Introduction
Tanis, a child genius, is the youngest son of two mad scientists. His family has spent their lives withdrawn from normal society living on an isolated island, where the couple conducts experiments on Tanis' siblings that result in them gaining abnormal abilities. However, this activity is put to a stop when they are caught and arrested.
Tanis is brought by government officials to a more populated island, alongside his four siblings: Snow, a dog-human hybrid; Ashise, a plant-human hybrid; Aisley, a spider-human hybrid; and Suishi, a mind-reader. Being the only one who has not been genetically modified, Tanis takes on the responsibility of adapting his siblings to society, all while trying to conceal their' distinctive characteristics.
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Audience reviews
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AeroGunz
“Frankenstein Family” is what happens when a solid idea is given the most blue balls, satisfying and down right insulting ending to a season.
I’m gonna be honest, I did not expect to like this anime that much, but it surprised me. It actually had a story, something that is lacking in most modern anime. Not a very complicated or original story but a story nonetheless. Secondly, the plot of most episodes actually served the story to create something coherent and with internal logic. Again, not a very good one but still.
Before we start I would like to explain something. I will be talking about “plot” and “story”. Many people use those terms interchangeably. I’m not one of those people, so to make sure everyone is on the same page…
I use the definitions for “plot” and “story” as Lisa Cron…
Read at the sourceNerdodivergent
Okay so if you're like me and watched this on Crunchyroll I can understand why you may not like this show. The beginning had a recap that lasted like 15 minutes, and at the end they would have like a whole segment with real live people that I couldn't figure out what or why?
But that is a shame because I think this show is great. The premise is great, a nice mix of slice of life and sci fi. All the characters are fantastic, a wide range of personalities that have a nice dynamic with each other (Snow is my son who has my entire heart and the foster dad is in fact the man who stepped up which is why he is the best). It's a pretty short watch and it ends with loose ends, but I really enjoyed it. Hopefully you will too!
Read at the sourceBookloner
Story: 8. I thought the premise was intriguing. A slice of life dealing with experiments trying to live on their own with the humans. Definitely had potential. I wish they did more with it but I did like seeing what they'd get into each episode so it wasn't that bad. The ending felt so mean spirited. So depressiong
Art: 7. It definitely was pretty. Not anything spectacular but I did enjoy looking at it and it definitely was eye catching.
Sound: 8. I love the outro and intro and I felt the soundtrack fit well into the story. I didn't skip the outro or intro song so that's always a good sign.
Characters: 6. They were okay. I did like how in each episode, at least towards the end, it focused on them in relation to the world and their little glimpses of the past. But like the story I wish…
Read at the sourcerobert788
Shiyan Pin Jiating (2018)
A few versions exist, the actual show is 15 minutes an episode or so but some are full length if it has the voice actors having a sideshow too.
The show has probably the worst cliff hanger ending I have ever seen in a show period.
The story is essentially, neglect, abuse, trauma, a bit of PTSD and finding themselves with no resolution to anything. Also, the Sumire girl is definitely going to be leaning forwards with an NTR in her future, some deep dark stuff going on there. The story is very unfinished and rushed if it had been full length perhaps it could have been okay.
The art is pretty nice and a good standard although nothing special.
The OP and ED are both nice, generally, sounds are nice and the voice actors have a legend for if you have seen Inou-…
Read at the sourceblessedsage99
To be honest, the premise is very charming and even cute in my opinion! In fact, it was obviously the whole reason I wanted to check it out because I thought it would be in fact, very cute. And it was! ... Until episode 8. But no spoilers, let's get to the review yes?
Story - 5/10
Now if I was only rating the first half of the story? It would easily be a 8 or 9 out of 10. It essentially features the daily slice of lives of this dysfunctional family, how hard it is to adjust as being literal result of science projects and cute family bonding. I absolutely loved the premise and how they pull it off, it has some problems or clichés (like the obvious shoved in crush character for the main char, etc etc), but they're very easy to ignore for the pure fluff and sweetness of it.
It goes downhill…
Read at the sourcelastfight5
Ok, this review is long overdue, but screw it.
Shiyan Pin Jiating is a pretty enjoyable slice of life donghua. While I do find the art to be pretty good, the sound is good as well and the characters are very likeable, the major sticking point was the story in each of the episodes.
