I'm confused as to how the show supposedly led you astray. The premise is that their daily lives continue more-or-less as normal despite the superpowers, and that fact is even apparent from the title.
Also, I really have to disagree on Andou being generally inept. He's a dork, definitely, and he can be inept. However, I'd say that he has enough moments of insight, both regarding the girls and in general, that those moments of ineptitude are more the exception than the rule.
I can't claim to like the show either, but I'm not sure why you went in expecting superpowered action? It was pretty open about being a slice of life harem comedy
Maybe he Did Not Do The Reseacrch on this show's marketing and though that the superpowers meant that the should will be wildly different from the other harem shows?
I just jumped in after seeing a few GI Fs online, and in the opening episode I was expecting things to develop out from the mystery of how they got their powers and with something to come up with every character showcasing their abilities. Just seems kind of pointless for them to even be there, since they're not even going the Chuunibyou route with the occasional fantastical aside interspersed with the slice of life stuff.
Part of me was expecting something in a similar vein of KLK, or at least with that touch of action, so that was perhaps my mistake too.
Yeah, this was pretty much the core joke of the series you missed here.
What's precedent ever done for us?
Fair enough.
Oh well. If you get really irritated at the lack of explanations, they are given in Episode 8.
1) The source of superpowers 2) The alleged purpose of superpowers 3) Why daily lives of the protagonists are untouched 4) And just how more grimdark this setting could have become
All of these are answered there. I'll only spoil the last one, and the answer is - not very much. It says something when a setting with world-breaking superpowers has less grimdark than Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.
Person in the first comment, the title is Inou Battle Within Everyday Life, and there's a strict lack of battles withing everyday life.
What the title's trying to communicate is that despite the presence of powers and battles in their everyday lives, it doesn't have any significant impact on them. Increasing the quantity or significance of battles would interfere with that. You're trying to put the emphasis on the "Battle" part, when the series itself puts the emphasis on the "Everyday Life" part.
We should better mention that the very concept of Nichijou Daily Life is strictly Japanese in origin. Practically all of the characters in japanese titles, regardless of genre and media format, cling to their nichijous: whether they have a girl fall on them, and kiss them, and make love, or get a harem of beautiful bishoujo girls, or getting magic powers, or saving world, or travelling to another dimension and saving it, or getting to pilot awesome robots, planes, et cetera, the Japanese Protagonist will inevitably whine and want to return to their hikkikomori nichijou.
The audience is supposed to think: "Oh, he has so much trouble dating 5 beautiful woomen, he wants his dull and peaceful daily life back, I have my dull nichijou, he is envious of me! I should be happy about my life, because I don't have those troublesome adventures!" and so the viewers become happy and content.
(Deleted final comment. While it may have been intended as humor, it was racist. We don't do racism here. blackcat)
It was intended as humour. Sorry.
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Good god, do something!
If you have superpowers as a core concept to your series, then maybe it would be a good idea to actually do something with it. Nobody watches an X-Men show/movie and thinks to themselves "Yeah I mean this conflict with Magneto is cool and all, but I really want to see how his love life is going."
The story centers around a group of high school students receiving superpowers through a mysterious flash of light, setting up a mystery that none of the characters bother looking into in the slightest. The group consists mainly of girls and one guy and the set up for whacky harem comedy antics is set-up, instead of... you know... superpowered action. They really just use their powers either just to dick around or screw Andou over in some way. It's a rather poor sign when Chuunibyou has more spectacular action going on.
That's the main crux of my issue, it's so boring and it takes a snails age for anything to actually happen between the characters. Scenarios are set up and dropped, new characters appear and drop off the face of the earth with only the vague possibility of making a reappearance. It sets up something potentially decent and does nothing. Can't even say it's all that good as slice-of-life or as a harem comedy. I don't find the humor all that funny except for rare instances and I could care less about the romance- Andou is even more of an inept dork than the standard harem comedy protagonist is, and all the girls are generally kinda shitty as people. Except Mirei- she's pretty cool, too bad she fades into the wallpaper.
Almost a shame such slick animation is wasted here. I won't be watching this show through to the end, but honestly if a show can't grip me by the episode 5/6 mark then it's rare for me to bother past then. Maybe it's my fault for going in with different expectations, but that wouldn't have happened if the show itself hadn't led me astray to start with.
Just... so... boring.