Kill Me Baby


Kill Me Baby is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kaduho which began serialization in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat from July 2008. It follows the school lives of a high school girl Yasuna Oribe, along with her friends Sonya, a female assassin, and Agiri Goshiki, a female ninja. An anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between January 5, 2012 and March 29, 2012, with an original video animation episode released on October 16, 2013.

Characters

;Yasuna Oribe
;Sonya
;Agiri Goshiki
;Unused Character

Media

Manga

Kill Me Baby began its serialization in the July 2008 issue of Manga Time Kirara Carat manga magazine after a prototype of the strip was published in an earlier issue of the magazine. Houbunsha published the first compilation volume on January 27, 2009, with eleven volumes published.

Anime

An anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired on TBS between January 5, 2012 and March 29, 2012. The opening theme is "Kill Me no Baby!" by Mutsumi Tamura and Chinatsu Akasaki while the ending theme is "Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu" by Tamura and Akasaki. These theme songs and all of background music are composed by EXPO, a synthpop group consisting Kimitaka Matsumae and Suguru Yamaguchi. The series has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks. A CD Album, Kill Me Baby Super, was released on October 16, 2013 and includes an original video animation.

Episode list

Reception

Theron Martin of Anime News Network found some of the humor repetitious and the mediocre animation as the series' faults but said that it was balanced out with material that did garner laughs and a workmanlike dub, calling it "a series probably best-enjoyed one or two episodes at a time; trying to marathon it can be a brain-melting experience and is so not recommended. Keep it to smaller doses, though, and it delivers often enough to make a reliable comedy diversion." Aiden Foote, writing for the Anime Reviews, also found the animation middling but praised the slapstick humor and its delivery by both Yasuna and Sonya, concluding that "Overall, almost from nothing, Kill Me Baby! seems to have itself a sweet little niche in the congested four-panel market. What it lacks in a large cast, it makes up for by diligently bringing the characters it does use to life."

Music in the anime

  1. "Kill Me no Baby! " by Yasuna to Sonya
  2. "Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu " by Yasuna to Sonya
  3. Kill Me Baby Character Song Agiri Akichi to Noraneko
  4. Kill Me Baby Character Song Yasuna Kyou Mo Futari De
  5. Kill Me Baby Character Song Sonya Yakisoba Pan
  6. Kaerimichi - EXPO