Kill Me Baby

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.

Ok, I think there are some people who really need to learn the definition of the word "context".

Kill Me Baby is a pure comedy series. It never wanted to be something else and it never claimed anything else. It was advertised as such. Just like any other comedy show gets advertised as such and not as a deep Psycological-Horror-Thriller with a Sci-Fi-Twist.

There is no continious story going on, cause why the hell should it be. You don't criticize shows like the Simpsons for that neither do you?
Every episode is seperated in 2-3 different adventures that the main characters have. The humour is a mix of ... crazy dialouges and situations combined with a lot of slap stick. Basically the interaction between the characters is the engine of each adventure. But what really puts this COMEDY anime over the top are the three main characters or better yet the three voice actors. The voice actors are doing an amazing job to make these characters sound as whacky as possible and going the extra retarded mile and I mean that in the most positive way. No "kawai desu", these characters are flat out savage in their manners, even tho those manners differ from character to character. Also some of the background sounds and noises are made by the three voice actors themselves which adds perfectly to the whackyness of the overall premise of the show.

All in all this series is the perfect anime if you just want to relax and forget about your everyday life. Or just if you want to have some fun and laugh in general.

This is an amazing anime.i can say its one of my favorite but... it doesnt mean its everyone favorite. i have a few reason why is some people dont think it is as good as i think it is. so this is my thought of this anime

Story (8/10)
The story is pretty boring. nothing interesting about the story , it basically about a highschool girl that have an assassin as a friend. but i know this anime is not really focused about the story.but in this anime its actually a pretty good thing because, it feel like, if you watch this anime not from the ... start or the first episode, you still know what is going on with the story. i'm pretty sure you can start watching in the 5th episode and still know what is going on. so, overall , the story is not that interesting

Art (8/10)
Some people may think that this anime have a pretty good art because its fitting with the theme of "Comedy" . but sometimes people don't like that. some people like an anime that is more realistic looking. i can see people like that hate the art of this anime. but some people think its not bad of an artstyle, it looks kinda "Boring" i should say. even some say the art is "Effortless" . its maybe because it was made in 2012 and theres anime better looking that this anime existed. but of course, some people still think that, this anime artstyle is good as an comedy anime. its simple and cute, it almost look like a chibi imo. so its pretty good

Sound (9/10)
The OP is pretty catchy. but, i can see people doesn't really like it because it feels like the whole lyrics for the OP is just "Kill me baby" really. but, the OP is very funny and fitting as the genres of this anime is "Comedy". The ED is very catchy and the animation of it, is, cute i should say. The ED of this anime is Very Catchy and fun to listen to. The OST is also very good! nothing much to say about the OST. So, The sound is very good!

Characters (9/10)
We Have here Yasuna oribe, which is possibly a highschool student and her friends, Sonya and Goshiki Agiri. Sonya as an Assassin and Agiri as an
Ninja. We Have Yasuna as an easy going and foolish person with Sonya as a strong cruel person. and last Agiri as a Mature and Calm person. it made a kinda interesting little story out of these character. i still dont know how to explain it but i love these character because their personality made a great comedy anime. i love them

Enjoyment (7/10)
The Jokes in this anime is kinda out of places and doesnt makes sense or fitting in some scenarios. it is clever with the characters and the artstyle is very fitting to a "Comedy" anime. and the OP and the ED is also pretty funny! but the jokes is sometime. too constant and repetitive, like it need a little break and then give it more jokes. it just throw a bunch of jokes at once and it is kinda overwhelming sometimes. but the most time it is time right and it is fun to watch. some scene is hilarious, overall, this anime is pretty enjoyable.

So Overall 9/10

Kill Me Baby is interesting in name alone, which is what led me to watch it. The premise, however, is extremely limited and it shows. It can be argued that this is because it's a 4-koma manga adaptation, but with many studios being able to pull this off and make must see series out of them, it leaves little excuse. The idea just isn't strong enough for an anime adaptation.

The art style is a typical super watered down moe slice of life style, and the animation isn't particularly good. The backgrounds are actually more interesting than the actual characters.

Sound usually doesn't bother me much in ... a series so my opinion isn't worth its salt here. But I felt it just did the job, with the exception of the OP. I genuinely hate Kill Me Baby's OP.

Characters are pretty bland. You have a ninja that's just a scam artist, the ditzy character, and the badass that's scared of stuff character. You get a feel for their interactions quickly and once you do the overused jokes get stale. I chuckled maybe once in my entire time watching Kill Me Baby.

