I tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible on this review but I might drop them once in a while please enjoy. Kill Me Baby is not the show that would instantly grab your average anime fans attention instananeously. Its a obscure CGDCT adapatation initally panned by anime critics read: less than a 7 in MAL with a chibi artstyle and animation so cheap you cant help but wonder if it was done like that on purpose. Despite all that stuff however lies a great show. Story There isnt that much of a story to speak of. The summaries say its about a highschooler called Yasuna and a contract killer called Sonya. After reading this you might be thinking its a dark drama right? Well its actually a comedy. The comedy in this show is a mix between Manzai comedy and slapstick in some sort of way. It may sound repetitive and sometimes it is but the author Kaduho makes sure it feels fresh as often as possible. That is some of the content in the manga was toned down for the anime. I say this as an actual manga reader by the way. Art As you have seen from the posters and pictures on the internet. Kill Me Baby is drawn in a chibi or more properly Super Deformed artstyle. Despite what you might believe this is NOT Kaduhos default artstyle. Just check out his other manga Kagaku Chop. The visuals are simplistic with bright colors and dont make the artstyle stick out like a sore thumb. The animation done by J.C Staff looks really cheap almost like if it was done like that on purpose. If the rumor about the show having the budget of a Video Brinquedo production is true I could go to Japan in a firstclass flight for 3 weeks while staying in a 5star hotel and eat only at luxury restaurants on a 10 million budget yet after all of that I would still have enough money to fund 3 more seasons of KMB Yes seriously. But anyways that is what will happen if you have to do 4 shows in the same season with 2 of them being sequels. Music The voicework is really good. If not for Akasaki and Tamura as Yasuna and Sonya the main characters the comedy would fall flat most of the time. The character voices in general work really well and if not for things as great as that I would believe the shitty animation was thanks to a messed up production. In addition Ai Takabes voice is refreshingly unique in a world where seiyuus always try to mimic how the most popular ones at the moment sound like. Too bad she got blacklisted from the industry back in 2015 though. The OST wasnt the best thing ever but it wasnt particularly forgettable either. As many people said before the OP is quite annoying but it somehow manages to grow on you in a weird way. And now onto the ending which is easily the most recognizable part of this show. Its great and people who hated the show otherwise have said good things about it. Characters The characters are all based on your traditonal archetypes: Yasuna is the genki who just happens to be the main character Sonya a tsundere Agiri the drug addict Cloudcuckoolander and the Unused Character is utterly ineffectual. What ties them together however is their own stupidity. They are all idiots on their own way Yasuna often teases Sonya about normal life Sonya is absurdly paranoic about everything Agiri is high all the time may or may not be an actual ninja and Botsu is useless to the degree of having little if any lucky moments. There are also oneoff villains assassins from other organizations. Flaws The series biggest flaw is the comedy itself. With its extremely fast pace it has to try to throw as much jokes as possible. Hence why some moments can fall flat. Another problem is its runtime being a fulllength show and hence why people considered it repetitive. If it was a TV short instead most of the backlash could be avoided. I have to give thanks to Kaduho Yoshiki Yamakawa and J.C Staff for doing a work like this come to life. And even if you didnt like the anime the manga is still a work of art. Thanks for hearing my opinion about this show goodbye.
90 /100
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