Anime - Akiba Maid War (2022) [+]
May 17 2023
Akiba Maid War is a 12-episode half hour anime series set in the Japanese city of Akihabara in 1999. Nagomi Wahira (Reina Kondō) arrives in the big city to start her new job as at Oinky Donk Maid Cafe, which turns out to be the lowest tier maid cafe in the city. She and the other new girl Ranko Mannen (Rina Satō), though a 35-year old new maid trainee, are sent to another cafe to deliver a message. A message which happens to be an insult and a firefight erupts wherein Ranko manages to kill all the maids of the rival cafe.
This is an alt-universe where there are lots of different themed maid cafes and they're all competing in an organized crime fashion (not really vices though other than gambling; the maid cafes do the normal maid cafe activities though I wouldn't know what those are exactly). There are two main organizations, one based on animals and one based on space aliens, and the cafes are themed along those lines so Oinky Donk is pig-themed and the top tier cafe is lion themed.
Nagomi finds herself in the last place maid cafe in the animals org. Yumechi (Minami Tanaka) is the main moneymaker, Shiipon (Tomoyo Kurosawa) is a tanned blonde maid who plays at being a bit happy and ditsy, Zoya (Jenya) is a maid from Russia that arrives later (interesting that the intro doesn't change it's just that the first few intros scratch out her face so you don't know who the mystery maid is). Yasuko Yaegashi (Ayahi Takagaki) is the manager and owner, often tired and depressed and sometimes manic and gunho.
The story is mainly about Nagomi trying to be the best maid she can be and trying to make her coworkers the best that they can be and to do it all non-violently. Especially later on when the cafe is up against the aliens and later their own org Nagomi tries to resolve matters peacefully. Meanwhile Ranko is old-school maid (and she has a lot of backstory revealed throughout the series) who is much more willing to follow violence with violence and she's very good at the violence.
I like concept and cute girls + violence themes. The conflict ramps up and up throughout the season and the story comes to a satisfying conclusion with a few tears along the way. This is a story that doesn't need continuing though another story set in the same universe with a new set of characters would be fine.
This is an alt-universe where there are lots of different themed maid cafes and they're all competing in an organized crime fashion (not really vices though other than gambling; the maid cafes do the normal maid cafe activities though I wouldn't know what those are exactly). There are two main organizations, one based on animals and one based on space aliens, and the cafes are themed along those lines so Oinky Donk is pig-themed and the top tier cafe is lion themed.
Nagomi finds herself in the last place maid cafe in the animals org. Yumechi (Minami Tanaka) is the main moneymaker, Shiipon (Tomoyo Kurosawa) is a tanned blonde maid who plays at being a bit happy and ditsy, Zoya (Jenya) is a maid from Russia that arrives later (interesting that the intro doesn't change it's just that the first few intros scratch out her face so you don't know who the mystery maid is). Yasuko Yaegashi (Ayahi Takagaki) is the manager and owner, often tired and depressed and sometimes manic and gunho.
The story is mainly about Nagomi trying to be the best maid she can be and trying to make her coworkers the best that they can be and to do it all non-violently. Especially later on when the cafe is up against the aliens and later their own org Nagomi tries to resolve matters peacefully. Meanwhile Ranko is old-school maid (and she has a lot of backstory revealed throughout the series) who is much more willing to follow violence with violence and she's very good at the violence.
I like concept and cute girls + violence themes. The conflict ramps up and up throughout the season and the story comes to a satisfying conclusion with a few tears along the way. This is a story that doesn't need continuing though another story set in the same universe with a new set of characters would be fine.