Kandagawa Jet Girls

On the vivid and glistening waters of the Kanda River, Jetters and their respective Shooters race together on their jet skis, speeding through the wind as they participate in Jet Races—"the world's most intense aquatic sport!"

Chasing her dream of becoming a professional Jet Racer like her mother, Rin Namiki transfers to Asakusa Girls' High School in Tokyo. There, she stumbles upon Misa Aoi, a first-year student like her. However, tensions arise when Rin and Misa find themselves competing in a race against Team Dress from the prestigious Musashino Girls' High School.

As a result of the race, Rin tries to join her school's Jet Racing club, only to discover that there is none. But, her resolve is unshaken, and she decides to recruit Misa and three other girls to create her very own team: "Kandagawa Jet Girls." With her heart set on winning the annual Kandagawa Cup, Rin, alongside her team, approaches the grandest stage of them all.

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Aoi, Misa Main

Kohara, Riko Japanese

Namiki, Rin Main

Sasahara, Yuu Japanese

Shiraishi, Manatsu Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Midorikawa, Yuzu Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Tamaki, Fuuka Supporting

Asai, Ayaka Japanese

Yoshitoku, Kiriko Supporting

Kawase, Maki Japanese

Orange, Emily Supporting

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko Japanese

Peach, Jennifer Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Manjou, Aqua Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Motonaga, Satoshi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Takeyama, Shigeto Producer

Kaneko, Hiraku Director, Script, Storyboard

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Apr 11, 2023

Yuri-Crusader

Recommended

Welcome to my review of Kandagawa Jet Girls This review has some minor spoilers in it!



The story itself is very simple. Like they often are in CGDCT anime!! Girls competing on jet skis. It's a team racing sport with a driver and a shooter. Trying to shoot water at each other so they will lose their cloth!! Or stop the jet ski dead on the track. The jet's skis and their cloth have sensitive spots which they aim for. It's a simple and fun concept!! Rin is a well-developed girl full of Genki. She likes to race And she also likes other girls!! So she ... decides to go to the big city and take part in the fun. And there she meets her partner and the skilled shooter Misa. Who is a bit shyer than Rin and rather tends to herself. But after becoming roommates Rin wins Misas heart, And together they start a club to race other girls. It's the typical cute girls doing cute things story, A girl wants to do something meets another girl, and falls in love. Then starting a club and more girls will join! The only difference these anime are more focused on the other teams and the girls in them, rather than only focusing on all the members of Misas and Rins club



Overall the story is entertaining heartwarming humorous and enjoyable. It also has some sports and drama segments but neither takes up to much time. It's more focused on the girls and they having a good time!! I just want more it's very captivating and comfortable just like it should be in a CGDCT/Yuri anime



Love the art a bit simple but the girls are beautiful and a lot of fun Ecchi! Warm colors and the CGI effects, when they are racing, look great! Noting that really impresses me greatly! I've seen better! But for being a CGDCT it holds a high standard overall. Even if it's not the best! It still looks really good and definitely doing its job



The sound is one of the less important factors for me in an anime! But I like the op!! And the sound may not be memorable. But it's far from being irritating screeching noise that hurts my ears!! So no problem with the sound



The characters are just the best!! Very alluring and lovable girls overall. Easygoing emphatic and charming females, As they should be in a CGDCT/Yuri. They rather wanna be friends than fierce rivals or enemies. There are good variations so they also feel like individuals and are interesting in their own way!! Some of them like the lesbians twins can be a bit annoying. But again it gives some variations when some of the females are more competitive than others. They are captivating and they get all the focus, so they can grow and are easy to appreciate. The anime takes its time to build the characters. Which is extremely important. It's all about the girls



Love to see the main girls and their strong character development. Rin better herself at the sport and put in a huge amount of effort! She really wants to win and show her girlfriend she is serious!! And she excels on all levels. Misa is really good at the sport already! But she became more open towards Rin and stop shutting herself in. Misa is shy but she likes Rin. And after seeing how serious Rin is, love starts to develop and she starts to open up! From being so shy having a problem asking for Rins phone number! To go around and hold her hand. It's super cute and makes me so happy! And for me personally, I love to see how jealous Misa becomes later in! She becomes really irritated as soon as another girl touches Rin hugs her or shows too much interest. She wants Rin for herself and for me, that is a monumental plus. And because their relationship gets so much stronger! Their performance also increases. It's a team sport after all Misa and Rin are not only a team in that manner, but They are also a lesbian couple! And because the anime care so much, And takes a big portion of its time to build the girls!! Strengthen them and their relationship. It also feels very credible overall and makes them shine



