The Midnight Cleaning - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[ghostkun]

Damn, that maid just came in, cleaned the place, and left.



I saw it happen!!!!!!!

 

[Shamz]

I was thinking that she was like santa but a cleaning maid instead.

 

[SuperRobotSolo]

I'd like a maid like that too.

 

[Angoldd]

The chadette maid: Enters the room, cleans everything in silence, makes breakfast, refuses to elaborate further and leaves.
It's also hilarious that Mori-sensei made 8 pages of cleaning so interesting.
Thanks for the oneshot!

 

[FanofEverything]

My god, Mori's art is so amazing. I'd wish it get an anime if only to draw more eyes to all her works. She deserves the attention of fame for her massive skill.

Even something as mundane as cleaning is so captivating

 

[GreatMarta]

My god, Mori's art is so amazing. I'd wish it get an anime if only to draw more eyes to all her works. She deserves the attention of fame for her massive skill.

Even something as mundane as cleaning is so captivating

There actually is an anime for Emma. But Mori-sensei's art is so full of detail no anime could keep up with it.

 

[erana1]

Mori, victorian-garbed maids in a room with modern cup ramen and soda cans at the same time? Are youself-inserting AND wishful thinking - AGAIN? :-D

 

[manabi]

I kind of get the impression the woman sleeping is Mori-sensei and that this is kind of a fantasy of hers, since she clearly loves maids a lot. That would explain the tears at the end, she didn't get to actually meet the maid!

 

[mgRdr]

So she saw the pigsty, cleaned it for the last time as it is her job, and then was like "fuck this, I resign"

 

[thowawayhooray]

A couple months late, but this is such a gorgeous oneshot (as expected of Mori Karou’s works)! It motivated me to clean my room lol, it’s amazing how the author can make cleaning so captivating through her art.

I interpreted the oneshot as the former(?) maid of the household checking up on her mistress, and finding her depression nest. Perhaps the mistress grew depressed after the passing of her parents, judging by the beer and wine bottles by the bed and scattered across the room, along with the photo of her and her parents. The maid cleans up her mistress’ bedroom, and silently leaves soon before she wakes up, leaving freshly made tea. As the mistress awakes and sips her tea, she tears up, perhaps due to bittersweet nostalgia and the memories of life with her parents and maid.

Or it could just be a maid fantasy too! It’d be nice to have late night Victorian maid cleaning services lol

 

[Konahrik20]

Something that I noticed, that I think lends into the fairy/magic sort of aspect, is that the woman who has the dirty room seems to be from more modern times going by what's in it.

1. Pg.1 has a lamp on the nightstand near her bed.
2. Pg.1 & 2 have what looks to be beer or soda cans on the floor, the teardrop style opening makes me think of some decades ago unless they're still made like that elsewhere.
3. Pg.3 it looks like the maid is holding up a plastic garbage bag? There's also drink cups that look like they came from a fast food place alongside a plastic bag for snacks.
4. Pg.3 has what looks like an older style radio on the dresser or desk.
5. Pg.6 the broom looks like one of those that have the screw in handle.

Meanwhile the maid opens up with a hand oil lamp (I think?), which I don't know when the last time those were used after WW2. The clash between the times lends it an anachronistic feel that stands out and feels different than "Former maid snuck in to clean.".

 

[horsewithnoname]

The clash between the times lends it an anachronistic feel that stands out and feels different than "Former maid snuck in to clean.".

The midnight confusing

 

[Konahrik20]

Edit: For some reason my post got moved from a completely different manga to this, I have no idea why.