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Okay so I think that as an anime fan, you all had at least one show where, on the first look, it seemed fine and you were like "oh that show looks good, I have to try it".
And the more and the more you learn things about it, the more it scares you...
BUT you end up trying anyway.

Yeah, that's me and Kandagawa Jet Girls, I mean come on, who wouldn't enjoy a Jet Ski anime with anime girls?
Because it's a nice idea for a plenty of reasons, like Jet Ski isn't that much of a deal from my knowledge in fictions in general and well... ... ANIME GIRLS.
Pretty much anybody could like that, if it were done good.

Unfortunately Kandagawa Jet Girls that I will abridge as "Jet Girls" did not gave me the "good take" I wanted and I'm gonna try to explain why.
First of all, Jet Girls is an ecchi/sport/moe anime created by the minds behind Senran Kagura ((the games) for those who don't know, it's a game franchise with a lot of fan service that has been adapted in anime) and made by the studio "TNK", well known for Highschool DxD, Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai (not the Nanatsu no Taizai you are searching for, be careful) and... oh well School Days.
So yeah that's not a good start.
It Follows the concept of "cute girls doing cute things" where this time, the "cute thing" in question is Jet Ski.

Without further delay, let's head into the actual review!


Story (5/10):
The plot is pretty simple, Rin Namiki, a young enthusiastic girl leaves her home town to go in a big city where a river named Kandagawa is the central point of a new sporting discipline called "Jet Race".
And you guessed it, it's a sports anime, Rin's goal is gonna be to be the best at it.
Jet Race is basically casual Jet Ski but must be done by peers of two girls, one racer that drives the jet ski and one shooter that shoots the opponents.
But that's not all!
Because there is also some unique specifications to the discipline.
You know, like the possibility of shooting the opponents to make theirs clothes drop, that kind of CASUAL specifications.
You can also shoot the ennemy Jet Ski to make them slow down and the Jets themselves can activate a boost occasionally during the race.
So the goal of Jet Racing to obviously to finish the course at first place, while attacking the opponent team to prevent them from winning.

Yeah, noticed how it is more looking like the concept of a video-game rather than one of an anime?
And rightly, because that's actually a game, the anime is none other than a kind of promo for the incoming "true product".
Do I mean to say that's bad? Well no but actually yes, at least it's not in every case but here it's gonna be a big problem that is gonna explain a few things in the failure of this anime.

But coming back at the story, Rin Namiki will team up with Misa Aoi, a shooting prodigy that f lost her passion for Jet Race and...
Yeah you know how that will go, it's a sports anime.
They will, on their journey, meet up with a bunch of others colorful duos of females characters practicing Jet Race and through trials and hardships eventually become rival/friends with them.
So, that's a lot to remember but, is the story bad? Well yes and no.

Yes because in the execution and development it's absolutely cliche and basic, without any attempt to do something greater than barely passable.
And no because in the ideas that the universe introduces, like Jet Race and only Jet race actually with the things around it are pretty interesting and not too bad overall.

So it's a perfect fifty fifty, not bad, not good, just tolerable and potentially a good support to do cool things with the characters while fan servicing.


Characters (3/10):
Oh well...
Let's forget what I said just a second ago right?

THE CHARACTERS OF THIS ANIME ALL ARE AN ABSOLUTE DUMPSTER FIRE.

