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In general this type of character is used as a form of [[Fan Service]], but usually not in the "sexy" sense as [[French Maid]] is. Rather this character tends to appeal to "[[Moe]]", and is connected to the fantasy of a submissive young woman who obediently cleans your room, cooks your meals, and tends to your every need; because of this, it can appeal to young girls as well as men.

 

 

Sometimes a female character will inexplicably wear an outfit which vaguely resembles a maid outfit. The chance of this increases dramatically if she is shown doing any housework. Also, more and more often, the maid is also a [[Robot Girl]]. (See [[Robot Maid]])

 

Compare to [[French Maid]], the [[Hotter and Sexier]] origin of this trope. See also [[Maid RPG]], which is a game built around this type of Maid. Guaranteed to occur in a [[Maid Cafe]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Elenore Baker from ''[[Madlax]]'' is a prime example of this. As well being Margaret's maid she acts as her personal assistant, body guard and all around companion. Her professionalism tends to lead people that she is "cold" or "mechanical or a robot" when the oppossite is true. It is also because of that professionalism that she can't truely express how she feels for her master Margaret, so she does so in her work.

* Subverted in ''[[Full Moon wo Sagashite]]''. The Kouyama's house maid dresses modestly more like your typical maid, is quite round and plain-looking. She looks and sounds about... middle-aged?

* Speaking of creepy lesbian maids, ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'''s resident maid had a crush on Chikane.

* One of the ''[[Happy Lesson]]'' teachers usually wears a maid-like outfit at home, and naturally does much of the domestic chores.

* The lead girls in ''[[Magikano]]'' and ''[[FLCL]]'' posing as maids clearly have no experience doing; it's an excuse for [[Pretty Freeloaders|free room and board]].

** The more straight version of this trope, Fubiki, who only subverts this in two ways: first, she has a tendency to beat Kogarashi with a giant spiked club when he misbehaves; second, she sometimes goes overboard with her maid duties, even becoming embarrassed when the other cast members catch her ''in normal clothes.''

* After a (relatively) humorous breakdown, Motoko in ''[[Love Hina]]'' tries her hand at being domestic, including full maid regalia. Considering her [[Huge Schoolgirl|unusual size]], it's a bit confusing where she got the outfit.

** During the [[Tournament Arc]], Setsuna and Asuna get pressganged into wearing maid outfits to appeal to the crowd, mainly because they don't really have any pulls (like "last years champion", etc.)

*** Then later, while half the cast was [[Trapped in Another World]], she dressed up several of the remaining classmates because she was bored. Evangeline seems to just have a thing for the Maid/[[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Gothloli]] look.

** Oddly enough, Fate appears to have a Meido fetish, as he seems to take every opportunity to make girls dress in Meido outfits. Including [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/10.html Anya] and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/12.html his] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v30/c271/12.html minions.]

* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' is a rather straight take on the idea, down to Emma's mundane outfit (for Victorian England, anyway).

* ''[[Hand Maid May]]'' is a [[Robot Girl]] maid called a Cyberdoll.

* There's an entire ''army'' of Catgirl maids in ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]''

* ''[[Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora]]'' deconstructs this. Setsuna is essentially Kyoshiro's maid, taking care of everything he needs, but while he's simply using her status as an Absolute Angel to destroy the others and then her, Setsuna is hopelessly in love with him, trying her hardest to make everything nice for him in the hopes that ''maybe'' he'll show her some affection. Yet when he falls for Kuu instead {{spoiler|(despite her being an Absolute Angel as well), she vows to [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy|continue helping him find her, even if she won't be repaid for it.]] }}

** Fabiola Iglesias is an actual housemaid working for the same family, serving directly under Roberta. A younger, more comic-relief character, she is still very good with blades and martial arts, although she admits her gun skills need work. While Fabiola also mentions that she is the only one of the Lovelace maids being trained by Roberta for combat, Revy still wonders if the entire Lovelace Plantation was a [[Badass]] [[Ninja Maid|maid force]] that could storm the Iranian embassy if they wanted to. (All portents point to "Yes.")

* Minto in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has her own squad of more traditional maids.

** Akane once disguised herself as a French maid (with bonnet and everything) to infiltrate the house of Picolet Chardin, who had taken female Ranma to make her his bride. Then [[Nightmare Fuel|Soun disguised himself the same way]].

* Mikuru, the [[Moe Moe|Moe-blob]] from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', is picked by Haruhi as the SOS Brigade's maid.

** In the episode "Live Alive", Tsuruya-san and a couple of other school girls are dressed as maids and serve noodles and tap water for the Arts Festival.

* Wilhelmina in ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' [[Verbal Tic|~de arimasu]] (even though she's terrible at cooking).

* Fiore from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' fits this trope to a T.

* The Lamperouge household's maid Sayoko from ''[[Code Geass]]'' does housework, looks after the [[Ill Girl]] and occasionally [[Ninja Maid|battles cyborg assassins with ninja martial arts]]. She's got her [[Fan Nickname]] of "the Sayocopter" for a reason.

