From a young age, Yuki was told that her only worth was as a killer. She was trained as an assassin who became renowned for her ruthlessness, efficiency, and always following orders.
However, after leaving that all behind, she arrives at the home of Hitoyoshi Yokoya, a teen boy who lives alone, and asks to be employed as his maid.
I don’t know what it is about older women becoming maids for younger men, but it seems to be their passion. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like You Are Ms. Servant, head on down below.
Anime Like You Are Ms. Servant
For Fans of Mysterious Maids
The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious
After the death of his family, Yuuri has been left by himself to care for his large estate. As he isn’t equipped to do much of anything around the house as a noble, he hires some help.
Lilith is a beautiful young maid who makes delicious food, cleans his home, and takes excellent care of him. However, Yuuri finds her perfection entirely too suspicious.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious
- Boy who lives alone suddenly gets an slightly older maid
- The maid is mysterious and doesn’t talk about her past much
- The maid’s past and why she works for the boy is slowly revealed
- Both offer a similar balance of slice of life comedy, romance, and a bit of emotional drama.
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious
- The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious is mostly set in a mansion or a fancy private school. It is somewhat unclear if it is set in modern Tokyo, but regardless the wealth on display is quite different from You Are Ms. Servant.
- The maid in The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious wasn’t an assassin, thus there is no action.
- While it gets more serious and develops a plot as it goes on, The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious starts out as mostly comical skits about a master being suspicious of his too-perfect maid.
- While not ecchi,The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious definitely can be provocative.
The Duke of Death and His Maid
After being cursed by a witch as a child, any living thing that the young duke touches will wither and die. Feared by his mother, he is sent to live in a mansion in the woods.
While secluded, he is not entirely alone.
He was accompanied by his aging butler Rob as well as his maid, Alice. Despite not being able to touch him, Alice enjoys teasing the young lord and her lack of fear allows them to grow closer, eventually spurring the duke’s desire to lift his curse.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and The Duke of Death and His Maid
- Man lives mostly alone with his doting maid
- Romance starts to bloom between man and maid
- The maid’s past and why she likes that particular boy is slowly revealed
- Mostly slice of life and romance, but occasional moments of action
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and The Duke of Death and His Maid
- The Duke of Death is about a boy cursed so that everything he touches dies. The plot eventually moves from slice of life and flirting to him trying to break that curse.
- The Duke of Death features an aristocratic, supernatural world. It is not set in modern Japan like You Are Ms. Servant.
- The maid in The Duke of Death isn’t a combatant, she is just very flirty and mysterious.
Mahoromatic
Although once a powerful battle robot, Mahoro is reaching the end of her operating life. If she conserves her energy, she is given just over a year to live.
So, she decides to live the rest of her life as a maid for a messy middle schooler named Suguru who lives alone after losing his parents.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Mahoromatic
- Boy suddenly gains a maid he didn’t hire that specifically chose to move in with him.
- Maid used to be a soldier/assassin.
- Both have a similar balance of slice of life and romance, but also have moments of action where the maid is attacked by people from her past.
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Mahoromatic
- Mahoromatic is more frequent and intense with its comedy, being distinctly more silly than You Are Ms. Servant.
- Mahoromatic occasionally uses ecchi comedy
- Mahoromatic is about a combat android with a dwindling lifespan who decides to live out her remaining years as a maid to a boy slowly falling for her.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.
Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Person who lives alone one day gains a random maid they didn’t hire who just shows up to work and live there.
- The maid was a dangerous individual who has left that behind in order to commit to being a maid, but their past comes back to haunt them.
- Wholesome found family elements
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid does indeed have a dragon who transformed into a human maid to serve the office lady that saved her.
- The romance content in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is kept, likely intentionally, vague as it is about two women who are eventually raising a child together.
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid lacks the more serious moments of action and drama that you see in You Are Ms. Servant. It is primarily just pleasant slice of life and comedy.
For Fans of Killers Looking for Peaceful Lives
Violet Evergarden
After the Great War and her time in it came to an end, Violet Evergarden is adrift. Her purpose was once only battle, and now she must find a new one.