I don't think you'd be missing anything if you chose to just pass this one by without a second thought. I found the first episode to be annoying but whether I just got used to it after watching the rest or it got better I can not really be sure. It does it's job as a thing to watch, not so much to entertain.

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.

Incredibly charming comedy show with a very Golden Age Spongebob-esque sense of humor, except if the main duo was Spongebob and Squidward and Squidward was a hitman for some reason. There were times when I felt it would perhaps be served better by 10 minute episodes, but I got more into it the further it went and was just glad to be along for the ride. The characters are all memorable and very funny, Agiri the Ninja is probably my favorite, and the further you go in the show you start to pick up on certain recurring bits and gags that make the humor all ... the richer. The animation does seem to be a bit low-budget but the show makes up for it with great style, character designs, and fantastic color. It's honestly a shame this didn't go on for longer, these characters and this format have tons of potential to be a long-runner. The English dub voices are also very well done with great inflection that sells the comedy and a sharply translated script.

Hilarious!!
why this anime got a bad rating? frankly, i watch it without any disappointment. there is a rare anime that can make me laughing frivolously. and this anime is the one that could make it happen. hahaha
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I love this anime because the character is cute and with the uncomprehend background like ninja and a killer. all the gag is always funny! every chapter in each episode give me enjoyment and happiness. and the story is rich of convulsing part.

Yasuna Oribe always having some idea to make the spoof fresher and give an unexpected responses. how Sonya treat her is funny too!

KILL ME BABY

Yasuna is a chipper, energetic high school girl with bravado that’s entirely fueled by her lack of brains. Her everyday high school life might have consisted of endless pep rallies and air-headed trips to the mall with friends, had she the ability to make like-minded friends... Instead, she wound up making friends with the girl seated next to her in the back of the room in their homeroom class, the cold foreigner Sonya. It’s difficult to say what black magic lead these two oddballs to become so tight with each other, but ever since their paths became intertwined, Yasuma’s ideal school life has become nothing ... but danger and abuse at the hands of her new BFF, who turned out to be an assassin!

Assigned to their school as part of her career, Sonya has little patience for her bubbly friend, who interferes with her work, constantly ropes her into crazy schemes, and even more constantly sets off her PTSD, to which Sonya always has a wrestling hold and a broken wrist to give her in return. And if these two didn’t sound like enough of a classroom disruption, Yasuna soon meets Agiri, a mysterious acquaintance of Sonya’s who claims to be a ninja, and is always ready to supply her two pals with acme-style ninja gadgets, for a small fee of course. With these three nuts in the same basket, school life is sure to be anything but normal or average for everyone involved.

I’ve talked about JC Staff before, to the point that I should probably replace Gainax Month with it. I won’t, of course. JC’s animation production tends to fall into three different camps; In one camp, you have beautiful animation that obviously had lots of effort and resources poured into it, like the first 7/8’ths of A Certain Scientific Railgun and most of Toradora.. Then you have bafflingly ugly anime that tries to look more expensive than it actually is, like Okami-san and her Seven Companions. Finally, you have the camp right in the middle... Anime with moderate budgets that save money wherever possible and make up for it whenever necessary. The majority of their work falls into this category, like Azumanga Daioh, Excel Saga, and of course Kill Me Baby.

Keeping with the trend, Kill Me Baby isn’t a show that really demands a high budget... The characters are chibis, despite technically being in high school, and they don’t demand a wide range of movement to express their parts in any given situation. The budget is normally saved for the rare special effects and lighting techniques, as well as some surprisingly smooth action scenes. The money they do spend on slapstick and physical humor is well spent, causing little to no visible hiccups in the process.

What’s equally impressive, though, is the art style and use of color. This show features a very restrained sense of artistry, using minimal and often recycled illustrations for the backgrounds of any given scene, but they’re still relaxed and detailed enough to blend and come to life in the story. The backgrounds are adequate at the very worst, but what I found myself more attracted to were the colored backgrounds that appeared behind the characters whenever the actual backgrounds disappeared. At first glance, you’d think they just took a bunch of white boards, gave crayons to a few elementary school kids, and pasted the result onto the background in place of actual environments.

