Anisava

I stumbled upon Anisava in search of an english dub boring enough to serve as background noise while I practice not sucking in Tekken 7. I still suck at Tekken and I choose to blame my Iron First Tournament ineptitude on an anime too funny to properly focus on anything else.

Anisava has your typical office comedy format of dysfunctional relationships and a collection of bizarre personalities who appear to do anything but their actual jobs, but what sets it apart is that the characters are all animals and embody their animalistic tendencies. For instance, Fred the Rabbit is a sex addict who has god ... knows how many children and cares for none of them. Andy the Kangaroo is a momma's boy to an extent that is disturbing to his fellow co-workers. In moments of frustration, the animals enter a fit of rage where they revert to their beast tendencies and destroy everything around them. This is great.

Anisava has a short run time of five minutes per episode that works well in it's favor -no punchline becomes stale or overdone to the point of boredom. The designs may give the uninformed viewer the impression that this is intended for a younger audience. That could not be further from the truth. There is a lot of adult humor about sex, ranging from being good in bed to adultery.

The english voice acting is outstanding in the sense of giving the characters voices that properly fit their personalities. Jake the Bear is really fucking stupid, but means well, so he sounds stupid with a caring tone. He isn't voiced in the obnoxious way that feels like the actor is trying too hard to fit a role. I would presume this is the easiest type of anime to do voice acting for, since it revolves around every day humor that anyone working person can understand and the mood is constantly relaxed.

It would seem ridiculous to say an anime with just north of 100 scores was the funniest of it's respective season, but that would be the case for me. The aesthetic may not scream quality to a prospective viewer, but the writing and comedic execution warrants a look from anyone interested in office humor with a unique spin.

So this an interesting anime, this is a short adult office comedy series with a cast of animals. Its clearly meant for those who like adult comedies or more specifically adult comedy cartoons. Its honestly fine being a simple comedy with having segments of each episode focus on different characters. There isn't much depth to them but there isn't really much story either, as some of the jokes did get a chuckle from me, but what is negative about this series is the animation and voice acting.

The animation looks cheap as even some of the scenes in it feel lazy and boring like the ... animators gave up in of giving this series more distinct backgrounds, this series feels more like a cheap cartoon rather than an anime throughout it. Character movements are sometimes stiff and it feels like frames were cut from their scenes to save cost for when they have their freak out moments, when they tear their clothes off and destroy stuff around them. Thankfully nothing explecit is shown, its just becomes a tired gag after the first few times it happens. I can at least give some of the voice actors a pass, as some performences ranged from passable to ear grating, though I did listen to the english dubbed of this series as it was the version I found available, so I can't properly say if the japanese cast did a better or worst job.

My final thoughts are this, this isn't a great anime nor is it a bad anime, I find to be just average. It was just short enough that each episode If you like adult comedy and if your at least bit curious of what the show The Office would be like just with animals then give this anime a chance.