Audience reviews
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chumchummaru
I remember watching this when it first came out (it's been four years already, how time flies), but I gave up because there was no translation, and I've only just returned to it now. It wasn't a phenomenon back then, so I had no reason to return to it, but I figured, why not. For me, it's average, but in every way. It's the kind of story that doesn't try anything new, and from the very first moment, you know it's not going to be anything special. The whole story is full of clichés, and as a result, after a while, it can't move forward, which is also evident in the 50-chapter manga, which is only enough for one season, just right for advertising. I would say that these types of plots are doomed from the start. I've always wondered how such bland manga end when they spiral into a vortex from…
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It's a comedy show with a fair bit of references to different media with comedy with its monster development. But one part of its comedy that leaves a distasteful taste in my mouth is the character Bete Wolf, a monster created with a male body and mind but was forced into a female body by the head of the facility's whims. My problem is that one of the show's primary sources of “comedy” is making fun of Bete Wolf's situation, and they do not understand what norms are for them regarding male or female standards. With that constantly being brought up, it ruins a majority of the anime for me.
Read at the sourceDrMechano
Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department is a series about an evil organization that wants to take over the world - specifically, their branch of scientists who create monsters to fight the heroes! We follow the misadventures of Kuroitsu and the various monsters she creates.
This is such a fun premise, and for the most part, the show delivers on this potential spectacularly. The evil organization Agastia is set up like a typical company - with executives, financial oversight, shell companies, etc. While world domination is their ultimate goal, it's clear that the day-to-day of running a business is also a major part of their operations. This alone provides a ton of fun stories and is rife with great comedy.
The characters are really fun. Kuroitsu herself is smart and focused…
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I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who had no idea this series had anything to do with super sentai, tokusatsu, Kamen Rider, or local heroes. Hell I didn’t even know what any of that was until after finishing the show. So I ended up learning something from a show I thought I could otherwise turn my brain off while watching. And with that said, you don’t even need to know any of that stuff either to enjoy this show. Would it help further your enjoyment? Yeah sure, especially with the last episode and all the narrators/cameos for each episode, but not necessary in the slightest. In short this show pays tribute, homage, and respect to shows of the tokusatsu genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed at children. Super Sentai airs alongsid…
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Kaijin Kaihatsu is a good show. It is solid in all respects with above average animation and a fun plot. Overall this is a slice of life seinen comedy with workplace and super hero humor. It seems they included a lot of existing Super Sentai/Power Rangers heroes into the series which I found to be quite endearing. Kaijin Kaihatsu focuses on the villains however, and it does a great job in doing so. To be more precise it focuses on developing all the strange monsters normally featured in Super Sentai type shows. It also includes power ups, giant robots, all the usual Japanese Super Hero stuff. It is a great series to watch and fun to see the villain side and efforts put in to create their "evil" monsters.
The workplace humor is quite great and had many amusing moments. The titular charact…
Read at the sourceLimey_Lassen
Kuroitsu the monster designer has a creative philosophy: monsters shouldn't be designed for a single purpose, but should the flexibility to take on many roles and be themselves. This feels like a manifesto by the creative staff of the anime, because it seems to completely defy genre, target audience, and industry common sense. It's a total Frankenstein of a TV show and yet for some reason it just works. The show is both an advertisement for IRL prefectural sentai mascots and a satire of Japanese work culture. It's a slapstick comedy and a conventional adventure story, with occasional rather dark and cynical character writing but a lot of heart as well.
Most episodes are fairly unique, with some being totally stand alone stories, like the episode where one of the monsters wants to be a pop…
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SPOILERS AHEAD
I'm a sucker for cute girls, this literally has them as both the main characters and the side characters.
Story isn't anything to write home about, it's a flavor of the week episodic thing with 2-3 tie-ins from last episode.
The show is driven by character interactions, comedy and references. If you don't like those, you're not gonna like this show. I love those, so I like this show a lot.
