You Are Ms. Servant

, stylised as You Are Ms. servant, is Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotan. It began serialization on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry manga website in June 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by Felix Film aired from October to December 2024.

Plot

Yuki, a young woman raised from childhood to believe her only value was her ability to kill, having known nothing but obedience and violence. She seeks to abandon her former life and unexpectedly appears at the home of Hitoyoshi Yokoya, a high school student living alone, asking to be hired as a maid. Despite her elegant appearance and calm demeanor, Yuki possesses no domestic skills beyond her expertise as an assassin. After an incident in which she saves Hitoyoshi's life, he agrees to take her in, offering her a place to stay and a chance to start over.

As Yuki adjusts to life in the Yokoya household, she begins encountering ordinary experiences and emotions that were absent from her upbringing. Under Hitoyoshi's encouragement, she learns daily routines, forms connections with others, and gradually sheds the identity imposed on her by her past.

Characters

An awkward high school student who lives alone and is often visited by his younger sister Riko. Initially, he is taken aback by Yuki's dark backstory as an assassin, but nevertheless, he hires her as his maid and invites her to live with him. It is later revealed that he had previously confessed his feelings to a girl he used to spend time with when he was younger. However, the girl rejected him, telling him he only confessed because he felt "lonely", and this broke his spirit and confidence. Ever since, he has been wary and dismissive of the idea of falling in love with someone and is scared of being rejected again, but throughout the course of the story, he finds himself developing romantic feelings for Yuki, despite constantly denying them.

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A beautiful and stoic young woman raised as the greatest assassin turned maid and goes to Hitoyoshi in order to forget her dark past, due to having different names as she can't remember her real name she goes by Yuki due to a memory of her past. It is revealed Yuki was born as who had parents and a little sister, on a talk show she has lots of skills as a child prodigy, on her birthday during christmas times, the family suddenly get a visit by someone on the door and the parents were murdered in order to kidnap her, her little sister got kidnapped as well and the sisters trained as assassins until the little sister got separated from Maria, the trauma caused Maria to forget her family and her name. She enrolls into Hitoyoshi's high school to learn how to become a normal girl, and immediately becomes popular among all the other students.

A playful dog Hitoyoshi and Yuki take in as a pet after finding it on the front porch of Hitoyoshi's house.

An outgoing girl and Hitoyoshi's younger sister who takes an immediate liking to both Yuki and Grace, and often bothers her brother.

An assassin from the same organization like Yuki. She disguised as a teacher under her alias Nitta.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Shotan, You Are Ms. Servant began serialization on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry manga website on June 28, 2020. The first tankÃÂbon volume was released on October 12, 2020. Its chapters have been collected into eleven volumes as of March 2026.

The manga is licensed in Southeast Asia by Shogakukan Asia.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 24, 2023. It is produced by Felix Film and directed by Ayumu Watanabe, with Deko Akao overseeing series scripts, Tomoyasu Kurashima designing the characters and Masahiro Tokuda composing the music. The series aired from October 6 to December 22, 2024, on the NUMAnimation programming block on all ANN affiliates, including TV Asahi. The opening theme song is , performed by Tricot, while the ending theme song is , performed by Dustcell. Crunchyroll streamed the series. Medialink licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand) for streaming on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel.

Episodes

Other media

A promotional video and television commercial commemorating the release of the series' third volume was published on Weekly ShÃÂnen Sundays YouTube channel in July 2021. It featured the voices of Tsubasa Yonaga and Reina Ueda as Hitoyoshi Yokoya and Yuki respectively.