Whelp, I was surprised to see this was a full length anime, not some half or even 3 minute deal as I assumed it would be.
The animation is absolutely atrocious, but I found myself getting used to it after a while.
Been a while since I watched a MMD style anime like this (or whatever the hell was used to animate this) so isn't my first rodeo, and as such it wasn't a deal breaker for me. To an extent I agree, many of the characters are cute, but some have pretty retarded looking designs that seem like they were half assed and/or created by someone who was drunk. Blatant budget/quality issues aside, it's not without it's charm. It's hard to nail down the appeal, but I suppose you could say it's very quaint.
Also, the grade of Japanese used in this is so simplistic combined with such a simple premise that subs are really unnecessary.
I also kinda like the idea of exploring how humans relate to other animals in the wild and how they would naturally function in the ecosystem without technology. Growing up I'd always see animals with sharp claws, incredible speeds, camouflage, toxins and all sorts of special traits, and it would make me wonder what nature gave humans in that respect. we're slow, weak, and have no natural weapons after all. For the longest time I was convinced it was our intelligence and ingenuity that was what made us special, then I saw the transformers movies and tossed that idea out the window. Kidding aside it was nice to see them touch on that, and demonstrate the issues with energy conservation and efficient heat distribution that would allow prehistoric man to chase down prey that would literately get tired of running from their hunters and collapse, allowing humans to walk right up to them for the kill.

Oh and OP, Maeve asked me to tell you to commit suicide. (?)

I see the art director from Tesagure! Bukatsumono (TATSUKI) is credited as the director for this, neato!

I wouldn't have guessed however that Serval's VA was a complete noob with only one previous credit. They're not half bad at all.
What's also surprising is Kaban(bag)'s VA being Uchida, Aya (Minami, Kotori), They've done a few low budget works before but still...

>>28023
>Oh and OP, Maeve asked me to tell you to commit suicide. (?)

Thanks, friend.

So what's the demographic for this anyway? Felt like something made for kids while watching it, but at the same time I can't picture something this low quality airing on early morning broadcast TV.

These segments are so bizarre. Did they secretly record audio from the guides at their local zoo exhibits for these? The audio quality is horrible and it's so muffled.
If so I'd be concerned about possible copyright issues.

This show in a nutshell.

Looks like they have the same problem the last season of Tesagure! Bukatsumono had. They used the same thickness for outlines on characters regardless of distance, which leaves characters in the distance with really think outlines.

...what the fuck?

>>28084
Serval has been hitting the gym.

>>28084
When they started building the bridge I expected them to pull the car across it, or float the car on a raft. Last thing I expected was for them to grab the car and skip across the river with it after all the trouble they had with it before with it being so heavy.

My favorite kemono so far, her screaming voice is funny.

The design of this thing seems horribly horribly unsafe. Besides, if they're getting that tired peddling downhill, what's uphill like?

I want a bus like that!

Episode 6 was my favorite so far. All of the episodes are cute but this one felt so fun, I guess because there were "battles" but nobody was ever really hurt and that makes me happy. I also really like Lion-san's serious voice, she sounds so stern but pretty too.

jiiiiiiiii~

I was starting to think they'd never reach that library.

This seems like a pretty big detail to just gloss over so casually.

I don't think I've ever seen such horribly animated awkward and stiff dancing before. Kind of ironic considering this show looks like it was made using Miku Miku Dance.

The owls are too cute, even if they were kind of assholes.

>>28070
More like this is the show in a nutshell.

Dat ass

It's over.. for now. Here's hoping they made another season.
I'm more than a bit confused by that ending though. Could someone kindly explain to me Why serval was crying when she saw that other serval? Was that her with mirai before getting eaten by a cerelian and having their memories erased, then being reincarnated again latter?
Where exactly did Kaban come from? Is she like a clone of Mirai or something?
What happend to mirai anyway? Did she die or gtfo off the island?
What was... everything about the volcano?
I'm so confused.

I somehow missed ep5, and it ended up being my favorite ep!

>>28229
None of the questions you asked can be explained with a considerable amount of assumptions, which are impossible to know if right. Best we can do is wait for the BD extras or anything additional that gives some insight.

