Whereas most anime of its nature would choose instead to play a teenager as some pseudo-adult ("my parents are conveniently away on a business trip, so, hey, I have this house and this maid lady all to myself"), Maid Dragon chooses instead to portray real adults with real issues. Kobayashi, the show's title character and languid protagonist, is a working adult rather than the conventional teenager. Modern anime has trained people to be cynical.īut to treat Maid Dragon as just another silly comedy with moe characters wouldn't be entirely fair, as there are a number of things it does quite differently. Everything that could possibly exist has, or inevitably will, receive some sort of series with cute girls indiscriminately slapped onto it. Maids plus dragons does not make for a very promising setting, nor does it seem like a combination that required much more than two or three seconds of thought. Some may immediately wince and groan upon reading the series' synopsis. Have I also mentioned that Tohru is cute as all hell? And it can even be a bit heartwarming when it tries, too. doesn't play around with drama, and it never centres on action and explosions despite its cast of malevolent dragons. It feels like something that might have been animated once upon a time in 2005, and that is precisely what makes it so special in the modern climate of harem and superpower.Īnd unlike many of their more recent titles, it knows what it wishes to be and never compromises its vision in a futile attempt to appease everyone and anyone. It is through flipping back the dial and returning to their roots that their newest title, Maid Dragon, is able to find its footing.
Kyoto Animation has been something of a lost soul, struggling to find its identity in a post-Haruhi and K-ON world.
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