Audience reviews
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Sydak
Accidentally one of the most relatable representation of ADHD I’ve ever seen. The anime is obvious just a comedy that doesn’t mention the disorder or anything, but just the way Seki-Kun behaves is incredibly relatable, even if it’s often over exaggerated for comedic effect. It’s not him being lazy, In fact it’s quite the opposite as he puts mountains of effort into his own over the top projects. He’s just unwilling or unable to direct his focus towards what’s important.
I would recommend this anime to anyone who has had attention difficulties. The anime is very light hearted and comedic, it doesn’t show any deep struggles or anything, but you might get a laugh out of it.
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Tonari no seki-kun is that anime which you would simply fall in love with .Even if you are in despair because your favourite character died in some random anime you have been watching or even if you have a list of hot mainstream anime in your list which you haven't watched, still I can guarantee you this will keep u busy, interested and will completely cope your mind in finding more time to watch it and see it throughout till the end.
Story:
The story revolves around a girl named Rumi Yokoi and her classroom neighbour Seki-kun, who never seems interested in class and does so many random things to keep himself from being bored. But these out-of-the-blue things which he does constantly keeps Rumi bugging as she wants to study yet in the same time they are so interesting that she finds herse…
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In my neverending search for hyperbolic comedies, Tonari no Seki-kun is the latest in a long line of searches. Japanese anime just seem to have a large supply of such exaggerated humor. From Gintama to Plastic Neesan to Azumanga Daioh, anime never seem to run out of ways in making people laugh through the most ridiculous antics of cartoon characters.
Unfortunately, as we know well enough, quantity doesn't necessarily equate to quality.
Tonari no Seki-kun has a very simple premise, so simple, in fact, that one could sum it up in a sentence: Seki's fooling around in the classroom distracts his classmate Rumi. While simplicity can be effective in storytelling, there are often the case where simple equals blend or even formulaic. The relationship between Seki and Rumi is a cliched one: idiot…
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In the words of Leonardo da Vinci, ‘simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’.
Tonari no Seki-kun is incredibly simple, yet it’s imaginative, creative, engrossing, and funny. It’s hard to believe they managed to make such an enjoyable series from a bunch of 7 minute episodes - although in hindsight the short episodes worked better for the anime than longer ones would have. Just the right amount of time is spent on each of Seki’s antics. It never gets boring, and I think the reason why is that the script is written so cleverly and voice-acted so well. The script-writers managed to create a perfect balance of fascination, annoyance and exasperation on Yokoi’s part, mixed with a tad of resignation to keep it relatable for the viewers. Her reactions to Seki’s time-killing are what makes this…
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Here's my take after watching 21 episodes of the fun and time-killing : The Master of Killing Time by Shin-Ei Animation Studio.
How should I put this...
Tonari no Seki Kun is a great take on an enjoyable way to kill time. Since each episode is just around 7 minutes it is easy to watch on your phone while on the go and it does not try and stretch itself that the story or "period" becomes laggy.
But don't be thrown away with the running time since it remarkably retains the essence of the story, the tension it brings, and the laughs that make you break out in laughter.
The story mainly revolves around the quirky and playful Toshinari Seki and his curious observer/forced participant class neighbor Rumi Yokoi.
Each episode is a period in their class and is a story in itself. During each…
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Tonari no Seki-kun is a 21 episodic short anime that focuses about Seki-kun's weird killing time during classes. Usually, instead of doing something productive like reading or writing notes, he instead plays and entertains himself just for fun. And as Seki-kun is busy on what his doing, his seatmate, Rumi, got herself distracted thanks to Seki-kun.
This cliche goes on and on from start to finish. But in every episode, Seki-kun has different tools and equipments, and toys to play with his desk. And Yes, it's indeed entertaining to watch too... for just 7 minutes (times 21... and you'll get 147 minutes of school comedy moments of watching Seki doing weird plays on his desk!)
The setting for the plot is only focuses on one classroom (sometimes on the pool of their school).
The art of this…
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This anime was really enjoyable from the start to the end, It's basically a 7-min-per-episode kinda anime, but that's actually perfect, couse that's all ya need for doing this kind of thing.
The episodes are really fun, watching Yokoi's mindfucks over Seki's things is always hilarious. The art-style is extremely simplistic but it's good in it's simplicity. The opening isn't bad, but the ending is really good, I usually always stayed till the end just to dance to the ending.
