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7	Taro Hanaukyō, a young boy grieving for his mother, has been summoned to his grandfather's estate for reasons unknown. Upon arrival, he discovers several facts that are to change his life drastically:
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9	# His grandfather is rich. [[Fiction500 Obscenely rich.]] ''ComicBook/RichieRich''-level rich.
10	# His grandfather has retired and left the entire estate in his name.
11	# The entire estate staff consists of [[MaidCorps hundreds of attractive young women in maid uniforms]].
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13	It is that last point that that really causes some concern for poor Taro, as it is rapidly demonstrated to the viewer that he has a violent allergic reaction to contact from women.[[note]]This is only true in the first anime series; in the original manga and the second adaptation, he just doesn't like all the attention.[[/note]] Unfortunately for him, the young ladies of the Hanaukyo estate are zealously dedicated to their job, be it organizing his schedule, assisting his studies, bathing with him in the dozens, assisting him with his zipper in the washroom....
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15	Fortunately, there is also Mariel, the de facto head maid and apparently, the only woman Taro can be near without turning interesting colours.
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17	''Hanaukyo Maid Team'' (''Hanaukyo Maid Tai'') is a manga by Morishige, which was serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenChampion Monthly Shonen Champion]]'' from 2000 to 2006 and compiled into 14 volumes. It was adapted into a anime series in 2001; however, the anime was cut short due to difficulties with the production company. Only twelve episodes were aired out of a planned eighteen, and only three more were made and included on the DVD release. It was rebooted in a second series, ''Hanaukyo Maid Tai: La Verite'' in 2004. In this series, Taro is merely put off by too much attention from women, though Mariel remains the exception. It also introduces a dramatic plot line from the manga around Mariel, and formally introduces Yashima Sanae[[note]]Yashima Sanae originally appeared in the opening credits of the original series (but only appeared in episodes 14 and 15), with a slightly different appearance (blue hair, light skin) and without being given a name.[[/note]] and her strong loyalty to Konoe Tsurugi, head of the Security division of the maids.
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19	To repeat: the ''entire'' house staff are maids.
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21	Note: If an episode number below doesn't mention which season it's from, it's the first. If it's from the second season it will say ''La Verite''.
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23	The ''La Verite'' season is available for streaming for North American viewers on [[https://www.hidive.com/tv/hanaukyo-maid-team-la-verite HIDIVE]].
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26	!!This anime provides examples of:
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28	* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: In ''La Verite'' episode 9, Ikuyo Suzuki turns her head around 360°.
29	* AccidentalKiss: ''La Verite'' episode 12. After Ryuuka makes another proposal of marriage to Taro, she trips and falls on top of him, kissing him in the process.
30	* AccidentalPervert
31	** First season episode 3: After Taro gets off a couch, he accidentally falls into Mariel and gets a face full of FunbagAirbag.
32	** ''La Verite'' episode 2: He accidentally looks up Ryuuka's skirt while she has her foot on his face.
33	** Two {{Suggestive Collision}}s in 'La Verite'' episode 7.
34	*** He's thrown onto Mariel during an earthquake and accidentally gropes her breasts.
35	*** The puppy Fenrir jumps on him and knocks him and Mariel down. He ends up lying face down on top of her.
36	** ''La Verite'' episode 12: He inadvertently gropes one of his personal maid's breasts while sleepily trying to turn off an alarm clock.
37	** Somewhat averted in the OVA 2 (Episode 14) as Taro is revealed to be perverted to Konoe by not "focusing" on the training. He couldn't resist Konoe's boobs nor naked body.
38	* ActionGirl: Konoe takes her job as head of the security division very seriously.
39	* ActorAllusion:
40	** In ''Verite'', this isn't the first time Creator/KarenStrassman (Mariel) voiced a character who [[spoiler:[[Manga/DearS was artificially made and won't do anything lest she is ordered to]]]].
41	** In ''Verite'' episode 5, she cosplays as [[Manga/{{Chobits}} Chi]]. Now who voices [[Creator/RieTanaka Mariel]] again?
42	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Taro, who tries to act responsibly despite not always being taken seriously by the maids.
43	* AllergicToLove: In the first series, Taro changes colors and sometimes collapses whenever women (except Mariel) touch him.
44	* AlmostKiss
45	** Episode 10. When Mariel is washing Taro's back after a long day he turns to her and their faces move together...then Ikuyo Suzuki runs in yelling to [[MomentKiller break it up]].
