Killing Bites

*Somewhere in the Discovery Chanel HQ*

D:"Quick guys, we're running out of ideas, does anyone have anything?"
A:"Alien stuff? Dunno"
D:"We're not the History Channel for pete's sake... Anyone else? Joe?"
Joe:"You know how 'Animal face-off' was a pretty nice show, right"
D:"Hmm yeah, that's actually not a bad idea, a new season would be -"
Joe:"How about this time is animated and with scarcely clothed hot chicks!"
D:"..."
Joe:"And in order to appeal to the youth we should have highschool girls..."
... D:"... Joe..."
Joe:"And... and -"
D:"Joe this is it, you're fired"
Joe:"What, why"
D:"Leave now or I'll call security"
Joe:"But wait -"
D:"SECURITY"

Later on, Joe made his own anime studio and thus decided to get back at his old boss...




Killing Bites is at the crossroad between abomination and a decent show. I was surprised the show is actually enjoyable even if it mostly consists of ecchi that can only appeal to 12-year-olds without internet.

I assume they'll just attempt to add a "story" to the mindless violence this show is and manage to ruin it (something that'll be preeetty impressive considering it's already bordering train wreck).

Whoever has the sharpest claws wins.. not in this case.

Story 5: its another battle royale! Not really special, but I do like the whole animal side of it. Having their animal features and their abilities was pretty cool.

Art 5: Noting special here, a couple of good ecchi scenes though.

Sound 5: Voices were good, tracks were okay and the tracks reminded me of the 90s rock music (the middle cut scene)

Character 4: I didn't like alot of them, you have the typical shy guy that has a hot girl as a partner. If I had to pick a favorite character it would be kido ... takeshi, I love for what he stands for and his story about his mother was good too.

Enjoyment 4: I did like it (since I finished it lol), best part of the anime was when Hitomi and Eruza were in that confused state.
The ending was good too, it was a good twist.

Overall 4.8: It was good, not much more to say tbh.

Would I recommend?
I mean why not its not pathetic, its okay. I would say don't waste your time watch something better, but you watch what you want :D

Thanks for reading!
If you have any question or talk anime feel free to msg me :D

Summary: Stupid but entertaining. I may have watch this all the way through purely out of appreciation for the Honeybadger meme...that and the T&A.

I'm fairly certain that anyone who has watched even one season of anime will recognise this for what it is. Ecchi battle anime. Surprisingly, there's even the semblance of a story too...just don't expect much.

All of the characters, and I do mean ALL, are very one dimensional, the artwork and animation is average, the music is rather forgettable but, in terms of Ecchi, it's actually pretty decent. They do manage to make several of the female characters believable and sexy while making ... them appear capable of the kind of fighting depicted in the anime (there's more than a few pairs of "muscular Thighs"). That rather surprised me. I was also surprised by how the final episode panned out...they clearly intend to make more of this.

One additional little treat is the end credits sequence, I got one or two solid laughs out of it.

"The one with the sharpest fangs wins.  That is what Killing Bites is." -Uzaki Hitomi.

Yeah so...that's said every episode whether you like it or not.  Think of it as the catalyst for the plot armor to activate.  I wish I was kidding.

Story:

Four powerful companies fight for power and control over each other.  In order to settle their feuds, the four companies have put funding towards therianthropes, people who've had their genetic code infused with that of an animal that allows them to transform into the biological weapons of the animal of their choice called Brutes (cause that's totally how genetic engineering works), participating in cockfights ... called 'Killing Bites', where the Brutes fight one another and the winner gets dominance over the other three companies as a result.  And so we find ourselves with Brute Ratel, a fairly unknown fighter who throws a wrench in the Killing Bites...and the guy who I guess is the main protagonist.

Alright, not gonna sugarcoat this; Killing Bites is a glorified dick measuring contest disguised as a giant cockfight with the politics and warring powers who sponsor and host the Killing Bites acting as a backdrop to the whole thing and don't really matter.  The story features only one official "Killing Bites" match, featuring twelve participants who gloat so much about their supposed dominance to the point that when the show decides to give them each a pitiful excuse for a backstory to explain how and why these Brutes even went through with the therianthropy treatment to become the human/animal hybrids that they are.  Something that you end up not caring about cause it doesn't matter anyway considering prior to this knowledge, much of what you know about them is-

"I AM THIS ANIMAL.  I CAN DO THIS.  YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME BECAUSE I CAN DO THE THING THAT THIS ANIMAL CAN DO."  Which doesn't really count for much cause you lose your impact when everyone fucking does this.

Because of how the show's structured, the story is mostly style over substance, utilizing the egos of Brute Ratel (Hitomi as she's called), the other Brutes, the members of each company...basically everyone but the one guy who's supposed to be the male protagonist of the show to enhance the viewing experience of the savage battle royale to make it feel exciting.  Which honestly kind of works, if only to make the show dumb fun.  Every aspect of the show is exasperated to the point that everything is so bullshit that it's more funny than anything, especially because the show has a dedicated narrator who explains animal facts like the Animal Planet so that the viewer is aware of each animal's parameters and why/how they're able to pull off the bullshit that they do, which isn't hard because the amount of things the show tries to get away with with is so out there that not even suspension of disbelief alone will get you very far.

As a show, Killing Bites is a show whose entire identity lies in how brutal its fights can be and how big of a dick everyone has from showing off their strength and proving that they're better than everyone else.  I'll give credit where credit is due, the show's actually pretty brutal.  And though from a narrative standpoint the show flops because the entire narrative is just a backdrop, it's at least fun enough to watch just to see the kind of bullshit that they'll do, cause bullshit can be fun if you're in the mood for it.  There're also a few weird tone shifts in the beginning episodes, and a major twist at the end of the series that's pretty "What the fuck?!", so watch out for those.

