“Smile-scary girl Maika becomes sadistic waitress at roleplay café, charming masochistic customers with unintentional cruelty.”
BLEND-S
ブレンド・S
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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!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 132 sampled reviews
What 132 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.88 · split reception
4.8 pts
Recommenders 8.1 · others 3.3
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Oct 2017 → Jul 2025
- 8 “Blend S delivered consistent fun thanks to its café role-playing premise and Maika’s ironic sadist gag—her genuine wish to be assertive backfiring into terrified customers. While the spotlight...”
- 9 “*Spoiler free* Blend S is a slice of life anime about a young girl that starts working at a maid café. Usually I'm not one for slice of life but the characters in this anime are so fun and well...”
- 10 “I was hoping there'd be a second season, i didn't know i would enjoy this so much to the point that i can't help but read the manga too. Character development was good except for maybe Miu since...”
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- 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
Produced by
- Aniplex Producer
- Houbunsha Producer
- Kansai Telecasting Producer
- Lawson Producer
- Contents Seed Producer
- Kinoshita Group Holdings Producer
- Drecom Producer
Licensed by
- Aniplex of America Licensor