46	** ''La Verite''
47	*** Episode 2. Taro almost kisses Mariel, but it turns out to be a dream.
48	*** Episode 7. After Taro accidentally falls on Mariel, she cups his face in her hands and pulls him toward her. They almost kiss, but Taro pulls away from her.
49	* AlternateContinuity: The first and second series cover slightly different ground.
50	* AttractiveBentGender: Taro got disguised as a maid in episode 15 and crossplays as Mahoro from [[Manga/{{Mahoromatic}} Mahoromatic]] in ''La Verite'' episode 5.
51	* BadLiar: ''La Verite'' episode 11. Ryuuka is revealed as one when she furiously blushes while trying to claim that she just came along to make a mess, as pointed out by Ikuyo Suzuki.
52	* BalloonBelly: In Episode 10, Taro develops a bloated stomach after he's stuffed with food during breakfast, lunch and dinner.
53	* BaseballEpisode: ''La Verite'' episode 6. The maid departments (security, medical, technology etc.) compete in a softball tournament to determine budget allocations.
54	* BathtubScene: In the first episode, Taro is taken to a bath the size of a swimming pool. Also, his maids 'help him bath' by lathering themselves up and rubbing up against him. Remember, this is the season he's allergic to women.
55	* BeachEpisode: During the second half of episode 7, Taro and his maids go to a beach to relax (the first half is a HotSpringsEpisode).
56	* {{BFS}}: Konoe Tsurugi's OneeSama has a huge sword in ''La Verite'' episode 11.
57	* TheBigBoard: Wall screens in the security maids' operations room can show situations that occur in the mansion.
58	* BigEntrance: In episode 5, Konoe is introduced by having her return to the mansion together with a whole squadron of fighting helicopters.
59	* BigFancyHouse: Rule of thumb: When you can park a blimp in the driveway, you've got it made.
60	* BlueWithShock: ''La Verite'' Episode 7. Yashima Sanae goes blue in fear in the underground area when she thinks a monster is approaching.
61	* BookEnds: Lampshaded in ''La Verite''. In episode 1, when Taro first meets Mariel he sees her upside down (he just fell down and she walks up from behind him). In episode 12, the last episode of the series, it happens again. Taro points out that it's the same as when they first met.
62	* BoundAndGagged: ''La Verite'' episode 6. In the BaseballEpisode, the maid acting as an umpire is kidnapped (and shown tied up and gagged) and [[MuggedForDisguise replaced]] with a Technology Department robot.
63	* BreakingTheFourthWall
64	** At the end of episode 11, after Ryuuka has declared that Mariel is her rival for Taro's affection, Grace turns to the audience and says "Is this going to continue?"
65	** ''La Verite'' (2nd season) episode 7. The group encounters a series of odd traps.
66	--->'''Ryuuka:''' Why is this place full of so many lame traps, anyway?\
67	'''Ikuyo Suzuki:''' It's as if the producers wanted to show us how unimaginative they are!
68	* CatapultNightmare: In episode 13, Grace/Cynthia wakes up sitting straight up in bed after having a nightmare about being harassed while at college (she was 6 years old at the time).
69	* CatFight: In ''La Verite'' episode 2, Ryuuka and Mariel have a "swimsuit cavalry battle" in the pool.
70	* ChainOfPeople: In ''La Verite'' episode 7, Taro, Ryuuka and Ikyo Suzuki form a chain of people after they fall over the edge of a cliff while exploring an underground dungeon below the mansion.
71	* ChangelingFantasy: At the beginning of the series, Taro discovers that he belongs to a fabulously wealthy and powerful family.
72	* ClothingDamage: Episode 3. When a WeatherControlMachine explodes, almost all of the maids nearby have their clothing disintegrate.
73	* CompressedHair: Cynthia keeps her hair loose, but on the very same head under the very same cap Grace keeps the very same hair, without changing the volume of the cap itself.
74	* ConfusedQuestionMark
75	** Episode 9. Konoe Tsurugi refuses to have her picture taken because she doesn't want the camera to steal her soul. When she hears this, Mariel has three question marks appear next to her head, one at a time.
76	** Episode 11. When Ryuuka asks Taro if he's interested in someone else, he looks at Mariel. Mariel then has question marks to each side of her head. Later, when Ryuuka appears before Taro in his bath, a question mark appears over his head.
