Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun

This anime is a great change of pace, if you're looking for nothing serious with a bit of comedy. The anime is short not much is going on in the anime. It just randoms stuff happening. I enjoyed it a lot, got a few chuckles, actual footage is 2 min because of the opening. I truly do recommend this anime.

Do you ever want to not try things? Is forming a structuralist perspective on reality too boring? Why does my pee pee come out yellow? This anime is like if Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei went on a lunch break. Very digestable series at 3 minutes an episode, 50 seconds of which can be skipped because I could sing and draw a better opening if you gave me 50 minutes. The entire opening has 8 lyrics which convey less than no meaning, and it trumps up the literally non-existent action "element" of the series. So anyway the 2 minutes and 10 seconds that is left are surrealist ... commentaries on the already ridiculously portrayed premise, much of the time through non-sequitur and all in a way that shows little respect for the idea that the show is supposed to be a comedy. The show doesn't waste it's own time, it's not down for anything, but neither does it waste your time. Basically the key to enjoying this is deciding the stupidity and the surrealism mix and if they don't that's good for you

Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun is one of the strangest examples of an anime I've seen in a few years. Normally, the strange appeals to me, but in this case, it's simply dreadful. Koroshiya is an adaption of a 4-koma manga of the same name, but when it comes down to it, this form of anime is not suited to adapting a four panel manga.

In all honesty, I'm sure the creators of this anime don't take this show that seriously. Each episode is three minutes long, and a minute of that is dedicated to the opening, which is one of the worst animated openings I've ever ... seen. Apparently,this show is supposed to be a comedy, but in the end, all I find myself laughing at is the absolute pointlessness of it all.

I don't even think it's fair for me to go on about the art or sound. It's bottom tier (maybe even below that) quality, and the voice acting is stilted, and boring, and the dialogue is pathetically devoid of humor.

The characters are the highlight of this 'anime'. That is not a compliment. Koroshiya seems to be some sort of screwed up hybrid of Gintoki Sakata from Gintama and Agent 47 from the Hitman series. Any other character are completely and utterly pointless.

I sincerly hope that this anime was not made with any serious intent, because this is arguably one of the worst anime I've seen in a very long time. It's entirely likely that the original 4-koma manga is very funny, but the main issue with this piece of crap is that it's style does not translate to the screen. At all. Ever.