Daily Lives Of High School Boys

... but they were facing the other way...

Without an audience? Often. Without a partner? Almost exactly as often. Fortunately, I'm good with voices, allowing me to play up to 3 characters in conversation by myself.

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DON'T YOU DARE PITY ME!

edited 25th Jan '12 6:20:28 AM by RiotousRascal

I will mock you instead then.

Right now this series is a 10/10 for me. Now don't go blast me about the shortcomings of the show, and thus the perfect score is unfounded, as you see it. But then again, I dropped shows even when I score them 7/10 or 8/10 (based on at least the first 3-4 episodes). So there. lol

Oh god, that last sketch killed me.

The show has been picked up be NISA.

I'm gonna blast you for using numbers in the first place.

I'm basing the scores from what I put in my anime list...in myanimelist.net.

Using MAL just gets you more blasting.

Watched the entire first episode today.

All in all, I like it. It's not nearly as good as Azumanga Daioh, but it's still good for some laughs.

I like how many recurring characters it's starting to collect.

I didn't want to laugh until the very last segment when the girls started acting like animals. But the haunted house was pretty amazingly scary. And I like the school council presidents. But the fight would have been a lot better and funnier without the whole Would Not Hit a Girl trope in full swing.

I'm never going to learn the characters' names. TT__TT

edited 31st Jan '12 5:36:27 PM by Ruise

I felt like the fight scene in general ruined the joke that the rest of the skits seemed to be implying: that she had a one-sided rivalry in her head. Turning it into an actual rivalry retroactively validates what she was doing before and makes the whole episode less funny.

Looked more like he was just happy to oblige her with a perceived competition.

Also once again the 3 girls after the credits killed me.

"WHY WONT YOU DIE?!"

"WHY DO YOU TRY SO HARD TO LIVE"

"Just who do you think got you this far!?"

"You must be stealing high school girl's popularity!"

"You guys get an anime? Who the hell do you think you are?!"

"Do you want your screen time cut again!?"

(Snacks)

"YAY SWEETS :D"

You can tell the voice actresses are having a lot of fun here.

edited 1st Feb '12 12:25:48 AM by Thorn14

The first sketch was...special. And I must agree, the haunted house was pretty terrifying.

I totally saw that coming in the first sketch. I admit it took me a while though.

Currently watching ep 3.

Hmm...Little Sister X Karasawa...?

Wow, those guys sure know a lot of trivia.

Episode 4: Pretty meh overall. The girls were boring. Except for the ones at the end, mostly because their segment is a just one big take that at high-school-girls shows. Particularly the the sweets addiction part.

P.S. Hell, if only I could get free chocolate like that...

P.S.S. Oh yeah, dat haunted house was actually pretty hardcore.

edited 2nd Feb '12 3:14:16 AM by fillerdude

So apparently I lost track of this show. I didn't find out there was a 2nd and onward episode because the blog I followed stopped reviewing it past the first episode! This was completely unannounced and unpredictable considering the blogger likes the anime and the response to it was positive as well!

I think that's because it's just hard to blog gag shows like this, since you usually just end up restating the gags and that's just not as funny.

edited 4th Feb '12 9:29:18 PM by fillerdude

Let's say, this is the first anime I'm seriously into since Hidamari Sketch—a series that I never took for moe value at all—just because it feels "normal" enough in any sense. Who can't sympathize with at least one skit here? The fact that boys are not so beta is also a plus to me.

That said, two headscrathers here:

1. The "Danshi" in the original title more refers to "koukou" (High School) or "koukousei" (high school students)? I wasn't quite sure whether the fact that they are in an boy's-only school affects the basic premise.
2. The fact that a public single-gender school being established in the developed world in late 1980s is already puzzling to me. (Although I'm sure this is still allowed in the US, as long as the "equal" in "separate but equal" is adhered to very strictly)

@Sam - There are plenty of single gender public schools in Korea and Korean and Japanese education system is quite similar so I wouldn't really call it a case of Did Not Do The Research.

There are still single sex schools in England and Australia, too.

I wasn't saying they don't exist—I came from Hong Kong where they existed in large numbers—what I was wondering is they still build them as late as 1989.

Yup!