The essential episodes of Mayo Chiki!
Watch these 13 in order and you've got Mayo Chiki! — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Kinjiro Sakamachi is gynophobic. Put simply: he's afraid of women. His life becomes even stranger when he discovers a potentially damning secret about his classmate, Subaru Konoe, who is also a butler for the school sadist. They agree that if Kinjiro will keep Subaru's secret, Subaru will help him overcome his phobia.
- 02
Things get even more twisted when Subaru and Kinjiro are forced to go on a date, and Kurehara ends up falling for Subaru. However, the pair continue to keep their pact and help each other out during an awkward school physical exam.
- 03
Subaru struggles with a phobia of her own: the fear of pointed objects. Kanade goes to great lengths to help Subaru conquer her fears, and the incident brings her closer to Kinjiro.
- 04
Subaru shows up on Kinjiro’s door stoop after being kicked out of the mansion. Grateful for his assistance, Subaru offers to be Kinjiro’s butler for the duration of her stay. Later, Kinjiro falls mysteriously ill.
- 05
There's more trouble in store for Kinjiro when he is hit by a girl driving a scooter. Later, Kinjiro and Subaru agree to attend the school festival together. Things are good between them until Kinjiro is blackmailed into taking someone else to the festival.
- 06
Kinjiro's gynophobia is pushed to the limits when he sees Subaru wearing a qipa—a tight and revealing dress.
- 07
A jealous Kanade tries to make things hard for Kinjiro when she declares that they are lovers and have slept together.
- 08
Kinjiro can't sleep because of all the estrogen nearby! Later, Subaru finally reveals that she wants to be more than friends.
- 09
I Will Go Out on a Journey for a While
Kinjiro works at a Maid Café to repay Masamune for the loan of her summer homework.
- 10
Kureha celebrates her 16th birthday with her friends. However, she's afraid that Kinjiro will forget, and she reveals a type of trauma of her own.
- 11
The new semester begins, and Subaru cannot stop thinking about Kinjiro. Later, he rebuffs Kanade's advances.
- 12
Dismay of a Butler and I, the Chicken
Subaru, after being relieved of butler duties, has transferred to a new school. Later, a new student transfers in, and she's oddly familiar with Kinjiro.
- 13
Subaru tries to protect her identity as a male while the others have crises of their own.