77	** Episode 12. Ryuuka has just given Taro a giant cake shaped like her for his birthday. When she sees him staring at it, a question mark appears over her head.
78	** Episode 15. Taro has a question mark appear above his head several times when he's puzzled.
79	* CooldownHug: Taro gives a hug to Grace in ''La Verite'' episode 3 when the latter is panicking about being merged with Cynthia and erased.
80	* CosplayOtakuGirl: In ''La Verite'' episode 8, Konoe wants to borrow some clothes from Yashima, and we all know how Yashima reacts to Konoe.
81	* CrushBlush: ''La Verite'' episode "Forced Entry". When Ikuyo Suzuki teases Ryuuka about her feelings for Taro, Ryuuka blushes furiously while denying it.
82	%% * CursedWithAwesome: Taro and the maids.
83	* CuteMute: Cynthia from is an adorable, innocent little girl who is completely incapable of any sort of vocalization, due to psychological stress. Her split personality Grace is quite talkative however.
84	* CutenessProximity: ''La Verite'' episode 7. Konoe Tsurugi, normally a stoic badass who speaks in a deep and quiet scary tone, starts gushing whenever she sees a puppy. [[spoiler: She eventually gets her own]].
85	* DemonHead
86	** Episode 8. Head security maid Konoe Tsurugi's head grows large and angry while Taro is trying to get Cynthia to go to sleep.
87	** ''La Verite''
88	*** Episode 1. Ikuyo Suzuki develops a giant angry head when she admits that she was lying.
89	*** Episode 5. Konoe gains a large angry head again when Ryuuka asks to become one of the security maids protecting Taro. Konoe demands to know why they should hire Ryuuka, who is the leader of their enemies the Jihiyou family.
90	*** Episode 12. Two of Taro's personal maids get angry and have large heads when the third keeps Taro to herself.
91	* DisappearedDad: Taro's father does not appear in either series. The manga mentions that he was a painter.
92	* TheDoorSlamsYou: In ''La Verite'' episode 7, As Konoe Tsurugi is waiting on one side of a door, her lieutenant Yashima Sanae slams open the door from the other side and smashes her in the face, giving her a temporary bloody nose.
93	* DopeSlap
94	** Episode 2: The maids use a bright light to cover up their assisting Taro in solving a math problem in class. When one of the maids tries to explain the light as a U.F.O., another maid gives her one of these and tells her to think of a better excuse.
95	** Konoe does it to various maids in both series (particularly Ikuyo Suzuki). Whenever she does, she hits so hard that it causes a lump on their heads.
96	* {{Doujinshi}}: ''La Verite'' episode 5. Ikuyo Suzuki takes the other characters to Comiket.
97	* DropTheWashtub: ''La Verite'' - to Ryuuka in episode 2 and multiple times to Taro in episode 7.
98	* DuelingHackers: In episode 8 Grace defeats an enemy hacking attempt into MEMOL.
99	* EdibleThemeNaming: Taro's personal maids. In the first series they're named Ichigo (strawberry), Ringo (apple), and Sango. In the second they're named Lemon, Marron (cake), and Melon.
100	* EmotionlessGirl: To varying degrees, Grace, Konoe, and Mariel all act in an emotionless manner at times. Grace does it because she's suffering from a split personality, Konoe because she's been trained as a security maid, and Mariel because she's been brainwashed to be the perfect maid for her master Taro.
101	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Okay, Konoe's far from evil, but she's quite cold. [[http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/2483/02-010.0/compressed/hanaukyo_maids_tai_02_ch10_22.jpg And Yet...]]
102	* ExpositionDiagram
103	** Episode 4. Ryuuka uses a series of audience-only diagrams to explain the rivalry between the Jihyou and Hanaukyo families.
104	** Episode 7. While in a hot springs house, Taro's 3 personal maids hold up signs they pull from nowhere to describe the nature and beneficial effects of the hot springs waters.
105	** Episode 10. An audience only example when Mariel lists Taro's daily activities and they appear (as if being typed) in the air over Taro's head, gradually squashing his head down.
106	** ''La Verite'' episode 5. While the protagonists are at Comiket, a message in Japanese appears over Mariel's head.
107	** ''La Verite'' episode 7. During an underground expedition, two of Taro's personal maids hold up signs (which they pulled [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]]) with Japanese writing indicating they give up and don't want to go any further.
