Maken-Ki! Two Specials

Name: Maken-Ki! Two Specials
Genre: Ecchi
Released: 2014-03-28

マケン姫っ！通Ｐ～私事

6.2(11,771)

MAL Score

Ranked #9676

Popularity #4777

Ecchi
Harem
School
Super Power

Episodes: 5
Duration: 4 min per ep
Aired: Mar 28, 2014 to Jul 25, 2014
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

*Maken-Ki! Two Specials* collects bonus episodes produced for the Blu-ray and DVD release of *Maken-Ki! Two*.

These extras offer additional ecchi-leaning side content that complements the main season outside its regular broadcast run.

Otaku Consensus

Maken-Ki! Two Specials earns its niche by cutting the franchise down to five-minute, disc-extra skits where Xebec’s bold colors, curvy character designs, and quick fanservice timing matter more than serialized momentum. The strongest material is the format itself: Haruko’s morning fantasy, Inaho’s cat-ear gag, and Aki-centered voyeur humor play better as concentrated bonus vignettes than as full-length episodes. The persistent criticism is equally clear: anyone looking for story progression, character development, or restraint will find the specials even thinner and more ecchi-forward than the already divisive TV series.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Maken-Ki! Two Specials if you want the franchise at its most distilled: no tournament bookkeeping, no dramatic reset, just five short Blu-ray/DVD bonuses built for character-specific ecchi payoffs. It scratches the same itch as To Love-Ru bonus episodes or the lighter side of High School DxD, but with less mythology and a stronger “physical-media extra” flavor. The ideal viewer is someone who already likes Haruko, Inaho, Aki, and the school-superpower harem setup, and wants extra bits that would never need to justify themselves in a broadcast episode. Xebec’s presentation gives the shorts more polish than throwaway omake material: bright color work, varied body-language comedy, and action beats that reviewers singled out as translating well on Blu-ray.

Key Characters

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Haruko Amaya(VA: Noriko Shitaya)
Haruko gets one of the most memorable special-only bits, with her morning routine turned into a direct showcase for the franchise’s crush-fantasy comedy.
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Inaho Kushiya(VA: Iori Nomizu)
Inaho’s cat-tail-and-ears scene with Monji is the kind of hyper-specific fanservice gag these disc extras were designed to preserve.
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Aki Nijou(VA: Hitomi Harada)
Aki remains one of the specials’ prime adult-fanservice magnets, even becoming the subject of an in-universe student fantasy.
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Kodama Himegami(VA: Sayuri Yahagi)
Kodama’s inclusion keeps the specials tied to the main ensemble rather than functioning as anonymous bonus comedy.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The release is structurally unusual even by OVA standards: five roughly five-minute specials issued only with the Blu-ray/DVD run of Maken-Ki! Two between March 28 and July 25, 2014.
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Xebec’s visual approach is a major part of the appeal, with the Blu-ray review highlighting fantastic colors, bold presentation, and enough background and character-design detail to keep the shorts visually punchy.
3
The specials lean into never-before-seen character skits rather than plot continuation, including Haruko fantasizing during her morning routine, Inaho temporarily receiving cat ears and a tail, and an unnamed student fantasizing about Aki.
4
Reviewers who were cool on the franchise’s story often found the extras easier to take because the five-minute pacing removes the need for sustained narrative stakes.
5
The Complete Collection Blu-ray review singled out the soundstage as especially effective when the material shifts into action, giving the brief super-power beats more weight than their runtime suggests.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The Japanese listing cited for these bonuses is Maken-ki! Two Specials, also written as マケン姫っ！通Ｐ～私事 in the research source.
Fun fact 2: The specials were released after the second season and were tied to the physical-media campaign, with the same source noting pillowcases among the associated Blu-ray/DVD extras.
Fun fact 3: On MyAnimeList, the specials sit at 6.23 from 11,771 votes, with a rank of #9676 and popularity placement of #4777, marking them as a narrow fanbase item rather than a broadly revisited sequel entry.
Fun fact 4: Fan reception is not uniformly dismissive: one MAL review rated related material 7/10 and stated that the specials were better, while another mixed review argued that the franchise can still entertain episode by episode despite having little story.
Fun fact 5: The broader critical complaint around Maken-Ki! is unusually consistent across reviews: the ecchi content is the selling point, but viewers wanting substantial characterization or an actual story are repeatedly warned away.