The series follows Mahoro, a female android former soldier who, driven by guilt from her actions during her combat days, decides to dedicate the rest of her life to serving the son of her late commander as a maid.
Originally serialized by Wani Books in Comic Gum magazine between 1998 and 2004, it was also compiled into eight tankōbon volumes.
Mahoro Andou (安藤 まほろ, Andō Mahoro) (CODE: V1046-R MAHORO) Suguru Misato (美里 優, Misato Suguru) Minawa Andou (安藤 みなわ, Andō Minawa) (CODE: 370) Slash (スラッシュ, Surasshu) (CODE: V1046 R9-SLASH ZERO) Saori Shikijo (式条 沙織, Shikijō Saori) In the manga, it is shown, after the time lapse, that she has yet to age, most likely due to her mentioned strict beauty regimen, and has also become the principal of the junior high school, which has done nothing to dampen her love for young boys.
Despite being separated for so long, Miyuki still cares very deeply for Suguru, and is dismayed that he has yet to be happy or live his own life after Mahoro ceased to function.
In the second series, he decides to live as a human and continues to teach at Suguru's school much to the irritation to Slash.
Introduced in Something More Beautiful, Management is a top secret organization that had shaped the world from the shadows throughout its history.
Feldrance (フェルドランス, Feldlance) (CODE: 227) A cold-hearted android in the form of a youth who was created by and works under the Management's robotics scientist Professor Mephlis during his scheme to take Mahoro for himself.
When Mephlis's plans failed, Feldrance made his move and killed the scientist before taking the data as his creator's lab explodes; he felt no remorse for betraying his creator, coldly pointing out that it was Mephlis, after all, who made Feldrance the way he is.
In the manga version, he chops Suguru's hands while capturing Mahoro but soon stopped by Slash and Ryuuga.
The finale is set on a Saint-Earth colony world, 20 years after Mahoro's "death" and the mutual defeat of Vesper and Management.
Suguru left Japan, deciding never to return, and is now a renegade half-cyborg hunter of the last "Management holdouts."
Suguru has been working as a commander within Vesper, and has just returned to Earth from the final defeat of Management's last vestiges.
Mahoromatic (まほろまてぃっく, Mahoromatikku) manga series by Bow Ditama and Bunjūrō Nakayama was originally serialized in Comic Gum magazine between December 1998 and July 26, 2004, and compiled into eight tankōbon volumes published by Wani Books.
The manga proved popular, and was adapted into two anime series jointly by Gainax and Shaft: Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden and Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful (まほろまてぃっく~もっと美しいもの~, Mahoromatikku: Motto Utsukushii Mono) The first series consisted of twelve episodes and ran from September 10, 2001 to January 28, 2002 on BS-i in Japan, and more or less followed the manga to the third volume.
They also acquired Mahoromatic: I'm Home Special and released it in 2012, with the English dub produced at Bang Zoom!
[9] Mahoromatic, including both seasons and the summer special, is currently available through The Anime Network's free video on demand service, found on many cable systems and DirecTV.
Sentai Filmworks re-released Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden in 2 DVDs as Collection 1, which includes only the episodes found in Geneon's release and excluding Summer Special.