Introduction
Three high school girls have mastered the art of cooking simple, B-class dishes called JK meshi. The three girls — Reina, Ryouka, and Ruriko — are all classmates in their second year of high school. They often get distracted when studying for tests, and when they do, they cook JK meshi.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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Daviebomba
I found this Anime fairly enjoyable and as such gave it a 7/10, with 5 being in my view average and anything higher being better, of course.
You might wonder why and it's because of the purpose of this anime. This anime is (as the show itself will even say!) A fairly cheaply made anime but one with charm. The voice acting is quite good and the DVDs you can get (at least they're purchasable in Japan!) come with a Karaoke-style script you can follow along for 2 of the episodes to help people practice or even just try voice acting. The spirit of the show, to me at least is all about making something from very little and indeed the dishes in the show are quite easy to make and don't require much effort. The show also mentions many times how they wish to help others with voice acting and indee…
Read at the sourceDubsSuck
Many people miss that this project was more about showcasing and holding an event related to recruiting and encouraging up-coming seiyuu. For that reason, the animation is quite downplayed. It's more like a radio or short drama CD with flash animations as an after-thought.
Some of the banter is witty. It covers a large variety of topics, so the odds are decent of it hitting on something of interest to you at least once. If you don't come in expecting hidden depths, you'll at least find some running character jokes and that the girls are distinct and play certain set roles in manzai like bits. The show is quite self aware, and just as the meals cooked aren't meant to be gourmet, this is not meant to be more than a fun snack of an anime.
You'll mostly enjoy it if you enjoy audio dramas.…
Read at the sourceAthensBestCity
This is my first review on My Anime List. This anime surprised me positively. After the ratings and other reviews, I was expecting something bad. However, what I saw was a great experience. The characters are really cute and the story is silly but fun. It was a really nice time. The dishes that were at the end of each episode turned out to be true! They are very good and for the next dinner I will definitely use them again. Only the animation does not suit me, but it does not bother me after some time. I can even say that it suits this silly anime. JK Meshi was very sweet and I can easily give 8/10.
Read at the sourceConsumedAM
The MAL community is generally forgiving of Slice of Life anime with banal premises - see the reception of K-on, Non Non Biyori, so I wondered why JK Meshi was scored among the worst entries to ever appear in the database. Surely it can't just be the fact that its only three minutes long per episode?
About a minute into the first episode I understood why - JK Meshi fails to execute the bare minimum of what a slice of life anime needs to be loved by at least a portion of the anime community - cute and personable characters. All of the girls have bland, uncreative, forgettable designs. The animation looks like it was done in flash with choppy movements and barely any variance in facial expression or gesture. You’re not gonna find any waifus here nor will you find any cute personality types…
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thank god its 3 min per ep
the show is boring, ugly and somehow still too long despite the whole show being only 80 minutes long
i thought it would be so bad its good but it was just bad, dont bother watching it
the story is uninteresting, the episodes are all the same. it looks like it had a $100 budget and was made in a week because its one of the worst anime ive ever seen visually
the characters are boring and 1 dimensional
the voice acting was mediocre, its probably the best part of the whole anime
it wasnt fun to watch, it just felt like a big waste of time
Read at the sourceVulgarLife
Sometimes a show comes along that stands out for the wrong reasons, it could the content, art style or animation. JK Meshi! is a short series that suffers from one of these but can it overcome this to bring some entertainment to those watching or will it follow suit and crumble?
The premise here is simple and effective, three girls sit around discussing all sorts but mainly revising various topics for school. After they have finished revising or they get distracted they get hungry and Reina (mostly) cooks something up from the odds and ends of food she has around the kitchen. That’s it and for the length of the show (3 minutes per episode) it feels just right, the topics of revision never overstay their welcome and the snack preparation parts are short and to the point as well as being ra…
Read at the sourceHaXXspetten
JK Meshi is the only anime I've ever seen that's so unbelievably bad that they literally had to have an episode where they straight-up admitted to having the lowest TV-ratings of the season, the worst production value and just being plain uninteresting, solely in order to try and score some sympathy points from their audience. When an anime is so embarrassingly awful that the best the show can do is make fun of its own miserable self, that's when you know you've hit rock bottom. And rightfully so, because this is the absolute worst anime I've *ever* seen.
In short, JK Meshi is a short series about three girls who every week discuss random trivia with each other for a minute or two, have a meal together, and then the episode is over. Nothing more, nothing less. End of story. But unlike yo…
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