Hito is your everyday Joe. A sophomore on summer break, one day he hears a knock at the door. It's a maid looking for work. When asked about skills, she spotlights her familiarity with knives. She's an assassin by trade, apparently. Hito resists at first but the way things end up is that she cleans for him and he cooks for her. Next thing, he's getting her set up in her room. She's eaten the special Katsu and the very special Tonkatsu sauce 😍. She AIN'T leaving.
YAMS is a 2024 Felix Film Studios release that is rated 7.08 on MAL. Based on a web manga, it is 1 season consisting of 12 23-minute English dubbed episodes with CC available. It's yet another anime that makes me wonder why Japanese kids don't seem to have parents. YAMS is arguably good. It probably crosses that threshold, just barely. I'm a generous grader, so many will not think it above average. In the realm of anime that is good, it's definitely well below average. It passes the time just fine, but it's nothing special.
Yokoya Hitoyoshi is, pretty much, a prototype Japanese-anime-pure-hearted-blushing-maiden-male-protagonist. In his middle school syndrome phase he was known as the 😡🔪 (Raging Knife). Yuki arrives in a maid outfit and she's working as a maid, but that was just her last cover. She's actually an assassin. A... lassassin. Their meetup makes more sense once you meet his dad, who makes a brief showing. Yokoya Riko is Hitoyosh's sister. She ADORES Yuki. Agemochitarou is a big super-chubby ginger cat. He's totally huggable.
Yuki isn't satisfied with just doing housework. She enrolls in school. This attracts other dangerous types to school, as well as creating lots of mystery around Hitoyoshi - suddenly, he's so interesting! One thing you'll learn in anime is that one assassin attracts more. Soon some other students and even some of the teachers seem very, very suspect. The only thing that can draw Yuki away from all the new school drama is Katsuda sauce. It's her kryptonite.
Yuki might know tons about killing, but she's otherwise innocent and knows nothing of everyday life and human relationships. She gets most of the laugh lines. "You're so cute! All you do is nibble, squeak, and get spooked like some kind of hamster boy," she says to Hitoyoshi, causing him to blush. Again. They go shopping: "There's nowhere to hide my knives in this outfit." They go to a movie: "I've only committed assassins in theaters. I've never actually watched a movie." They watch a zombie feature. She's mortified! "You can't kill them; they're already dead! I hate the stench of dead bodies!"
The art is pretty standard. People are drawn with simple features and a touch of hyper-fantasy Go BIG: big boobs, big eyes, big muscles, big colorful hair, big color-palettes. Backgrounds are simple, slightly muted, with structure to match our FL and lots of straight lines. There's scattered details that pop against the background of its minimized realism.
Overall, they fail to sell the romance and the attraction between the two. However, there are some worthy moments. In the opening of episode 11, he's questioning his feelings, and it's a nice scene. It's well acted, directed and written. The last two episodes are 2 of the best in the show. They are a tempo change into the emotional and introspective. Nevertheless, with the benefit of foreknowledge, I would probably skip this one.
〰🖍 IMHO
📣6 📝5 🎭7.5 💓4.5 🦋5.5 🎨7🎵/🔊6 🔚it continues ▪ 🌞5.5 ⚡3.5 😅2.5 😭1.5 😱3 😯2 🤢1 🤔3 💤2 🤗3
Age 10+ there's a little bit of b👀b focus but the language is clean and this is actually better suited towards tweens then teens or adults. Rated TV-PG-13: Parents Cautioned
Re-📺? Shoulda skipped the first time
Recommendations:
Akame ga Kill! 8.6,
Akiba Maid War 7.5,
Ao-chan Can't Study 7.8,
Attack On Titan-8.9
Avatar the Last Airbender-10
Beyond the Boundary 7.8,
Brave Series-7.5,
Chaika The Coffin Princess 8.4, Death Note-8.8,
Demon Slayer 9.3,
The Eminence in Shadow 8.8,
Farming Life in Another World 7.7,
Food Wars 8.2, Fullmetal Alchemist-10,
Gate 7.9,
Girls Last Tour 8.5,
Girls Und Panzer 8,
Here Comes Miss Modern 8,
Hunter × Hunter-10,
Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? 7.7,
Jujutsu Kaisen-9.5,
Land Of The Lustrous 8.1,
Legend of Exorcism 8.8,
Love Chunibyo And Other Delusions 8.4,
Made in Abyss 9,
Maid Sama 10,
No Game No Life Zero 8.8,
Parasyte the Maxim 8.9,
Princess Principal 8.6, Psycho Pass-8.6,
RahXephon 8.6,
Real Girl 7.5,
Reincarnated as a Sword 8,
Senryu Girl 7.5,
Special A Class 8.2,
Tokyo Ghoul-8.5,
Tokyo Revengers-8.2,
Vinland Saga-10,
Violet Evergarden-9.5,
Watership Down-8.5,
