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| Everything I wished for. Maid rising! Squeepig 7.8 |
 To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
| What a finale!! This was one of the "don't judge a book by its cover" show. From the get-go the show was over the top full of insanity and craziness and yet, delivers and hits the strings when it comes to the emotional moments. Each episode had this surprising and wtf moment that made you excited for the next episode. The characters are just as insane as the show and at the same time can be prideful and caring. Ranko's death really came as surprise. RIP. You'll be missed. And Nagomi was able to perform and showcase the things she inherited from Ranko. Sadly it still wasn't enough to convince Nagi but was enough to convince rest of the maids. Then we fast-forward to 2018 and Nagomi is still working for the café as a 36 y/o maid. Nice end to her character arc as well. Wonder what the others are up to tho. Still, all in all an insane yet, a very fitting finale for the show. Greatly enjoyed the anime. Definitely one of my favorites of the season. |
| The cheery scene at the café with all the guns pointed at Nagomi and co was bizarre, but they prevailed, and Panda move with a bamboo spear was so damn good. After the ED though, seeing Nagomi, a 36-year-old maid, in a wheelchair made me really sad for some reason. I'm glad she ended up alive, but just this one scene encompasses so much pain they all had to go through in order to build a new peaceful era in Akiba. Brilliant, I'd say. But overall, the show wasn't my favourite. The things wrapped up nicely in the end, but there was still too much random senseless fights throughout the show that existed mostly for shock factor. I'm not sure, it was all that worth watching. |
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| We've finally reached the end of Akiba Maid Wars and it ended in a bloody and violent fashion the same way it started. Seeing Nagomi in her mourning outfit and being full on aggressive was badass, but she did reach her emotional limit as she was still coming to terms with Ranko's death. It was nice to see her fellow maids rally around and come up with a ballsy plan to deal with Nagi, who already started killing off anyone that disobeys her command, including the old ramen guy, and her henchwomen. In the end, Nagomi's performance was enough to make Nagi lose her mind completely as she shot at Nagomi multiple times. However, the same pink-haired maid who killed Ranko in the last episode redeemed herself by shooting Nagi in the head before Okachimachi finished her off by throwing a bamboo spear into her like a proper badass. After hearing the Nagomi version of the ED song, we get a 19-year timeskip to modern day Akiba (nice Uma Musume poster cameo, BTW) and not only is Nagomi still alive, but she's still happily working as a maid at the same age as Ranko was before she died. I do like the designs she has on her wheelchair with her fellow maids in the past. =) Overall, this show, as well as Ya Boy Kongming, sums up P.A. Works this year. Weird, wacky, but also wonderfully entertaining at the same time! XD I think I'll settle with an 8/10 for now. I look forward to what P.A. Works have in store in 2023! |
| P.A. Works proving again that they are a great studio. I love anime originals, and this show was definitely one of the highlights this year for me. The ending did feel a little rushed even with them cutting out the OP, but it was really fitting for the show. It was never going to end in a bloodbath, because that is the point of Nagomi's character, to change Akiba without violence. I'm very happy she survived though, 36 year old Nagomi is cute! |
| i didn't expect to enjoy this show as much as i did but honestly it was the hidden gem of this season. pure fun |
| 10/10. I think the ending is awesome and outstanding. The show itself is astonishing. Havent been impressed this much since 2007. |
| I will be waiting for you forever at the end of time |
To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
| Good ending, a bit too rushed tho ! 7/10 |
| Quite a rough finale in terms of emotions. (Yes this is a good thing) Glad to see that the writers didn't use the typical anime trope of emotionless characters mourning in silence for Ranko's death and they really made them more human by openly griefing Ranko on her funeral. Black Nagomi was kind of the stuff I'm talking about the cool emotionless character, but it was also a wise choice to make her come back to herself and grief about Ranko and how unfair and absurd all this bloodshed has always been. The whole dancing act in the Pigsty cafe was quite unexpected as in I was hoping that the drinks would had been poisoned, or that the tables were rigged with explosives or probably even cut a deal with the cops for a big busting raid (the short cut with nagomi stopping in front of an officer was a good mislead). Appealing to the common sense of the other maids was probably their best choice and they sure gambled for it (you could see the tears in Yumechi and Shiipo's faces just waiting for the worst outcome). After Okachimachi delivered the final blow on Uzuko, it does feel that the finale goes 200mph and leaves little to no room for an epilogue. A bittersweet one with a quick cut to a black screen, but even bigger productions like The Sopranos also did this, so I'm conflicted wheter I think it should had been a bit more elaborate or was it all in a fitting style for absurd and violent comedy. Overall it was a really great dark comedy with an amazing premise and start that did slow down a bit on the last quarter of it's run. Nevertheless still quite impressive for an anime original and specially on a very stacked season like this. This along with Bocchi, Witch from Mercury and Yama no Suzume were my top dogs for the title of Anime of the Season, most likely Bocchi will be my pick for this season, but Akiba Maido can proudly sit at number 2 in my books and that's already a great acomplishment. |
KimurahDec 22, 2022 12:38 PM
| Very strange ending but Easter egg is great especially one fact. The first season of Uma Musume anime was aired in 2018. |
| The darkest maid anime ever! Rate: 9/10 |
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| That's the most violent and moe song ever, the ending is pretty good, I don't even know if I'm happy that we saw that Nagomi did survive and continued being a maid (in wheelchair) or if it would have been better to just end it without seeing anything about the future or what really happened |
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| 12 episodes of pure chaos, a fitting end for one of the craziest anime originals I've seen. |
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| My god this show was awesome. Incredible finale |
under”Mebius” is my salvation  |