Now for the recommendation thing I always do... This is that kind of anime that you watch once in a while when you're bored just to kill time (oh the irony), so... if you ever find yourself in one of those moments, kill that time with Seki, you won't regret it
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Ah, Tonari no Seki-kun or as in English, The Master of Killing Time is a rather short series with quite the amount of episodes. The show is about a girl (Rumi Yokoi) who sits a few inches away from Seki-kun, the master of killing time in multiple classes and narrates his actions as she watches him goof off. I admit it sounds incredibly boring to watch, but after getting 3 to 4 episodes in I was actually genuinely interested in what Seki-kun was going to pull out of his bag. Yokoi (and a few other characters) over exaggerate everything Seki-kun does which honestly makes the show a bit more intriguing to watch and not entirely dull. Basing this off of the animation, story telling, sound, & personal enjoyment, I give Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time a 7/10. It wasn't great yet i…
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Tonari no Seki-kun : The master of killing time
So, exactly as the title of this anime
Or they should Yokoi wants to know all her next-seat classmate is doing? ╲(｡◕‿◕｡)╱
Well, it really worked pretty well for me.. For killing time
So, what's the best time for watching this?
When you're resting from doing your homework, waiting for someone/something, while eating snacks, when your TV at commercial break (Don't watch it before you sleep, because you won't sleep after 1 episode )
Ok here's a thing if you didn't notice
It's a 7-8mins short anime or 1/3 time of the usual anime (1 min+ for OP&ED)
Why I recommend this?
First the story
Obviously the story is about killing time
Most of the time they just sit in a classroom while the teacher there
There is Seki who likes to play something else whi…
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Tonari no Seki-kun reminded me that you don't need the glitz and glamor of today's standards of high budget animation to fully enjoy a show.
Knowing the fact that they did this with limited resources, I'm quite impressed with the result: 21 short episodes, great OP and ED sequence, very likable characters and superb performance by Kana Hanezawa as Yokoi.
Each episode was truly amusing and a pleasure to watch.
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Tonari no Seki-kun: The master of killing time is a charming collection of 7 minute comedy episodes revolving around, as the title suggests, Seki-kun and the mischief he gets up to in the attempt to kill time.
Rather than the story following Seki-kun, it is instead told through the eyes of his classmate Rumi Yokoi who sits next to him in class and this greatly works to the shows benefit. A large portion of the humour of this show comes from Rumi’s interpretation of what Seki-kun is doing rather than what his own thought process is. The ‘Shogi’ episodes in the series highlight this perfectly as Rumi creates her own story around the way Seki chooses to play the game and she subsequently tries to intervene with the game in order to ‘save’ the characters she made up. To this extent Tonari no…
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Each short episode of Tonari no Seki-kun is built on a similar foundation: Seki plays some comically elaborate game in the middle of class, and Yokoi, his more studious neighboring classmate, invariably gets sucked into what he's doing, to the point where she often becomes even more invested in it than him. That’s it. This seems like a fairly limited premise, but it provides a great framework with a surprising amount of comedic range for Seki to play in. The results are almost always a blast.
The games Seki plays each episode range from staging complex, twist-laden wars with unconventional shogi play to bringing an actual bag full of cats into class. There are episodes where he’s seen building crazy Rube Goldberg machines right in the middle a lecture. He never really speaks outside of de…
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Tonari no Seki-kun has episodes
that average around 7 minutes
long in length ... but don't let the
length fool you into disregarding
this anime as having no plot. Each
episode consists of Seki bringing
his newest distraction of the day
while Rumi attempts to ignore
what's going on next to her,
failing every time as she finds herself drawn into what he's
doing. The plot for each episode
was wonderfully done and
immensely entertaining! xD The
characters basically consist of
Rumi and Seki with the occasional
appearance or comment from a
classmate ... both of the main
characters were wonderfully
entertaining. It was a wonder to
me how entertaining Seki was
even though he never said a single
word ... not in any of the 21
episodes! The animation was nice,
nothing spectacular, mind you,
but nicel…
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Tonari no Seiki-kun is a fantastic anime. The idea of having the episodes set on a class, in which there is a girl who keeps watching her colegue entertain himself during the class on many different ways, is really clever and well done.
