This is a wacky comedy where colorful anime girls shoot each other with airsoft guns. That might seem like a harmless premise, but this show is playing through the girls' collective imagination, and in their imagination, they're shooting REAL bullets and spewing REAL blood. SO MUCH BLOOD. Curiously, this show is aimed at a young female demographic, though I doubt many anime watching guys will feel embarrassed watching the silly gunslinging action.
There's no story arc to keep track of, here. Most of the episodes are divided up into three segments that are typically not related to each other. Yet, the pacing doesn't feel too fast or sporadic. All the activity here is centered around the Survival Game Club. It's a school club that specializes in 'last man standing' shootouts that can happen in places such as snowy mountains, or on moving vehicles! The show isn't all guns either. There are plenty of extra scenes, like when a handful of the characters get stuck in their school's haunted pool room and they have to figure out how not to freeze to death.
Momoka makes for a fun main character. Despite accidentally tripping her way into the club, she goes to extreme lengths to try and survive, including tricking her friends and using them as shields or bait. Not to forget how she will mercilessly shoot anyone she feels the need to, and with untouchable aim! Miou is the coolheaded leader of the Survival club, who is admired by the many girls of her school, including Momoka. Urara, another club member, is a masochist who grows fond of the main character's violence and dismissive attitude towards her. Maya is a model who seems to be the most normal of the group but happens to get in situations like being hunted by her perverted fans. Lastly, there's Kayo, the otaku who specializes in cosplay. Or in other words, she can make costumes for other characters. And, of course, I can't forget the platypus who follows them around.
I admire the show's comedy style because it's always trying to do something different. There are a handful of repeating gags, such as the narrator stepping in and informing us that none of the bloody violence is actually happening (this gag thankfully goes away by the end of the show). For the most part though, the show is trying out many different things, which is why there are so many odd screenshots of this show floating around. For example, a granny manning a machine gun, or a man handing off machine pistols to a crab. It might be dumb and 'random', but I find a lot of it funny! And to the show's credit, there's a handful of clever or smart moments in the show. There's even a small segment in one of the episodes where they show you the basics of how to acquire a hunting license.
This is one of my favorite anime I've seen in this absurdist style so far. I highly recommend this to any 'silly comedy' enthusiast.
