Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
The best Japanese comedy anime I've ever watched, and I'm not exaggerating.
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan was the work that truly changed my perspective on comedy anime. Before, I'd watch a few here and there, but I never took the genre very seriously. This season, however, was the turning point: it showed me how intelligent, dynamic, and absurdly funny a comedy can be when well-executed.
Along with Gintama, this is one of the only works that made me truly laugh, in that uncontrollable way. But, for me, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan goes beyond that. It has an absurd replay value; it's practically the "Chaves of anime." No matter how many times you watch it, the jokes still work, the timing remains perfect, and you still find yourself laughing as if it were the first time. I've rewatched episodes several…
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This anime is really enjoyable. While it may not be extremely funny, it is certainly funny enough to keep me entertained. I particularly like the topics and scripts of the episodes. Interestingly, even though it's not a continuously ongoing series, it managed to grip me so much that I always made time to watch it, even when I was very busy.
As I mentioned earlier, I really appreciate the ideas behind the anime—not just for the scenarios but also for the characters. Nendou and Kaidou, in particular, stood out to me as incredibly interesting, and they brought me a lot of laughs. Toritsuka was also hilarious, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching him as well.
I also liked how the episodes are divided into short, five-minute segments. I'm not sure why, but this format made it much easier to watc…
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This is a show that I feel bad for not liking that much, because the biggest issue I have with it, really isn’t this show’s fault. And that is the animation. Now I’m not going to bash a show for a poor budget, nor am I going to praise a show just because the animation is good. But with this show in particular, the jokes just fall completely flat due to the lack of energy the animation has. All of the jokes are told so simply and directly that, even though they are hilarious and the cast of characters are amazing, they just are presented in a way that feels like they didn’t care about the jokes. Which I know isn’t the truth. The jokes lack energy. The build-ups aren’t built up enough and the reveals and payoff aren’t shocking enough. Just take a look at their jokes and imagine if it was tol…
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*No spoilers, TLDR at bottom*
When I first learned about Saiki K, I was hesitant to give it a shot, but after getting it recommended to me time after time, I decided to try an episode out at the very least, and I'm so glad I did. It's quite difficult to write an objective review on this show because comedy is subjective, and I can't say that this show will be enjoyable for everybody to watch because not everybody likes the same type of humor. But, if you enjoy deadpan and gag humor, this show will definitely appease you.
The best thing about this show is the 5 minute episodes - you never feel bored (if you like the jokes), and Saiki K never drags its feet to getting to the punchline. The fast paced and high energy episodes ensure that each episode is never dull, and there is a different…
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I watched the first season (24 full-length episodes) of Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan. Here are my thoughts:
This is a comedy show, the main shtick of which is that the main character has psychic powers. Sometimes the humour is unique and creative. Mindreading and psychic powers are used to put a unique and entertaining spin on absurdist and situational humour. The show consists of short (~5 min.) skits. These skits are hit and miss in terms of my enjoyment of the comedy. I watched the ~25-minute episodes which consist of 5 skits. Longer stories are presented as multiple sequential skits; the longer stories never exceed the length of a single episode.
Decent voice acting that enhances the humour — especially Nendou, whose voice is hilarious. Everyone in the show speaks very quickly. I'm not sur…
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Let me preface my review a little with a quick background story.
My first anime I've ever watched was Attack on Titan back when it aired in 2013. I was 10 at the time and I had to stop watching because it gave me nightmares ( don't laugh it was kinda scaring ). At the age of 10, I understood 2 things about anime, that it wasn't PBS' Cyberchase and I loved it.
Fast-forwarding to the summer of 2019, I stumble across AOT on Netflix and I fell down the anime whole once again. And after AOT guess what I watched? Saiki K
Now I'm telling you this show makes me laugh CONSISTENTLY like I'm telling you this is the show you watch in the living room while eating dinner on a Friday night ( yeah I don't go out much but whatever shut up ). It never failed to make me laugh, or at least put a smile on m…
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Saiki K is an hilarious low-energy gag comedy. It uses the power of 5 min attention span and high speed incantation dialogues to deliver a climax and a cliff hanger at once. Jare jare….
The cover art and the synopsis may be off putting, but believe me, this is worth your time. I binged this whole anime in just 2 days. What makes it so watchable is it non-cliché jokes and low-energy main character.
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The animation style of Saiki K is simple and pleasing. The emphasis lays on it’s dialogue rather than an impressive background or action showdown. The animation for Saiki’s powers are well done and not to lazy.