108	* EyelidPullTaunt: ''La Verite'' episode 7. Yashima Sanae has been insulted by Ryuuka, who insinuates that she's giving up on the expedition. As Mariel and Yashima Sanae walk off hand in hand, Yashima gives this to Ryuuka.
109	* EyesAlwaysShut: In the first series, Taro always has his eyes shut.
110	* FaceNodAction: In ''La Verite'' episode 11, Taro and Konoe Tsuragi look at each other and nod before escaping the underground area where Mariel was being held.
111	* {{Fanservice}}: The surprising thing is how much more ''blatant'' the first anime was than the original manga. ''Wow''.
112	* FieryRedhead: In ''La Verite'', Ryuuka is a redhead who can develop an awesome temper with little provocation. In the first season, she had brown hair.
113	* FirstGirlWins
114	** Subverted in season 1. While Mariel "won", the first girl Taro met was Sango, who was also his first kiss, and by the end of the first episode she and her sisters had all ''slept with him''.
115	** Played straight in ''La Verite''. Taro met Mariel first and fell in love with her.
116	* FunbagAirbag
117	** Episode 3. After Taro gets off a couch, he accidentally falls face first into Mariel's chest.
118	** Episode 6. While running around a corner, Taro runs into the mansion's nurse.
119	* FuroScene
120	** Taro and several of the maids share a communal bath during the HotSpringsEpisode in ''second'' half of Episode 7.
121	** Taro and Konoe share a waterfall shower in Episode 14.
122	* GadgeteerGenius: Ikuyo Suzuki. Her inventions include a WeatherControlMachine, a giant robot and a [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporting]] vehicle.
123	* GainaxEnding: A mild version in the second series ''La Verite''. Ryuuka proposes marriage to Taro again and beats him up when he doesn't agree, the other maids all try to kiss him but he escapes. He meets Mariel and they walk off into a white background hand in hand.
124	* GroupHug: Taro's personal staff of Ichigo, Ringo, and Sango or Lemon, Marron, and Melon in the second series are undisputed masters of grabbing Taro affectionately.
125	* GunshipRescue: ''La Verite'' episode 11. The gang is being chased by Konoe's sister when [[spoiler: Ryuuka's zeppelin shows up to save the day.]]
126	* {{Hammerspace}}: ''La Verite''. FieryRedhead Ryuuka can pull all sorts of weapons (including pistols, hand grenades and assault rifles) out of nowhere, as she proved in one titanic battle with a HumongousMecha created by Ikuyo Suzuki.
127	* HandOrObjectUnderwear
128	** Episode 11. Taro does it after Ryuuka [[ShowerOfAwkward intrudes into his bath area while he's naked.]]
129	** Episode 14. Taro also does, while bathing with Konoe in the natural hot spring.
130	** ''La Verite'' episode 1. Taro does it when several maids manage to disrobe him without his knowledge to help him get dressed. Later, several maids (including assistant Security chief Yashima Sanae) do it after one of Ikuyo Suzuki's gadgets [[StrippingSnag rips off their clothing]], leaving them naked.
131	* HighPressureBlood: Episode 4. Ryuuka runs headfirst into an I-beam Taro is carrying and blood starts spurting out of her forehead like a geyser.
132	* HollywoodPsych: Grace/Cynthia has a SplitPersonality, with her Grace personality dominant at night and her Cynthia personality in charge during the day. Except when she doesn't.
133	* HotSpringsEpisode: In the second half of episode 7, Taro and some of the maids go to a bathhouse (the first half was a BeachEpisode).
134	* HumongousMecha: In one episode, Ikuyo Suzuki demonstrates her latest creation: a giant robot resembling the Loch Ness Monster.
135	* HydePlaysJekyll: Episode 13. When Cynthia goes to the amusement park, she's actually her other SplitPersonality Grace.
136	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: ''La Verite''. Mariel appears to put Taro's happiness above her own, but it turns out that she's doing it because [[spoiler:she's been brainwashed since childhood into being his perfect slave...er, maid]].
137	* IndyEscape
138	** Episode 1. While Taro is walking down some stairs he accidentally steps on a trap trigger and a giant ball drops from above and starts rolling down the stairs after him.
139	** ''La Verite'' episode 7. While exploring an underground area below the mansion, Taro, Ryuuka, and Ikuyo Suzuki have to run from a giant ball after Ikuyo presses a button she shouldn't have.
140	* InsistentTerminology: Yashima Sanae being called "Sanae" and saying that Yashima is her first name.
