Story (2/10):
Ok I admit that the concept is not so bad and that with a good execution and characters this could have been a very good anime, but unfortunately this is not the case, and the plot is more on the side of the slice of life and the comedy. Ok this is not something so terrible either, if the characters are charismatic enough and the jokes are witty we could have even a decent comedy, but again this is not the case, since this anime not only has a cancer comedy with annoying characters but also wants to take himself seriously from time to time going to a more dramatic side where totally fails because this is handled in an incompetent way with also constant changes of tone that make me not take this anime seriously for even two seconds.
It shows at first how this anime was made without a planning work, many times it is not understood what the hell this anime intends to do, as I said it seems that sometimes this anime wants to be a slice of life comedy, sometimes a drama and even a fighting anime, this is not so bad and if you execute it well, you will have things like "Brigadoon Marin to Melan" but I emphasize, UNFORTUNATELY NOT THE DAMN CASE.
And I still don't even talk about the number of cliches in this anime, have you seen the final battle? Everything there is super cliche, the protagonist riding a bike desperate to want to save the Mahoro while she uses a super powerful weapon to try to defeat the antagonist but he survives without a scratch (I did not expect it at all! (notice the irony)) later it seems that Mahoro is going to be defeated but the antagonist instead of killing her insists that she fight with all her might (incredible that I wasn't expecting either! (notice the irony x2) they fight for a while and just when Mahoro is going to be defeated Again the Protagonist arrives to save her in the least cliche way in history! (notice the irony x3) he places himself in front of her trying to stop the antagonist and he hits him thus unleashing Goku's fury ..... sorry I got confused , thus unleashing the fury of Mahoro which is going to use a weapon that will end his life (incredible that I did not expect, I am so tense about the unexpected end that this wonderful anime may have (notice the irony x8948423)) and you know what it is that end? the antagonist giving up and Mahoro stopping her attack, and as if nothing had happened everything returns to the status quo with everyone happy. This is easy one of the worst endings I've ever seen in my fucking life.
Mother of beautiful love how can it be that Gainax did this thing.
Art and sound (4/10 and 5/10):
The animation is not so bad Gainax always knows how to take advantage of the lowest budgets, even so this does not mean that the animation has a lot of defects, leaving the animation aside I did not like the designs of the characters, they are very generic, they are too forgettable, I don't like them one bit. In the sound section I think that the voices are quite good and the music is quite generic, I only remember the ending because it made me a bit fun.
Character (1/10):
The characters are terrible starting with Mahoro: First, she does not feel like a robot, whore where you saw an android with such feelings, she doubted about killing the commander instead of immediately following his orders (as she should be) and this it's just one example of why Mahoro doesn't function as a character.
Suguru: Suguru is your typical empowering fantasy protagonist, he has many women and friends who love him, he's smart, and he has an android maid. "But Suguru also has a lot of problems" some will say, and even if that's true, the anime hardly emphasizes that a bit.
Slash: Mahoro's pet is a plot device with legs, it does not acquire any exploration or development, it only serves the plot when it needs it.
Shikijou sensei: Easily the worst character in anime and the reason why I can't take a fucking second of this anime seriously, instead of making me laugh, it makes me feel uncomfortable. If she had been a character that appears every so often I would forgive him but she is all the fucking time bothering.
Ryuuga: He's your typical one-dimensional antagonist with shitty goals and motivations (and he's still one of the best characters in this anime because at least he gets a reflection at the end) nothing more to say.
The rest of the supporting characters don't get any development or introspection either. They are characterized by only one thing and they are not even so in some cases. The only one who is saved from there is Miyuki but everything that was done with her is left in the middle.
And we don't even talk about characters that are still more secondary like the thugs who steal the bus at the beginning of the series because they are so archetypal and cliche that they make me laugh.
Enjoyment (1/10):
In terms of enjoyment this is definitely one of the most boring anime I've ever seen along with "Someday Dreamers" and "Gundam 0083". So staying on my list of "anime to cure insomnia" I am not lying when I say that I fell asleep about 7 times watching this anime. I would talk about the reasons why this anime is so boring but it is something that I already said in the other sections and I do not like to say redundancies.
In conclusion, if you can't sleep, Mahoromatic is the solution.
Overall (2/10):
Mahoromatic is one of the worst anime I've seen in my life, I'm very disappointed that Gainax did something so terrible, this is an anime that I don't recommend even to my worst enemies.
It's boring, cliche, pretentious, stupid, offensive, and all the worst in anime.
Maybe later I will watch and review the second season although I don't think I should if I want to keep my sanity.
With all this said I say goodbye. See you next time!