It's possible all these mysteries were kept under wraps on purpose for a future season.

>>28238
I hope we get another season. The animation wasn't the best but the show was fun.

Man, the bus looks so much better designed in the anime than the game it was based on.

Everyone should give this anime the three ep treatment.

>>28084
Yeah no kidding.

>>28229
>it's over
;_;

Hey guys, Who's your favorite kemono friend?

>>28255

Kaban, she's nice to everyone and she's smart too. She's cowardly a lot but she can be brave and she is very cute.

After Kaban it would be Tsuchinoko, Crested Ibis, Alpaca, Raccoon, American Beaver, Lion, Margay, and Ant Eater.

I feel like putting Mirai on the list too because she seems like a great person but she doesn't seem to show up all that much at all, only for bits and pieces in the last few episodes but she still manages to be characterized well.

Humans are also a part of the animal kingdom therefore I can put Kaban at the top of the list as a kemono friend.

>>28253
Who would win in a fight: Serval or Superman?

>>28261
There's no way superman could willingly hurt someone so cute and innocent and friendly. Where as Serval can kill superman with moe. It would be death by HNNNGGGG.

Can you imagine how hard it must have been for Serval to set that plane on fire at the end?

>>28266
That's the exact thing that when through my head. But also how frightening to set it on fire.

So I think it's kind of implied that mirai and their Serval died right?
so.. would that mean it's a metaphor for the death of the game this anime was based on?

I kept wondering why the front of the bus and the back were on opposite ends of a river.
I guess it would make sense if mirai or someone else ditched the back while running from the black cerulean. Then drove across the safety of the river and destroyed the bridge in the process, trapping it there in that area.

>>28270
I think it's very implied, specially once you watch the whole series a second time and notice the clues, specially Tsuchinoko's (e.g. "I see she wasn't annihilated" or something like that), Mirai's Serval having a different voice actress, Caracal being nowhere to be found, etc. Additionally, the game enthusiasts confirmed Mirai is the "Park Guide" in the game; what that entails, I don't know.
>>28271
I think your assumption is correct. We do know thanks to Tsuchinoko and the Owls that the Cerulean Prime battle took place somewhere around the former lives / lived (i.e. "The Ruins").

>>28274
If Mirai got across the bridge and escaped the black cerulean, how did they kick the bucket?

>>28275
Maybe the Cerulean Prime crossed the bridge as well and that's what made it collapse? Who knows.

>>28276
Wouldn't it have turned into lava then?

....What's in Kaban's kaban anyway?

>>28281
Serval's heart

I love how there's so much fan made content that just keeps coming and coming.

>>28277
I meant the bridge collapsed after the fellow crossed.

>>28283
It's unstoppable really, already on its second convention, the Japariket:
http://ketto.com/jp/jp2circle.htm
Makes me wonder if this will reach pre 2000s Touhou levels. Also found this jewel, pic related.

Also getting a lot of doujin games:
https://twitter.com/SakamotoRyuu/status/850477680336056320

For all your news needs:
http://kemono-friendsch.com/archives/6363
Upcoming events in Japan:
>4/2 ジャパリパークで大騒ぎ！（大田区産業プラザPiO）
>4/9 ジャパリケット（大田区産業プラザPiO）
>5/5 フレンズチホー（都立産業貿易センター）
>5/14 ジャパリケット2（大田区産業プラザPiO）
>5/21 ジャパリフェスタ（大田区産業プラザPiO）
>5/28 ジャパリパークで大騒ぎ！2（東京ビッグサイト）
>7/16 ジャパリケット3（不明）

Some edge lord kid made a really fucked up side scrolling platformer based on this series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvXM8oMzSqI

I want one...

This show makes me want to kill myself so I can die happy.

Trigger warning.

>>28348
pretty much what I expected that to be lol.

"I'm helping"

Find your favourite animal.

>>28399
Friend*

>>28399
I don't see it.

I started watching this a couple of days ago. It only took one episode for me to like it.

I love the designs of the Friends. No wonder this has gotten the popularity that it has since it's very interesting. I really want to see what Kaban and Serval are going to do.

