Review of The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious

A young child's parents have died and he is left by his lonesome at the helm of his estate, unable to afford the servants that had previously aided his household, and so he is left alone--that is, until a young maid arrives to attend to him. At face value this is a slice-of-life romantic comedy that is a one-trick pony: it sets up intimate moments between this young, well-endowed, exotic maid and the juvenile master of the estate that would leave your run-of-the-mill main characters flustered or bloody-nosed at the sheer suggestive nature of the rapport. This show turns this concept on its head by havingthe young man reciprocate the maid's intimidatingly sensual advances by dealing out compliments and sweet-nothings to her until she herself blushes. Were it a game of poker, the maid could hold pocket aces and still fold them in the face of the young master's unflinching resolutions. He is effectively better at talking to women than 99.9% of all main characters in anime. He has a fine future ahead of him.

Now then, what else? The animation is unremarkable but does its job - this show is not a spectacle kind. Little happens and what does is so often a cutesy subversion or developments that deliver what was promised. The writing is fine, serviceable for the target demographic for a show with a premise such as this. Overall, it was unbelievable in every sense of the word that a child would be left as the sole heir and owner of an estate, left unattended to his own devices without some distant relative or the state itself acting to install a guardian post-mortem of parents. But then one so often has a generous suspension of disbelief when watching anime.

For those seeking a low-key slice-of-life absent of great strife with redundant gimmicks, replete with maids and the mysterious things they do, and a young boy who has more game than the rest of the genre combined at the center of it all, then I recommend this show to you. There are certainly worse ways to kill a few hours.