Alternative title(s): Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san
Manga Adaptation by Shin-Ei Animation and SynergySP
Streaming on Crunchyroll

Premise

At work, he’s a general in the evil army which aims to conquer Earth and battles the ranger team that protects it. But when he’s off the clock he just likes to go to the zoo and look at the pandas.

Zigg’s verdict: The Entire Plot is in the Premise

I’m not kidding. There’s quite a few things you can say in support of Mr. Villain’s Day Off – it’s cute, mildly charming, has an agreeably laid-back vibe, and a lovely opening – but it is so insubstantial it makes a fart in the wind look like a gale force hurricane. There’s only one joke, if you can even call it that, and even in the space of one episode it has to be repeated multiple times to predictably diminishing effect. Honestly even if this were a ten minute short it would struggle to have enough genuine material to fill an episode, so the fact that it’s actually a full 24 minutes is kind of shocking. As it is, this is less a story or narrative and more the anime equivalent of one of those ‘lofi beats to relax to’ channels. If that’s your jam then more power to you, but personally I need something with a bit more meat on the bones to justify investing my time into.