Gal to Kyouryuu

(You don't need a TLDR review for this GOAT, but it is there...)

Stop.

Stop everything.

I don't care if you are watching Attack On Titan Final Season
I don't care if you are hyped for My Hero Academia Season 5
I don't care if you are still waiting for NGNL Season 2 or Tokyo Ghoul Brotherhood (yeah it's not coming feelsbadman)

... Go watch Gal & Dino. Watch it NOW.

I have seen some amazing anime in my life. I simp for Madoka Magica. Pop Team Epic is based comedy humour and influential god. The Promised Neverland hit hard. But Gal & Dino, it's coming to the collection of top 10 anime MAPPA was too afraid to animate. Let's get into why Gal & Dino is intellectually and ingeniously stupendously good (legit was so good that I remembered stupendous was a word, bruh). In which, this review will also offer the feel to the joy the has to bring. You see that synopsis there? Yeah, I wrote that[1]. Because Gal & Dino deserves more. I was so disappointed so no one would dedicate time to convince anime fans to watch such a gem.


Narrative:
As a prestigious comedy 🎭 analyst 📝🧐 and funny 🤣 man 🤵[2][3], I have come to the conclusion that Gal & Dino uses many unprecedented techniques in order to enhance its authentic image. You see, within each episode, Gal & Dino uses what the current generation of users would call 'a vibe' within both shorts in each first half of an episode. Vibing isn't seen a lot in anime, in which, to make such a show based on a niche sector, would be quite the risk, however, vibing does take elements from Iyashikei and CGDCT. It is more chilling than 'vibing' if I am honest. But they have the same concept of everything's cool, take it easy, do fun things. Or in other words, the keanu chungus wholesome 100. But seriously, not a lot of shows other there just take it easy and let reality do the work, which yes, reality is often disappointing, but if you have a literally 'gyaru' type girl and a literal blue dinosaur how the hell will anything be disappointing. Most of the episodes are just the pair having fun with what regular life gives them. Watching movies? Done. Birthday Party? Covered. Workplace chaos? They got you. Hotel? No. Haven't seen such realistic characters in a long while.

Then we get onto the part everyone's been waiting for. The live-action half of the episode. One of the most creative, most imaginative things this ｂｒｕｈ medium has to offer. Never seen live-action used so well, you might be thinking, "Live action? lmao, I didn't sign up to watch DBZ Evolution, I'm out", but I assure you it is used well. The chill vibe is still there, it is essentially like the animated segments but with real-life people and more comedy humour, and very funny!! What has caught my attention recently to Gal & Dino, mostly the live-action, is that people are heavily discouraged to continue watching such a masterpiece due to its unorthodox nature. In response to MAL's nature of bringing up quotes to support their review, I bring forward Charles Darwin's most recognisable one.

"A man who dares to not watch the second half episode of Gal & Dino has not discovered the omnipotent value of comedy humour." ― Charles Darwin[4]

There it is.
The man himself said it.

But honestly, the live-action segments just make you question everything you have watched before, make you wonder, why can't all anime go above and beyond. Gal & Dino isn't there for the moment, it is something to treasure for the years to come. What a godsend of an anime.


Audiovisuals:
Real-life looks beautiful[5]. And for Gal & Dino to utilise such a base, namely that of the East Asian country known as 日本 (Japan), the anime manages to instantly produce high-quality visuals so much so that Vincent van Gogh has been real quiet since the anime dropped. As for the animated segment, I remember on a normal 5th April 2020 when I stumbled across Gal & Dino's anime KV whilst looking for new anime to watch. I was like "yo, imma have to watch this", could you imagine. You don't even need to see the frames progress to see how amazing the visuals are. Legit never seen anything like this in my life.

As for the audio, the silence for Dino was such an amazing idea that it literally correlates to Pingu in the City tactics. Using such a method would allow for no need to worry about language barriers allowing for the world population to enjoy Dino's day to day life. The same is not used for Kaede, but that is ok, for Kaede sounds like your normal type gyaru so there were no problems there. All in all, astonishing ideas.


Enjoyment:
10/10 enjoyment (and based.)

