History Manga / UchiNoMaidGaUzasugiru

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Having recently lost her mother to an illness, Russian-Japanese Misha Takanashi has become a recluse, locking herself away and playing video games, not to mention a nasty habit of chasing away any maid her father Yasuhiro hires to keep house.

Enter Tsubame Kamoi, ex-JSDF fighter pilot and the latest in a long line of maids at the Takanashi household. And much to Misha's chagrin, she may be perhaps the one maid who won't be easy prey. Let alone a ridiculously ripped lolicon who is very thirsty to be close to her, whether she wants it or not.

''Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!'' (うちのメイドがウザすぎる! / "Our Maid is Way Too Annoying!") is a SliceOfLife comedy manga written and illustrated by Kanko Nakamura.

Received an anime during the Fall 2018 season. Crunchyroll has licensed the show, which can be [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/uzamaid viewed here]] for the following countries: [[note]]North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Netherlands and Latin America[[/note]]
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!This manga provides examples of:
* AffluentAscetic: Midori. Though her family is very wealthy, she joined the JSDF, and initially is hired by Misha as a way to get rid of Tsubame. When asked about the job, she simply states that she doesn't need money, and mostly working just for fun. Even when Misha and Tsubame spend a night at her family's hotel, she seemed more comfortable sleeping on the floor than on her bed.
* AmazonianBeauty: Tsubame is ''ripped'', and quite a feast for the eyes.
* AnimalMotif: Misha and bears.
* BearsAreBadNews: Misha follows what she thinks is a panda in episode 10 while at the hot springs inn. But after watching it eat a fish, she realizes it's actually a brown bear. She then meets its MamaBear, and even Tsubame exercises extreme caution when confronting it.
* BigDamnHeroes: Tsubame does this in episode 10 when she confronts an angry MamaBear who was about to attack Misha for being too close to her cub. Fortunately she somehow manages to defuse the situation by spouting off how she first saw Misha and fell in love with the little girl.
* BilingualBonus: There’s Russian here and there around Misha’s house and in the opening and ending. For instance, the sign on the “forbidden room” that Misha doesn’t let anyone enter says Комната Мамы (''Komnata Mamy''), which means “Mommy’s Room”.
* BlackComedy: It's a comedy about a child predator stalking a young girl, with no real attempt made to soften or normalize the premise. This trope is sort of inherent.
* BlandNameProduct: “[=LIME=]” messenger (instead of [=LINE=]).
* BrattyHalfPint: The loss of her mother turned Misha into one. Tsubame gradually helps her overcome this so she can grow up and live a more normal life going to school and hanging out with friends.
* CassandraTruth: Misha tries to convince Yasuhiro that she saw a panda outside the capybara petting area at the hot springs. However, he doesn't believe her, since pandas aren't native to Japan. She then decides to go out and look for it on her own after he takes a nap.
* CrossCulturalReference: As explained in Episode 2 of the anime, Misha is named after Misha the Bear Cub, mascot of the 1980 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames hosted by Moscow and protagonist of his own anime show ''Koguma no Misha''.
* CutAndPasteTranslation: The manga's first chapter contained a scene of Misha showering that left little to the imagination. The official English translation airbrushed the shit out of it to hide as much as they could behind a veil of faux-steam. Since she's only a grade schooler, probably a wise decision for the western market.
* CutenessProximity: Tsubame's attitude towards young girls in general. But seeing Misha caused her to leave the military in order to become her maid.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Misha gradually and begrudgingly accepts Tsubame's presence in her life as a maid hired by her father Yasuhiro, though she still gets annoyed by some of Tsubame's actions such as when she just happens to be around wherever Misha was, such as a shopping center.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Misha will often begrudgingly thank Tsubame for her help in many situations. However, Tsubame always blows it by saying they should get married, which immediately changes Misha's attitude.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The anime opens with Tsubame inquiring a job interviewer on if there were any jobs she could have young, white girls wear dresses that she had made.
* FirstNameBasis: Misha calls her father [[CallingParentsByTheirName by his given name]]. It's later revealed he isn't actually her biological father, and instead married her mother. Despite this, he does try to take care of her as a real father.
* GirlyBruiser: Tsubame. Ex-JSDF soldier, and lover of things adorable and girly. In the ending credits for the anime, there is a short sequence where she is practicing throwing punches. Her fluid movements and stances suggest she could beat someone up if she had to.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Misha is one initially. After her mother passed away, she stopped going to school, and also tried to get anyone hired by her father to quit. When Tsubame shows up, she's not turned off by Misha's attempts to get her to quit, and instead gradually helps her to start living a normal life again.
* HypocriticalHumor: Tsubame doesn't seem to realize that she, herself, is one of the child predators she despises.
* ImplacableMan: PlayedForLaughs when Tsubame always seems to show up wherever Misha is at, even if the latter tried not to reveal her whereabouts. While she coincidentally ran into Misha hanging out with Mimika at the shopping center, Misha is completely shocked that Tsubame just happened to be at the hot springs inn despite her precautions to avoid giving it away to avoid her. [[spoiler:Tsubame found out by following her in her old lady disguise following Misha while she talked to Mimika about it.]]
* LethalChef: Midori can't cook, and will often either eat military rations, or order fast food for Misha. While Misha doesn't like eating rations, she also realizes she can't keep eating takeout food indefinitely, and starts to slowly yearn for Tsubame's cooking.