And with the strong characters that I love I also really enjoy the anime overall. I love Yuri!! And there are warm friendly lesbians everywhere,, YEEES! As far as the eye can see. Clinging onto each other holding hands hugging and flirting are all over the place!! Misa and her girlfriend Rin are adorable together It's Yuri heaven. Everything to lesbian couples! Too heavily implied lesbian sex is taking place. That is nothing you see every day in anime



Sadly some people don't understand what a Yuri is and question it. Well, people I know Yuri well. And they have flashed the white lily with a blue overtone. It's a symbol they use in Japan in lesbian media. If people don't understand what that means their knowledge about Yuri is very low. They are a few Yuri's every year, and this is a heavy fetishist one with only females! Exactly how I want them to be



And If you are looking for a sports anime with fierce competition rivalry and similar aspects. You are barking at the wrong tree. This is not it. This is a Yuri and a CGDCT show. With huge among of Ecchi, and a tiny tiny speck of sport and competing. The racing is only there to give the cute girls something to do, rather than sit on their adorable little asses all day long and be cute . This shouldn't even have the sport tag in my meaning. Sports fans should keep away from this!



But if you like cute girls. Who getting lewd all the time!! Touching each other constantly is super nice and has a lot of heartwarming moments. And all of those divine angels are lesbians,, YEEES!,, You will love this and have a lot of fun. So for all pure Yuri lovers like me, I strongly recommend this anime



Thank you for reading

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Nov 26, 2022

TheNioky

Mixed Feelings

Okay so I think that as an anime fan, you all had at least one show where, on the first look, it seemed fine and you were like "oh that show looks good, I have to try it".
And the more and the more you learn things about it, the more it scares you...
BUT you end up trying anyway.

Yeah, that's me and Kandagawa Jet Girls, I mean come on, who wouldn't enjoy a Jet Ski anime with anime girls?
Because it's a nice idea for a plenty of reasons, like Jet Ski isn't that much of a deal from my knowledge in fictions in general and well... ... ANIME GIRLS.
Pretty much anybody could like that, if it were done good.

Unfortunately Kandagawa Jet Girls that I will abridge as "Jet Girls" did not gave me the "good take" I wanted and I'm gonna try to explain why.
First of all, Jet Girls is an ecchi/sport/moe anime created by the minds behind Senran Kagura ((the games) for those who don't know, it's a game franchise with a lot of fan service that has been adapted in anime) and made by the studio "TNK", well known for Highschool DxD, Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai (not the Nanatsu no Taizai you are searching for, be careful) and... oh well School Days.
So yeah that's not a good start.
It Follows the concept of "cute girls doing cute things" where this time, the "cute thing" in question is Jet Ski.

Without further delay, let's head into the actual review!


Story (5/10):
The plot is pretty simple, Rin Namiki, a young enthusiastic girl leaves her home town to go in a big city where a river named Kandagawa is the central point of a new sporting discipline called "Jet Race".
And you guessed it, it's a sports anime, Rin's goal is gonna be to be the best at it.
Jet Race is basically casual Jet Ski but must be done by peers of two girls, one racer that drives the jet ski and one shooter that shoots the opponents.
But that's not all!
Because there is also some unique specifications to the discipline.
You know, like the possibility of shooting the opponents to make theirs clothes drop, that kind of CASUAL specifications.
You can also shoot the ennemy Jet Ski to make them slow down and the Jets themselves can activate a boost occasionally during the race.
So the goal of Jet Racing to obviously to finish the course at first place, while attacking the opponent team to prevent them from winning.

Yeah, noticed how it is more looking like the concept of a video-game rather than one of an anime?
And rightly, because that's actually a game, the anime is none other than a kind of promo for the incoming "true product".
Do I mean to say that's bad? Well no but actually yes, at least it's not in every case but here it's gonna be a big problem that is gonna explain a few things in the failure of this anime.

