Review of Jingai-san no Yome

This anime is 3 minutes per episode, 12 episodes, and tries very hard to be cute but falls flat in every department. While running forward at breakneck speeds and not explaining itself at all we enter a world where it is okay for teenage boys to be married off to what appear to be monsters or yokai that they've never met before. Normally, this is where I would ring up the furry community, but none of the featured creatures match eachother in any way. They call their chosen boys "wives" and each boy fulfills very feminine rolls like cooking, dating, wearing the dress at thewedding, etc.

With such a limited runtime of 3mins per episode, this feels more like a sunday paper comic brought to life than any sort of cohesive story. I like cute, I don't mind gender-swapping roles or romance, but this was just so strange I couldn't get my head around it.

Who are these creatures? Why do none of them speak? Why do they get to look through a high school yearbook and select a boy to marry? Why do they call the boys "wives", not "husbands"? Why are all of the creatures genderless? Why is it appropriate to find a high school boy for this, why not an adult if you're looking for a companion that can care for you? Why are some of them like gigantic stuffed animals, and others are like tiny-puppy sized?

I have too many questions, and the 36-minute run time of the entire series (with credits added in!) is not enough to answer ANY of them. If you can't enjoy the ludicrous concept, stay away.

3/10