Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S: Nippon no Omotenashi - Attend wa Dragon desu

Could've been a nice wholesome story, maybe even diving into the differences in culture between Japan and America. But unfortunately, it's a rather generic "summer" episode featuring a foreign character that for all intents and purposes is just another Japanese character.

I know Japan likes their lolis, but this was just bad. It's not even comparable to the loli fanservice in the regular episodes. There the fanservice lies in how cute, seiso, and uwu the loli characters are. In this episode, the loli characters were actually being sexualized. To the extent where background characters were taking pictures of the "hot" loli.

Most of it is just another ... episode, so if you're a fan of the show, watch it. Just be aware of the fanservice moments as they can really pull you out of the flow.

TLDR @ bottom

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S: Nippon no Omotenashi - Attend wa Dragon Desu isn’t something we haven’t seen before. Simply put, this OVA is Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid minus the deeper aspects of the show.

This OVA features Chloe, a girl who - IIRC - we met for 1 episode in the parent story when Kanna traveled to the US. Though, this time the tables are flipped, Chloe is coming over to hang out with Kanna in Japan to experience their culture! However, this premise in and of itself isn’t too much to behold, but I’m sure with all that we’ve seen from ... the parent story and the amazing animation surrounding the Dragon Maid series watching this will surely pay off… right?

Well… kinda. Overall the OVA serves its purpose as your average OVA, however, I did expect a little more from the OVA due to what Dragon Maid has presented us in the past. Lemme explain. Though the characters that we saw in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid all appear (or at least the main cast) in this OVA I somewhat wish they hadn't. Due to all the characters being present, this didn’t leave as much room in the OVA for really diving into the interpersonal traits of any one character; as I would have expected them to do with Chloe since we don’t know her character that well. Instead, each character gets at least a little screen time showing off the overused tropes we all saw within the main series. Honestly, it was annoying. There was potential for this OVA to mean at least something beyond “haha. slice of life, comedy” but it seems that this was basically unnecessary filler of things that were just re-showcased from the parent story, in the form of an OVA.

Though what I just mentioned may be a turn away for some, something that certainly wasn’t was an impressive animation maintained throughout the OVA by Kyoto Animation. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting over-the-top animation for an OVA, but I guess it does fit with the series considering what they have done in the past, and I’m glad they stuck to it. The animation was not a disappointment and was just as stunning as its predecessor. Congrats Kyoto Animation for doing something above mediocre with this OVA!

Now, if you are someone who was going to watch this OVA to see what Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid could do next to top off their series with some sort of interesting plot I wouldn’t bother wasting your time. The whole OVA was everyone from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid’s main cast + Chloe exploring places like Akihabara, the schoolhouse, and other random locations that we saw in the parent story. This, to say the least, was very mediocre, with very little to offer the audience outside of mostly trivial dialog and repetitive use of character tropes. It’s not as if this OVA had nothing to offer and there were some heartwarming moments between Kanna and her friends that she was building a relationship with, however, it all really came back around, and the characters were in pretty much the same spots they were before the OVA took place.

Finally, I’d like to mention something that I noticed others commenting on after finishing the OVA; that is the “ecchi” aspects to the OVA. Now Ima be honest here and say that I didn’t even really think of most of the scenes that some said pandered to lolicons as such. Though, the way some were talking about these scenes could make the OVA come off as an excuse to show overtly erotic scenes of characters such as Kanna, Chloe, and Saikawa. In reality, there was like 1 Twister scene for a total of 3 seconds that showed an anime character's ass and a pool scene that was the most vanilla pool scene in anime history. If anything, I disliked the Twister scene more due to the fact that it was just an excuse to exploit Saikawa’s character trope and throughout the pool scene added nothing of value to the OVA in any aspect, not the supposed raunchiness. I love the notion that this was made for lolicons because it’s completely laughable due to how non-erotic it is relative to anything else in anime. And sure saying something isn’t relatively bad isn’t really a good point, but the entire OVA is pretty vanilla. So if you were worried about being uncomfortable with any of the scenes, don’t be, just ignore it, as looking at it objectively these scenes are minute compared to the overarching blandness of the actual content of the OVA.

TLDR: When broken down there isn’t much to say about this OVA. I really believe all the aspects of the OVA balanced themselves out. There were definitely below-average parts about this OVA (overuse of character tropes & lackluster story), but there were good parts as well (amazing art style & relationship building between Kanna and Chloe). If you were wondering if you should spend your time on this it all comes down to how much you liked and what parts you enjoyed of the parent story. Did you enjoy the SOL parts of Dragon Maid, if so you’d definitely love this, but if you only liked it because of the intricate story don't bother.

The vibes of this OVA are fucked

The story idea is nice. Chloe, the girl Kanna met in the US, is coming over for a visit. They go on a trip to play around in Akihabara and on the next day hang out with Saikawa. But it's just so creepy at times that I can't enjoy it.

Dragon Maid is sadly no stranger to loli and shota fanservice. Especially the scenes with Shouta and Quetzalcoatl are terrible, but this one cranks it up a notch. Spending time with Kanna and Saikawa involves going swimming, of course featuring swimsuits and asshots of the little girl characters, and then ... playing Twister, with more asshots and them falling all over each other.

You know this shit is made for the lolicon audience. It didn't have to be like that, it could have just been a normal OVA, but they decided to make it raunchy and that sucks.