Overview:
+ Savage as the box said it is
+/- Lots of things require suspension of belief
-  Gloating gets really old, really fast

Characters:

"The one with the sharpest fangs wins.  That is what Killing Bites is."  Yeah, even if you're sick of it, it's not gonna stop her from saying it all the fucking time.  Hitomi, or Brute Ratel, is a character that in four words, "Doesn't give a fuck".  As a human/ratel, or as it's more commonly known, the honey badger, Hitomi's defining trait is to get what she wants, pick fights with anyone who doesn't agree with her, and threatens to kill said person who doesn't agree with her.  She is the human embodiment of the honey badger, which as amusing as it is, makes her a terrible character.  Though her personality doesn't come into play so much as the amount of plot armor that she has, which weirdly enough is validated enough that I feel does get a pass in the realm of bullshit.  Cause honey badgers are basically nature's middle finger, capable of fighting predators many times larger than itself, shrug off cobra venom, and survive gunshots if shot in the wrong place, which only makes them angrier.  It is because of this quality that makes Hitomi such a weirdly polarizing character, in that everything does make enough sense when put in context, but it's still bullshit.

Nomoto however is one of those characters you really can't make a positive case for.  The guy's spineless and just ends up being dragged through everything that happens in the show, having little to no impact to the overall plot cause he quite frankly doesn't want to be in the world of illegal human/animal cockfighting and doesn't really make much of an effort to escape or man up, which in the one scene he tries to make an effort ends up getting shot down cause the show always wants him to play the beta male, which becomes even stranger with the weird buildup at the end where he's put into the spotlight which, prior to that, was someone who had almost no reason to be in this show in the first place.

Other characters don't really matter.  The Brutes themselves all have a pretty simple and self-explanatory backstory that you probably won't care about cause they take all but five to ten minutes to explain with very little impact to your feelings towards them because half of the time they're gloating about how strong the cobra, the tiger, the alligator, (insert another animal here) is before getting an arm or a leg chopped off because they didn't pay enough attention in zoology class to know that their opponent's animal is capable of doing such a thing.  In the same vein as that, the company heads don't matter in the slightest and their power war is basically irrelevant.  The only other character I would say matters in this show is Dr. Shidoh, Hitomi's guardian who acts more like a plot device cause despite what everyone in the show says, he doesn't actually do anything and only serves to advance the plot vaguely towards a penultimate thing that leads into the next arc that we'll probably never see unless we get a sequel.

Overview
+ Characters are...entertaining
-  Male MC is pretty useless the way through

Art:

On the topic of art, what Lidenfilms ended up producing is honestly not all that interesting to look at.  The show at most looks average, and the quality of the show itself is far from anything strikingly appealing to look at.  It also doesn't help the fact that most of the show takes place at night, so that in and of itself makes everything that much harder to see, especially because about half of the fights take place in near darkness, and seeing only the glowing eyes of the characters isn't great.

The fight scenes however were honestly what I expected, and then some.  The fights are very messy and brutal in nature, constantly filled with injuries and bloodshed from the savagery of these people fighting which honestly was the best part of the entire series.  Cutting off limbs, pouring out pools of blood; the show didn't shy away from being as gruesome as it could possibly be, and that's something that I can give the show credit for because it at least proved that it could be as unforgiving as nature can be.  Though can I just take a moment to say how dumb the names of their attacks are?  Slash.  Freaking..."Slash".  Like come on, you can come up with something better than that.  A seventy power a hundred accuracy move is not cool a enough name to say when you're cutting some poor fucker's arm off.

I also find it weird, but not at all surprised that the designs of the Brutes are what they are.  Because this is Japan, the girls end up looking like Kemonomimis primarily looking human with a few animal parts when transformed, while the guys pull off a complete transformation and look like a bipedal version of the animal of their choice.  And Hitomi fights wearing a white tank and her underwear.  Truly this show would not be complete without its fanservice.  Clearly.  It's also worth noting that two brutes in the series are rendered in CG in, which is glaringly obvious when they show up on screen.  Thankfully it's not overly jarring, so it's at least acceptable to an extent.

Overview:
+  Gruesomely good fight scenes
+/- Fanservice designs?
-  Terrible attack names

Sound:

Fripside's "Killing Bites" is really what you would expect from the band.  Most of their work is very samey sounding, and listening back to both Clockwork Planet and Black Bullet gives me the same feeling as I get from listening to the other two, though personally I prefer those two to what Fripside has done here, so I regard this OP as inferior in comparison.

Kitsunetsuki's "Kedamono Damono" on the other hand is a pretty generic rock song with a numerous amount of guitar rifts to give it flair between the lyrics.  I'm not really feeling this one either, and the entire OST by itself is not really all that exciting if you ask me.

Personal Enjoyment:

Honestly I think I enjoyed this show a hell of a lot more than I ever should have.  I partially blame this on the fact that I generally go with the flow on things, and since everything here was a big case of "Just go along with it", I think that's the reason why I'm able to sit here and say that I liked the show simply for its dumb fun.  And that's saying something with the amount of crap they try to pull with the amount of abuse any of these animals can take without dying, cause some of those 'nonfatal' wounds are very clearly fatal, especially from the blood loss of severed limbs.

I also want to point out that they have a character who looks like fat Wolverine with a puckered butthole for a mouth.  Which that to me is hilarious cause I could not go one scene without laughing with him in the picture and take what he was saying seriously.  Not like I was doing that in the first place, but you get my point.  (No his animal is not a wolverine, no matter how great that would've been.)

Now the question is...should you watch this show?  Personally...no.  I mean unless you want to kill some time and watch something stupid, then no.  There's honestly nothing of value to be had watching this show aside from dumb fun.  I just watched it out of morbid curiosity and I ended up having way too much fun with it cause I've reached the point in my life where anything can get a laugh out of me.  I guess another reason would be...if you want to watch a nature show but you also want to watch anime, this could be that niche you're looking for.  A very odd niche, but one I'm sure exists...somewhere.

The show is great until the final few minutes where it has some characters perform actions that are in no way justified. It comes across as a cheap and lazy gimmick by the writers. There was no setup or reasoning behind the final actions of the characters other than, "The boss said so." It cheapened what was a fun show.

