You are Ms. Servant.

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 inthis 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 and are cared for, etc. So I like stories like this where there’s a character who only knows pain and suffering and gradually learns the joys we take for granted. Yuki might be a master assassin, but she knows nothing about people or love. She comes into this show as blank slate who only knows how to kill, and leaves out as a pretty damn normal girl. Her path to getting there isn’t always straightforward. There’s roadblocks and misunderstandings, but everything usually gets resolved quickly thanks to the characters communicating with each other! I almost felt like a proud parent watching my daughter grow up before my eyes in this show. Conversely, the male lead brings his own baggage into this and we kind of see them both help each other through their trauma and become closer, going from a master-servant relationship to something more special. There’s some action and the occasional Yuki going yandere on another female character scene, but for the most part this is a chill wholesome story where we get to go through the two leads’ daily routine and them growing closer. While it might seem mundane, when you get to learn about all the pain Yuki has been through, the normality of a daily routine becomes something priceless. While it doesn’t have the iyashikei tag, this show was very much therapeutic to me. Yuki’s reactions to the most normal stuff were so cute and just seeing her try her best to get better as a cook, grocery shopper and student was awesome. We didn’t get into a ton of the story in this season, but they laid the groundwork for what seems like a more intricate and potentially action packed story later down the line with the assassin guild Yuki belongs to playing a bigger role. What we got in this season was great though, I’m a sucker for cute girls trying their best to improve. The cast is pretty small here, I was a big fan of Hitoyoshi’s little sister who was he and Yuki’s biggest shipper. She also becomes a little sister figure for Yuki which was nice for her development. Nitta was a funny comic relief character who I’d like to learn more about in the future. Just really enjoyed this one. Nothing too spectacular, but it got me choked up on more than one occasion. Yuki and Hitoyoshi are the perfect couple even if they don’t quite see it yet. They came into each others’ lives at the perfect time and we as the viewers really benefited! This show is such a sweet and wholesome watch and any fan of romance or healing anime will enjoy it. Meido sama gets 8 out of 10

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 likethe 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 because this was marketed as a romance anime? If it isn't that, I don't know what it is. Random, but towards the end of the anime, the last four or five episodes (who can honestly tell), the female MC just starts crying as a reaction to anything that's said... that becomes her entire character. If you held a gun to my head and asked me to name something redeeming about this anime or even a few scenes that weren't completely horrible, Id mention the scenes where the male MC lays on the female MC's lap. This is about as much fan service as if you were on the brink of dying from thirst and someone dipped the tip (just the tip) of one of their fingers and flicked whatever drop or two of water that was on it in your direction. Save yourself the time and avoid this one. I'd recommend something like Vermeil in Gold (Kinsou no Vermeil: Gakeppuchi Majutsushi wa Saikyou no Yakusai to Mahou Sekai wo Tsukisusumu).

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 assassinwith 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 did not have the privilege of living this way, makes you reconsider many of the things you currently have. Things as simple as going to school, adopting a pet, buying clothes, laughing, crying, getting angry, giving a gift or participating in a school festival had never felt so close to me. I had never stopped to think about how nice it can be to have a friend and share a secret, how sad it is to have memories of a family member who is no longer here or how painful it can be to have a broken heart. It is an anime that tries to get away from the teenage fantasy, of having a harem that follows you, of having superpowers or going to another world. It is a story that seeks to appreciate what we have in this world, what everyone can really do. It does not have the "Chosen One", the "hero" or any other fantasy thing, it only has high school students who are learning to live, but above all to coexist. I must clarify that despite all the beauty, it only has one stumble. The story is about our female protagonist getting in touch with her emotions. Having an entire chapter dedicated to forcing a romance, when the girl is just learning to smile or be afraid, is like trying to run when she is just learning to crawl. The romance doesn't feel quite right in the work, because the protagonist doesn't know about love yet. It just feels like the protagonist is taking advantage of this situation so that the girl confuses kindness with love. Aside from the above, if you are looking for a story that is out of the ordinary, where you can reflect or philosophize a little, you are in the right place. Kimi wa meido arrived as an anime that seemed to be generic but ended up being something so normal that it is unique.

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 hasa 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 an assassin, after all). With that in mind, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. The show is very endearing, and the girl is very cute (you can see this show spent all its animation budget on the women lol). Sometimes you just wanna watch a silly show about a cute maid and a nice boy who like each other, and that's ok.