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Where Maids Fear To Tread – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 12 (Finale) Review

Where Maids Fear To Tread – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 12 (Finale)

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 12 (Finale).

So how’s this episode? If you’d had told me at the start of the season that UzaMaid, this freaking show would have me cry more than ‘Bloom Into You’, more than ‘Banana Fish’, more than ‘Bunny Girl Senpai’… I would not have believed you. And yet here we are…

Okay that’s quite an intro, care to tell us what the episode is about then? Following on from last week Misha has locked herself in her mother’s studio after learning that Tsubame violated the sanctity of the room by entering it when she was explicitly told to never go in. Tsubame didn’t of course, she was only covering for Washi and Yui who entered by accident during their sleepover. What proceeds is nothing less than a 15 minute examination into the nature of grief how it manifests in everyday life and the way guilt plays a part when you feel that grief lessen with time. It probes the depths of two characters who have both lost important things in their lives and in-turn found new joys that lessen the emotional burden and allow them to see the light again.

Tsubame was once a loli too. Poor Tsubame…

Wow… that actually sounds kind of profound. It is. It’s very moving, and the show does a cool visual trick of keeping the colour palette muted throughout until both characters reach their emotional xenith and can admit to the need to move on and how important each of them are to each other. This episode isn’t some fluke, this is an intelligent and emotionally honest experience written by someone who clearly knows the true face of grief and loss.

Powerful words coming from an elementary-schooler.

I know you’ll probably yell at me but it almost feels like a different show. In some respects its more restrained but they still manage to fit in a decent amount of sassy quips, absurdity and toilet humour that means the show isn’t miles away from what it usually is. It doesn’t in any way feel like a departure for the series, this feels like the logical progression for where the show was at its point. It was inevitably going to have to deal with the mother’s room from the moment it introduced it way back towards the start of the season. Likewise we get the long awaited (at least for me) reveal on how Tsubame lost her eyesight in her left eye. My bet was during a military exercise but as it turns out it was an illness that caused her sight to deteriorate until she lost it completely in that eye.

They never explained why she wears such a fancy strapless eyepatch though and not a normal one.

I see… and what was that about this being “15 minutes” of the episode? Presumably this means there’s something else in the remaining minutes. I plucked that number out of the air, it’s a large chunk that’s devoted to the aforementioned. The rest of the episode is, well… let’s just call it “business as usual”. And I don’t mean that as a bad thing, after the more serious tone of the previous part it was nice to get Tsubame acting like her old self. But it’s not as if things are back to the way they were post emotional reveal, there’s still a sense of progression it’s more that the series is just acknowledging the need for the levity that the show started on as a sort of bookend if you will.

Right. So you’ve covered seemingly everything it seems anything else you wanted to add? Midorin has a larger presence in this episode than she has had in the last two episodes which while not ideal she’s not nearly as grating as she has been. That said she does still feel kind of unnecessary and she is the weakest part of an otherwise excellent episode. And if this is indeed the last time we see UzaMaid grace our screens, that would be sad but on the other hand this is a very satisfying series finale.

The best part about this site gag is they didn’t even draw attention to the fact that the dog was walking her until she gets pulled away. Probably the funniest Midorin’s been in the show…

Previous UzaMaid! Reviews:

Weapons Grade Lolicon – Episode 1 Review
Maid Back Camp – Episode 2 Review
Breeding Like Hamsters – Episode 3 Review
Dresses Maid To Order – Episode 4 Review
Out Of The Running – Episode 5 Review
Crazy In Love – Episode 6 Review
Maid To Suffer – Episode 7 Review
Suite and Sour – Episode 8 Review
Heavy Petting – Episode 9 Review
Bearing It All – Episode 10 Review
Dust To Dusting – Episode 11 Review

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Dust To Dusting – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 11 Review

Dust To Dusting – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 11

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 11.

So how’s this episode? So, uh, last week was an unexpected hit to the feels. You know what the followed it up with this week?

No idea. Another hit to the feels! I mean, ~damn~ UzaMaid, how many tears do you need me to shed to make me understand your a better anime than anyone could have ever predicted?!

