Anime: Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru Original

Nekojiru is about a family of personified cats, focusing primarily on the older sister and her baby brother, as they interact with humans and other talking animals. The duo is selfish and cruel, beating up anyone who gets in the way of their fun.

As a result, these episodes often feature brutal mutilation and death, especially when the much-maligned pigs are involved. At first, this type of bloody gag comedy is fresh and funny, especially considering the cute and childish animation aesthetic.

However, very quickly, the humor starts to feel over-used, boring, and worst of all, predictable.

The first two times pigs get killed, it's funny, but by the twelfth time, the audience is sick of it.

It's almost like the creators had two really funny ideas, and then decided to use each one multiple ones, because they had nothing else. A one-dimensional joke can only work so many times.

It should also be noted that Nekojiro is 27 1-minute shorts. There's no music, and the simplistic art is precisely what appears on the database page. Those categories don't apply or affect the series in the slightest.

Hence, overall, Nekojiru is one of the weaker brutal humor shows I've seen. If you want a black comedy with more variety, funnier jokes, and far more violence, check out "Metalocalypse".

This series is definately not for everyone, not even people who enjoyed the movie. While the movie was surreal and symbolic, the series is nothing but the two bratty cats getting into trouble and wrecking things/hurting people.

A spare or super-stylized style of animation does not make a series "cheap" or "bad", and it puzzles me when people scoff at everything that's not up to the standards of Ghibli Studio or what have you. I personally think the animation is funny, interesting, and well suited to the "cute violence" tone of the anime. Music is minimal and unlike the movie, we have extensive character dialogue. Each short episode is graphic and fuuny, but also manages to make scathing comments on society in the process.

A twisted sense of humor is definately required to enjoy this series.

Nekojiru Gekijou tells various short stories from the lives of Nyako and her brother, Nyatta.

The drawings and the overall art are very simplicistic, to put it nicely. It's comparable with the level of craftsmannship that was put into Ebichu.
The characters are drawn without details and the movement is choppy. It usually doesn't matter to me when I like the other aspects of the anime like characters or story, but in this series, there are no other redeeming aspects.

There is no background music or sound effects other than the occasional *bump* or *scratch* sound, so no points for this anime in that aspect either.

Every episode is only 1 minute and each episode is unrelated to the next. Hence, there is no such thing as a story. It's more like a "slice of life" anime, only that the life of Nyako only consists of killing or humiliating others. Nyako and her brother are total assholes that will beat the crap out of people if they don't act like they want. A running gag in the series is the death of Butaro, a pig that tries to become friends with the 2 cats. He gets hung, burnt, drown and run over by a truck and probably dies in some more ways I forgot.
Now, while I can appreciate senseless violence against animals in anime (like in Ebichu), it gets rather tiresome if that's the only story element. And unfortunately, it here is. Every episode is following the same story pattern that usually ends with the 2 siblings beating somebody to death.
Or setting innocent people up so that they get blamed for things Nyako and Nyatta did.

There is obviously no value to this anime, unless you want to learn how to not act in society. The entertainment value for the first episode is acceptable, as the episodes are drenched in dark humor. Due to the repetitive nature of the episodes, the entertainment factor vanishes rapidly though. While I watched all episodes, the series would've been fine with half the eps. Or maybe you need to see them only once a week, like it was broadcasted on TV.

I'd recommend this to ages 14+, due to the graphic violence and the overall theme.
A few eps are worth watching if you have a twisted sense of humor, else stay away from this.