Now,He is My Master...If i were to base my review on title alone then i'd use the F-word a lot,call it a wet fraud and call it a day.But this is a review so i have to write some shit to keep MAL happy.
And thankfully i have some things to say cause apart from the fact that this anime is one of the worst i've ever seen in my life it is also one from a studio that its' works are mostly top notch and shook the world to its' foundations.I'm talking about Gainax of course,who in their infinite wisdom decided to stop making great animes and make rubbish instead for people with the aesthetics of Fu Manchu.
Look i get the need for diversity by Gainax.Say you are a chef for example,would you want to cook just pasta for the rest of your life?Course not,but that doesn't mean you'll waste any potential talent on making food that can only be eaten by maggots.And this is the case with this studio.Cause nobody can say that they didn't have any potential,in fact they were one of the big guns in the industry.But they had a meeting and said "know what,fuck them great animes,let's make something dreadful,something that will give the audience the equivelant of pig flu for the eyes".And i'm sorry but as far as decisions go that is one of the stupidest ones.
You're probably thinking right about now,that i'm talking rubbish and that this anime isn't as bad as i make it to be.But no,this anime among other titles before it was one of the reasons the studio went from Messiah to a fake meat on the cross.So let's see what the hell i'm on about.
And we start with the story.Sawatari Izumi and her younger sis Mitsuki decided to leave home and are in need of a house and a job.They happened to find a job advertisement outside a mansion the size of the moon,looking for live-in maids.But what they found instead in the mansion besides a job was a very rich,but very perverted kiddo,Nakabayashi Yoshitaka.From there on it's a trip down deja vu highway.Every single thing is repeated until the end of time.
Every episode is more or less the same.It begins with Izumi being unhappy with how her life has turned out and then Yoshitaka,Pochi,Anna(Izumi’s possible lesbian conquest)come into the scene and everything ends up in kicking and screaming at each other like they are in kindergarden..They certainly seem to have the mental age of a kid in one. But then Mitsuki proposes a contest to settle things,which involves Izumi having to do something insane,she doesn't want to do it but does it nevertheless cause.....No freaking idea why.Maybe cause it would be fun?To who?Even my 3 yr old nephew would struggle to find that shit funny.
Credit where it's due,Gainax made two very very weird as fuck characters with Yoshitaka and Pochi.Yoshitaka,for me at least,with his aggressive perverted side was a refreshing change from the MC's you tend to find in harem anime that serve ONLY as punch bags.And Pochi?Tell me where else would you find an alligator that touches little girls inappropriately?Honestly i cannot put into words just how great this creature is.Now that isn't to say that i liked them as characters in the end or that they're even remotely memorable.
But it's with the female cast that things go south really.Izumi is all the time like she's on her period and everything makes her angry for no reason,but as things stand the rest of the cast always seem to find new ways to make her more..Let's say ill-tempered.Mitsuki is the polar opposite of her sister.She is as carefree as it gets and is there to serve some purpose..Oh no she's only there to produce some funny challenges for her sister..
As far as songs and animation go i cannot say i was impressed.The songs were pretty standard,VA were...Ok-ish...And animation was a bloody mess.
Now if you want a comedy with lots and lots of fanservice there are tons of anime out there that do a better job than this.If you want to relive that Gainax magic and you think that this might do the trick...Well no.
