Fluffy Paradise

I honestly liked this anime. It was cute, fluffy, funny and serious. I mean, what's more to love about this anime. It delivers on its promise. Being fluffy. And if you can't take cuteness or fluffiness for any reason, then this anime clearly is not for you! The animation and art style was good. I liked it. Although it gets a bit repetitive after a while, it is still good. The character development is kinda nonexistent until you reach the halfway point I think? However, after you have reached that point, the character development grows slightly. Especially the last episode I think. The story isgood too. I can't deny, I couldn't have came up with the story. It is way too crazy and funny, yet serious when it wants to be. All in all, I enjoyed this anime. It was very good until the very end. I hope for a season 2! :)

So Fluffy I Could Die. If you're the type of person who enjoys light-hearted isekai and is also an animal lover or a crazy pet owner whose heart bursts out of their chest at the thought of touching fluff and floof then you may appreciate a couple of episodes of Fluffy Paradise. It is a story about an overworked office lady working herself to death and then reincarnating as the daughter of a noble family in another fantasy world with a Snow White ability to make every animal love her so she gets to touch, pet, and play with as much fluff and floof, fur,feathers and dragon scales all she wants. It's a show for real animal (and monster) appreciators. Although, as Neferima Osfe, her mission from god is to judge whether or not humanity should be wiped out for being habitual animal and monster abusers, so the show isn't exactly as light-hearted as it may seem. It ultimately ends up shooting the narrative in the foot. Fluffy Paradise's first couple of episodes are entertaining. Nefe is not only incredibly adorable herself, but the show goes the extra mile to make every animal she comes in contact with feel uniquely adorable, whether that would be a dog, a bird, an all-powerful (Scandinavian(?) elemental tiger named Lars, or a giant deity fire dragon. As expected of a factory-milled light novel adaptation, the animation is usually bare. Still, whenever there's some fur on screen, and Nefe sinks her hands (or herself) into it, I can't help but wish that was me, so I think it is fair to say the animators at EMT Squared understood the assignment given to them. I also like how animal appreciation is used as a way for Nefe to make connections with other people who also go on to appreciate the creatures of the world more. It's a nice bit of character writing. On a side note: That ED man… it's so cute! And Fluffy!! Unfortunately, after episode 4, politics started to kick into the narrative, and I have to say, the writing and world-building aren't great. Suddenly, you begin to remember that Nefe is a mentally 20-30-year-old woman in the body of a 4-year-old girl lecturing her abusive teacher and racist on beast-person racism… Suddenly, you realise there isn't a central antagonist to carry the elementary and uninteresting politics the show clumsily implements, and worst of all, the show forgets that it's supposed to be about a small child frolicking with fluffy animals, hence the title. When the anime does wake up and remembers to shoehorn in a fluffy animal for Nefe to become excited over, it feels more like an intrusion to the plot than a naturally incurring event. Hell, the story itself doesn't seem all that interested in the story. In one episode, Nefe and the gang work to expose a corrupt noble, but Nefe only gives footnotes on how they solved the problem due to seemingly running out of air time. If the show isn't interested in telling a story, why should I be interested in watching it? I say that, but I watched the whole of Fluffy Paradise and enjoyed most of it despite its flaws. Like I said, in the beginning, the first couple of episodes hook you. Everyone loves animals, after all, and they deliver that fantasy of living a blissful life, loving and being loved by all of fantasy Earth's creatures. I wouldn't particularly recommend continuing after getting your fluffy fill. Still, if you do, you'll be in for some mediocre light novel fantasy politics storytelling with literal fluff in between. Also, Klobots are just different breeds of dogs standing on two legs in this world, which I will admit I found funny and adorable. 6/10 It's Okay.