Okay then, so what happens in it? So immediately we’re greeted with a flashback to Misha’s mother’s art studio back when Misha’s mother was alive and the two of them interacting together was already making me misty eyed. But then while her and Misha and Yasahiro are out having breakfast on the patio together, Misha’s mother begins sketching the two of them, only for Misha to complain that she doesn’t want to be “alone with Yasahiro” only for her mother to obligingly sketch herself into the picture and then off-handedly comments “what would you ever do without me?” And already I’m a mess and we’re only two minutes into the damn episode.

You big softy, you. So then in the ~present day~ what happens? Misha’s having a sleepover with Mimika Washizaki and Yui Morikawa! ~Kawaii~ And the usual shenanigans ensue, with Tsubame wanting to watch the girls having fun together but reigning it in for the sake of not driving Misha away. But throughout the episode there’s little nods to Misha’s mothers room which since early on in the season has been a “forbidden room” that Tsubame must never enter. And there’s some brilliant foreshadowing in this episode like when Misha enters it to attempt to clean it, only to be so off put by the plume of dust that rises from her first footstep and for that to become an important plot point later.

“Later”? We’ll get to that, ahem… later. What happens in between? Midorin pays a visit and already my eyes felt like they were about to roll out of my skull. But she’s ~okay~ here, mostly because she’s used in moderation and plays no bearing on the story–as it damn well should be! Ahem… so later that night, Yui needs to pee and enlists Mimika’s assistance to stand guard, only for what can only be described as a cacophony of madness ensuing. After a run in with Midorin handstanding on a toilet, demonic looking pets and a stuffed ~kumashock~ they end up back in Misha’s bed, but not before leaving footsteps all over the “forbidden room” that is Misha’s mother’s studio. The next morning Misha wakes up, walks downstairs only to see said “forbidden room” with door wide open and footsteps aplenty. Misha begins to panic at the sanctity of the room having been disturbed and begins to wonder on the culprit, Yui Morikawa’s name passes her lips but Tsubame is quick to interject not wanting Misha to lose any faith in her newfound friends. She takes the blame for the intrusion entirely on herself and is harshly rebuked for it.

Not the rebuke in question but still savage AF.

That hardly seems fair? But that’s how it needs to be and Tsubame knows this and we the audience know this and it’s just so ~good~ I can’t even deal! I’m so glad this show has recovered so well, an excellent episode all round!

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Bearing It All – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 10 Review

Bearing It All – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 10

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 10.

So how’s this episode? Probably the best one yet, and I’m totally not just saying that because Midori is relegated to a two-second cameo.

Uh-huh, and if it’s not that, then what’s so good about it? Pretty much everything. But seeing as how this is a review I’ll be more specific about it.

I imagine it wouldn’t be very hygienic though…

Please and thank you. So in attempt to connect more with his daughter Misha, Yasahiro has organised a trip to an exclusive Hokkaido onsen where you get to bathe alongside cute capybaras! Obviously Misha is all about this, after all she loves cute animals but she’s terrified about Tsubame finding out and ruining the trip just by virtue of existing in the same space as her. One of this episode’s biggest laughs comes early on and follows on from all the extensive prep work Misha goes through to hide their travel plans from their perverted maid only for her to be working at the onsen inn they’re staying at!

But there’s more to this episode than just laughs if it’s the “best one yet” right? Very astute. Yes, after some more Tsubame related shenanigans, Misha disobeys Yasahiro’s request to come straight back to the room after her bath and instead goes to look at the capybara petting zoo (and sees a random panda in the surrounding woods while she’s there). Yasahiro finds out, but doesn’t scold her. Later, after falling asleep in the afternoon, Misha returns to the forest to try and get a photo of the panda (because Yasahiro didn’t believe her) only to get lost in said woods as well as lose her mobile phone. Back at the room Yasahiro frantically looks for Misha but assumes the worst that she’s gone into the woods, night is about to fall so Tsubame volunteers to go find Misha.

And what’s this about a panda? Oh, yeah there’s a panda, or not really, I half-expected it to be Midorin in a panda suit but no it’s a legit panda. It’s mother however, is an aggressive brown bear that has its sights set on Misha until Tsubame comes to the rescue. And while Tsubame was fully intent on using a hunting knife and slay the bear and risk her life to protect Misha instead it’s a passionate monologue about how much Misha means to her that “convinces” the bear to back off.