141	* InstantSedation: ''La Verite'' episode 8. Three security maids are rendered unconscious in seconds with a drugged handkerchief.
142	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Konoe, especially in 'La Verite''. She starts off very stern and strict with Taro, but ends up becoming friendly toward him.
143	* JetPack: ''La Verite'' episode 11. Konoe's OneeSama has a JetPack as part of her armor, which she uses to pursue the protagonist party as they escape via elevator after rescuing Mariel.
144	* {{Joshikousei}}: In ''La Verite'' episode 8, Konoe and Yashima Sanae both dress in sailor fuku costumes.
145	* LittleMissSnarker: The little girl maid Grace likes to make sarcastic and snarky comments to her master Taro and the other maids.
146	* LookBehindYou: ''La Verite'' episode 4. While Taro is out on the town, security maid Konoe shows up with her sword. When the passersby see the sword and become afraid, Taro distracts them by yelling "What is that giant furry seal doing there!" When the passersby look where he's pointing, Taro leads Konoe away.
147	* LuminescentBlush: ''La Verite'' episode 2. During Taro's dream, Taro and Mariel both blush to demonstrate their attraction to each other.
148	* MadScientist: Head maid of the Technology Department Ikuyo Suzuki sometimes becomes a mad scientist. When she does so, her spectacles become ScaryShinyGlasses. In ''La Verite'', her face usually gets distorted as well.
149	* MaidCorps: The Hanaukyo maid teams loyally serve Taro, their master. The title group of the series, and the TropeNamer (''tai'' means "team, corps") ''and'' co-TropeCodifier. It also depicts the gender-flipped version (Ryuuka's menservants).
150	* MarshmallowHell
151	** Episode 1. Two of Taro's personal maids sandwich him between their chests when they reveal that they're in the bath with Taro. Seconds later, when a large group of maids all charge at Taro in the bath while they're all naked, one hugs him to her breasts against his will.
152	** Episode 12. Taro's three personal maids GroupHug him while he's taking a bath. Like the above example, they're all naked.
153	** Episode 14. Konoe doesn't notice her breasts bouncing against Taro's face while she's pressed behind him while teaching him martial arts moves.
154	** In Episode 12 of ''La Verite'', one of Taro's personal maids does this to him [[ThanksForTheMammary after he accidentally grabs one of her breasts]] when trying to turn off the alarm clock. The two other maids get jealous and want to join in on it as well.
155	* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: In episode 14, Konoe Tsurugi and Taro stand under a waterfall and concentrate while she's training him.
156	* {{Meido}}: Very nearly the ''[[MaidCorps entire cast]]'' of ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'' are maids.
157	* MissingMom: Taro's mother dies in the BackStory just before the series begins.
158	* MomentKiller
159	** Episode 10. When Mariel is washing Taro's back after a long day he turns to her and their faces move together for an AlmostKiss... then Ikuyo Suzuki runs in yelling to break it up.
160	** Episode 15. When Taro and Mariel are having an intimate moment, an unnamed (as yet) Yashima Sanae breaks into their room in search of Taro (who was identified as an intruder earlier while in disguise).
161	* MuggedForDisguise: In Episode 6 of ''La Verite'', one maid acting as the umpire during the baseball game is replaced by a robot wearing her outfit by the Technology Department. The real maid is briefly shown BoundAndGagged in her underwear and hidden somewhere.
162	* MuggingTheMonster: Episode 5. While Taro and Konoe are out of the mansion, they're approached by three thugs who proposition Konoe and grab Taro. Konoe responds with martial arts attacks that quickly drive the thugs off.
163	* NaiveNewcomer: Taro is constantly befuddled by what happens at the mansion each episode throughout both series as he's continually hit by new information and surprises.
164	* NeckLift: ''La Verite'' episode 11. Konoe's OneeSama grabs Yashima Sanae by the neck and lifts her into the air while fighting her and does the same thing to Taro when he insists on trying to rescue Mariel.
165	* NinjaMaid: Chief Security Maid Konoe Tsurugi is a ComicallySerious katana-wielding warrior maid and Taro's personal bodyguard. Her lieutenant Yashima Sana is almost as tough as she is.
166	* NoblewomansLaugh: Ryuuka Jihiyou, a high ranking member of the powerful Jihiyou family, uses a high pitched superior laugh on a regular basis.
