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Fields	USA Info	Japanese Info	Image
Title	Strawberry Marshmallow	Ichigo Mashimaro(苺ましまろ)
Released		12 TV episodes, 3 OAV episodes
Dates	June 20, 2006(DVD)	July 14, 2005 – Oct 13, 2005(TV), Feb 23, 2007(OAV)
Company	Geneon	MediaWorks
Creator
Director
Genre	Comedy	Comedy
Characters	Ana Copolla	Ana Copolla
· · ·	Chika Itou	Chika Itou
· · ·	Matsuri	Matsuri
· · ·	Miu Matsuoka	Miu Matsuoka
· · ·	Nobue Itou	Nobue Itou

Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.com and Anime Nation.

Chika and Miu are in sixth grade and their friend Matsuri is in fifth. Nobue, Chika's older sister, is 20 and smokes a lot. A new student comes to Matsuri's class, and her name is Ana. Ana pretends not to know Japanese and only speaks English. But when Matsuri hears Ana speaking Japanese and asks her why she can speak English, Ana tells Matsuri that she doesn't want to speak English. Matsuri and Ana go see Chika, Miu, and Nobue. But, Nobue is drunk and acts weird, leaving a not-so-good impression on Ana. Ichigo Mashimaro deals with problems faced by teens.

Chika loves to bake and is very good at it. She has a dog, Satake, and two goldfish, Richard and James. Miu is funny. She always acts weird and she's almost always in trouble. Matsuri is very shy and she cries easily. She has a ferret named John. Ana is a sumo fan and can practice the Japanese culture better than her mother and father. She has a big white dog. She is trying to learn English again because Matsuri wants to be taught English. Nobue has a soft spot for cute things. Her and Miu are almost always fighting over something.

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