Audience reviews
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princegi888
Kemono Friends is an anime that stands out in the children's genre due to its unique storyline. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humans no longer exist and humanoid animals are the dominant species. These animals are fascinated by human creations such as robots, guided cars, and artificial systems.
The anime gained significant popularity due to the story of Grape Kun, a penguin who was intrigued by human creations, particularly the Lulu penguin billboard. Despite being a children's anime, Kemono Friends has a distinctive quality that incorporates elements of Steins Gate, making it an excellent choice for adults.
In summary, Kemono Friends is a genius trap for viewers. It may appear to be a children's genre, but it is actually designed to cater to adults as well.
Read at the sourceEiraChan
If you don’t want spoilers then don’t read this review but know that if you’re not sure about this show or didn’t like the first few episodes, you have to give it another chance. Kemono Friends is amazingly unique and I love it.
*contains spoilers*
Expectations:
When Kemono Friends first started airing I originally dismissed it completely, a shitty CG show based off a failed mobile game, how could it be any good. And in a season full of lacklustre anime based off mobile games? No thanks. So I didn’t think about it much and just didn’t watch it.
But then it got very, very popular! While it was airing a friend of mine kept telling me about it and I kept seeing Japanese meme videos about it. So I noticed that many people were watching it and loving it. However the only good thing I heard a…
Read at the sourceTenshouYoku
Let me get this straight, Kemono Friends is painfully bad in quality, the storyboard is also painfully simple and predictable because of its "For children" nature.
Why does such a sloppily-made CGI anime it suddenly exploded in Japan, then?
1. Animal Girls (known as Friends).
First off, Japanese really loves turning all sorts of stuff into girls (Gijinka), as just loved watching them as much. Ranging from young, cute girls (such as the Sand Cat, Otter), to teen girls (such as the protagonist Serval, her Manga exclusive friend Caracal, the two foxes), and older, stronger figures (the Grey Wolf, Lion, Moose). Especially dog/cat girls, the Japanese absolutely loved this stuff.
This became a strong basis for Kemono friends to start with - I mean come on, some of us are perverts and are ju…
Read at the sourceKoutei_
I found the series to be a difficult-to-explain level of enjoyable/fun, Kemono friends makes a strong view for my most favored anime series ever.
The characters and setting were very endearing, but the thing I think is really important to comment on is the CGI, it's one of the most common criticisms out there that Kemono Friends has bad CGI. However, when I watched it, it was really jarring and bad-feeling for about the first episode, hell, the first couple scenes, after that it subsided and I was pretty much just able to enjoy myself.
The art, (Not the CGI) is very good, combined with the also-tops world building makes me curious about a couple of questions that the first season never answered, in a silly way I'd really like to go live there.
The music is incredible, Namely the OP, my…
Read at the sourceHDTurtle
Kemono Friends, Dora the Explorer of Japan is an easy-going show that the viewer can watch without putting a lot of effort into understanding the story. Just sit back, relax and unwind from all the scary stuff you might had watched from earlier shows.
This show doesn't have a story going for it, you can figure what is going on from the synopsis here on MAL and just watching the first 2-3 episodes, and even then the story isn't anything too ground-breaking. As I said before it is a show that is meant to be relaxing and easy-going.
The background art isn't too bad but the animation and sound quality is below average, the VA aren't doing too great either. Production wise this show would get 4-5 points and that is it. If it is terrible production wise then what else is there for it? I had sa…
Read at the sourceLegendaryRQA
I really wanted to like Kemono Friends. I really did. After all; a show that manages to create a cult following strong enough to rekindle interest in Zoos must be doing something right. Though I have failed to figure out what that is, unfortunately...
At first glance, Kemono Friends looks like a cheaply made Slice of Life show with cute animal girls and little else to its merit; and although the people who coaxed me into watching this show would argue, it's basically exactly that. Kemono Friends has little to set it apart from the run of the mill "cute girls doing cute things" shows we get at least 2 of every season other then its setting, but this time i would argue that the characters aren't even particularly cute...
Aesthetics:
Put simply... The show looks bad... It's done entirely…
Read at the sourceDrewLips
I'll be honest, when i first heard about this Anime, I thought it was a joke, especially with the low budget CGI. But since this show was gaining popularity so quickly, I'd thought i would give it a try too. After watching the first episode I thought...it was okay, better than I expected. After watching episodes 2 and 3 I thought it was getting better. By episode 7....I finally understood.
