Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru Original

Ok, so what do we have.

Racism.
Alcoholics.
Homicide.
Discourtesy.
Sometimes sex.
Sometimes cannibalism.
Sometimes hanging.

... This anime has a ton of evil and doesn't even try to hide it.

Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru Original is completely a black comedy, with it touching on dark matters in the same manner as you brush your teeth. It's an everyday thing around here, with people dying and other evil deeds to be seen at sight. Whether that clashes with my morals is something I wish not to impose onto the anime, because at its core, it's pretty good with the dark humour that it plays with.

It's an old short so expect "low quality" whilst concurrently good quality for its time. The style of art is very fitting for everything that goes on here. It's not typical moe, but it is a basic worldwide cartoon setting, like a more baseline Tom & Jerry.

At the end of the day, someone thought this was a good idea. I think I would agree as well.

How this aired on TV is a (little) mystery to me.

8/10. Basically South Park and the likes (or it's better).

Gore, racism, and cannibalism.... the ingredients of a perfect anime



... Jokes aside though, I just didn't find it that funny. Not even the shock humor hit. And this is coming from someone who loves Happy Tree Friends. It is mildly funny at parts, mostly due to the quirks of the characters.

Now, should you watch it? It depends. I would recommend investing 3 minutes of your time watching the first episode. I feel like the first episode is a great sampler of the series as a whole, and you can judge how much you'll like the series on that episode. I would normally go more ... in-depth in a review, but I don't believe it to be necessary... a perfectly short review, for a 30 minute long anime.

Nekojiru is about a family of personified cats, focusing primarily on the older sister and her baby brother, as they interact with humans and other talking animals. The duo is selfish and cruel, beating up anyone who gets in the way of their fun.

As a result, these episodes often feature brutal mutilation and death, especially when the much-maligned pigs are involved. At first, this type of bloody gag comedy is fresh and funny, especially considering the cute and childish animation aesthetic.

However, very quickly, the humor starts to feel over-used, boring, and worst of all, predictable. The first two times pigs get killed, it`s funny, but ... by the twelfth time, the audience is sick of it. It`s almost like the creators had two really funny ideas, and then decided to use each one multiple ones, because they had nothing else. A one-dimensional joke can only work so many times.

It should also be noted that Nekojiro is 27 1-minute shorts. There's no music, and the simplistic art is precisely what appears on the database page. Those categories don't apply or affect the series in the slightest. Hence, overall, Nekojiru is one of the weaker brutal humor shows I`ve seen.

If you want a black comedy with more variety, funnier jokes, and far more violence, check out "Metalocalypse".