Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - The Daily Lives of High School Boys is Comedy Perfection
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mulletZERO
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This show is a seriously underrated gem and I'm glad to see it getting more recognition as of late. Also no it hasn't been almost 10 years since it came out, SHUT UP!
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Tenebrae
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Ah yes Nichibros, or Gilgamesh and his posse. Still one of my top comedies.
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whiskeyii
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"The wind is cold" became such an inside joke between me and my friends that can still reduce me to uncontrollable giggles.
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John Thacker
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My wife and I love the show. Possibly our favorite joke has to do with one of the boys randomly picking up a stick and pretending that it's a sword, and the comments from one of the others that he's steadily losing one HP at a time, explained because he's apparently grasping the sword-stick by the blade instead of the hilt.
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Posts: 512 Location: Poland |
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I loved this show, and would still rate it as one of the best SOL comedies, on par with Nozaki-kun. Literature chuuni love story is awesome of course, but there are quite a few great gags, and some of them do have o pointed commentary bit inside, like the bit with IIRC Toshiyuki? and his older sister and her friends.
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R. Kasahara
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Love this show, enough that I asked Vertical to publish the manga in many of their licensing surveys. Apparently, it eventually worked!
For whatever weird reason, Nichijou (the manga) never quite clicked with me as strongly as Daily Lives of High School Boys did. Maybe the latter's heavier emphasis on boys and lack of more fantastical elements (no robot high schoolers) have something to do with it. I'm not surprised that the two are often compared to each other, though. Happy to see that the similarly absurd, and hilarious, Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto gets a shoutout as well. |
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jtron
 Posts: 183 Location: Chicago |
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The author's follow-up TEN SINS is a heck of a lot of fun, would love to see it get licensed
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karenai_hana
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It's still streaming on Crunchyroll: https://www.crunchyroll.com/daily-lives-of-high-school-boys |
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Covnam
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Such a great show, the comedy with both groups is excellent
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Posts: 512 Location: Poland |
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I also wanted to congratulate TWIA for using the lull on beginning seasons for making yet another interesting retrospective. Last TWIA was about cool alternative animation, here we revisit the greats of yesteryear... I usually enjoy TWIAs anyway but I wanted to make special thanks for cool stuff like this instead of butchering some show with attempt of funny review with barely first few episodes to riff off.
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15462 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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This is a show that it can be fun just watching random skits out of context. Like the whole stick one. *Jack Joined your party*. And how it ends with another group of boys.
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Peebs
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I bought the DVDs, sight unseen and only because of the cross-dressing gag. Hilarious. Loved it. Until it got to the bullying part and it made me hate it from the bottom of my cold heart. Even now remembering that plot makes me tear up.
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Yuvelir
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I know I've reduced many of their punchlines to common-use catchphrases and I can't for the life of me recognize which ones they are. I'm sure many of the lines I have under "Gintama" actually come form this show. |
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Maciste
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I straight out LOVED the Literary Girl segments.
Overall, the show was pretty amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the few old (?) shows I could actually give a rewatch. |
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tintor2
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The literary girl also worked really well because of Sugita's yellings while the character pretended to be calm.
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