Marmalade Boy

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Japanese: ママレード・ボーイ
English: Marmalade Boy
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Type: TV
Episodes: 76
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 13, 1994 to Sep 3, 1995
Premiered: Spring 1994
Broadcast: Sundays at 08:30 (JST)
Licensors: Discotek Media, Tokyopop
Studios: Toei Animation
Source: Manga
Genres: ComedyComedy, DramaDrama, RomanceRomance
Demographic: ShoujoShoujo
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.411 (scored by 2343223,432 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #24562
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3175
Members: 60,502
Favorites: 625

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Synopsis

When Miki Koishikawa welcomes her parents home from their trip to Hawaii, the last thing she expects is for them to gleefully announce that they are getting a divorce. To her shock, they plan to switch partners with another couple they met on vacation. Barely able to keep her emotions in check, Miki begrudgingly attends dinner to meet the other couple and their strikingly handsome son, Yuu Matsuura.

After moving into a spacious house with her newly blended family, Miki struggles to adjust to her new lifestyle and her blooming feelings for Yuu. She attempts to navigate the coming school year with the help of her best friend, Meiko Akizuki, who is hiding a scandalous relationship of her own. However, the road ahead is not simple, as both Miki and Yuu have other potential suitors and emotional baggage from their pasts they are reluctant to reveal.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Marmalade Boy received a Taiwanese 30-episode live-action television series (called Júzǐjiāng Nánhái). The series starred pop star Stella as Miki and F4 member Ken Zhu as Yuu. Although the basic premise was the same, it did not feature many of the characters of the anime, and the love triangles were considerably simplified.

It also received a dating simulation video game was released by Bandai Entertainment for the Nintendo Game Boy system in Japan on January 1, 1995. It was released for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo) system on April 21, 1995. The game puts players in the role of Miki, who must try to win the heart of one of her three potential suitors from the series: Yuu, Ginta, or Kei.

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Staff

Yabe, Akinori
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Yamayoshi, Yasuo
Episode Director, Storyboard
Shidara, Hiroshi
Episode Director, Storyboard
Oka, Yoshihiro
Episode Director, Storyboard


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"Egao ni Aitai" by Rie Hamada
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Ending Theme

1: "Suteki na Serenade" by Miho Fujiwara (eps 1-31)
2: "Kareha Iro no Crescendo" by Yasuhiro Mizushima (eps 32-53)
3: "Yoake no Etude" by Yoko Ichikawa (eps 54-76)




Reviews

Jul 28, 2021
This show has been on my radar for decades as one I wanted to watch some day, but its length (76 episodes) made it a costly proposition for importing until recent years. I'm glad I finally bought it, since it's instantly become one of my favourite shows.

Miki finds herself living with a handsome but aggravating boy called Yuu when their parents swap partners and all start living together. After this quirky setup, Miki falls for Yuu, and the two become embroiled in the kind of love dodecahedron you would expect from a romance anime as various other suitors show up. What makes ...
Sep 30, 2022
Mixed Feelings
I'll say one thing for sure the manga is better than the anime. The anime felt dragged and unnecessarily long which you will agree with if you read the manga.
Otherwise this is a good anime there are filler moments but nothing was too boring. IT was a fun time but the animation may seem old now and less fluid like the ones we are getting now so keep that in mind.

All in all the parents and their antics are fun. Miki is actually one of the first FL's I got to experience so she will always have a special place in my heart. Yuu is ...
Sep 14, 2025
I felt the urge to write a review after finishing the anime and being disappointed many times by the characters' actions.

But first I want to say some good things about the anime:
It starts off really well. As "well" as an anime can get back in those days. We get introduced to the characters, to the situation that they are involved in, their position/role in the anime and so on. It was all nice and good, understandable (in the anime world).
Character design is okay-ish. Yeah, the parents look younger than their children for the most part of them, the character design is "skeletal" (Ultra long and ...

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