(This evaluation covers each the primary season and the second, Bananya and the Curious Bunch)
Now right here’s an anime that I’m positive not an entire lot of individuals learn about. Bananya is a brief TV collection that’s actually concerning the adventures of cute pocket-sized kittens that dwell in banana peels. That’s it. It’s a quite simple premise, and the primary season primarily reveals them going by way of mundane conditions, like going contained in the fridge, or attempting to greet a stray cat exterior the kitchen window. Each episode is 2-3 minutes lengthy and there’s no actual dialogue apart from a narrator who tells us what’s happening. Now, when you’re trying to watch this, I ought to warn you, the story is fairly episodic, and the characters don’t actually develop past their one singular persona trait. On this case, it may be forgiven, as they’re cats that may’t discuss, and the primary season has a slightly small set of characters which might be simple to observe, even when 4 of them look precisely the identical.
On the extra technical elements, the animation is okay for what it’s, matching the simplistic tone and really feel of the present, however I’ve to surprise if Bananya was animated utilizing Adobe Flash. It doesn’t look hand drawn, and the artwork type jogs my memory of this newer net present airing on YouTube proper now referred to as Whats up Kitty and Pals: Supercute Adventures, however with much less noticeable gaps within the linework. However don’t are available right here anticipating animation on the extent of Akira. The soundtrack is okay and candy, although it will get repetitive in a short time. Oh, and for anybody who likes English dubs, Discotek Media dubbed the primary season, and never solely that, that they had somebody dub the ending theme music! And it’s truly effectively sung, and by a pretty well-known web persona who’s accomplished loads of covers for anime songs on YouTube.
So yeah, Bananya’s first season doesn’t have a lot to speak about, however is a brief, candy little time killer if you wish to chill out. The second season, then again, goes in a very completely different route. The animation and music are the identical, however we’re launched to an entire new forged of characters save for Bananya, and the second season establishes that Bananyas come from one other planet close to Earth, which is the place our titular character Bananya comes from. Once more, like the primary collection, it doesn’t actually attempt to develop its characters past their core persona trait, and a number of the new Bananyas look sort of ridiculous, like Emo Bananya and Rainbow Bananya. Sure, actually. The second season eschews slice-of-life in favor of zany fantasy comedy, and I didn’t thoughts it an excessive amount of, and it’s ultimately revealed close to the top that Bananya and the Curious Bunch is definitely a prequel to the primary season. However usually, each collection obtain what they need to do and are fairly interchangeable.
Merely put, Bananya is a pleasant little time killer if you wish to gush over cute anime kitties, however it doesn’t actually supply a lot past that. It’s not a nasty anime by any means, and I did smile at any time when I noticed these little munchkins taking part in round, however it’s saccharine candy, healthful, and it’ll most likely take you a bit underneath an hour to finish. Bananya’s not going to deliver the home down, however it doesn’t must, and it was by no means meant to be something besides what it’s, and that’s okay.
