Kill Me Baby: Butsuzou Kegatte Nise Halloween
キルミーベイベー ぶつぞうけがってにせはろうぃーん
- Comedy
- Gag Humor
- School
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 27 min
- Aired
- Oct 16, 2013
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Included with the "Kill Me Baby Super Best Album," this OAD brings to life eight previously unanimated stories from Kazuho's original manga. The episodes showcase the delightful and absurd antics of the characters, blending humor with the everyday experiences of school life.
With its signature gag humor and quirky charm, viewers are treated to a series of comedic scenarios that highlight the unique dynamics among the characters. Each short story captures the essence of the original work, ensuring fans are both entertained and engaged through the playful exploration of friendship and mischief.
Otaku Consensus
Kill Me Baby: Butsuzou Kegatte Nise Halloween is best received as a compact bonus for existing fans: its short-form pacing, J.C.Staff’s deadpan handling of violent slapstick, and direct use of previously unanimated Kazuho manga material preserve the series’ oddball rhythm without demanding a full TV-season rewatch. Critics and viewers tend to agree that the character chemistry lands better than the bare setup suggests, while the recurring knock is that its lightweight gag structure can feel disposable, repetitive, or better suited to background viewing than focused marathoning.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want a pressure-free gag-comedy extra without continuity homework, emotional escalation, or a “finale” mentality. As an OAD bundled with the Kill Me Baby Super Best Album, it plays like a concentrated encore: eight manga-origin skits built around timing, overreaction, and the trio’s familiar asymmetry rather than a new narrative hook. It scratches a nearby itch to Nichijou’s absurd school comedy, but with a smaller cast, drier tempo, and more assassin/ninja-flavored slapstick. The ideal viewer is someone who already likes cute school comedies but wants the jokes sharper and stranger than the usual clubroom banter. It is also a clean test case for whether Kill Me Baby’s minimalist comic engine works for you before committing to the TV series.
Key Characters
- AAgiri Goshiki(VA: Ai Takabe)
Agiri gives the series its ninja-flavored absurdity, turning even simple exchanges into slow-burn non sequiturs through her airy delivery and suspiciously casual skillset.
- YYasuna Oribe(VA: Chinatsu Akasaki)
Yasuna is the comedy accelerant, a relentlessly meddlesome schoolgirl whose enthusiasm makes every gag more dangerous for herself than for anyone else.
- SSonya(VA: Mutsumi Tamura)
Sonya’s appeal comes from the mismatch between her assassin instincts and the mundane school-comedy environment, giving the slapstick its sharpest punchline source.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The OAD was released with the Kill Me Baby Super Best Album rather than as a standard TV episode, making it a music-tie-in bonus aimed squarely at franchise followers.
- 2
Its structure is built from eight previously unanimated stories from Kazuho’s original manga, so it functions less like a sequel episode and more like a recovered batch of source-material gags.
- 3
J.C.Staff keeps the comedy in the same stripped-down school-gag mode associated with the 2012 TV adaptation, relying on timing and character reactions rather than elaborate set pieces.
- 4
The core voice trio returns: Ai Takabe as Agiri, Chinatsu Akasaki as Yasuna, and Mutsumi Tamura as Sonya, preserving the specific vocal rhythm that fans cite as central to the show’s chemistry.
- 5
Its reception sits in the “cult extra” zone: MAL lists it at 6.96 from 7,611 votes, while AniList records a 67/100 score and only 17 favourites, suggesting a niche audience rather than broad breakout status.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Butsuzou Kegatte Nise Halloween aired on October 16, 2013, after the 2012 Kill Me Baby TV anime, and consists of a single OAD episode.
- Fun fact 2
- The episode’s title and release context mark it as a bonus item connected to the Kill Me Baby Super Best Album, not a conventional broadcast continuation.
- Fun fact 3
- AniList’s highest-weighted tags for the OAD are Slapstick and Assassins at 79% each, which neatly captures why the series reads less like ordinary school comedy than violent deadpan sketch work.
- Fun fact 4
- Critical writing on the franchise is unusually split in tone: one review called it “quick-paced, off-kilter, and just wacky fun,” while others rated it around 6–7/10 and emphasized that it works best as light comic relief.
- Fun fact 5
- Several reviewers position Kill Me Baby as a decompression anime after heavier plot-driven series, but also warn against bingeing it because the gag format is more effective in small doses.
Studios
- J.C.Staff
