This was one of the animes that my friends and I decided to watch together, and oh my goodness am I glad we did because A Girl & Her Guard Dog is one of the worst yet funniest animes I've ever seen. Basically, this is a pedophilic love story, between a girl and a guy who's ten years older than her, not the best premise to have. Mix this creepy age gap, with terrible animation and bad characters, makes for a very uncomfortable, not very good anime.

Okay firstly, I have to address the age gap because that's the worst part about this anime. The girl, Isaku is a high schooler, while the over posessive guy, Keiya is twenty-six. This man raised Isaku since she was a child and now there is romance between the two? That's creepy. Secondly, the chemistry between the two isn't good, it feels almost as if they were two people acting out romance instead of actually liking each other. There isn't much communication between the two, Isaku holds most stuff back and Keiya, well, he just does whatever. The two of them don't have a flow to them. It's basically just Keiya having a smirk on his face the whole time while Isaku has a shocked expression. There's not much to it. What made it all worse is how Keiya would say pedophilic, creepy comments to Isaku that were supposed to be deemed as romantic and lovey, but were just flat out creepy.

There are a lot of shoujo animes with a large age gap, but with A Girl & Her Guard Dog, it directly focuses on the age gap which I think is what makes it creepiest. Keiya raised Isaku, along with this, the story takes place in a relatively realistic setting, so it just feels very uncomfy. There could be the argument that this is anime, so it doesn't matter, but to me personally, the age gap is what makes the anime really bad.

There's a scene I have to address, and that's the fact that blonde, weird looking guy tried to do something to Isaku that is very, very bad. And this scene was handled absolutely terribly! After he tries this and thank goodness wasn't able to succeed he was barely punished because Isaku needs him for the play. Are you kidding me? That's absolutely ridiculous! I'd kick that guy right in the groin! But no, this anime acts as if what he tried to do was nothing of a big deal and that the play is more important. The next scene I have to talk about was how Keiya forced himself on Isaku, well at least tried to until she stopped him. That's not love, but they make it seem as if it's oh so romantic. It's creepy and bad of him to do. The point I'm trying to make with bringing up these two scenes is the fact that bad things happen to Isaku, but they're blown off as no big deal or romantic when they really should be something that they should be thrown in jail for.

Now for the animation, to give it credit, there were some good animated parts, such as the opening, but oh my gosh the animation became terrible. It started off with the dead fish eyes, then with the stiff characters with odd looking porportions or facial expressions, and then it became a lot worse. What stands out the most to me was the animation starting episode six, where sometimes the characters would be speaking but not have any mouth movements, and then there was one moment where Isaku was laying on the bed, she turns to her side, her clothing completely changes and then she shifts movement again and her clothing changes once more. That's just one example, there's plenty more. The animation is not good.

The story and characters aren't good, they're very, very bland. Not much happens in the story aside from a bit of progression with Isaku making friends and her and Keiya's relationship. I do like the aspect of Isaku trying to make friends, and how she struggles to do this because of who her grandfather is, and this had potential, but it felt wasted and overtaken by her romance with Keiya. That's honestly about all there is to it. The characters don't have much to them aside from surface-level personalities and Isaku's struggle that doesn't seem to have much emotional depth to it anyway.

There is one fantastic thing about this anime, though, and that's how funny it is. The interactions between characters and animation are so bad that it's funny to watch. It was so much fun watching this anime with friends and laughing together. In that sense it was really enjoyable.

Therefore, I think A Girl & Her Guard Dog, is a really bad anime for many different reasons, as addressed above, but it's also entertaining since it's so bad. I personally think it's fun to laugh at and not take seriously. A lot of this depends on what I'm personally comfortable with though, but even setting aside how I personally feel, I don't think it's a quality anime.

Therefore, would I practice my karate skills on all these characters? Absolutely