10 Second Anime: Servant x Service Episode 13 [END]

Servant x Service Episode 13 [END]

Hasebe learns from his father about how Lucy really got her name approved. Avoidance, shenanigans, and obstacles before the Hasebe tells her about it. Aw, cuteness overload. The End.

Haha, Hasebe's dad thinks his son is going out with an American because of her name. And then he tells the story about a really strange request that he never forgot: Yamagami Lucy (the rest omitted). Poor Hasebe. Plus, his dad says that it was really the stupid bunny being all lazy and he was preoccupied because little Yutaka was in the hospital with a high fever. Now Hasebe thinks it's his fault that Lucy got her long ridiculous name. How can she forgive him? What will happen?

So, awkward avoidance, until Hasebe finally screws up his courage and tells Lucy what he found out, eh, a little bit accidentally.  After all that, things work out, because Lucy likes it when Hasebe calls her by her name. "It's your fault, so you better take responsibility by making sure you keep calling me this weird name, Lucy." D'aww.

It's a good thing their colleagues were eavesdropping, otherwise Toko, Kanon, Tanaka, and the section chief would have all interrupted them, just as Hasebe was going to ask Lucy a very important question. Their respective foils all took them out. Ichimiya carried Kanon and Toko away, Miyoshi shoved Tanaka, and Megumi stomped the bunny. What's with these girls covering guys' eyes as they shove them backwards? Finally Hasebe asks Lucy to be his girlfriend. She says, "not yet."

And then funny season ending montage. Like Megumi finally getting her magical girl group all together.

Even Miyoshi got roped into that. Heh. But things around the office don't change that much, except for Hasebe, instead of asking Lucy for her email address or a date, it's now "please go out with me." "Not yet." Otherwise, Kanon still tinkers with her dad's robotic bunny, Ichimiya still can't tell Toko about Megumi being his girlfriend, and Miyoshi continues to lecture Tanaka about his obsession with Hasebe. I think we're ready for a second season!

Servant x Service was a good funny show where nothing happened, but the great characters were fodder for gags and reactions. A little bit of romance, a lot of misdirection and miscommunication, all playing off the little weaknesses of the human condition in relation to coworkers. The same anime house did Working!! so I'm not surprised at how they handled the quirky characters here. Great stuff, and I hope they come back to these characters soon.

10 Second Anime - Servant x Service - Episode 12

Servant x Service - Episode 12

Megumi takes a break. Lucy and Hasebe finally go on their date. Hasebe is pretty smooth. Lucy looks fine in a skirt. Hasebe learns some bad news.

Megumi is so bold! Kyaa! Okay, I know I've typed that more than once, and I had to say it twice in my head for this episode. First, using Lucy as a pillow. *shakes fist to sky* Unfair! And then pushing down Ichimiya... but she fell asleep. Working three days straight on her cosplay outfits for Comiket would tire anyone out.

Megumi still finished Lucy's dress for her date, though. Was it a little shorter than the one in the store Lucy liked? Oh, Megumi doesn't remember, maybe she was too tired working on all the other outfits. Ufufu. But it's too late now, so she can't fix it. "Totally on purpose!" thinks Lucy.

Finally the date happens. A little late, however, because not only is Lucy not used to skirts, but she's not used to walking in heels either. Hasebe is impressed, but decides Lucy needs one more thing to make her outfit complete. Glasses! She was wearing contacts just for the date, but Hasebe is a meganecon (glasses-fetish guy). That's not too surprising considering all the galge he plays. Technically Lucy is a megane-oppai type, which seems to be the main weakness for all sorts of otaku. Um, do not do an image search on that term with your safe-search filter set to "off." ... I warned you!

Hasebe seems to be a nice guy, holding Lucy's stuff, walking at her pace, holding her chair for her as she sits. All the polite guy stuff we're supposed to do. But Hasebe is still smooth. "Want some candy?" Oh ho, now I'm holding your hand. Nice. Smooth. Hasebe has a reason to hold her hand: she'd probably run away after asking her to go out with him. Ah well, the date gets interrupted by his family.

Hasebe's sister Kaoru is getting married, and this is the day the family is meeting the fiancé. Kaoru had told him to go on the date anyway, since it was with Lucy (ufufu), but the dad thought otherwise. So now, they have a chance at another date.

