He Is My Master


He Is My Master is a Japanese manga series written by Mattsuu and illustrated by Asu Tsubaki, a formerly married couple. It originally ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from February 2002 to February 2007. It was adapted into an anime television series by Gainax and Shaft in 2005.
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on November 27, 2006 they now have licensed the right to the English translation of He Is My Master and has begun to release the series July 2007.
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime and released the complete collection on October 10, 2009; with distribution handled by Section23 Films.

Synopsis

A 14-year-old millionaire Yoshitaka received an enormous inheritance as a result of his parents' death in an accident. Later after firing the original maids, he needed to be looked after so he decided to hire new live-in maids. While originally expecting an elderly woman to take the job, two runaway girls, Izumi, 14, and Mitsuki, 13, end up accepting the job as means for a home and income. Another girl, Anna, later becomes a maid as well, and all three live in the mansion with Yoshitaka. The boy pulls some clichéd pranks throughout the story.

Characters

Main characters

;Izumi Sawatari
;Yoshitaka Nakabayashi
;Mitsuki Sawatari
;Anna Kurauchi
;Pochi

Minor characters

;Father Sawatari
;Mizuho Sawatari
;Karin Sawatari
;Shinji Kume
;Alicia
;Seiichirou Nakabayashi
;Takami Sugita
;Mattsū and Asu Tsubaki

Anime

Episodes

Recurring gags

In every episode God is mentioned and it shows avatars of the show's creators doing actions. Occasionally the avatars do something relevant to the plot.
At the end of each episode, with the exception of episode 9 and 10, 4 recurring gags are shown; the first gag shows an exhausted Izumi either in bed or bathing. The second gag shows Mitsuki working on her photobook of Izumi's revealing pictures taken from hidden cameras earlier on in the episode. The third gag shows a frustrated Yoshitaka in a small, messy room working on draft designs for new outfits for his maids. The fourth gag shows an aerial shot of the mansion with Yoshitaka ranting or manically laughing, and two numbers show up. The first number is the amount of damages Izumi must pay off for that particular day, and the second number is the amount of money she has left to pay, listed in yen. And, in some of the episodes it shows Mitsuki's earnings for that day.

Anime soundtrack

;Opening theme song
;Ending theme song

Reception

The anime series received mixed to negative reviews.
On Anime News Network, the DVD Complete Collection of He Is My Master was reviewed, and was given an overall cautiously positive rating, saying "This is not a masterpiece but is definitely better than it could have been". High points of the series mentioned are Yoshitaka's very evil personality, which is very refreshing to see after hundreds of indecisive and weak male leads in harem-fanservice series similar to this. Other good points are the comedy and plentiful fanservice. One of the biggest negative points in this series are the stereotypical elements that freely abound the series. Cliches are left and right, and sometimes detract from the comedy. ANN rated this anime in 5 categories, the average of which was a B−.