Yuyushiki: Nyanyashiki

Yuyushiki is my favorite slice-of-life anime, and I've seen a lot of slice-of-life anime, thus I was very excited for these specials to come out. However, in the end, these cheaply animated specials could not live up at all to the hilarity that was the original show.

These Yuyushiki specials turns the main cast into cat girls, and they then proceed to mess around and do whatever cat girls do. Which is fine and all, expect unlike the original TV series, the specials are not funny at all. There's an awkward pause between each line of dialogue for some reason, which serves no point besides to ... make these specials move really really slowly. Compared to the well written dialogue of the TV series, the dialogue in this is terrible. It's dumb and it almost seems kiddish at moments. It tries to be cute, but in reality, it isn't really. The animation is terrible, with the characters done in cheap CGI designs with no background at all. If there is a good point in this OVA, it's that the characters remain the same. Yukari and Yuzuko seem to be dumber than they already were in the show, but the perfect straight man, Yui, still remains the same, which is good as she's my favorite part of Yuyushiki.

If you're a big fan of Yuyushiki, then I still recommend checking these out. If you only liked and not loved the show though, I recommend skipping out on this.