Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
What a hilarious anime!
Seriously, Hataage! Kemono Michi is one of the most absurd ideas I've ever seen in an anime, and by some miracle it works extremely well. The anime simply takes three themes that seemingly have absolutely nothing to do with each other and mixes them all together fearlessly: isekai, professional wrestling, and animal welfare. Just reading that sounds like a collective obsession, but the execution manages to be so chaotic and funny that you simply accept the madness and join in the fun.
The story follows Genzou Shibata, a professional wrestler who is passionate about animals. And when I say passionate, I mean OBSESSED. The guy literally loves any kind of living creature to an absurd degree. During an important fight in his original world, he ends up being summoned t…
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Kemono Michi is an anime adaptation of the manga with the same name. Written by Akatsuki Natsume, the same person that wrote Konosuba and Combatants be Dispatched. Him being the writer really becomes evident with the presence of a money hungry blue haired girl, overpowered loli, useless big chested older woman and last but not least the absurd isekai plot. Despite all of this Kemono Michi still stands on its own as feel-good, bizzarre isekai with surprisingly interesting characters and animated fight scenes that really turn up way more than they should.
The story follows the worlds greatest wrestler Genzou Shibata, or "Animal Mask" (His wrestler name being a reference to one of the first ever shounen anime Tiger Mask). After he becomes world champion he plans to retire as a wrestler and o…
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Story
I actually liked how light and smooth the story was. It’s an easy, chill watch, but I really wish it had a bit more depth. For a show about a guy wanting to open a pet shop, we don't actually see much real development on that front. The final fight was okay, but it could have been way more flashy and epic considering the buildup. It’s a fun ride, but it feels like the story never quite reaches its full potential.
Visuals
I was honestly surprised to find out this came out in 2019. It doesn't have that "modern" ultra-cute or chubby art style, but it still looks solid. For a series that clearly didn't have a massive budget, the animation and visual effects are actually pretty nice. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s consistent and doesn't look cheap.
Conclusion
Is it worth watching? If…
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Ya gotta have an open mind on this one. Ya gotta be okay with fourth wall breaking, there's a TON of it. It's silly, and stupid, and walks the line of being lewd, but it never actually is.
Characters: They're fine. They don't really "grow" but this isn't a "character growth" kinda show. It's a "do the characters make you laugh" kind of series, and they do very very well on that. They're ALL dumb. All of them. There isn't a smart one among them, and it all kinda works because of it. They're also all irritating, but in a good way? Like you'd like just a LITTLE awareness, a LITTLE growth. It's one of those things that keeps it as a good, not great anime.
Lewdness: This, I think is where the anime shines. So many shows act all innocent and pure and genuine and all "oopsie poopsie, everyone…
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I laughed so hard on this😆.Hataage is extremely hilarious. The action scene are awesome & funny just like KONOSUBA!
It has a good plot but not so intriguing.SO,if someone love thriller, this is not for you but if someone looking for comedy&isekai😉 Hataage is a perfect choice!
As,there are not so much comedy isekai anime!
Here,
One get to see an oversmart villain & a stupid hero who is fond of animals.
Don’t worry!There is harem too.
Let me tell you why Hataage is a bit of unique and hilarious isekai anime! The anime starts with the hero summoning as usual.
But unlike other isekai heros who get surprised or happy by summoning, this MC got snapped and did a German Suplex to the princess.Well, I would have done the same, if I were summuned suddenly! 😆
That's just the 1st part of the 1s…
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To be honest, I don’t expect much from isekai anime. I know this isn’t a hot take considering the genre is oversaturated as hell these days, but I thought Kemono Michi could be different. A pro-wrestler being isekai’d into a fantasy world? That’s a gimmick I never would’ve expected. Think of all the possibilities this could have been original. Maybe even good.
Although it’d be unfair to say this is just another isekai, I wouldn’t say it succeeds at what it tried to do. I expected it to at least be weird, and it certainly is ridiculous. Other than weirdness, there’s not much else. It was funny at times, but mostly I was just bored. Between the motionless animation, repetitive comedy, and an average cast of characters, there’s not a whole lot left to enjoy.
