technically Just take your time and watch it

>>60313 >The 1990 series is what counts, which means it's only 142 episodes. This is doable. Basically I'm to consider the 90s series as the canon which makes things easier to navigate.

>>61022 >consider the 90s series as the canon It also looks better, and you have all the original VAs.

Maruko has very cute and funny friends from other countries.