If you watch it, skip the last 10 minutes of the final episode because it spoils what was a fun time. Everything up to that point is pretty great. The action is fun and absurd. I think the writers felt like they had to do something ... to really surprise the audience at the end and the settled on a lazy gimmick that made no sense.

what can I say that hasn't already been said about this rather interesting show. let's break it up, shall we? the story is very simple and predictable, like your run of the mill shounen anime with a weak protagonist at the start and later improves his character to become more desirable. after reading the manga (as of how it is so far) the anime does it quite a lot of justice and sticks pretty close to its source material which some fans can really appreciate. I do however feel that the animes appeal would be towards newer fans of anime or individuals that are looking ... for a good ecchi series and are bored with the usual series that we've seen to this date. the manga is drawn very well is really staticky pleasing, sadly I do not feel the same for the anime though it has its moments of awe and shock at its visual recreations of the manga. the sounds used for the action scenes closely resemble that of a bullet being fired or rocks being smashed which to some extent can carry that extra punch feeling, though it has proven to also become quite rhetorical as the show progresses. the same could not be said for the opening song of the anime. the opening song really does set the tone for the anime by utilising heavy rock beats and beautiful vocals to go with it. its adrenaline, its power, its a total takeover, the opening song fully engulfs its listeners which have compelled me many times to come back each week for it. characters are really nothing to scoth at in the slightest. you have the main character who is the lowest of the low, weak and highly dependent on others, meets a beast girl named Hitomi by chance and thus their extremely brutal and dangerous partnership begins. I feel as though many of the characters are just not fleshed out enough for the audience to really start caring about them but then again this isn't that type of anime.

Despite all this, the show is still quite enjoyable, not for the story or the characters but more so because of the combination of all the mediocre things that have really made this show stand out as something to try for everyone. I would recommend this anime to anyone that can at least stand hearing the baseline of the anime in each episode because damn when you have that kind of baseline why not abuse it? all in all its a must watch the show in my view but it's one I recommend going in with zero expectations and an open mind.

Killing bites is a fighting anime, the story centers around a tournament called the Destroyal. In this tournament he have four teams of three, each person on each team has a sponsor. The job of the sponsor is both in financial backing, and the ability to move their fighter like a chess piece on the tournament grounds. This story is one that follows Hitomi, the main fighter, and Nomoto her hostage / sponsor. The over all fights are okay, but the show does rely a lot on fan service to survive.

It's a little hard to go into much on what happens, but that can ... be common in a fighting anime. I think this show misses in one of the larger points though, that point being. Why am I caring? Hitomi is a strong fighter, but she basically is someone who will do anything that Shidou will tell her to do. Shidou is pretty much the figure in the dark who is masterminding the whole deal. Then we have Nomo, who as stated before, is basically their hostage. He met Hitomi in a gang rape gone wrong. He was spineless driver in the whole thing, but yea. Now under the threat of death he is the sponsor for Hitomi, using money given to him by Shidou which he must not use or else. He's of course totally fine with this since Hitomi is really cute.

I would have liked more interactions, to show them forming some sort of bond, but the show wastes no time in jumping into the bulk of the fighting. I understand, since we have 12 episodes and the tournament itself is pretty big. This might be a case of a show needing a full 24 to really flesh everything out. Of course if that did happen I'd be subjected to another 12 episodes of someone (Usually Hitomi) Pointing out that "The one with the sharpest fangs win. That's what killing bites is." In literally every episode apart from number 11 that exact quote, word for word is said at least once. Which means in a couple of them, we get it another time. That for me was a huge problem. Can you imagine the writers of the show needing to come up with a reason for someone to give that exact tagline every episode? It hurts me.

Taste: I mean, it didn't taste bad. The forced tagline leaves a bitter after taste but the fights were okay. I feel like the latest meta in fighting anime is to just have someone have overwhelming power. It kills the tension in a lot of fights I think. I wouldn't say the show is one note, it's more like it's lacking ingredients. We have a nice steak of characters that needed a little more seasoning. We have a world that's been built, but needs a good sauce. We have some side dish characters, but they just kinda got added onto the plate. I'll give it a 4 out of 10

Presentation: The art isn't lazy. The characters are reasonably done. Nothing sticks out as far as the music goes. As for the fan service. I think there are two ways of doing something like that in a anime. In one way. It just happens to be there. Like. Oh we just happen to have something tear just right, and in these cases I don't think it takes away from a show in general. The other way is of course how Killing Bites goes which is basically just having someone's ass hang out. There are shows that do it worse! But in this case it brings it down a little. For example in one fight we have a person with the ability to release pheromones, so we have Hitomi and Eruza basically take a break to get their freak on. Neither fighter is really punished for this, which might be the only reason why such an ability would be handy in a fighting tournament, but instead everyone just kinda takes a break to you know.. Watch.. Presentation gets a 2 out of 5

Originality: I mean, what we're getting is a fighting anime, with its core being a tournament. So in this what you really want to look at is how they get there, and the decided curveballs in how the tournament is presented. It all basically jumps into the tournament, but I think how it's presented is nifty. First the characters are all animal hybrids. So they have neat animal powers in a way. Eruza is a cheetah, so she's very fast. We have Inaba who is a bunny, so she has great hearing. And so forth. Next the sponsor idea is nifty in that there's a strategy in how characters are moved around. I think the idea was great, but they missed a little on the execution. But I'll give a 4 out of 5 on this one.

In conclusion killing bites is a fan service-y fighting anime. There's certainly a lot more too the story that is not gotten into, so it probably needs another season or two. If it'll get those? I can't really say. Might have to pick up the manga. But this show gets a 10 out of 20.

Killing Bites is one of those mediocre animes that for some reason, you still want to keep watching in order to see what happens next. The storyline is mediocre. It's nothing more than another battle royal survival anime. The animation is mediocre and when it comes to character design, downright atrocious. (I.E.: The character design of Leo, whose upper body was just ridiculously disproportionate to his lower body.). Even the score is a mediocre blend of 90's grunge rock and what sounds like royalty free audio tracks.

