Konohana Kitan has the premise to be a decent slice of life, but falls pathetically short. I really wanted to stick with it longer, but this anime is just awful in so many aspects.

Konohana Kitan suffers from some of the worst pacing in anime I've ever seen. The writing feels like a high school student wrote the script for every episode in under a couple hours with a mandatory so-many-hundred word goal. From the very first episode, no effort is put towards building a halfway decent foundation for the rest of the show. The main character becomes attached to other characters absurdly fast, and just makes every interaction onward feel hollow and forced. There's also fanservice FOUR MINUTES INTO THE FIRST EPISODE, those four minutes include the opening theme. Fanservice is fine to an extent, but so soon in the FIRST episode??? Really???

The art is dreadful and lacks any soul. Oh my god, where to start? Backgrounds look like they are public domain art and do not have much detail to them, even if they are focused on heavily in a scene. The animation is literally THE worst I've witnessed in anime yet. So many corners were cut that it really makes this anime feel like it was made in a sweatshop with a strict time limit, and the employees were paid a few cents per frame without any supervisor to approve the frames beforehand. Walking animations are often nonexistent, replaced with torso shots of characters bobbing perfectly vertically up and down. Conversations between characters will sometimes be nothing but extremely zoomed in shots of character's faces, so zoomed in that you can't even see their hair or shoulders. Sometimes characters won't even have ANY animation, and will just be a JPEG sliding around. Sometimes there won't even be a character! You can only do the "hahaha simplified scribble girl" bit so many times every episode until it's obvious you just didn't have the budget to make an anime. Often this is done in the moments it would be most disorienting to the viewer. Eyes and heads rarely track movements, if you're lucky enough to be treated to a scene where a character would have something to track.

The sound is also pretty shit. Bland background music, overly-lengthy and uninteresting opening theme. Nothing really stood out to me besides the music being very lackluster. The audio effects themselves aside from music are just as bad. Moments where characters would obviously have audible footsteps have no footstep sounds whatsoever and it's very disorienting.

I think the creators were heavily restricted by budget and did not have any passion to create something besides "HAHA KAWAII FOX GIRLS AND THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME :)". This is the only anime that's legitimately angered me to watch, as I really expected it to be something halfway decent, but all I got was a waste of ~40 minutes plus the time it took to write this review. It does NOTHING remotely well, and I could never see myself watching this without considering it wasted time I could've spent watching something better.