What it will say is that some of the comedy humour used to bring the viewer to a state in which they exhale air from their nose, fails at times. You can expect the nihonjin cringe humour, but that is not a bad thing. You need to remember that this was intentional. You can't tell me that MLG horn, lightsabers sound effect and nihonjin humour is all dedicated to one audience. The team knew this was going international. It was going out there, for the world to see. Literally what I was on about with Dino's silence. This is for all to enjoy. What a blessing. There is also a game you can play in the anime, being Find Dino. As it says on the tin, find Dino! And GG. Who would have guessed that an anime in this day and age full of shitty isekai would go to such a length for the sake of the audience? In addition to this, there is Dino Channel. Kinda like YouTube but it is based on Dino. Just funny skits to laugh at. Seriously, how can you argue against this, how enjoyable this is is just something that not just anyone will put effort into, the team was out here thinking about every possible thing for their audience. It is just so amazing.


Overall - 💯
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TLDR Review:
Story - 10: 10/10 vibe
Visuals - 10: 10/10 real life
Audio - 10: 10/10 dino silence
Characters - 10: 10/10 dino and gyaru and other chill people.
Enjoyment - 10: you won't forget this.
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I am honestly saddened to death to see that the anime has a score of 6.33. Unbelievable. But honestly, go watch this masterpiece. This one of a lifetime gem. I needn't say more.

For anyone who thinks I am a liar:
References:
[1]Check on MAL Rewrite club
[2]If I link I will get in trouble by mods
[3]So go surf my profile or ask me to show you where.
[4]Google "Charles Darwin quotes" most certainly not edited btw.
[5]Google "beautiful landscapes"

Sugar, spice and everything nice, those are the ingredients chosen to create Gal and Dino, but (not) accidentally we added an extra ingredients to the concoction-- POP TEAM EPIC. Thus Gal and Dino was born.

Ok, this is the most different thing I alredy watched.
That's crazy, you never know what's going to happen in your screen.
The mix between 2d, 3d animation (or something that looks like stop motion) and live action, creates a unique framework for this anime.
The comic timing of the anime works perfectly, even because it all ends in a joke.

A summary of Gal and Dino is: if you're not laughing, do you have ... a big one ? over your head trying to understand what's going on.

To be honest, It is kinda sad to see people dump this precious anime into "1" basket.

Gal and Dino is one of the most special comedy anime ever in terms of its presentation, the element, the character and so much else. Especially the Dino, which is the main character of this show. Its personality is so interesting, watching it eating cup noddles, scare by cats and go shopping is so much fun than you can imagine.

The humor in Gal and Dino are actually quite simple yet entertaining. It is so refreshing to watch this anime every week.

Hence, throw away your usual perception ... of comedy anime and give Gal and Dino a try.

Gal to Kyouryuu is a beautiful fusion of three different types of film.
Each episode features a unique visual style, the first half features traditional anime animation, followed by a 3d animated short rendered to look like clay stop motion, and finally my favorite part, live action.

A gyaru girl named Kaede wakes up and finds a cartoonish dinosaur in her room. She recalls the night before, she had a bit too much to drink and brought Dino home with her. Thus begins the definitive greatest slice of life anime of the decade, maybe even of the last two decades.

This anime deserves a 10/10, and for good ... reason. I have a soft spot for cute anime girls, and Kaede is simply the cutest gyaru girl, a real qt3.14, but her cuteness can't hold a candle to Dino. Dino is simultaneously best girl and best boy. If Dino is not both your waifu and husbando after watching this anime you simply have horrible taste. While Kaede is undeniably cute, Dino is the messiah of anime mascots. With mascots becoming less popular in anime, Dino is here to do his predecessors justice and save the anime mascot meta.

For the final section of my review I'd like to discuss my favorite part of the series, the live action. Both Kaede and Dino receive excellent 3d counterparts, and while Kaede is just as adorable as her 2d version, Dino transcends his anime version. Dino is the perfect anime mascot, but Dino's true greatness is only realized in live action. Dino is manifested as a true, real life mascot, he is 3D, he exists, truly there is no greater euphoria in this world than just knowing this fact. We truly are not deserving of our lord and savior Dino. The iconic duo don't stop at just blessing us with their presence on screen, they also bring us to real life locations in Japan, which is an endearing spectacle for a pitiful, hopeless weeb like myself with no hope of ever seeing Japan in person. The live action also does well to bring out the best of this series' sound design, every time Dino moves one of his appendages a light saber SFX is played, when Dino is happy or triumphant the classic MLG airhorn SFX is played, the creators of this show are certainly up to date with modern meme culture.

This anime is overall just a joy, full of wholesome moments and well written comedy. I don't expect you to watch the entirety of this anime, but if this review convinced you to at least give it a try I am sincerely happy.

