What makes a comedy not only skilful, simply timeless? The Daily Lives of High School Boys might have nailed downward the formula by blending irreverence with characters too stupid to chew their ain food. Nick and Jean-Karlo catch upwardly with the high school boys (and girls) to see if they're still surviving their day-to-mean solar day lives.
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Nick Jean-Karlo, ordinarily I try to come up with a witty manner to start these columns and justify whatsoever nosotros're talking well-nigh, but I recollect in the spirit of today's show nosotros should just get meta as all hell instead.
Funimation recently added
Daily Lives of High School Boys to their catalog, that reminded me it exists, and by god we decided to lookout it. That's the story, dearest readers.
Jean-Karlo 
... Oh, I'm sorry, you lot say something?
As its sobriquet implies,
Daily Lives of High-School Boys was lovingly compared and contrasted to that other "normal" slice-of-life comedy
Nichijou . And for good reason; while
Nichijou has a much more than dynamic presentation, both shows tend to focus on ridiculous exaggerations of daily life mixed in with all-too-relatable daily fumbles that make our characters seethe.
Prediction, letter of the alphabet of intent—aforementioned difference.
At any charge per unit, we accept a collection of boys, each one dumber than the last. None of them are himbos, they're merely high-schoolers. Which is to say, each one is as precipitous every bit a bag of moisture cotton balls. From left to right, we have Hidenori, Tadakuni, and Yoshitake.
Hidenori and Yoshitake are very much the stars of this plan. In that location'due south a larger, even wackier ensemble cast, simply those two are the driving forces of chaos and awkwardness behind this whole thing. Tadakuni, on the other hand...
On the outset, it actually feels like this show wanted Tadakuni to be the protagonist, simply fifty-fifty in-universe he acknowledges he gets left behind. And not without good reason. He'south just as well banal—I mean, at a glance, I tin't even differentiate him from some of the other boys in the show!
Afterwards in the series, whole skits get by without the guy.
Maybe information technology's because I'thou not good at binge-watching comedies similar
Daily Lives, but in Tadakuni's defense force, I struggle to recollect of much in the style of anyone'south personality in this testify. Similar, Tadakuni is definitely the wet coating among his peers, only exterior of the gags the characters become involved with at that place seemingly isn't much of what makes Hidenori or Yoshitake stand out too their pilus.
But at least they're good gags.
...
That said, I'm gonna be That Guy™ for five minutes and point out that shaving your nipples off merely works as a bit if your characters actually accept nipples.
Ah yes, ane of the best running gags in the bear witness. Yassan in that location is a girl trying to write a novel and only speaks in cryptic chuuni dialogue. She crushes difficult on Hidenori, who simply tin can't be bothered with such a weirdo.
She is absolutely wonderful, and the horrific, guttural noises she makes every time she appears is the highlight of any episode. Anoint this mess and her incredibly dumb shell.
If in that location's i affair you should take abroad from this prove, it's that the smallest teen girls are the most dangerous.
That'south another running bit: the rivalry between the student council president of the school and Ringo, the educatee council president from some other school, who is voiced by everyone'southward favorite 5* oni servant,
Aoi Yūki ! And she'due south only as roughshod here every bit when she's a spider!
Something, something, "Guile's Theme Goes With Everything."
That leads us into the Pupil Council; unfortunately, the president and vice-president don't have names then we simply accept the bearded Motoharu there and the cap-wearing Toshiyuki.
And yeah, the vice-president looks like he's forty. Par for the class for high-schoolers.
I oasis't seen the live-action adaptation, but past god I promise they cast an actual 40-year-one-time to play him.
The educatee council are largely in that location to have some i-off adventures that don't involve the more prominent cast, only they intermingle enough too. My fav bit from them is this oddly pointed flake of commentary:
I experience like the student quango takes the spotlight plenty, but that might exist because I kept expecting Tadakuni to go involved again.
Heck, Toei barely lets girls be Kamen Passenger, but I digress. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Aye, equally I sit down here I struggle to talk about the characters because there just isn't too much to them. It'south how they're used that actually makes
Daily Lives stand out. Which is also why this show was a bit of a difficult watch for me this calendar week. Like I said earlier, where
Nichijou has a lot of over-the-meridian gags similar Nano the Robot Girl or the tsundere girl that pulls out the howitzer,
Daily Lives is content letting you peer into the lives of a bunch of idiots and their attempts at killing time. I approximate you lot could call it a blench comedy? Its humor comes mostly from characters internally screaming from awkward social encounters, which doesn't actually make for gripping amusement if you lot're just spelunking the whole thing in 1 go.
That'south basically Daily Lives' have on that one episode of Nichijou where the girls are stuck at a temple during a rainstorm. Run across why these shows go compared so much?
Actually it's been ages since I watched
Nichijou. Tell me, is in that location besides a horror episode in the heart of that one?
Well, there was a bit involving dogs...
Also as far as I recall
Nichijou didn't take an oddly consistent addiction of referencing
Dragon Quest. Like it shows up a LOT.
"Beloved"
"Don't shake the crane machine, you lot're non Kiryu Kazuma".
Yeah, blood can't live off of breadstuff solitary. Breakfast is the nigh important meal of the twenty-four hours, after all!
Seriously though. Chew your food.
At whatever rate: definitely enjoy
Daily Lives of Loftier School Boys as you properly chew your meals of choice. Or, y'know, whenever you're not eating too. The manga is also being brought over stateside by
Vertical , and apparently it'due south got a few skits that weren't adapted to the bear witness. The manga sadly ends on a bewilderment and it doesn't seem similar it'll be continued anytime shortly, but if you admittedly need your fill up of idiots doing idiotic things, this is the best style to get your set up.
I won't say that all of the show has aged gracefully, but overall I think it works just besides, if not meliorate, now in the age of cocky-aware shitpost humor. If any gags you saw here fabricated you express mirth, I guarantee there'due south something here for you.
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