Audience reviews
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KimuraTheHatoru
Well.... The story of an assassin/child solider of a secret organization is something wild to turn into a slice of life. The implication alone from the initial setup would usually make it seem like this is gonna be one of those sad anime. Or maybe that's an opinion i got by myself.... They had plenty of good ideeas to play ball with, but they decided to stab it and watch it deflate .
The story features Xue, one of the best assassins hired by the secret organization Shadow Wizard Money Gang- i mean Dragon Nine ,my apologies. Dragons and stealth don't go hand in hand by the way.
In truth, the whole show felt somewhat off. They clearly didn't intend for the story to not be taken seriously to some extent ,but they couldn't manage to make any one scene have weight. Everything was surface leve…
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Kind of disappointing. There were some good moments and some good ideas, but overall it left me feeling unfulfilled. The action scenes were good, although there weren't very many. The actual detail was pretty good in terms of the characters, but the backgrounds were pretty standard. The story and characters could have been more detailed and deeper, but overall just felt tropey/weak. This was disappointing since there was some hope. The pacing was the worst part. We went from semi-actiony fun to no action and pure rom-com. No real transition and not enough fusion of the two. Really made the anime feel like too many cooks were in the kitchen on this one. The voice acting was fine, not great, but good enough. The op/ed are decent, and there were some great tracks, but the soundtrack was prett…
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✒ 😡 The Raging Knife is Served 🔪 °5.7° °avg/good° 💯%🔍 some minor spoilers
Hito is your everyday Joe. A sophomore on summer break, one day he hears a knock at the door. It's a maid looking for work. When asked about skills, she spotlights her familiarity with knives. She's an assassin by trade, apparently. Hito resists at first but the way things end up is that she cleans for him and he cooks for her. Next thing, he's getting her set up in her room. She's eaten the special Katsu and the very special Tonkatsu sauce 😍. She AIN'T leaving.
It's yet another anime that makes me wonder why Japanese kids don't seem to have parents. YAMS is arguably good. It probably crosses that threshold, just barely. I'm a generous grader, so many will not think it above average. In the realm of anime t…
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I went into Kimi wa Meido-sama not expecting much, but I ended up really enjoying it. The romance between Yuki and Hitoyoshi was definitely on the sappy side, but honestly, I didn’t mind. Their dynamic kept me invested, and I liked seeing how their relationship developed throughout the series.
That said, the way the anime ended left me frustrated. Hitoyoshi’s unresolved feelings, the lingering mystery around his father, and the unanswered questions about Yuki’s previous master—none of it sat right with me. Instead of a satisfying conclusion, it felt like the story just stopped, leaving too much up in the air.
If there were even a hint of a second season, I’d probably rate it an 8. But since there’s nothing on the horizon, all those loose ends drag it down for me. So, my final score is a…
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This show doesn't take itself too seriously. The backstory of the female lead could be deeply explored in relation to how it affects her sense of self and how she handles trust in other people, to be made into an emotional tale of how a character with trauma and a tragic past learns to see more light in the world (or warmth, as the show puts it), and falls in love with the person who shows it to her. It tries to do that, in a very shallow level, but if that's what you're looking for, this show's not for you.
You see, this show has a fatal case of "anime". Put simply, it very much is "we want the hot naive maid to be with the nice mc". Typical Slice of Life stuff - going to school, summer festival, visiting the temple on new year's - with some wacky action hijinks along the way (the maid is…
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This is an adorable SoL/Iyashikei story. Nothing more, it's funny, heartwarming and easy to watch. I really enjoyed it and I think any fans of those genres will as well, particularly if you stick with it and watch it through to the end.
As usual with Iyashikei both our protags are broken. We don't learn much about Hitoyoshi for a while, we know he lived in a tip of a house, alone and had a uneasy relationship with his parents. Not much more though. Ms. Servant is the first person, and it's a bit of a Dragon Maid style 'learning to live among normal people' show for a while, which has some solid comedy beats.
This isn't a show that's going to change your world but I enjoyed my time and honestly, of all the shows in the season, it's the one I finished first. I could easily sit through mor…
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What would you do if a cute assassin maid suddenly showed up at your doorstep and asked to live with you? Yeah, it sounds like your typical anime setup, but trust me, You Are Ms. Servant takes that cliché and spins it into something really special. I went in expecting a fun, light-hearted show, but what I got was an unexpectedly touching and well-developed relationship between Hitoyoshi and Yuki.
Yuki’s character really hit me emotionally. She’s spent her whole life in the shadows, trained to kill, with no idea how to function in normal society. It’s heartbreaking to watch her struggle with something as simple as understanding kindness or even fitting in. But then comes Hitoyoshi, who, despite the initial awkwardness, slowly helps her navigate life outside of assassination. Watching them…
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Maid-themed anime tend to be a bit slow to gain momentum, this is the second one I've seen but it gains momentum quickly due to the well-placed comedy, the problem is that towards the middle to the end it enters what I call a "carousel" because it ends up losing rhythm and only recovers it in the final stretch, I expected more moments of action like in the school scene but unfortunately they didn't have it which for me was a mistake, the protagonist is fast and smart at first but as the story goes on he becomes slow and sometimes dumb as a door but this is justified by the lack of experience and the trauma of the past, the maid is very cute and you see her effort to meet the protagonist's expectations, I wish I had seen more of her in action, the animation is great, the lines are well done…
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A story about finding beauty in normality.