It's just too cute!

>>28401
I meant that you should think of your favourite animal and then try finding who you think it's the corresponding friend.

>>28399
The chances of there being a Scrub Turkey or a Torresian Crow are astronomically low, so I'll settle for the one that is probably a Carrion Crow since they're common in Japan. Left of the Japari Park sign there are three friends, I think the furthest left is the crow. Could be wrong though.

One that is almost certain, and is probably my next favourite animal is the Peregrine Falcon, seen in the race near the water agains presumably a cheetah.

Guys, this is really bothering me

Why were Kaban's hands black after resurrecting in the last episode?

>>28429
I was wondering about that too. My best guess is when shit got real the gloves came off and she got her hands dirty. The creators possibly had trouble illustrating this.
That or maybe there was an issue with the character model. possibly something got screw up with it or they were using an old version that had no gloves for one reason or another, so they colored some on thinking it wouldn't be noticeable?

I was expecting to see a lot more of this sort of thing...

>>28429
Her gloves were regenerating. Watch it again and you'll notice the same happens to her thigh socks. The effect is fully intended and is not a continuity nor animation error.

Kaba (Hippo) is cute!

>>28441
They ALL are! All of the girls are so, so cute! <3

>>28399
Looking for the 'female' peacock

Ocean animal Friends next?

>>28534
Unless they have a means of traveling underwater, I feel like that would get boring pretty quickly. Even then the variety in landscape was one of the things I felt keep Kemono Friends interesting every week. Keeping everything water themed would be tiresome after three or four ep. I don't think they have many water themed friends anyway from what I've seen.

>>28534
>>28558
They're sailing at the end of season one, so they could totally work in some salt water Friends and move on to something else before it gets stale. I'd personally love to see an octopus. I bet she'd be cute!

Japari OS loading scene. Haha

Hello from KANGAROO in Australia

>>28581
neato

>>28581
I really like that KF can make cute friends even out of overgrown vermin like kangaroos.

>>28586
Vermin? really?

>>28589
I grew up in the country during a really dry period. There was not a lot of grass to go around and the roos would eat all of it. Plus they make getting anywhere once the sun starts to go down close to suicidal. If you didn't grow up with them being a pain in the arse then it's very understandable why you might like them. Most wouldn't consider them vermin, it's really a rural thing.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't go out of my way to get rid of them like I would the rabbits which are a genuine pest. It's just that I'm not hugely fond of them either.

>>28590
Interesting. I always thought of them as being uncommon animals that humans wouldn't often interact with.

TOKI is my favourite bird Friend.

>>28616
Kangaroos are far less common than wallabies, and the big roos that everybody thinks about (and in that picture) are Red Kangaroos which are very uncommon for 90% of the population, though if you go into their areas, there are a lot of them. Eastern Grey Kangaroos live all over the eastern half of the country which is the most densely populated part. Only deep in the city would you not see any, and even then the highway about 20 minutes out of the capital city has a lot of roadkill.

>>28661
I think I'd be really sad to see dead kangaroo on the side of the road.

Phoenix Friend
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/05/06-1/sugoi-you-must-have-photographed-kemono-friends-collaboration-with-god-of-mangas-phoenix

That's a damn good looking custom fig.
And considering what the original fig was, nothing of value was lost! (Materia sucks imo)

http://senpaigamer.com/bushiroad-announced-the-new-kemono-friends-game-which-will-be-available-from-this-summer-24042017

I'd be pretty stoked with a Harvest Moon clone with friends grafted onto it. That would be stupidly comfy to play.

KADOKAWA kills Kemono Friends

One year ago, 29th March 2017, the last episode of Kemono Friends aired. I'll celebrate in a low key by posting the long overdue "Oozora Dreamer".

>>418
Feels like it was just a couple months ago. Time sure flies.

>>418
There will be a new album for PPP released at April 25th.

>>426
And there it is already
https://mega.nz/#!FoQEXQKB!gOIPpKF8XDeCHYU_RHHXwufulFhW3TepefSS4pMX7bE DDL just for you