Anywhow, I'm sure you all have suspicions about the claims that the first episode is hentai-esque, allow me to explain why. It's Keiichi and the Soul Brothers talking about taking advantage of the punishment games on the rest of the club, I find that pretty self-explanatory seeing how Keiichi is... well... perverted.
Don't go into Kira expecting any plot, there might be some in later entries to the series, but so far it's just been comedy.
Now, the art. As anyone that watched the previous series' episodes know, the art was pretty poor in that it was simplistic and boring. Since then it has been seriously improved so it can actually be described as art, the only issue in the art is the opening and a rare few scenes, which consist of poorly looped/mirrored animations and, although subtle, can look particularly bad.
Story-wise it has everything a comedy needs, and that's exactly what Kira has been so far, a comedy. A great one at that too. And the characters, well you should know the characters from the previous series (if not then get watching) and while it may just be down to preference, I know that myself and many other people love them.
Basically, how much you'll enjoy this installment to Higurashi is down to how much you enjoyed the joke episodes of Rei and the happy side of the first 2 series.
