Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii

Your seasonal bit of feel good fodder which has a feel good vibe to it. Not a bad anime if you're looking for an 11 episode slice of life revolving around a pre teen kid who's innocently ignorant about the other ways he can come off when talking to his maid. It has mild comedy in it if you like the entertaining reactions to comments the MC makes which he isn't fully aware of when he makes them because he's a pre teen kind of sheltered kid with the sub genre being romance which you know there'll never be full on romance because that would justbe plain paedophilia. With the story it doesn't really progress anywhere as it's a slice of life with no end goal but to just be a nice feel good show. The art style is nice that's used and does it's job well when it comes to characters design in the show although it doesn't do that when it comes to objects(not that the objects in the show matter too much). So I'd advise watching this is you're looking for something with mild comedy and a nice feel good feeling it gives you along with the comedy it can give. Although if you're looking for a show that shows progress and development in the storyline and characters then I'd advise to watch something else due to it not being that kind of show.

This show is the epitome of knowing everything that has been done with the genre, yet making an almost inferior version of it because the creative juices have all but been squeezed out to nothingness. And in case you didn't know, this Summer's Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii a.k.a The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious is the 2nd anime adaptation of mangaka Wakame Konbu's works, the 1st of which was last Summer's 2-cour, 20-episode long Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! a.k.a The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, which was enjoyable to a certain degree with its comedy and whatnot. Sadly though, what this show offersto us is nothing more than just endless, pandering bait of the tropes done before, but un-"sus"-piciously worse in every aspect. The "teasing" sub-genre has seen its many fair share of really good ones, the likes of Souichirou Yamamoto with the Takagi-san franchise and the same season's Soredemo Ayumu (which is just a character swap), and the one that this show will be most compared to: mangaka Koharu Inoue's Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid a.k.a The Duke of Death and His Maid. But there is a fine line to draw where the teasing goes way above and beyond to the point of being extreme, and unfortunately for Wakame Konbu, he did what the formula has been long orchestrated before for years, only for the audience to be more pissed off at it. So, let's be real: Yuuri, the young boy that survived a horrific car accident that left both of his parents dead and him being home alone, he is a tough nut to crack being one that is bullied and left to his own devices to sort out his own feelings. It's hard having to micro-manage both the servant and the mansion that he can only call home, that's his safe haven...that is until this mysteriously beautiful, dark-skinned maid called Lilith enters his life, seemingly having a connection with his parents and taking it upon herself to take care of the young master. And the running gag is that the young master finds the maid incredibly "sus" (because that's a thing) due to her behavioural actions and intimidations of the rom-com between a child and an adult. Like, I get it when this is done in Shinigami Bocchan where both Bocchan and Alice are of the same age, and are acquainted well enough to make their teasing game more entertaining and comical. But in the case of Saikin Maid, all I see are just subpar cringefest gags of Lilith having to constantly run her mouth towards Yuuri and tease him romantically to no end, engaging the "will they, won't they" rhetoric. Like, would you believe it if this was done in real life? That would be called blasphemy, and a cardinal sin, even if this is all "make believe" fashion. Also, Yuuri is just plain dense, that's all. Nuff said, unless the point needs to be emphasized that he really doesn't know what's going on, and always plays second fiddle to Lilith until he understands the point, only to follow up on her gag. The other supporting characters are nothing like what I remember from Jahy-sama when it comes to the traits, they seemed like two exact complete polar opposites from one another. You have Yuuri's classmate and close contact Tsukasa Gojouin with her butler Fujisaki, and believe it or not, their role in this show is just meant to belittle the fact that this show has neither style nor substance, and are only created to show the affiliations to both Yuuri and Lilith in the most "bearable" of terms possible. Take Gojouin for example: she is an "advocate" for the forbidden relationship between the two leads that stems from her being a fan of romance manga and novels, she's the "thirsty sister" that just wants to imagine where the wild things are with the master-maid relationship. Thank God there's Fujisaki to stop her, and out of everyone, she's the most calm and collected character of the bunch keeping Gojouin in constant check. Fujisaki's the "gatekeeper" of anything and everything, so I'm glad that her character exists to bond the rest of the cast together in some form and function as the only sane person in the lot. Unsurprisingly, it's Silver Link back at it again with subpar in-house director Mirai Minato on his 2nd rondo with this show after Jahy-sama. At least I would admit that Jahy-sama is supposed to be paid more attention to detail given its 20-episode runtime, and since recently there has been more of the studio's collab work with another minor studio Blade, I can't really tell if they ever improved the line work to begin with, or could it be that Silver Link has consistently produced good and bad shows in a never-ending cycle. At the very least, it seems that this show is used to train a relatively new director (Misuzu Hoshino) under Mirai Minato's tutelage, but as we all know that quantity does not equal to quality, and this one is just a pure bad pass wth the bare minimums of actually getting the job done. It's the same story with the OST, it's very forgettable and there's nothing noteworthy to be talked about. Just like Shinigami Bocchan, Saikin Maid has its wholesome moments, but to the extent of getting towards its objective is one that cannot be displaced, for where the destination lies is how the journey to get there is done, and this has already brought in mixed comments when it comes to author Wakame Konbu's way of expression in this show. It's definitely way different from what I was expecting to be: a Shinigami Bocchan version of Jahy-sama, only except that the charm wears off faster than it could remain, with the majority finding this to be pure bad and the minority enjoying for what it truly is. I can only draw the line in the middle like Humpty Dumpty, not knowing where the egg will fall in this one, though the reckoning that it'll lean more towards the bad side. It's just mediocre, that's all.

