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109. Killing Bites
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34964/Killing_Bites
Winter 2018 (12 episodes)
My Score: 6/10, MAL Score: 6.57/10
Best Character: Uzaki Hitomi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY5YHQ0fcfQ

Premise: People who've had their genes spliced with animals are battling each other on behalf of shadowy corporations. Nomoto Yuuya is just a normal guy, but he gets dragged into events by Uzaki Hitomi, who is part honey badger.

The Good: Killing Bites is a battle anime where various half-animal people use special animal powers to fight each other to the death. It's really trashy and edgy, full of blatant fanservice and brutal gore and over-the-top evil people. If you're willing to accept all of that, it's also a lot of fun! Yuuya is just a boring normal dude, but that makes him an excellent foil to the bloodthirsty Hitomi. It's always fun watching him react to the violent insanity happening around him. Hitomi is still my obvious favorite. She's always eager to fight and has lots of fun doing it. There are tons of other animal fighters, too, and they're all neat in their own way. They even start having team battles later on. Watching a gorilla-man, a hippopotamus-man, a bear-man, and a pangolin-man duke it out while the narrator bombastically explains their dumb animal powers is surprisingly entertaining. The fights themselves are fun too with lots of gore and special abilities.

The Bad: As fun as Killing Bites is, I think it leans into the edginess a lot more than it needs to. The opening sequence is Hitomi bloodily killing a bunch of guys who wanted to rape her, for example. There's no reason to introduce her like that other than being edgy just for the sake of it, and there are countless examples of that throughout the anime.

Overall: I enjoyed Killing Bites quite a bit, but I definitely had to look past or accept a few tasteless things along the way. The various animal people battling each other is brutal and entertaining. It's always a good time when the narrator explains a dumb animal fact to go along with their abilities. Killing Bites is also ultra trashy and proud of it, however. I was able to look past the gratuitous fanservice and sexual assaults, but I can see a lot of people being turned off by it.