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

Todoroki, Rin Supporting

Mizuno, Manabi Japanese

Sakura, Miyuki Supporting

Kikuchi, Yumi 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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Apr 13, 2008

lonestar6969

Recommended

A real emotional rollercoaster anime this one is. What pulled me in straight away is that the main character knew she had 300 or so days to live and shes not even human!! From a battle maiden to a house maid, well you gotta wanna see what happens

It is a comedy and yes its funny how mahoro behaves as she tries to maintain a working reletionship with her boss (a 14 year old sexually curious kid) but obviously they are much much more. She pulls you in with her bright nature yet there is an underlying dark side to her from her war torn past ... that she is desperate to keep her young innocent boss from knowing. After each fun filled episode, the days remaining in her "operating time" is shown and it really made me sad... this i believe sets this anime apart as this is such a rollercoaster of emotions. You can be laughing in one episode and cry in the next.

Don't expect to see any top class fighting scenes but there are some scattered around and expect a weirdish ending.... can't really say i expected it. The characters are cute and each has their unqiue personal traits that makes this comedy one of the funnier ones i've seen. (wanna see what i've seen... check out my list then lol)

For those of you who like chrono crusuade you'd definately would like this one as the story line is similar yet very different. Enjoy :D

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 21, 2010

Dunkjoe

Mixed Feelings

Let me start this review by asking one qn: Is this anime overrated? All the reviews other than mine has at least a 8 overall score... which is way too unbelievable.

Story:7
Great content, extremely bad presentation style. I loved the first ep, as there were lots of expectations for a combat android maid, and a guy who showed some backbone against some criminals hijacking a bus.

But after that, tons of fanservice, unnecessary scenes, unexplained stuff and too-realistic jumps between the present and flashbacks plagued the series. Sometimes, I even wonder which are flashbacks and which are not.

Even worse, the ending parts of this anime was ... a mess. After Mahoro set off for "the final fight", we get tons of unnecessary explanations about some things (like history of S??), more than an episode of flashbacks, some unrelated fanservice and tons of things unexplained. Unexplained scenes remind me of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou while tons of unnecessary, or rather "filler" scenes remind me of Bleach. Those extra explanations and scenes could have been put to much greater relevance if it was used in some other places, instead of after "the final fight" part started.

That much said, it wasn't as if I didn't enjoy the comedic moments and the content featured. It was more of bad directing and scriptwriting... not to mention a bad closure.

Animation:8
Interesting, with manga drawings and drawings presented along with the animation. Reminds me of FLCL. In this series, it was used quite well, and had more impact than normal animation. Colours used were a bit dull but still quite good. Art was more or less consistent and fighting scenes were animated well.

Sound:6
I didn't like the OP and ED, so I watched only the OP a few times and ED 1 time in full. The OP was not bad... but I felt that the later half of the song was a bit of a jump from the first part. This probably happened cos this is an extract of 1.5 mins from a full song. The ED sounds like a promotional song for Mahoromatic, and didn't add much value to the series.

In addition, variety of bgm was little, and in a lot of scenes there was only dialogue, no bgm or sound effects, which decreased the mood.
Voice acting was fine.

Character:7
Character discussion is a bit controversial. The main 2 characters were quite well done in terms of character development, but seemed a bit fragmented. There was little integration of the two, and each person's past only belonged to him/her. Other than the 2 main characters there was hardly any character development elsewhere.

Character interaction is a bit controversial too. After the initial introductions relationships between the side and the main characters didn't grow much. There wasn't much change in relationship[ development. Even between the main 2, I couldn't see critical interaction like yearning or a more intimate relationship.
Though, Mahoro did change over the series, towards the main guy.

Enjoyment:5
Satellite Poemer was quite unique... and I enjoyed it. The previews were usually of little consequence. And I like the storyline, but the story presentation style pulled down the contents. I was struggling to pull through the "filler" scenes.

Overall:6
Can't say I enjoyed this series. I was thinking "this must be a good series" after seeing the high scores of the reviews presented. Strangely, after I read 2 reviews in detail, I thought the scores do not justify their comments..

Maybe it's just me, but I advise the viewer to skip unnecessary scenes like fanservice. Some just reduce the excitement level.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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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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