Mayo Chiki!

Due to his mother and sister, who both love professional wrestling, Kinjirou Sakamachi developed a resilient body that could take hard punches, aggressive kicks, and even deadly vehicle bumps, in order to survive their various grappling positions and locks. However, he also developed gynophobia, an abnormal fear of women. With just one touch from a girl, his nose bleeds uncontrollably, he sweats excessively, and in rare cases, faints abruptly.

His life changes for the worse because of a fated meeting in the restroom. While trying to escape from a girl, he discovers that the most popular student in their school, Subaru Konoe—the butler of the headmaster’s daughter, Kanade Suzutsuki—is actually female! Surprised, Subaru violently assaults Kinjirou, dealing significant damage and knocking him unconscious. When he comes to, he meets Kanade. In exchange for his silence, she promises to help cure his phobia.

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Konoe, Subaru Main

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Suzutsuki, Kanade Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Sakamachi, Kinjirou Main

Hino, Satoshi Japanese

Usami, Masamune Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Narumi, Nakuru Supporting

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Sakamachi, Kureha Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Konoe, Nagare Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji Japanese

Saotome, Ichigo Supporting

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Kurose, Yamato Supporting

Mogami, Tsuguo Japanese

Sakamachi, Jirou Supporting

Miyashita, Eiji Japanese

Yamanaka, Takahiro Producer

Hayashi, Youhei Producer

Takigasaki, Makoto Producer

Yoshikawa, Atsushi Producer

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Apr 23, 2023

AeroGunz

Recommended

“Mayo Chiki!” is what happens when You take a very specific phobia, turn the absurd to 11 and let it out to the world.

The plot of “Mayo Chiki!” is equally absurd and pretty well balanced. We witness the struggles of one Kinjirō Sakamachi - a second year high school student who suffers from gynophobia - the fear of women. Everytime our protagonist has physical contact with a woman he starts bleeding from his nose to the extent that prolonged exposure causes him to pass out.
One day this gem a man discovers that one of the most popular guys in his school and a butler ... to the school's principal’s daughter - Subaru Konoe is a girl. From this point on, blackmailed by Kanade Suzutsuki to keep quiet about this secret, he endures her attempts to “treat” his condition. In reality those are more like some perverted games Suzutsuki plays with both Sakamachi and Konoe. Later down the road our trio is accompanied by more girls who all have their own agenda in interacting with Kinjiro.
To be honest there isn’t much to say about the cast. Even the main trio is a bit bland and except a tragedy in both Kinjirō and Subaru’s life they are all pretty standard for a romcom. With two exceptions I guess. One - this anime lacks the childhood friend archetype which is mostly fine by me but it did took me by surprise. Two - the whole “Subaru is a girl and we must keep it a secret” shtick is pretty entertaining in the beginning. Later it becomes almost like a running joke.

The show lacks an overarching plot, it is more like “Kanade’s mischief of the week” than a structured story. There are some aspects of the story that stick and evolve as the show progresses but most things just go back to status quo at the end of the episode. Nothing really wrong with that, especially that the romance part does actually evolve, slowly but at least it evolves (no pay out unfortunately).
Like most romcom animes watching the romance evolve is pretty enjoyable but the lack of proper payout leaves a bitter taste.

Something that I did not expect is that this show has a pretty good balance between comedy and tragedy. More comedy but it is a romcom so no surprise there, but the tragic parts of the pasts of most parties involved are pretty well woven into the plot. Yes, there are moments when those parts seem a bit contrived but there are those that actually have logical sense with is a nice touch.

All in all, despite a lot of things using plot armour and deus ex machina to advance the plot the show is pretty enjoyable. For what it is it really got me hooked and interactions of the main romantic duo are mostly solid, even if they run on clichés most of the time.

For a romcom I would say this is pretty solid.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 15, 2024

LegionIscariot

Mixed Feelings

Its the story of a guy Sakamachi Kinjirou (teased as Sakama “chiKin” jirou) in the worse harem ever.
A harem of constant pain, suffering, torture, and torment.

Surrounded by a bunch of violent psychopathic women that he just wants to get as far away from as possible.
From his sister constantly assaulting him to wake him up in the morning. From multiple times being forced to pretend to be someone’s boyfriend. From getting run over and then assaulted by a crazy girl. From getting jump-kicked out of nowhere just for talking to another person. From getting beat up due to a false kidnapping experiment. From name calling. ... From verbal abuse. From getting drugged and abducted...Just terrible characters left and right.

And they all just randomly show up no matter where he is. He’s at the beach, they’re all there. He’s at a restaurant, they’re all there. Despite these girls living separate lives they are all always there to make this one guy’s life hell.

The problem started when Kinjirou discovered that Konoe Subaru, a butler to a sadistic rich brat Kanade Suzutsuki, is actually a girl.

Kinijirou and Subaru eventually develop a relationship. And this is really the only positive aspect of the anime is the relationship between the two.
But because almost every girl is obsessed with Subaru this makes Kinjirou a target of fangirls.

Overall the secondary characters are awful. The humor is not funny just abusive. I feel sorry for the main character Kinjirou.
The two main characters are likable though. And its worth watching just for those two.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 28, 2020

RedXxxxxxxxxxxx

Not Recommended

First of all the constant harassment, assault, and sexual assault makes me really uncomfortable. Personally this anime has crossed my line. The whole basis of this show is making the main character a punching bag constantly receiving blows from everyone else, as well as sexual assault(just because he's male and the females are hot doesn't mean it's ok), so I don't understand how you can like this show without being a masochist, I just spent the whole time sympathising with all the shit this guy goes through. So I hate the female protagonist, I'm fine with reasonable tsunderes like from toradora, but it's too much ... when you want to beat up someone into amnesia because you forgot to lock the door. I also hate the rich bitch because she claims to do everything to help them both, help the girl because she needs a normal life and help the dude because gynophobia, but she's the biggest harasser in the whole goddamn show. She forces sexual assault on both of them, and constantly puts them in unfavourable situations, she's just a selfish brat who pushes what she thinks is "best" on others. So I hate all the major characters pretty much(including the main guy's family, again, punching bag) and I also dislike the main dude because he just goes with all this and also goes along with sexual assault towards the female protagonist as well.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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