Shinichiro Kimura
Director
Hand Maid May (2000)
Season 1
Saotome Kazuya is threatened with a computer virus. Trying to stop the virus, he makes a special order. May is a cyberdoll that arrives at his door a few minutes later and she is 1/6th the size of a normal person.
Released July 26, 2000
Episode 23 min
None+
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Anime, Anime: Ecchi, Anime: Harem, Comedy
Keywords: imdb.maid-uniform, imdb.maid-outfit, imdb.robot-sci-fi, imdb.robot, imdb.android, imdb.maid, imdb.anime-animation + 7 more, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, tmdb.romance, tmdb.ecchi, tmdb.comedy, tmdb.science-fiction, imdb.ecchi, mdblist.anime-dub
Production Companies: Pioneer Entertainment, TNK
Network: WOWOW Prime
S1E1 - Hello!
After his computer is infected with a virus, by his self-proclaimed rival Nanbara, a package appears at computer programmer Satome Kazuya's doorstep the next day. The package contains a 12" tall Cyberdoll named May.
July 26, 2000, midnight
S1E2 - Am I Being Helpful?
After telling May to stay in the apartment, Kazuya goes off to school. Later, Nanbara calls Kazuya's apartment only to hear a woman's voice on the other end, and soon tries to sabotage the relationship he believes Kazuya is having with a secret woman. Also, another Cyberdoll named Sara has come to collect the bill for May. [1,450,000 Yen]
Aug. 2, 2000, midnight
S1E3 - What Should I Do...
Sara, after having trouble collecting the payment for May, sends for another Cyberdoll to get the payment, or get May back.
Aug. 9, 2000, midnight
S1E4 - Please Don't Look!
Cyberdoll Kei, sent by Sara pretends to be a fellow AI researcher, to meet with Kei. After they meet, she is amazed by the emotions May, a Cyberdoll displays towards him.
Aug. 16, 2000, midnight
S1E5 - Thank You...For Everything...
Kazuya finally realizes that he can never afford to pay for May, so he must give her back. So, on their last day together Kei and May spend the day at an amusement park so that they can enjoy the time they have left. After May is gone, "Cyber X", an apparent android shows up at Kazuya's apartment and makes him an offer...
Aug. 23, 2000, midnight
S1E6 - More! More!
After May returns, Kei starts work as a lab assistant at the university. Later, everyone goes to the annual fireworks festival, where Nanbara meets the now full-sized May, and immediately falls in love with her.
Aug. 30, 2000, midnight
S1E7 - There's No Time, Is There?
Cyberdoll Mami arrives, and soon arranges a "marriage mixer." Later, Mami again tries to make a match by having Kazuya and May go shopping together, alone. But Mami visit is not just for leisure, she soon reveals that May and Kei's time together may be cut short again...
Sept. 6, 2000, midnight
S1E8 - I Want A Lot More!
The characters work to protect the ladder between Kazuka's apartment and Kasumi's room from a terrible typhoon. We also discover more of Kasumi and Kazuka, and their relationship...
Sept. 13, 2000, midnight
S1E9 - Even Though...I Believe
"Commando Z, the wandering president of Cyberdyne," mysterically appears, and has come to discover why a potentially fatal 'virus' is afflicting all of the Cyberdolls, except for May...
Sept. 20, 2000, midnight
S1E10 - May 100%
In the series finale, it is discovered that the deadly Cyberdoll virus was created within May when she was converted from 1/6 scale to full size. "Commando Z" reveals himself to be a time-traveler from the future to dicover the virus' origins and stop it before it destys all the Cyberdolls. Since May is immune to the virus, she volunteers herself to be infected with it to allow further study on the virus and a possible cure. But everyone is worried that May may not make it out alive...
Sept. 27, 2000, midnight
WOWOW Prime
23 min/ep
230 min
July 26, 2000
Sept. 27, 2000, midnight
Ended
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