The episodes are around 10mins each and it may seem pretty small but you get the full enjoyment of a "saturday morning sit on the couch watching cartoons as kids" type of feeling.
It's really nice watching the various activities Seiki does during class, for example watching him making epic war scenarios out of small little food.
Overall it is a fun series to watch, fast to watch and totaly worth checking out.
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WARNING: Avoid drinking anything while watching. This show is not liable for any snorting of said drink. Side effects may include stomach aches from giggle-fits and shortness of breath...
Story: 8/10 There is a special charm that only short anime possess, such as Hetalia, Chi's Sweet Home and Miss Monochrome. Among these easy-to-watch shows is Tonari no Seki-kun, whose episodes are a mere 7 minutes in length. Each segment is episodic without much of an overlying plot, although there are recurring themes. A creative boy named Seki-kun brings in nick-nacks to class and messes around with them rather than pay attention. Yokoi-san, the girl who sits next to him, reluctantly gets drawn into his activities. Her inner monologue of observations explain his schemes and give significance to small c…
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Tonari no Seki-Kun is a simple show with simple stories. That's one of the things I really like about it, because it's easy to digest. The short length works great, and no single episode feels like it's overstaying it's welcome.
However, the whole thing also feels pretty formulaic, which eventually started to wear on me. Even only watching at a relatively average pace (at one episode every morning), I began to get bored of it about halfway through. Some episodes were pretty funny, but I can't recall many times the show actually made me laugh out loud. A few episodes also recycled ideas from earlier episodes, and just put a slight twist on them, which I thought seemed kind of lazy from a writing perspective.
The art is pretty standard, and definitely common to what we normally see in the g…
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Anime series with a short episode runtime often go ignored even when some of them are genius, I find myself feeling happy when I see a different response towards "Tonari no Seki-kun"
Supposedly, you're are sitting in your classroom looking at your teacher running his mouth nonstop, it's the easiest to have your attention deflected at such a time even with those minor distractions.What'd you do if the things happening beside you are more interesting than what's going on before you? Could you avoid it? That our Rumi Yokoi for you.
I'll make myself write something brief and prompt for an anime that only runs a little over 6 mins in every episode, as 30 seconds are dedicated to the OP & ED songs.
Rumi is the main protagonist and the narrator of the show and Seki~kun who sits next to her i…
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Tonari no Seki-kun is an adaptation of a manga with the same name. I have been reading this for awhile, I have already caught up with the manga already. This anime is very creative and fun anime. This anime is a 7-min and 21 episodes anime, the OVA and special will be releasing soon.
Story: 8
Tonari no Seki-kun is an anime revolves around Rumi Yokoi and her reaction and narration toward the person she sit next to Toshinari Seki or Seki-kun and his antics. His antics consists on something new every time, and it distracted Rumi from her note taking and sometimes she got in trouble because of his antics, and Seki-kun never gets in trouble. He hasn't been caught because both of them sit in way back, Seki-kun sit by the back corner by the window, and Rumi sit next to him. IDK how he have been…
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Tonari No Seki-Kun may be the funniest anime I've watched since starting Gintama. That is saying a lot, since the episodes are quite short at about 7 minutes long, but that is plenty of time for this anime to tell an effective and hilarious story.
Story: 9.5/10
Short, sweet and to the point. Seki-kun's antics and Yokoi's great imagination and creativity are so entertaining to watch. They use the best methods of storytelling with Yokoi's expressive narration in combination with Seki-kun's almost exclusive use of physical comedy to tell creative tales of love, hardship and determination using common toys and games. They are such simple stories, but I haven't laughed so much watching an anime in so long. You cannot help it when you see how ridiculous Seki-kun and Yokoi can get. The only thin…
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Creativity, a simple word that inspires so much innovative ideas from anyone, anywhere, anytime. What inspires creativity varies but for a young boy named Toshinari Seki, he takes it to astronomical levels that goes far beyond what you may be used to seeing at school. As a master of killing time, Seki lives up his reputation of such a title. For a 7-minute anime series, there’s so much attention Seki can attract towards its audience.
When it comes to killing time, you would do something inventive, something creative, or anything that will prevent you from saying along the lines of ‘it’s so boring, there’s nothing to do’. For Seki, there’s a chance for that in his class every single day because he sits in the very back corner. As a kid of his age, Seki can be described as a simple yet curi…
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