History Manga / Mahoromatic

%%* CatSmile: Chizuko displays these occasionally.

* {{Bishounen}}: Upon entering the school, Ryuga elicits the [[{{Squee}} standard reaction]] from the female student body.

** Suguro has this thought when he thinks about Mahoro finding his dirty magazines while cleaning his room. He rushes home and finds out that his room is spotless now, and his magazines are laid neatly on top of each other on his desk. Cue Mahoro lecturing him on naughty magazines.

* CatchPhrase: "I think dirty thoughts are bad!" An idea that seems common to all androids and cyborgs alike.

%%* TeensAreShort: As established in the first season opening's group shot.

%%* TheThingThatGoesDoink:
%%** At the hot springs in episode 10.
%%** Also a visit to Rin's house in the second season.

* FanService: From the maid who insists on bathing with her employer, to the [[GagBoobs well-endowed]] teacher who [[{{Ephebophile}} lusts after schoolboys]], to the giant mechanical crab that rips off women's swimsuits, this series certainly isn't lacking for FanService.

* GagBoobs: Miss Shikijo. Even more so with that BreastExpansion device...

* BuxomIsBetter:

%%* {{Gainaxing}}: In abundance. This ''is'' made by Gainax after all.

''Mahoromatic'' is a {{Seinen}} manga originally written by Bunjūrō Nakayama and illustrated by Bow Ditama, which ran from 1998 to 2004 in ''Comic Gum''. In 2001, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Creator/StudioGainax and Shaft, and directed by Gainax co-founder Hiroyuki Yamaga.

[[caption-width-right:250:I think dirty thoughts are bad!]]

* ActionGirl: Mahoro

* ApologizesALot: Minawa.

* AwardBaitSong: "Kaerimichi", the first OP.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Mostly averted.
* BalloonBelly: Chizuko in episode 4.

* BeachEpisode: Episode 4.

* CatSmile: Chizuko displays these occasionally.
* ChefOfIron: Mahoro.
* ChekhovsGunman: See {{Foreshadowing}}.
* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 5 of season 2.

* EmotionlessGirl: Minawa seems to do this a lot.

* {{Gainaxing}}: In abundance. This ''is'' made by Gainax after all.
* GiantEnemyCrab: A robotic version.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Shikijo-sensei.

* HiddenEyes: Mahoro.

* HotForStudent: Shikijo takes this to the extreme.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Okay, she doesn't DIE, but still.

* LoverTugOfWar: Suguru suffers from this occasionally.

* MarshmallowHell
* MegaNeko: Slash.
* {{Meido}}: Mahoro.

* OhCrap: Suguro has this thought when he thinks about Mahoro finding his dirty magazines while cleaning his room. He rushes home and finds out that his room is spotless now, and his magazines are laid neatly on top of each other on his desk. Cue Mahoro lecturing him on naughty magazines.

* RealPlaceBackground: In one episode Mahoro and Siguru visit the Minato Mirai in Yokohama.
* RecapEpisode
* RobotGirl

* SparklingStreamOfTears

* TeensAreShort: As established in the first season opening's group shot.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink:
** At the hot springs in episode 10.
** Also a visit to Rin's house in the second season.

* UnwantedHarem

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: One of the Vesper scientists is amazed at the amount of damage Minawa's body has sustained through various implementations of robotic enhancements to her. He comments that her body should be constantly screaming in pain due to all the stuff put into her. But despite that, Minawa never seems to complain about those things.]]

** Very simple dance steps used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioUWV3GNHw 1st ED]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdZaFcG9r0 2nd ED]].
** What look like very simple dance steps are almost certainly a case of NoBudget verging on SpecialEffectsFailure. Remember the episode where Mahoro spends days practicing to be able to lead the Obon dance, and how dumb it seemed that anyone would have to repeatedly practice waving their hands from to the left of their shoulders to the right of their waist? If you've ever watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7Jw4ZBOA8#t=120 the real thing]], you'll understand why it could take ''weeks'' of practice. The Bon Odori is an intricately choreographed dance, and the handwaving was just a low-budget shorthand for it. It's not hard to imagine that with a budget, the Mahoro Mambo would have rivaled Hare Hare Yukai.

