If i want to review something, i always look at what does the purpose of that something wants to give. for example i would have reviewed a pencil and a fork in a very different way because they serve a different purpose and are not comparable in this sense, same thing i would review non non biyori and attack on titan, is a very different media they they are trying to give. another one is always personal opinion as that is the point review, sharing your views about something to other people and either people will click or not with you. And this
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can also be depends on the time you were in especially with an old anime like this.
Kill Me Baby is one of those old anime that used to be quite popular but then faded to obscurity, and i think is kinda logical why this anime is like that. Kill Me Baby is an CGDCT comedy anime about 2 cute high school girls doing shenanigans and is pretty much that, it Didn't actually bring something new to the table but it does kind of bringing some unique twist in to this genre, but it doesn't kind of suceeded in what they wanted to bring.
(story)
There are no story in this anime because that is not really purpose of this anime want to bring, story is the least important of what comedy genre wants to bring because the purpose of this genre is always the humor and adding story in a comedy genre is like pouring additional flavor in a ice cream because is not the main ingredient.
(Character)
Now a with a genre like this, one of the main ingredients is always the the characters, think of it like mr bean, or chaplin as the iconic part of this comedy series are literally the main character, what kind of situation does this character goes to and comedy effect will this character bring to this series. and this where the anime kinda suceed and failed at the same time, the charaters from the start is not really bringing that much comedy, 2 main charecter is yasuna the dumb girl, and the assasin girl from russia sonya,, and the main side character is the ninja girl asagiri. Neither of this character are unique in there own way except from maybe sonya a little bit wich to me, kinda cary the show to the end as her character is kinda what makes this anime is all about. but then she didn't really bring much flavor in each episodes and she falls flat kinda quickly. Yasuna is the dumb girl and the friend of sonya and most of the comedy comes from her antics but thats really what shes all about, other than that she's just another dumb cute girl, asagiri, the most famous character in this series had a rather unique roll in this series because she is a side character but the one that is in each episode and in most scene, as her presence kind of bring a different atmosphere in each scene but than she is just mainly an additional character that kind have unique profile. Other characters are just cardboard cutout and are literally cardboard cutout as they dont even have names.
(Art)
The art is simple and cute with no vibrant or elegant colour almost like low budget kids shows that you watch in the 2000s, character design are rather unique than other anime of this type as it is very very childlike almost like they were pre schooler instead of high schooller, not that i say high schoolers cant look like a little kid as there are many who look really young but is not the general 15-19 year old look even in anime, but its another one of those that makes this show unique.
(Animation)
Good animation, very typical budget animation of an anime.
(Sound)
The voice acting in this show really done a good job in what they trying to bring to the characters, same thing with the sound effect in bringing the comedy to light, this two department succeed in what they doing but no unique or high class things really happen in this two department. For music, same thing, is good, but no iconic ost ever come in this series and no unique experimental ost, is more generic than even kevin macleod music. The op is one of the most forgettable op in anime as it is so bland and flat. But the ED. I think ED is a seperate different topic already, because it is one the most iconic ed in anime, is so good i think the ed already paint the whole series. The ED it self is already way more famous and more memorable than the whole series.
(Comedy)
The last and final part is without a doubt the most important one, the comedy, and disappointingly they kinda failed in this one, but is not actually because it is repetitive. In fact this anime is pretty much using that repetitive comedy format, just like phineas and ferb for example, but what they failed is adding some unique twist or a creative idea in each repetitive jokes just like phineas and ferb so it wont actually feel repetitive. There are certainly unique comedic scene happen, but is so few. Most of the time is a very predictable repetitive joke scene in 24 minute 12 episode series and this is why this anime faded so fast and forgotten to many people. It didn't have the iconic comedic scene that other series like this had.
Conclusion :
Kill me baby aired in a time when anime about cute moe girls doing random stuff with no plotline are trending like fire in the mid 2000s to the early 2010s usually either in the form of comedy, slice of life, or either both of them mixed together, it than evolved to include storyline also but the general concept is always the moe genre cute girls doing cute things. It start of with azumanga daioh in early 2000s and then getting popular in the mid 2000s all the way to the early 2010s birthing many other iconic moe anime like lucky star, k on, nichijou, and non non biyori, it is still popular until now with airing of bocchi the rock and they usually come out on its original form in a form of 4 koma manga wich is a 4 panel one page manga that had very different setting then the next page usually for gags wich is why is usually common to see it in newspaper also back when newspaper was a thing, think of it like garfield. Kill Me Baby is in the same universe as all this moe anime genre with a 4 koma manga as its original form and it is actually one of the popular 4 koma manga wich is why it adapted into an anime, but the anime didn’t really had the flow the 4 koma manga, because adapting 4 koma manga (especially the comedic ones) to an whole out series is very hard, either you have to change the baseline format of the manga (usually to a slice of life genre) or adapt it into a short 3 minute anime series with either 5 to 10 episodes. Kill Me Baby is very devouted in its source material but adapting it into a 24 minute 12 episode anime its not a great concept and rarely executed well cause you would then have to add additional comedic elements wich are usually pointless and not funny to stretch the time. Wich is why I would recommend reading the manga instead, but I should say that Kill Me Baby is quite an old manga with a quite an old comedic format also that didn’t seem to go along with time, its comedic format is similar to that of Garfield. Espacially now with humors that are either getting very weird, very relatable, or very politically correct. I wouldn’t really recommend it to the average new anime viewers now as maybe for them the comedy might feel to archaic (which means to bland for them) but if you want to try some old manga or on a nostalgia trip, I would recommend the manga but not anime.
Feb 20, 2023
Kill Me Baby
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If i want to review something, i always look at what does the purpose of that something wants to give. for example i would have reviewed a pencil and a fork in a very different way because they serve a different purpose and are not comparable in this sense, same thing i would review non non biyori and attack on titan, is a very different media they they are trying to give. another one is always personal opinion as that is the point review, sharing your views about something to other people and either people will click or not with you. And this
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