Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden

Mahoro Andou is a powerful combat android designed by Vesper, a secret organization protecting the world against alien invaders. Unfortunately, her remaining operational time is running short. If she continues to fight, she will shut down in about one month. However, if she chooses to avoid combat, she can live freely for over a year.

Suguru Misato is a high school boy who lives alone in a large house left behind by his late parents. Like any other boy his age, he has trouble taking care of the house on his own, so he decides to enlist the help of a maid. His problem is solved in the most unexpected way: when a couple of thugs hijack the bus he is riding, a young, beautiful girl wearing a maid outfit saves the day. It turns out that this girl is Mahoro, who has chosen to live her remaining days as Suguru's new maid.

Mahoro makes the best of her remaining time and develops bonds with Suguru and his friends during their peaceful yet lively everyday interactions. However, Mahoro is hiding her true intentions behind becoming Suguru's maid, and it seems that their pasts are more intertwined than Suguru realizes.

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Andou, Mahoro Main

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Misato, Suguru Main

Takimoto, Fujiko Japanese

Shikijou, Saori Supporting

Takada, Yumi Japanese

Slash Supporting

Noda, Keiichi Japanese

Ooe, Chizuko Supporting

Sanada, Asami Japanese

Sakura, Miyuki Supporting

Kikuchi, Yumi Japanese

Todoroki, Rin Supporting

Mizuno, Manabi Japanese

Hamaguchi, Toshiya Supporting

Ogihara, Hideki Japanese

Misato, Yuuka Supporting

Mizuno, Manabi Japanese

Sakura, Natsune Supporting

Tanaka, Kaori Japanese

Kubota, Mitsutoshi Producer

Satou, Hiroki Producer

Sekido, Yuuichi Producer

Oomori, Hiroyuki Assistant Producer

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Dec 27, 2021

The_Namer

Recommended

One of the earlier entries in the super-powered maid genre, this action rom-com is still pretty entertaining. It sits right in the middle of that transitional era for Gainax circa 2000 where their work was starting to take on an increasingly goofy look and tone in what would eventually become Trigger's signature style. As an early digital anime it suffers common problems from that time, such as lazy backgrounds and an oversaturated colour palette, but plenty of that Gainax charm shines through. Action scenes are decent, though it's the comedy episodes that carry this first season. It relies a bit too heavily on characters who ... just have one joke that they repeat ad nauseum though.

There's a more serious side to the show. Mahoro is a combat android who now serves as a maid to the son of her former commander. This is her idea of penance for having been forced to kill him, and all the while the series reminds us that Mahoro is using up her final year before she stops functioning. Meanwhile she keeps being drawn back into battles with the aliens that her secret organisation has been fighting for years, though unleashing her full power would drastically reduce her remaining lifespan. This side of the series works fine, though it doesn't always mesh well with its comedy side. It feels like two different shows bolted together at times.

The first season hovers between a 6 and 7 for me, but the comedy episodes just about tip it to the higher mark.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 18, 2024

MxS7HGS

Mixed Feelings

Mahoromatic aims to bring a new direction towards the Battle Maid trend for shounen animes. But it does not succeed in creating balance. The show blends humor, sentimentality, excitement, and a hint of perversion, but the inconsistent tonal shifts are evident in its characters, struggling to make believable transitions from humor to seriousness.

The story is set in a near-future Earth immersed in a shadow war between Vesper and SAINT. Despite the intention of Mahoromatic to be a parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion, it finds itself no more than an ordinary show. The characters are bland with average action sequences and mecha designs that pale into ... comparison to other great Gainax shows.

Mahoro is the main character, and the show attempts to portray her as a fan favorite. She portrays a contrast between cuteness and destructive power, but this forced duality is cringe-inducingly portrayed in the opening animation. In fact, the anime relies on one-off gags and shiny animation to keep the viewers entertained instead of at least pursuing a plot that is worthy of being discussed.

The character of Suguru is devoid of significance in the role as Mahoro’s motivator and a desired object for his perverted homeroom teacher. His school friends provide a mixed bag of attempts at amusement, with some falling flat and others being forgettable. The closing credits attempt to leave a lasting impression with Suguru's three female classmates singing a forced, unfunny samba-style song.

The show struggles to weave a coherent narrative with any real substance and never transcends mindless violence and gratuitous panty shots.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 11, 2021

Ahiru229

Not Recommended

Gainax is one of my favorite animation studios, but not everything can be perfect and this anime proves it, because just as I did a review on one of Miyazaki's worst anime, now I have to do on one of the worst Gainax anime.