** Since the leadership of Management was destroyed [[spoiler: by Slash and Suguru's grandfather, the leader of Vesper]], humanity and Saint formed a peace treaty, and have since built colonies in outer space. The episode takes place in a space colony which appears to be orbiting Jupiter.
** [[spoiler: Suguru is now a HeartbrokenBadass, who's sole purpose in life is to kill combat androids. He's kept Mahoro's brooch [[TragicKeepsake as a reminder of her]], and why he hates combat droids.]]
** Matthew, who was referred to by characters affiliated with Saint, [[spoiler: turns out to have been part of Mahoro, and before they take off again to search for new places, decides to leave one aspect of her's behind, that of Mahoro, who seems to be reincarnated nearby Suguru.]]

** They were twisting the ending of manga, where [[spoiler: Mahoro does come back and all's well that ends well]].

*** [[spoiler: There is some debate as to whether or not Mahoro comes back in the flesh or not. It is mentioned that Saint is releasing "a memory" back to Suguru before moving on, and in the haunted school episode it's implied that unfulfilled purposes can create ghosts. Mahoro may have come back as such a ghost, and Suguru died in the epilogue episode, making the haunted school episode an example of Foreshadowing]].
*** [[spoiler: It could be implied that Suguru is just drunk and possibly crazy. He's half-psychotic as it is. He became a renegade, and threw away all connections to humanity except Gils - who literally stabs him in the back with his own sword for the bounty on his head. Suguru yanks the sword out, decapitates Gils, and loses it because... this reveals that Gils is an android. (He really hates androids now, and spent the last twenty years obsessed with killing them all.)]]

*** Whether or not [[spoiler:Mahoro really came back]], Gainax went out of their way to imply that [[spoiler: Suguru's wound was mortal (including some heavy foreshadowing from Shikijo)]]. [[DownerEnding Now there's a hell of an ending]] - [[spoiler: "Yay! Mahoro's back, possibly with an immortal body! Just in time to... watch Suguru die."]]

* GreatOffScreenWar: One is implied to have happened prior to the start of the series, although we only get glimpses of it and what Mahoro did in it. [[spoiler: Further invoked by Management who's apparently hidden the fighting with the aliens largely offscreen, and seemingly hidden away from the general public. In Season 2 they seem to control a lot of influence and power, and is able to assassinate the US President when he attempted to go public with information on Management.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Ryuga]] does one in Season 1, then [[spoiler: Minawa]] in Season 2.

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler: The Management]]

** Mahoro herself has this look at the end of episode 11 [[spoiler: when her shot didn't kill Ryuga as she had hoped it would.]]
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: Miyuki and Kawahara in the manga epilogue.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: In the manga, [[spoiler:brains of "scrapped" cyborgs]] are used for facility management in the Keepers' headquarters. [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream While still conscious]].]]

** First, by [[spoiler: Suguru's grandfather and Slash, who takes out the leadership of Management, partly out of vengeance for Management [[TheScapegoat blaming Vesper]] for assassinating the US President, and partly because he doesn't believe in their ideals of advancing humanity's technology at the expense of lots of them dying in the process. Slash appears to have survived, but Suguru's grandfather definitely dies.]]
** Later, [[spoiler: Mahoro sacrifices herself by holding onto Fer-de-lance, then showing him how to properly use the energy from the energy blade his bosses stole from Vesper, and blows herself up along with him.]]

* TheReveal: That voice that Vesper personnel talks to but is never seen? [[spoiler: It turns out to be Suguru's grandfather, whom Mahoro immediately recognizes when he visits his grandson in one episode. Prior to this not much was revealed about him other than he was in charge of Vesper.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Suguru's porn buddies Kawahara and Hamadi, though Hamadi does step into the spotlight a bit in the second season [[spoiler: and in the manga epilogue, he married Minawa and they had a daughter named Minako]]. Kawahara also [[spoiler: married Miyuki and managed the bathhouse with her in the manga epilogue.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Invoked by both the Management scientist who tries to capture Mahoro, which is then immediately followed by his android assistant Fer-de-lance does it on him, stating he's still got a mission to complete [[spoiler: to return the data on Mahoro to another Management scientist, before shooting the first scientist and taking the escape pod with only one seat available.]]

* YaoiFangirl: Subverted: when Suguru starts asking around about his teacher, Ryuga, both his friends and Shikijo suspect an onset of [[YaoiGuys yaoi]], and are respectively {{squick}}ed and [[HotForStudent devastated]].

* RobotMaid: Mahoro, and in Season 2, Minawa too.