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!
