Kill Me Baby

This anime have quite a simple plot based on the 4'koma: three schoolgirls doing cute, dummy&funny things. Actually, one of them, Oribe Yasuna, is a stereotypical schoolgirl, second, Sonya-chan, is a killer, and the third, Agiri-san, is a ninja. The whole thirteen episodes we're seeing many jokes, but, as in the everage comedy, most of them we saw somewhere.
One detail near the end: "unused characther" really attracted my sympathy because she is trying to do her best and failed every time, every episode when she appears. Maybe, she was the main reason why this show got from me six, not five.
In conclusion I want to ... say: "If you want to relax -- I recommend you "Kill Me Baby". If you want something serious -- "Kill Me Baby" is a wrong decision".
6/10.

Kill Me Baby is a practical piece of work. Since it is merely an animation aimed at bringing 4-koma gags to life on the screens of the audience, its budget is a fraction of major shows that focus on graphical excellence, deep and intriguing plotlines, and of course character development that is well fleshed out.

Nevertheless, Kill Me Baby is an anime that competently makes use of the meagre budget as well as handling the transition from 4-koma gags to an anime reasonably well. Considering that it is a comedy show, and as such aimed towards squeezing a laugh out of every person who watches it, ... I have to admit that KmB does a good job in that respect, but is essentially a rather flat piece of work in all other respects. However, I should clarify that that is through no fault of the anime itself.

4-koma gags do not make for a good story that can carry an anime throughout its airing. Based on its source material, we can safely conclude that KmB is not a series that attempts to develop that. It is basically a succession of animated material that is just slapped together and packaged as an anime. However, its main selling point is of course, hilarity. And I can guarantee you, hilarity definitely ensues. That being said, the anime does not have any semblance of continuity and parts of it do not make sense at all to the casual viewer. This again can be attributed to the nature of the source material. If I were to judge KmB while taking that into account, I would say that KmB is actually a game attempt by the studio to create a good anime. Not "good" in the sense of thought-provoking, loaded with heart-aching drama or having bucketfuls of fanservice, but rather that it achieves what it sets out to accomplish, which is to brighten up someone's day.

Hmm... art. Now, the art of KmB is flat. Very flat. The show looks like something drawn by the moderately talented preschooler. However, one needs to remember that the show does not have excessive budget on which to blow on those gorgeous, brilliant graphics that cause people to stare, mesmerised at the screen. Thus, the art being of mediocre standard is actually forgivable in this case.

The sound part is definitely mediocre. The same soundtracks are reused so often that by the time I finished the anime I could almost hum all of 'em. Mention weird songs and KmB's OP comes to mind. Honestly, I could not make heads nor tails of that song, from the animation to the lyrics. However, I feel that the ED is a significant improvement over the OP, not that it would rank in any charts.

I don't believe that there's any need to talk about the characters in detail. Essentially, we have Yasuna = airhead girl, Sonya = paranoid assassin, Agiri = weird ninja and even an Unused Character just for the heck of it. Strange that they called upon Kugimiya Rie for Unused Character though. Overall, the characters are just there doing silly things for the audience's enjoyment. The voice actors were decent and were able to effectively convey the comical moments so that the mood pervades the audience.

Frankly, even though its other aspects were not headed for excellence, KmB really tries very hard in trying to let the audience enjoy it through its funny, hilarious gags. In that, it has succeeded well, in fact exceeding all expectations. The main reason I had for giving KmB my rating was due to me enjoying the series so much and laughing till my sides ached. The hilarious moments will have people literally ROFL.

Overall, KmB is still a decent anime. I'll say this again: its potential was severely hampered by both the funding and the original source material it had to work with. Despite that, KmB makes the most of its situation. Kudos to the people in charge for managing to eke out a thoroughly enjoyable anime from such limited resources. I'm giving it a score of 6, mainly because I enjoyed the comedic interaction between the characters as well as the truly funny gags that successfully made the anime a must-watch for people looking for a comedy anime series.

Is Kill me Baby a great comedy anime or will you be saying Baby please kill me by the end?

For starters I'll just say that this is an episodic anime with no overarching plot and no storyline. So now that that is out of way Kill Me Baby is about two 'friends' in a high-school setting so nothing new there, however the characters are a bit odd as one is typical high-school girl while the other is also in the same role but is a assassin as well which leads to funny interactions between the two characters but gets a bit same like if you ... binge watch this with it normally starting with first character Yasuna is a normal girl who comes up with a stupid idea and then baits Sonya the assassin into it, and then by the end Sonya has reacted violently beating up Yasuna.

