Akiba Maid War

[Alchemist007]

Yakuza sure are silly; crank up the sentiment to anime levels.

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Latest promo video, maid gone fishing

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[Faux Mecha]

Originally Posted by Alchemist007

Yakuza sure are silly; crank up the sentiment to anime levels.

there's this news that two Yakuza groups getting into a brawl that involves like a hundred of them in a fancy restaurant in Tokyo that wrecked the restaurant but only one of them gets hurt from said big brawl, that is cartoon y as heck.

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Ep9 preview

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[EroKing]

[grecefar]

pigs can stand above the rest too!

now it's against the final boss. I thinking ranko is going to die or fakes her death and goes away with the guy who is into her.

[patnam]

hope Nagomi don't end up like Beat Kitano's yakuza death style...

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[Dop]

I really want them to do an OVA about how Japan's first maid Omoe enamourned the people of Meiji era Akiha-no-hara with violence and moe.

[Alchemist007]

Pigs winning it all. Gunshot and still image for that guy was pretty funny .

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EP10 preview & latest promo (which has absolutely nothing to do with episode 10, content wise!)

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'o' them Panda

Spoiler:

the identity of Okachimachi has been revealed! and make sure to watch the post ED scenes!!! Interesting thing is, if you miss the last scences, the overall story still works, but you will view characters in a different way.

What can I say, happiness and maids don't mix ;_;
Up until now, in my opinion, this is a really well written show, despite being inspired by other media and some animation/art mistakes.

[grecefar]

This was sad, I almost got it that ranko could've run away with him.

Panda indetity was revealed, her story and suehiro story too. Quite the chapter and a really good one.

The bad thing about this is that ranko most likely will die against nagi.

[kuroyanagi]

Me & Akiba Maid War started out on the wrong foot with the Tarantino-esque overdone violence in the beginning, but I'm sure glad I stuck it out; this episode was the best yet (though the baseball one is a close second). Just a short & sweet vignette taken straight out of yakuza V-cinema, with opaque characters intertwining and murky pasts inevitably rearing their ugly head. I would gladly watch a few more character-focused standalones like this.

And the incongruity of Nagomi thinking this is some sort of AKB48 "no dating allowed!" forced graduation situation was hilarious.

[Dextro]

Originally Posted by Sides

'o' them Panda

Spoiler:

the identity of Okachimachi has been revealed! and make sure to watch the post ED scenes!!! Interesting thing is, if you miss the last scences, the overall story still works, but you will view characters in a different way.

What can I say, happiness and maids don't mix ;_;
Up until now, in my opinion, this is a really well written show, despite being inspired by other media and some animation/art mistakes.

Honestly, I could do without that final scene. It would leave the question up in the air instead of flat out telling us.

Spoiler for ep 10 post credits scene:

I actually had already suspected that he would betray his contract and really wanted to stay with Ranko. He had plenty of opportunities to do the deed during their outing yet he didn't. But, most importantly, it's thematically coherent for it to happen this way.

This show is heavily inspired by Yakuza films and classical Gangster movies and, in those, things never go right for those who get into the life. Falling in love is always portrayed as a tragic endeavor that ends up with someone being killed, usually the girl. Since Akiba Maid War is basically a gender flipped version of those stories, it makes sense that the "girl" would be Ranko's master.

"Okachimachi" being doubly tragic by killing her would be killer just when said killer was about to break with tradition and redeem himself is just yet another layer on the classic tragedy used for these kinds of stories.

Overall what I want to say is that, if you are genre savvy enough, you can deduct these plot points quite consistently. Which also means that Ranko is probably on a path to die taking out Nagi though I'm not 100% sure of that one cause Nagomi kind of breaks the mold here.

You see, Nagomi is not a typical character in Gangster/Yakuza movies. She is more typical of an Anime story and in those the genki main character ends up breaking the cycle of whatever negative thing is happening. This runs counter to the typical Gangster movie where the deluded innocent character gets destroyed by the world he gets dragged into (either willingly or accidentally). I have a feeling PA Works isn't going for a tragic ending here so it's possible that Nagomi will find a way of making Ranko live by giving her motivation to do so.

[Nachtwandler]

I already hate Nagi, but now I hate panda too. Was it Mamiko Noto voicing her or just someone with similar voice?

UPD: Nevermind, it was Aya Hirano. Talk about surprises.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

I already hate Nagi, but now I hate panda too. Was it Mamiko Noto voicing her or just someone with similar voice?

UPD: Nevermind, it was Aya Hirano. Talk about surprises.

How did they talk her into doing this ?

[Alchemist007]

While one could feel sorry for Ranko, I found the development with the assassin man lacking to have any sympathy for him, especially after they showed him doing killings from the past. Using panda girl as a vehicle was just comeuppance, though I guess she was also feeling either bittersweet or empty afterwards. More of a tragedy for her not being able to escape the cycle despite actually surviving her own assassination years ago.

Looking forward to seeing how this resolves with the leader of Creatureland.

[Tactics]

Man, kudos to Junichi Suwabe who gave it all for this one episode. You can hear he took it seriously, not letting any second wasted.

For a series based on gangster movie, I like that they setup good amount of reason to dislike Nagi.
She on the way to demolish Tontokoton, killed anyone who made her looks bad, senpai to Ranko while also the one issued order to assassinate Ranko parent figure, now revealed she's also responsible to Okachimachi trauma that made her spent her life as a panda.

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EP11 Preview and latest promo

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[stray]

Yeah that... seemed a bit too tidy for an episode of this show to wrap up... Ranko was too good, too pure for this world.