My Dear Marie is a 1994
manga made into a three-episode
OVA in 1996.
Only the OVA has been brought overseas, originally under the name
Metal Angel Marie, and is the subject of this article.
The first two episodes revolve around Hiroshi, a friendly neighborhood
mad scientist. Unlucky at love,
he creates a robot with the appearance and name of his crush, Mari. The robot, Marie, accidentally meets the original Mari, 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.
The third episode revolves around Marie and consists of three
dream sequences. They contain much
bizarre imagery and
navel gazing,
as well as some other stuff.
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