Art: The art style is pretty good and it does give an impression that it's an animated version of a real life place being filmed in. The animation is also alright as well and given that it might be a small production donghua, unlike bigger productions like it's fellow donghuas 'King's Avatar' and 'Mo Dao Zhu Shi' and the Japanese SOL counterparts like 'Wotaku' and 'Tada-kun', it's impressive.
Sound: The OP is great actually. The song is good to hear and actually describes the donghua as a whole. For sound effe…
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There are a number of reviews already here, but I thought I'd contribute anyway. Shiyan Pin Jiating (or Creature Family Days, or, even weirder, Frankenstein Family) is a slice of life anime that, thanks to limited budget and an inexperienced staff, comes out completely average. Now, most of the time, being disadvantaged like this usually results in a bad anime; however, the plot and characters of Creature Family Days is what saves the show (to an extent).
Firstly, the story. The story follows a simple plotline - monster children attempt to live life on a nearby island and learn about human culture without being found out. It's not a highschool anime, and I've seen some people salty about that but really? We don't need more highschool stories, and I'm glad they let the characters explore t…
Read at the sourceInosenso
Frankenstein Family is an extremely rare Chinese manga adaptation that focuses on family bonds and maintains that every episode. The short 20 minute episodes successfully trim out harems, convoluted love triangles, confusing plots, and fanservice. The plot itself is slice of life level mediocre, with the monster family's focus frequently shifting in different directions and the child genius main character Tanisu causing those deviations by always being 100% child and 0% genius. I still watched it every week on release day because it reliably showed them facing challenges. The art scrapes the barrel pretty low where instead of making full use of the fact that the characters are monsters living on a Chinese island, it feels like a barely interesting waterside town you can find anywhere. I su…
Read at the sourceKalebBro
Concept: good
Execution: absolutely terrible
The first four episodes are full length and actually pretty good. They get you hooked into a story with what looks to be an overarching plot. Then it takes a complete 180, the episodes drop to 12 minutes or less after intro/recap and the other half of the 23 minutes are live action interviews with the voice actors talking about random stuff. I wouldn't have minded this as much if the story didn't feel like it suffered from it.
The lead up to the climax of the series is based off of characters acting completely contrary to what we have seen thus far and SURPRISE //spoiler warning// they start acting like themselves and everything goes back to normal. Additionally, the loose ends this series leaves is simply startling. Not a single question the…
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The problem with so many normies swarming anime so much lately, is that great anime like these go unrecognized, lately more than in past years. Sucks, doesn't it? The story is touching and deep, the plot is great, which is not something I say often for non Japanese anime. However, the styling of the characters is well performed, the seiyuu work is great. (A little awkward at times, given that this isn't a Japanese anime.) Some smudges on the animation, and timing/tempo. However, putting those aside, and considering the fact that I literally had to take a break from anime because there just weren't good shows that season or the one before) I have to say. I wanted to cry a bit during this anime.
So if you're looking for some cartooney, anime like naruto or something boringly popular like a…
Read at the sourceJaylikeshamsters
Story- 9
art- 8
characters - 10
enjoyment- 8
overall- 8
What can I say? I really got exited for this anime, at first I thought "great another funny slice of life anime". I was really wrong about it. The story is about a boy named Deniss and his 4 siblings who were turned into monsters by their parents. the show shows how they suffer and try to live a normal life as a "human". the backstories are great too, they show how the characters had to cope at aa young age with their "psyhopatic" parents. The ep are quiet short and they left me empty after watching them, the story also doesn't have a "main point" I mean if you refer to (little spoiler) Deniss is trying to change his siblings back to normal then it has, but often times eps are about random stuff. Well it is still a slice of life
th…
Read at the sourceTomatogal
I went into this not sure what to expect. The premise looked interesting so I figured it was worth a watch. This turned out to be one of my favorites of the 2018 spring lineup. It's a shame this flew under the radar. It being a Chinese produced anime that was never picked up by any English licensers/streaming services most certainly contributed to it's obscurity.
This is yet another twist on the "monster girl" genre that seems to be ever growing in popularly. This time the main cast are siblings that all have some sort of experimental modification done to them. All but the youngest sibling, Dennis, which is simply a genius. He is the one that tries to hold the whole family together after their scientist parents are sent to prison. It takes a very human approach of looking at the characte…
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