Huh? Try not to think about it too much. It could be argued that Tsubame’s ~loud noises~ scared the bear off, or just the intimidating aura she naturally gives off but regardless it works. And so Misha is rescued, Yasahiro blames himself for not properly disciplining his daughter and then we get perhaps the sweetest, most wholesome scene in anime all year as Misha and Yasahiro are sleeping in separate futons, she mumbles something about being cold, and instinctively he worries that she’s caught a cold from being out in the woods all evening. Except it’s nothing so drastic, she was just cold and works her way into Yasahiro’s futon. He looks upon his daughter, for whom he wants nothing more than to protect and the two fall asleep together again knowing all is right in the world in this quiet moment.

You make it sound so sweet and wholesome. Because it is, I’d be surprised at this show’s sincerity if it hadn’t already made it abundantly clear in episode 2 that it was capable of it. I think I shed more tears during this episode then any other Fall 2018 anime episode (so far). So I mean kudos to this show for delivering the substantial and flawlessly executed pull on the ‘ol heartstrings!

Great episode, gotcha, so anything else you wanted to add? I didn’t realise this ‘til I was writing my review but the fact that a panda bear (who aren’t native to Japan) is palling around with a brown bear is like the bear version of Misha and Yasahiro, an adopted daughter living with a native of the country. A curiosity that is stared at like a zoo exhibit, alongside the norm. This show is a lot deeper and smarter than most people will ever give it credit for, but oh well, that’s why I’m reviewing it week-to-week after all! Great episode, wonderful even~ well worth sitting through those damned 3 episode of Midori mediocrity (I promise I’ll get over that soon)!

This episode had really great lighting too.

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Heavy Petting – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 9 Review

Heavy Petting – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 9

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 9.

So how’s this episode? The old UzaMaid is back! That’s right, after 3 episodes devoted to the masochistic Midori which amounted to very little and at its worst threatened to derail the series entirely we’re more or less back to the way the show was at its best!

Well someone’s excited… And with good reason too! I mean sure this isn’t the best episode but compared to the previous 3 it’s like a miracle!

Okay then, so what happens in the episode? Misha’s beloved pet weasel Kumagoro goes missing! (Or rather it escapes after overhearing that it’s about to pay a visit to the vet). And Misha is devastated, see she got the weasel soon after her mother died as a way to bring some happiness into her life—and that it did—so now understandably Misha is terrified about losing that and being alone again. So Tsubame gives Misha an honest but ultimately uplifting little talk that inspires the girl to call upon her friends in her time of need to help her find her beloved pet. Her classmate Washi helps with making posters, meanwhile Midori lends her ex-army dog to be used as a sniffer dog.

Wait, Midori’s still in the episode? I thought you said it was back to normal? She’s used sparingly, appearing on-screen for less than 2 minutes total—exactly how a one-joke character should be used. And guess what, she’s more enjoyable in small doses too!

Glad to hear it. Presumably they find the pet and everyone lives happily ever after? Well of course–this isn’t the kind of show to kill off a pet weasel for drama–but that’s beside the point. This was a heartfelt segment that also managed to be a lot of fun and had a lot of laughs throughout!

Baby Kumagoro is too adorable for words!

And the second segment? Not quite as fun, basically just the stuck-up fashionista Yui at school getting angry that everyone thinks Misha’s winter outfit is cuter and so she challenges her to a snowball fight (just go with it) and with the help of Tsubame offering tactical advice while dressed as a snowman (just go with it) Misha and Washi defeat Yui. It’s a harmless bit of fun, that’s a bit light on jokes but has its heart in the right place.

You sounded way more excited about this episode at the start of the review… just sayin’. Had we not had the 3 episode Midori arc, this would have been the weakest episode of the season but coming straight after that bit of misguided disappointment this episode feels a lot stronger than it actually is. Don’t get me wrong it’s still enjoyable and fun and with enough character development and ~feels~ to carry it on through, but it’s still not as good as this show at its best. Hopefully the ‘recovery’ continues into next week and we’re back on top form by then!

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Suite And Sour- ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 8 Review

Suite And Sour – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 8

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 8.

So how’s this episode? I’m… I’m almost at a loss for words how perplexing this shows’ recent episodes have been. Like, a part of me is like, “hey, this stuff is weird and unpredictable and unlike any other shows of its genre, that’s good right?”. But at the same time I’m also like, “what are you doing show?! Just go back to doing what you were doing in the first 3 or so episodes!”

I sense there’s a problem. Yah, and her name’s Midori. And she’s still a part of the main cast.