This Anime is more than just a show aimed towards a younger audience, This is a show that takes you on a whimsical adventure with well designed settings and amazingly well thought out characters. Don't let the clunky slightly awkward 3D animation fool you, this is an Anime in it's own league.
What I love about this anime is it's Story, Setting and Characters. Sure the animation is a bit strange, but…
Read at the sourceNilsou
"Kemono Friends is the Evangelion of our Millenium"
A man with good taste on a random topic
When i read this critical the first time i thank that it was kind of exageration or moron fan reactions. So you can imagine my shock when, when i tried this anime, i understood that this man was absolutly, 100% in the true.
Kemono friends is a complex masterpiece with a truely special scenario that talk about friendship, perversions and discover of life in a way that i had never encounter in my life. After seing this anime you are, truely, a different person.
Of course the animation is one of the badest animation i have ever seen, but it is really forgetable after discovering the other strong points of this masterpiece. The story, the character writing, etc etc ...
I can't say too much withou…
Read at the sourceAcePleiades
This is established within a few minutes of the first episode: Kemono Friends starts as the story of Kaban, a girl lost in a savanna, meeting up with Friends (girls with animal characteristics, such as ears, tails and behavior to some extent), and trying to figure out what kind of species she is (which is obvious to the viewer: Kaban is human).
However, what the story is actually about is the development of Kaban's character as she makes friends in an unknown world. Trying to help Friends and being helped, the meek girl slowly discovers her qualities and starts to believe in herself. This aspect of the story, of self discovery and improvement, is very satisfying to watch. This isn't, however, the only likable aspect of Kemono friends.
I've seen reviewers say that you can only grasp if th…
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Kemono Friends is the My Little Pony of anime. Both franchises exploded in popularity after their shows aired, notably gaining an audience of adults. When My Little Pony was popular, I couldn't understand bronies and what they saw in MLP. Today, I can't understand what people see in Kemono Friends.
The story is ridiculously simple. The main character, Kaban, travels around with Serval to different habitats and meet different friends along the way. The closest thing to an actual plot or goal is that at first the two of them are traveling to a library to learn what kind of animal Kaban is, but this gets figured out before they even go to the library and the discovery adds absolutely nothing to the plot. It rinses and repeats the "meet new friends" junk for every episode with some little thin…
Read at the sourceMaskettaSenpai
Kemono Friends, or "The Importance of Giving A Shit."
How did Kemono Friends, a show that looks like "Nekopara" by way of "Buddy G, My Two Moms And Me" top the sales charts? How did a literal who studio beat out the likes of Trigger and KyoAni?
Because they cared.
Kemono Friends is a testament to the power of earnest effort. This is a children's educational show made on a shoestring budget, probably something in the vicinity of two dimes and some pocket lint, but where lesser teams would be content to throw in the towel and churn out a shitty product ("Who cares, it's for kids!"), this studio gave it their all. The world building on display here, the hints at lore sprinkled through every single episode, and the mystery of this seemingly post-apocalyptic setting, is so impressively pulle…
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I started to watch this series in an ironic manner, to laugh at the unusual, and quite frankly not that good animation as well as the cliche moe girls. But, as it turns out, the joke was on me. Because I'm LITERALLY A 19 YEAR OLD MAN, A NINETEEN YEAR OLD GROWN MAN, A FUCKING NINETEEN YEAR OLD MAN and Kemono Friends made me want to cry, it hit me so hard. The love that blossoms between Bag-chan and Subaru-chan is beyond this world, too pure to exist in this realm. There's no way to describe the wonderful friendships of this Japanese animation. Unlike the real world, everyone is friends here. Even a robotic tour guide shaped like a cat furby and referred to as "b0ss" becomes a loyal friend and buddy for life. You'll never find a furby like this anywhere else. There are often times when Japar…
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It's hard to write about Kemono Friends because it doesn't easily compare to anything else airing in 2017. It wears a proud low-budget aesthetic, and has no sakuga cuts, being a CG-only show - there are plenty of still shots, mistimed or absent lip flaps, reused poses and cycles, and unfinished-looking backgrounds. The studio is an unknown, and so are the voice actors. Despite this it has the trappings of being a major franchise, with a huge cast of characters, a solid adventure/mystery plot, and tasteful application of moe, with the additional wrinkle of plotting that shares some lineage with American cartoons and movies as well as the anime/manga/light-novel sphere - Disney shows such as Gravity Falls or Ducktales come to mind as apt comparisons, or perhaps Spielbergian film such as E.T.…
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Kemono Friends is a show that requires patience. It's maddening how well this show surpassed my expectations, in ways I could never expect.
