Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii My Recently Hired Maid is Suspicious 最近雇ったメイドが怪しい The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious
Synopsis
The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious is about The maid Lilith, hired to look after young Yuuri and his family’s mansion, seems highly suspicious: she is too good to be true. Every dish she serves turns out to be delicious, the whole residence sparkles after she cleans it, and all the clothing has given off a pleasant scent since she started doing the laundry. Furthermore, her devilishly beautiful eyes only serve to heighten Yuuri’s suspicions. Is Lilith perhaps a witch or a sorcerer? Yuuri cannot figure it out.
But despite his misgivings, Yuuri has to live with Lilith as he tries to unravel the mystery behind her otherworldly charm.
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Review
This show is the epitome of knowing everything that has been done with the genre, yet making an almost inferior version of it because the creative juices have all but been squeezed out to nothingness. And in case you didn’t know, this Summer’s Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii a.k.a The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious is the 2nd anime adaptation of mangaka Wakame Konbu’s works, the 1st of which was last Summer’s 2-cour, 20-episode long Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! a.k.a The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, which was enjoyable to a certain degree with its comedy and whatnot. Sadly though, what this show offers to us is nothing more than just endless, pandering bait of the tropes done before, but un-“sus”-piciously worse in every aspect.
The “teasing” sub-genre has seen its many fair share of really good ones, the likes of Souichirou Yamamoto with the Takagi-san franchise and the same season’s Soredemo Ayumu (which is just a character swap), and the one that this show will be most compared to: mangaka Koharu Inoue’s Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid a.k.a The Duke of Death and His Maid. But there is a fine line to draw where the teasing goes way above and beyond to the point of being extreme, and unfortunately for Wakame Konbu, he did what the formula has been long orchestrated before for years, only for the audience to be more pissed off at it.
So, let’s be real: Yuuri, the young boy that survived a horrific car accident that left both of his parents dead and him being home alone, he is a tough nut to crack being one that is bullied and left to his own devices to sort out his own feelings. It’s hard having to micro-manage both the servant and the mansion that he can only call home, that’s his safe haven…that is until this mysteriously beautiful, dark-skinned maid called Lilith enters his life, seemingly having a connection with his parents and taking it upon herself to take care of the young master. And the running gag is that the young master finds the maid incredibly “sus” (because that’s a thing) due to her behavioural actions and intimidations of the rom-com between a child and an adult. Like, I get it when this is done in Shinigami Bocchan where both Bocchan and Alice are of the same age, and are acquainted well enough to make their teasing game more entertaining and comical. But in the case of Saikin Maid, all I see are just subpar cringefest gags of Lilith having to constantly run her mouth towards Yuuri and tease him romantically to no end, engaging the “will they, won’t they” rhetoric. Like, would you believe it if this was done in real life? That would be called blasphemy, and a cardinal sin, even if this is all “make believe” fashion. Also, Yuuri is just plain dense, that’s all. Nuff said, unless the point needs to be emphasized that he really doesn’t know what’s going on, and always plays second fiddle to Lilith until he understands the point, only to follow up on her gag.
The other supporting characters are nothing like what I remember from Jahy-sama when it comes to the traits, they seemed like two exact complete polar opposites from one another. You have Yuuri’s classmate and close contact Tsukasa Gojouin with her butler Fujisaki, and believe it or not, their role in this show is just meant to belittle the fact that this show has neither style nor substance, and are only created to show the affiliations to both Yuuri and Lilith in the most “bearable” of terms possible. Take Gojouin for example: she is an “advocate” for the forbidden relationship between the two leads that stems from her being a fan of romance manga and novels, she’s the “thirsty sister” that just wants to imagine where the wild things are with the master-maid relationship. Thank God there’s Fujisaki to stop her, and out of everyone, she’s the most calm and collected character of the bunch keeping Gojouin in constant check. Fujisaki’s the “gatekeeper” of anything and everything, so I’m glad that her character exists to bond the rest of the cast together in some form and function as the only sane person in the lot.
Unsurprisingly, it’s Silver Link back at it again with subpar in-house director Mirai Minato on his 2nd rondo with this show after Jahy-sama. At least I would admit that Jahy-sama is supposed to be paid more attention to detail given its 20-episode runtime, and since recently there has been more of the studio’s collab work with another minor studio Blade, I can’t really tell if they ever improved the line work to begin with, or could it be that Silver Link has consistently produced good and bad shows in a never-ending cycle. At the very least, it seems that this show is used to train a relatively new director (Misuzu Hoshino) under Mirai Minato’s tutelage, but as we all know that quantity does not equal to quality, and this one is just a pure bad pass wth the bare minimums of actually getting the job done. It’s the same story with the OST, it’s very forgettable and there’s nothing noteworthy to be talked about.
Just like Shinigami Bocchan, Saikin Maid has its wholesome moments, but to the extent of getting towards its objective is one that cannot be displaced, for where the destination lies is how the journey to get there is done, and this has already brought in mixed comments when it comes to author Wakame Konbu’s way of expression in this show. It’s definitely way different from what I was expecting to be: a Shinigami Bocchan version of Jahy-sama, only except that the charm wears off faster than it could remain, with the majority finding this to be pure bad and the minority enjoying for what it truly is.
I can only draw the line in the middle like Humpty Dumpty, not knowing where the egg will fall in this one, though the reckoning that it’ll lean more towards the bad side. It’s just mediocre, that’s all.
