Maid Sama! poster

Maid Sama! (2010)

Series · 25m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Animation, Anime, Comedy, Foreign (non-English)

A strict student council president secretly works at a maid cafe, creating wholesome, heartwarming romantic comedy.

Wholesome humor. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.

Streaming on Hulu.

Maid Sama! parents guide

No surprises for a TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.

Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.

Scare
Not scary
Jump scares
None noted
Gore
No gore
Violence
No real violence
Sex and nudity
Mild
Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

What is Maid Sama! about?

Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret, she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the popular A-student and notorious heart breaker Takumi Usui finds out her secret and makes a deal with her to keep it hush from the school in exchange for spending some time with him.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

Yes. It lands on a happy note.

Cast and crew

StarringAyumi Fujimura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kazuyoshi Shiibashi, Kana Hanazawa, Yu Kobayashi, Kenichi Suzumura

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