Gokicha!!

This was one of the most simple anime I've ever seen, but it's nevertheless heart warming. The story's about an anthropomorphic cockroach girl who wants to befriend humans, but gets treated as all cockroaches get treated by humans. The episodes are very short, each about 8 minutes long, there are only 2 episodes released so far, and the animation is basic. The characters don't actually move their mouths when they talk, and a lot of "action" scenes are repetitive. Overall, the simplicity of the story, the characters, and the situations is surprisingly heart warming. If you want to feel good, and have 16 minutes to ... spare, you should definitely check this out.

This is a show which could have been really good, given the kind of care and funding other shows get. The premise is simple but easily enough to fill a twelve-episode series, as opposed to the short two episodes we got. The animation is janky and underproduced, but at its core all the problems being faced by this series are the result of factors outside of its control, which is oddly fitting given the theme.

The factors within its control are all well-done. The show manages to be emotionally heavy despite its brevity, and the main character is interesting and amicable. There's ... room for a lot of ethical philosophy within the writing of the show which they seem keen on exploring. But inn the end we get only two episodes, so that's all.

All in all this was a good show hamstrung by its funding and the realities of corporate media manufacture.

So, here we have Gokicha!! Cockroach girls. I expected a lot more from this, even after seeing that it was 'ongoing' apparently. This is a very short anime (16 minutes) but it is really heart-warming, hence why I set the story so high up. However, everything else about this anime though is a general disappointment. To begin with, the animation is awful, the characters don't even move their mouths when they talk, the actions scenes are basically looped over and over. What annoyed me most though is the potential this anime had all went to waste, for example, the characters don't get developed further ... than their origins and their names...thoroughly disappointed with this anime, I don't recommend you watch it unless you're really bored and have a spare 16 minutes