Cherry Maruko represents childishness, helpfulness, love, responsibility, family harmony, so-called real happiness, affection and friendship, etc.. The most important thing is that Cherry Maruko is cute, which is a word used to compliment people's cuteness. Cherry Maruko is one of the most recognizable and influential anime works in the world.

The animation has been in the top three of Japan's animation ratings for more than twenty consecutive years, with more than 1,000 episodes in 2013, and is still serialized every Sunday at 6:00 p.m. during prime time on Japan's Fuji Television, making it a national animation in the hearts of Japanese men, women, and children.

Synopsis:

The character is a story based on the author's childhood (1974), in which everything is full of nostalgia for the 1970s.

Miki Miura, the author of Maruko, also has a very interesting story to tell, having been born on May 8, 1965, in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She made her debut in 1984, using the pen name Sakurako, and created the manga "Cherry Mariko," which was based on her own personal experiences as a child and gave the main character the same name, date of birth, blood type, and astrological sign.

In the manga's afterword, Sakurako admits that Mariko is almost a shadow of herself, and in the Hong Kong edition of the one-shot Family Theater, she reveals that her grandfather suffered from Alzheimer's when she was a child, which is reminiscent of her grandfather, Sakura Yuzo, in the anime, with his hilarious and off-the-wall behavioral antics.