The next day at the office, Hasebe comes in totally depressed. Remember, the whole premise for Lucy to work at the social welfare office is to find the guy who approved her very long given name. Hasebe found out who it was and, as we all suspected, it was his father. Now we got comedy level drama!

10 Second Anime: Servant x Service Episode 11

Servant x Service Episode 11

Yay! A Lucy-centric episode! The boss goes missing. Lucy finds him. Miyoshi takes a trip on her day off, but it still feels like work. Miyoshi gets drunk with Tanaka.

Lucy is starting to feel a little awkward around Hasebe since he made his "the only girl I need is you" confession. So, she goes in search of him, and ends up getting the bunny-boss involved. However, at the little market outside the office, the boss gets mistakenly bought in front of a stand selling stuffed animals. Lucy gets a little overwhelmed to learn that their building has a library, but finds the boss there with a mother and daughter. He's resigned to spend his remaining time with the cute little girl, but she quickly chooses the bunny Lucy brought to trade. Heartbreak! And finally Lucy finds Hasebe in one of his slacking spots. I detected some "leaning" from Lucy towards Hasebe. He did too.

Miyoshi is stressing out about her upcoming date with Tanaka, and decides to take a little trip to the city center to take her mind off it. However, she ends up meeting most of her coworkers hanging out there too. The worst day off ever is wrapped up with a long conversation with granny Tanaka. Poor Miyoshi. And then there's still the date with the younger Tanaka, in which he can't stop talking about Hasebe, or drinking wine. Finally, Miyoshi asks him to talk about something else, and then he gets shy starting to talk about his work. While giggling about how normal that is, considering all she's seen already from the younger Tanaka, she takes a sip of wine, and promptly passes out. Can any of the women working at the Social Welfare office hold their liquor? We have yet to see how Megumi does. In the end, Miyoshi agrees to another date, because, regretfully, they did not even get to talk about regrets.

On a hmmm note, I noticed this episode had a taiko drum reference too, with Hasebe drowning his disappointment in a galge ending by beating all the high scores at a taiko game in an arcade. And the music for the game was the opening credits song. Also, Miyoshi seems to have a knack for telling guys what they should do about the women in their lives that kind of kicks them in the gut. If only she could use that superpower against the Tanakas...

10 Second Anime: Servant x Service Episode 10

Servant x Service Episode 10

Megumi visits the Ichimiyas. The section chief gets stomped. Tanaka has regrets over regrets. And Toko discovers that welfare office workers have psychological problems.

Megumi tries to come clean with Toko about her relationship with her older brother, even trying to soften the blow with all sorts of sweets, but that backfires because they get all full and sleepy. Megumi even got the words out, "I'm going out with your brother," but Toko heard, "I'm going at it with your brother," meaning a fight. Oh well.

Tanaka is still being earnest, coming to the office to challenge Hasebe to some kind of contest, but the doesn't know what yet. Miyoshi gets cornered, and in a conversation about regrets, ends up regretting having promised to have dinner with Tanaka to discuss these regrets. Regrettable.

Kanon, the section manager's daughter, comes by to pick up Toko after school, and notices Hasebe seems to be very busy at slacking off. But he can't keep that pace up forever. Megumi asks Kanon for her measurements because she thinks she's found the fifth girl for her cosplay set of magical girl outfits. But Kanon scurries off while Megumi is caught up in her explanation. Tsk.

Meanwhile, the Ichimiya colleagues are trying to keep the secret of the talking bunny rabbit from Toko, because she already has enough ammunition to complain about. But after witnessing the workmates, and even her older brother talking to the mascot of the office, she comes to the conclusion that her abuse has driven these people crazy. But the section manager gets caught talking in front of her anyway. However, because she was so concerned about the pile of abuse she's laid down at the office, she tells the manager go trip somewhere close by instead of just dying. Improvement!

Still one of the best running gags of the show if the permanent vein-popping on Toko's cheek, even while she's sleeping. Hopefully that will pay off near the end of the show if it disappears.

10 Second Anime - Servant x Service - Episode 9

Servant x Service - Episode 9

Plain dressed Chihaya is plain. No words = Kiss, slap. Skirts just keep getting shorter these days, amirite? Tanaka sure was cute before, well, you know.

