About this season
Clumsy Hotori Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. Hotori works as a waitress in an unsuccessful coffee shop when the manager comes up with a plan to increase its fortunes by changing into a maid cafe. Unfortunately, no one knows how to make a successful maid cafe other than dressing everyone in a maid outfit. What follows is a wacky series of incidents involving Hotori’s many friends, mismatched love stories… and ghosts and aliens.
Episodes (12)
1. The Fortune Cafe
Aired 8 October 2010 • 25 min
Hotori's and Toshiko's job at a maid café conflicts with school rules. They must convince their teacher to permit their job, but first the café has a lot of improvement to do…
2. The Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Aired 15 October 2010 • 25 min
An encounter with the local police officer leads Hotori to threaten sexual harassment suits. Hotori's plans to increase customers backfires.
3. The Cat Boy
Aired 22 October 2010 • 25 min
Moriaki begs Hotori to use her detective skills to discern the mystery surrounding two keepsake paintings. Hotori assists with recovering a pet cat.
4. The Cursed Equation
Aired 29 October 2010 • 25 min
After scoring a 0 on her math test, Hotori’s math teacher, Moriaki, sentences her to detention and divulges his murderous presumptions.
5. The Amazingly Strange Toshiko Tatsuno
Aired 5 November 2010 • 25 min
Tatsuno receives tickets to see a movie and wants to invite her love interest, Sanada. Takeru, Hotori’s younger brother, is asked to hang out by his classmate, Ebi-chan.
6. The Pandora Maid Service
Aired 12 November 2010 • 25 min
Hotori visits an antique shop in search of a birthday gift for Tatsuno. Later, she searches for a PC to scan an image for her site and finds a spreading pandemic.
7. The Lovers’ Midnight Dash
Aired 19 November 2010 • 25 min
Sanada devises a plan and uses his daily horoscope reading to win Hotori’s heart. The two decide to play hooky for the remaining school day.
8. The Fully Automated Orchestra
Aired 26 November 2010 • 25 min
The girls discover a vending machine with astonishingly good food. Hotori's class isn't planning anything for the Cultural Festival; Futaba suggests forming a band.
9. The Clash of the Buytans
Aired 3 December 2010 • 25 min
Harue challenges Toshiko to a table tennis game. Both girls put up a furious fight, but in the end, who will be the victor of the tennis table?
10. The Finger Pointing Geriatric
Aired 10 December 2010 • 25 min
The news reports mysterious holes that have appeared in the neighborhood. Futaba questions Hotori about the holes.
11. Kon’s Summer of Tears
Aired 17 December 2010 • 25 min
Mr. Moriaki tries to help Hotori with her remedial math class by comparing it to detective work with mixed results.
12. Sore Machi...
Aired 24 December 2010 • 25 min
Futaba & Toshiko aren't on speaking terms because Toshiko refuses to join the table tennis club. Hotori ruins an expensive pen and dreams about being judged in the afterlife.