It’s the second series that I’m blogging this season: Kamen no Maid Guy, (or Masked Maid Guy). According to ANN this is a 12 episode series, which is what I was hoping it was going to be to fit into my planned blogging schedule. In any case, this series is supposed to be funny since it’s a maid guy and the fact that the guy is a big burly man who has no idea to treat the ladies. Hopefully it will end up being as funny as it looks like it can be.
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- Naeka, a very busty high school girl, wins her kendo match to advance to (I think) the semifinals of whatever tournament she’s in. Meanwhile,
a dirty old manher rich grandfather, her brother Kousuke, and two maids watch. - The maids immediately show themselves to be rather protective of Naeka as they proceed to shoot a knife through a water bottle someone was about to hand her because “it might be poisonous” and tranquilize two men running towards her to see what’s going on in case they’re assassins. Of course, Naeka is wondering what the heck is going on.
- Afterwards (after Maid Guy snuck in and put an extra bra in Naeka’s gym bag while she was showering), Naeka is called up to the VIP room. There she finds her grandfather and Kousuke waiting for her. Her grandfather tells Naeka that she and Kousuke will be living with him now, but she rejects it since “normal people” should live like normal people. However, to convince them, her grandfather decides to take a trip to Naeka and Kousuke’s house.
- We find that their house is completely filled with trash from top to bottom, which the grandfather believes soils the family’s name. As a result, he has brought in a pair of maids to help them out: a beautiful woman, Fubuki, who has already managed to clean out the entrance way and kitchen, and the Maid Guy, Kogarashi, who has been busy taking care of all the scavenger animals - by hand.
- Of course Naeka is totally freakout by a big burly man dressed as a maid, and it gets even worse when he slahes her clothes and complains about the “dirty and smelly” underwear that she’s wearing and how he won’t stand for allowing her to wear it (thus why he added the bra to her gym bag).
- Afterwards, outside the two maids and the grandfather talk about how Naeka and Kousuke’s parents are still missing (a fact which the two don’t know about), but they have found the wreckage of a plane they were on. Events like this have been happening one by now so now that Naeka and Kousuke are the only heirs left to his fortune, and so it is the maid’s duty to protect them.
- The following morning, Maid Guy submits Naeka to several unwomanly things, causing Naeka to bolt to school and resulting in Fubuki beating Maid Guy with a nail-ridden wood bat. Kogarashi still doesn’t seem to get what the problem is, and misunderstands Kousuke when he tells Kogarashi that his problem is that he doesn’t see Naeka as a woman. In the end, the grandfather taps Fubuki as the “Maid Guy tamer.”
- That evening, Maid Guy pisses Naeka off again and she’s about to hit him with a slipper when Fubuki stops her and tells her that she has to use special weapons, such as a special whistle that only he can hear. However, blowing it results in Maid Guy dropping the dinner he’s cooking and catches on fire. However, Fubuki just blow it off as him learning his lesson…
Well, wasn’t that something special. This was a reasonably funny episode, I guess. This show can probably go in one of two directions: be a “ecchi comedy,” if you will, which I typically like, or being a fan-service fest, which I typically don’t like. This episode suggests it could go in either direction. I obviously hope it’s the former.
However, I think I can already say that Fubuki is probably my favorite character already. Not that I have a thing for maids, but she seems to have a personality type that I don’t really remember seeing a lot of - kind of the normally cool, sweet type but with a mean streak. Think Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess or Chitose from Chobits, but who aren’t afraid to pull out the nail-ridden bat to swing around every now and again. What would you call that? An anti-tsundre?
Like I alluded to earlier, my biggest fear with this series right now is that it’ll turn into a fan-service fest. After all, Naeka reminds me of Kirie from Girls Bravo, a show I have little affection for. Luckily this show seems more built to be a comedy instead of a harem like Girls Bravo, both because the lead is female here (not that that prevents it from being a fan-service fest) and there appears to really only be one other major female character (right now). In any case, we’ll see.
As for Maid Guy himself - I’m sure there is some reason that he’s become a maid - I doubt he just showed up one day asking to be one for no reason - as well as to why he appears to be completely clueless as to how to treat Naeka. I assume we’ll find that out eventually as well.
So I guess my overall thoughts for the first episode is: somewhat funny, has potential to be good, but also has potential to be bad.
Just a note: summaries of this series may be a tad slow as it looks like fansubbers are waiting for the “uncensored” versions that air on satellite (that’s a bad sign right there).
