Review of Police in a Pod

Sick of only hearing about police brutality, reactionary men's rights advocacy, and slick TV crime dramas? Police in a Pod spits in the face of all of that. Police in a Pod is what you'd call a "true slice of life". Police in a Pod does something amazing - the serious scenes are intentionally brain-dead predictable. By not introducing some crazy plot twist, it gives itself room to present each situation for what it is. It's like an adult sitting you down and explaining to you an uncomfortable concept. No hot takes, just what it is and what it feels like. And it always tops offby having Kawai redeem her stupidity in other ways.

The show goes in depth into how much it sucks for women working for the police in Japan and also how women really do have their strengths and weaknesses compared to men. I had a friend joke that he came out of the anime hating men. And this anime makes it easy to see why policewomen tend to that side too.

Jokes get a bit stale as it leads to the end, but pulls up fantastically for the ending. The ending is easily the best part of the show, and I wish they used more of that instead of the more general workplace comedy.

Art gets the job done. Story is good and actually picks up at the end. CG cars, strange for a police anime but not that crazy once you realize it isn't about the chases. I didn't notice the music.

The one thing this show fails to do, however, is convince anyone watching this to join the police. Japanese police work culture is nuts.