This show doesn't flirt with you, it body-slams you. Kogarashi is the punchline and the plot armor at once: a mask, a maid uniform stretched over a wall of muscle, and a catalog of absurd "Maid Guy" abilities he deploys with zero regard for Naeka's dignity, her privacy, or her feelings about her own chest. The setup is technically a thriller, an heiress with six months until her eighteenth birthday and a fortune painted on her back, but every assassin who comes for her gets erased in about nine seconds so the episode can get back to what it actually cares about: humiliating a high schooler with kendo skills and no leverage. Fubuki plays the elegant, competent maid opposite him, which only makes his shamelessness land harder. It's 2008 ecchi comedy at full volume, unbothered and unrepentant, and it never pretends to be anything nobler. Twelve episodes of a girl screaming at a masked man who is technically doing his job.

Fujiwara Naeka seems like an ordinary 17-year-old in high school, yet she is secretly one of just two remaining heirs in line for a wealthy tycoon's vast fortune, which becomes hers on her 18th birthday six months from now. Schemers who would kill her and her brother Kousuke to seize the money are a threat, so two protectors are sent to guard the siblings: Fubuki, a pretty young maid, and Kogarashi, a hulking masked maid guy. Based on Akai Maruborou's shounen manga, the 12-episode TV series mixes action, comedy and ecchi gags.