* MamaBear: Misha runs into one in episode 10. Fortunately Tsubame shows up just in time and manages to stare it down until it loses interest in them and leaves.
* MasochistsMeal: A ''literal'' example: Midori's cooking is horrible because she gets turned on by others' horrified reactions to it, and having to eat it herself afterwards.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Misha's father is incapable of housework, hence his need for a maid.
* MissingMom: Misha's mother has passed away prior to Tsubame working for her. She is seen in the first episode and in FlashBack moments.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Misha is told by Yasuhiro not to go wandering around the hot springs inn by herself in episode 10. Unfortunately she was determined to find the panda she claims she saw in the woods near the inn. She ends up getting lost, and is nearly attacked by a bear as a result.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Midori's first appearance is shown with her seemingly stalking young girls, including Misha. Though she just wanted to ask some questions, the manner in which she said it made her seem like a stalker, which prompted nearby police to chase after her.
* PervertedSniffing: Tsubame does this in the first episode after Misha worms out of her grip when she was bathing.
* PottyFailure: Yui has a slight one in episode 11 after she and Mimika are scared off by various things while having a sleepover in Misha's house and trying to find the bathroom in the dark. Yui briefly mentions she peed on herself a little bit during their various run-ins with creepy things such as Misha's pets, and Midori giving herself a swirly in the bathroom.
* PsychoStrings: Whenever Tsubame does something legitimately creepy, a music cord will often play. But it will also often play during a FauxHorrific moments as well.
* RunningGag: Tsubame breaking down doors whenever she thought that Misha was in danger.
* TheScapegoat: Tsubame does this in episode 11 when Yui and Mimika accidentally enters Misha's mother's room, which Misha explicitly stated she didn't want anyone going in. Tsubame immediately claims that she did it so that Misha's anger would be directed at her, instead of her new friends who unknowingly and accidentally entered it a few hours earlier while trying to find the bathroom.
* SignatureShot: As with director Masahiko Ohta's previous works, he inserts a (technically impressive) pseudo-steadicam scene of the camera racing through a building in the first episode. In this case, it's following Misha as she runs from Tsubame.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Two examples:
** While she professes to have interests in girls that hadn't menstruated yet, Tsubame specifically chooses to serve Misha, much to her chagrin.
** Midori is this towards Tsubame. She fell in love with her when Tsubame first transferred to her unit which specialized in training military dogs, and found herself being ignored by both the dogs and the other soldiers after Tsubame's appearance.
* SpaghettiKiss: Tsubame imagines doing this with Misha in one of her fantasies.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Misha seems to be able to communicate with her pet hamsters and ferret, who will often do what she asks such as guarding the door from Tsubame. And in episode 10, she somehow manages to get the capybaras to come to her after thinking the command.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: When Tsubame and Midori are in the same scene, they commonly react to each other's fantasies in this way, swapping comedic roles depending on who's fantasizing at the moment. This also involves a lot of HypocriticalHumor.
* TooKinkyToTorture:
** Tsubame does this often whenever Misha gets mad at her and will often coldly reply for her to die or at least stop being in her life.
** Midori, who was Tsubame's superior officer, seems to love moments where she's either being rejected, or in some cases, doing exhausting work such as shoveling snow in the middle of the night during a snowstorm.
* TrainingFromHell: Misha during the ending credits in the anime. During many of the exercising scenes, she is visibly exhausted and can barely do any of them, while Tsubame, being a recently separated military veteran, has no problems whatsoever.
* {{Tsundere}}: Misha towards Tsubame, though it's justified since a lot of the things the latter does genuinely creeps her out, such as when she mentions knowing Misha isn't wiping herself enough after using the bathroom due to the stains on her panties. And later mentioning how Misha uses more toilet paper now because of that first incident. Continually asking for the young girl's hand in marriage also justifiably turns Misha off and often angers her.
* UnknownRival: Yui towards Misha. She hates the attention that Misha gets due to her beauty and cool demeanor at school, and will often challenge her to a competition, such as a dressing contest and a snowball contest. Misha meanwhile finds this to be a hassle.
* WhatTheHellHero: Tsubame takes the blame when Misha finds out someone went into her mother's room in episode 11 after finding the door open and footprints inside. She likely did this so Misha wouldn't get upset at her friends and lose them in the process, and seems rather calm despite Misha being much, much angrier and more upset than usual at her.
* WeightWoe: Mimika in episode 9, after Misha asks if she got a little fatter. Mimika explains it was partly due to eating lots of chocolates before her brothers eat it all, and partly because she wasn't moving around as much due to the colder weather.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 12 is devoid of the typical humor of the series with major revelations such as Tsubame losing the eyesight in her one eye from illness, and Misha allows her to enter her mother's studio.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yui, one of Misha's classmates, is often seen wearing these.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The official English translation of the manga airbrushes the shit out of Misha's bath scene in the first chapter, to make it look like the bathroom is much steamier than the Japanese original. Since she's only a grade schooler, it was probably a wise decision with the western market in mind.

* ButNotTooForeign: Misha. Of the half-Russian persuasion.