Jinrui wa suitai shimashita

[Kageryuu]

Synopsis:
It's been several centuries since human beings declined due to the steep drop in birthrates. The most prosperous species on the Earth are "Fairies", 10 cm tall creatures with high intelligence. I became a UN arbitrator between the humans and the fairies and returned to my hometown to help my grandfather. I thought my job would not be a tough one and visited one of the fairies' habitats to say hello to them but...
Source: http://myanimelist.net/anime/10357/Jinrui_wa_Suitai_Shimashita

I'm still having a bit of trouble in deciding what exactly Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity has declined) is, but whatever it is, I love it.
As the title suggests, there's not much left of humanity, and even gathering enough food seems to have become a struggle. Quote from the main character: "Humanities' sad end began a long time ago. Very Soon we'll be extinct." The new race in power are the "Present Humans", or fairies. Little doll-like creatures with a constant wide grin on their faces and a weakness for sweets. They also seem to be higly technologically advanced, somehow. And willing to help out in exchange for some sweets.

All this is presented in an adorable art style (especially the backgrounds are extremely simple though), and follows the main characters, a female human mediator, through her daily life. Cue dry-witted comments for everything that happens. Be it normal occurences, pointless meetings ("Never hold meetings! The outcome is determined before the meeting begins), a skinned chicken running wild, or a talking loaf of bread ripping itself apart.

As you may already have figured, the world of Jinrui wa suitai shimashita is a very weird one. Despite the setting the humans seem to be content with their lives, and everything leaves a very lighthearted impression.

Here's a few pics to show the art, since it really is uncommon:




As I said in the beginning, I absolutely love this show. The art is interesting and fitting (not everything is that simple drawn, only the unimportant stuff), I really like the humour, it's cute, and has some unexpectedly deep pieces of wisdom. Definitely gonna watch that till the end.

Edit: Oh, and here's the OP:

Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita OP

[Gingy]

I like the art style, something about the colouring. The best part is probably how cheery and happy it is despite it's premise. Something like this is always played as grimdark and depressing for some reason.


I'll check this series out!

[Eos]

The first episode was really funny and spontaneous, the last bit made me laugh.

[Kageryuu]

Might just be the art, but this show feels a lot like a fairy-tale for me.

And yeah, the bread at the end made me laugh too. Not only the part where it ripped itself apart, but also before, when it was like "tbh, the bread here is pretty bad".

[scizzer12]

Felt like it's an anime made just to deliver a message.
And if it's not, then it reminds me a lot of Fractale, which I hated.

While my opinion of this anime is still positive, I don't expect big things from it.

[Gingy]

ha, the first episode was really entertaining. The last scene basically sealed this series as my follow list!


The art style...reminds me of some really old anime I watched as a kid where they just animate fairy tales as Kage said.

Felt like it's an anime made just to deliver a message.
And if it's not, then it reminds me a lot of Fractale, which I hated.

Well...the OP itself pretty much protects it from becoming what Fractale became. Fractale tried to tell some message so vague that no one could see and it's OP made no sense. On the other hand, it had some nice animation.

 This series seems much clearer in what it wants to be. Post-apocalyptic comedy! I love series that makes light of the post-apocalyptic future by turning it into something pretty.

[Eos]

Well it has quite a story line to it. I would be amazed if this turns out to be really creepy or something lol

[Xamdiz]

What guys, I just thought that it's a nice comedy. Am I missing something here?

[Kageryuu]

Just sciz being paranoid as far as I can tell.

[scizzer12]

Pretty much. I'll tell you after episode 2.

[Kageryuu]

So, still got any worries after this beautiful, beautiful chicken episode? 

[Xamdiz]

It's silly.

I can never trust synthetic products again unless they swore their loyalty to me.

[Gingy]

 Whelp, this anime cemented itself into the "zany not to be taken seriously comedy". 

The highlight for episode 2 will definitely have to be the faerie going depressed.

[scizzer12]

Geoff did it all.
I actually laughed so I think it was an effective joke.

[Kageryuu]

Just finished episode 3, gotta say I didn't even remotely see something like that happening. The end was pretty awesome though.