Okay so... I read a few comments after me and I'm redoing my review because it seems previously, I got biased due to nostalgia.
First of all, this was the first shoujo anime I watched, and the first manga I ever read. I'm very attached to it. But of course, when I started reading it, it wasn't complete. It's been more than an year since it's completion, I suppose?
I agree with some reviews that it was horribly dragged. Stuff were put together in messed up way, the end didn't make sense. I mean there was so so much of drama and preparation for Misaki to go to Britain. And even Usui was presented as the centre of some sort of upcoming chaos, but then poof! The duke suddenly comes to know that his grandson is there and everything is over? When I looked at this manga recently, I found many such flaws. Like how long it took for Misaki to confess, or how the thing about Miyabigaoka was nothing but a means to drag the series further.
Maybe because now I know more about these overused plots than I did back then, or the fact that I'm getting tired of drama do I think that this series really should have ended much earlier.
But God how I love this. I just can't seem to hate it all. Misaki was a tsundere so can't blame her for always blushing but at some point, I wanted to slap her for pushing Usui away. I mean If you don't want him, give him to me girl!
I love Usui. But not the squealy fangirl type of love. It's how he is drawn and characterized. His portrayal as the perfect perverted alien was great. How much of a tease he was, and yet how sweet. He is my first and the biggest shoujo crush. I guess it's also because I love guys who are a tease XD and damn ^ he was unbelievably perfect in everything he did.
Misaki, well, I respect her will and the effort she put in to support her family, but very often she was a big idiot. And even though she realized her mistake, she'd do something similar yet again. But I guess that's only expected from a tsundere.
All in all, the manga was GREAT till the school festival arc and then it took a U-turn. But I loved how cute the romance was at times. And even if it's repititive, draggy, weak, messy..... It wasn't so when I read it as my first manga. Even if the me now would NEVER want to re read every single chapter, I still do peek at few chapters I liked. This manga is a good start for newcommers. And for me, it's love. So I don't care what it's like, I'm just attached to Kaichou as Maid-Sama!