Promotional Art. © Karino Takatsu/SQUARE ENIX, SERVANTxSERVICE Project
Servant x Service is a slice of life comedy that takes place in a civil servant's office. Yeah, doesn't sound great when it's described like that but in fact the show is pretty great. The show comes from the same mind that made the manga "Working." The show provides a number of laughs and gives the viewers a number of unique characters. Now that the season has wrapped up we can look back at is as a whole. Let's start with a run down of all the major characters. As always, be weary of reading a head if you are afraid of spoilers.
Th series focuses on three new employs starting at a civil service office. The first one is the large breasted glasses wearing young woman that will be referred to as Lucy Yamagami. She's tends to be a hard worker, more than a bit naive and has an unquenchable love for books. Lucy is an odd name in Japan but her whole name is actually composed of several names that would take an entire two lines to write out. The sole reason she has become a civil servant is to find the civil servant that allowed such a ridicules name like hers onto a birth certificate and tell them off. Her entire reason for being there is simply revenge as she puts it. Through the season we find out a lot about her and her past. Though it seems petty to go after someone for such a thing as a name the story tells how boys used to make fun of her name in school and how she was often isolated to the library where she developed a love of reading. There is also an arc about her dealing with her fellow employs and what feelings develop from that. Overall her character arc flushes out this naive girl and really makes her a realistic character and a large part of this world.
