Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid

As the elegant, frail flower petals wither away into lifeless ashes, the young duke is tragically reminded of the despicable power forced upon him—the ability to kill anything he touches. Scorned by his family, he is sent away to live in near isolation. Fortunately, he is not entirely alone, as the manor's staff—his dutiful butler Rob and the flirtatious maid Alice—keep him company and make his life less miserable.

As the duke's romantic feelings for Alice grow, so does his continued frustration for the limits set by his unfortunate ability. Therefore, he resolves to break the curse cast upon him all those years ago, not only for his sake, but Alice's as well—for he is painfully aware of how difficult it is to avoid the touch of a loved one.

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Lendrott, Alice Main

Mano, Ayumi Japanese

Bocchan Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Cuff Supporting

Kuramochi, Wakana Japanese

Zain Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Daleth Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Rob Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Viola Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Walter Supporting

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Teto Supporting

Tanabe, Rui Japanese

Keto Supporting

Yamazaki, Haruka Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Itou, Yuukou Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

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Aug 3, 2024

Raiusu

Recommended

You ever have that feeling of love but being too scared to act on it? Well this is this show he loves her she loves him but he’s cursed with death anything he touches dies including her so what does he do?

This show builds that story and theme throughout building the relationships and a way to break the curse it’s fun quirky and easy to follow it’s fairly slow paced with this season being a setup there’s 2 more (as of writing)

so far it’s been good learning the characters and enjoying them for who they are learning about the curse and ... who did it it’s all been very well placed through the 12 episodes but that’s it no conclusion to it as of season 1

It does give you a question Will the duke get his love and cure himself or will he suffer who knows because at the moment not much is looking like that to be happening but i sure hope he does and I hope it builds up a bit more in the next season

Overall 7/10 will watch the next season and hopefully progress to the story will be made

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 8, 2023

RegalFlare

Mixed Feelings

I generally really enjoy the story. The manga is amazing, but this is an odd adaptation.
The intro and outro songs are really good. Will add to music play list later.
The thing that kills it for me is the animation. It is unfortunately CGI and it's a bit garring at times. Its feels like I'm waiting for the cutscene in a video game to be over. The CGI is distracting. The movements of the characters are sometimes really uncanny and not normal. How is it that the background characters are animated in 2D, and the main characters are in CGI? Its normally the other ... way around, but ok. The backgrounds are really odd too. They are trying to give the backgrounds a texture like an oil painting on and canvas. While it can work in other shows, it doesn't work here. It clashes with the CGI characters.

Honestly if you like the story, just read the manga. It's so much better.

Side note- At least the CGI is better than RWBY's. This was way more palatable than that hot garbage.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 20, 2021

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Recommendation: A low-quality adaptation of very good source material. I highly recommend reading the manga, but I would not bother with the anime.

Story: The main story follows the titular Bocchan, the eldest son of a powerful noble family, who has been cursed to kill any living thing he touches. His mother has banished him to a separate estate and told him he will be disinherited if he is unable to break the curse by spring. He is joined only by his maid, childhood friend and love interest Alice, as well as his elderly one-eyed butler Rob. Despite the title and general ... nature of the curse, this is first and foremost a lighthearted romantic comedy. There is very little here that could be described as dark or serious, and the series doesn't dwell on the few parts that are. It's funny and just generally enjoyable to see the different combinations of characters interacting while trying to break the main character's curse.

Audio/Visual: Good voice acting work all around, especially from Bocchan and Alice's VAs. They're also handed the duties of singing a duet for the OP, which is pretty solid, and they sing during the show as well, with a duet of The Owl and the Pussycat between the two late in the season being a highlight scene.

Unfortunately, the visual aspect of this series is a major letdown. Even by CG standards, the animation is very poor and cheap-looking. In some parts, such as a brief scene of Cuff flailing her arms while getting excited about Santa, it looks downright embarrassing. As a layman, I have no idea what went into the decision to use CG animation rather than doing it the traditional way, but it was a huge misfire creatively. This is a series that would probably have double the score I gave it if it had even minimally competent 2D animation, but I can't in good conscience recommend a show that looks this terrible. The disappointing part is that there is an interesting sense of style to everything that isn't CG. The backgrounds are textured to look like paintings on canvas, and a few brief sequences use hand-drawn characters and animation and they look great. If they had put resources into this project instead of cranking out a cheap, low-effort CG adaptation, it could have been really good. As it is, they did a terrible disservice to the elegant and creative artwork in the manga, especially the Witches World, which is gloriously spooky and weird in the manga and just looks goofy in the anime.

Characters: The characters nearly make this thing watchable in spite of the CG visual mess. Alice's interactions with Bocchan are funny and charming even if they don't always totally make sense (for example, why is she doing things like asking for a kiss or a hug when she's fully aware that she would die from it?). More importantly, the show is completely stolen by Zain and Cuff, a witch duo that tries to help Bocchan break his curse. Zain is a very horny birdman and Cuff is a complete and total idiot but very lovable. Their relationship is explored more in the manga, but they are highly entertaining even in the anime. You could easily spin off an entire series about these two and it would probably be better and funnier than the original. My one criticism here is Viola, and in particular her gross crush on Rob, who is old enough to be her grandfather. Thankfully, it's entirely one-sided and acknowledged by everyone else to be just her going through a phase, but it's uncomfortable and unnecessary either way.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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