Mechanical Marie Succeeds As a result of the Manga Will get so Goofy

It’s time to comply with Yen Press manga, given how most of the latest sequence launched in 2025 are getting anime variations. Lil’ Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Proper is one. The opposite manga sequence heading to anime streaming providers is Mechanical Marie. It shares one thing else in widespread with that different sequence I discussed, too. It incorporates a foolish, goofy story that works out properly as a result of everyone seems to be leaning so closely into its absurd notion. That’s, {that a} younger girl working as a maid is a robotic and never an precise human.

Editor’s Observe: There might be gentle spoilers for the primary quantity of the Mechanical Marie manga beneath.

The idea behind Mechanical Marie primarily goes to extremes even from the outset of the manga, which I really feel it wants to actually promote the idea. Arthur Louis Zetes is an illegitimate son of the top of a serious firm recognized worldwide. His father picked him because the successor over his respectable kids. As a result of that is such a distinguished function, there are fixed kidnappings, loss of life threats, assassinations, and customarily horrible individuals surrounding him. A lot in order that Arthur hates human beings. However he does need assistance round the home, so an government with Zetes Company named Mr. Roy promised him a robotic maid who might act as an assistant. Besides… he couldn’t precisely get that accomplished, so he employed Marie Evans, a martial arts prodigy famend for being impassive and expressionless to fill the function. She agreed, as a result of her household is so poor that they need assistance with the money owed and she or he’d like to have the ability to attend college. 

Each characters are performed to the extremes for max silliness. Marie is an extremely robust heroine. She does have robust feelings, although they don’t present. She genuinely comes to understand, perceive, and really feel for what Arthur goes via. Particularly as she sees the kindness she reveals a “supposedly inorganic and unfeeling” being (her). Consequently, she really begins going above and past to guard him, help him, and do properly by him, although she’s additionally a bit fearful of him ever discovering out she is a human girl and never a robotic.

Which is one other a part of why this manga is so humorous. Arthur is so traumatized that he has little to no persistence with individuals. He despises those that mislead him. However he adores the chance to have a robotic maid round. He treats her with the utmost kindness and respect. A lot in order that as a substitute of getting her work, initially he asks her to observe anime with him and simply… be a companion. To see the drastic shift between reactions is entertaining and so goofy to observe in Mechanical Marie, but in addition just a little unhappy since we additionally see al the examples within the manga that made this teenager this manner. 

However as a result of she is sustaining this lie, there are tons of foolish conditions. Marie being so adept at preventing means it’s each badass and hilarious when she’s taking down opponents. (There’s a kidnapping state of affairs across the midway level of the primary quantity involving a automobile that’s unbelievable.) However it’s additionally nice as a result of whereas Marie is so almost expressionless, as we learn extra we do get to see extra “tells.” We get to observe feelings play out throughout her face. We additionally get to see her react extra as somebody may “anticipate” a 16-year-old to. So due to the goofiness, we’re seeing simply as many sides of her as we’re of Arthur. 

The Mechanical Marie manga absolutely embraces the absurdity of the state of affairs, and it makes me hope the anime will do the identical. Each Marie and Arthur are enjoyable characters who function at reverse ends of the spectrum. The thought of somebody being oblivious sufficient to suspect she’s a robotic is so goofy. However then, others additionally seeming to purchase it’s equally humorous. It looks like the primary quantity by no means hesitates to go excessive.

Mechanical Marie quantity 1 is obtainable now, and Yen Press will launch the second quantity of the manga on February 24, 2026. The manga will debut in October 2025.