167	* OcularGushers: Chief Technology maid Ikuyo Suzuki is prone to have tears flow out freely. Taro has a large tearfall in episode 13 and 14 and ''La Verite'' episode 7.
168	* OnOneCondition: Imposed on Ryuuka by her grandfather. She must marry Taro in order to become the new head of her family.
169	* OffscreenTeleportation: ''La Verite'' episode 9. Taro is standing on the ground with Mariel and looking through a fence. Taro wishes they could get a good view of the sunset. We lose sight of Mariel, and four seconds later she calls out to Taro from the roof of a nearby building.
170	* OneHeadTaller: Gender flipped: Mariel is one head taller than Taro, despite being the girl.
171	* OneeSama: ''La Verite'' episode 10. Konoe refers to her mentor Shikouin as "Nee-Sama".
172	* {{Otaku}}: Ikuyo Suzuki, head maid of the Technology department. She writes and sells her own manga.
173	* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: The message Taro gets from his grandfather in the manga's first chapter destroys itself.
174	* ParentalAbandonment: Both of Taro's parents are dead, and both of Cynthia's parents gave her up to the Hanaukyo family.
175	* PenPushingPresident: In one episode, Taro finds that one of his daily duties as head of the family is going through a huge pile of paperwork and signing documents.
176	* PeopleJars: ''La Verite'' episode 11. Taro finds Mariel stored in a jar of liquid in an underground room.
177	* PinPullingTeeth: ''La Verite'' episode 7. While running away from a giant rolling ball, Ryuuka produces a grenade and pulls the pin with her teeth.
178	* PuppyDogEyes
179	** Episode 1. Taro's 3 personal maids make their eyes large when he orders them not to touch him while he's in the bath.
180	** Episode 2. Ikuyo Suzuki shows large eyes (with tears) to Taro when she thinks that she might be laid off.
181	** Episode 10. Taro's personal maids have large eyes when he asks to be allowed to dress himself and his maid cooks give him the eye treatment when he can't eat all the food they've prepared for him.
182	** Episode 15. Ikuyo Suzuki uses large appealing eyes on Taro again to persuade him to wear a maid's uniform.
183	** ''La Verite'' episode 4. Konoe meets a little lost girl who tears up and develops large eyes when Konoe asks who she is.
184	%% * QuiveringEyes: Especially the first series.
185	* RedAlert: Happens several times in the anime (both seasons) when an emergency occurs in the mansion, sometimes with rotating lights and sirens.
186	%% * RedEyesTakeWarning: Konoe in ''La Verite'' episode 7.
187	* SameSexTriplets: Ichigo, Ringo and Sango. These three maids appear to be identical in all ways.
188	* {{Samurai}}: Chief Security maid Konoe Tsurugi clearly has had military training, especially in the katana, which shows in her demeanor.
189	* ScaryShinyGlasses
190	** The Meganekko maid Ikuyo Suzuki's glasses shine whenever she's being cunning or scary.
191	** Taro's grandfather in ''La Verite'' episode 1 has shiny glasses.
192	* SceneryCensor
193	** In episode 6, a female school teacher strips naked in front of her class of children. One of the children's heads blocks the view of her groin and moves as needed to prevent any viewing of it.
194	** In episode 12's opening title, a nude Mariel is on the screen. As the camera pans down, Taro's head pops up to cover her genitals.
195	* SchmuckBait: ''La Verite'' episode 7.
196	** Taro and several of the maids explore a mysterious underground corridor. They've already discovered that the place is filled with booby traps. They encounter a rope suspended from the ceiling. Both Ryuuka and Ikuyo Suzuki thinks it's a pinata and want to pull it but Konoe orders them not to. Konoe accidentally trips and pulls it herself, then falls into an opening that appears in the floor.
197	** Later on, we find Taro, Ryuuka and Ikuyo Suzuki [[IndyEscape running from a giant rolling ball]]. A FlashBack shows a large button with a skull on it, then Ikuyo Suzuki says, "It was staring at me as if it wanted me to push it!"
198	* ScoobyStack
199	** Original series episode 7. While Taro is in the hot springs changing room, his 3 personal maids form a stack around the corner of the door.
200	** ''La Verite'' episode 8. Three of the security maids protecting Taro during a trip to the city stack themselves behind a vending machine while following him.
201	* SecurityCling: ''La Verite''
202	** Yashima Sanae jumps into Konoe Tsurugi's arms in the opening titles.