However, the Main Character, Ratel aka Hitomi, is such an awesome character ... that she drives the story forward. She's a character on the order of Revy from Black Lagoon. She's rough, crass, violent and kind of sexy. She's the kind of female lead that animes could use more of. Unfortunately, outside of her and Ui (The Rabbit) all of the rest of the characters were pretty mediocre and cliched.

I will say that the ending was a plus that will probably want to make at least 60% of the people who finished this anime, want to see the second season if there ever is one. (It's an obviously low budget anime, that I doubt will have enough popularity to automatically green light S2) But, even in watching that second season, most will probably think it's mediocre or outright garbage, too.

If you have nothing better to watch (and odds are you will always have something better to watch) then Killing Bites is a decent waste of time on a weekend binge. But, if you choose to pass on this anime, you're not really missing much, either.

Story: 5
Art: 5
Sound: 5
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 7
Overall: 6

Spoilers ahead.

Are you a furry and want to watch an anime with cute girls who can mutate into half-animals? Do you want to watch an anime with no story line, characters that only talk in exposition and an anime that has ridiculous amounts of fan-service? If you answered yes to any of these questions, look no more because Killing Bites is exactly that.

I am honestly a fan of the survival/battle royale genre but I have yet to see an anime that actually succeeds in those genres. There are plenty of anime titles out there that have a battle royale esq story-line but I cannot say ... that any of them have executed any of the elements that make that genre great well. I've recently watched Darwin's Game and some years prior that I watched that god-awful "Me and 23 slaves" title. The problem I have with these titles is that they very quickly lose control over their story and succumb to sheer edginess instead. I am aware that "Me and 23 slaves" is not exactly a battle royale anime but it does have elements that resemble that genre.

Killing Bites is unique to say the very least; a dense and "your typical anime" protagonist is one day forced into a situation that will forever change his life as he has to now partake in the Killing Bites survival game where cute half-animal half-girl mutants fight with each other controlled by greedy corporations who only care about reputation and money. Uniqueness, however, does not always mean good. It is unfortunate because it could have been a decent title, if there was any kind of direction and an actual storyline that you could follow. Instead, the show quickly establishes itself as a driven-less anime without any actual story and just events that take place after each other. Nothing is explained in Killing Bites either, things happen to move the plot forward.

It is unclear as to why the main character did not get killed after he witnessed a Killing Bites duel between two of the mutants. It is unclear as to why they chose him to partake in the survival battle of Killing Bites. The main character is by no means special. As stated before, he's your average anime protagonist without any sort of talent or motivation. He's blank and really nothing makes him stand out. The protagonist is just another self-insert character. This is however a common trope in most of these garbage anime titles so it comes as no surprise really.

What really makes this anime "stand out" though is Uzaki Hitomi. Uzaki Hitomi is also a main character and perhaps one of the most annoying ones I've seen in quite some time now. The anime takes literally no time to introduce any of their main characters properly. What they do instead is have random events occur one after the other which then lead to a result. This can be applied in literally every episode of the show. Let's talk a little bit more about how you establish main characters in a show and how Killing Bites does it. The way Killing Bites decides to introduce Uzaki Hitomi and Nomoto Yuuya is rather hilarious. Instead of giving any of these characters any sort of inner dialogue or at least one scene for themselves, the anime decides to introduce them right away and probably in the most pretentious way possible. Hitomi is walking a late night all by herself until a van filled with rapists kidnaps her. And that's literally how they meet. Yuuya is driving the van and his friends decide to rape Hitomi which they unfortunately do not succeed in because she's a mutant, she kills them almost immediately. Hitomi then commands our main rapist to drive the car to an unknown location. Once they show up, a battle takes place. That's how they meet. And in those 20 something minutes, you really can't care less about anything happening. I was looking at my phone for most of the time being because this setup is ridiculous. Why should we care for Hitomi or Yuuya when the authors clearly didn't care about making a proper introduction for their main characters.

This is a constant problem in this anime. The introduction of new characters is almost always a "gotcha" moment. What's more of a "gotcha" moment though is whenever a fight between mutants take place and one side is almost always losing until "hurdedur that was not even 1% of my power". That's the best way I can describe Hitomi and that's exactly what happens in every scene where she fights imaginable. The other mutants always seem to underestimate Hitomi, even after they know she's clearly one of the most powerful mutants. Another thing that pissed me off is the amount of times our main female lead Hitomi decides to say her catchphrase. And every time she says her catchphrase, she obviously wins the battle. Every character in this show seems to lack common sense, maybe it's because they are half mutants or whatever.

So what are these mutants? Well, it's difficult to describe you see. They're actually not called mutants, they're called therianthropes. Therianthropes are humans who have willfully undergone a surgery that makes them half-animal half-human. They have the capability of mutating to their respective animal at the power of their will. These therianthropes seem to have extraordinary animal powers but more on that later. These therianthropes were created by the elite society and huge conglomerates/corporations for the sole purpose of fighting to death. Has anyone heard this story before? Evil elite society does bad things? I wonder where I've heard about that. But yeah, as you could have already guessed not much is explained about this society apart from them having a long history of battle for money and power. It's a pathetic and laughable attempt at a story which the authors fail to explain anyway. Everything about this society and who these people are remains a mystery and up to your imagination. They're as one-dimensional as they get. I wonder why almost every author has to include something about an evil underground society who fights for money and power but never does anything to show how bad or evil they actually are.

