Mahoromatic

Synopsis:

Mahoro is a battle android, she is extremely powerful and fast but being revered as the greatest fighting machine ever created has it's price... she has a rather short life span of only a few years. As our story opens we see Mahoro being given a choice from her superiors, retire with a remaining life span of 398 days or continue to fight which will shorten her life span to just 30 days. With an old debt to repay Mahoro retires and heads to Earth to look after Suguru Misato a junior high student whose father happened to be Mahoro's commander that she was forced to kill during an alien terrorist attack. Unbeknownst to Suguru that his father was even a space commander, he hires Maharo as a maid to take care of him since living on his own has started to take it's toll.


Reviewer: Endosanity
Number of episodes watched: 26


Review:

What we have here is a potentially great premise for an over the top hilarious series, but as it turns out it's only average at best... and that's giving more credit than it's due. What this anime wants to do is combine two types of story telling of comedy and dramatic sci-fi and in the end it's shoving way too many story elements in your face and tries to give you closure in a very short period of time. The series could have worked better had only one path been followed but instead it feels like the show goofs off with showing you things like Mahoro cleaning the house, a school festival, Suguru hiding his porn collection, and then towards the end... a near death android battle which, while cool, was out of place with the rest of the events in the season. It doesn't help that all the characters except for Mahoro and Suguru that go with this plot are easily forgettable and you probably won't even remember their names during the show nor will you care. Even the relationship between Mahoro and Suguru seemed to be stuck in neutral until the very end where the series tries to wrap that all up with one episode which only felt like it was taking the easy way out before rolling the credits.

With primitive animation and it's lazy plot that has you going through the motions and then tries to tie all it's loose ends within the last two episodes of the second season, Mahoromatic isn't one I'd recommend all that much. Granted the show does have it's moments but the heavy sci-fi undertone could have been dropped altogether to make this a fun series... but instead, all it does is dig plot holes leaving one of the worst told final episodes I have seen to date. Although semi-enjoyable, by passing on this series you're not missing much.

A tribute to Mahoromatic

Recommendation: |Below Average|

Media type: DVD
From: Hentai Filmworks (Hm? What's that? Whoops, my bad...) I meant Sentai Filmworks
Spoken languages: English;Japanese
Subtitles: English