Thank you for reading my review!

The (2nd) last of the COVID-delayed shows, AND REALLY, WHAT A DISASTER for this to be postponed, because this half-anime, half-live-action show is continuing director Jun Aoki's record at producing one-of-a-kind special and incomparable GOAT shows of the 21st Century (along with his studio Kamikaze Douga), with the cooperation from the same team that did Pop Team Epic over at Space Neko Company of hilarious short skits and stop-motion animations.

Based on Moriko Mori's short manga about a gal who accidentally picks up an unexplanable Dino and doing daily comedic slice-of-life elements, all you need to know is that these two really hit it out of ... the ballpark, and let those daily communions drive you nuts with the everyday lives of "Gal and Dino". You don't just watch this show for the gyaru Kaede, her best friend Yamada and boyfriend Shouta, but for the exhilarating blue Dino, whose expressions can go from being smitten through animated and IRL discoveries to pure "catastrophes" of situations that wrecks Dino time and time again, all while eating its favourite food: cup noodles. All of these simple, yet entertaining timeless comical hilarities, you won't get it anywhere else other than here.

As if I did not know any better that watching Pop Team Epic's masterpiece of a whack-ton of various styles of animation would become the norm (and prepare me for another masterpiece in a span of 2 years), Gal and Dino might as well re-affirm my sentiments of the same variations of identifying future Jun Aoki/Kamikaze Douga works, and it's still GOAT, no questions asked. But due to COVID (of which you can easily figure out WHICH part got axed), sadly this show joined some other concurrently airing Spring 2020 shows, only to resurface by future seasons. Coming back to the Fall season mid-way was even less of a consolation, because this show also had its audience, but COVID stripped the anime masses away, to the point of "obsolescence" with the resulting barren of a wasteland. It's all for people's safety, and a much needed precaution, so that's an essential thing.

"G-A-L, with DI-NO-SAUR! Age-age-age Agemizawa~~~"
I'd swear, these trippy OSTs always gets me going abuzz and bopping along with the music, because it's THAT entertaining feel like we're part of the song (at least for the OP, although we're just weirdly watching this IRL and can only act like a weeaboo when no one's watching). The ED with Ryuuko Takahashi's "Peaceful Days" is no slouch either, bringing the entire feeling of the show to a close altogether in a calm and collective position.

In a nutshell: If you feel like most comedy nowadays are getting old, throw away your old ways of perception, dedicate your time to watching Gal and Dino, and give it the stamp of "definitive masterpiece" approval. Don't try to understand it, but experience it for yourself.

Gal to Kyouryuu initially presents itself as a faithful adaptation of its manga counterpart: a series of relaxing animated shorts of a gyaru who met with and took home a dino. With the source material itself being rather short, it receiving a full-length adaptation (as opposed to a 5/10-minute short) is rather curious indeed. And at the halfway point, when the live-action segments begin, and you are greeted with Mieharu-san.

The second half of the show is a live-action segment that is incredibly surreal in nature with branching timelines, mysterious tomes, and weird celebrity guest cameos. It's also about a gyaru and her Dino (originally an ... old man and his Dino). While occasionally disjointed and strange, this incredibly surreal series still manages to tie into the main themes of the original source material about the relationships of a gal and her Dino, albeit in a very roundabout fashion. Every week I sit in anticipation for the next unpredictable moment of the show, and the Covid-19 pandemic just made the waiting even more unbearable. And at the tail end of it, even if the resolution wasn't what I wanted, I still felt something inside me as Mieharu-san parted with Dino so it could have a better life with Kaede.

Not to discredit the animated segments as well. You also get the occasional variety-esque sections with guest animators providing short scenes of the Dino in various (grounded) scenarios that keep the show fresh. And the actual adaptation is fairly well done in it of itself.

While it wasn't what I expected, I'm glad to have experienced this one of a kind of show to its end. To say any more would be to spoil its many surprises. So long as you have an open mind to anticipate the unexpected, you'll be treated to one of the most original and wildest shows of the current generation.

8/10

Those that tossed this aside so carelessly are really missing out! Its weird, don't get me wrong this shit is fucking weird. But its also intriguing, wholesome, silly, and its a great palete clenser when you've watched one or many fucked up anime.

Gal gets drunk, wakes up with Dino at her pad! Both are super chill and just take it for what it is and instantly become roommates. Then its all about the antics that revolve around them....or is it just that?

