History Manga / AsobiAsobase

* RealityEnsues: The Student Council President rejects the Pastimers Club's bid to be a club, with its 10,000 yen in club funds, because they only have three people and because "having fun" is something that they can do at home. They manage to at least qualify as a circle by ensnaring Chisato into their club.
** When the Pastimer's Club decide to have a match against the Tennis Club, Kasumi tries to win by [[AwesomenessByAnalysis calculating the trajectory of the ball as it comes to her]]. She prepares to swing...and winds up tripping over herself, because she's not physically fit enough to actually keep up with it.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Maeda can fire these from his butt thanks to aliens hiding a secret weapon in his rectum.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Literally. In Chapter 56, the desk of one of the Pastimers Club's classmates was found to have feces all over the book compartment. Their ClassRepresentative leads the investigation, even as nobody found it suspicious that she is averse to considering the possibility that it was animal feces. As it turns out, ''another classmate's pet dog'' defecated in the then-upturned desk when she brought him with her while she was picking up her homework assignment the night before.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Literally. In Chapter 56, the table of one of the Pastimers Club's classmates was found to have feces all over the book compartment. Their ClassRepresentative leads the investigation, even as nobody found it suspicious that she is averse to considering the possibility that it was animal feces. As it turns out, ''another classmate's pet dog'' defecated in the then-upturned desk when she brought him with her while she was picking up her homework assignment the night before.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Literally. In Chapter 56, the table of one of the Pastimers Club's classmates was found to have feces all over the book compartment. Their ClassRepresentative leads the investigation, even as nobody found it suspicious that she is averse to considering the possibility that it was animal feces. As it turns out, ''her pet dog'' took a shit on the then-upturned table when she brought him with her while she was picking up her materials the previous night.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Maeda helps build an English-speaking android to replace Olivia for an English-language competition; unfortunately, the gynoid only knows English ''sexual and vulgar slang'' (helped by the fact that not only has she was originally a ''sex toy'', but her programming was also done by Hanako's grandfather, a DirtyOldMan par excellence) and even tries to strangle Chisato when she suggests reprogramming her.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Literally. In Chapter 56, the table of one of the Pastimers Club's classmates was found to have feces all over the book compartment. Their ClassRepresentative leads the investigation, even as nobody found it suspicious that she is averse to considering the possibility that it was animal feces... because, as it turns out, ''her pet dog'' took a shit on the then-upturned table when she brought him with her while she was picking up her materials the previous night.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Maeda helps build an English-speaking android to replace Olivia for an English speaking competition, but the android only knows how to spew English curses and tries to strangle Chisato when they attempt to reprogram her.
* AbuseMistake: In an innocent example, Olivia and Kasumi practice using makeup on Hanako. Since none of them has much experience, they mess up, and Takayanagi walks in to the girls standing over Hanako, who has what appears to be a black eye (eye shadow) and a bruised cheek (rouge).
* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: The Student Council Vice-President's dating all the members of the neighboring all-boys school's Student Council, eventually, results in the worst fiasco in the school's history once it's found out. However, this incident isn't elaborated on.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Both the opening ("Three Piece") and ending ("Inkya Impulse") were sung by the voice actors of the main trio. Hina Kino (Hanako) in particular received recognition for being not half bad at singing (read: ''screaming'') ''metal'' of all things.

* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: The Student Council Vice-President's [[YourCheatingHeart dating all the members of the neighboring all-boys school's Student Council]], eventually, results in the worst fiasco in the school's history once it's found out. However, this incident isn't elaborated on.

* RandomEventsPlot: Due to its nature as a gag series, ''Asobi Asobase'' has very little in the way of a plot. Essentially, each chapter of the manga is a random situation in which the girls explore or engage in some sort of wacky antics that have little to do with the one immediately before or after. The anime condenses these chapters into "Contents", adapted in an even looser order compared to the manga, and each episode consists of three of these.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening theme, "Three Piece", is a cute and fluffy song with visuals of the three protagonists in white sundresses with [[YuriGenre copious lilies everywhere]], suggesting that it's an easygoing slice of life series. In actuality, the series is a surreal comedy featuring the girls being moronic jerks to each other and everyone else. The ending theme, "Inkya Impulse", which is a heavy metal song featuring surreal neon scribbles of the girls while Hanako screams about popular girls, is more in line with the series' true tone.

* HumiliationConga: In chapters 30-31 (episode 8C) Hanako introduces her version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugoroku sugoroku]], a snakes-and-ladders-like board game, except each step contains ''extremely'' embarrassing dares the girls must do to progress through the game. By the end of it, even Hanako, who created the game, cries in humiliation and vows to never to play that game again.

* HumiliationConga: In chapters 30-31 (episode 8C) Hanako introduces her version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugoroku sugoroku]], a snakes-and-ladders-like board game, except each step contains ''extremely'' embarrassing dares the girls must do to progress through the game. By the end of it even Hanako, who created the game, is crying in humiliation and vowing never to play that game again.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening theme, "Three-Piece", is a cute and fluffy song with visuals of the three protagonists in white sundresses with [[YuriGenre copious lilies everywhere]], suggesting that it's an easygoing slice-of-life series. In actuality, the series is a surreal comedy featuring the girls being moronic jerks to each other and everyone else. The ending theme, "Inkya Impulse", which is a heavy metal song featuring surreal neon scribbles of the girls while Hanako screams about popular girls, is more in line with the series' true tone.

* ForWantOfANail: In Chapter 14 (Episode 5), Hanako's attempts at pen-spinning during a study session with Kasumi and Olivia leads to an improbable chain of events ending with her ''accidentally burning down the bistro the girls are in''.

* OneGenderSchool: The series is set at an all-girls' middle school, and there's also an all-boys' school nearby that's sometimes brought up.

