History Manga / TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK

* {{Eagleland}}: In one episode, Saiki is cleaning out a filthy apartment when he panics and teleports himself away because [[EekAMouse he saw a cockroach]]. He ends up in ''El Paso, Texas'', which is depicted as a wildly anachronistic, stereotypical Wild West town.

''The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.'' (斉木楠雄のΨ難 / ''Saiki Kusuo no PSI Nan'') is a gag series by Shuuichi Asou, published by ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' since 2012. It follows Kusuo's attempts in [[SliceOfLife living quietly]], [[CoverBlowingSuperpower hiding his powers]] and [[ObfuscatingStupidity avoiding standing out]]. It's something that would be easier if not for his [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents quirky parents]] and a number of [[WackyHomeroom quirky classmates]] who insist on being friends with [[OnlySaneMan him]]. Cue lots of [[FirstPersonSmartass inner]] [[DeadpanSnarker snarkery]].

* GoldenSnitch: Played for laughs in the trash pickup competition. Each team earns points based on the amount and kind of trash they pick up - cigarette butts at 10 points each, bulk trash is 5 points per kg, etc. However, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuchinoko tsuchinoko]] corpse is worth ''900 million points''.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Saiki turns in a blank paper during art class, when he was supposed to be drawing a portrait of Teruhashi. However, the rest of the class interprets the blank page as having some sort of deeper meaning about her blinding, radiant beauty.

* ForWantOfANail:
** Saiki prevents an explosion at a gas station just by kicking away a pebble. He explains that a girl tripping on this pebble could have caused a truck driver to crash the truck into the station and points out that had certain circumstances not all converged at the same time, the explosion wouldn't have happened. Said pebble later kickstarts a chain of events that ''almost'' causes an explosion at school, which Saiki stops at the last minute.
** The butterfly effect is mentioned when Saiki accidentally travels back in time, modifies his parents' first meeting slightly, and winds up in a BadFuture where his brother's invention inadvertently started World War III.
** When trying to [[spoiler:prevent Akechi's past self from suspecting he has psychic powers]], Saiki keeps changing small things in the past. The futures he jumps back to range from other post-apocalyptic {{Bad Future}}s to {{Close Enough Timeline}}s (eg. Akechi now wears glasses and has ShonenHair, the other students hang out at his house every day).

* CastingGag: Creator/JerryJewell getting cast as Kusuo in the dub is a Funimation inside joke, since he usually excels in roles where he doesn't have to match lip flaps (most infamously his role as [[Anime/ShinChan Happiness Bunny]]).

** [[spoiler:Despite having his psychic powers pernanently removed by the end of the series, it is implied his still recovers them at the end. This gets worse in the epilogue one-shot where his symptoms as worsening to the point he [[RefusalOfTheCall tries to deny them]], but ultimately succumbs to it as they were needed to save a sudden impending meteor that could wipe out Japan. It is confirmed they are fully recovered in the Netflix-original season, and he resumes his everyday life still with his friends being unaware he is a psychic.]]

* PainfulPesona: {{Downplayed}} and {{zigzagged}} in regards to Teruhashi. Being the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, she always pretends to be a perfect lovable maiden when outside, when in truth she's a BitchInSheepsClothing AttentionWhore. That being said, she does take pride in her "perfect girl" persona and will go to great lengths to do what she feels is necessary to maintain it such as going to a poor, greasy noodle shop with her classmates, or forcing herself to memorize every single detail about all of her fans at school, regardless of how she actually feels about it. Ironically enough, it's actually this part of her personality alongside her later developed JerkWithAHeartOfGold tendencies that actually help earn her the respect of the titular psychic Saiki who, due to PowerIncontinence, both [[{{Telepathy}} knows her true personality]] and [[XrayVision can't even perceive her beauty]], who she just so happens to be in love with.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The anime's first opening, "Seishun wa Zankoku Janai," is sung by Natsuki Hanae, who voices Toritsuka. Later [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Toritsuka's band [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage performs a parody of it]] about peeking in the girls' bath and the band comments that [[CelebrityParadox he sounds just like Hanae]].
** The fourth ending is also sung by Eri Kitamura, Ai Kayano, and Hiroshi Kamiya in character as Mikoto, Teruhashi, and Saiki respectively.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Saiki's turns in a bank paper while drawing a portrait of Komomi. Howver, the rest of the students think the white page describes dazzling radiance.

The series concluded in 2018, followed by a short series of {{Yonkoma}} and then two final chapters published in Jump Giga. It has a couple of anime adaptations: a 2013 web-anime developed for the Jump LIVE app, and a TV anime for the Summer2016Anime season, this time produced by Creator/JCStaff and directed by Hiroaki Sakurai. A second season of the anime premiered on January 17, 2018. The last anime adaptation is currently licensed by Creator/{{Funimation}} in the U.S. and is divided in four minute "shorts" that are aired daily during the weekdays, and collected in twenty minutes "episodes" every Sunday. This anime wrapped up with a special covering the last few chapters of the manga, released in 2019. The last anime series, titled ''The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Reawakened'' was produced by {{Creator/Netflix}} and adapts chapters not covered by the first three seasons, as well as the epilogue.