ShadowBlazer3000

FIRST IMPRESSION: 

KyoAni has dazzled me with riveting character dramas but I've found some of their comedies hit-or-miss.  Last winter gave us Myriad Colors Phantom World (Musaigen no Phantom World) which quickly devolved into cheap erotica with a couple of clever fourth-wall-breaking jokes, and this winter they deliver us Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid a quirky story of a over worked and alcoholic office lady known only as Kobayashi who for some odd reason invited a dragon to come live with her.

What will evolve from here is hopefully a quirky fun buddy comedy to fill a seaon with and so far it hasn't disappointed.  The dragon girl named Toru has taken on a human form, only with conspicuous horns and a tail sticking out and has decided to become her maid for the fact she loves Kobayashi.  Much of the humor is situational hijinx and there isn't much connection from scene to scene beyond a simple narrative flow to glue the show together but the situations all show to be amusing.  There are a few squiky jokes that don't quite land because of the sheer creepy and awkwardness behind them but the show overall is tame and pretty amusing.

A good first episode makes me think this will be a fun buddy comedy overall with some off color jokes that will hopefully be more clever and less repulsive.  Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid rather reminds me of Pita-Ten thanks to a similar premise of a fantastical girl coming to live and help someone who really needs it.