A thousand times this. I totally loved Mahoromatic back in the day, in fact it was shaping up to be one of my favorite series... then the last episode came around, and the bullshit just kept on flooding.Casual Shinji said:
The show is about a powerful female android warrior, Mahoro, created with alien technology to fight against said alien invaders in secret in space. She is ridiculously powerful, however using her powers cuts into her lifespan, so when she only has one year left she asks to be relieved to duty and becomes the maid of this boy. The reason for that is that he is the son of her dead commander who died during a mission and she feels guilty about it, so she wants to atone and make amends to the boy as the las thing she does.
After this the first 90% of the series is wacky comedy, with a large number of supporting characters and a very lovable core cast, interspersed with a number of short fight-scenes every here and there when Mahoro's past catches up with her. However, during all this time there is a ticking clock, and at the end of each episode it tells us how many days she has left. Overall it was a fun, lighthearted and very engaging story with a few darker edges.
And then in the end it all turns into a clusterfuck, it turns out that the aliens willingly gave the tech to humanity to build Mahoro because they deemed that human culture would be more accepting of them if they fought first or something, then another group steals this technology and starts building their won androids, culminating in a final battle where Mahoro sacrifices herself in a giant explosion... and then we cut something like thirty years later in the future, where the planet turned into a dystopia and the male lead became a forty-something years old alcoholic bum who goes around hunting down the remaining androids of said organization, and then gets impaled at the end... at which point the alien queen just coincidentally decides that they have spent enough time on Earth already and it's time to look for other intelligent life, so they leave, but before that she resurrects Mahoro, because why not, and the whole show ends on an ambiguous WTF note...
After this the first 90% of the series is wacky comedy, with a large number of supporting characters and a very lovable core cast, interspersed with a number of short fight-scenes every here and there when Mahoro's past catches up with her. However, during all this time there is a ticking clock, and at the end of each episode it tells us how many days she has left. Overall it was a fun, lighthearted and very engaging story with a few darker edges.
And then in the end it all turns into a clusterfuck, it turns out that the aliens willingly gave the tech to humanity to build Mahoro because they deemed that human culture would be more accepting of them if they fought first or something, then another group steals this technology and starts building their won androids, culminating in a final battle where Mahoro sacrifices herself in a giant explosion... and then we cut something like thirty years later in the future, where the planet turned into a dystopia and the male lead became a forty-something years old alcoholic bum who goes around hunting down the remaining androids of said organization, and then gets impaled at the end... at which point the alien queen just coincidentally decides that they have spent enough time on Earth already and it's time to look for other intelligent life, so they leave, but before that she resurrects Mahoro, because why not, and the whole show ends on an ambiguous WTF note...
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