* Sent up in ''[[Lucky Star]]'', where [[Occidental Otaku|Patty]] wishes she had a Meido to do her chores so she could spend more time watching anime...that's specifically a Meido, not a housekeeper. There's a difference!

** The first enjoys wearing it, the second hates wearing it, and the third [[Les Yay|enjoys the second one wearing it]].

* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' has Mine who dresses in costume out of pure enjoyment-and insists that every other girl she meets does the same.

** The [http://www.watchanimeon.com/hayate-no-gotoku-s2-episode-20/ Maid Episode.]

** Saki also fills this quotient for Wataru (though without the respectful title). {{spoiler|Chiharu}} is a secret maid.

** Izumi dresses as one (short skirt variation) {{spoiler|as punishment by her father}}. All the other maids (and pseudo-maids) use the long skirt variation.

* Amu Hinamori (''[[Shugo Chara]]'') has a maid, Amulet Clover, as one of her three primary [[Transformation Sequence|charanari]].

* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Latias disguises herself as a maid to help out Emerald in the Battle Pyramid. Later on she disguises herself as a news reporter, then a nurse.

* {{spoiler|Miyu}} of ''[[Fate Kaleid Liner Prisma Ilya]]'' was revealed to be one. Much to her horror (or perhaps... [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|delight?]]), Ilya turned out to have an uncontrollably massive Maid fetish.

* [[Ladies vs. Butlers]] is full of them.

* ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'', the most half-assed [[Maid Cafe]] in anime history.

* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Yoshinoya-sensei dresses in a maid outfit for cleaning day. ''She doesn't clean in it, nor would she ever.'' It would get dirty, after all.

** The anime also has Angela and Hannah.

* Sayaka Dejima from ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'' is Aria's maid.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Maid RPG]]''. 'nuff said.

* [[Tanto Cuore]], a Dominion style card game themed around recruiting maids.

 

== Video Games ==

* Nene in ''[[Touka Gettan]]''. There's a bunch of other Meido shown, but none of them are named.

* Lynette from ''[[Soul Calibur]] III'' is dressed like this, but sells clothing at various stores instead of cleaning houses.

** Konpaku Youmu is formally a gardener of Hakugyokurou, but she's also its only staff. She cooks, cleans, babysits (her mistress Yuyuko is something of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]), does household shopping, acts as security ...

* [[Ninja Maid|Iroha]] from ''[[Samurai Shodown]]''.

** Speaking of which, [http://www.pso-world.com/images/classes/racasceal.jpg some of the body types for RAcaseals] in [[Phantasy Star Online]] made them look a bit like maids.

* Takeuchi's uniform looks like a maid outfit in [[Canvas 2]], but she insists it's just a waitress outfit.

* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'', {{spoiler|Kaori Yae}} gets to wear a maid uniform during her [[School Festival]] Event. It's actually treated as [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|as a moving and heartwarming scene]], as this Event occurs after {{spoiler|[[He's Back|she recovers]] from her 2-years long [[Heroic BSOD]]}}, with her having a fun time serving coffee to customers while wearing it; the scene was so memorable, her maid appearance stuck as a [[Memetic Outfit]] for her, with several official artworks and figurines with her wearing it.

** And in the original ''Mitsumete Knight'' game, Prim Rohzbank, and later, {{spoiler|Carol Palecki}}, are maids at Dolphan Castle.

* There is, of course, [[Eroge|Custom Maid 3D]] which lets you, of course, [[Shaped Like Itself|create your own 3D maid]].

* ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' features a complete maid's outfit as one of the costume pieces. Oddly enough, it's one of the few costume pieces [[Video Game Perversity Potential|without gender restrictions]].

 

== Visual Novels ==

* Lauren Paups from ''[[Ace Attorney]]: Investigations''. {{spoiler|Though it may be appearance in only.}}

** Jean Armstrong's cafe has the waitresses wear maid outfits. Maggey spends her entire jail term in hers and during her very brief stint as a waitress Maya wears one. Unfortunately her smaller...assets are not enough to move waitress fetishist Victor Kudo enough to make him testify. {{spoiler|Mia is very annoyed to find she's only been channeled to give Maya a larger bust.}}

*** In keeping with this trope, in the goofier parts of the game Kohaku has built multiple [[Robot Girl]] versions of Hisui. Mech-Hisui also makes an appearance in ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'', a fan-made [[Nasuverse]] crossover game.

 

* Volume 1 of ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' features a psychopathic Cockney maid named Miriam who cleans floors ''with a knife''.

* Yuki Sonada, in ''[[Megatokyo]]'', dresses up as this to follow Piro into a [[Maid Cafe]], disguising herself as one of the staff.

* [[Collar 6]]: Ginger first, then Stella and Claire.

* [[Spinnerette]]. [[Robot Maid|Mecha]] [[Ninja Maid|Maid]]. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Technically, it's an exoskeleton, and she does aikido]]... Never mind. That is all.

 

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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