Maris the Chojo

TheStampede01 Mar 18, 2012

6

Story- The story is about Maris a superpowered space police woman who is trying to make a name for herself and her shape shifting fox pet thing. Her misson in this OVA is to rescue a prince whos been captured by another super powered girl and she believes she can get rich off him. Her past is quite sad and the end of OVA doesn't help... Theres some references to pop-culuture and her other works in the OVA if you look which is pretty cool and the whole "suit that restricts her strength" thing was neat. Animation- Not terrible but not amazing either ive seen better animation in the 80's. The sci-fi stuff was pretty cool though. Sound- Nothing really memorable IMO Characters- Some interesting characters, Maris is a hot head, the fox is like her better half, the other superpowered girl whos name I can't remember makes for a good nemesis, pretty cold hearted and selfish lol. The prince wasn't completely boring either. Overall- Not one of Takahashi's best works, but not terrible either, the end left me kind of depressed, but surprises are not that bad and it did make a lot of sense in a way. If you really like her other works then check this out.

Nekus Sep 8, 2022

3

Maris the Chojo wants to be a comedy but only ends up being depressing and tragically boring. In this story we have a scantily clad superpowered mc (Maris) with her animal sidekick cursed with perpetual poverty that amidst her space hijinks ends up having a wrestling match with another superpowered girl in a bikini.  All of that sounds like it would be fun in a silly kind of way right? What’s so depressing about it?  Well first off, why is she poor? Oh yeah because her planet blew the fuck up. Yup. That’s right. So she goes to work to help her family out but turns out her species is very powerful so on other planets she keeps breaking stuff.  Oh and her mother and father are the same, they keep breaking stuff and lose money (and are respectively stupid and a drunk) so they keep asking Maris for money. Because of all of this she’s forced to work for a shady “police” force that forces her to do dangerous jobs and to live in degrading conditions (we see her bring a fly swatter in the shower because of how many insects live in her house). Oh and let’s not forget that she also is forced to wear uncomfortable restricting chains in order to limit her power and not break everything in her daily life.  Throughout the OVA Maris keeps blaming everything terrible that happens to her on her being poor, since if she was rich she could buy the planet she needs so she can live freely with her family. Everything I just described sounds to me like a terrible nightmare, but the show seems to think it’s all just a big funny joke.  “haha she’s forced to do a shady job” “Haha her father is a useless drunk” “haha she has entire families of bugs in her shower” While watching I kept just staring at the screen with a mildly uncomfortable expression and I don’t think I actually laughed once. There’s some praise to give to other elements like the interesting designs for spacecrafts, planets and characters (except the stupid bikini armor of the mc), the well made animations or the fact that the two antagonist were utilized and characterized well. But none of that matters because of how simply depressing this comedy is. Next Rumic World Review -> Laughing Target