It's time to talk about the abilities some of these therianthropes possess. It's funny because the powers are rather inconsistent in a way. Uzaki Hitomi has the ability of turning into a hot anime girl with big tiddies and cat ears. She has insane reflexes and is practically immune to any attack done to her. This kills any sort of suspense that this anime had for it. Not once, not even once, is it shown that she's in danger. There are at times where you think she might be in danger but the author decides to quickly take a shit in your face and Hitomi manages quickly to regain all her powers. Even when she's poisoned by a cobra. You might think, yes we get it, Hitomi has plot armor and there's nothing you can do about it except for crying. And to that I completely agree. We also have a snake rapist, a cheetah, a tiger, a crocodile and a monkey. They seem to have variations and different powers but most of it actually boils down to just raw power and who can deal the finishing hit the hardest. Boring and pathetic.

The author clearly has no idea how the animal kingdom works but even so, he decided to base of all the characters of the show that have these animal like abilities. It would be rather funny to see a crocodile fight a monkey and a hippo, it's quite obvious who'd win the fight. What I mean by inconsistency though is that while sure they do have these animal-like powers and abilities but at some points, these powers go too far. Sometimes these powers do nothing but sometimes they defy all laws of physics. These powers usually come with a plot twist. Intentional or unintentional, some episodes are structured in a way where you think a particular character will lose against the enemy. This is quickly turned around and it turns out that the character wasn't being serious or didn't transform to his final form. This is the type of stuff you have to see on an episode-basis and trust me or not but you do get used to it. It's really predictable and gets boring quite fast.

What you will most frequently see in this anime is poorly written dialog. This show completely fails at the "show, don't tell" as it heavily relies on exposition. There is tonnes of exposition. Some of the characters only talk in exposition. Nothing is shown to us. We're constantly being told that things are the way they are. However, at points, we never see anything of it. We're constantly being told and see therianthropes, yet we don't know anything about them apart from their abilities that sometimes defy logic. How is a therianthrope created? We're only told that a human has to go through a surgery in order to become a therianthrope. Can anyone become a therianthrope? Are there some sort of limitations as to who can be one? If so, why isn't everyone a therianthrope? Therianthropes are clearly more superior than humans in terms of their agility and extraordinary abilities. These types of question will constantly pop up as you're slowly progressing through the anime and you won't ever get any explanation for it.

Let's talk about the worst offender of this show though. Fan-service. When going into this show, I did expect quite some fan-service due to it being in the ecchi genre. Not all fan-service is necessarily bad, it's just a matter of execution. But this show fails even at that. I do enjoy fan-service, don't get me wrong. I've grown used to the typical "oopsie daisy fell off the stairs and touched a booby" type of scene but this show is just on another level. From the very first episode we get to see Hitomi just in panties and this remains true for rest of the show. There are some scenes where Yuuya "accidentally" gropes Hitomi. Not a deal-breaker to be fair. The shit I hate is the forced rape-attempt scenes and utterly obnoxious characters. At one point, this show turns into a tentacle hentai where one of the mutants is a snake and is also a rapist. He tries to rape both Hitomi and Eruza. How is this fan-service? How on earth did this get in the show? Why? No one knows and no one cares to be frank. In my honest opinion, it's just done for the shock value and to show big tiddie anime girls having a snake tail in their mouths. Very pleasant indeed. They take it on another level where the snake rapist decides to shove both of his phallus organs in Hitomi. Fan-service my ass. There's even a lesbian scene in episode 7 where Hitomi and Eruza start to kiss and do yuri things which was honestly what made me write the review. Nothing makes any sense and doesn't even try to make any sense. This is the type of show where you have to either have a low IQ or be mentally inept to enjoy anything this show has to offer in the slightest manner. I have become the latter due to watching this anime so I will be sending the author my hospital bill.

So what exactly made me want to watch this show? Boredom I guess. This show has absolutely nothing to it. The fight scenes are decent I suppose, and the animation is top notch. The soundtracks and sound design were also surprisingly decent. Everything apart from the shitty characters and the lack of story was good which is what I enjoyed in this show the most. This show really tries too hard, it takes itself way too serious. With such a pretentious narrative that has been done to death and has been done better time after time, why does Killing Bites take itself so seriously. In all honesty, the amount of ridiculous fan-service could have easily turned this into some sort of comedy anime. Killing Bites would in fact have gotten better ratings if it established itself as a dramedy, short for comedy-drama. Instead of the pretentious written story, have it even more ridiculous. Make the main character stand out a bit. Have him be the "cocky" type instead. The problem with most anime nowadays is that most of the main characters have nothing going for them, they're self-insert. In my opinion, a great character needs to be a character, he needs to have certain charisma that can make him distinguishable from rest of the cast. He needs to have certain traits that are relatable with the viewer. By creating a self-insert main character, you completely fail at character writing and their inner growth as humans. Self-inserts never have any sort of development or inner growth, they're exactly the same in the end as they were in the beginning. This kills any sort of story. Considering Killing Bites is a story-driven anime, not a character-driven anime, this show completely fails at being one because there is no clear story established.

TL;DR:

Trash show that's still really fun trash for Edgy-Mc-I want a lame Ecchi heavy battle shonen.


So not gonna lie this was a surprise of the season just in sheer terms of being something that turned out to be way more amusing than I expected and now that I finished it all I can say is that it was trash....but it's very fun trash.

Story:

Battle Royal with animal folks and a lot of shallow worthless characters that don't serve a whole lot but do their thing and some fairly amusing fight scenes that don't go on longer than they need to.
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You get a few things here and there that could entertain the kind of edge-lord anime fan who wants some needlessly violent and sexual anime to make them feel all adult and cool but overall you're not sticking around to see if it gets any better but rather just how bad things are although I'll give them credit the entire second half kept me going and the last episode was a solid series of events that leave you wondering somewhat as to where the results of this tournament go.


3/10

Art:

EH I like the characters designs and animal forms but the use of 3D is horrible and most of the real effort went into the odd animal profile scenes when the characters transform which seems odd.

5/10

Sound:

The intro is very EHHHH but it's a rock song in an anime which I can fully appreciate and the announcer guy when they talk about the animals is actually very very amusing but the majority of my score is going to the fact that I really like the end theme because it's a pretty damn solid hard rocking tune that get's me pumped and makes the best part of the show even better.

