It's like Ladies versus Butlers but this time lady is the butler!
Ok so main characters are Kinjiro Sakamachi, guy who has extreme gynophobia, or fear of women and cross-dressing girl Subaru Konoe who wants to be a butler like her father so she has to hide her gender. Kinjiro accidentally learns Subaru's secret and is forced by her master Kanade Suzutsuki to keep it secret from the rest of the school. Suzutsuki has sadistic tendencies but she is also interested in curing Kinjiro's gynophobia that causes nosebleed and fainting if he even touches a girl so she is not all-bad despite her sadism,
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she also deeply cares for her butler Subaru.
Story 7: Kinjiro and Subaru become friends and develop romantic feelings for each other that everyone can see, but all sorts of other girls also appear to Kinjiro's life (this is harem after all) and of course cause him a lot of nosebleed. Funny thing is that since no one knows that Subaru is girl (which is actually obvious) everyone thinks her and Kinjiro as gay lovers. Subaru-sama is very loved among girls of the school and she(or he) as not one but two fan clubs, another one dresses like Ku Klux Klan- probably reference to similar joke in Baka to Test. It is pretty obvious that only Subaru has chances with Kinjiro so harem feels pretty pointless and I think this story would have been better as romantic comedy. Moments with other girls mainly feel like pointless fanservice. There is a lot of ecchi and at times it follows completely crazy anime logic. Like when in the first episode Kinjiro accidentally fells on top of Subaru and all her buttons come undone in a blink of an eye to reveal her breasts.... that's ridiculous even in ecchi anime. Kinjiros relationship with Subaru actually develops in a nice manner though. Huge problem is the final episode of the season that ruins the development by making a side character Nakuru Narumi (Fujoshi girl who supports KinjiroxSubaru romance) part of his harem. This was extremely bad way to end the show since it ruins the feeling of development Kinjiro reached with Subaru in the second last episode and all those episodes prior that.
So if you are not that interested in Nakuru's character or harem aspect I recommend you skip the last episode!
Art 6: Nothing very bad, pretty good looking anime. Character designs are rather generic and I personally was bothered by the fact that they didn't even try to make Subaru to look like a boy when she is cross-dressing. She has long hair and cute ribbons and stuff while she is supposedly looking like a boy. If they wanted long hair but boyish look I think long simple ponytail would have been better option. Now she looks more like a very girly boy - a trap who is surprisingly really a girly girl and no trap.... or some kind of fake-trap....double trap- or Trap-trap... Admiral Ackbar would be proud.
Sound 6: Nothing too special. Opening and ending songs were ok. Voice acting was pretty good. Subaru especially sounds a lot like a boy while she doesn't look like it. That saves part of believability of this cross-dressing plot. At times she sounds like girl as well when she is not acting like a butler. This was well done. Other VA:s are ok.
Character 6: Main character is mainly a generic nice guy, but extreme gynophobia makes him a bit unique. He has an actual reason to be afraid of lucky pervert moments. Thanks to her violent wrestler sister he can also take a lot of physical damage. His name has a pun of chicken, but he is definitely not the worst coward in anime history. Subaru is a bit of a tsundere at first, but she becomes sweet towards Kinjiro pretty fast. She haven't had any friends before so she is very happy to befriend with Kinjiro and quickly realizes she wants even more. Overall I did find her rather likable character, she has clear motivations, she acts in a way that is surprisingly realistic for anime character and develops feelings for Kinjiro in rather natural way. Other characters include Subaru's master Kanade, sadistic rich girl who was bit frustrating at times and Kinjiro's little sister Kureha who "tests" wrestling moves to her brother daily, being the main cause of his gynophobia. She still loves his brother deeply in non-incest kind of way and is attracted to Subaru whom she thinks is a boy like everyone else. Because this is harem there are also other "options" for Kinjiro like Masamune Usami, textbook tsundere and character I don't think this show really needed, same with Nakuru Narumi, big busted and cat-eared fujoshi girl. Nakuru is alright as side character, kinda fun, but her attraction to Kinjirou felt forced to me and addition to harem in the last episode felt wrong to me. I really liked the joke about Masamune's apartment being haunted. Ghosts were just chilling out there and she paid no attention to them, that was so unexpected visual gag that it was kinda clever.
Enjoyment 7: It was alright show, ecchi and humour, cute and funny stuff. Enjoyable.
Overall 6: Main idea was nice, Kinjirou and Subaru were a good couple that developed nicely, ecchi was not bad, but at times it was too unbelievable. Harem-aspect was the biggest weakness of this show, there were not much actual competition between the girls, Subaru was the only real option for Kinjirou, so would've been better without this forced harem-aspect. Sure most girls didn't know Subaru is a girl too but that would only make Jiro look gay and any attempts by girls hopeless. Especially that last episode made failure of this as harem comedy clear and I recommend that if you like JiroXSubaru more than forced attempt of harem leave that one out.
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Japanese: まよチキ!
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
13
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Jul 8, 2011 to Sep 30, 2011
Premiered:
Summer 2011
Broadcast:
Fridays at 01:55 (JST)
Licensors:
Sentai Filmworks
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Source:
Light novel
Duration:
24 min. per ep.
Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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Jul 4, 2018
It's like Ladies versus Butlers but this time lady is the butler!
Ok so main characters are Kinjiro Sakamachi, guy who has extreme gynophobia, or fear of women and cross-dressing girl Subaru Konoe who wants to be a butler like her father so she has to hide her gender. Kinjiro accidentally learns Subaru's secret and is forced by her master Kanade Suzutsuki to keep it secret from the rest of the school. Suzutsuki has sadistic tendencies but she is also interested in curing Kinjiro's gynophobia that causes nosebleed and fainting if he even touches a girl so she is not all-bad despite her sadism, ... Dec 19, 2016
The anime had a good story and great characters but the fact remains that an "ending" can destroy everything the anime had to offer which in this case was no ending at all, romance unfulfilled and expectations broken without regards...
I was hoping for a great final episode given how the few last episodes made it look like just to have a last episode be a filler... There is nothing to hate more than an anime who ends in a filler like the story didn't even matter to those who made it and it is quite disappointing on this anime because the romance was great up until ... Jun 29, 2021
The show appealed to me because of the main character's mentioned phobia of women being specifically labeled as gynophobia in the description of the anime. So I was like, "Wowee! That could make for an interesting plot. I've never heard of that condition before." But as it turns out, I think that was just an excuse for classic anime gongglazoohibibbitydingslammerhomaromabimbus booba scenarios to play out. I did feel that the more emotional moments of the show where characters were having a heart to heart were really sincere though with character relationships being believable and kind of sweet and, God forgive me for saying, wholesome. Overall,
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Dec 9, 2021
What the heck is wrong with the last episode? it doesn't make sense like a hell-ish bit. Instead of finishing the series, it just talks nonsense. It's like ending with a filler! What is wrong with it?
Until Episode 12, it was all fine. I was expecting some lights being shed on mysterious Kanade. Some conclusion to the love triangle thingy between the 3. But NO! They decided it's a good idea to build an almost entirely new anime out of 2 characters from Mayo Chiki and call it a day. Whoever planned it like this deserves a special place in hell. Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa May 15, 2024
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. ... Previous - |