On closer examination, however, it becomes clear that each of these backgrounds is intended to express the feelings of the characters and what’s going on in each cut. Imagery similar to a sunrise will be used when Yasuna has what she perceives to be a great idea, and when you cut to Sonya bluntly explaining why it’s a bad idea, you’ll instead see what appears to be the last few rays of Yasuma’s sunrise being trapped under a blue screen that’s covered by vertical white lines... In other words, Sonya’s raining on Yasuma’s sunrise. Mixed colors, whether blended or overlapped, are used respectively to convey agreement or mixed feelings. Weird purple bubbles will look as though their pushing back a calm blue background to convey that Yasuna is disturbing Sonya’s piece, etc.

It’s simple and not terribly deep, but it’s still a really nice touch, and once you start noticing it you likely won’t stop. The character designs should be somewhat on the generic side... The genki girl has messy short chestnut hair, the cold-hearted foreigner has blonde pigtails, and the mysterious girl has long dark hair... But the chibi aesthetic makes these choices feel like more of a deconstruction or parody than it actually is. The facial expressions are thoughtful and detailed, and expressive enough to serve their purpose. The music is kind of forgettable... It’s the kind of samey generic music that you’d expect from a slice-of-life gag show... But the opening and closing themes are just awesome enough to make up for it.

The opening theme is called Kill Me no Baby, and I had a hard describing it until I read someone on ANN calling it sped-up polka music, which sounds about right. It’s catchy, and it’s sung by the main cast members, who repeat the title of the show over-and-over again in in the chorus. The ending theme, The True Secret Behind Our Feelings, is a bit slower, and features the same two actresses singing over a low-key techno beat The songs are cool, but what really sells them both are the videos, which I could watch over all day. The opening’s video features the three girls (and one unnamed character) fighting off an alien invasion! No, I’m not kidding, it shows a UFO attacking the earth, with the ninja, the assassin and the idiot fighting them both inside and outside of the ship. The ending is somehow even funnier, as it features Sonya and Yasuna doing a synchronized dance that looks like it’s going to be morning exercises at first, but turns out to just be a series of hilarious moving poses.

The English dub is... Well, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, but at least the good and bad points are very clear cut. This is a Sentai dub, and based on the period that it came out, it’s fairly obvious that the scripting and ADR directing was in the hands of one Stephen Foster. This isn’t Foster’s usual kind of dub, though... To start with the good attributes, he didn’t rewrite it. It stays very faithful to the original script, with the only real changes being the odd ad-lib from Luci Christian, and these normally work for the better, making her character’s snarky sarcastic humor more accessible to a western audience.

Speaking of Luci Christian, one of the usual positive aspects of a Stephen Foster dub is still present here, and I’m surprised people never gave him enough credit for this... The acting in English is really good, maybe even slightly better than the Japanese. Luci growls and grumbles her way through the long-suffering straight man Sonya, and Hilary Haag turns her childish charm up to 11 for her role as the bubbly Yasuna, and the two of them work off of each other brilliantly. Rozie Curtis also does a fantastic job as Agiri, making her character sound aloof and nonchalant, yet with condescension and some distinctly bad intentions lurking below the surface. Brittany Karbowski is enjoyable as usual, playing a nameless character who’s only known by the descriptive term “Unused character,” and wants nothing more than to find some sort of purpose in the main cast.

Unfortunately, such uncharacteristic quality comes at a steep price. This is a somewhat common thing in Foster’s work, and I plan on talking about it more if I ever review Medaka Box or Kids On the slope, but in order to stay faithful to the script of an anime, Foster compensates by completely ignoring lip flaps. Yes, he makes no attempt at directing his actors to match what they’re saying with what’s on screen, it’s ugly but true. What the characters are saying in English will begin before they’ve opened their mouths, and end afterwards, and no pause is acknowledged. I’d say to ignore it, but it’s really distracting, and it’s hard to get over just how well a better director would have been able to make the dub look and sound a lot better without having to sacrifice one for the other.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but comedy is hard to review. Humor is subjective, and thus there’s no way to predict whether or not other people will find the same things funny that you do. Kill Me Baby is a slice-of-life slapstick comedy, told mainly through extended vignettes, so I can understand many viewers will likely find themselves losing interest during the full length episodes of a show that ideally should have been presented in 12 minute chunks. I like to find other things to discuss when reviewing comedies, but in Kill Me Baby, the only thing I can really discuss IS the comedy, so bare with me through this.