* SchoolgirlSeries: A rather absurd {{Parody}} of this genre. While the three girls are certainly cute, this series is definitely not a typical "cute girls doing cute things" story, as all three of them are moronic jerks who frequently do and say things that are decidedly ''not'' cute. It seems to set out to prove that contrary to what most anime of the genre will tell you, middle school girls can be just as weird and gross as middle school boys.

* EnfantTerrible: In Episode 12, the Pastimers Club are temporarily assigned to look after Daniel, the infant son of one of Chisato's friends. Unfortunately, Hanako and Olivia discover how bad-mannered he is, from groping Kasumi's GagBoobs (without her noticing), to screaming about Olivia's spicy armpits, to using his pacifier like a cigarette, and pulling Hanako's pigtail onto a working electric fan.

* ForWantOfNail: In Chapter 14 (Episode 5), Hanako's attempts at pen-spinning during a study session with Kasumi and Olivia leads to an improbable chain of events ending with her ''accidentally burning down the bistro the girls are in''.

* ButterflyEffect: PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 14 (Episode 5), where Hanako attempting to twirl a pen during a study session with Kasumi and Olivia leads to an improbable chain of events ending with her ''accidentally burning down the bistro the girls are in''.

* ForWantOfANail: In Episode 5, an entire bistro restaurant got burned down because of Hanako's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxooZ2kqjmI flunked attempt at pen-spinning]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After they are able to calm down the android modeled after Olivia, everybody decides to approach Fujiwara about filling in for Olivia in an English speaking competition. When she agrees to do so, Hanako and Kasumi note that they should have done this from the start.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Maeda helps build an English-speaking android to replace Olivia for a competition, but the android only knows how to spew English curses and tries to strangle Chisato when they attempt to reprogram her.

* PrecisionFStrike: Maeda made an android based on Olivia to represent her in an English-speaking contest. However, its programmed vocabulary is mostly comprised of the dirty slang that Hanako's grandfather speaks. This [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar gets past the radar]] in the anime due to the misaligned timings of the censor bleeps.[[note]]e.g. The bleep the missed its mark on "fuck" and ended up covering the "up" in "Shut the f*ck up!"[[/note]]

''Asobi Asobase'' (あそびあそばせ) is an ongoing 2015 manga series written and illustrated by Rin Suzukawa. It was originally published on Hakusensha's ''Young Animal Densi'' website starting in June 2015 before being moved to their ''Manga Park'' website in August 2017. The series received an anime adaptation directed by Seiji Kishi for Lerche, which aired from July 8 to September 23, 2018. An OVA was released on December 26, 2018. The series is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} under the title ''Asobi Asobase: Workshop of Fun''.

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''Asobi Asobase'' (あそびあそばせ) is a manga series written and illustrated by Rin Suzukawa. It was originally published on Hakusensha's ''Young Animal Densi'' website starting in June 2015 before being moved to their ''Manga Park'' website in August 2017.

Kasumi Nomura is a strait-laced girl who has grown up hating games thanks to her older sister always beating her at them. When she sees the foreign transfer student Olivia playing a silly game with the energetic and wealthy Hanako Honda, Kasumi sees her chance to improve her terrible English grades; in exchange for teaching Olivia how Japanese people have fun, Olivia agrees to teach Kasumi English. Little does Kasumi know that Olivia was actually born and raised in Japan by foreign parents and doesn't know a word of English. This leads to the formation of the Pastimers Club, which is dedicated to playing games and having fun.

While the series contains an aesthetic of "cute girls doing cute things", it showcases surreal humor often featuring Kasumi, Olivia, and Hanako being jerks to each other and everyone they encounter, their classmates and teachers being just as neurotic, and lots and lots of butt jokes.

The series received an anime adaptation directed by Seiji Kishi for Lerche, which aired from July 8 to September 23, 2018. An OVA was released on December 26, 2018. The series is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} under the title ''Asobi Asobase: Workshop of Fun''.

* TheCaper: Episode 7. Aozora ropes in, or should we say ''suckers in'' the Pastimers Club to steal blackmail material from the School Council President office.

The series received an anime adaptation directed by Seiji Kishi for Lerche, which aired from July 8 to September 23, 2018. An OVA was released on December 26, 2018. The series is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} under the title ''Asobi Asobase: Workhouse of Fun''.

''Asobi Asobase'' (あそびあそばせ) is a manga series written and illustrated by Rin Suzukawa, originally published on Hakusensha's ''Young Animal Densi'' website starting in June 2015 before being moved to their ''Manga Park'' website in August 2017.

''Asobi Asobase'' (あそびあそばせ) is an ongoing 2015 manga written and illustrated by Rin Suzukawa, originally published on Hakusensha's ''Young Animal Densi'' website starting in June 2015 before being moved to their ''Manga Park'' website in August 2017.

[[caption-width-right:234:From left to right: Kasumi, Hanako and Olivia.]]

''Asobi Asobase'' is a manga by Rin Suzukawa. It was originally published on Hakusensha's ''Young Animal Densi'' website starting in June 2015 before being moved to their ''Manga Park'' website in August 2017.

Kasumi Nomura is a strait-laced girl who has grown up hating games thanks to her older sister always beating her at them. When she sees the foreign transfer student Olivia playing a silly game with the energetic and wealthy Hanako Honda, Kasumi sees her chance to improve her terrible English grades: in exchange for teaching Olivia how Japanese people have fun, Olivia agrees to teach Kasumi English. Little does Kasumi know that Olivia was actually born and raised in Japan by foreign parents and doesn't know a word of English. This leads to the formation of the Pastimers Club, which is dedicated to playing games and having fun.

The series received an anime adaptation by Lerche, which aired from July 8 to September 23, 2018. An OVA was released on December 26, 2018. The series is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.