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BLEND-S

“Smile-scary girl Maika becomes sadistic waitress at roleplay café, charming masochistic customers with unintentional cruelty.”

BLEND-S

7.24
3,380 rank · 700,746 viewers · 3,007 favorites
Comedy Workplace
12 episodes · 23 min per ep min · Fall 2017 · A-1 Pictures · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Synopsis

Smile-scary girl Maika becomes sadistic waitress at roleplay café, charming masochistic customers with unintentional cruelty.

Wishing to be independent, 16-year-old Maika Sakuranomiya is desperate to nail down a part-time job so that she can afford to study abroad. Unfortunately, her applications are constantly rejected due to the menacing look she unintentionally makes whenever she smiles, despite her otherwise cheerful disposition. After yet another failed interview, she chances upon Café Stile, a coffee shop where the servers interact with the customers while roleplaying distinctive characteristics. The Italian store manager, Dino, becomes infatuated with Maika's cuteness at first sight, and offers her a job as a waitress with a sadistic nature. Coupled with her inherent clumsiness, she successfully manages to serve a pair of masochistic customers in accordance with her new, ruthless persona. Alongside Kaho Hinata as the tsundere and Mafuyu Hoshikawa as the younger sister, Maika decides to make the most out of her unique quirk and cements her position in the cafe with merciless cruelty!

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Community consensus

Derived from 132 sampled reviews

7.0 /10

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85% recommend
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median 7 mode 8 σ 1.88
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σ 1.88 · split reception

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The polarity gap

4.8 pts

Recommenders 8.1 · others 3.3

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↓ 2.00

Running avg · Oct 2017 → Jul 2025

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A Tv Production · Fall 2017

A-1 Pictures.
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Aniplex · Houbunsha

  • Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
  • Aired Oct 2017 – Dec 2017 Fall 2017
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-12125 catalog

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