Kemono Friends takes place on the island of Japari Park, which is subdivided into various areas based on geographic features such as the Savannah and Jungle for example. Our main characters Kaban-chan (a human to us, but a mysterious creature to the animals of Japari Park) and Serval-chan (a humanoid serval) travel through Japari Park in search of what kind of animal Kaban-chan is. On their journey, they encounter various anthropomorphic representations of animals in their respective habitats.
The anime is episodic in nature, with slice-of-life and comedic elements as well. I've had many memorable laughs throughout the show. It seems to possess its…
Read at the sourcecarrotcub
"The real treasure is the friends made along the way." What is often said as a joke lies at the heart of what makes Kemono Friends so great.
Our heroines, Kaban and Serval are on a simple journey to find out what kind of animal Kaban is and meet other animals or "friends" along the way. We quickly see this story of "girl explores land filled with animal people with her animal companion" become so much more however.
We see Kaban go from having no memories to creating new ones to cherish. Serval finds a new best friend and the friends they meet on their journey are impacted by their small acts of selflessness in a big way. In short, Kemono Friends is about the joy of meeting and forming bonds with other people.
What made me so excited for Kemono Friends each week was seeing the next of ch…
Read at the sourceGoogolplexbyte
Just watched the finale, it made me cry and I'm still crying half an hour later.
This show is clever, in its writing, in the way it strategically employed the scarce resources it had. in the way it uses it's setting to educate, in the way its plot development mirrors the development behind the show, in the way it builds intrigue and spurs discussion with its more subtle elements.
And it all does with a cute simple story and characters that anyone can love.
All this make the show great and promise a great future not just for the series itself but for the series it will inspire.
Read at the sourceFircoal
I have a confession to make. When I watched the first episode of Kemono Friends with my friend we ended up setting the playback speed to 2x to get through the episode.
Mind you this was back at a different time. Before anyone knew that Kemono Friends was going to be good, or be as popular as it was. Actually, it was on the day it came out. Me and my PV and studio ignoring self looked at the summary and I liked it. Kemono Friends was actually one of the shows I looked forward to this season. Before we started my friend said he had a bad feeling about it. I told him not to jinx it, but he did. So I thought...
Kemono Friends is the perfect example of why you shouldn't drop shows. Or at least you should give shows more of a chance. I was close to dropping it myself but I didn't, and I think…
Read at the sourceVirtuaSphere
Question: Should I watch Kemono Friends?
Answer: If you have any interest at all in Kemono Friends, then you should watch the first episode. If you get through the first episode and like it at all, or still have interest in the series, then you should watch the second episode. If you get through the second episode without dropping the series because it looks bad or seems too childish or simplistic, then you will have no trouble watching the whole thing, and let me tell you, the viewer who sticks around for the whole show is in for an absolute treat. Dig in and enjoy.
So, what is Kemono Friends? There are two main answers to this, depending on what you focus on.
Firstly, Kemono Friends is a show made with the idea of being enjoyable for everyone. It is made in a style similar to that of…
Read at the sourceReinhath
You might have heard that Kemono Friends, a CGI full length anime, is the most popular show of the Winter 2017 season in Japan. It took a LONG time for any western anime fans to even notice this show, yet alone take it seriously. But after giving it a fair chance, I truly believe that Kemono Friends is one of the most special and unique anime we have.
First, I'll get a few things out of the way. The animation and art style are lacking in massive ways. I don't think anyone will try to argue with that. The voice acting is also pretty shoddy in a few places. However, there is so much more to Kemono Friends than just that.
The biggest draw of the show is that it has some of the best world-building I have ever seen in anime. Kemono Friends truly understands "show, don't tell." As the series…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
I don't think anyone expected much after the first episode. Indeed, the first episode was a very much dull program, there was some cute stuff in, but not much to justify continuing with the series,
Kemono doesn't really start until you sit through the credits of the second episode, until which the true nature of the show finally starts revealing itself to you. It's slow it's subtle, but it doesn't bog you down with exposition dumps every five minutes (*cough*LittleWitchAcademia*cough*). Which is even moreso impressive considering this was meant to be a low budget collab for a failed mobage that's so bad it makes Kancolle look competent. However, unlike Kancolle, which seems like soulless corporate drivel designed to pander to as many people as possible, there's a real heart to Kemono Frie…
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