Story (2/10):
Ok I admit that the concept is not so bad and that with a good execution and characters this could have been a very good anime, but unfortunately this is not the case, and the plot is more on the side of the slice of life and the comedy. Ok this is not something so terrible either, if the characters are ... charismatic enough and the jokes are witty we could have even a decent comedy, but again this is not the case, since this anime not only has a cancer comedy with annoying characters but also wants to take himself seriously from time to time going to a more dramatic side where totally fails because this is handled in an incompetent way with also constant changes of tone that make me not take this anime seriously for even two seconds.
It shows at first how this anime was made without a planning work, many times it is not understood what the hell this anime intends to do, as I said it seems that sometimes this anime wants to be a slice of life comedy, sometimes a drama and even a fighting anime, this is not so bad and if you execute it well, you will have things like "Brigadoon Marin to Melan" but I emphasize, UNFORTUNATELY NOT THE DAMN CASE.
And I still don't even talk about the number of cliches in this anime, have you seen the final battle? Everything there is super cliche, the protagonist riding a bike desperate to want to save the Mahoro while she uses a super powerful weapon to try to defeat the antagonist but he survives without a scratch (I did not expect it at all! (notice the irony)) later it seems that Mahoro is going to be defeated but the antagonist instead of killing her insists that she fight with all her might (incredible that I wasn't expecting either! (notice the irony x2) they fight for a while and just when Mahoro is going to be defeated Again the Protagonist arrives to save her in the least cliche way in history! (notice the irony x3) he places himself in front of her trying to stop the antagonist and he hits him thus unleashing Goku's fury ..... sorry I got confused , thus unleashing the fury of Mahoro which is going to use a weapon that will end his life (incredible that I did not expect, I am so tense about the unexpected end that this wonderful anime may have (notice the irony x8948423)) and you know what it is that end? the antagonist giving up and Mahoro stopping her attack, and as if nothing had happened everything returns to the status quo with everyone happy. This is easy one of the worst endings I've ever seen in my fucking life.
Mother of beautiful love how can it be that Gainax did this thing.

Art and sound (4/10 and 5/10):
The animation is not so bad Gainax always knows how to take advantage of the lowest budgets, even so this does not mean that the animation has a lot of defects, leaving the animation aside I did not like the designs of the characters, they are very generic, they are too forgettable, I don't like them one bit. In the sound section I think that the voices are quite good and the music is quite generic, I only remember the ending because it made me a bit fun.

Character (1/10):
The characters are terrible starting with Mahoro: First, she does not feel like a robot, whore where you saw an android with such feelings, she doubted about killing the commander instead of immediately following his orders (as she should be) and this it's just one example of why Mahoro doesn't function as a character.
Suguru: Suguru is your typical empowering fantasy protagonist, he has many women and friends who love him, he's smart, and he has an android maid. "But Suguru also has a lot of problems" some will say, and even if that's true, the anime hardly emphasizes that a bit.
Slash: Mahoro's pet is a plot device with legs, it does not acquire any exploration or development, it only serves the plot when it needs it.
Shikijou sensei: Easily the worst character in anime and the reason why I can't take a fucking second of this anime seriously, instead of making me laugh, it makes me feel uncomfortable. If she had been a character that appears every so often I would forgive him but she is all the fucking time bothering.
Ryuuga: He's your typical one-dimensional antagonist with shitty goals and motivations (and he's still one of the best characters in this anime because at least he gets a reflection at the end) nothing more to say.
The rest of the supporting characters don't get any development or introspection either. They are characterized by only one thing and they are not even so in some cases. The only one who is saved from there is Miyuki but everything that was done with her is left in the middle.
And we don't even talk about characters that are still more secondary like the thugs who steal the bus at the beginning of the series because they are so archetypal and cliche that they make me laugh.

Enjoyment (1/10):
In terms of enjoyment this is definitely one of the most boring anime I've ever seen along with "Someday Dreamers" and "Gundam 0083". So staying on my list of "anime to cure insomnia" I am not lying when I say that I fell asleep about 7 times watching this anime. I would talk about the reasons why this anime is so boring but it is something that I already said in the other sections and I do not like to say redundancies.
In conclusion, if you can't sleep, Mahoromatic is the solution.

Overall (2/10):
Mahoromatic is one of the worst anime I've seen in my life, I'm very disappointed that Gainax did something so terrible, this is an anime that I don't recommend even to my worst enemies.
It's boring, cliche, pretentious, stupid, offensive, and all the worst in anime.
Maybe later I will watch and review the second season although I don't think I should if I want to keep my sanity.
With all this said I say goodbye. See you next time!

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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