Daily Lives of High School Boys: Episode 2

The past few days have been terrible for me so I am really looking forward to watch the second episode of Danshiko so that my trouble could be forgotten even for a few minutes. Since this show includes several stint/gag, it is only fair that I write it accordingly.

(c) Asakiti

Gag #1: High School Boys and the Morning Journey

On the way back from school, Tadakuni found a stick. Once he picked it up, Hidenori wasted no time to attack him with an umbrella. Obviously they were role playing from samurai to Jack who supposedly became the Demon Lord. These boys didn't miss a bit when it comes to their imagination, did they? They got into their roles though Tadakuni needed a little convincing but he eventually relented and took it more seriously than the other two. The best thing about this stint is, when somebody else found that stick, their responds were the same. Goes to show that boys are way fun! That is until some girl passed by >_>

Gag #2: High School Boys and Convex Mirror Girl

It was revealed that Tadakuni has part time job at a pizza place with one of his classmate, Yasunori. During this shift, Tadakuni asked Nago the basic thing a high school boy is curious about: What is it about boys that girl finds attractive. She answered truthfully. At their age, it is all comes down to outer appearance. So the boys said those word back at her. That's when she took off her megane and asked Yasunori to hand over the convex mirror. She posed in front of it and has totally a different persona. As if the boys will accept that heh.

Gag #3: High School Boys and the Friendship Power

Tadakuni imouto accused them for stealing her underwear again. Of course they were denial about it until Yoshitake saw the lacey bra underneath Hidenori and Tadakuni shirt. LOL was he the only normal one between the three of them? This presented a conflict for Yoshitake. He wanted to tell them that it was wrong but worried if he would offended them. So what did he do? He joined them! This is definitely one of the quality that I envy about men.


Gag #4: High School Boys and Literary Girl 2

LOL I was hoping that it was Hidenori but turned out it was the delinquent Motoharu. Apparently he has sister complex and he thought the literary girl was his sister so he sprouted some nonsense about wind. Of course the literary girl was taken in but he was embarrassed as fuck after that.

Gag #5: High School Boys and Traditional Events

They have few questions regarding the traditional activities in the school. One of them is fasting for 70 hours. When they met the principal, he made up some shit about 1984 tragedy but Karasawa quickly shot him in the knee when he told them that the school was created in 1989.

Gag #6: High School Boys and Ghost Stories 2

Again, they were telling some stories that clearly were not scary at all. Tadakuni lied about Karasawa and just like before the two of them believe him. Together with Tadakuni imouto they jumped Karasawa just to see what was it underneath his head. Man, Tadakuni sure can lie.

At the end of the episode, there was some stint about Lady Yukano and her three butlers. I don't have any idea what was going on but they kept the momentum going and I especially like the false tooth joke. I wonder if they are going to be a regular for the upcoming episodes as well? Hmm...

Anyhoo, good episode is good. Not as funny as the first episode but I have my fair share of laughing today ^_^

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First Impression: Daily Lives of High School Boys

Episodes: 12
Producers: Sunrise, Square Enix
Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life, Shounen

Besides Another, Daily Lives of High School Boys or Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou is the other Winter season anime that I have high hopes for for the simple reason that Tomokazu Sugita is cast for one of it's main protagonist. I am a big fan of him and he is the reason why I become a seiyuu fag so naturally I will watch anything that has him as one of the casts, no matter how small his role may be. The only recent show that he did/do is SKET Dance which he played the big role of making it such an enjoyable show for me.

So needless to say, I am super stoke to check this show out. I have a feeling that Sugita will be just as awesome as he usually is sprouting random shits that only his character can think of. Aight boys, without further ado, lets dig in =3

(c) Asuda

Less than a minute in, I knew I was right about this show; boys who ran holding bowl of soup on the way to school and met with robots flying down from the sky attacking their town. If that is not random, I don't know what is. Why? Because this is not a mecha anime. This show is categorized in slice of life genre and in our real life, there are no giants robot invading the earth. And random is always good in my book. Plus this show is directed by the same guy who did Gintama. If you didn't know how I feel about Gintama yet, you are retarded.

Danshiko (that's what this show is called in anime fandom) is a tale of three boys; Tadakuni, Hidenori Tabata and Yoshitake Tanaka who are friends and attending the same highschool. Just like Kimi to Boku, they have the serious boy and the other two who will do anything in their ability to annoy the living hell of the serious boy, in this case Tadakuni. But it wasn't always about that. We are going to witness their daily lives routines and the people they acquainted and interact with as well which added to the fun.

There are several segments in one episode that cover different topic which tickled my funny bones. I personally laughed my ass off during the skirt segments. I knew boys who actually did that, especially when there was a gullible boy around. Tadakuni fits that description to a T. These segments are even funnier because almost each of it was triggered or initiated by Hidenori. The segment of Hidenori and literary girl at the river bank was awesome too. It's quite a turning point for me personally to be honest because I realized that I found a replacement for Kyon and he even wears a megane. A crossover of Kyon and Gintoki is just the perfect man, if you know what I mean.

Some people might questioned that this is not what boys normally do in their daily lives, but I assured you that for someone who grew up around boys and is still surrounded by boys in daily life, boys really did do all these meaningless stuffs and talk about useless stuffs. That is what make them so fun to be around. Girls on the other hands are boring. They pretty much talked about cute boys and the latest fashion and being bitchy about everything. What's fun about that? For example when Yoshitake voiced his concern about the hair on his nipples, isn't that real as fuck?

what I said

Needless to say, I will probably force this one down everyone's throat. So beware. I'm maximizing my virgin power for the sake of Danshiko!

art & animation 6/10
story 10/10
characters 10/10
sound 10/10
enjoyment 10/10
overall 9.2/10

p/s: I am glad that I didn't check out the pre-air show for Danshiko ^_^

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