If there’s anyone kids nowadays should be looking up to, it’s Maid Guy.

The only reason I’m making this post is that my last Kamen no Maid Guy post overtook all my Toshokan Sensou posts in terms of views by a mile I’ve not watched enough of the new Summer Season to have much to say about (Thanks to the current glorious internet speed here, I can’t even watch Chi’s Sweet Home now. Chi’s Sweet Home!). As the title may or may not suggest (I don’t think I’ve exacly built up a reputation for being a serious blogger, have I?), I’m going to try to make a serious point in this post somewhere, so bear with the cow tits for as long as you can.

In this episode, Naeka’s boob-club leader (so cleverly named “Ri-Da/Leader/whoever you want to romanize it” by the writers) loses his memory in some dumb mishap (obviously involving chasing Naeka’s boobs), and the only thing he can remember is… Naeka’s boobs. The episode than turns to the summer festival, where on the suggestion of yet another WTF side character in this show (a love doctor), Naeka agrees to go on a date with Ri-Da in the hope that THE POWER OF LOVE (of boobs) jogs his memory back since she feels guilty for indirectly causing his accident. Though reluctant at first, partly due to the meddling efforts of her so-called best friends (their theory: “He likes boobs, she has boobs, they make the perfect couple!”) and one Maid Guy (”kukuku… I did all the work!”), sparks start flying…

Actually for the most part, this is caused by a big change in Ri-Da’s character though, resulting from him forgetting everything aside from Naeka’s boobs (wait, what else was there in that head of his?). How exactly is his character changed if all he cares about are those lovely lady lumps then?

To illustrate, stuff that happened in this episode that I forgot to screencap:

1) Despite the appearance of other busty beauties in the episode, Ri-Da doesn’t even bat an eyelid at them, much to Naeka’s surprise (he supposedly used to be a great conneiseur of racks). His excuse:

Ri-Da (with serious face): “I only love your boobs”

Instead of putting him under some sort of physical torture like she does in the scenes before this one, Naeka actually blushes, and gives him a soft kick, which is decorated as a typical harem moment gone mushy by the gang of spying ‘best friends’, boob club members, and Maid Guy.

2) In another typical harem moment gone mushy, in the classical part of the woods couples go into hiding just as the fireworks begin, Ri-Da tells Naeka that “there is no point if I cannot obtain your boobs “fair and square”. Until the day you tell me “Dozo, have my boobs!“, I will continue to persevere in the most gentlemanly fashion possible to court you” (as much as I want to say I made most of that up, that’s pretty much the gist of what I understood he said)

3) To backup this statement, despite the many chances opened up by Kogarashi for Ri-Da to attack Naeka’s bare chest, Ri-Da actually resists all temptation and refuses to take the bait.

Sorry for testing your patience, I’m trying to make a serious point here.

So WTF is trying to be shown here? That before this, Ri-Da really just treated Naeka merely as the two lumps of flesh on her chest (that she is, really -_-”), but suddenly, for the sake of this episode, he actually sees her as something different - as the carrier of said lumps of flesh.

See the difference? If you don’t, I don’t blame you.

Even in his memory impaired state, what does Ri-Da actually care about? It is made explicit by him that it’s really not actually about her, it’s her boobs (like I’ve said a billion times this post). The fundamental change being that before he would resort to the lowest underhanded methods to obtain even a glimpse of the objects of his desire, now, he’s willing to take the long hard way of doing it like just like all the other hot blooded healthy males out there who just happen to have more tact to voice what they really want.

Because as much as man has evolved to wanting more than just a good child bearing partner and someone to keep the house clean, it doesn’t change the fact that some part of his brain consciously gravitates to the well asseted candidates. Yes, this is totally biased and unfair statement brought on by the ‘fact’ that amongst themselves, when guys will talk about members of the opposite sex, it’s rarely anything about anything other than her looks, proportions etc. (and if Baka-Raptor is right, those who don’t join in that fray will be left to die out by themselves) A characters like Ri-Da is just exagerating and making the message clear for all to see.

Now look at Naeka. Even for (As expected of?) someone whose intelligence is stereotyped by her proportions, she was actually taken in by what she may have seen as a sort of improbable Prince Charming chivalry. Couple this sincere desire to put the effort into the chase with an open (brutal?) honesty about his motives (as much as “I want your boobs” is unflatering in the traditional sense), and can you honestly blame Naeka for being so stupid almost falling badly for the guy (almost, because like all cliche memory loss situations in anime, they don’t last for long)?

So to surmise from the situation before this gets tl;dr (too late), men are sexual creatures who only crave the physical aspects of their partners, but women are willing to overlook this if their emotional wants are fulfilled.

Which is total and utter bullshit. Because in reality, men are really pure hearted misunderstood souls who prioritize the emotional more than anything else, at least as much as their female counterparts do… Yea, that and women have no sexual desires whatsoever.

itsubun/coffee spoons comment really holds the point I think I myself finally see I wanted to address here (as much as I laughed at the setup of this episode - it’s Kamen no freakin Maid Guy! I have to say, something under the surface of me began to bother me), this odd image of the (anime) guy who can openly flap his trap about sex (though they seem more fascinated by specific body parts rather than the act itself, School Days excluded -_-”) despite being lambasted and brutally abused by the other characters of purportably more sense. That and on the other side of the spectrum, the supposed notion of the (anime) girl who really rather be swept off by a Prince Charming to live happily ever after… the thought of said Prince Charming putting it in anywhere never making it on screen (again, School Days excluded)?

So even in anime, its seldom if ever that females are shown to have open sexual desires of their own (unless their crazed lesbian stalkers), since they’re too often prioritizing their own romantic notions. Is it that as 2-D characters, they have none, or a reflecion of the ‘fact’ that ‘women can’t be sluts‘?

And to stray even further from Maid Guy, there actually is a series that comes to mind (which isn’t School Days this time) which represents this notion halfway, and goes against it in as well, and that is (the later part of) Utena. But this I suspect says that old school series were probably more open about the subject, while newer ones nowadays are more towards easy pandering or the mushy stuff. There’s still stuff like NANA of course, but ‘realistic’ shoujo/jousei fare like that will probably stay as a minority (but a strong one nontheless)

So to ammend the previous callous statement, how about: “men are sexual creatures who will crave the physical aspects of their partners to a certain extent. Women know this and are willing to overlook this because they too are sexual creatures and so long as their sexual and/or emotional wants are fulfilled, all’s fair”? Still BS perhaps, but what the heck, I needed to arrive at some conclusion -_-”

If you read all that please do take that with as much salt as you can find. To compensate, here’s some Kogarashi spam:

Sadly, there’s just not enough of him in this show anymore. Oh well, just one more episode to go…