Puniru is a Kawaii Slime is not a good show. The small budget is very apparent in low amount of detail in the animation. The gimmick with Puniru shapeshifting is cool but they dont really do anything interesting with it. They constantly reused the same transformation scene and its not even that great it just gets boring fast. The cast is more annoying than interesting and the jokes dont really land. Puniru isnt even that cute she just looks stupid. I mean just look at the name of this show. Its so stupid there is no way it could be good... ... Right? ... To my absolute surprise it is. Or rather it becomes good after the first few introductory episodes. At first I was caught off guard by some jokes that were actually funny then I started laughing at entire episodes. Yes a lot of jokes early on dont really land but they work at showing us the slime gimmick and its capabilities to help build up increasingly crazy situations the characters happen to get into. The cast wasnt interesting at first but the show makes a lot of fun at their expense and that works out great. The transformation scene... it does not get better but it disappears for a few episodes which I personally appreciated. Even the animation gets more detailed especially in the summer episode. Punirus gimmick of shapeshifting and changing properties gets properly expanded and put through some quite interesting situations. And god damn do her new forms sometimes look amazing. Her stupid face grows onto you with time for sure she is quite cute after all. Also the ending song unironically bangs. 1080https://b.catgirlsare.sexy/UHbWwkBeKo5G.png quite cute indeed. One of the complaints Ive heard about the show is that Kotaro the main male protagonist is an annoying little shitter. I dont disagree he is pretty damn annoying but Id say its the entire point of his character. I doesnt quite fit the straight man trope hes simply more of a... punching bag. Nobody around him takes him seriously and him being a loser is often the butt of the joke. Not always do the jokes at his expense land but generally he deserves it. This also generally applies to many characters in this anime they just exist to make fun of and set up scenarios with Puniru at the center and thats not a bad thing for a short comedy show. The character I have gripes with is Kirara but mainly because Im not particularly fond of characters that go into loud = funny territory often. Also she likes children a bit too much which is... awkward. But still despite that there are still some really good moments with her at the center so its not really all negatives. I could be slightly mad at a i would say insteresting ending but the second season got announced immediately so were not gonna be left on a cliffhanger if you could call it that. 1080https://b.catgirlsare.sexy/eDBZJav7YDQV.png shes DEAD and YOU did this. First impressions are often misleading. I watched the first episode with my friend late in the evening at our airbnb while drinking beer together and chilling after a long day of playing in a mahjong tournament. We found it by total accident while scrolling through CR and just scoffed at it for looking silly. What I said after finishing it is that it wasnt good but I also did not hate it and as a joke I decided to continue watching it on my own when I got back home. Its all because frankly Puniru is a Kawaii Slime is such a dumb name for a show and the cover image did not look great. I really did not expect to actually find it this enjoyable. 1080https://b.catgirlsare.sexy/8aAqyti3mUb.png almost a bocchi reference. Unfortunately this show doesnt look too interesting from the outside and the weak first few episodes did not help with gaining popularity. I still would not call it a hidden gem but its still an underappreciated comedy show with a silly and fun gimmick that I can sincerely recommend to people. I could call it the opposite of Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan which had great marketing that made it popular but it turned out to be a flop. Puniru on the other hand has so little interest that barely anyone knows it even exists but it is actually a pretty good show to kill some time on a slow evening especially if youre a total moeslop enjoyer such as myself. 1080https://b.catgirlsare.sexy/kPYd1YerfXPA.png