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Ayu Tateishi is the only person in school who knows her best friend Nina's secret. Nina Sakura is a witch-in-training who can't seem to perfect her magic skills. She tries to use her powers to make Ayu's crush, Tatsushi Kaji, like Ayu, but she ends up causing more harm than good!
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Ultra Maniac
Format:
Anime
Status:
Finished
Episodes:
26
Rating:
67
Studios:
Ashi Productions
Country:
JP
Duration:
24 min
Season:
SPRING 2003
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Yuta is Nina's childhood friend who comes down from the Magic kingdom for a visit. Yuta seems to be developing feelings for Ayu until Ayu accidentally takes a picture of Yuta with a magic camera. The camera that will show the person you like in your place. Yuta lets Ayu take the last picture on Kaji to find out who he likes, but Ayu is too scared and tries to turn and run but she accidentally takes a picture of Yuta and Nina is in his place. Thus revealing his feelings.
Ayu Tateishi is the only person in school who knows her best friend Nina's secret. Nina Sakura is a witch-in-training who can't seem to perfect her magic skills. She tries to use her powers to make Ayu's crush, Tatsushi Kaji, like Ayu, but she ends up causing more harm than good!
Yuta is Nina's childhood friend who comes down from the Magic kingdom for a visit. Yuta seems to be developing feelings for Ayu until Ayu accidentally takes a picture of Yuta with a magic camera. The camera that will show the person you like in your place. Yuta lets Ayu take the last picture on Kaji to find out who he likes, but Ayu is too scared and tries to turn and run but she accidentally takes a picture of Yuta and Nina is in his place. Thus revealing his feelings.
Ayu must battle Tsujiai in a tennis match to decide which tennis team gets three tennis courts. To make things fair, Nina turns Ayu into a boy to help her win a match with Hiroki, but the change in height makes her lose. After that, Akiho, Tsujiai, Kaji, Nina, Ayu, and others go sing karaoke. Nina turns into a boy too and Ayu stays a boy. While there, Ayu tries to prevent another girl from flirting with Kaji.
After Nina runs into Ayu at a store, they both look back at how they met and how they became friends. An unsuspecting Ayu comes across a girl on a flying magic scooter with a talking cat, she never dreams that the magical witch girl will save her life and then end up being her best friend!
Nina and Ayu, accompanied by Tetsushi and Hiroki set out to find the secret room in the school which is supposedly haunted by a ghost! However, only Nina and Ayu know the truth- the room is the location of a coveted Holy Stone! When Maya, Nina's childhood friend, comes into the picture they end up having to race against her to find the Holy Stone!
The Baseball and Tennis teams go on a trip into the woods for sports camp, tagging Nina along with them. The students are to participate in a test of courage. Finding out that the reason Ayu is so worried about maintaining her image is because when she was still just a bit infatuated with him he told that he liked that she was so cool and composed, and that was attractive. When they're there, Ayu tries to stop Akiho from making her move on Tetsushi while Nina and Maya try and find another Holy Stone. Nina and Maya search for the Holy Stone during the test of courage event. Thinking that Maya was a ghost, Ayu ran away to ruin her image by being scared of a "ghost".
In an attempt to punish some mice, Maya makes a potion that is supposed to shrink things, but instead it makes things grow bigger. To make matters worse, Ruru, her familiar, accidentally drank some of it. Now she is growing larger and larger by the minute. Nina must try to hide Ruru while Maya works on getting the dispel magic. While Nina helps Maya hide Ruru, Ayu distracts the class by acting like a fool, once again ruining her image in front of Kaji.
Three little girls from Nina's world, Bamboo, Pine and Plum, come to earth to help Nina in her search for the Holy Stone! Unfortunately, they're more of a hindrance than a help, causing lots of trouble for Nina and Ayu! Since, they are little children who can't seem to hide their magic.
Nina gets angry at Yuta's childish pranks and tells him to go back home. When a new Holy Stone location comes up, Nina and Ayu are surprised to see Yuta helping Maya get the stone! What more is going on with the Holy Stone that Ayu doesn't know about?
Nina needs Ayu's help with an upcoming test at school. Therefore Ayu has a sleepover at Nina's house so that they can study together. Meanwhile, Maya puts a spell on a doll to make it a voodoo and sends it to stop Nina from gathering the holy stones and orders it to hurt Nina, but the doll keeps failing and hurting and scaring Ayu insteaad. Soon, it comes to that the doll has to poison Nina, but because of Nina's kindness it turns out to have a good heart.