Art is subpar, yes, but it gets the job done, and even if this show had Fate Zero style fight scenes, the shounen watchers would complain that this show doesn't take itself seriously, that the plot is nonexistent, the jokes are occasionally cliche, and the character design is predictably boring.
The show is _actually_ funny if you like watching Kamen Rider without context clips on yo…
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Kaijin Kaihatsu at first may seem like a show that's gonna be super epic! Epic may be one of the last words to describe this show, and I don't mean that in a bad way. The monsters in the show are often designed with a mix between a cute moe feel, practicality and personality. A lot of the premise of the show is about how all the monsters from the main organisation are made to be able to do things beyond their primary goal of defeating the hero. So a lot of the stories become more about the monsters themselves then anything about defeating the hero. It's a very enjoyable cute rather slice of life anime. The characters have incredibly cute designs, one of the monsters even becomes an idol in the show. This show very much can bring a refreshing taste to viewers as it has it's own charm.
Kai…
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Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san has a really fun and interesting premise. A comedy based on the classic evil organization vs hero trope. No, this isn't one of those anime where the MC is OP and decides to join the evil organization to get revenge on the hero party, nor is it the type of anime where the MC decides to introduce technology from their home world to get an edge on their competitors. This is a show that focuses on the worldbuilding and slice of life of a "realistically" depicted evil organization that fights against heroes in conquest for "world domination."
I say "realistically," but the show obviously is still comedically focused, but the worldbuilding does show its charm and is the reason I stuck out with it all the way to the end. How does monster development logistically…
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A pretty good Tokusatsu-themed parody Anime. Most of the theme-specific comedy bits hit quite well. I wouldn't say it's very funny as I don't remember laughing out loud once but, there are a lot of brilliant comical Tokusatsu genre references. My only nitpick is that at some point, they started loosening the concept and started doing some basic work-life bits instead of villain organization work-related bits. But overall, this is a good Parody Anime entry. I'd watch the 2nd season if there'll be one. Hopefully, with more comical situations involving Super Sentai characters.
STORY (5/10):
The story didn't really have any worth-it payoff, even for comedy Anime standards. The Agastia's Monster Development Division's main purpose is to make monsters, which they did make a lot earlier on. But…
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Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san (2022)
This was a lot more fun of a show than I expected it to be, especially with the final episode which was a right fun episode.
The story is a simple day in the life of _____ sort of show. It is a fun time too.
The art is good and basic for the sort of show it is. If it was too crazy in detail it wouldn't suit this sort of show.
Whilst the sound lacks oomph it is fine but then also lacking. The sounds generally are pretty fun.
The characters are just wild and unexpected which makes for a great time.
Honestly, the show is good nothing more. It feels like if it was in the 1990s/2000s it would be a serious show but here in 2022 it is not and that makes it so much better.
7/10.
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If you know a little about the japanese way of working, or you were a fan of sentai series (like power-rangers) , this is a series not to be missed.
Although the theme and characters are not new concepts and fall into the typical tropes of series of this style, the series manages to give each one a fun "twist" that adds to the plot, which is not often seen in series like this.
And although the animation and audio quailty are quite poor, the anime makes up for it in plot and humor; it is a pity that this series is overlooked, when it is a gem, especially the final chapter.
Read at the sourceXanWasting
It's a very niche show.
If you weren't indoctrinated in childhood to enjoy tokusatsu shows, you'll just be tilting your head all the time.
There is no character development, no character exposition, this show revels in "This Week's Villain Monster" approach, just swapping old stuff with new stuff, showing new and new characters to never mention them again (until, obviously, the last epic confrontation where everybody joins hands in friendship and overcome a crushing adversity).
