Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 2, 2010 to Sep 24, 2010

Premiered: Spring 2010

Broadcast: Fridays at 01:55 (JST)

Producers: Geneon Universal Entertainment, TBS, Hakusensha, Half H.P Studio

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Plot: Being the first female student council president isn't easy, especially when your school just transitioned from an all-boys high school to a co-ed one. Aptly nicknamed "Demon President" by the boys for her strict disciplinary style, Misaki Ayuzawa is not afraid to use her mastery of Aikido techniques to cast judgment onto the hordes of misbehaving boys and defend the girls at Seika High School.

Yet even the perfect Ayuzawa has an embarrassing secret—she works part-time as a maid at a maid café to help her struggling family pay the bills. She has managed to keep her job hidden from her fellow students and maintained her flawless image as a stellar student until one day, Takumi Usui, the most popular boy in school, walks into the maid café. He could destroy her reputation with her secret... or he could twist the student council president around his little finger and use her secret as an opportunity to get closer to her.

User Review: When news of this year's new shows began surfacing, Kaichou wa Maid-sama was near the top of the ones I was looking forward to most. I had read a little of the manga and always found it to be funny. Last year had featured a pretty good run of romance anime and this looked poised to continue that run. Despite the series' fabulous artwork and a lot of great comedy, it is, unfortunately, a bit of a disappointment.

The premise behind Maid-Sama has an initially interesting hook. Misaki Ayuzawa is the newly elected student council president at a mostly male high school. She is strict and violent in protecting of the female students and in making it a place friendlier to girls. But she has a secret that could ruin her image as the tough and unyielding class president, she works part-time in a Maid Cafe to help her family with the bills. Of course, this means that the ultimate alpha male at the school, Usui Takumi, will find out about her secret. Blackmail, as only shoujo can do ensues... or does it?

Thankfully the answer is no but what does follow, at least initially is pretty fun and entertaining back and forth repartee between Misaki and Usui. Misaki is revealed to not be quite the man-hating tyrant she is in school and Usui is not the cold, unfeeling ladies' man either. The romantic chemistry between the two characters is quite good and builds very quickly early on. But the typical problems that plague shoujo romances soon follow. Relationship development slows to a crawl and nothing of significance happens after the first third of the series until its end. Despite this the series does end with a bang and has a very touching and satisfying conclusion which is probably the only thing that saved it from a lower overall score.

Maid-Sama at its best is extremely funny and enjoyable to watch. The series' comedy is really quite well most of the time. But no amount of jokes can hide the fact that it doesn’t have any kind of story whatsoever. Misaki's job at Maid Latte is mostly just a gimmick, and besides for a handful of episodes, it’s totally unimportant to the plot. Basically what we get is a series of loosely connected stories with the same underlying theme. Even though they are mostly funny it gets tiring when you realize that nothing significant is ever happening. When things do finally start to get interesting between our couple, not unexpectedly a rival appears. Though he is so poorly conceived and much too late to the party to have any real significance. It was almost like someone in the production staff realized with five episodes to go that they nearly made an entire anime without a love triangle. Though despite all of this the biggest flaw is the sheer weight of supporting characters and their overall detraction to the screen time and back-story of the lead characters.

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