A young child's parents have died and he is left by his lonesome at the helm of his estate, unable to afford the servants that had previously aided his household, and so he is left alone--that is, until a young maid arrives to attend to him. At face value this is a slice-of-life romantic comedy that is a one-trick pony: it sets up intimate moments between this young, well-endowed, exotic maid and the juvenile master of the estate that would leave your run-of-the-mill main characters flustered or bloody-nosed at the sheer suggestive nature of the rapport. This show turns this concept on its head by havingthe young man reciprocate the maid's intimidatingly sensual advances by dealing out compliments and sweet-nothings to her until she herself blushes. Were it a game of poker, the maid could hold pocket aces and still fold them in the face of the young master's unflinching resolutions. He is effectively better at talking to women than 99.9% of all main characters in anime. He has a fine future ahead of him. Now then, what else? The animation is unremarkable but does its job - this show is not a spectacle kind. Little happens and what does is so often a cutesy subversion or developments that deliver what was promised. The writing is fine, serviceable for the target demographic for a show with a premise such as this. Overall, it was unbelievable in every sense of the word that a child would be left as the sole heir and owner of an estate, left unattended to his own devices without some distant relative or the state itself acting to install a guardian post-mortem of parents. But then one so often has a generous suspension of disbelief when watching anime. For those seeking a low-key slice-of-life absent of great strife with redundant gimmicks, replete with maids and the mysterious things they do, and a young boy who has more game than the rest of the genre combined at the center of it all, then I recommend this show to you. There are certainly worse ways to kill a few hours.

It's a show about wife beater in the making but no one seems to be noticing subtle red flags main character keeps planting on every interaction with any female. While description doesn't really describe this show as such, main character has all the tell tale signs. All the love interests are servants and they have to do what he orders, and orders are absolute. He frequently states they are his and his alone. If they displease him it's their fault and they constantly apologize and bloom on any sort of acknowledgement and/or forgiveness from main character. He gets angry when they leave the house andon those occasions he follows them jealously. All while not providing any sort of compensation to any of the servants. Writers try to disguise this as some pure and innocent love interest. Since it's a Japanese drama we have to have harem of sorts with at least few busty and even more thirsty female characters. Of course there's the ever-present "comedy" of main character constantly overreacting and screaming on top of his lungs. Classic signs of an average show. All that said, it's not an unwatchable show. It does leave you fuzzy feeling as well as dirty knowing that main character is surely developing into an asshole if not worse and for enjoying development of relationship between old enough girl to be working as maid and clearly elementary school kid. Overall, mixed bag due to weird themes and clearly demented main character. Story doesn't really go anywhere, just eleven episodes of them blushing at each other. One couldn't spoil this one no matter how much effort was invested.

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