Ah… as I recall you liked her unexpected presence in episode 6, were growing sick of her shtick in 7 and now, in 8? I. Want. Her. Gone…

Yikes, that bad huh? Honestly, Midori is not a bad character… she’s a one-note character for sure, but as I said in my previous review than can work in certain circumstances, but here, with only two other characters to play off and one of them (Tsubame) being pretty one-note in herself, that doesn’t exactly make for the most compelling experience. Like if we had more with Misha’s father, and more of Misha’s friends involved in this episode it could work. But the first half of this episode is ostensibly a ‘bottle episode’ with the three of them in a fancy hotel and it’s occasionally amusing but mostly a drag as we repeat the same series of jokes over and over until I’m about ready to claw my eyes out.

I’ll probably regret asking this, but, why are you still watching then? Because this show was legitimately fun and fresh and striking. But now it’s like…

“It’s like”? Okay, I’m going to go in for a reference that’s going to show my age (and then some) but it’s like when the ‘Brady Bunch’ introduced cousin Oliver and we–as viewers–were all supposed to pretend like this kid wasn’t the most insufferable thing on television. They took a well-worn formula and crammed something in that was most assuredly unwanted. Except this time we’re not dealing with a multiple season show adding a single character to a 10+ character cast. We’re talking about an anime that half-way through a single season added a third main character to a show that previous had just two mains. This shouldn’t be as big of a deal and yet it is. And yet here I am for the second week complaining about Midori!

Sadly she wasn’t dead, just having a bloody nose from sleeping in a nice bed.

So what does this mean? Not a lot to be honest. I’m just hoping (in vain) that Midori becomes a side character pronto and can just pop her head in occasionally to make a silly joke about being a masochist and then go on about her day while the rest of the show goes on without her. But if, like I fear, Midori is here for good, what was one of my favourite shows of the Fall 2018 anime season will quickly be relegated to the “eh, it’s okay I guess” pile quick smart!

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Maid To Suffer – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 7 Review

Maid To Suffer – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 7

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 7.

So how’s this episode? Kind of, probably, not the best.

Way to sound certain, what do you mean? I mean I laughed the least out of any episode so far and it didn’t have the excuse of trying to play to the ~feels~ like Episode 2 had. But I mean, shows have their low points, even the most consistently funny show last season (Asobi Asobase) had an episode or two that couldn’t compare in the comedy department.

Uh-huh… I sense a “but” coming. But it’s totally Midori’s fault.

What, the new character they introduced last week? I thought you liked her? You seemed to have pretty positive things to say about her in the previous review. That was then, this is now. She’s just not that funny, I mean I’m all for one-note, one-joke characters, some of my favourite comedies have characters like that (Yuru Yuri springs immediately to mind) but the joke gets old fast. She’s a masochist–that’s the joke. And it keeps on going for nearly the whole… damn… episode. See the thing about one-joke characters is they’re fine if they’re amongst a big ensemble cast and only have a couple of things to do per episode, not when they’re trying to hold up a ~whole~ episode with only two other characters to play off.

This line maid me laugh out loud though!

Yikes. Sounds like this episode is pretty bad then… Even at its worst (let’s just hope this the worst) it’s not bad, its just painfully okay. And as repetitive as the humour is Midori does actually serve a narrative purpose beyond Misha realizing “this bad maid is worse than the other bad maid who is actually good”.

And what’s that? Well it comes late in the episode but Tsubame has returned to service at the household with Midori hanging around for a month because of a throw-away line about “labor laws”. Anyway, Tsubame is cleaning Misha’s room and mentions that she collects all the stray hairs from off her pillow because she’s collecting them so she can make a doll of Misha’s likeness to give to her as a gift. Midori exclaims how “creepy” that is, which doesn’t faze Tsubame until Midori goes the extra step to give an example of ~why~ it’s creepy. And so for the first time since Tsubame started working as a maid for Misha she reasesses her rampant lolicon a tiny bit… and well that’s kind of important. After all if the series is going to end up like I presume (with Tsubame being some sort of surrogate mother figure to allow Misha to move on with her life) then that’s how it’s going to happen.

And yet somehow this joke doesn’t get old for me.

I think… I think you put way too much thought into this weird show. Well someone has to!

