morton.collier - 2015-10-05 16:06:44

Kill Me Baby was incredibly weird when I first started watching. After the first two episodes, I fell in love with it. It was incredibly cute and hilarious once you get used to the format. The ending was the icing on the cake.

elijah93 - 2013-12-16 09:39:19

Overview

While by no means a masterpiece, Kill Me Baby is, in my mind, an extremely underrated show. There are two main characters, Yasuna and Sonya, who make up the classic boke and tsukkomi duo, with one twist; Sonya is an assassin. As you might expect, the show is mostly gag based, but for a 4koma adaptation, the show is surprisingly character driven, especially in its later episodes.

Art

The art style stays true to Kaduho's designs from the manga. The characters are simple, and the backgrounds have a nice watercolored design. Neither, however, are particularly stunning, but are done particularly well for the budget of the show. The animation itself is rather fluid, though at times the lack of a large budget does show. Overall though, Kill Me Baby isn't hurt by its lackluster art and animation, and it accomplishes what it set out to do.

Sound

The opening for Kill Me Baby is a weird sounding polka tune, interspersed with liberal dropping of the show's title. While very obnoxious at first, by the time I finished the series, I enjoyed the opening. The ending theme is pretty catchy as well, set to a series of strange dance moves done by the lead characters. The background music used in the show is inobtrusive, and sets the a carefree tone for the series, often contrasted by Sonya's violent actions. The voice acting is superb in the show, with both lead voice actresses doing fantastic jobs. Tamura Mutsumi (Jinta from AnoHana, Kakashi from Naruto) does an excellent job in the role of Sonya, perfectly conveying Sonya's annoyance at Yasuna's constant schemes. Akasaki Chinatsu does very well as Yasuna, with her airy tone of voice lending credibility to Yasuna's happy go lucky lifestyle.

Characters

Again, the characters are quite good for a show like Kill Me Baby. While we don't see any significant growth of the characters throughout the show, we do see that Yasuna really cares about Sonya, as she always comes back to her, even after being beaten to a pulp at Sonya's hands. It also becomes clear that Sonya, while chiefly expressing annoyance to Yasuna's tricks and schemes, does hold a soft spot for the girl, as she nearly always goes along with them. In the last episode especially, we get to see a heartfelt moment between the two as Yasuna expresses her concern for Sonya and her way of life.

There are other characters in the show besides Sonya and Yasuna, but they usually serve as plot devices for more interaction between the two leads.

Story

Story? What story? No, but actually, the gags in Kill Me Baby are fairly funny, in my opinion, but that is one that not everyone shares. Honestly, the best way to tell if you will find Kill Me Baby is to watch a few of the gags first, then decide. The humour is fairly consistent throughout the show, but there are some gags which do fall flat, as well as some that require knowledge of Japanese culture/ folklore. The humour is fairly predictable at times, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but may detract from your enjoyment of the show.

williamson.dianna - 2013-07-17 18:08:54

Kill Me Baby is one interesting anime to watch and to review, but particularly to evolve with the characters and how you relate to their presence on each episode and the show in general, which makes it sort of slow started, but ends up being an endearing 4-koma. So, here we go:Story - 6Look at it however you want, this is, at the end of the day, just another slapstick show about wacky schoolgirls. The story isn't anything special, and, at first it doesn't even seem to have a story per se. However it's not the same as saying it's a bad thing, because on this sort of shows, the focus isn't the story, and it's more about providing a background where the characters can show what they're worth at making us spend a good 20 mins each week.Art - 6Not a masterpiece of detail and fluid overwhelming animation, but again, it's a show that doesn't demand such a thing, it's just, right for what the concept of KMB really is. The designs are very simple, the backgrounds have that borderline children anime watercolor innocence to it, but overall, the characters are very cute and expressive, and look chibi.Sound - 7After an OP that sounds so irritating at the first 2 episodes but ends up getting unavoidable to listen to each week, and after an ED that was awesome since the first day i heard it and even became a popular track for remixes and loops on the internet, what's left to mention is the good job that was done on how the sound carries many of the logic and punch lines behind a huge variety of the hilarious skits along the show. In the end, while the quality of the sound isn't anything of intricate quality, we see a show where the sound plays as much of a role to make things funny as the visuals do.Character - 8We have 2 main characters: blonde assassin/student from Russia, Sonya, and short/brown haired airhead Yasuna. Sonya keeps feeling bothered about Yasuna's uncanny will to be friends, and have fun together, and she often comes out as being an impossible to like character due to her cruelty, but which is an interesting approach on a girl which is supposed to be a cold blooded assassin. Yasuna starts the show as the merely annoying dumb girl who always ends up being a victim despite wanting to be friends so badly, however the same insistence of her that feels a bit annoying for how dumb and masochistic it seems early in the show, ends up making Yasuna an endearing character with a simple mind but a huge heart, as she always worried about Sonya and tries to straighten her way out of murderous jobs. These characters are enveloped in an actually touching undertone which never falls off from the humour priority of KMB, but is felt through each time we see Yasuna fall innocently, climaxing in the last episode which, without spoiling, actually made me cry. As the series approach an ending, i couldn't get enough of Yasuna's voice acting and preciousness and even Sonya managed to become somewhat likeable as she's slowly softened up (but not much) by her loyal classmate. Given that "Character" was the stat i gave a better rating, it's getting a bit long, but i shall hurry it up with the 3rd main/support character, and perhaps the most popular of the whole show given that many people couldn't see beyond Yasuna's early annoying masochistic antics, Agiri-san simply had, i believe, no defects (perhaps the only problem was not giving her enough air time). Agiri-san is complicated to describe, with a presence and voice that are as feeble as they are powerful, like a drowzee but aware, airheaded but smart or talented but effortless character, she was purely awesome and with a voice as memorable as Yasuna's (except, i believe most people felt captivated by Agiri from her very first appearance) and was one of the driving reasons i waited eagerly for the next episode. Always linked to wacky unexpectedly justifiable ninja techniques with a twist, Agiri often appeared as a random element of surprise, to help out Yasuna and Sonya's troubles or to aid the scenes that otherwise could become too dull.There's a 4th character that appears only on about 3 or 4 scenes and the OP, a character that seems pointless, she has no name, and her purpose in appearing is the simple joke (i believe that's the joke) that she's useless and never noticed.Enjoyment - 7This was a show that needed your patience to win your heart because, i understand that, other than Agiri-san, it's not very compelling from the start, until Yasuna's voice and attitude get deep into your head and you get to hope Sonya's ice might be eventually melted somehow. Some early episodes had plenty of dry and dull jokes as well as some drink spilling hilarious ones, whoever with a not very favourable ratio between the two. Overall it does get much better with time because you get to know and antecipate the characters and the type of puns more and more. Personally, early on, i thought i'd end up giving a 6 at best, to this show, but i ended up connecting to the characters more than i imagined, and even got emotional in the last ep. Check it out sometime!

bergstrom.dovie - 2013-06-17 18:56:37

kill me baby is one of them random anime much like lucky stars and each ep will make you roll around of the floor laughing. first off if i was to comment on the story...... i would say  404 not found  but the Characters are loveable. the art is somewhat chibified and is very cute  let me just cut to the point its a good show and i recommend it for anyone that needs a good laugh