Hello everyone, it's been a while since i did an anime review but fear not i am always watching anime as well as series and shows. It's a pretty good anime season i dare to say, with lots of interesting titles and ofc we have the last season of Attack on Titan!

I won't review that today, but another one called Kemono Jihen which is a hidden gem of this season. I have even read most of the manga, so it may worth your time if you like that type of genre!

Generic Info

Let's start by giving some generic info which i bet nobody reads or pays attention even though they highlight important stuff. Kemono Jihen is a 12 episode action/mystery anime that also falls under the umprella of Shounen and Supernatural genre.

It aired during the Winter (2021) season and to be more exact at january 10 2021. As most anime it has 23min episodes and it's coming from a manga. The studio behind is called Ajia-Do.

Plot

The first episodes starts in a small village in where Kohachi Inugami a detective visits to solve an incident involving rotting and mutilated livestock corpses. The hostess that called him has to sons, one adopted and her own.

Inugami can't help it but liking the adopted boy and he asks for his help to solve the case. Soon they discovered that a Kemono which is something like a demon/monster is responsible for those mutilated corpses.

They kill it but they also realize that the boy called Kabane is a half Kemono. To be more precise he is a half ghoul, half human and actually one of the reason the hostess called Inugami is because he speciases in these "things" and because she wanted him to kill the boy.

Inugami is actually a Kemono himself that's specialises in what else, Kemono cases. He saves Kabane and takes him under his care. Their goal is to find Kabane's parents! Kabane get to know others Kemono kids that Inugami saved Shiki and Akira and later on they become friends.

So basically they are solving Kemono cases, while the kids are trying to grow and understand their powers. Let's not forget that they are still in search for Kabane's familly!

What I Liked and what I Didn't

What i really liked is the plot itself. It's not something that we haven't seen before but it's executing nicely. We get to see the 3 kids grow both in power, learning how to use them but us personalities as well.

They learn what is right and wrong and for what purpose they should be using their powers. They learn what kindnes and friendship is something that none of them knew. It's also interesting to see Kabane's and Shiki's powers as well, we are not used to that kind of powers, at least the "good" guys having them!

The fight scenes are good, it contain blood and some gores scenes as well but i would like to see more and i would also like to see the plot to start getting deeper and darker. As i said i have read a bit of the manga as well and there seems to be more fight scenes i want to see how they will executre it at the anime as well.

If you like that kind of genre then you will also like that kind of anime as well. There is still a mystery behind Kabane's parents and that's something that will hook you more into it!

My Rating

MyAnimeList's Rating 7.54/10