‘Kay, so it’s a “painfully okay” episode, anything else to add? Oh! The animation is back to normal, no more Studio Deen-esque ~looseness~, not sure why Episode 6 was like that but hey it is what it is. Anyway, let’s just hope things get more or less back to “normal” next episode!

This is ~normal~ FYI. At least for this show…

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Crazy In Love – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 6 Review

Crazy In Love – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 6

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 6.

So how’s this episode? Something happened in this episode that I didn’t expect to happen.

Okay, what happens? They gave Tsubame a “love interest”.

Uh-huh, and I take it it’s an unconventional “love interest” given those quotation marks? Well yeah, it is this show we’re talking about after all. It’s her former first lieutenant in the JSDF—a woman named Midori and from the detailed backstory we’re afforded in this episode a completely delusional borderline stalker. It’s also a rather interesting decision to have all of Midori’s flashbacks (and there’s a lot–nearly 10 minutes worth) play more or less back to back in the middle of the episode cutting occasionally to Misha who’s ~reluctantly~ listening in. Misha’s sassy remarks to the strange woman’s increasingly more unhinged story is pure comedic gold!

Apparently the person writing the subtitles was ‘meme-ing’ here as that’s not what she says (so says Twitter anyway) but it was still funny.

So this new woman is a welcome addition to the cast? I don’t know if she’s here for good or just an arc but she’s teriffically enjoyable and adds a interesting dynamic to the show. Misha and Midori strike a deal and hatch a plan for Midori to be Misha’s maid instead in the hopes that will force Tsubame to quit–which benefits Misha as she’d no longer has to deal with the obsessive lolicon and (somehow) benefits Midori in that if Tsubame quits she’ll have no choice but to work for Midori as her maid(???). Why a 33 year old woman would need a maid is anyone’s guess but it’s best not to question the mind of a lunatic.

I’ve found that’s the best course of action… Very funny…

Midori back when she was in the JSDF. Nice.

Anything else about the episode you wanted to add? I don’t know if it was just me but the animation style felt different this week, a lot more loose–almost a bit Studio Deen at times, also some odd use of fish-eye lenses which seemed ~somewhat~ out of place? It didn’t detract (mostly because I like a looser art-style sometimes), and it didn’t feel like they’d run out of money or time or anything like that it felt like a deliberate stylistic choice. Just something I noticed.

It’s kinda Hitchock-ian in a way… I like it!

So overall thoughts on the episode? This episode could have absolutely sunk if Midori wasn’t an interesting character or the elongated series of flashbacks didn’t have Misha’s quips accompanying them. Maybe for some people it did sink–I think that’s largely dependent on how interesting they found this new character–whom I felt was very interesting and has added a new dynamic to the show. They also ~teased~ at Tsubame’s reason for leaving the military… the final flashback showing Tsubame leaving the military base deliberately didn’t show the top half of her face so I’m guessing it has something to do with losing her left eye. Either way this was probably my favourite episode since the first one and I look forward to more!

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Out Of The Running – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 5 Review

Out Of The Running – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 5

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 5.

So how’s this episode? After one or two teething problems in previous episodes (that may or may not have been just me not fully realising what this show’s intentions were) we’ve finally settled into a nice and familiar groove thematically without the experience feeling hackneyed or repetitive. In other words, it’s a great episode.

Cool, I guess. So what’s it about? Well it’s two stories, the first is about a new character–a classmate of Misha’s named Yui Morikawa who has worked herself up into believing the two of them are “rivals”. Not because of anything Misha has explicitly done to her, just out of the virtue of Misha being effortlessly cute and Yui taking umbrage with that because she works so hard to be cute herself. This one-sided rivalry comes to a head when Yui is walking up and down the streets of Harajuku in the hopes of being photographed for an Elementary School Fashion Magazine (which I don’t know if that’s actually a thing in Japan, but just go with it) when the very photographers she’s trying to court ask Misha instead to model for them–which she swiftly declines.

That’s gotta rile up the little fashionista? Indubitably. In fact Yui challenges Misha to a competition to see which of them is truly the cutest–to be officiated by Mimika (who was out shopping with Misha at the time) and of course Tsubame was lurking about and offers her worldly wisdom on all things cute to both girls throughout the course of the segment.

Don’t worry, nothing to see here, just a buff woman undressing an elementary schooler in a busy street.

