KAIJU GIRLS

Weird take on CGDCT, Kaiju Girls' main premise is precisely that: girls (chibi) that can transform into anthropomorphized Kaiju, the girls are basically students and have peculiar personalities, which depending on your tastes can either be grating or comedic. I personally liked it a lot. Each episode is about 5 minutes long, just a bunch of shorts with intermittent punchlines. If you go into this looking for anything other than a cheap chuckle then prepare to be disappointed. For me, I can't sit through more than a few episodes at a time but if you take it for what it is (bite sized humor) ratherthan a protracted narrative it can be enjoyable. Not much to talk about in art and sound but the characters, while relatively one-dimensional, interact in amusing ways. Overall 7/10

Art/Animation First of all, I have never hated an anime this much. I saw the art style of this show and was interested as to how they could fit it in to an anime that seems to be about fighting. They did it horribly. The animation is horrific in its best moments, and they seem to reuse the exact same stock image of each character. The background seems to be made of cardboard and was drawn by a 5 year old, and is quite inconsistent. The animation seems like they spent none of the budget on it whatsoever, as if it were leading up to someintense sakuga or something, and then it doesn't have anything special, just the same sprites moving around with a little movement of eyes and mouths here and there. (Maybe even legs if we're lucky!) However, even after all this, I'm saying that the animation was the best part of this. Not to give it praise, but because they at least drew something. I can't say they actually did much anywhere else. Sound Nothing much to say here, except the fact that they have few and far between sound effects, no ambient sounds, the music is trash but they at least recorded the voices on a good microphone and I didn't feel like someone was pouring bleach down my ears (for the majority of the time anyway) Character Every person lacks motivation, there is no reason for anything to happen other than "Oh, that just happened I guess. Let's be friends and punch things!" the animators and script writers put no sort of effort whatsoever into this, and it really shows. Something else why is every episode 5 minutes long? This includes the OP and the ED. They have a 12 episode anime with every episode being 5 minutes. This means they only have to make about half an hour of stuff at most, most of which is just animation that looks like it was done in microsoft powerpoint. Story This is the most appalling story I've ever seen. It consists of 3 people going to a building because "I must be special" and then they just become best of friends. No buildup, no tension, just "hey we're friends now." Every character arc is completed in the span of one 5 minute episode each, where they spend no time going through the person, just going about showing their idols and then saying "Woops you found your power now! Hooray!" No one shows any normal human emotion, I just watched the entire show in the span of yesterday and I still can't remember the story. I'm pretty sure there was something about monsters from the shadow realm, and that's it. Conclusion I hated this show, I wouldn't recommend anybody watch it, even though the whole season will waste no more than an hour of your time. The art and sound hit the bare minimum, of being recorded on an alright microphone, and having actual characters drawn. Although nothing else looks good, and they mostly look too busy EVEN THOUGH THEY BARELY MOVE. I hate it. 0/10. I'm now changing the meaning of "Kaijuu" in my vocabulary to "pile of shit" SPOILERS FROM HERE, IF YOU PLAN ON WATCHING THE SHOW, AVOID READING HERE. I just want to talk about the last fight scene. I believe it is absolutely appalling. It begins with them fighting a couple of shadow monsters, then decide they need to take out the hive, when they recieve a text because their friend already did it off camera, to save time, effort, and money so they didn't have to make arguably the only important scene that could be in this show. Then comes a bug thing, which apparently regenerates after they defeat it the first time, but after that we NEVER SEE IT AGAIN. WE NEVER SEE THE THING THAT REGENERATED. Everyone gets caught up in fighting a dinosaur all of a sudden, then they jump off a building to hit its eye, which makes a crack, then they just shoot a laser at it and it dies. Magically nobody gets hurt in this, and after the dinosaur dies, everything is just magically fixed. EVEN THE BLOODY GIANT BUG THAT APPARENTLY CAN'T DIE JUST DISAPPEARS.