In his own words, Hitoyoshi Yokoya is an average sophomore high school student. He has had the house to himself for a while now, which has resulted in a large buildup of trash inside. It wouldn’t be an inopportune time for a maid to offer her services, and guess what? That’s precisely what happens. But when he starts talking with her, he quickly finds out she is not an ordinary housekeeper. The maid in question is exceptionally skilled in an area you wouldn’t expect for someone in her field: assassination. That’s a nice bonus, I guess? But Hitoyoshi really just needs someone to clean the house. Unfortunately, that happens to be the one thing she’s not good at. Hitoyoshi is patient with her, though, and they manage to have a pleasant dinner together. She might not be the ideal maid, but Hitoyoshi thoroughly enjoys her company, which means she has found her new home.

I usually appreciate it when the first episode of an anime only features two characters, giving us time to get to know the main characters. The problem is that there is little to learn about these characters because neither has much of a personality. It seems like the writers have consciously decided to make the characters one-dimensional, because the main character calls himself average while the maid is quite literally nameless. There is definitely a market for anime about characters like Ms. Maid, who have to learn basic things and grow to find joy in them, but I think other series go about it in a much more interesting way. I find it difficult to recommend the series to anyone, because the elements other than the writing are not special either. I had no problems with the art, animation, and voice acting, but they can’t carry weak writing. I won’t be tuning in for episode two.

You Are Ms. Servant is streaming on Crunchyroll.