The applications developed by polymer chemistry using saccharides have significantly expanded, thus it is required that continuous efforts be made to develop routes for preparing glycoconjugated polymers as well as utilizing sugar resources for the polymer synthesis. We now provide an overview focusing on the preparations of the vinyl polymers with threedimensional structures utilizing functionality of saccharides and the syntheses of glycoconjugated branched vinyl polymers. As the first topic, we describe that star-like reversed-type polymeric aggregates have been generated by end-functionalized polymers with saccharides, in which the functionalities of malto-oligosaccharides have been utilized to control the sizes of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic domains of the aggregates. The second section describes the star polymer syntheses with the arm numbers regulated by the functionalities of glucose, inositol, sucrose, and cyclodextrins. In the last half sections, the preparations of a new class of glycoconjugates have been reviewed, which includes glycopolymer stars, hyperbranched glycopolymers, star microgels with a glycoconjugated periphery or core, and poly(vinyl saccharide) microgels.KEY WORDS: Glycoconjugate / Glycopolymer / Star Polymer / Reversed Micelle / Hyperbranched Polymer / Microgel / Saccharides have been recognized as important in polymer chemistry as elements for molecular and cell recognitions, strong and bio-harmless hydrophilic segments, chirality sources, and inexhaustible raw materials independent of oils. Thus, there have been numerous reports on the polymers related to saccharides especially during the past two and a half decades 1-12 as well as in the very recent years, 13-16 asymmetric polymerizations with saccharides generate main-chain chiral polymers, 17,18 and enzymatic polymerizations produce bioresorbable plastics from sugar resources. 19,20 A noteworthy progresses in the research field of glycoconjugated polymers during the past decade include the adaptation of precise polymerizations. Anionic polymerizations, 21 cationic polymerizations, 22 ring-opening metathesis polymerizations (ROMP), 23,24 and anionic ring-opening polymerizations 25 have produced glycopolymers with well-defined structures and block copolymers with the glycopolymer segments. More extensively, controlled radical polymerizations [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] have been applied as versatile synthetic methods for the well-defined glycopolymer, which include the cyanoxyl-mediated free-radical polymerizations, 35-37 the nitroxide-mediated controlled radical polymerization (NMP), 38-44 the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), [45][46][47][48][49][50] and the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. [51][52][53][54] For the controlled radical polymerizations, the synthesis of well-defined glycopolymers without protection and deprotection procedures [35][36][37]47,48,[51][52][53][54] and the miniemulsion polymerization of glycomonomers 55 are current topics. A multivalent sacch...