The main problem with the cast i…
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Really funny show that reminded me of Konosuba, worth a watch as long as you dont expect it to have some thicc plot. Its just a comedy and to be honest thats my favorite genre. I say this in most of my reviews but people are too pretentious, like the show is meant to be a gag. For example family guy had no real plot, it was just a comedy but if anime does that same concept we rate it a 6.6?????????? I mean I thoroughly enjoyed the show and had good laughs at a wrestler animal lovin dude who walked around in a speedo and introduced the whole new world to wrestling lol. It was written by the same guy who wrote konosuba, I think, and it showed many similarities in that type of humor, raunchy dummy shenaniganiry :D
Plot obviously not super great but thats not the point
Characters for the purp…
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I'm gonna get straight to the point, the story isn't good by any stretch of the imagination (if you could even call it a story) but it has fantastic animation and fast paced engaging fight scenes with levels of intensity I've only seen in Shonen style shows whilst still injecting stupid jokes into it - regardless of the quality of the jokes the way they were slid into the most intense scenes gave them impact (they author clearly knew what they were doing), it also has cuteness and cringe in equal proportions to sooth your soul but not let you grow numb to the cuteness as a result of whiplash of being subjected to cringy scenarios at a drop of a dime. All in all it's a show geared towards fun rather than seriousness so it is perfect for blowing of steam and relaxing - it sounds obvious to s…
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What is the isekai genre missing? If you think it's pro wrestling, pet shops and butts, Kemono Michi has you covered.
Isekai has been pretty stale for years, and it usually comes down to a few reasons: lazy worldbuilding, cliched RPG plots, and boring protagonists. This show doesn't do much with its worldbuilding, and the basic throughline of the plot could have ended up as a typical defeat-the-demon-lord quest, but that gets derailed thanks to the protagonist. Rather than the usual otaku or salaryman, Genzo is a pro wrestler/animal fetishist whose plans to retire from wrestling and open a pet shop are scuppered when a princess teleports him to another world. When she commands him to rid the world of demon beasts (ie. animals), he responds by suplexing her into the ground and walking out.…
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Watch (part of) the show, it's really funny! It starts off actually being better than the manga. Some say to stop watching after the fourth episode and that's fine. But you're going to regret it if you don't at least skip episodes 8, 9, 11, and 12.
Once the competition starts, the show spends too much time repeating the gags you've already seen before. If you've seen a decent amount of anime, you should know that tournament episodes are lazy writing and a sign that they've ran out of ideas. And guess what? They don't have just one, but two of these brawls, not to mention the episodes spent setting up them up. The action's good, it's just you're going to get so sick of the repeated jokes, that I personally don't think it's worth it.
Genzou is absolutely hilarious and entertaining in the b…
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Burn Brain cells the anime
This was so terrible that I think this entire plot and concept was written by a monkey or by one year old you know what it would be insulting to the monkey and the baby because I’m sure that even they could come up with a better plot and characters then this shit show in fact the scene where the main character sniff the ass of The werewolf man describe The feeling of watching this where I begin with this one so I will say the story is practically nonexistent the art was even basic for this genre the sound was terrible the characters Are so pathetic and one dimensional and doesn’t have fucking character development at all and they act like they have a fucking brain damage and most of them all they do is to be horny as hell for the main character that this is even…
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Was waiting for this kind of comedy anime for looooong time.
awesome for the beginning till end.
It is natural comedy. you can see a lot of new things and a lot of work done on it and it is something different than other anime and different idea
the only thing is that it is only 12 episodes. i wish if it was longer.
story, characters, costumes, everything is amazing.
it is difficult in recent times to come up with natural comedy with different new story that is why this anime is so great.
can not wait till second season. hope it comes out soon.
Thank you for the great work.
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This show raised one cardinal question in my mind:
Who thinks that a man casually and repeatedly beating up women is funny?
Because this show thinks it is.
I recommend to watch episode 7 first, and see if you like it. There are no spoilers in it, because this series does not have a story.
"The strange technics that Genzo uses can be really painful. The more you try to fight back, the worse the pain will be."
... Says one woman to the other at the beginning of episode 7, after Genzo beats up a girl he just met. Then he beats the whole adventurer's guild unconscious because he is angry, and almost beats up an old man as well.