| I was about the be really disappointed with how it ended until the post credit, I could accept ranko but not nagomi. Still I didn't like how she ended and it would've been better if they killed nagi before she pulled the trigger. Anyway it was fun. 7/10. |
| At the end... I'm still clueless of what's this anime is all about... and the end the older nagomi doesn't make any justice... the end was not interesting nor satisfactory. I guess is a wasted potential or what I thought it will be. |
| I thought they were setting up for a huge killing and revenge for Ranko but at the end only the leader was killed and it's done by one of them, kind of surprising, good to see Nagomi is alive at the end, overall pretty good series. |
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| i said it once and ill say it again... the ONLY REASON this isn't my favorite anime of the year is because they kill eachother if all they did was street fight, oh god... YES |
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| I don't know if the ending stuck the landing, but man. What a show. Loved it from start to finish. |
| PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this show revive all female fighting anime |
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| Bro this anime got some BALLS. They basically went RANDOM BULLSH*T GO for their final episode. Or actually, maybe it isn't so random. First off, I love how they don't just omit the OP ENTIRELY, but instead play a little of the beginning, then freaking END IT with a gunshot Anyway, I believe it makes sense for the maid from Wuv Wuv Beam to be the one to end Nagi (although the kill technically goes to panda who f*cking bamboo javelin spears her in the torso, W), because ultimately she probably just wants peace. She lost that when Ranko came and not only disrupted that peace, but also basically killed her entire cafe. Then she attempts to avenge her fallen comrades and make peace once again by ending Ranko, makes sense. So when Nagomi makes a valiant attempt to win over the hearts of all the creature cafes, and to make Akiba into a place of maid cafes minus all the Quentin Tarantino, the first person in the crowd who probably finds favour in this is in fact the maid from Wuv Wuv Beam, who most likely also desired to have Akiba be thriving with maids without all the death and destruction. It's when Nagi not only kills the Lion cafe head in front of all, but also empties her revolver into Nagomi, Wuv Wuv Beam maid sees the source of all such discord in Akiba, and right then and there, ends the cycle of violence, and ends the Akiba Maid War. My issue is one that was actually briefly discussed by the maid cafe head characters here in this episode, and that's that Nagi's motivations are so wishy-washy. I really want to know what made her go from wanting to end Oinky Doink Cafe, to protecting them, and then to ending them again. Sure she was moved by Ranko's humility in that other episode when she was asking them to spare the cafe (which I was surprised by, I thought Nagi was more cold-hearted than that, but anyhow, she showed them mercy at that moment), but then after Ranko's death she immediately goes all out full force in wanting to end the cafe again. Is it because she didn't want them rising up against her to avenge Ranko's death? Perhaps she saw it as a ploy, but I'm sure she could've seen that their intentions to make peace were genuine. Maybe she was seeing too much of Ranko in Nagomi and just wanted to completely forget about her. Maybe she's like the Joker, who's drive for evil cannot be explained, who simply seeks out violence no matter the case. Some maids, perhaps, just want to watch the world burn. The reason Nagi had Michiyo (did I spell that right) killed was because in fact she was becoming soft, and saw her useless if she wasn't her battle-hardened self. So yeah, maybe violence just runs in Nagi's blood. But wtf, she's also capable of mercy, because again, she did spare Ranko and the rest of the cafe that time. So... I don't know what's going on inside her head, but I'm really feeling inclined to just call it lazy writing just to make sh*t happen. And there's one other complaint I have, although it's more of a nitpick really, and that is that Nagomi should've died. I get that they still overall wanted to end on a happy note, and thought people would be very unhappy if all they got was depression after Ranko's death. But from a story-telling perspective, Nagomi actually dying would've been more impactful. Because we see as we fast-forwarded to 2018, that violence was no more, and all Akiba was living in peace and harmony. It would've been as if though Nagomi gave her life to end the Akiba Maid War. True, she didn't get off scot-free as now she's in a wheel chair. Maybe Nagi in all her rage, missed all of Nagomi's vital organs as she wildly fired her shots. But still, I think her death would've solidified this crazy show a bit better. And lastly, man, ramen dude didn't need to die. F in the chat for the guy just doing his job I enjoyed this sh*t. I'll give it a 7/10, but if I were to write a review, I'd put it with "Mixed Feelings". |
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| a perfect finale for this series, too bad it was somewhat rushed, still pretty good 6/10 overall |
| Maid lagoon, is the master of randomness and a kill or be killed kinda vibe. its as they say you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. |
 Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
| Yeah she finally made that dream come true, no violence on Maid, but sadly she ended up to use wheelchair. I'm just speechless about this. Thank you for not changing personality to killing spree maid and thank you for not giving up on her hope. But seriously, put a picture of baseball suit Ranko on funeral is really killed the sadness vibe. Can't they just use normal picture instead? Anyway, what a great journey 7.5/10 |
NavoX47Dec 22, 2022 4:11 PM
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| A hard to watch perfect finale. Elitist part me wish they didn't show the post credit ending, SoL part of me grateful that they showed the post credit ending. 9/10. |
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| This show was a huge oddity overall, but props to P.A. Works for being very experimental and trying some very different things. The finale was alright, though a bit weird as well. Also, why did Nagi kill the ramen guy? He deserved better. |
| Right now I don't even what to say other than I really, really loved the finale and the whole series (and also that timeskip Nagomi is a babe). |
| From zero expectations to one of the best of the season this show was an absolute treat. Been a long time since PA Works put out an original series this good |
| A decent ending, just felt a little rushed. I think an ambiguous ending probably would've landed better than that post credits scene. The show was an 8/10 overall with a few 10/10 episodes sprinkled in there. |
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