203	** Episode 7. After Konoe regains consciousness in an underground room, her terrified assistant Yashima Sanae runs into the room and performs a full body (arms ''and'' legs) frontal Glomp on her.
204	* SelfDestructMechanism: During the hacking incident in episode 8, it's mentioned that the mansion has a self-destruct system accessible through the MEMOL supercomputer.
205	* SensorSuspense: ''La Verite'' episode 10. Multiple intruders are detected, and a [[TheBigBoard giant screen]] in the security maid's HQ shows their position as they move through the mansion.
206	* SequentialArtist: Episode 5. Ikuyo Suzuki reveals that she's a mangaka and takes the main characters to Comiket to sell her {{Doujinshi}}, which features a (fictional) relationship between the maids Yashima Sanae and Konoe Tsurugi.
207	* ShoutOut: At one point, Konoe and Yashima are cosplaying in maid uniforms from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Konoe even has a sword hidden in her broomstick.
208	* SkinshipGrope: During the episode 7 HotSpringsEpisode, Ikyo Suzuki comes up behind Mariel and wraps her arms around her chest to feel her breasts.
209	* SleepingDummy: ''La Verite'' episode 9. Taro puts a dummy in his bed to trick his personal care maids into thinking he's still in it.
210	* SmashingWatermelons: Episode 9. Taro and the maids forget to play the smashing watermelons game during their BeachEpisode, so they do it while most of the mansion's maids have gone home on vacation. Security chief Konoe, who is an expert with the sword, cuts a watermelon perfectly in half multiple times.
211	* SoftReboot: The series was first animated in 2001, but production problems caused its premature ending. It was rebooted in 2004 as ''Hanaukyō Maid Tai: La Verite''. The second series takes place in the same continuity, with a number of differences (both small and large) between it and the first show.
212	* SpitTake
213	** First season episode 5. Taro spits out what's in his mouth when Chief Security maid Konoe asks him why he doesn't just sleep with Mariel.
214	** ''La Verite'' episode 8. Konoe spits out liquid when her assistant Yashima Sanae asks her if she's in love with their master Taro.
215	* SplitPersonality: Grace/Cynthia has two personalities: Grace (highly intelligent and abrasive) and Cynthia (sweet, childlike and mute).
216	* StrippingSnag: In episode 1 of ''La Verite'', Ikuyo Suzuki's gadget rips the clothes of several maids right off their bodies.
217	* SuggestiveCollision: ''La Verite'' episode 7.
218	** After an earthquake, Taro ends up lying face down on Mariel.
219	** The puppy Fenrir jumps on Taro and knocks him down, causing him to fall face down on top of Mariel. They end up in an AlmostKiss.
220	* SurpriseVehicle: ''La Verite'' episode 1. When the maids pick up Taro and Mariel in a helicopter, it appears right next to them with no noise warning of its approach.
221	* SwordPointing: Chief Security Maid Konoe Tsurugi's "sister" points her sword at Konoe in Episode 8 while training her in swordplay, and points it at Konoe's lieutenant Yashima Sanae during a confrontation in episode 10.
222	* TantrumThrowing: In episode 13, when Taro can't tell Grace what he wants, she starts throwing things at him and tells him to get out.
223	* TapOnTheHead: ''La Verite'' episode 2. While Ryuuka and Mariel are in a contest, Ryuuka is hit on the head by a falling heavy metal basin and knocked unconscious. It turns out she was supposed to catch it.
224	* TeamShot: At the end of the ''La Verite'' opening credits, all of the main maid characters and Taro are in a line facing the audience.
225	* TemptingFate: ''La Verite'' episode 7. Ryuuka is standing in an underground tunnel which has shown itself to be trapped. She says "I'm not like Taro. There's no way I'm going to do anything dumb." Immediately thereafter she accidentally pushes a brick into the wall with her elbow, causing a metal pan to drop from the ceiling onto Taro's head. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Ryuuka herself immediately afterward: "Boy, I sure set myself up."
226	* ThisIsUnforgivable: ''La Verite'' episode 9. After Lemon, Marron, and Melon speak rudely to Captain Konoe Tsurugi, Konoe's lieutenant Yashima Sanae tells them "Speaking so rudely to captain...unforgivable!" She then chases them away.
227	* ThunderingHerd
228	** Episode 1 introduces the male lead to his new staff as they charge in a cloud of squeals, aprons, and barely repressed [[LoliconAndShotacon shotacon]].