After recovering from the loss of her arms, Violet takes up a job at the CH Postal Services. Here she transcribes people’s thoughts into what should be emotional letters. While the “emotional” part seems to greatly escape her, she aims to learn how to move people with words.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Violet Evergarden
- Deadly woman who has only known a life of combat suddenly starts living like a normal person
- The emotional muted ex-soldiers have huge knowledge gaps and initially have trouble integrating into society
- They devote themselves wholly to being successful at their new jobs
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Violet Evergarden
- Violet Evergarden is set in a fictional World War I-inspired steampunk sort of world rather than modern Japan like You Are Ms. Servant.
- Violet Evergarden doesn’t have a romance until far later in the series, the main character also isn’t a maid with a master so she often has to struggle through difficulties on her own.
- Violet Evergarden is all various short arcs that are written to emotionally hurt you with their sad stories.
- While it has everything You Are Ms. Servant has – slice of life, comedy, drama, light action, romance – Violet Evergarden does all that under an atmospheric, fairly melancholy tone.
Prima Doll
The Black Cat Cafe is a small cafe in the Imperial Capital. After the war ended and having lost all purpose in the world, advanced mechanical dolls known as Automata that once served as weapons of war have recently been restored and are being deployed to work as waitstaff at the cafe.
With their memories reset and needing to adjust to an unfamiliar world of peace, the Automata of the Black Cat Cafe struggle to find their place. However, they soon come to rely on each other as a source of support.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Prima Doll
- Girls who were formerly used as soldiers are now starting their new civilian life as service industry workers.
- The girls struggle with their past as they embrace the small joys of their peaceful new life
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Prima Doll
- Prima Doll is about robots that were used as weapons of war being decommissioned and now working in a cafe.
- Prima Doll takes place in a urban fantasy sort of world rather than modern Tokyo like You Are Ms. Servant.
- Prima Doll is very clearly a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things cute slice of life anime, but with an extra layer of post-combat trauma.
- There is no romantic element in Prima Doll
For Fans of Found Families
Spy X Family
There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.
He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.
Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.
However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Spy X Family
- Master assassins suddenly start living a normal life
- Cute slice of life comedy and occasional moments of action
- Wholesome found family elements
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Spy X Family
- Spy X Family has a master spy accidentally building a fake family as a cover with a psychic child and an assassin using HIM as a cover.
- Spy X Family goes a lot more wacky with its comedy, and uses that that far more frequently.
- The action in Spy X Family is big, silly, and more frequent whereas the action in You are Ms. Servant is sparse and serious.
- Spy X Family has some moments, but widely ignores romance as a focus.
Hinamatsuri
One night, an object falls through space and time into the living room of dignified yakuza member Nitta. The object turns out to be a strange girl with psychic powers, but Nitta is reluctant to both take her in and to accept her offer to make use of those powers.
Respecting his decision to not use her as a tool, this girl, named Hina, decides to help him anyway as they begin their life together.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Hinamatsuri
- Emotionally-muted human weapon finds a home with a man who lives alone
- They bond and become closer as a supportive found family
- Others from the girl’s past come to shake things up
- Mostly slice of life and comedy, but small moments of action
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Hinamatsuri
- Hinamatsuri is a comedy series, primarily. It undercuts everything, even the emotional moments, with a joke.
- There is no romance in Hinamatsuri
- Hinamatsuri follows an escaped girl with psychic powers moving in with an adult yakuza thug
Buddy Daddies
Kazuki and Rei are roommates that also work as professional mercenaries while they each flee from their grim memories through the dangerous work.
However, while carrying out an assassination on Christmas Eve, their paths cross with four-year-old Miri who traveled to Tokyo by herself, told by her mother who abandoned her to go find her father. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her father was their mark whom they successfully took out.
Now saddled with a small child, this pair of grown men struggle to adjust to being new parents while also balancing it with their dangerous job.
Similarities Between You Are Ms. Servant and Buddy Daddies
- Hired killers are learning new family life skills
- Similar balance between cute slice of life comedy, emotional drama, and light action
- Wholesome found family elements that help cool and/or damaged personalities grow into loving people
Differences Between You Are Ms. Servant and Buddy Daddies
- Buddy Daddies is about two mercenaries that end up raising an abandoned child together
- There is no romance in Buddy Daddies
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