The story focuses on a group of teenage girls attending the Catholic Lillian Girls' Academy in Tokyo, Japan.
Originally written as a short story in 1997, Shueisha published 37 light novel volumes from April 1998 to April 2012.
Maria-sama ga Miteru ( マリア様がみてる, The Virgin Mary Is Watching or Maria Watches Over Us), often shortened to Marimite ( マリみて), is a Japanese light novel series written by Oyuki Konno with illustrations by Reine Hibiki.
