Inu To Hasami wa Tsukaiyou Anime Review

Inu To Hasami wa Tsukaiyou
Information:
Other Names: "InuHasa", "Dog and Scissors" & "犬とハサミは使いよう".
Studio: Gonzo
Writer: Toshizo Nemoto
Director: Yukio Takahashi
Music: Akito Matsuda
Type: TV Series, Light Novel Adaptation.
Length: 12 Episodes, 24 min per episode approx. 
Genres: Comedy, Supernatural
Rating: PG - 13
Air Dates: 2nd July 2013 - 17th September 2013.
Alternate Recommendations: "Bakemonogatari" &  "Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji"
(Source: MAL (myanimelist) & Wikipedia)

Synopsis:
A nonsense comical mystery. Harumi Kazuhito is a high school boy who loves books and is a fan of novelist Natsuno Kirihime. One day, he finds Kirihime writing at a cafe, about to be shot by a robber. He protects her from the attack but is killed instead. Through the supernatural power of a book-worm, he is reincarnated as a dachshund dog. Kazuhito (as a dog) writhes in a painful bookless life, when a sadistic woman carrying a pair of scissors offers him help. She is Kirihime herself.
(Source: MAL(myanimelist))

Review:

This was a peculiar show to say the least, it had the basic layout of becoming a funny series, being about a guy who becomes a dog after dying in a murder case who then finds himself adopted. Adopted by sadistic author. Now you’d think this could have gone either really gruesome or become a great comedy about a man struggling to live as a dog. We’ll have I got news for you, it’s neither of this things instead it decides on being a creepy love story, with supernatural themes and boring humour.

First main problem with I found was defiantly the romance, as said before it’s just creepy, on border-line beastiality. The romance takes place between to participates: our main character Kazuhito Harumi, the HighSchool student transported into a dog’s body, he loves books and not much else including the main heroine who is also his favourite author, Kirihime Natsuno the one who falls in love with main character for no reason at all, in which she then proceeds make romantic or sexual advances towards him.  Sound creepy yet? Well what do you think he does in these situations? Your right, absolutely nothing happens (this is a good thing) as he is too dense to notice and as a result is often cut with her scissors which are special for some reason, I’m not really sure.  

Now these violent outbursts are supposed to be central component of the comedy, as its heavily focused on and yeah, it’s funny the first few times but its repeated that much it becomes predictable and boring. What other jokes there are you might ask? Well there’s a girl who believes she should die, there’s a masochistic editor who enjoys being abused by the lead heroine and flat chest jokes, ‘funny’ right?

As far as pacing goes, the plot in broken down into arcs that usually revolve around a mystery that the main duo must solve, while encountering new characters along the way, with some filler episodes in between, fairly normal but occasionally there’s these really Shounen fight scenes that feel like they no place in the show. The characters encountered have fun traits that make them stand out quite well, but these traits are then reused over and over again until it becomes boring, this felt like a waste as if developed these characters could have really turned the show around.

Finally as far as art and animation go it’s fairly average, the usual it’s not good but not bad, which can also be said of the soundtrack including both opening and ending songs, though I found the opening animation fun to watch.
In conclusion this anime isn’t bad as a popcorn flick but otherwise it’s not really worth your time.

Final Scores:
Story/Setting: 6.3
Characters: 6.5
Art/Animation: 5.0
Sound: 5.4

Final Verdict: 5.9/10 (Average)