Kandagawa Jet Girls

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they will rely on CGI, and it looks as good as Hatsune Miku (the vocaloid) in 2009 - it isn't bad, but it feels outdated, specially when their face are expressionless.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

There is more to racing than just increasing your speed...............Hummm , maybe but not with this trash and seriously, whoever thinks that this should have a high score, must've have been one lusty puppy. So, without anymore bullshit, here are my ratings for this trashy anime: Story-Mediocre: Regardless as to what any reviewer says, it was just the usual josei genre sport plot where girl go to school with dreams of joining some club, only to find it crumbling or it doesn't exist at all, and another girls who was once into that kind of thing , but has already given up but was forced intogoing back to the very thing that she tries to forget. And , in the end they came out victorious, TCH!!!! Very mediocre at all, in fact the real story around here was more on that skinship thing where there was that suggested lesbian thing that them dogs would wanna wink wink their winky. Art-Good 7: What can I say, It was all about the boobs , ass , boobs, curves, boobs, swimsuit and boob, boobs and boobs, cu'z that what makes them dogs go gaga over it. Sound- Very Good 8: That was for the opening theme, BULLET MERMAID" by Yuu Sasahara and Riko Kohara. and "RIVALS" by Azusa Tadokoro. Character- Pathetic 1: Ok, so what we have here were a pair of 6 teams, and as to what I can say only team "Dress" that was composed of the quintessential rich girl, Kaguya Shijuuin and her quintessential maid bitch, Kuromaru Manbu were the only one whom you could consider as the antagonist given that we never see them interact with any of the other team after episode one. The rest, well, you could say that for them to be condescending to the main duo, Rin and Misa was more like a start but just as what was expected there wasn't much of any good rivalry except in the jet race, but then again this was more on the relationship between them Orcano girls like Rin and Misa as to how their relationship blossom. Ok, so what about it???? Well, that's just it ,it was more of that lesbian thing and quite frankly every character here except for them "Dress" girls were more on that lesbian love thing, the most intense was with the Pan sister or them idol bitches, in fact you'll always see them making love of sorts. Shit , them dogs looks like they like them making it out. Enjoyment-Poor 3: Frankly, the only thing that make this enjoyable was the uncensored version, everything else was more like a chore. Overall-Dreadful 2: For something that was taken from a game, I wouldn't find it surprising that the game itself was more on the galge side than in the racing side and no offends , but for someone to give this a high overall score, probably can't get enough of them Yuri thing.

What looked to be a mediocre sports anime at first actually turned out to be one of the cutest yuri love stories I have seen in an anime. This show has great characters, good humor and is wholesome af with a satisfying ending. I went into it for the fanservice (of which there is plenty) but I stayed for the comedy and romance. The interaction between the main characters is great and the side characters manage to represent a variety of archetypes in a self-aware manner that doesnt feel annoying at all. The animation is good except during the racing sequences which feature 3D animationsthat look a bit low budget. Way underrated show in my opinion!

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