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As I said earlier, the dialogues sound like high speed incantations (on Netflix) and that was okayish I guess. It was sometimes annoying, because I had to read…
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I read the manga before watching the anime, and actually didn't realise the anime existed until I discovered it while I was scrolling through Netflix. I was sooo excited because I already found the manga to be the epitome of hilarity, and I was looking forward to watching the anime. And I must say, the anime was amazing. Great humour, lovable and memorable characters, short but interesting plot lines, what's not to love?
The main character Saiki Kusuo is a highschool boy with extraordinary psychic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, invisibility, shape shifting, psychometry, and much, much more (he's literally got, like, every power imaginable) but he wants to lead a normal life. He finds his powers bothersome, and throwing in absurd characters such as Nendou (the idiot)…
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Saiki is an anime about a boy who has psychic powers but despite this awesome gift he is very pessimistic
Story: The story isn't really anything special but this anime doesn't particularly need anything grand as its very episodic and cut up in 5-minute segments.
Art: Pretty awful to be honest. Characters aren't ugly but the animation is so lazy.
Sound: The voice acting was fine, and they have some nice quirky sound effects which can be quite charming
Characters: Saiki is a funny character and is quite relatable in his thinking, however, the surrounding characters are very over the top and can sometimes be funny, but other times annoying
Enjoyment: This is just pure fun and something light-heart to put on in the background. The humour was funny at first but after a few hours of watchin…
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"You're just my father, don't give me advice" - Saiki Kusuo
Comedy is a very tough genre to excel at. Why? It's because of the difficulty in knowing what tickles people's funny bone. School comedies are even more tougher to work since the school setting makes it hard to step out and make people laugh. Now there are many supernatural school comedies but none of them made me laugh. Except Saiki Kusuo. Behold, the anime that made a comedy lover like me already decide it's score at an 8 in the middle of watching the show (I decide on ratings after binging a show). This is my review of Saiki Kusuo no PSI Nan. Yare yare, here we go.
"JUSTICE KNIGHTS OF THUNDER!!!"
Supernatural powers already allow so much more comedy that the folks went overboard and made a 120 episode anime over it, now even…
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One of the most underrated comedy anime in my opinion.
No spoilers, I promise.
Story- 9
Honestly there is no story, but that is the point and along with self aware jokes that does not drag and not being so repetitive and when you are linking this to the story which is the MC (Kusuo's everyday life with psychic powers) is expected of a comedy anime.
Art: 8
Could be better for a 2016 anime, but does not ruin the overall experience, heck makes it funnier. Sound: 9
I actually like the soundtrack of the anime it is memorable (shocking tbh)
Just repetitive.
Characters:10
My god they are all so funny. Literally I am crying of laughter because everyone has such a perfect chemistry. (Only one character *cough you know who *cough* annoys the crap out of me).
Enjoyment: 10
Re watchable as he…
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Story: Normal. A student with psychic powers going to school. Nothing surprising but, the situations that the protagonist passes are very interesting.
Art: Normal. Some imperfections here and there but, it flows. It makes the characters even funnier. Especially the Nendou Riki.
Sound: It's not so bad. Just complements the anime, nothing spectacular.
Character: The best characters in a comedy are here. Maybe just miss out on the characters from Arakawa Under the Bridge. Everyone is charismatic and can turn any scene into a comedy. It's really very funny!
Saiki can make you laugh at anything, anytime. But Nendou is the one who draws the most attention, how can anyone be so dumb and funny at the same time? It's hilarious.
Teruhashi is a little overdone, but he's also a good character.
E…
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Kusuo Saiki is a high school student who was born with all manner of psychic abilities, including telepathy, psychokinesis, teleportation, and more. Despite having all these powers, Saiki faces all kinds of hardships and tries to avoid attention as much as possible. The story follows Saiki as he attempts to secretly use his powers to live a normal high school life while dealing with his less than ordinary classmates at P.K. Academy.
Story: NA
There isn't really a main story, it's more episode-based. We are just watching this man deal with the problems that constantly arise and encircle him.
Art: 10/10
Nothing much to say here, it's great!