229	** In episode 12 all of the maids charge Taro to give him birthday presents.
230	** In ''La Verite'' episode 1 the maids charge Taro en masse in the (giant) bath room, while they and he are naked.
231	* TrainingFromHell
232	** In episode 14 Konoe takes Taro into the mountains and puts him through training worthy of a martial arts movie. Running, standing under a waterfall, etc.
233	** ''La Verite''
234	*** Episode 5. Ryuuka joins the household as a maid and takes over the division that serves Taro personally, putting them through a harsh workout.
235	*** Episode 6. Most of the maid departments go through vigorous physical training to prepare for a softball tournament.
236	* TrapDoor: In ''La Verite'' episode 5, Ikuyo Suzuki uses a trap door to send Ryuuka down a garbage chute.
237	* {{Tsundere}}: In ''La Verite'', Ryuuka is harsh and insulting to her intended husband Taro most of the time (e.g. calling him "midget"), but will on rare occasions shows her attraction and liking for him.
238	* ATwinkleInTheSky: ''La Verite''
239	** Episode 2, when Taro is kicked into the sky by Ryuuka he ends up as a twinkle of light.
240	** Episode 7, when Ryuuka uses a grenade underground she becomes a twinkle.
241	* UnexpectedInheritance: Taro Hanaukyo inherits a vast fortune, a mansion, hundreds of maids and the position of family leader after his grandfather retires.
242	* UnknownRival: Ryuuka, the pompous rich leader of the Jihiyou rival house. In episodes 7 and 11 of the first series Taro doesn't know who she is, even though he met her in episode 4.
243	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: In one episode, Taro dresses up as a maid. The other maids (except the one who convinced him to do so) are really shocked when he reveals his true self.
244	%% ** [[spoiler:Jii]], in chapter 36 of the manga.
245	* UnwantedHarem: Hanaukyo Taro inherited his grandfather's fortune and, with that, hundreds of maids willing to serve him. In each season he has three personal maids who constantly try to seduce him. The problem: he's only a child.
246	* VisibleSilence: Ryuuka stands in silence when she first learns Taro is the new head of the Hanaukyo family.
247	* WeatherControlMachine: Episode 3. Ikuyo Suzuki's greatest invention, Tenki-kun, can control the weather. Too bad she can't control him.
248	* WelcomeEpisode: The first episode of each series, as Taro becomes the new head of the Hanaukyo family and meets the mansion's maids.
249	* WhamEpisode: ''La Verite'' episode 7 "Unidentified Living Creature". Up to this point in the series, the episodes had been light-hearted and comedic. An earthquake reveals a tunnel leading under the mansion. Deep underground the mansion, there's a smaller duplicate mansion. Inside the duplicate mansion, Chief Security maid Konoe Tsurugi finds on old portrait of a woman who looks exactly like Head Maid Mariel. This leads to a chain of events that results in Mariel falling deathly ill, being kidnapped by Taro's grandfather's minions and having to be rescued, all as part of the grandfather's plans.
250	* WheelOfFeet: ''La Verite''
251	** Episode 5
252	*** After Konoe Tsurugi is taken away by Comiket security, Yashima Sanae spins her feet like wheels while following after her.
253	*** After Taro is forced to dress as a maid and sell Ikuyo Suzuki's manga, he loses it and runs away with his feet wheeling around.
254	** Taro's personal maids (Lemon, Marron and Melon) run their feet in circles while carrying Ryuuka to Taro.
255	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Grace is considerably more intelligent and wiser than the other maids, even though she's younger than they are.
256	* XRaySparks: Episode 10. Ikuyo Suzuki puts Taro in an electrified chair to help him stop falling asleep while studying. When he's shocked, his skeleton can be seen through his skin.
257	* YamatoNadeshiko: Head maid Mariel is attentive, polite, demure, intelligent and capable enough to be the head maid. Although she's always obedient to Taro's wishes, she can usually get him to do what she wants anyway. The best example is in episode 10, where she gets him to do his chores by saying she'll have to lay off maids if he doesn't. She's much more so in the first season than later. [[spoiler: Deconstructed in La Verite.]]
258	* YaoiFangirl: ''La Verite'' episode 5. Ikuyo Suzuki makes yaoi doujinshi and drags the others with her to Comiket to sell them.
259	%% * YouShallNotPass: Twice in ''La Verite'' episode 11.

Context Manga / HanaukyoMaidTeam