History Anime / HandMaidMay

* NamesTheSame: May [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} will be back]]. (Okay, wrong character, but still.)

''Hand Maid May'' is an eleven episode comedy anime series released in Japan in 2000, centering on the adventures of 19-year-old engineering student and hopeless nerd [[LovableNerd Kazuya Saotome]] and a hand-sized robotic cyberdoll named [[RobotGirl May]] that Kazuya accidentally orders from the Cyberdyne Corporation website while trying to fix the damage caused by a computer virus. May is programmed to serve Kazuya's needs and desires, but must be plugged into Kazuya's computer at night to recharge her batteries because her standard charger was damaged when he first received her.

Compare Anime/BusouShinki and Anime/FrameArmsGirls, where the little robot girls are combat-capable.

* {{Ecchi}}

* ATwinkleInTheSky

* CuteLittleFang: Mami

* NamesTheSame - May [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} will be back.]] (Okay, wrong character, but still.)

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Kasumi

* YamatoNadeshiko: Mami was created with this idea in mind; she's a domestic genius who wears a kimono (and she's voiced by Creator/KikukoInoue), but in a variation she has american traits and can skate up walls.

Compare Anime/BusouShinki, where the little robot girls are combat-capable.

* [[TwelveEpisodeAnime Ten Episode Anime]], [[BonusEpisode plus one]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Used a few times, but a superb example occurs in episode 7 (spoilered since it's such a fun surprise). [[spoiler: The scene is at a DutchAngle indicating the characters' surprise at Mami's... arrival, and Kasumi stomps on the floor until they're level again.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The Cyberdolls.

* NamesTheSame - May [[TheTerminator will be back.]] (Okay, wrong character, but still.)

* RieKugimiya: In perhaps her first role as a {{tsundere}} girl wearing [[ZettaiRyouiki thigh-highs.]]

* {{Expy}}: Nanbara of Jinnai from ''ElHazard'', even down to his English dub voice.

* EnterStageWindo

* EnterStageWindow

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* [[TwelveEpisodeAnime Ten Episode Anime]], [[BakersDozen plus one]]

* KikukoInoue: The voice for Mami.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Mami was created with this idea in mind; she's a domestic genius who wears a kimono (and she's voiced by Kikuko Inoue), but in a variation she has american traits and can skate up walls.

* ShallowLoveInterest: May would be a bit [[IncrediblyLamePun short]] on characterization if her crush on Kazuya wasn't a part of the plot.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Lot's of them during the episodes. On of the best ones happen in episode 8. [[spoiler:The trio Sara and May followed by Nanbara fight a storm while going after kazuya. During that Nanbara has 3 (impossible) unfortunate events. The best part is when he was supposed to have the 3rd unfortunate event. He stops looks for it (finds nothing) and imediatly after that he gets soaked wet by a truck that "was just passing by" exclamating (according to the subs) "Is this a cartoon?!?!?!"]]

* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:Cyberdolls can bear children.]] Who ''thinks'' of designing ''that'' functionality!?
** [[spoiler: Exactly the same person who insists on treating them like actual people rather than machines, being the entire point of the series.]]

* TedBaxter: Subverted with Kotaro Nanbara. He actually ''is'' very good at the things he does, but people don't like him.

* Suspiciously Specific Denial: "I wasn't thinking of taking you apart at all."

Further complications develop due to May, the first being his inability to pay for her. This causes Kazuya's rival Nanbara to try to take May away with the aid of several of his own cyberdolls ([[HaremAnime all of whom wind up falling for Kazuya]]).

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hand_maid_may.jpg''HandMaidMay'' is an eleven episode comedy anime series released in Japan in 2000, centering on the adventures of 19-year-old engineering student and hopeless nerd [[LovableNerd Kazuya Saotome]] and a hand-sized robotic cyberdoll named [[RobotGirl May]] that Kazuya accidentally orders from the Cyberdyne Corporation website while trying to fix the damage caused by a computer virus. May is programmed to serve Kazuya's needs and desires, but must be plugged into Kazuya's computer at night to recharge her batteries because her standard charger was damaged when he first received her.

* [[TwelveEpisodeAnime Ten Episode Anime]], [[{{Ptitle24e6lgs6}} plus one]]

* RieKugimiya: In perhaps her first role as a {{tsundere}} [[{{Lolicon}} loli]] wearing [[ZettaiRyouiki thigh-highs.]]

* SittingOnTheRoof: Variant.
* Variant: The ladder between their apartments serves as the private place for Kazuya Saotome and Kasumi Tani. But since it becomes practically an expressway in the anime, they head for the traditional roof escape later.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Mami