Sound: 10/10
Both the opening and the ending songs are really good. The opening gets you hyped for the episode and the ending fills your heart with sa…
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An anime that is so easily dismissed and left out was easily my favorite anime of not only the season but also for the entire year. Last year I felt there was no shortage of good anime. From seasoned veterans like JoJo to new shows like Mob Psycho, there was no dearth of anime I enjoyed. But between good shows there was another one which for me was great and arguably the greatest of them all. As this is a review for Saiki Kusuo (too long a name to write in full), there would be no prize for guessing the best of the lot. 5 mins a day, for 5 days a week, this anime consistently delivered big on laughs. Containing with itself all sorts of humor from slapstick to deadpan, this 5 min. anime was a treasure chest filled with rich laughs.
The premise of the anime was simple, it follows the life o…
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Reviewing a show like "The Disastirous Life of Saiki K." on its technical aspects would be unfair, because it makes it apparent from the get go that it isn't a series that takes itself seriously. It's goal is to make you laugh with zany characters, wacky scenarios, and 4th wall breaking comedy. Luckily, it does it well.
Kusuo Saiki, our main character, has psychic powers that allow him to do pretty much anything he wants. He can turn back time, he can summon any item he needs, he can real peoples minds. You would think having these powers would be a wonderful thing, but Saiki doesn't see it that way. He see them as a burden because he ends up having to be the one to fix all the problems the people in his life create.
The format of the show is different than anything I've seen before. Th…
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You're in a crowd of people and trying to hide from a really creepy dude that you know from school or work. Luckily, he hasn't noticed you yet.
You probably want to do the best you can to get out of his line of sight... right? So you've finally managed to make it behind him, but then, just as you think that you're safe, the creepy dude stays facing forward, but SWIFTLY does a horrifying 180-degree HEAD-ONLY turn. He then, with a derp face, looks SOLELY at you out of everybody in the crowd. In a shocking development, you've somehow been spotted! That "wtf moment" that you'd experience makes for comedy at its finest! You will find that type of comedy and much, much more in Saiki Kusuo no psi-nan.
Funny does not even begin to describe this anime! That's right, it's hilarious! It's one of th…
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Every year there are many good anime that many people miss out on. This may be because its synopsis seems uninteresting, or the key visuals seem bland, or maybe there were other anime from the same season that were more eye-catching. Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan suffers from the same problem as it basically went unnoticed. The key visuals don’t say much and it the episodes being short-length might’ve made people expect little from it. But Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan manages to be not only one of the most funniest anime of the year, but also simply one of the best anime of the year.
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The main premise of the series is about the protagonist, Saiki Kusuo, being a teenager with psychic powers who wants to live a normal life, but can’t because of his powers… and he always surrounded by idiots! And th…
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Anime, as a medium, does not leave me all that satisfied when it comes to the comedy genre. I can count around 4-5 comedy series that managed to get some enjoyment out of me. Two examples would be Cromartie High School and Nichijou. The former, except of being a top-notch comedy series with many bizarre happenings and wacky moments, is also an excellent parody of immeasurable things, including capitalism, gangs, the toll that technology takes on us people, and many many more. The latter is more of an incredible comedy with its fair share of wacky moments on the one hand, exquisite art on the other, also working as a successful parody of moe (K-on, Lucky Star, etc. You do know the deal, I bet).
Checking last season's line-up, quite the amount of series spiked my interest. I stumbled across…
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Aired during the Summer and Fall 2016 seasons, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan is (hopefully just for now) a hidden gem in comedy anime that I can't recommend enough to watch.
The protagonist in this story, Saiki, is a boy that was born with psychic powers in a normal world. He can read minds, he can teleport from one place to another, he can restore things (people included) to their previous state in the past… and these three are just a few examples of all that he can do. Saiki is so powerful that, if he wanted to, he could singlehandedly take control of the Earth in a few days, is that his intention? Hell no! He just wants to live a quiet life, and I can already tell you that he isn't even close to have one.
From his family, to his classmates, to seemingly anyone he meets, everyone is a weirdo, a…
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With the abundance of short four minute episode anime becoming increasingly more common every anime season, Saiki-kun felt like a breath of fresh air from the same boring and tiring formula that has been used ever so frequently.
One thing that works in favour of the show above others of the same format is that Saiki-kun lasted for many more episodes while also airing a new episode everyday. My main problem with these types of shows is the weekly formula as they're airing; once the episode stops and the next one begins the following week its hard to keep track of what has happened and the show feels like it is going nowhere. Sure, this problem is eliminated after the show has finished airing but the lack of episodes also means a lack of characterisation and story progression which, fortuna…
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