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Movie write-ups will come throughout the day. Just wanted to do the two airing mini write-ups while I'm at home at my keyboard.

218. The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious
This is a currently airing anime, so this is only a tentative ranking and the real write-up will come when it finishes. I'm glad these rankings can be changed, too, because unless it starts doing something else soon, this Maid anime is going to fall a lot further. It started late in the season and only has three episodes at the moment, but those three episodes have basically been the same joke over and over and over. Little boy finds sexy maid attractive but doesn't understand sexual attraction yet. Maid gets flustered. Repeat as many times as necessary to fill an episode. I hope it starts having literally anything other than that at some point. This is an adaptation of a manga by the same author who made Jahy, which I really enjoyed, so I'm sticking with it.

217. The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting
This is a currently airing anime, so this is only a tentative ranking and the real write-up will come when it finishes. I can tell what type of anime The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting wants to be. It wants to be one of those wholesome "looking after a kid" feel-good slice-of-life anime, but with a slight twist in that the guy is a yakuza! The problem is, in order to keep things wholesome, the whole yakuza aspect is never used for anything other than the occasional beating of a rival thug. Hinamatsuri had a yakuza looking after a kid too and used it to wonderful effect for a whole bunch of jokes. The yakuza element in this is wasted. The "looking after a kid" part also feels way too clean and soulless so far. The little girl and the yakuza bonded and became inseparable almost instantly. Deaimon from last season handled this premise a lot better because the guy and the kid had to actually get to know each other and grow closer first. Still, even at its worst, this anime is just kind of hollow, so I'm sticking with it.