Comparison with 'Kids'?

A lot of reviews for this movie are saying it's like a Japanese version of 'Kids'. I didn't really think so, beyond the very superficial connection of young people being promiscuous (although the girls in this movie robbed more people than they *beep* Kids had a more convincing documentary style, whereas Bounce Ko Gals feels rather dramatized (yakuza, anyone?). Hideaki Anno's Love & Pop felt more voyeuristic, although (true to Anno's style) it was more introspective than Kids. Really, there are plenty of movies out there about young people succumbing to their darker natures (hello, Christiane F.), but Kids was uniquely unsettling in a way that Bounce Ko Gals is most conspicuously not.