Maid-sama features nearly 30 supporting characters and they take way too much from the ones that are actually important. The main reason for this is that there are just way too many of them. As much as I enjoyed the leads, I found the rest of the cast to be uninspired and lacking substance.
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The supporting cast really brings down this series though. Especially frustrating considering the amount of time that was given to Misaki's childhood friend Shintani who basically only appeared in 4 episodes. Like Misaki, his past remains as much of a mystery at the end as it was at the beginning. You can tell he is immediately smitten with Misaki from the start and he uses this droll personality of his to push her buttons and amuse himself while at the same time bring her closer to him. However it is pretty quickly apparent he isn't your typical leading man. Aloof, privileged, and apparently great at everything he tries he is precisely the kind of ideal man that makes shoujo romances so unbelievable. Usui on the other hand initially comes off as the kind of love interest I hate. When you consider how fanatical she is at school about keeping things clean and orderly the very idea that she wouldn't do the same at home is totally implausible. Like poor people can’t keep a clean house? Besides this is completely out of character for someone as meticulous as Misaki. Walls have paint peeling off them, the floor has holes in it, and their are spider webs and other cliches. The inside of the house is crumbling and dirty. I thought the way they portrayed her family was kind of offensive. An aside to Misaki's family poverty though. Other than learning her father had walked out on her mother and sister, leaving enormous debts and apparently they are also really poor. Shockingly we really don't find out all that much about her with the exception of some flashbacks of when she was a little girl (which in actuality weren't even about her). However she is a bit of your stereotypical tsundere, but it's easy to root for her. She is quite funny walking the line between her dictator president and her submissive maid persona's. 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.
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 he is so poorly conceived and much too late to the party to have any real significance. When things do finally start to get interesting between our couple, not unexpectedly a rival appears. Even though they are mostly funny it gets tiring when you realize that nothing significant is ever happening. Basically what we get is a series of loosely connected stories with the same underlying theme. 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. But no amount of jokes can hide the fact that it doesn’t have any kind of story what so ever. The series' comedy is really quite good most of the time. Maid-sama at its best is extremely funny and enjoyable to watch. 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. Relationship development slows to a crawl and nothing of significance happens after the first third of the series until its end. But the typical problems that plague shoujo romances soon follow.
The romantic chemistry between the two characters is quite good and builds very quickly early on. 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. Thankfully the answer is no but what does follow, at least initially is a pretty fun and entertaining back and forth repartee between Misaki and Usui. Of course this means that the ultimate alpha male at the school, Usui Takumi, will find out about her secret. 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. She is strict and violent in protection of the female students and in making it a place friendlier to girls. Misaki Ayuzawa is the newly elected student council president at a mostly male high school. The premise behind Maid-sama has an initially interesting hook. Despite the series' fabulous artwork and a lot of great comedy, it is unfortunately a bit of a disappointment.
Last year had featured a pretty good run of romance anime and this looked poised to continue that run. I had read a little of the manga and always found it to be funny. 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.
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