Tags: first-dates, kamen-no-maid-guy, spring-08
- Title: Kamen no Maid Guy
- Studio: Imagin
- Genre: Comedy
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: ♥♥½
- Animation: ♥½
- Characters: ♥♥½
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥½
- Overall: ♥♥ (Not as good as I expected…)
Thoughts:
Big, burly dude wearing a mask and a maid dress. Sounds right up my alley, right? Ehh, I wound up being pretty disappointed. Yes, it’s a wacky comedy, but there wasn’t a single joke or occurrance that I actually found surprising or funny.
The basic plot is that high schooler Naeka and her younger brother Kousuke live together in a house at their grandfather’s cost. He wants them to live with him but when they refuse, he sends a pair of maids to take care of them: Fubuki, a sweet, cute, female maid (much to Kousuke’s delight) and Kogarashi, the aforementioned buff dude with the mask and the maid dress. He also has fangs. In reality the maids are there to protect the teens, who are heirs to their grandfather’s fortune and therefore in danger, which the grandfather decides not to tell the.
The sum-up of the humor, then, is that Kogarashi is a badass who basically sexually harasses Naeka constantly although it’s always with the intention of taking care of her. Except that…I dunno, I just was having trouble finding any of it funny. Like, it wasn’t offensive to me, it was just all very big, obvious, over the top, and not terribly clever.
On top of that, the art and animation are serious QUALITY. A lot of times Naeka in particular has facial features that aren’t evenly drawn or don’t fit her face. The animation is generally sub-par, even in the action sequences.
It’s just…not very good. Disappointment all around. I might give it a shot in the second episode, but my hopes are no longer high.