The show is exactly how it looks. If you're looking for something laid back and silly then it's a decent watch, nothing spectacular, but not terrible either. It tries to have a "dark" undertone to appeal to an older audiance. Then they try very very hard to hide the "dark" undertone and make it more silly than anything. I don't get why they do that, but sure. If you ask me the "dark" undertone is a waste of writing if they're just going to cover it up so badly. Other than that failed little expedition it's a decent show. Would be better if they wentdown the rout of By the Grace of the Gods and kept the light heartedness with none of the attempted darkness stuff but hey it is what it is. If you liked By the Grace of the Gods then you'll probably find this anime worth watching, its very similar in a lot of ways. Unfortunately it does fall short in pretty much everything, the MC is badly written, the world building is shallow and as mentioned the story tried to have a "dark" undertone then at the same time tries to cover that same "dark" undertone up and make it as light hearted as possible. Oh hey look humans are abusing these creatures and killing them and driving them to extinction? How do we fix that? First of all lets just completely ignore that it's happening then lets get all the poor creatures that are being abused together into one big camp where they can be bread for the sole purpose of being hunted like livestock. Yeah great idea, now lets mix in some sugar and spice and everything nice and make it all fun and happy giggles. Overall I'd recommend the story to anyone who likes silly, stupid, light hearted anime and who aren't really looking for a good enguaging story, but just something to set down and mind rot to. But otherwise, if that's not your dig then pass this one up. You will thank me later. Personaly I kida like mind rot anime sometimes.

Overall Opinion: It's a very good anime, has it's strengths and weaknesses, but the former outweighs the latter in my opinion. What I liked: Well, I like animals, and getting to pet tons and tons of animals seems very awesome, so the general premise/motivations of the MC certainly helped. The plot went somewhere, which was important. It ended up having more depth than a lot of far more serious animes, which I thought was a great surprise. The super cute sheen of the show actually covers over that the MC is going to end up dealing with some prettyserious topics, and have to grow a bit with some uncomfortable truths, and they handled this topic very, very well. Music was also sneaky really good. Lots of sweeping orchestral moments that are very beautiful and fit the moment beautifully. Excellently scored. Most all the characters were likeable. The point of this show is really the MC, so there's not a lot of growth for the characters surrounding her, but it's not needed, that's the point. The writers spent their time wisely in MC because it's really all about her dealing with the situation at hand and growing due to it. That being said, all the characters around her were kinda already developed, and well. You understood her family and their motivations and why and how they acted the way they do. MC is also not "the only smart person in a family of dolts" which is a trope I grow more tired with each time I see it. Her family members, and crew surrounding her can handle themselves while not being overbearing, and that really made for a good watch. What I didn't like: Not a long list, but a few things for sure. For one, I understand she's a child, and it really stops as time goes by, and I think it was supposed to be a device to show the character maturing, but the lispy words I could do without. I get the point, she's a cute little girl, but there are 99 things layered into this show to drive that point home, the lispy words really were not needed. Lets call a spade a spade, there's some moments of this show that realllllly towes the line of "cute" reactions to animals and "something more". I don't think they ever fully cross the line, but I don't think they had to walk the path so far as to make a watcher question the motives of the maker, so that was a bit uncomfortable for a show that's dressed up to be all wholesome and happy. It doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen, and it was worth a mention. Hated Silver Wolf girl. I can't stand the "I go from super antagonizing to weeping within seconds" character. It's never strikes a chord with me and I will always detest the character when it happens, so boot that character out of the show (who ended up not doing ANYTHING??? Why was she even there?). My last major gripe is they kinda forgot this was an Isekai show? This followed Dahlia in Bloom's path perfectly. Even how the character gets to the alternate world is exactly the same. They're overworked, they die, they are sent to another world and..... then it NEVER PLAYS A ROLE AGAIN??? If you cut out the first ten minutes of this show, you could have someone watch it, not tell them it was an Isekai, and they'd never know. Also, why is a twenty-seven year old experiencing emotions for the first time, and why is she acting like a small child. Very confusing. Kind feels like they forgot that entire plot line.... or they didn't have the need for this to be an Isekai at all, but used the plot device because it's so hot right now. For this reason, the show dropped from an 8 to a 7 for me. Animation: Fine, nothing special, didn't need to be. Music: Excellent Plot: Gold Star Characters: Absolutely fine. Tropes: Exist, but nothing too irritating, or heavy handed