Let's say you put all the bad sides of moe and cliche shonen in one damn mixer trying to get them all in.
Somehow you succeed to squeeze everything in and so, you put it to work.
Well let's say you really succeed this cursed experience, at the end, the result will probably be Jet Girls.
There is one and only major flaw that ruins everything when talking about the characters of this anime.
Their caracterisation is complety exaggerated and cliché without any substance or creativity.
And so, all the situations and interactions between them are completely insufferable, cringe and just silly in general.
Take the Misa/Rin relationship for example, first of all, their archetypes are already overused as hell, the cliché lively girl who wants to be the best at something and the dark emo ex-prodigy who lost her passion at something.
Difficult start one must say, but nothing too bad if executed correctly.
However you guessed it, it's not executed correctly.
Because on top of their cliché and overused archetypes, they are made as such, completely ininteresting, acting like robots all the time with a writing that's overall just being lazy and soulless.
And so, if their individual characters are lacking, their relationship is too.
They meet, interact 2-3 times in meaningful ways and suddendly they are best friends who almost want to have sex with each other.
This development does not follow any kind of coherent progression and is devoid of any humanity or soul.
There is never anything endearing about them, it's just so soulless.
It's so impersonal and lazy, it's actually kind of sad.
Rin, Misa, all the characters of this anime are just made to be perfect cute anime girls with no flaws or conflict whatsoever which makes them very boring and unappealing.
I personnaly like when I can feel like this 2D drawing could be a true human being, that's what makes them attractive and likeable, I'd say it's very important in an anime with fanservice.
Sexy bodies and pretty faces aren't enough on their own, the characters themselves needs to be endearing, that's how purely sexual attraction become true love to the character that's supposed to make you feel that way.
But here, everything is just so unbelievably cute and sexy and perfect that they don't even feel like human beings anymore.
All of that makes the characters absolutely not likable and I'm personally literally not attached to anyone in this show.
Oh yeah and how can I forget that to distract you from the obvious flaws of the writing, everyone is pretty much gay is this anime, because... well because.
Again, no logic, no development, no exploration of that at all actually, it's just there, not presented correctly and of course barely shown at all.
I find it cool to have those kinds of relationships represented but it's so poorly made and used that it makes me really sad.
Overall if I can give one good credit to the characters, it is that at least their development is okay, well for those who actually have a development but hey that's already good right???
Again, it's cliche and without any risks but it's pretty solid, thanks for trying I guess.
To finish on the characters, I have nothing against the voice actors themselves but I feel like they were given the worst material and direction to work on so yeah, I did not like them that much either but I feel they could have been really cool.

So yeah, the characters are really bad and of course with a LOOOOOOOT of dumb fan service you can include in the problematic.


Art (4/10):
The art is not good.
I can say this bluntly, the art is really not good at all.
In fact, it's one of the major flaws in this anime.

Firstly, well, all of the races are made in CGI :)
So yeah, talk about an oof moment, but you know what?...
I can personally look beyond that.
Because I think that in terms of camera work and rhythm, the anime makes at the end a pretty good job at making the races pretty exciting and fun to watch (yeah I just pointed out a positive of the anime, don't pay attention).
The backgrounds are also overall pretty good.

No, the gigantic problem with the art actually comes with the characters themselves.
Because, well, they just don't look very good.
The chara-designs are pretty inconsistent with their faces always changing traits from one scene to another due to the lack of animation quality and not a single one of them have any gimmick that represents them and their personalities in the way they move of react.

They almost have no characterization already and this flaw extends himself in the art style and animation, and for an ANIMATED work that wants to be cute and attractive, well I guess you could say that it's a huge letdown.


Sound (4/10):
Honestly, I don't even know what the fuck is going on with the soundtrack.
It sounds like eurobeat mixed with dumbstep 80% of the time and the rest is just some annoying and forgettable ost.

I don't have really much more to say about it, it's just weird and it wasn't my thing.


Enjoyment (6/10):
Finally a score above average and yeah, I pretty much enjoy this anime at the end lmao

Like I laughed a lot, that's for sure, but you could say it's not really for the good reason.
At first I started this anime with some hopes that's for sure, but after the first episode, they were already all left completely crushed.
However there was still a thing that kept me watching it until the end, coming back every week to see each new episode.
And it's the pure sillyness of everything in this anime, it's just dumb and funny.
I was frequently just there, sitting in front of my screen, thinking of what I looked like from an exterior point of view, like I was watching myself from another body.
And honestly picturing myself watching scenes like the one where four girls talk while a train is storming above theirs heads, making theirs boobs shake is just too ridiculous and funny.

So yeah, Jet Girls is really not that good but, I'd say it's so much bad that it kinda grown on me with time and I think I like it for being terrible.
It's just so dumb, it's fun.
I laughed a lot and that's all that matters.


Overall (4/10):
So why am I making this review if I actually enjoyed this anime?

You know, it's not because you enjoy something that you actually can't admit that it is kinda bad?
And I'm doing this long review just for sharing my opinion of a random guy that does loves reasonably enough ecchi or yuri to have a less biased opinion than a lot of people in this review section ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I think that can be interesting, but anyway let's wrap this once and for all.

To conclude, Jet Girls is honestly a bad anime, and an unused potential to deliver a strong female sport anime that could have had actually GOOD fan service.
It wasn't impossible, far from it.
The story and characters are pretty much terrible up and it's so cliche and soulless that it became barely believable at some point.
Everything comes with extremely low effort and inspiration and it upsets me a lot when I look above my personal enjoyment to see that such a great idea on the paper went to be a catastrophic mess like that, reduced to a stupid promotion for an upcoming eponymous anticipated game.
The history of this anime was already written before it aired, it was meant to sell games, like the Senran Kagura anime does and very much like it again, not being good.
But it's funny so it's okay to laugh and learn from the mistakes of the anime I guess.