But coming back at the story, Rin Namiki will team up with Misa Aoi, a shooting prodigy that f lost her passion for Jet Race and...
Yeah you know how that will go, it's a sports anime.
They will, on their journey, meet up with a bunch of others colorful duos of females characters practicing Jet Race and through trials and hardships eventually become rival/friends with them.
So, that's a lot to remember but, is the story bad? Well yes and no.

Yes because in the execution and development it's absolutely cliche and basic, without any attempt to do something greater than barely passable.
And no because in the ideas that the universe introduces, like Jet Race and only Jet race actually with the things around it are pretty interesting and not too bad overall.

So it's a perfect fifty fifty, not bad, not good, just tolerable and potentially a good support to do cool things with the characters while fan servicing.


Characters (3/10):
Oh well...
Let's forget what I said just a second ago right?

THE CHARACTERS OF THIS ANIME ALL ARE AN ABSOLUTE DUMPSTER FIRE.

Let's say you put all the bad sides of moe and cliche shonen in one damn mixer trying to get them all in.
Somehow you succeed to squeeze everything in and so, you put it to work.
Well let's say you really succeed this cursed experience, at the end, the result will probably be Jet Girls.
There is one and only major flaw that ruins everything when talking about the characters of this anime.
Their caracterisation is complety exaggerated and cliché without any substance or creativity.
And so, all the situations and interactions between them are completely insufferable, cringe and just silly in general.
Take the Misa/Rin relationship for example, first of all, their archetypes are already overused as hell, the cliché lively girl who wants to be the best at something and the dark emo ex-prodigy who lost her passion at something.
Difficult start one must say, but nothing too bad if executed correctly.
However you guessed it, it's not executed correctly.
Because on top of their cliché and overused archetypes, they are made as such, completely ininteresting, acting like robots all the time with a writing that's overall just being lazy and soulless.
And so, if their individual characters are lacking, their relationship is too.
They meet, interact 2-3 times in meaningful ways and suddendly they are best friends who almost want to have sex with each other.
This development does not follow any kind of coherent progression and is devoid of any humanity or soul.
There is never anything endearing about them, it's just so soulless.
It's so impersonal and lazy, it's actually kind of sad.
Rin, Misa, all the characters of this anime are just made to be perfect cute anime girls with no flaws or conflict whatsoever which makes them very boring and unappealing.
I personnaly like when I can feel like this 2D drawing could be a true human being, that's what makes them attractive and likeable, I'd say it's very important in an anime with fanservice.
Sexy bodies and pretty faces aren't enough on their own, the characters themselves needs to be endearing, that's how purely sexual attraction become true love to the character that's supposed to make you feel that way.
But here, everything is just so unbelievably cute and sexy and perfect that they don't even feel like human beings anymore.
All of that makes the characters absolutely not likable and I'm personally literally not attached to anyone in this show.
Oh yeah and how can I forget that to distract you from the obvious flaws of the writing, everyone is pretty much gay is this anime, because... well because.
Again, no logic, no development, no exploration of that at all actually, it's just there, not presented correctly and of course barely shown at all.
I find it cool to have those kinds of relationships represented but it's so poorly made and used that it makes me really sad.
Overall if I can give one good credit to the characters, it is that at least their development is okay, well for those who actually have a development but hey that's already good right???
Again, it's cliche and without any risks but it's pretty solid, thanks for trying I guess.
To finish on the characters, I have nothing against the voice actors themselves but I feel like they were given the worst material and direction to work on so yeah, I did not like them that much either but I feel they could have been really cool.

So yeah, the characters are really bad and of course with a LOOOOOOOT of dumb fan service you can include in the problematic.


Art (4/10):
The art is not good.
I can say this bluntly, the art is really not good at all.
In fact, it's one of the major flaws in this anime.

Firstly, well, all of the races are made in CGI :)
So yeah, talk about an oof moment, but you know what?...
I can personally look beyond that.
Because I think that in terms of camera work and rhythm, the anime makes at the end a pretty good job at making the races pretty exciting and fun to watch (yeah I just pointed out a positive of the anime, don't pay attention).
The backgrounds are also overall pretty good.

No, the gigantic problem with the art actually comes with the characters themselves.
Because, well, they just don't look very good.
The chara-designs are pretty inconsistent with their faces always changing traits from one scene to another due to the lack of animation quality and not a single one of them have any gimmick that represents them and their personalities in the way they move of react.

They almost have no characterization already and this flaw extends himself in the art style and animation, and for an ANIMATED work that wants to be cute and attractive, well I guess you could say that it's a huge letdown.


