About halfway through Akiba Maid Sensou this song started and I started chuckling and by the end of it I was laughing so hard out of sheer disbelief the cat was bounced off my lap.
It’s a crowning moment of absurdity, the perfect climax to the episode and the moment I knew without any doubt that this series was made for me. A sickly cute twin tailed idol maid singing a sickly cute high energy idol song which talks about love in terms of murder by kissing, interspersed by scenes of maids actually being killed in a highly stylised manner, perfectly timed to the beat of the song. That’s the sign that Akiba Maid Sensou knows perfectly where it’s going with its mix of late 1990s vintage moe/maido culture and yakuza movie parody. Not too edgy, not too angsty, with all the violence and murder not to be taken all that seriously. A sign that it’s okay to enjoy the absurdity of an Akihabara maids gang war. Poor Nagomi though, the girl dragged around by the expressionless killer maid. She came to Akiba sincerily wanting to be a maid, all bright eyed and bushy tailed; no wonder she looks so depressed at the end of it.