8/10

Character:

I like the Inaba chick a whole lot because she's amusingly worthless but beyond that everybody else is just bodies to move a plot and they took wayyyyyyyyyy too god damn long to expand on the main chick and why you should care for her.

Really the only use is you have new characters to lewd out for when you and your friends want to do monster girl Monday's in your image forums.

4/10

Enjoyment:

This show held my interest for all 12 episodes and I liked it's quick pace they made the show a lot less cringe inducing and the last episode was a solid way to wrap it all up although I'd be lying if I didn't say that the best part of the whole show was the 30 second sub story about the chick who's obsessed with Hitomi just for how unimportant and funny it is in comparison to the rest of the show and coupled with the fact that the end theme kicks ass that made this something that was probably my surprise of 2018.

7/10

Overall:

This show is hot garbage disguised as an ecchi heavy battle shonen that any self respecting person would stop watching after 3 episodes but since I'm a trash person with trash taste I managed to finish and enjoy it to some capacity but if we're being real it don't matter how much lewdness get's thrown your way you can't stop a bad show from being bad and this show is most certainly bad not so bad that it deserves a low score but not something I'll recommend to non action movie watching, Mountain Dew Chugging, Linking Park loving, Edgelord supreme's if you know what I mean.

6/10

This show was utter garbage relying on pseudoscientific tales to counter common misconceptions. LMAO
The "tactics" and "fights"that are supposed to fill out the story are laughable- the story itself has a certain charme of mediocreness to it though.
It's still a joke of an Anime and one no one would laugh at at that, but it actually wasn't too cringy to endure.
What could have made it worthwhile watching then?
The Fanservice -ngl that part actually was cringy af so no
The artstyle -if you excuse the messed up proportions and "transformations" that look like bad fursuits ...than it's still mediocre at best (the cg didn't help either).
The characters ... apart from design were also -still extremely plain,but admittedly pulled off in the best way possible.
The concept behind the story was just poorly thought out so the execution still seems acceptable overall.
The end really hit it though and then actually left me waiting for a season 2.
It wasn't terribly enough for me to not recommend it as a timekiller.
Might try the Manga and see if that's any better...

The one with the sharpest fangs wins, Thus Killing Bites - Manga catchphrase
The one with the sharpest fangs wins, thats what Killing Bites is - Anime catchphrase

both catchphrases are annoying and dont work well in the contexts they are used(most of the time). Now on with the review

Story:
Well there this guy who joined a group of R**ists. The girl killed them all but him, had him drive to her to a fight where she turned into a hybrid monster/human to fight another Hybrid. Then as a result she stays with him and she fight Hybrids while he pees his pants. Thats about it for ... story. (oo yeah and theres something about 4 factions using hybrid fights as a proxy wars with eachother)

Art:
They call this an ecchi but for the most part you just see the main girl Hitomi in her panties, theres also some nipple action like two times but thats about it. Otherwise the art style is standard for 2010s art styles.

Sound:
The OP and END are both very good everything music wise is great (lots of metal) Sound effects are also very on point, mixed with some(ok) animal roars.

Characters:
Hitomi - Shes a BA highschooler whos not afraid of anything and is extremely cocky. (also shes the one who uses the catchphrases above)

Yuuya - one of those generic weak will main leads who did actually wet himself in the beginning and doesn't get much better throughout. He is a follower not a leader, and he does whatever people tell him to do.

fatguyWholookslikewolverine - He is weak, and his will to fight is low. However he is almost like a house maid.

Enjoyment:
Since this is an anime about fighting its terrible only the very first fight is good. While it and all the others are interrupted by explanations on what attack or what animal a hybrid is, or by Yuuya being a baby while watching. If you enjoy seeing girls with fur and animal ears fight this could be for you.

Overall:
There's nothing really interesting here other then half animal girls and some meh fights.

A very bland plot, and like a majority of ecchis, it relies heavily on unnecessary fan service. The premise of it sounds cool, animal/human hybrids put into a death battle tournament. But, the way it's executed is very poor.

In short, imagine the characters from Terra Formars, only they're all Sekirei characters (with some overly muscular men thrown into the mix) and they fight each other with no character development at all.

It's furry fan service with fights every now and then.

So, if you're looking to whack it off to scantily clad animalistic girls duking it out, this is the perfect anime for you. Otherwise, I'd ... give this anime a pass.

To start off with, it's by no means a terrible anime. It's just that the series itself is flawed with problems that will be mentioned below.

Story 4/10: It's the weakest subject by far. It's horribly paced. It touches on far too many subjects and backstories/sidestories to be properly discussed in any real way, while also detracting from the supposedly 'main' story too. It's a thinly diluted attempt to make an intriguing world and story potential that falls flat on its own face. It also decides to swing wildly between "moods", in that sometimes it will have action-based sequences abruptly cut to people talking to ... eachother with overly exaggerated fashions and emotions crammed in there. It also drags itself down with some tropes/stereotypes that don't even feel properly done, if not just feeling completely out of place.

This isn't even necessarily a problem with the anime itself, because this is just an adaption of something that already suffered from this "problem". It wasn't so much a problem for the manga from a longtime readers side of the argument, because it was a drip-fed series and having the story be quickly paced to make up for gaps in publication schedules was reasonable. But for newcomers and anime viewers, it is very awkward to see something hint so much potential but never really explore it in favour of quickly moving forward.


Art 7/10: Nothing special, so to speak. How pretty a show looks isn't the be-all-end-all of a series quality. The animation studio was well-picked for this and they did their part well in refining and displaying the anime adaption. Even going so far as to emphasize muscle-shape via better shading and "texture" detail that can't be done exceptionally well in black/white manga.


Sound 7/10: Pretty standard, but I found myself liking the OP/Intro music.


Characters 5/10: Very bland and one-dimensional. The only characters with depth to them are pretty much unexplored or figuratively "ran-over" by rampant -edge- in the story.


