Review of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S

To be able to hook a viewer that started watching halfway through the anime is what makes Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S a masterpiece. Let me explain what makes this anime so great. (For the record, I will be reviewing both the original season 1 and S, because I feel like a lot of stuff applies here as well.) First of all, I must say that despite the sexuality of most dragon characters in the anime (Exhibit A: Lucoa), the overall premise of the show was lighthearted, funny, with a lot of witty banter and the atmosphere overall was so engaging it wasn't hard to finish theshow. There isn't too much of an overarching plot, but the series more than makes up for it with its various storylines that are both fun and entertaining. Through this anime I laughed, cried, and felt warmth all around. Truly, this anime is the most wholesome, most funniest, and most emotional I have ever seen in a slice-of-life anime. I've heard that this was the first anime that Kyoto Animations made after an arson attack on their studio that killed 33, but if this is what they can produce at their literal weakest, I cannot bear to imagine what they are capable of at their best.

The characters are a beautiful cast that compliments this plot very well. Kobayashi is generally an average character but she makes up for it in heart and witty banter. In an anime with dragons she is surprisingly able to have the ferocity and passion equal to them, and just overall stands out for her normalness and comfortableness in being one of the only 3 humans in literally a neighborhood of dragons. Tohru is a bit clingy, as Kobayashi points out quite a bit, but she shines through in her loyalty, in her astonishing character development, and most of all how she grows inside as a dragon. Kanna...oh Kanna. GOD SHE'S CUTE AND WHOLESOME AND FLUFFY AND I JUST LOVE yeah. The others are generally great as well (gluttonous Elma, busty Lucoa and Illulu, literal hermits Takiya and Fafnir, flustered Shouta, ok Saikawa's actually kinda bad) and truly make this anime great.

Finally I must rant about one tiny, little thing.

THE BATTLE SCENES.

Why.

Who gave Kyoto Animations the right to make battle scenes this good? Stupid particle effects, banger background music, and flashes and blows all around make this anime's battle scenes stupidly good. For a slice-of-life anime, I was completely taken over by every single fight the dragons had (in earnest, of course). Truly, you'll have to watch the anime to understand what I mean. In fact, just the battle scenes alone provided 2 stars to my overall review.

Overall review: 9.5 out of 10 stars. Almost...its reaching my perfection.