The style of comedy that Kill Me Baby uses is the classic ‘Straight-man-Goofball’ type of style... Where you have one character acting like a fool and trying to get on their counterpart’s nerves, and that counterpart delivers by either pointing out the goofball’s foolishness or just flat out smacking a bitch. This style is used often in the genre, and I must say I’m quite fond of it myself, but unless both characters take their roles to extreme levels, it’s hard for this dynamic to carry a series. Luckily, both Yasuna and Sonya take their respective roles and make them the central elements of their characters, so that the style can be carried to some very versatile places. Yasuna isn’t just a happy-go-lucky idiot, she’s a prankster, and thrives on the chance to get the better of her BFF, making her a very active goofball. Sonya is extremely edgy, and has a laundry list of trigger warnings, as she’s frightened of most animals, and is quick to become offended, making her a perfectly reactive straight man.

The rest of the cast is small, consisting mainly of two-bit extras that we’re not supposed to commit to memory, such as “Girl who lost wallet belonged to,” “owner of annoying dog,” and “Old man who keeps getting roped into stuff.” Agiri makes for a great third wheel, as her weirdness and casual antagonizing is one of the only things that Yasuna and Sonya are ever on the same side about, giving us rare glimpses of camaraderie between them. Unused Character is, surprise surprise, kind of useless, and doesn’t do much other than act as meta-commentary on the small size of the main cast. She could have honestly been left out, basically, and she knows it. With her and Agiri acting as occasional crutches, this show survives primarily on the strength of it’s two central characters and the wide array of interactions they can have.

For the most part, the story really only has three settings... Walking to school, hanging out between classes, and walking home from school, and the amount of material they can squeeze out of these settings is amazing. Yasuna always has something to bother Sonya with, and even when she doesn’t, she still has enough dimension to carry a satisfying vignette. Sonya herself does of course have the violent and sour reactions in good supply, but for whatever reason, she’s still more or less game to TRY and enjoy her time with Yasuna, and she even shows some shockingly real vulnerability in her occasional confusion over Japanese culture, as well as in the ways her PTSD has believably affected her reactions to otherwise non-threatening noises and events.

I could easily file this show away under the long list of plotless slice-of-life shows, but when I really think about it, that wouldn’t actually be fair. Yes, there’s no long term plot, nothing over-all that the girls are trying to accomplish, despite Yasuma’s futile insistence of a motive in the final episodes. The plots, believe it or not, come in the lengthy vignettes that make up each episode. This isn’t like in Azumanga Daioh or Lucky Star, where entire stretches of story can be made up of just interchangeable interactions that seemingly have nothing to do with each other... For the most part, an episode of Kill Me Baby will consist of quarter-to-half-length stories where something happens... Yes, things are constantly happening in this show, to varying levels of importance or impact... And there’s almost always a clear goal, even if that goal is just the two characters getting the best of each other.

While this style of storytelling doesn’t wear thin easily, the jokes themselves can become kind of repetitive, and it can sometimes feel like the writers were stretching for ideas. Vignettes that remove themselves from the normal setting, such as Yasuma’s New Year’s dreams, kind of fall flat, and the humor can lose steam if you’re bingeing more than a few episodes per sitting, meaning a portion of one episode per day would probably be ideal. Having said all that, I still say that Sonya and Yasuna are the backbone of this series, and while the execution isn’t perfect, it’s still a great concept that the writers are at the very least having a lot of fun with, never having to resort to cheap fan service(Which is good, because seriously, how do you make small anatomically disproportionate bobblehead characters sexy without failing at it like Lucky Star did?). The writer of the original manga, Kaduho, clearly loved these characters, and you probably will too.

Kill Me Baby is available from Sentai Filmworks, and is available on DVD and Blu-ray. It’s also available for free on Crunchyroll, and you can find pretty much the entire series dubbed on youtube. The original manga, by mysterious author Kaduho, is not available stateside. The follow-up OVA series, Kill Me Baby super, can be viewed online in many different places.

Kill Me Baby is a really fun series built on the strength of one really strong concept, enthusiastically explored in enough creative ways to excuse the somewhat lackluster backdrops that it’s set against. But like many others of it's ilk, it’s biggest problem is just how simple it is. Sure, there’s some complexity to the characters, but there’s little to no depth to any of it. It’s not really worth a second look unless the humor really worked for you, but in my case, it definitely did, and as fast-paced as the jokes in it are, you’re sure to find at least a few moments per episode that’ll work for you to. It’s a decent comedy that promises some great laughs, and that’s all it really needs to be. I give Kill Me Baby a 7/10.

