Rescue Me!
れすきゅーME!
- Comedy
- Erotica
- Harem
- School
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 27 min
- Aired
- Jun 20, 2013
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Masayuki Mizutani expects a quiet stretch of freedom when his parents leave for a long business trip, but that plan collapses the moment he gets home. Waiting at the door is his classmate Sayaka Shimizu—dressed in little more than an apron—sent as a family friend to “look after” him while his parents are away, and she throws herself into the role with total commitment.
As other girls begin circling Masayuki and his suddenly unsupervised life, Sayaka becomes determined to keep him to herself, escalating her efforts into a possessive, risqué battle for his attention.
Otaku Consensus
Rescue Me! lands as a niche, unapologetically risqué harem OVA rather than a broadly liked comedy, reflected in its middling MAL 5.74 and AniList 52/100 reception. Its best asset is the compact pacing under Keiichirou Kawaguchi, which gets straight to the nudity-heavy school-harem payoff Hoods Entertainment was selling, while the recurring criticism is that a single episode leaves the cast and romantic rivalry feeling more like a setup than a complete story.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Rescue Me! if you want a short, high-concentration harem OVA without the commitment of a full TV season. It scratches the same instant-gratification itch as the lewder detours of To Love-Ru or early-2010s ecchi school comedies, but trims away tournament arcs, supernatural lore, and long-term relationship drama in favor of one episode built around jealousy, suggestive staging, and escalating female attention. Hoods Entertainment’s production keeps the focus on character design, skinship comedy, and quick timing rather than worldbuilding. It is best suited to viewers who collect compact ecchi curios, want something from the 2013 OVA boom, or prefer harem setups that treat subtlety as optional.
Key Characters
- MMasayuki Mizutani
Masayuki functions as the classic reactive harem lead, interesting less for assertiveness than for how efficiently the OVA uses his unsupervised situation to trigger every competing-girl gag.
- SSayaka Shimizu
Sayaka is the memorable draw: a classmate whose domestic-helper role turns possessive fast, making her the character most closely tied to the OVA’s maid, nudity, and jealousy appeal.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Rescue Me! is a one-episode finished OVA that aired on June 20, 2013, so its structure is closer to a concentrated ecchi showcase than a serialized harem comedy with gradual escalation.
- 2
Hoods Entertainment handles the animation, placing the title in the studio’s catalog of late-night and OVA productions that lean into fanservice-forward character staging.
- 3
Keiichirou Kawaguchi is credited as both director and sound director, an unusual dual role that gives the episode’s comic timing and audio cues a single supervising hand.
- 4
AniList’s highest tags are Female Harem, Nudity, and School at 79% each, accurately marking the OVA as a genre-targeted package rather than a romance-first or slice-of-life-first title.
- 5
The visual pipeline is clearly divided among Satoshi Isono on character design, Yutaka Mukumoto as art director, Haruko Nobori on color design, and Yuuichirou Tozawa as director of photography.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime is credited to Yoshiharu Makita as original creator, with Yuu Satou handling the script for the OVA version.
- Fun fact 2
- Keiichirou Kawaguchi’s credits on Rescue Me! cover both direction and sound direction, while Yasumasa Koyama is separately credited for sound effects.
- Fun fact 3
- The music credit goes to Yoshida Shigerou, giving the one-episode OVA a dedicated composer rather than relying on a minimal uncredited music package.
- Fun fact 4
- Despite its low-profile footprint, Rescue Me! has over 16,000 MAL votes and sits around MAL popularity rank #4179, indicating a small but measurable afterlife among ecchi OVA catalog viewers.
- Fun fact 5
- AniList lists only 40 favourites for the title, reinforcing its status as a niche curiosity rather than a widely championed harem staple.
Studios
- Hoods Entertainment