Initially when I was told "this is the Yor Forger Maid anime" I was labeling this anime as an action-oriented story. I imagined stunts, choreography, shooting and lots of fights. Fortunately the anime knew how to surprise me, despite the low expectations I had. Although the main character is the typical assassin with superhuman strength, the anime takes this into account very rarely.
It is not a story that seeks to give you explosions and senseless fights, on the contrary it is an anime that seeks to make us reflect on the things we take for granted. Seeing an assassin with a sad and cruel childhood trying to have a normal life is something that can be moving. Seeing the life that we consider "normal and routine" through the eyes of a person who…
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This anime is such a disappointment because it had so much potential. Nothing happens in this anime; there is no plot. An argument can be made that the female MC goes through a change in maybe the first two or three episode (she finds out she doesn't have to be an assassin and can be a normal person deserving of love). But after that, literally nothing happens. The male MC doesn't have much of a personality. The female MC's personality is at most one-dimensional. They randomly introduce a female ninja(?) as a friend for the female MC that literally came out of nowhere. Concepts like the male MC's distance from his father, and his parents divorced are introduced but never explored with any depth; its quickly brushed aside. There is no romance of any kind; and I'm only mentioning this becaus…
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"You are Ms. Servant" is an amazing anime, but it has some problems holding it down.
By no means is this a bad anime, but these problems may stop some viewers from wanting to get into this anime
Firstly I will lay out the positives, then I will go to the negatives.
Positives:
1. Yuki:
Amazing characterization and personality, she is entirely what holds this anime up. All other characters have almost no elaborate personality compared to her, with the closest ones being other assassins. This is both a bad and good thing, since it means that this anime has an amazing character, with the negative that no other comes close to Yuki's charm and likability (I'll get back to this later).
2. Slow Passionate Romance:
When there's really good romance, it's almost perfect. The slow and mellow mood i…
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The series is easy to watch and shows some potential but ultimately suffers from a lack of clear direction and a noticeable disconnect between the main storyline and the slice-of-life subplots. Watching the anime, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the author struggled to decide on the story’s identity. While major plot points, like the assassin organization or Hitoyoshi and Yuki's childhood trauma of abandonment and their struggles with self-identity, are introduced in a serious manner, the overall tone of the series is surprisingly light-hearted.
It’s reminiscent of the early stages of Katekyō Hitman Reborn, where, despite framing the story as a young yakuza boss learning his craft, the focus leaned more toward high school comedy and slice-of-life elements. As an anime-only viewer, I’m…
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So, maid + former assassin. Well, I selected this anime based on the poster and then I lightly read the synopsis. My first hope was we'd hear someone say something like "I once saw her kill three men in a bar... with a pencil. With a fookin'... pencil!". This show is anything but that. Here it goes.
The designs are amazings. She looks a bit like Komi-san (thats the vibe I get). Actually other than that loser MC, all the designs are somethat decent-> nice -> gorgeous. It feels like posing. They went somewhat mid/bland for the most part and for the "special" scenes: BAM! insert super-amazing graphic.
And thats it. Thats all the nice parts about this series. I praise the designs, the graphics, the coloring. Some of those at least. And I downvote the recycling of scenes. Too much copy/paste.…
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Meido-sama is special to me for a few reasons, not the least of which is the fact it’s the first ever anime OP for Tricot who are one of my fave alt-rock bands of all time! But it also scratches that itch that Violet Evergarden left me with a few years ago after the movie. It might not have Kyoani production values, but it tackles a lot of the same themes that VE does without the problematic grooming relationship. I’ll always be a sucker for the “raised as a human weapon” to learning what it is to be human development pipeline and Yuki’s transformation in this was so good. She and Hitoyoshi were just bliss to watch every week and my Saturdays will certainly be worse off without them in it.
There’s so many things we take for granted on a daily basis. Family, friends, being told we matter a…
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Maids are considered as domestic workers who are hired to serve the people who pay the right price. In real life, we don't associate them with assassinations or esponiage. Those exist in fictional stories. Kimi wa Meido-sama defies common sense because the maid in this show lacks basic skills but has all the necessarily talent as an assassin.
Kimi wa Meido-sama (You Are Ms. servant) encompasses the idea of an assassin with a young boy and how the two builds on a connection. Initially, she tasks herself to be a maid servant for high school freshman Hitoyoshi Yokoya. Without a real name, Hitoyoshi decides to call her 'Yuki, based on how much he like snow. First episodes assign itself to daily shenanigans because watching an assassin trying to live a normal life is anything but normal.
The…
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