My Dear Marie

• Ja Kanji — ぼくのマリー • Ja Romaji — Boku no Marī • Genre — * Romantic comedy • Science fiction

• Type — manga • Author — Sakura Takeuchi • Publisher — Shueisha • Magazine — Weekly Young Jump • First — 1994 • Last — 1997 • Volumes — 10

• Type — ova • Director — Tomomi Mochizuki • Writer — Gō Sakamoto • Music — Hisaaki Hogari • Studio — Pierrot • First — March 6, 1996 • Last — August 21, 1996 • Runtime — 30 minutes per episode • Episodes — 3

• Portal — yes My Dear Marie, also known as Metal Angel Marie, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakura Takeuchi. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 1994 to 1997. A three-episode original video animation (OVA) was animated by Pierrot and released in 1996. The OVA was licensed for English release in North America by ADV Films.

Hiroshi Karigari, a college student, is shy and awkward, but a genius in robotics. He has a crush on another student named Marie. Utterly failing to communicate his feelings to her, he creates an android almost exactly like her, close enough to pass for her twin, and names her Marie. But though he programmed her to be the perfect wife, she turns out to be quite different. Then Marie accidentally meets the original Marie, and Hiroshi starts telling people that he and Marie are siblings as a cover story. Soon, a tough girl, Hibiki, enters the picture, and threatens to reveal the truth about Marie, unless Hiroshi becomes her boyfriend.

Written and illustrated by Sakura Takeuchi, My Dear Marie was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 1994 to 1997. Its chapters were collected in ten tankōbon volumes released from July 24, 1994, to July 23, 1997.

A three-episode original video animation (OVA) animated by Pierrot was released from March 6 to August 21, 1996. The OVA was licensed for English release in North America by ADV Films and released on VHS, in Japanese with English subtitles, in 1998. ADV Films later produced an English dub, releasing it on VHS, under the title Metal Angel Marie, in 1999. The OVA was later released on DVD, with the original title My Dear Marie, on September 28, 2004. The OVA was licensed in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment.