Hanaukyo Maids – Manga – 14

Yeah, yeah, it’s been a while since I last posted anything. Hey, I’ve got a life, k?

Anyway, I’ve just finished reading all 14 volumes of Hanaukyo Maids… and I’m still kinda confused…

The story started out really light hearted: a boy (Taro) finds a mansion that his grandfather has left for him, with an ecosystem of maids. Nice harem. Most of the story follows Taro as he gets used to the life of a rich kid, and learning more about his maid-infested mansion. Sounds nice and light, right?

Then, the story starts to turn dark… Mariel, a maid that Taro likes, seems incapable of doing anything of her own will – she’s been programmed to do everything that Taro wants… When Taro coerce her to express her true feelings, she collapsed, gets taken away, and gets pickled in a jar. Then, the entire Taro + maid team sets off to safe her, have a fight with his grandpa’s own maids, and saves Mariel. Ok at this point… I can’t help but get confused: what happened to the loving grandpa? It appeared that he did that to get Taro and Mariel closer. Ok, fair enough. But it’s still kind of a weird thing for a loving grandpa to do to his own grandson, yeah?

Then, the story goes from dark to sinister… we now have a whole mansion buried underground. And in it, is a huge potrait of Mariel, sit-posing like an elegant woman, rather than the maid that she is. Lots of secrets and foreshadowing… some of the maids starts to feel left out… we get an attack from some guy who infiltrated the mansion and end up hurting some of the maids (NOOOOO)…

Then, the story goes from sinister to… WTF… we find out that Mariel was a Hanaukyo. Her mom was killed. The grandpa was involved. She becomes a desolute soul… until she meets a young man (who looks a LOT like Taro… only older) who ended up painting her potrait (that was in the mansion)… he got killed. Once again, I think the grandpa was involved. She gets killed (this time, I’m pretty sure the grandpa wasn’t involved). Grandpa ordered Cynthia (who, btw, is the cutest, split-personality girl I’ve ever seen) to clone Mariel. Somethings happen. The dead young man who painted Mariel was ALSO cloned. That’s Taro. The grandpa no longer ressembles a loving, perverted old man. Instead, he’s got wires for neck…. wires for limbs… wires for everything. I have a feeling he resents himself (because old Mariel resented him for killing her mom), so he created Taro in the other young man’s image to gain new Mariel’s love and affection, and now wants to transfer himself into Taro to enjoy Mariel’s affection (how the fuck does this even make sense?)…

Then we have the finale… the maid team comes. Mariel comes. They fight some more of the old man’s maids. Mariel confronts old man. Saves Taro. Tries to off herself, but gets saved by Taro before she does. Collapses. Taro carries her out to the waiting maids. They go home, old man gets killed by his own maid (whom was ordered by him to kill Mariel’s mom and old Taro). Think Taro leaves the mansion to do some soul searching, while the maids fix the house while waiting for him to return again (I think)….

WTF? I’m sorry if my description of the finale is kinda weird… that’s because I have fucking idea what I’ve just read… Was merely flipping through the pages while reading parts of the dialogues. The story has changed sooo much since the first volume, … heck, the story has changed sooooooo much since volume 12.5!

But in anycase, it was an enjoyable (though albeit weird) journey. I thought it kinda sucked that Taro left the mansion in the end. Would’ve loved it if he had continued staying with his harem. Not complaining… well,… maybe just a little.

After doing programming non-stop for the past 1.5 years, I’m not sure if I can formulate proper sentences anymore. So pardon me if this post re

ads like a broken recorder.

Peace out, y’all!