The best anime ever made. If you disagree do not share your opinion with me--if you agree with me let us rejoice; I have watched this show at least 5 times including the OVA at the time of writing this. The OST, drawings (especially the drawings of the OVA), story, VA's, relationships between the characters, structure of every episode & overall joy the show gives me makes this the best anime ever made. I am also a fan of the show's mangaka Motokazu-sensei but I wish he would make more Kill Me Baby manga instead of Kobayashi drawings. I was shocked to see this show ... had recieved a 6-star on this website--the masses lack taste. This show is heavily misunderstood based on the top reviews I've seen--the masses lack understanding. Yet again the anime community of tourist ""weebs"" and neckbeard ""otakus"" disappoint me with a clear lack culture and understanding of heavily underrated Japanese media such as Kill Me Baby. How could such a great piece of media remain so horribly underappreciated?

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.

Needless to say, I'm 9 years late, but a laugh is laugh, regardless what year it is. Many people probably seen clips from the show on YouTube, thought it was funny and decided to check it out. I'm one of those people and I don't regret it.

If you're looking for a solid, serious, plot, you will not find it here. If you're looking for comedy, you came to the right place! Each episode made me laugh due to the ridiculousness of each character. As far as artwork goes, it was fitting for a slapstick comedy. The music was good. The OP and ED are ... catchy, memorable, and sometimes makes you want to attempt the ending dance.

Story: 7
Character 8:
Art: 7
Sound: 9
Enjoyment & Overall: 9

If i had to describe this show in 3 words it'd be Weird, Wacky & Wonderful. We follow 3 characters, Yasuna who is a Carefree, Simple Minded high school girl, Sonia who is Yasunas best friend who aludes an aura of toughness (despite being scared of many animals) & who is also an Assassin & lastly Agiri a very laid back & calm Ninja who tends to confuse Yasuna & Sonia with her rather strange Ninjitsu techniques.

Each episode takes place (Usally) over the course of a day & features a series of wild scenarios as the girls get wrapped up in bizarre situations with ... each other. Very funny & very slapstick, the contrasting personalities of the 3 characters made each episode a joy to watch as each character is just different enough that the jokes & humorous situations they find themselves in never get old. It features a very simplistic animation style that i fell suits the almost Saturday morning kids show vibe it has going for it & it allows for some incredibly funny animation techniques to be used that don't get lost in the mix of like other more highly stylised animes can.

If you want a fast paced, wacky show that's perfect to shut your brain off too then this is definitely for you. I'll end with this comparison, this show brought back memories of me as a child watching Cartoon, Cartoons late at night on Cartoon Network which just for that it gets my full seal of approval. 10/10

Intro music is good. Ending song is good.
Kill me baby is funny.
Agiri is my favourite character.


People rate this show low because it has no overarching storyline.
Many people watch clips of it on youtube.

I like this show. It's very relaxing.

... Watching 30 seconds is enough to find out if it's for you.

If you like the characters, you probably like this show.


This site forces people to write long reviews.

The episodic stories last one episode.
The art is digital and full coloured.
The sound worked for me.
There are 3 characters. and also dogs.
I hope you will enjoy it.

Overall i think this show is a good show.

日本語を読みますか。
今，緑茶を飲んでいます。今朝、朝ごはんを食べませんでした。

漢字が覚えられなくて困る。
お元気です。

I found Kill Me Baby when I was cleaning out my plan to watch list, wondered, hmm, why did I add this, took one look at the characters and remembered them from a whole slew of AMV dance mix videos and memes. This series may not be well known, or spoken of specifically, but Sonia and Yasuna, the main characters, are fairly recognizable when you see them together. I figured I might as well watch it. Laughed quite a bit at all the gags, and then looked for what to put on next.

That’s the kind of show this is. It’s good when you’re watching it, ... but ultimately pretty forgettable.

This anime is based off of a 4-koma comedy manga and has a teeny tiny cast of characters. Sonia, is a JK assassin (which is what basically all the jokes in the show revolve around), Yasuna is her idiot friend, and Agiri is ninja of dubious ability. There is also the “unused character” (played by Rie Kugimiya, arguably the most famous VA on the cast), and a few extras. The series is essentially a slapstick, gag comedy, in the manzai format, which is extremely popular in Japan. Manzai is traditionally a two-person act, with a “tsukkomi” (straight man) and a “boke” (funny man). Occasionally a third party will enter, and the roles can get swapped around with the introduction of this third party, which helps change things up a bit to keep the jokes from getting stale.

