Another anime that shocked me, Hand Maid May falls under the same area as Chobits and Angelic Layer. It poses the question of the relationships between humans and machines. I'm sure there are more like this, but let's get on with the review.
Kazuya Saotome is a student with little interest in women, lives by himself, and is shown to be quite the engineer. One of his works is the robot squid Ikariya, who he tries to imply and perfect an AI chip in it. This work unknowingly becomes the basis of the M.A.I.D. program in the future. Unexpectedly, as the original intent was to ruin Kazuya, a rival engineering student gives him a disc that strangely connects to the place called the Cyberdyne Corporation. Following this, a small, hand-size, Cyberdoll called May arrives, and from here on, in spite on how complicated things become for him, his life is satisfactory all the same.
Hand Maid May was licensed by Geneon Entertainment, and lasts for 11 episodes total, including a short 10-episode series and an OVA. The show was created by different writers for different episodes, all under the Wonder Farm and Pioneer L.D.C. studios. Kazyua Saotome is voiced by Steve Cannon (who is the English roles of Shiki Tohno of Tsukihime: Lunar Legend, and Seabook Arno of Mobile Suit Gundam F91), while May is voiced by Lia Sargent (who voices R. Dorothy Wayneright in The Big O)
Hand Maid May is short, but worth my time. I grade this a 7.9 of 10. Looks a tad old, but it's titles like this that uplifts my feelings a bit.
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