Kandagawa Jet Girls

On the vivid and glistening waters of the Kanda River, Jetters and their respective Shooters race together on their jet skis, speeding through the wind as they participate in Jet Races—"the world's most intense aquatic sport!"

Chasing her dream of becoming a professional Jet Racer like her mother, Rin Namiki transfers to Asakusa Girls' High School in Tokyo. There, she stumbles upon Misa Aoi, a first-year student like her. However, tensions arise when Rin and Misa find themselves competing in a race against Team Dress from the prestigious Musashino Girls' High School.

As a result of the race, Rin tries to join her school's Jet Racing club, only to discover that there is none. But, her resolve is unshaken, and she decides to recruit Misa and three other girls to create her very own team: "Kandagawa Jet Girls." With her heart set on winning the annual Kandagawa Cup, Rin, alongside her team, approaches the grandest stage of them all.

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Aoi, Misa Main

Kohara, Riko Japanese

Namiki, Rin Main

Sasahara, Yuu Japanese

Shiraishi, Manatsu Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Midorikawa, Yuzu Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Tamaki, Fuuka Supporting

Asai, Ayaka Japanese

Yoshitoku, Kiriko Supporting

Kawase, Maki Japanese

Orange, Emily Supporting

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko Japanese

Kuromaru, Manpuku Supporting

Suzaki, Aya Japanese

Peach, Jennifer Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Motonaga, Satoshi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Takeyama, Shigeto Producer

Kaneko, Hiraku Director, Script, Storyboard

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Apr 16, 2022

FiddlePie

Recommended

Kandagawa Jett Girls isn't really mediocre as people say. It has good elements and decent storytelling, not the best but definitely good. The story focuses on two girls Rin Namaki and Misa Aoi who are in a Jet racing club and compete against other teams from different schools Rin is aspiring to become a pro jet racer just like her mom and Misa is trying to find her rhythm to get back on her feet. At first, I did find Rin's constantly meddling annoying and I can tell Misa was annoyed too. She needs her private space but Rin was just constantly being pushy, after ... a while, I started to like her a bit. She's really a cheerful and playful person. I liked the interactions between the characters, most specifically Rin and Misa. Their relationship started off rocky but gradually Misa opened up to Rin. Misa was more of an introvert and she preferred to be alone.

The characters in the show are great except for the twins. They are so rude and they constantly believe they are superior to everyone because they're idols. The other characters were also great. I loved how much they have fun when they put aside their differences and have fun.

And of course, the fanservice. Tbh I had already planned on watching the show since 2020 and I didn't think it would have fanservice but I did enjoy it.

Overall, Kandagawa Jet girls is an anime with determined and fierce competitors who are determined to give it their all. The focus of the show is more on the fanservice and the racing is just a way for the girls to kill off steam. If you're looking for a sports anime with echhiness this one is for you if not then find something else.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 16, 2021

Shironekos

Mixed Feelings

HI This is shiro, idk what can i say to this anime

the story itself is very simple, you can guess the the flow of story right away.
The design of character is good, but the background characters itself are very simple

if you are looking fanservice without bother the story, i think this is good for you, but to me its below average.

the sport innovation is kind of new, the rules are simple too.

its just my review dont bother it too much with my review.
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in the end you guys should take the watch and review itself

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 12, 2024

Love-Pon

Not Recommended

Kandagawa Jet Girls is an anime with an interesting premise, but completely fell flat in terms of execution, the end result is a cliche-filled show without a strong identity. There could have been two appeals to this anime, firstly it could have had intense sports rivalry or relationship drama that intensify the matches or it could have had the appeal of being a relaxing cute comedy show.

The premise of the anime is based on a fictional water sport, jet racing. The sport itself had interesting rules of being a 2 ppl team. Instead of typical 1 racer only, you would have a driver and ... a shooter that can shoot bullets to slow the opponent down, and the fact that jets can be optimized to fit the style of the driver/shooter.

The concept was interesting to me, and I kept on watching, hoping that the next episode would get better, and it didn't.

The matches didn't felt intense. This was because there were very little stakes in most matches and "rival "characters were just generic archetypes without any additional identities except mostly being cheerful and happy. The characters has so much time doing non-jet racing related activities, that it is difficult to take the matches seriously. For a 12 episodes anime, there were quite a few that felt like fillers where they are just relaxing and doing non-jet racing related things. Relationship dramas felt 2-dimensional, as if it is written with a generic end goal in mind of for example, "let's be a better person" rather than putting the necessary thoughts into how to actually make the show interesting to watch.

The races felt like a repeat of the ones before rather than each match being unique. Either one of interesting drama or distinguishable character abilities could have made each race feel less repetitive but the show had too little of them. By the time I was watching the last race, I was just sinking on my bed wishing it to be over soon because result was obvious and there was nothing to be excited about.

Jet Girls was not a good CGCDT comedy either, it relied too much on cliches and character archetypes instead of creating any actually interesting scenarios. The jokes were way too predictable since they either focus on the "one" trait the characters have over and over again or based on "cliches" that never becomes anything more than generic due to scenarios never having any creative spark (typical anime bath / beach scenes for example). To fill in the downtime, every episodes have to have at least a few shots either showing the girl's naked body or how big their boob is, but there is no any actual sex appeal to it and it is confusing what they are trying to achieve with it.

The most interesting character in the show to me by far is a Kiriko Yoshitoku, a Jet Race geek who loves reading about jets that barely had any screen time. She is laid back, chill, cute, doesn't speak in weird hyper energetic way every phrase, and a "normal" look that stands out among all the "glamour" from every other side characters. She didn't do much, that other characters were just too bland in comparison.

For a show that claims its sports to be "the world's most intense aquatic sport"... It wasn't. It actually take serious skill to write an anime with this concept and end up making it this boring. The only surprise I felt was me repeatedly imagining myself talking to the crews behind this anime "you are not going to execute a 12 episodes anime this way... aren't you?" And then they did, in a way that was worse than I expected, all the way until the last episode.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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