Though aside from this I found the jokes to be well though out and played well into each episodes overall 'story' as they made me laugh at least once an episode, which makes whole anime as a whole fun to watch up until the end as there is no real ending or cliffhanger it just stops which I found to not be, all bad but felt unsatisfying by the end.


As mentioned before the characters can get a bit boring, due to repetitive humour and boring character designs that even with an additional to characters that are unoriginal though with that in mind, I found characters to be highly likeable as there personalities on one hand were fun to watch, even though they are a typical stereotypes and fairy uninteresting they grow on you as time passes; this is also due to the art direction even though the designs are average; the style is cute and helps mixing in well with the tone of the show, even if the animation is okay at best but similarly the soundtrack used helps immerse you into the shows and has a similar sounding tone.

Also relating to cute style there is the Opening and Ending of the show which are really cute and fun to watch though the songs used get annoying as the show progresses.

Overall I believe you should watch this if you want a breather from heavy story anime as this is a relaxing show funny jokes, likeable characters and a cute art style that makes you feel released from high energy shows even though the show runs out of ideas after about 4 episodes and reuses the same ideas over and over again unless you take it slow, in which recommend you watch this every now and then instead of binge watching to get the better experience.

It's not a high budget comedy with a big plot or anything like that.

It's a show to watch one or two episodes from time to time to relax and laugh a bit, it doesn't have plot at all, the episodes don't correlate with each other, it's just two main characters interacting with silly stuff with help of 3rd one that comes from time to time.

It looks like a 3 minute show you know but they managed to pull it to 25minutes and for me it was entertaining, i loved the OP and ED yeah the formula it's repetitive it's Yasuna trying to make something funny ... and Sonya just ends up getting angry and hitting her, yeah it's simple but they apply it to some original situations and it ends up being funny, at least to me.

The only thing i encounter a bit disturbing was that in some moments i felt as if Sonya was being too abusive with Yasuna, like she was so kind and genki and Sonya was such a cruel person.

First of all, I don't consider the anime bad, or to be taken seriously, but it's worst compared to the other series available on the same genre. Sure, you might enjoy this, but I'd much more recommend other titles.

Overall "plot" doesn't need to exist in slice of life. Granted. But some things really get stale after a couple of episodes, hence it could use more depth. Some things don't add value to the anime in any way, and backgrounds are very lacking. Sonya being an assassin doesn't add anything beyond the fact itself, she could be a grumpy clown with knifes and nothing would change. ...

Humor gets very predictable not long after watching, and even forced just so you remember there are assassin's and ninjas around. The format of the episodes being divided into three mini-scenarios isn't terrible, it was well done in other works. In a good light, there is no linearity, so you can watch whichever you fancy first.

To sum it up, the humor gets bleak, the structure for the humor gets stale really quickly, having only three characters: one nutter, one "straight man" and a Pandora's box, the latter not being present always. There is a 4th teased in the opening and in early episodes as far as I can tell, and sadly it was hardly used. Not to say that the genre needs a ton of characters to be viable, but being the first slice of life I find boring, there might be a correlation to having only three main characters here.

The ending is really catchy though.

If i want to review something, i always look at what does the purpose of that something wants to give. for example i would have reviewed a pencil and a fork in a very different way because they serve a different purpose and are not comparable in this sense, same thing i would review non non biyori and attack on titan, is a very different media they they are trying to give. another one is always personal opinion as that is the point review, sharing your views about something to other people and either people will click or not with you. And this ... can also be depends on the time you were in especially with an old anime like this.

Kill Me Baby is one of those old anime that used to be quite popular but then faded to obscurity, and i think is kinda logical why this anime is like that. Kill Me Baby is an CGDCT comedy anime about 2 cute high school girls doing shenanigans and is pretty much that, it Didn't actually bring something new to the table but it does kind of bringing some unique twist in to this genre, but it doesn't kind of suceeded in what they wanted to bring.

(story)
There are no story in this anime because that is not really purpose of this anime want to bring, story is the least important of what comedy genre wants to bring because the purpose of this genre is always the humor and adding story in a comedy genre is like pouring additional flavor in a ice cream because is not the main ingredient.

