#oneaday Day 70: Doragon

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is, it seems, coming back for a second season! I am delighted at this news.

Dragon Maid hails from the last season of anime I was actually organised enough to watch things as they were being broadcast (or at least to follow them week by week) and it was a great season all round. Between Dragon Maid, Interviews with Monster Girls and Gabriel Dropout, I had a lot of fun — and at least two of those shows have proven to be consistently popular with the fan communities of the Internet ever since. (Interviews with Monster Girls never seems to get quite so much love, but I thought it was probably the most interesting of the three in a number of regards.)

But anyway! Dragon Maid. If you've never watched it before, most of the information you need to know is in the title. Miss Kobayashi is a sad thirtysomething whose life is going nowhere in particular and is just sort of trudging along day by day, much as many of you reading this doubtless are. (I know I am!) However, one day she is surprised to discover a dragon at her door who is insisting on coming to live with her and be her maid. It seems that one night, she got extremely drunk and ended up saving the life of this dragon, who had been injured, and thus said dragon (named Tohru, or Tooru, depending on whose Romanisation you go by) decided that she really needed to repay this life debt.

The remainder of the series concerns Tohru's attempts to work as Kobayashi's maid, though of course, being a dragon (and a rather energetic one at that) she's not quite sure how to do the whole "human" thing properly. As the series progresses, we're introduced to a number of other dragons, all of whom are based on mythological figures, and they all have their own distinct (and rather unexpected) personalities.

In the first season, a couple of characters went a little underused, particularly Elma, who is a favourite of several people I know. Here's hoping that this second season allows her a little more time in the spotlight. And, of course, plenty more yuri goodtimes.

I'm really looking forward to this new season. There's no real details yet other than the fact it's coming, but hopefully we can look forward to it later this year. And who says none of the good anime ever get renewed for a second run?