Ever heard of Kaoru Mori ? She a Japanese mangaka who is famous for Emma, a manga about a maid who’s in love with a member of the gentry. The awesome thing about this manga is that the artwork, the portrayal of London in 1985  and most importantly; the maids . I’ll be honestly, before I read Emma, maids must be cute, clumsy and fanservice for me. You know, the normal stereotypical maids in anime, who wear a maid outfit practically just for fashion or show, but acting cute and moe without doing actual housework.

Maids who are actually maids.

However, upon reading Emma, I began to have a change in that perception of that. Maids in Kaoru Mori’s world are portray in a realistic way, but she’s able to make it enjoyable and fun to watch / read. Most of anime maids took the fashion references from French Maids, but for Kaoru she focuses on English maids who actually does her job as a maid. Okay, she doesn’t show everything a maid does because that would be boring, but at least the maid in her story ACTS like a maid.

Generic maids in anime I.

Ever since then, I began to despise characters or story who have characters who are maids but just for fanservice sake. This series is one of the examples. Yoshitaka the main character let’s the girls wear these kind of outfits because he likes it.

Yeah, I know these certainly catches people attention...

...but these are not maids.

I mean, maid outfits have been abuse lately in my opinion. Any girl can just snag a maid outfit, put it on and call it cosplay as a maid. I mean, even in anime / manga sometimes characters will wear maid outfits, for fanservice sake.

But what about this one ?

…Okay I admit, sometimes I make some exceptions whenever I see my favorite character wearing a maid outfit. *shoots self.*

Generic maids in anime II

Generic maids in anime III

*Ahem* Anyway, most people don’t really realize that wearing outfit of a maid actually its a huge responsibility, because a maid is a worker who does work, not just for the sake of acting cute and blushing, stalking it’s owner ( or you anime fans prefer to call it ‘Master’ ) or clumsy falling down and showing off their panties ( real maids wear bloomers ). Of course most important not just for the sake of saying ‘Welcome home goshujinsama’ ! while wearing “cute” cat ears ( honestly, I have no idea whats the appeal of cat ears, really. )

Yeah Maria, you tell'em !

A maid job basically depends on which household she’s admitted too, but the one that everyone knows is the household maintenance, include cooking, doing laundry and ironing, food shopping and other household errands.

While surfing, I happen to stumble upon a comic strip about maids, which apparently was drawn by Kaoru Mori herself !

Yesh, I hate stalkers type and doing no work.

LOL at case 2, hard.

Double LOL at case 5.

Awww, that's a sweet ending heh.

Yeah, I would bury that maid deep in the ocean.

Seriously, who wouldn't freak out if someone suddenly comes to your door and pull this ?

Jokes aside, these are exactly the kind of maids I hate now ! I wish there were many kinds of maids manga which are fun and enjoyable like Emma.

Yup, maids are awesome.

Despite all my rant, I’ll always have a soft spot for characters who are maids, mainly because; like Shirou said; Maids are awesome.

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