And how is the segment? It’s slight but funny, Tsubame has some great moments to do with her various unsubtle costume changes, but it’s more about introducing Yui as a character and the dynamic she eventually has with Tsubame that being a sort of ‘apprentice/master’–which is nice, it’s good to see Tsubame forming connections with other characters.

And the second segment? It contains the more ~meaty~ material, and is therefore far more interesting and worthwhile. It’s the day of the sports carnival and expectantly Misha is bad at physical activities–what with her favourite past times including eating and playing video games! Tsubame and Misha’s father Yasuhiro have come along to cheer on their favourite little girl. After finishing last in her first race, her team is reliant on Yui to carry them to victory as she’s the athletic member of their class only she sprains her ankle (twice!) and is put out of commission. In her stead Yui wants her new ‘master’ Tsubame to compete and she does so–trouncing the competition. It’s not until Tsubame and Misha have to participate together in a 3-legged race does Tsubame realise not everything is about winning, especially for Misha who just wants to do her best; but at her own pace.

What makes this segment better then? Not only is it consistently funnier–the stuff with the black cat harassing Yui was hilarious–it also touches on the feels a little too. Little by little Tsubame is fixing this broken little girl and it’s a heartwarming joy to watch every single week–it’s just buoyed by the fact that the show has inappropriate lolicon humour by the bucket load too!

Previous UzaMaid! Reviews:

Weapons Grade Lolicon – Episode 1 Review
Maid Back Camp – Episode 2 Review
Breeding Like Hamsters – Episode 3 Review
Dresses Maid To Order – Episode 4 Review

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Dresses Maid To Order – ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 4 Review

Dresses Maid To Order – An Anime QandA Review of ‘UzaMaid!’ Episode 4

So what’s the show? UzaMaid! Episode 4.

So how’s this episode? I realised something after watching this particular episode—this show isn’t really about Tsubame our lolicon maid—it’s about Misha and her journey to overcoming all her various emotional baggage related to having lost her mother. Maybe I made that connection in my episode 2 review where I noted the show was getting more personal and introspective, but it’s clear the show is about Misha and not Tsubame.

And how do you feel about that? What do you mean?

Well as I recall you somewhat lamented the turn it took away from the perverted and towards the sincere? A part of the problem was I assumed this show was going to be ~about~ Tsubame just out of virtue of her being the adult and therefore the ~prominent~ character in the show. But I’ve since ‘adjusted’ my expectations as it were and I’m happy with the direction the show is taking.

‘kay. So what happens in this one? Well after some bath time shenanigans that are surprisingly safer than I expected them to be (apparently, I’m the pervert now for thinking things would get worse than they did!) Misha wastes her weekend playing video games—completely neglecting her homework assignment. Come late Sunday night she remembers she has it and freaks out, only for Tsubame to come to the rescue!

Oh yeah? Well she ~nudges~ Misha in the right direction and she delivers her presentation about where she sees herself in the future flawlessly! Afterward her classmate Mimika indirectly invites herself over to Misha’s place and Misha is delighted at the idea—until she remembers her lolicon maid waiting for at home!

Uh-oh… Once again the presumptions of what Tsubame will do a much worse in our heads than they are in the show. The worst Tsubame does is get Mimika to put on a cute dress—which she more than happily obliges as she’s too often at home relegated to a tomboy-ish role as she has two rough and dirty younger brothers. Plus she manages to overcome some self-confidence and body issues she has with her glasses and hair. Likewise Misha is delighted to have finally someone she can call a friend.

I love that every kid in this class is a unique character and not just a copy-pasted generic looking ‘head at a desk’.

Anything else you want to add? So it turns out Tsubame is somewhat wealthy due to her side business of making ‘doll’ dresses which she sells online and that nets her upwards of 500,000 yen a month (approximately $5000US)! It’s a small but important detail that helps explain a lot in the show, and you know what, I dig the continuity and world building of it all! Even if it is somewhat unnecessary it just adds to the rich tapestry that is ‘UzaMaid’!

Final thoughts on the episode? All in all it’s just a wonderful, wholesome and heart-warming episode of an anime I never thought I’d be using those adjectives—but I’m glad I am because it’s a better show for it!

Previous UzaMaid! Reviews:

Weapons Grade Lolicon – Episode 1 Review
Maid Back Camp – Episode 2 Review
Breeding Like Hamsters – Episode 3 Review

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