Jun 30, 2021
The meaning of the word "underrated" in general aspects is:
"Not rated or valued highly enough."
Kemono jihen unfortunately fullfills the meaning of this. And hey what can you do about it?, there are a lot of unrecognized anime everywhere, other franchises, that may not be bad, but they are definitely not what people say they are (mha) have amazingly high scores, I have seen a lot of them. The thing that bothers me the most is the fact that Kemono Jihen has EVERYTHING to be a successful and well received shounen, yet is quite unknowed having only 87,912 reviews and a score of 7.44 being ranked
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in the 1803th place. I dont know if it has anything to do with winter season that brought renowned anime names (SNK, Re: zero, dr stone, horimiya,etc) but its just sad to see such a good anime being overshadowed that badly.
Anyways sorry for the long introduction to the review, im finally gonna start
Story: 6/10
I personally was immersed in the story since the first two chapters; the world that develops is surprisingly well done, bringing a ot of concepts that i would like to believe will be more developed later on the story.
Lets start off saying that its not an "original" story , but it works well. As an example, JJK managed to highlight so much, not for its original story, but because its entertaining and has a good functionality, its story works perfectly to present villians, develop characters, and bringing good fights. And thats pretty much what Kemono Jihen does, obviously not at that extreme but you get the point. Although clearly its not the strong point of the show, but it accomplishes its duty. Its a good start for the series, nothing innovating or refreshing, but still pretty good
Characters: 8/10
Probably the best thing of the show. Let me start off saying that theyre wholesome, the friendship that they have, their personalities, everything about them is pure awesomeness.
The first season pretty much covers Shiki and Akiras arc and thats when we get to know what are their goals, how their pasts afects how theyre now, why they do what they do to achieve what they want, how everything that hapenned to them is linked on the things they say, act or feel. We really get to understand what theyre going throught and genuinly feel bad for them.
As for kanabe i liked him a lot as a protagonist, he doesnt know much about "real" life due to the life he had, he knows the general aspects and meaning of things but cannot fully understand them. Watching him grow and learning what love is, what friendship is, that he wants to do things, is just amazinggg.
They all have complexity and a great development, and theyre really easy to empathize with
Sound: 8/10
I have nothing bad to say about this, everything was really good, but nothing impressive (although i really liked the op and ed)
Art: 9/10
the fightssss *cheff kiss*, and alsoo I really liked the setting and the tone of it, it was really good, for moments you feel like laughing, and for moments youre actually scared. I really liked the use of gore it was not a little, but it also wasnt excessibly to the point of not surprising you. I liked everything that had to do with the art (The only reason of it being not a 10 is because ive seen better)
Enjoyment: 9/10
(just because i found some parts a little boring
Overall: 8/10
I really really enjoyed it a lot (to the point of writing review), if youre looking something entertaining, funny, sad, quite epic and just good, you should definitely give it a try. Also, dont have high hopes or any shit like that just because of the review, i personally enjoyed it, and if it's not your case, well what a shame
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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