Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid starts off as a cute and funny series, with situations dealing about living at home, having neighbors, moving out, etc. It also points out some anime themes that are dumb or unrealistic such as "anime maids are just cute and nothing else and tarnish the reputation of real maids who actually work really hard", like the author knows and don't want to be yet another generic anime, but at the same time really likes the idea of a dragon maid, or at least that's my interpretation. That is good, you do what you wanna do and try your best, while being generic is bad.
The problem starts about... episode 7 or so. It gets appalling and lacking? There's no interesting living at home/daily life stuff to deal with and the cliché slice of life episodes starts gushing out without any of the show's initial appeal. Dragon fights are boring because they don't really have a climax and everyone seem to have equal strength somehow. Characters get flanderized, that is, their entire character get reduced to a simple characteristic or catchphrase. Some characters don't really have any purpose to begin with (spoilers starts here).
Such is, when Elma comes to the human world to fight Tohru, whilst claiming they mustn't interfere with this world. She is aware that she cannot go back on her own. Basically she came here to have a dragon fight but she doesn't want to influence the place and cannot go back, and also despite saying that she is of equal strength with Tohru, it seems she knows she is weaker. She is also initially hungry and there goes most of her personality. It's not like she has a huge appetite like a shonen protagonist, it's just that food is her top priority in life. "I came here for food", "I heard food I must eat", "This food is the best (every food is the best)". The rest of her character is leaving her rack vulnerable to jiggles, as if Quetzalcoatl wasn't enough.
Seikawa starts off as your common alpha bitch/brat and you understand that she's just really bad at socializing but Kanna does not run away or respond in anger so they become friends and Seikawa wasn't really a bad person to begin with. I thought that was nice, but then Seikawa just gets instantly wet whenever Kanna say or does anything, sometime just being there is enough to turn her on. Dunno how it's funny.
Fafnir is initially a blunt and harsh reality to Tohru's dreamy new life. Then he finds himself a human he likes. It's interesting because he is potentially or at least partly right, but he comes to understand why Tohru was so dreamy and happy about. Then he starts speaking in third person and do out of character things like participating in a play or trying to sell to the humans he hate a manga he made about curses. The Fafnir that was initially introduced wouldn't give a damn about those things. He hates humans. He has no fuck to gives. He developed to like video games and one otaku human. After a while he likes anything as long as he is angry while doing it.
Speaking of the otaku guy, I found him confusing. Is he the same character as Kobayashi's colleague or another character entirely? They look very similar but act differently, you never see them both at the same time and at the first party, the colleague is invited and starts playing with Fafnir but later on he's just gone and the otaku is there playing with Fafnir???
Quetzalcoatl is initially a cool girl with the "unfortunate" appearance of a gorgeous woman which always causes her problems. It's not a bad idea to deal with fanservice while adding fanservice to the show. It's never explained how exactly what dragons look like in their human form aside from their clothes so I want to say hey it's not her fault if she's born with that body, but I dunno, never mind that because it's just hypothetical at his point. The problem with her comes in when there really is nothing to do with her after introduction so she because full-time blatant and gratuitous fanservice and she never catches on that bouncing her gigantic rack is indecent and makes some people uncomfortable.
For some reason she also takes pleasure in tormenting a kid and burying him under her breasts while she sleeps. The kids' non-existent parents also doesn't seem to mind their son sleeping and bathing with her. Initially the whole demon summoning ritual and the shota (who is actually named Shota) thinking she is a demon is funny, but it devolves to sexually abusing a child all the time. It's fine when it's a girl doing it I guess?
The other characters are fine, although sometimes Tohru's yandere traits become really strong, then go completely absent in one episode, then reappears in another episode, etc. and she almost kills Kobayashi with a beam once, which is really weird considering she's completely devoted and in love with her.
Then episode 12 when they show suddenly remembers it never showed us how Tohru and Kobayashi met, something I was wondering about since the first episode and really there was no reason to keep that part out for so long. Then Kobayashi is able to lift a giant sword from Tohru's wound for some reason? And Tohru's dreams are exactly the same as a random girl she met, which undermine Tohru's character. She wants to be a maid because a girl wanted to be a maid??
Then in episode 13 we really have no idea anymore, so here is a last minute plot. Apparently there's a war and Tohru needs to come back and her dad kidnaps her. Then Tohru comes back, her dad follows and say you must come, she says no, he says yes, Kobayashi says no, dad says fuck you and go away. What?! That's just stupid and out of nowhere. Sure we know there's some kind of dragon/human/monster society in another world and there are factions but if you're born in the chaos faction you have to be evil, born in the harmony faction you have to be good, etc. That's just boring and it would be best not to say anything because the unknown is better than bad idea.
Other than that the show is good, just stop watching when it starts getting boring for you because it's never going to be good again.