There is a live action part in each episode that can be a bit darker than the rest of the episode. Though ... that's rarely the case if I'm honest. You also have many times where the live action takes what the anime half had shown and brought more life into it by showing you a different take of it.

Its a fun show! Just don't take it too seriously and you'll probably enjoy it too! <3

One day, Kaede, a gyaru, picks up a dinosaur and begins living with it. The short comedy depicts their daily lives together as the dinosaur consumes human food, watches TV, and enjoys fashionable things. Thus begins the story of a gal and a dinosaur cohabiting that transcends time.

Very meta anime comedy, would recommend to anyone looking for really meta stuff.

My Roomie Is a Dino (ギャルと恐竜, Gal to Kyōryū, lit. "The Gal and the Dinosaur") also known as Gal & Dino, is a Japanese manga series, written by Moriko Mori and illustrated by Cota Tomimura. It has been serialized since October 2018 in Kodansha's seinen manga ... magazine Weekly Young Magazine and has been collected in three tankōbon volumes as of February 2020.

An anime television series adaptation by Space Neko Company and Kamikaze Douga premiered on April 4, 2020. A live-action drama adaptation also premiered on April 4, 2020.

overall score dino/dino

Those who rated 1-3 most likely just didn't like something in different format and/or didn't understand what this show is about (yes it's a japanese tv show, anime is a category used broadly to cover japanese animated show).

Feel like it's unfair to compare apples to oranges. Yes it's not something full of story and doesn't fit your usual anime show, but I think it would be great if people rate and compare it as what it is. Not as what it wasn't!

Short anime based on tankobon like this are for filler, something you watch while waiting for your ramen to cook. Burst of comedy and ... fun. :)

I find it really light, funny and super chill slice of life!
It's not like you are going to invest alot of time into this one, it's super short and bite sized. I understand if a long anime turns sour and you want to warn others before investing their time watching it, but this one is not the case.

Before I continue, I'd like to say that I don't particularly consider this an anime.

This show has three main components I can think of: a 2D animated segment, a short 3D claymation segment, and a live action segment. I'd like to break all of these down and give my thoughts on each bit.

The 2D animated parts are definitely very cute. It does a great job of conveying the simplicity of the manga itself (which I ended up reading to get my fix for the current pause until the next episode), and the color scheme is very attractive to look at. There are only a ... few main characters (being our MC Kaede, Dinosaur, and Kaede's ex, Shouta), and I personally prefer series with not a whole lot of characters, because my brain will instantly start forgetting them all if I'm not hooked immediately. There isn't much backstory to these characters though, leaving the viewer in the dark about them. The comedy is simple (depending on what you find funny, in this case, a dinosaur just being stupid, which is personally my favorite kind of humor, seeing that I laugh at anything remotely funny), the storyline is simple, and overall, the animated bits are great if you're just starting out with anime. I would rate the animated segments a 7.5/10, seeing that they are on the short side with minimal character development, but are very pleasing to the eye.

Next, we have the claymation segments. These feature minimal dialogue, and heavily feature the dinosaur doing very mundane things that it is unfamiliar with. I, personally, am very impressed with any kind of stop motion, which is why I enjoyed this part so much. There isn't much to say, seeing that these segments are very short, and that they don't tie much in with the story. I would give these an 8/10, as the detail put into them is definitely visible.

Finally, we have the live action segments, the part that most fans love to hate. I personally love these, and saw them as a huge surprise in the show. Although most of the speaking is from the woman playing Kaede, we have shots of an adorable Dino costume that only makes various airhorn noises. These don't tie into the story at all, and are just a cute addition that I personally like. The stories are distinctly different, and play out like a simple slice of life show, combined with you talking to your little cousin that your grandma made you talk to. I don't hate these in the slightest, but I can 100% understand where people are coming from when they say, "I didn't like the live action parts since they didn't add much and weren't great." Coming from someone who loves the unexpected parts of shows like these, I would personally rate them a 9/10. They're unexpected, and are definitely unique to shows like these.

Overall, I can understand people being thrown off and deterred by the live action segments and the claymation. They're not necessarily "anime," and this is an anime site. If I was to rate this show overall, I'd give it a solid 8.5/10, but when only focusing on the traditional "anime" segment, I believe it does deserve the 7.5/10 I gave it.

TL;DR It's a beautiful blend of different types of shows, but if it's strictly traditional "anime" you're looking for, it's easy to understand if you're turned off by its variety. 8.5/10.