Enjoyment 5/10: As someone who either wants depth or "mindless entertainment", I found it hard to enjoy much of anything except the work of the animation studio and the effort they put into it. It would be just mindless entertainment, but it keeps trying to be more than that, and keeps trying to force this idea very heavily at seemingly random intervals.


Overall 6/10: It's a very decent looking show with decent sound design and intro-music, but it trips over itself constantly. This wouldn't even be an issue if they spaced the contrasting elements out from eachother, but they decided to interlace everything in a very messy way.

Don't get me wrong, this anime is trash, it cliche, a bit pervy at times and the characters are just shells.

Okay so maybe a bit more than pervy, since at one moment 2 characters litterly fuck, because they are under the influence of pheromones, and they don't beat arround the bush either, they FUUUCK.

But the overall enjoyment level of this anime is high, something about it makes me hypes when i see a new episode and just enjoy the living shit out of it.

I get that most people dislike this anime, and you know what? They are probably right, but man oh man, ... do i enjoy it.

Another anime with only twelve episodes, yet took me three weeks to finish. I have been busy with work, but I've mainly been putting this anime on hold because I just wasn't that interested in it as much as I wanted to be. Let's get right into the anime basics.

Story; You get thrown into this world by almost witnessing a high school girl get kidnapped and r***ed in a van by a bunch of dudes. The main character, Yuuya Nomoto, who did not want to partake in this sort of thing grows balls for two seconds and stops the van and turn around and witness ... that the high school girl has killed all his "friends" in the back. You then get thrown into a weird adventure of half Therianthrope fights left, right and centre. no real reason to these fights except wanting power, money and to show off who is the strongest of all the Therianthropes. Honestly... this whole anime was just weirdly twisted, never gave enough explanation about anything and was only good for the ecchi half-animal girls. I also have so many questions that I know will only be answered by me reading the manga, but I won't be touching it anytime soon. Art; I always appreciate all anime styles. I love how simple the animation was, and how cleaning they transformed the characters from human to Therianthropes. Sound; The OST was okay... didn't really spark anything in me to make me want to listen/watch it over and over again. Character; ***SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON*** THEY WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE... You knew some characters were related to each-other and just didn't know how, and you'd have to fill in the lines yourself in the middle of watching the anime. Hitomi's background still doesn't make sense to me, Nomoto death at the end WAS NOT EXPLAINED besides saying "He would be a pain in the neck", and are we not going to be told WHY Therianthropes exist in the first place? Is it really just crazy science experience, do the rich REALLY just want more money and way's to gamble?

Overall, this anime was painful for me to watch. All I'm going to remember from this anime in three years time is "The one with sharpest fangs win", an unexpected death of Nomoto that might not actually be dead and half-animal girls with big tits.
Maybe I'll pick up the manga one day, but for now I'm okay with not enjoying this anime.

Anime battle royaye is good, the first chapters are very entertaining, after that, as a team begins to assemble for the final tournament, the series begins to decline, it begins to be much slower and it takes away the rhythm it had. Worst of all is the ending, a trashy reverend you can't make such a bad ending. I realized that the protagonist is identical, his design to that of Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu, taking that out at the end they appear as two new protagonists and one looks a lot like Uraraka from Boku no hero. Curious data. Speaking with spoilers, the ending sucks ... because they kill the protagonist and kill him as if nothing of the kind cries a little, but on top of that, the worst thing is that later you see him alive. It's like what?

En español:
Anime battle royaye esta bueno los primeros capitos son muy entretenidos, después de eso como se comienza a armar un equipo para el torneo definitivo ahí comienza a decaer la serie comienza a ser mucho mas lenta y le saca el ritmo que tenia. Lo peor de todo es el final una reverenda basura no podes hacer un final tan malo. Me di cuenta de que el protagonista es idéntico, su diseño al de Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu, sacando eso al final aparecen como dos nuevas protagonista y una se parece un montón a Uraraka de Boku no hero. Datos curios. Hablando con spoilers el final es una mierda porque matan al protagonista y lo matan como si nada tipo llora un poco pero encima lo peor es que después lo ves vivo. Es como para que?

NOTE: This review is meant for people who have not watched much and want to know if this is worth watching.


Overall I give this a hard 5 because while I did finish it I only enjoyed certain moments. But I'll break things down to keep it simple and spoiler Free besides maybe the first episode or two

Story:

The story is pretty terrible. After the MC litterally gets forced into this the story seems to drift for a bit before suddenly a big tournament starts. Normally this would take a few episodes and then afterwards the story would move on but the tournament takes up the rest ... of the anime which makes it feel like not all that much was accomplished in the end.

Characters:

The MC is complete trash. He's a loser who mostly just screams and does nothing of value. He exists mostly to just scream and cry and be the average male viewers self insert because he's seriously so bland.

On the other hand the main Heroine is fun. She's not especially unique but she's definitely a spirited character that has the kind of energy that's hard to hate. her existence pretty much saves the series from being a disaster.

As for the rest of the cast they are mostly mediocre and at best satisfy the roles they were given in the plot without being too good or bad.

Art/animation:

The animation is good. Nothing special or unique but it gets the job done and with the exception of some pretty half assed CGI at a couple points it makes for some good fight scenes. If you like beautiful animation this won't do it for you but if you just want something that makes the fight scenes feel alive then this does it and the fights don't feel too stiff or dull.

Overall:

If you like battle royal anime then you'll like this. If not then don't bother. The fan service is not enough to be worth a watch by itself if that's what you want and the plot and most characters are just barely okay enough to sit through. I've absolutely seen worse but I've also seen better.

Warning possible Spoilers

Going into Killing Bites, I wasn't expecting a lot, which didn't surprise me when I thought it was in the meh area after finishing it. A story about humans that can morph into animals did sound interesting, but the execution of it was pretty bad.

