 Alternative TitlesJapanese: まぶらほ More titlesInformation Episodes: 24 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 14, 2003 to Apr 6, 2004 Broadcast: Tuesdays at 18:00 (JST) Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity Statistics Score: 6.721 (scored by 4938049,380 users) Ranked: #575722 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2206 Members: 99,666 Favorites: 227 Available AtResources |
Details Characters & Staff Episodes Videos Stats Reviews Recommendations Interest Stacks News Forum Clubs Pictures Ranked #5757Popularity #2206Members 99,666SynopsisIn the world of Maburaho, everyone is born with the ability to use magic and are thus labeled magicians. However, the magical ability of each person is not equal. The number of times you can use magic determines the amount of respect you receive, and since one’s magical power is determined at birth by traits and genetics, those who have a bloodline stemming from famous magicians are highly sought after.Having the lowest magic count in Aoi Academy, Kazuki Shikimori is looked down upon by his classmates and seen as a nearly worthless magician. However, his bloodline consists of many great magicians throughout the ages, meaning that while he may not be a great magician, his offspring could be. This leads to him being sought after by three different young women: Yuna Miyama, a transfer student who declares herself his wife upon arrival, Rin Kamishiro, a prideful swordswoman of a traditional family who wants to kill him so she will be free to pursue her own desires, and Kuriko Kazetsubaki, a member of an influential family who bluntly tries to seduce him for his genes.Now he has to deal with not only the jealousy of all the guys in his school, but also various women chasing after him!Related Entries   MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters & Voice Actors Staff "We'd Get There Some Day" by Ichiko Reviews  Apr 3, 2022 Maburaho was one of the first harem anime I watched back in the 2000s. I just rewatched the whole series and remembered why I enjoyed it in the first place. When I first watched this anime as a teenager, I mostly had a crush on Yuna Miyama, Kazuki's self-proclaimed wife, but I definitely liked Rin Kamishiro and Kuriko Kazetsubaki as well. I like the individual magical girls in this anime as characters and think they work well together. Yes, it's true that Maburaho has a cheesy storyline, but it's a harem anime, so I think it works in that context. As someone watching a y2k... anime in 2022, I noticed myself appreciating quite a few of the aesthetic elements present in this anime. I especially enjoyed seeing the art style, fashion, and visual effects of the characters' magic. Although I've since moved on to other kinds of anime since the early 2000s, rewatching Maburaho was nostalgic and fun. 10/10 would recommend Maburaho for anyone looking for a trip down y2k memory lane. Reviewer’s Rating: 8 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0Show all  Jan 30, 2022 Text book definition of old Harem.Submissive protagonist with no whatsoever appeal, confidence or charm but "kind and selfless" and with the usual plot device (his genes) which justify why he gets surrounded by girls.Other characters are, in order: the rich slutty lady (blond), violent clumsy tsundere (violet) and sweet, deeply and blindly fallen in love for a promise we made as children girl (pink).These characters are so generic that you literally don't need anything else but those few words used in my description to get the full picture.Beyond these 3, the rest are so dull, bland and uninteresting that you start to consider them extra... screen time to fill the episode.As for the story, it's the classic every episode is a step in which the protagonist show how "kind and selfless he is" and the girls gradually fall in love with him. And of course he is undecisive and reject any attempt to shift neutrality.Boring development both for the story and characters. TLDR: Textbook Harem with mediocre story, characters and art. There are literally hundreds of anime similar. Consider it only if you are really a collectionist of the genre. Reviewer’s Rating: 5 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jul 4, 2022 If your looking for a show you don't care about the artwork, story, etc, and are looking for a little bit of ecchi/harem.. you will probably still be disappointed.Ok, we have a story about a boy, who only has 8 spells, after that he will die, and turn to ash. Despite knowing this, of course, guess what he does, uses the spells, dies, and turns to ash. Despite time spent with him still, not a lot is done to fix him, and eventually, they find, that if they put all his ashes together. They can reconstitute him, which of... course goes wrong for different reasons.As its harem, they are all after sex with him of course but for his magical genes, and of course, he is a clueless guy, who has no experience with girls with your typical tropes of bf, yandere, tsundere, and that one girl who just would anyway.To start i hated the characters generally Yuna was overly possessive, declaring she was his wife, she had no real depth to the character except her love for him. The BF is the typical loved you from afar character and takes a turn later on for fear of losing what they once had, the tsundere, of course, is just following family orders really and never shows her real feelings, probably as will never know them herself and the girl always with a bit more adventure in her, just cares for the DNA primarily but gains feelings. None have any real depth, none have anything to be attracted to really, and if his magic is so strong, he could do better.They hint early on at the whole class could push on the harem element, but then forget by the next episode. Just like they forget Yuna's drop in her spell count, as she continues to use magic without thought, but never dies. Glaring plot hole.Honestly, 24 episodes were far too long for this as the poor storyline was dragged out and so much filler which often lacked the fan service or ecchi levels many people want from such an anime. The sad fact is it fails as a story, it fails as a harem as he doesn't want to be with any of them except as friends, the show is about 20 years old so the art and music/sound are mediocre and outdated. Character development is non-existent really as the show pushes one coupling more than the others to a point anyone else suffers for being near him leading to an overall product that is boring most of the way through. Even for a harem/Ecchi it was really bad Reviewer’s Rating: 2 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all Interest Stacks Recommendations Recent NewsRecent Forum Discussion Poll: Maburaho Episode 1 Discussion Laevantein - Dec 17, 2009 13 repliesby Tsukasa_Rio »»Aug 25, 2024 6:37 PM Poll: Maburaho Episode 24 Discussion Malware - May 23, 2009 42 repliesby yveltalkyogre »»Dec 7, 2023 5:21 PM Poll: Maburaho Episode 2 Discussion Ryushi - Feb 25, 2008 9 repliesby yveltalkyogre »»Sep 10, 2023 4:27 PM Poll: Maburaho Episode 16 Discussion maruf92bisj - Jun 6, 2013 5 repliesby Alfakurama »»Aug 22, 2023 10:46 AM Poll: Maburaho Episode 23 Discussion carnivorous - May 14, 2009 7 repliesby BrianaBird »»Aug 17, 2023 10:19 AM Recent Featured Articles Top 15 Adorable Anime Ghost Girls Who says all ghost girls in anime are stringy-haired, pale-faced terrors that chase the living with a vengeance? 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