Anyway, that was all I had to say on "Kandagawa Jet Girls", thanks to you if you've read all the way down there.
Don't forget, never stop to like what you like and it's time for me to retreat (งツ)ว

Honestly, at first I wasn't fan of Kill la Kill at all.
I've had watched 4 episodes and I was like : "yeah it's not bad at all, but it's kinda boring"
So after that, I dropped Kill la Kill, thinking that I will never finish it.
But as I am here writing this review, you should unterstand that I obviously didn't and continued the show. And I can tell you one thing now : I don't regret it, like really, not even at 0,00000001%
So what made me change my mind ? Well pretty well all of the stuff that compose it.
Kill la Kill may seems at ... the very first a show that is barely ok and full of abusing fan service but no no no, don't get the wrong idea !
Kill la Kill is for me a masterpiece for plenty of reasons : his completly crazy and appealing universe and characters, his story full of non sense that ultimately makes sense, his outstanding art and ost and finally the fan service that is simply part of the piece and that is not abusing at all.
The fan service in Kill la Kill is totaly justified, he is part of the universe, it make sense since all of this one is about clothes. However at first look you'll may no think that way, BUT as the show will go on, you will unterstand that, as the main character, Ryuko get less shy about showing her almost naked body to gain strengh, you will get less and less annoyed by the fan service and you'll change your mind and understand that he do not deserved to be called fan service at this point. What was considered fan service at the very beginning finally turns out to be just one of the facets of the show that actually gives him a good part of his charm and originality.
But enough talk about the "fan service" let's get into this review for real and talk about the others aspects !
First of all, the universe, and the plot that goes with it, well it may be the best aspect of the show, yeah you read me well, I'm, indeed talking about the gigantic mess that compose it !
I'm still wondering weeks after finishing watching it... How a such crazy universe that seems having no fucking sense can be that excellent ? Well it's all about the one thing that I call : "The sense of the non sense" a term who does not even seems to make more sense thant the things he's pointing out but let's me explain !
The fact is that Kill la Kill's universe is complety crazy and has a plenty of things of the same kind happening in it. In plenty of shows that are as much crazy as Kill la Kill, the simple fact of being crazy is the charming thing, but in Kill la Kill the charming thing is first of all obviously and without any doubt the crazyness in itself but also the fact that in the universe and in the different contexts the show presents, it always make real sense. It is also about the fact that Kill la Kill takes itself very seriously and that's were the "non-sens" drawn a part of his charm.
Following the rules of the Kill la Kill's universe all of the fucked up things that happening in it always have sense and that is for me why it works so well !
The universe and plot consequently follows these precepts and that's just giving to us something so unique and lovable that it's for me the best aspect of the show.
But what is an universe without his characters ? Well something pretty strong on his own I gotta admit it but still !
Anyway in Kill la Kill you will not get disapointed on this aspect either.
The characters in the show are some of the most lovables characters I've seen since I started watching anime. They may seems like a bit generic and not that developed at first but they are all unique and appealing. While I was watching I had this feeling that I was close of them as if I was one of their friend, I laughed litterally at all of the funny situations that could be bring out including them, so yes I basically laugh during all the anime. The characters thereby are the second most lovable aspect in Kill la Kill, after it's universe !
Enought talk about the depth of the anime, let's talk about his surface.
First the animation and staging/realisation :
Well it's as for all of the others aspect, a studing part of the anime, the animation is really beautiful with an artistic direction who's sure really outstanding and have his proper own identity. The staging is not left back either, it's grandiose during all of the anime and more especially during fight or more generally action scenes.
And to conclude about all of the aspects, we have the original soundtrack and I have only one thing to say : Beautiful... well like all of the others aspects you're gonna tell me and YES, I'm a big fanboy so YES. More seriously, the original soundtrack is incredibly catchy and had some of very popular themes over all the anime culture, so yes it is a very remarquable point, one more of them !

There we are, the end of this review, you should have understanded it by now, Kill la Kill is an excellent anime for me, that nearly reachs perfection !
All the thing is that you'll need to go over the false potential thoughs that you'll may have to see the piece that it is. Kill la Kill is amusing, touching and beautiful, all of this behing the global lovable mess that convering his surface.
So, to conclude I can't see much more than : Watch Kill la Kill, like really, believe me, the moment you'll get involded, you will surely live a colorful and unforgettable aventure like me !