You are Ms. Servant.
君は冥土様。 (Kimi wa Meido-sama.)
- Comedy
- Romance
- Iyashikei
- Workplace
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 6, 2024 to Dec 22, 2024
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Hitoyoshi Yokoya’s morning takes an unexpected turn when a nameless girl in a maid outfit appears at his door and calmly asks to serve in his home. Sent along by her former master, she even presents her “specialty” with disarming honesty: assassination. Uneasy about her past, Hitoyoshi tries to turn her away—until he chases after her to return something she forgot and nearly gets struck by a truck, only to be saved at the last second by her lightning-fast reflexes.
Despite her impeccable survival instincts, the maid is startlingly unprepared for ordinary household life, having spent her childhood honing only the art of killing. Hitoyoshi chooses to take her in anyway, urging her to step out of that colorless past and learn what a normal day can be. He gives her the name Yuki, opening the door to a gentler future and a chance at redemption.
Otaku Consensus
You are Ms. Servant. landed as a modestly well-liked Fall 2024 comfort romance, with its 7.05 MAL score and 69/100 AniList score matching a show admired more for tone control than for surprise. Ayumu Watanabe's gentle direction and Hitomi Mieno's rehabilitation-focused series structure make the maid-assassin hook feel warmer than edgier rivals, while the most consistent limitation is its narrow domestic formula: viewers looking for sharper comedy, faster romance, or sustained action may find its softness too restrained.
Why You Should Watch
Watch You are Ms. Servant. if you want an assassin story that treats recovery, routine, and awkward kindness as the main event rather than a pause between fights. It scratches part of the same itch as Spy x Family's deadly-skills-meet-home-life comedy, but trades espionage escalation for cohabitation, workplace-adjacent domestic rhythms, and low-pressure romantic warmth. The appeal is in the contrast: Yuki's hyper-competence reads through Kuudere stillness, while the series keeps testing how a person trained only for survival responds to names, meals, school-life normalcy, and small acts of trust. If you like shounen romances where emotional rehabilitation matters more than love-triangle machinery, this is a clean, compact 12-episode pick.
Key Characters
- YYuki
Yuki is the show's central fan draw: a kuudere maid whose lethal precision clashes with an almost blank-slate relationship to ordinary home life.
- HHitoyoshi Yokoya
Hitoyoshi works because he is not written as a power fantasy owner figure, but as the moral counterweight who insists that gentleness can be a practical choice.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Felix Film frames the series as a 12-episode Fall 2024 romantic comedy rather than an action vehicle, keeping the assassin material subordinate to domestic timing and character rehabilitation.
- 2
AniList's highest tags tell you the show's real center of gravity: Maids at 95%, Assassins at 87%, Found Family at 86%, Urban at 85%, and Rehabilitation at 85%, an unusually specific mix for a shounen romance.
- 3
The production is built around a veteran-led adaptation spine, with Ayumu Watanabe directing and Hitomi Mieno handling series composition, giving the season a controlled episodic flow rather than a gag-only format.
- 4
Tomoyasu Kurashima's character design credit and Michiru Ogiwara's main animator role point to a production emphasis on readable character acting, important for a heroine whose humor often comes from restraint rather than loud reaction faces.
- 5
The series blends cohabitation, school, and work-tagged material without turning into a pure workplace comedy, which gives its iyashikei side a broader daily-life texture than the maid premise alone suggests.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime aired from October 6, 2024 to December 22, 2024, completing a single 12-episode cour during the Fall 2024 season.
- Fun fact 2
- Masanori Nishiyama is credited twice on the visual side, serving as both Art Director and Art Design, a notable overlap for the show's urban domestic look.
- Fun fact 3
- The original creator is Shotan, while the anime adaptation was produced by Felix Film, the studio credited for the full television run.
- Fun fact 4
- Its reception sits in a very specific middle-positive band: 7.05/10 on MyAnimeList from 54,709 votes, 69/100 on AniList, and 1,125 AniList favorites.
- Fun fact 5
- AniList categorizes it not only with Maids and Assassins but also with Found Family, Rehabilitation, Cohabitation, Iyashikei, and School, reflecting how heavily the adaptation leans into recovery through everyday structure.
Studios
- Felix Film