(Character)
Now a with a genre like this, one of the main ingredients is always the the characters, think of it like mr bean, or chaplin as the iconic part of this comedy series are literally the main character, what kind of situation does this character goes to and comedy effect will this character bring to this series. and this where the anime kinda suceed and failed at the same time, the charaters from the start is not really bringing that much comedy, 2 main charecter is yasuna the dumb girl, and the assasin girl from russia sonya,, and the main side character is the ninja girl asagiri. Neither of this character are unique in there own way except from maybe sonya a little bit wich to me, kinda cary the show to the end as her character is kinda what makes this anime is all about. but then she didn't really bring much flavor in each episodes and she falls flat kinda quickly. Yasuna is the dumb girl and the friend of sonya and most of the comedy comes from her antics but thats really what shes all about, other than that she's just another dumb cute girl, asagiri, the most famous character in this series had a rather unique roll in this series because she is a side character but the one that is in each episode and in most scene, as her presence kind of bring a different atmosphere in each scene but than she is just mainly an additional character that kind have unique profile. Other characters are just cardboard cutout and are literally cardboard cutout as they dont even have names.

(Art)
The art is simple and cute with no vibrant or elegant colour almost like low budget kids shows that you watch in the 2000s, character design are rather unique than other anime of this type as it is very very childlike almost like they were pre schooler instead of high schooller, not that i say high schoolers cant look like a little kid as there are many who look really young but is not the general 15-19 year old look even in anime, but its another one of those that makes this show unique.

(Animation)
Good animation, very typical budget animation of an anime.

(Sound)
The voice acting in this show really done a good job in what they trying to bring to the characters, same thing with the sound effect in bringing the comedy to light, this two department succeed in what they doing but no unique or high class things really happen in this two department. For music, same thing, is good, but no iconic ost ever come in this series and no unique experimental ost, is more generic than even kevin macleod music. The op is one of the most forgettable op in anime as it is so bland and flat. But the ED. I think ED is a seperate different topic already, because it is one the most iconic ed in anime, is so good i think the ed already paint the whole series. The ED it self is already way more famous and more memorable than the whole series.

(Comedy)
The last and final part is without a doubt the most important one, the comedy, and disappointingly they kinda failed in this one, but is not actually because it is repetitive. In fact this anime is pretty much using that repetitive comedy format, just like phineas and ferb for example, but what they failed is adding some unique twist or a creative idea in each repetitive jokes just like phineas and ferb so it wont actually feel repetitive. There are certainly unique comedic scene happen, but is so few. Most of the time is a very predictable repetitive joke scene in 24 minute 12 episode series and this is why this anime faded so fast and forgotten to many people. It didn't have the iconic comedic scene that other series like this had.

Conclusion :
Kill me baby aired in a time when anime about cute moe girls doing random stuff with no plotline are trending like fire in the mid 2000s to the early 2010s usually either in the form of comedy, slice of life, or either both of them mixed together, it than evolved to include storyline also but the general concept is always the moe genre cute girls doing cute things. It start of with azumanga daioh in early 2000s and then getting popular in the mid 2000s all the way to the early 2010s birthing many other iconic moe anime like lucky star, k on, nichijou, and non non biyori, it is still popular until now with airing of bocchi the rock and they usually come out on its original form in a form of 4 koma manga wich is a 4 panel one page manga that had very different setting then the next page usually for gags wich is why is usually common to see it in newspaper also back when newspaper was a thing, think of it like garfield. Kill Me Baby is in the same universe as all this moe anime genre with a 4 koma manga as its original form and it is actually one of the popular 4 koma manga wich is why it adapted into an anime, but the anime didn’t really had the flow the 4 koma manga, because adapting 4 koma manga (especially the comedic ones) to an whole out series is very hard, either you have to change the baseline format of the manga (usually to a slice of life genre) or adapt it into a short 3 minute anime series with either 5 to 10 episodes. Kill Me Baby is very devouted in its source material but adapting it into a 24 minute 12 episode anime its not a great concept and rarely executed well cause you would then have to add additional comedic elements wich are usually pointless and not funny to stretch the time. Wich is why I would recommend reading the manga instead, but I should say that Kill Me Baby is quite an old manga with a quite an old comedic format also that didn’t seem to go along with time, its comedic format is similar to that of Garfield. Espacially now with humors that are either getting very weird, very relatable, or very politically correct. I wouldn’t really recommend it to the average new anime viewers now as maybe for them the comedy might feel to archaic (which means to bland for them) but if you want to try some old manga or on a nostalgia trip, I would recommend the manga but not anime.