In the case of Kill Me Baby, Sonia is basically always a tsukkomi, and Yasuna is a really, really dumb boke. When ninja-girl shows up, she doesn’t change the greater order of things too much, but Yasuna will sometimes play tsukkomi to her. I’d say that honestly, the “dubious ninja” jokes in the show were some of the best gags. I actually found myself laughing out loud, which is super rare for me these days (since I’m mostly dead inside).

All in all, the dynamic isn’t nearly as complicated as it is to explain; what’s important is that it works. It’s a very funny show, the jokes hit well, the running gags provide a nice laugh, and the way they vary those up works well too. Now, unfortunately I might be quite biased. I’m a big fan of manzai, so I enjoy seeing it done well, and this is pretty good in terms of pure manzai anime.

There’s another reason I really enjoyed this series, simply because Sonia’s voice actress Mutsumi Tamura is really, really good; she’s probably most recognizable these days as playing Kobayashi in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (which happens to be one of my favorite shows). Her performance here really reminded me of the performance she gave in Dragon Maid, so I might be scoring this show a little kinder than I usually do (and I’m usually pretty easy going when rating anime).

At the end of the day, I recommend Kill Me Baby. It might be better not binging it, but rather throwing on an episode whenever you need a quick, easy, forgettable laugh to cleanse your palette and improve your mood. Watching every episode back-to-back it kind of blends together, and you lose track of things.

On a final note, you can find this on Hidive, which doesn’t have an option to skip the OP/ED, which is really a shame, because I found the opening song for this show to be extremely irritating, while I loved the ending. Guess you win some, you lose some.

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.

Kill me baby left me with… well very mixed feelings, more on the negative side.


The story is about two girls, Sonya, who is an assasin that hides as a high school student and her classmate. She’s very serious and rather violent person, always hitting or torturing her classmate, Oribe Yasuna.
Yasuna is stupidly optimistic and always get on Sonya’s nerves because of that. She’s very kind and good hearted tho.
There’s also a third girl, Goshiki Agiri, who is a ninja and just show up sometimes.


Episodes are cut in three, not related to each other segments. They are mostly based on random and gag humor.

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And here is my problem- the comedy.
The show is so absolutely unfunny that it’s so boring to watch. I had have to watch it at 1.5 speed because I couldn’t stand this anime.
The characters have just one off personalities. They didn't learn anything through the show and stayed the same till the end.
Sonya is bluntly violent toward her friend and I can’t sympathize or like her. She struggles her, keep hitting her for anything or even throw knives on her.
Yasuna is just too stupid for my likeness. It’s tiring seeing her causing another problems. It’s also seems like they would do better if they wouldn’t be friends.
The only character that carries this show is Agiri. She sounds so done with everything the other girl does.


The art style is chibi inspired. I think that is rather alright. The backgrounds are simple, but nicely done. However the animation can be really lazy sometimes.


Opening and ending are the best part of this series. It’s literally made to stay in your head for the whole day.


If you looking for very funny, investing comedy, better skip this anime.

It's mediocre at best, and obviously very cheaply made. people will argue that is not supposed to be taken seriously, and I agree with that in terms of story and characters. but it's also not to be taken seriously as a whole production due to the lack of quality. people always want something out of the entertainment, and I don't know what this anime was going for. The girls are cheap Moes that are too cheap to be cute. they're all carbon cut out stereotypes or Archtypes. Whatever word you want to use.

I appreciate that there's no fan service or Romance. There is some ... violence but it's not gratuitous, and that's fine too. We shouldn't have a female cast not relying on fan service and romance to be entertaining, but there's no kind of substance to the production. I don't feel inspired to watch anything elf made by anyone connected to the staff of this project, unless they were connected with a much bigger name, and I didn't know they were affiliated.

There are scenes of scenery use to replace motion. They didn't have much budget to animated, but the art is fine. the characters could have at least been cuter and the colors more vibrant and eye-catching. It's supposed to be a comedy but nothing about it is funny. Everything about this is bland. and it has the audacity to have some problematic elements of girls making negative comments about other girls bodies. They could have taken out the "comedy" and making made it a cheap moe Slice of Life, and at least it wouldn't been been insulting.

Why make this? Why use the resources time and money to make this? I know every artistic expression is a fantasy come to forwishen, but this should have stayed as a 4coma.