By the way, yes, he beats up random guys too, not just women. Throws them into stone walls etc without warning, because he doesn't like to be adressed as "beast…
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There are bunch of isekais released in the past decade some great some weak but there's this particular type of isekai which I like to call "light isekais". These type of isekai shows don't have really heavy plot and it doesn't really offer much on the story side of things. Though this may seem bad at first, these types are more associated with non-isekai shows that also doesn't really on heavy plot but instead on comedic values (e.g Azumanga Daioh, Nichijou).
This is one example of a light isekai, it isn't reliant on it's plot progression but instead offers its comedic values. Though it does have plot progression, it's better to say that it's only part of the package.
Now let's talk about what it's got. The comedy of the show is superb early on enhancing each and every episode though…
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I was expecting a generic harem isekai so I was positively surprised when I realised I was wrong. The MC is a thot slayer who doesn't care about them woman, he cares only about animals and opening a petshop. Like Kazuma Sato from Konosuba, he is an advocate of true gender equality and doesn't hesitate to beat some of them up using his wrestling techniques. He is pretty OP since he trained his entire life and brings a style of fighting that doesn't exist in that world which often made him look like a pervert. My favorite character is definetly Shigure who became a meme template because of her greedy smile before she stole something. Good humor during the entire show so don't expect anything serious.
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Without thinking twice ... When I saw a fragment of this work, I thought it would be interesting to see. When I started watching this anime, I saw that they were showing me something new. For a start, what can I say? Anime will not let you get bored. In each episode, you can smile or even laugh.
For the Isekai genre, this is the first time that not a schoolboy, not an office worker, or even a hike was summoned to another world, but the wrestler. The hero's calling to the alternate world was almost standard, as was the case with most Isekai, which is not encouraging. It is also sad that the plot does not develop but stands still. The main characters roam in one place, and that's it.
There are tons of soundtracks. In battle - dynamic music, in conversation - calm music, and in moments when…
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In case you ask, I watched this series only because of that particular scene of the princess getting applied a german suplex getting shown in memes here and there.
Story, had some potential, if this was a multiple season series, I could understand the 12 episode storyline. They had to setup the world building first and then settle down for a showdown between the main protagonist and sort of main antagonist to give a conclusion to the initial plot-drive.
While there were some plot that were not explored at all, I hope it gets explored further if a new season gets green-lit.
Art was great. Character drawings were very good through the entire season. Animation wise, while there were plenty of static shots at some point, something I truly hate in anime, the fight scenes had some smooth anim…
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I want to write a short review for this anime as I am sad to see it's rated below a seven on here.
[Why am I rating it an 7?]
TRUST ME when I say that I am not a fan of overwritten jokes about perverts or harems or things of that nature. I really am not, I tend to avoid animes which make dumb jokes about women (this might have to do with the fact that I am a woman and it irritates me). BUT this anime has captured my humour and interest very well. It was short, snappy and amusing to watch. It didn't take itself too seriously and aimed to make fun of itself and it's characters. I will admit that although the premise is unique, the jokes are not entirely that, YET the writing entertained me to no end.
It felt fresh to me, especially as the main character wasn't a teenage boy for once.…
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To preface, I am more of a wrestling fan than anything else. The thought of how Japanese wrestling being represented in an anime, like Tiger Mask W, but written as an isekai comedy by the author of Konosuba was almost too good to be true. And after watching all of the series, I went from being invested in a world with a funny wrestler that fights all the monsters in an entertaining, abstract way to being just fed up with the series as it comes to an end. Basically, I came into this thinking, "Oh, a wrestling anime, oh boi" and came out being reminded that the "golden age of isekai" is more dominant and some people might actually enjoy parts I just couldn't. If I can say anything positive, I liked the MC's rival and I liked a single fight.
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I came into this anime expecting it to be the first anime I've ever dropped due to some of the clips I'd seen in some other reviews but even though those scenes were still weird the comedy kept me watching, the questionable scenes stopped after the first couple of episodes though.
The best way I could describe this would be Konosuba with a wrestler for a main character.
I didn't feel like any of the main characters weren't fleshed out enough and the side characters who didn't get expanded on much were mainly there for comedic purposes but they didn't affect the story too much.
The fact that it's an isekai isn't being shoved down your throat all the time but just enough to remind you that there are major differences between our world and the one in the show.
Overall by the end the show…
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