My Review of "Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary"!
Let’s please protect Kaya she doesn’t deserve this :(
Story
Kaya Satou is a kindergartener at Hanamugi Kindergarten. Because of her family, she is blessed with the ability to see and exterminate spirits that ruin other people's lives. She’s often seen as scary because of the way she presents herself, but she’s just misunderstood. Her teacher, Chie, is able to see this misunderstanding and helps her in her school life. As the story progressed, this involvement of Chie would evolve to her regular life as she learns more and more about Kaya’s family and the problems that go on in their family.
format(webp))The Good
The story of this anime really had me invested. The evolution of the plot was satisfying to watch and every new twist or problem introduced added on to the major conflict of the show. It was well paced and slowly built it up for the more serious sections of the story. Most of the characters were enjoyable too. Kaya is a character worth protecting and Chie’s an amazing and compassionate caretaker for understanding Kaya and knowing that she’s not always the one in the wrong. I was also sort of a fan of the ED. It felt very similar to some songs that I’ve heard before and the visuals as well as the OP having the perspective between seeing spirits and no spirits was cool in my opinion. The animation wasn’t that bad either. I didn’t really see any problems with the visuals and I liked seeing the spirits disintegrate when Kaya threw a single punch at them. Kaya’s the Saitama of spirits- a wholesome but deadly force with a questionable family.
The Bad
I think we need to address the major elephant in the room: Osamu Mobu was so badly presented in this anime. They try to justify his actions by showing his backstory which, for a bit, made sense, but they kept constantly portraying this dude as some weird pervert pedo that keeps taking pictures of children from the shadows, which I just can’t ignore. He even takes photos of Kaya doing cute things just for fun, which would be fine if he was maybe her father or grandpa since it would literally be their child, but this is some rando that stalks Kaya. His mannerisms and the way he talks doesn’t help either. I understand that he’s supposed to be misunderstood, but the point of being misunderstood is that there’s still some sort of redeeming quality about him, but there’s nothing that can really redeem him except the fact that he knows everything about Kaya and her family, which is still very weird since he’s not a family member. Apart from that, I also felt like the ending could’ve been executed better. I heard that the ending for this anime is an original ending that wraps up the story while the manga goes further without the ending and I can kind of tell. I think they could’ve written the ending better in a way that didn’t feel too rushed or unrealistic, but I mean it could’ve been worse.
The Downright Ugly
This story was ugly, but not in terms of quality, so there’s nothing downright ugly in this anime.
Is It Worth The Watch?
If you can get past the pervy man stalking the girl, then you’ll be greeted with a well-written and interesting slice of life horror story that I found worth the watch. Ignoring Mob, all of the characters were enjoyable and seeing Kaya’s plot slowly develop from just some ordinary exterminating spirits in a kindergarten daycare to a whole family conflict about revenge and monsters was certainly something that I liked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my review. I hope this helped you with your decision on whether to watch this anime or not! If you already have watched it, I hope that you can agree with me with some of the points I made. If you enjoyed this review, I would greatly appreciate a follow too! ^^