One thing of note, people might praise it for the novel approach to the genre: the story is told from the perspective of the evil organisation that is getting trashed every week by the hero. And the main character is actually a man gender-bend into a cute wolf-girl; Well let me tell you those praisers are full of s…
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The most ambitious and cleverly written series of the season with unique humor came from the dark corner of the 2022 Spring anime season. Nobody around me watched Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department, and the discussions were low and barely had. Right from the start I felt this was going to be my personal anime of the season and I was right for once.
Uniquely, the story revolves around the villains rather than the heroes. Agastia is a secret evil organization that specializes in creating monsters to take over the world. Because of the harsh and rather ridiculous corporate politics taking place behind the scenes, the monsters they create are often laughable and defective. Trying to make this realistic in a series is clever in that it becomes comically absurd. Even though t…
Read at the sourceAlexPaulLEWZ
Watching many anime over the years, I have come to the conclusion that there are two types of hidden gems. One type are hidden gems that should remain hidden for people to dig up and come across their value themselves. The other hidden gems need to be exposed so that everyone knows and appreciates them as much as possible. In my opinion, Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san, or in English, Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department, belongs to the latter. It is clearly one of the most, if not the most underrated anime this Winter 2022 season.
So the story is about Touka Kuroitsu, a monster development researcher for the evil organization Agastia. Alongside her senpai Hajime, she, well, develops monsters to fight against "heroes," and in Kuroitsu's case, she fights against Blader.…
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Despite not being a regular watcher of most normal tokusatsu shows, I somehow found that a lot of my favorites anime ended up being heavily based on tokusatsu. Things like Ore Twintail or Samumenco, or even Sentouin Hasshin Shimasu. For some reason, tokusatsu anime works really well when paired with another genre, and in the case of Kuroitsu-san, that other genre is a work comedy.
I hadn't even known such a manga existed before this, but I have been a big fan of the author ever since his doujin days as Suichuu Hanabi, even buying some doujins personally from him at Comiket, and I'm happy to report that Kuroitsu-san is very much evocative of his style of work, his style of comedy that I have been in love with since many years ago. This show has made me feel a sense of nostalgia that is ver…
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I love this show, it comes in my top 5 of the season! but the problem is this may not appeal much to the younger crowd, that is the only reason I think this is rated so low.
Power Rangers, Gojira, samurai Kenshin's, old jap superhero shows if you loved any of these, this show is gonna be a great nostalgia trip. But that s not all of It,
It does the fanservice the right way, the nostalgia trip is great and also has a mildly cohesive story on work-life culture and a good Workplace comedy.
plot(7/10)
The plot is mostly CGDCT, beach episodes, fanservice amusement parks occasional adventure rides with the cast but, mainly on Workplace interaction which are just special episodes on the pretext of the workplace.
characters (8/10)
The characters are best left experienced by oneself hence I won'…
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Tokusatsu anime are in general a pretty rare thing, and as a somewhat casual fan of the medium this caught my interest. Add on to that a show that actually shows the perspective of the typical evil group of monsters found in toku shows with a female mc from a comedic perspective? Conceptually it’s brilliant, but execution of it is…actually pretty decently good and surprised me in a few ways. Whether you’re a comedy or toku fan, there’s a pretty enjoyable show here.
The story is relatively simple enough. Kuriotsu is a researcher in the monster development department at the secret, evil corporation of Agastia. It’s her job along with the main head of the department Shinya to create various monsters to tackle our hero of the story, Blader. Of course being a comedy, the story leans heavily in…
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I will always encourage people to watch as much anime as they can from each season. You don’t necessarily have to sit down and watch all of it, but you might find a hidden gem. A show that flies under the radar that you may not have considered watching. This is more important than ever this season because with the amount of shows you look at once and then never touch again, you may have not given this one a chance. Well I’m going to tell you why you should give this one a check.
Sit back, relax and work on your awesome Tokusatsu intro as I present to you the anime review for Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department. Let’s begin.
Story: 8.5/10
“As long as good exists in this world, so, too, shall evil thrive. But behind this eternal clash of good and evil, there is anothe…
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