The popularity of superheroes is undeniable. In cinema (Spiderman no way home), anime (Tiger and Bunny ), series (The boys, Umbrella Academy) or manga (My Hero Academia, Shy), productions follow one another with great successes. But the failure of the Jupiter Legacy series reminds us that if the public responds quickly, it quickly gets tired as soon as the work lacks originality, technical qualities or simply takes up themes already widely explored. Thus, by embarking on the writing of Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department, Hiroaki Mizusaki is aware of the challenge that awaits him. He raises it by proposing a story that is totally out of step with what is being done. His idea: to reverse points of view. It is the bad guys who are in the spotlight. But not the chefs, their employees. These little hands, these shadow workers who try to give life to the megalomaniac, far-fetched projects of their sponsors. The result is a sparkling, wildly funny series where the superheroic imagination and the slices of life of these simple employees constantly collide.
Once upon a time in the monster development
Agastia is a seemingly respectable company. But it is a façade behind which hides a secret organization of supervillains. Run like a classic company with its directors and departments, it tries to control the world. However, she suffers failure after failure against superheroes. This embarrassing situation increased the pressure on Kuroitsu and his colleagues. As a member of the monster development department, she must constantly deliver prototypes capable of finally defeating the defenders of the world. But between the crazy ideas of its bosses, the requests for changes, the budget cuts and the lack of time, the service is overwhelmed. Kuroitsu's daily life quickly becomes impossible, especially since in her private life she cannot talk about her work. But living with a secret identity constantly creates misunderstandings that do not help his affairs. 
Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department : hard to be a villain
In his series, Hiroaki Mizusaki proposes to dive into everyday life, the unknown world of super villains. This one is presented as a real firm with its P.D.G, its technical and financial directors, its reports. But this business is not so profitable. Defeats follow one another, disillusionment buries all hopes of domination. However, this society is not resigned. The power of superheroes forces them to always innovate. A real race for research and development shakes their design office. Unfortunately, if the desire is there, progress is slim. And the series explores the present reasons for the permanent failures of supervillains. The administration, the bureaucracy weigh down the machine. Projects have to go through lengthy validation processes. Always with the fear of displeasing one of their super-powerful bosses. This first episode poses this extremely funny universe where the hyper-power of the villains and the inertia of the structure confront each other. From this discrepancy are born very funny scenes where supervillains complain about the paperwork and clash with the omnipotence of the bureaucratic machine. They finally give up, defeated by the worst kryptonite: the form!! 
The love song for superheroic culture
This first episode exudes respect for superhero culture. Miss Kuroitsu is indeed based on the universe of Japanese super-sentai and metal hero: ultraman, bioman, X Or obviously. He takes up the visual codes, especially through costumes, postures. He is also inspired by diverting them from the mythology of the monster, these super-powerful creatures designed by Machiavellian spirits to defeat the heroes. Everything that Miss Kuroitsu tells us is very coherent, referenced and integrated into a narrative that is very serious. This love also extends to North American comics. How not to read behind the company Agastia, a Justice League, an inverted Shield? It is all the magic of this episode to offer us a "what if" centered on the daily life of supervillains. Managing their double lives is indeed complex. It's not just Peter Parker who suffers. Their daily worries also disrupt their project of conquering the world. Not to mention their obligation to create a terrifying character and never let their true face shine. A real personal drama for many of them. 
Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department: humour and audacity on every floor
It is this immense respect for the original material that allows the creators of the series to deploy the full comic dimension of the story. This first episode exploits wonderfully the confrontation between the ultra-serious imagination and a totally offbeat content. Everything goes through the mill of humor. Wacky projects, kawai monsters, supervillains in existential crisis. The only one that seems to hold the road in this happy mess is Kuroitsu. And that's one of the other springs of comedy. This constant discrepancy between the nature of her demonic projects and her detached attitude as if she were working for a normal company. The first episode also shows that its designers will not hesitate to push jokes far. Several sequences evoke passages from City Hunter (much softer). When pure superheroes discover the plastic of some supervillains, things go wrong and the confrontation gets out of hand!! Similarly, the map of cross-dressing, sex change, sexual ambiguity also intervenes in the story. Especially thanks to the leader of Agastia, a totally crazy leader who is difficult to understand why all these "bad guys" obey him. 
A technically flawless episode
If the story of Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department is funny and well constructed, the technical realization does not suffer from any defects. We can first highlight the visual beauty, the luxury of the details and the diversity of the proposals. In one episode, the universe of the series is indeed posed. A lot of heroes, super villains. Many powers. Costumes that look both to super-sentai but also to comics. The whole blends into a very colorful universe eyeing kawai. This technical accuracy explains why the spectator is caught up in the universe from the first second. Especially since the animation works completely. The fight scenes are effective, readable. They ideally iconize the "villains" of the story (superheroes). The demonstration of their power further reinforces the immersion in the psyche of the supervillains. But why do they persist? The scenes of the daily life of the design office also highlight the quality of the animation. It perfectly accompanies the changes in tone of the series by focusing on the emotions, the faces of the employees, their madness. Everything agrees to offer 26 minutes of total craziness. Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department has, in one episode, totally conquered us. This enticing proposal on paper has kept all its visual promises. Would it be the first favorite of this fall? Too early to say but this O.V.N.It has all the potential. To discover on the crunchyroll platform.
