By all rights, Kemono Friends shouldn’t have worked. It clearly was working on a shoestring budget, was based on a defunct mobile game, and has CG animation that looks like a poor man’s RWBY. But, after a slow first couple of episodes, it really starts to click. Something about the endearing kindness of the Friends contrasted with subtle worldbuilding and dark questions about Japari Park’s past combine into a perfect storm of lighthearted fun and building suspense.
The art, as I mentioned, isn’t great, but it isn’t distractingly bad, and the story and characters more than make up for it. If you can get past the CG and the first episode or two being a bit slow, it’s absolutely worth watching.
By all rights, Kemono Friends shouldn’t have worked. It clearly was working on a shoestring budget, was based on a defunct mobile game, and has CG animation that looks like a poor man’s RWBY. But, after a slow first couple of episodes, it really starts to click. Something about the endearing kindness of the Friends contrasted with subtle worldbuilding and dark questions about Japari Park’s past combine into a perfect storm of lighthearted fun and building suspense.
The art, as I mentioned, isn’t great, but it isn’t distractingly bad, and the story and characters more than make up for it. If you can get past the CG and the first episode or two being a bit slow, it’s absolutely worth watching.