Kappa Mikey is decently well known online, for better or worse, but personally I think that it holds up pretty well to this day and deserves a lot more positive recognition. The series begins when Mikey Simon, a self-absorbed and unsuccessful American actor who wins a contest to become the new star of Lilymu, a Japanese anime series. It's a slice of life comedy series that typically follows a day in the life of Mikey and his friends working on Lilymu. Such friends include the sweet Mitsuki, the well-meaning oaf Gonard, and the neurotic Guano.
The humour is very fast-paced, and they hit you with jokes one after another. The animation can be humorous at times with how they poke fun at exaggerated faces in anime, but it doesn't overly rely on that either. I would describe it as one part a parody of anime, and another part a character comedy where a lot of the jokes come from how characters interact. The main five characters, while they argue quite a lot, are still a believable and memorable friend group in the end. A lot of the scenarios the characters find themselves in can get downright ridiculous as well, further adding to the comedy of the show.
While I think this series is a great comedy cartoon, it still has it's issues and aspects that didn't age too well. The animation is not the best and sometimes appears very stiff, and while the voice cast is generally great, Ozu and Yesman's mimicking of Japanese accents was pretty annoying. This problem was most apparent in season 2's Karaoke Episode, where Ozu just screams out his songs and has no rhythm whatsoever.
In conclusion, I think that Kappa Mikey, though it has it's issues, is still a great animated comedy worth a second shot. Don't go into this expecting some serious action anime, because that's not what they want to deliver here.
The humour is very fast-paced, and they hit you with jokes one after another. The animation can be humorous at times with how they poke fun at exaggerated faces in anime, but it doesn't overly rely on that either. I would describe it as one part a parody of anime, and another part a character comedy where a lot of the jokes come from how characters interact. The main five characters, while they argue quite a lot, are still a believable and memorable friend group in the end. A lot of the scenarios the characters find themselves in can get downright ridiculous as well, further adding to the comedy of the show.
While I think this series is a great comedy cartoon, it still has it's issues and aspects that didn't age too well. The animation is not the best and sometimes appears very stiff, and while the voice cast is generally great, Ozu and Yesman's mimicking of Japanese accents was pretty annoying. This problem was most apparent in season 2's Karaoke Episode, where Ozu just screams out his songs and has no rhythm whatsoever.
In conclusion, I think that Kappa Mikey, though it has it's issues, is still a great animated comedy worth a second shot. Don't go into this expecting some serious action anime, because that's not what they want to deliver here.