Despite the depressing title, Kill Me Baby (or Baby, please kill me depending on the translator, though the anime adaptation uses the former as the main title, and both in the eyecatches), is a Yonkoma gag strip revolving mostly around slapstick humor.Yasuna Oribe is an airheaded high school girl who tries to greet a new student one day, only to discover that she's brutally efficient at twisting her arm, putting her in a chokehold, and using other painful methods of submission. She later learns that the girl's name is Sonya, and she works for an unnamed organization as an assassin. As the manga continues, Yasuna fluctuates between trying to warm Sonya up to living the life of a normal schoolgirl and occasionally trying to one-up her in various tests of skill. Both methods often end in failure, but it doesn't stop Yasuna from trying.An anime adaptation was green-lit for the Winter 2012 Anime season. It started airing on January 5, 2012.Everybody who is a fan of dark slapstick comedy should check this out.
Instant Bandages: And as a result she usually is found with these by the next panel, or even during a punch. They are also seen falling off as if they are just oversized pieces of paper.
Batman Gambit: In episode 8 Yasuna actually manages to pull one on Sonya when she convinces her to play darts by making hitting the inner circle a failure.
Brain Bleach: Sonya and Yasuna's expressions after opening Agiri's boxes in the wrong order in the last episode. Agiri is shown to have recovered the end of the last segment.
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Most of the chapters involving Sonya and Yasuna usually play out like this.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Upon hearing a bear has escaped from the zoo and may be lurking nearby:
Sonya: Ah!! I just had a really bad feeling! Some idiot just activated some really bad flags!
Demoted to Extra: At the end of the first volume, the manga's creator mentioned that Yasuna was initially supposed to play the "straight" girl to contrast with Sonya's insanity, and a third unnamed child assassin with braided hair and a Chinese fighting style was going to play The Ditz. However, Yasuna eventually absorbed the third girl's personality and became the crazy girl to Sonya's relatively "straight" role, while the other girl was relegated to the extra material outside of the story.
Dissonant Serenity: Agiri never changes the sleepy, cheerful tone of her voice regardless of whether she's eating, buying a new phone, fighting a rival assassin from an enemy organization or standing inches away from an escaped zoo bear.
The Ditz: Again, Yasuna. She thinks she's in High School. Maybe.
Helium Speech: One of the gifts Sonya and Agiri give Sonya at her party. They use it to do tongue twisters. The Unused Character finds it later and does the same.
Idiot Crows: The crows that steal Yasuna's lunch. One says Baka and the other says Aho as they swoop in.
Iron Buttmonkey: Nothing ever stops Yasuna for long. Submission moves, limb fractures, punches to the face, she just keeps doing whatever she was doing.
Highly Visible Ninja: Ridiculed. During Sonya's not-birthday, Agiri (a genuine ninja) give her a present of very-stereotypical ninja outfit (think Final Fantasy Tactics Ninja class). Yasuna then mock and laugh at Sonya's so-stereotype The Theme Park Version appearance. Things obviously ends painfully for Yasuna.
Minimalist Cast: Sonya, Yasuna, Agiri and the Unused Character make for a very small cast that never expands. Even the latter two don't appear that much.
In the anime, any walk-on roles are played by the same old man and woman, and even those are few in number. Two other schoolgirls have been shown onscreen but their appearances are very brief.
In Episode 3, Yasuna (using two spoons) and Sonya (imitating the transformation pose) give one to Ultraman. Yasuna does it again (with a mask) in Episode 5.
Teru Teru Bozu: Yasuna attempts to end a typhoon by stringing a chain of these together. The wind snaps it off the line and the old man mistakes it for a dragon god flying in the sky.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Despite being a supposed hardcore assassin, Sonya seems to be afraid of some things, like roaches, stray dogs (she's not good with animals in general) and ghosts.
Despite the depressing title, Kill Me Baby (or Baby, please kill me depending on the translator, though the anime adaptation uses the former as the main title, and both in the eyecatches), is a Yonkoma gag strip revolving mostly around slapstick humor.Yasuna Oribe is an airheaded high school girl who tries to greet a new student one day, only to discover that she's brutally efficient at twisting her arm, putting her in a chokehold, and using other painful methods of submission. She later learns that the girl's name is Sonya, and she works for an unnamed organization as an assassin. As the manga continues, Yasuna fluctuates between trying to warm Sonya up to living the life of a normal schoolgirl and occasionally trying to one-up her in various tests of skill. Both methods often end in failure, but it doesn't stop Yasuna from trying.An anime adaptation was green-lit for the Winter 2012 Anime season. It started airing on January 5, 2012.Everybody who is a fan of dark slapstick comedy should check this out.
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