Sound (4/10):
Honestly, I don't even know what the fuck is going on with the soundtrack.
It sounds like eurobeat mixed with dumbstep 80% of the time and the rest is just some annoying and forgettable ost.

I don't have really much more to say about it, it's just weird and it wasn't my thing.


Enjoyment (6/10):
Finally a score above average and yeah, I pretty much enjoy this anime at the end lmao

Like I laughed a lot, that's for sure, but you could say it's not really for the good reason.
At first I started this anime with some hopes that's for sure, but after the first episode, they were already all left completely crushed.
However there was still a thing that kept me watching it until the end, coming back every week to see each new episode.
And it's the pure sillyness of everything in this anime, it's just dumb and funny.
I was frequently just there, sitting in front of my screen, thinking of what I looked like from an exterior point of view, like I was watching myself from another body.
And honestly picturing myself watching scenes like the one where four girls talk while a train is storming above theirs heads, making theirs boobs shake is just too ridiculous and funny.

So yeah, Jet Girls is really not that good but, I'd say it's so much bad that it kinda grown on me with time and I think I like it for being terrible.
It's just so dumb, it's fun.
I laughed a lot and that's all that matters.


Overall (4/10):
So why am I making this review if I actually enjoyed this anime?

You know, it's not because you enjoy something that you actually can't admit that it is kinda bad?
And I'm doing this long review just for sharing my opinion of a random guy that does loves reasonably enough ecchi or yuri to have a less biased opinion than a lot of people in this review section ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I think that can be interesting, but anyway let's wrap this once and for all.

To conclude, Jet Girls is honestly a bad anime, and an unused potential to deliver a strong female sport anime that could have had actually GOOD fan service.
It wasn't impossible, far from it.
The story and characters are pretty much terrible up and it's so cliche and soulless that it became barely believable at some point.
Everything comes with extremely low effort and inspiration and it upsets me a lot when I look above my personal enjoyment to see that such a great idea on the paper went to be a catastrophic mess like that, reduced to a stupid promotion for an upcoming eponymous anticipated game.
The history of this anime was already written before it aired, it was meant to sell games, like the Senran Kagura anime does and very much like it again, not being good.
But it's funny so it's okay to laugh and learn from the mistakes of the anime I guess.

Anyway, that was all I had to say on "Kandagawa Jet Girls", thanks to you if you've read all the way down there.
Don't forget, never stop to like what you like and it's time for me to retreat (งツ)ว

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 7, 2020

curvedtree

Not Recommended

Kandagawa Jet Girls is a sports anime about PWC, where duos races each other in the Kandagawa River, our protagonists are the genius shooter Misa Aoi, dubbed by Riko Kohara and the genius speeder Rin Namiki, dubbed by Yuu Sasahara. Misa used to live in the shadow of her sister, another genius shooter, and felt like she had to be just like her, Rin, on the other hand, has a speeder mother and despite her not imposing anything on her daughter, Rin wanted to be just like her, even being a speeder.

The story turns around only one thing: their desire to win the Kandagawa Cup ... against the other schools. So all the races will be set on the same river, they don't change the course, don't add new obstacles, no challenges whatsover so all the races will be the same, the difference our protagonists will face are: new weapons and driving styles (that doesn't make that much difference since not much of the race is focused anyway).

On the races, sometimes they will rely on CGI, and it looks as good as Hatsune Miku (the vocaloid) in 2009 - it isn't bad, but it feels outdated, specially when their face are expressionless.

There is one or two moments of character development so, basically they keep pretty much the same throughout the series.

Voice acting imo is 50/50, I've seen some great promise here on this anime, I really enjoyed how Riko Kohara (Misa Aoi) gave life to her character, however there are others that either has a disconnection between voice and body or voices that are so similar to others used in different animes that if you did a blind test you wouldn't be able to point out the character. So kudos to Riko Kohara.

The animation is lazy and poor, the drawings are okay considering 9 of the racers have big tits and the other 3 are lolis, not a complain, but characters outside the race seem to have more normal bodies. Also, the last episode seemed to have a poorer quality than usual imo.

They even finish saying this is our favourite water sport, but you will have to agree that Keijo!!! did a far better job than Kandagawa, still if you just watch it for "plot" than you will enjoy it, I tried to point out other points too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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