Megumi is so bold, kyaa! Wait, I've typed that before. Chihaya is just feeling frustrated because she's preparing Lucy for her date with Hasebe, but she hasn't gone out on a date with Ichimiya in quite a while. And that kiss, then the slap, to express "thanks for being jealous of other guys looking at me in my revealing cosplay outfits for Comiket, but being too nice to say that out loud." I think someone is writing from experience here.

Lucy seems to have all the answers for not wearing a skirt. Too long - she might step on it and trip. Knee length - she's short and it won't look good. Mid-thigh - she's not confident. Super-mini - Impossible! They'll have to go shopping again, I guess.

Later, Hasebe's sister comes by to visit with Lucy, and trades stories about Tanaka with her and Miyoshi. He even tried that "go out with me!" trick on the older sister Kaoru back in high school. Instant rejection! Which means even through college, Tanaka hasn't gotten a girlfriend yet.

I cringe at even typing that. As if "getting" a girlfriend is like buying a super rare celebrity card and then having the celebrity sign it. Oh, so that's why Lucy's so happy. It's not like she's getting married or something. Whoops, Hasebe hears that part of the conversation wrong. It's Kaoru getting married, and he's moping about losing Lucy all afternoon for nothing. Being that depressed, having the circumstances lift the depression leading to bright red shame, yeah, that might impair judgment. Like leading to a confession about your feelings for some girl. Ah. That happens too. Remember: comedy in the ancient sense is supposed to be about love. Heh.

10 Second Anime - Servant x Service - Episode 8

Servant x Service - Episode 8

Tanaka just wants to win against Hasebe, going so far as to win a date with Lucy first. No? How about her email? Hasebe also says no to that.

I got a Rock Lee and Neji dynamic from Naruto with Tanaka and Hasebe. Tanaka seems to have figured out already that Hasebe really likes Lucy, and saw his chance to "win" against the genius who doesn't try hard by trying to make her his girlfriend. As Miyoshi said, "terrible." There goes his chances with her too. Lucy offers to do anything for Hasebe to repay him for rescuing her from that very awkward situation, and Hasebe wants her to wear a skirt. Heh. Either on a date with him, or at work. Well-played Hasebe-kun. Lucy is so self-conscious about her legs for some reason, she decides it's better to go on a date where she limits the number of people she knows seeing her in a skirt. Megumi overhears all this, and wants to protect the sisterhood, however Hasebe plays the cosplay card, getting her to put together Lucy's outfit for the date. Also well-played Hasebe-kun. The only problem now, is that Hasebe is finally nervous about something.

10 Second Anime: Servant x Service Episode 7

Servant x Service Episode 7

Office romance remains tricky with dandere Megumi, cosplay Toko is no good at games, and the banker grandson has some history with Hasebe.

Megumi is so bold! Kyaah! Good thing Lucy is so gullible, otherwise Ichimaya and Megumi would have been found out. Toko is also a bit clueless, if you couldn't tell by how she was tricked into cosplaying an entire magical girl outfit, or even why Megumi came over to her apartment to begin with. Toko's friend from school, Kanon, is also the boss's daughter, and she is not clueless, and already has figured out Megumi is dating the older brother. Feeling protective, she calls upon the power of her dad... the robotic plushy rabbit. Funny that in her power pose, she's holding a wrench and a screwdriver. I figure she's modeling herself after her dad, but we only see the bunny as the reference.

And then we meet the grandson of granny Tanaka. He seems nice at first, until he realizes Hasebe works in the same office as Miyoshi. Looks like Hasebe has been bothering other people all his life with his slacker ways.

10 Second Anime - Servant x Service - Episode 6

Servant x Service - Episode 6

What's the deal with that pink stuffed bunny running around the office? Oh, that's the deal.

This week at the ward office, the section chief wants to meet the new civil servants and see how they're working out so far. Oh, he's also so cripplingly shy, that he can only attend work through a remote controlled robotic plushy rabbit. Oh, Japan... He gets to see Hasebe's best spots for slacking and avoiding work. He empathizes with Yamagami for being short and well-endowed. And he endures the plight of Miyoshi for being the one whom all the old ladies like to talk to. He also used to work with Hasebe's father, who comes from several generations of civil servants, and the younger Hasebe reacts the same way his dad did while receiving advice from a stuffed animal. Then we discover that the new bunny suit was incomplete, and the boss's daughter comes by to drop off the final piece: the tail. The rest of the episode centers on poor Miyoshi as the old lady who comes by every day wants to set her up with her grandson. She's not going to take no for an answer...