Story (5/10)

The story starts when Nomoto Yuuya encounters a girl called Hitomi Uzaki, who has the animalistic powers of a Honey Badger. After being saved by her Nomoto has been assigned to stay close to her, for his own protection.
The show starts off pretty boring, as we get introduced to the characters whilst also having a few fights with ... other people with these powers. We do get an explanation for what these people are used for, which is for a battle royale type tournament where 4 separate houses use their therianthrope's to battle it out till someone wins.
Pretty much from episode 4 till the very end, the show concentrates on the tournament. I did like how the game worked, it had a mixture between chess and battleships although it was pretty annoying how the show started forgetting it's own rules as the tournament went on.
I thought the fights were pretty cool, but they were quite short and were often interrupted by some other character until the final fight which was the highlight of the show for me.
There was also a lot of info on the animals the characters possessed, I'm unsure if all the info is true (probably not), but it was still interesting to know the strengths and weaknesses of these animals.
When it came to the ending, I didn't know whether to be surprised or angry, because it turns out that there was a coup going on the entire time so a bunch of the higher people died, but not only that Nomoto ends up getting the short end of the stick at the end too which surprised me too and then we end on a cliffhanger for whenever a second season will come out.
Yeah the ending just didn't feel deserved after the tedious trek to get there.

Characters (5/10)

The characters weren't anything special, they just had the usual cliched tropes I've seen a bunch of times although there were a few good moments with them.

Hitomi is kinda your typical bloodthirsty type Tsundere, who will pretty much get pissed off if you question her even a little bit unless you give her something honey related then she'll become a sweet girl. She is very determined when it comes to fighting against her opponents and never gives up, even if she loses an arm, but it gets kinda annoying when she says her catchphrase every goddamn episode sure every so often is fine, but every episode just makes the catchphrase boring. She can be a curious person too when she experiences new things and despite being a bloodthirsty Honey Badger she does spare a few lives sometimes.

Nomoto is probably one of the most unnecessary MC's I've ever seen, I thought Harem MC's were boring, but this guy is right up there with therm. He really had nothing interesting about him, other than that he cowered in fear most of the time, then again considering the mess he was dragged into I wouldn't blame him. Even though I say he is a boring character I still think he didn't deserve what happened to him at the end.

Eruza is a cheetah of a rival house, she was a playful character and quickly grew to like Hitomi despite being enemies. Other than being a badass fighter she really didn't have much to show when it came to characterisation.

Ui is a rabbit, who ends up getting caught up in this mess much like Nomoto, surprisingly enough she is my favourite character, then again that could be due to her cuteness factor and considering the situation the urge to protect the cuteness was strong with this one. She isn't strong when it comes to fighting and all she can do is either dig or run, but her luck in the whole tournament is extraordinary since she is the one who wins the whole thing which actually made me happy as the weakest character won the whole thing.

Art (4/10)

Killing Bites is not a good looking show and it really shows too in certain scenes. That doesn't mean all of it is bad though, the different forms of the therianthrope's looked pretty good and there was a wide variety of choice for the animal powers they had. It's just kinda boring how must of the show is set in one location that consisted mainly of 2-3 areas, hell we were in that area with deserted buildings for like the entire second half, it got very boring looking at the same place for a while.
I also have to mention the atrocious CGI, it looked nasty, but luckily it was only used for specific characters and wasn't around often.
The characters looked pretty generic too, I mean considering how many anime's there is it's going to be difficult thinking up new looks for characters, but I got nothing from these guys. Also the way Hitomi's hips looked were pretty ugly too, not sure if it's just me, but her hips just didn't look right.

Sound (6/10)

The sound is actually one of the better parts of the show, the OP was generic as hell, but the ED and the ost was actually ok. The rock based music actually fitted well for animalistic tone the show was going for and it made the battles much more fun to watch.

Extras:

Since this was mainly a battle royale type show, there was a lot of action in it. I thought the action was pretty good especially during the final battle which was actually quite tense, but a lot of the earlier battles felt a little quick while some just dragged on because of other characters interrupting the current fight. However this show definitely fits the right areas for someone who loves watching action and will probably come out of this happy.
Ecchi has started to become something that needs to be used in the right way whenever it appears in the show, this is one of those times where it made me feel both uncomfortable for certain scenes and kinda aroused for others. The amount of forced rape moments was pretty high and made me feel very uneasy especially when one of the characters couldn't escape from it, but the moment between Hitomi and Eruza when they were influenced by a hormonal gas was pretty steamy, yet the amount of nudity was very low despite the revealing outfits for the female characters, there was actually only one scene throughout the whole thing where we saw bare breasts and that was very early on, so the amount of Ecchi despite being mixed for me was actually a lot lower than I expected.

Enjoyment (4/10)

Aside from the battles and a few characters I was more bored than excited with this show, plus the ending felt more annoying than an actual decent payoff.

Overall (5/10)

True this isn't the worst thing from 2018 I've seen (that goes to A.I.C.O), but it isn't far off. At least the action wasn't disappointing to the point where I felt like dropping it, but if this does miraculously get a second season then hopefully it will be better than what we got.

Deep down I actually wanted to like this show, but with the horrible writing, two-dimensional characters and awful Roblox CGI I just couldn't. In addition to this, both MCs were insufferable, especially Hitomi. The show constantly put her on a pedestal. It was so bad you knew what was gonna happen next.

Moreover, I'm not one to complain about sexual themes in anime especially when they're done right, but this anime clearly didn't care. It was all eye candy. From clothes ripping, panty shots, and even rape-related scenes. I may be asking too much, but if the show spent half the time developing the female ... cast instead of sexualizing them I might have hated it a little less.

I wasn't lying when I said I wanted to like this show. Past its horrible writing, It actually had some unique and interesting ideas, but they all failed completely because of the way in which they were executed. In my opinion, the ending was probably the best part of this show and I'm not just saying that because it ended. I actually wanted to know what happened next.

Despite what I said it wasn't all bad. The animation for the most part was good. And despite lacking tactics and finesse the fights for the most part were entertaining. If it weren't for the fights I honestly don't think I'd finished this show. At times it's so bad that it's good. But even when something is so bad that it's good, it's still objectively bad.