Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
sinirlelestirmen
I found asobi asobase in the list of the best comedies and it caught my attention and...
Comedy: of course we all know that comedy is a subjective concept, but the humor of this anime is very weak in my opinion, why is it? The humor of this anime basically consists of showing an event with exaggerated characters loudly and with strange facial movements, and it is not clever or unintelligent, as if it does not have any source material It's devoid of jokes. and yes that's why it makes all this absurdity boring and annoying for me
Characters:Olivia is one of the main trio. She claims that her English is good and her Japanese is bad because her family is foreign. Although this is good at the beginning, it becomes annoying as she repeats this joke over and over again.
Kasumi fulfills the seri…
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The comedy is... amazing!
If you're wondering if you should watch this; please do. The comedy style is similar to that of more mainstream anime like Love Is War and Nichijou. With a goofy and not-so-serious story, I recommend this to everyone.
Take off your socks, pop open a cola, sit back, and enjoy.
- Art (7/10) -
The art direction is not meant to be candy for your eyes. Characters are drawn in a more simplistic and cute manner, that pairs nicely with the narrative of the anime.
- Sound (9/10) -
The voice actors killed it. I will not further elaborate as the voice-acting itself is a piece of art that must be witnessed first-hand.
- Comedy (9/10) -
Unrealistic as heck, which is also why I love it so much. It's unhinged, crazy even. The fact that the anime is hardly rooted in reality…
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The dust has settled, new comedy animes have been released, rankings of comedy animes have been updated, and it's 2022 now. To compare this to Grand Blue as of now is a wet spit to all top-tier comedy animes. Out of all comedy anime that I have seen, this one would have to be the unfunniest as I was STRAIGHT-FACED through all 12 episodes.
Story 3/10
Even though it's a Slice of Life Anime, the events in the story were more boring than usual since the comedy only made it worse than what it already was. Just involves a lot of screaming and random unfunny faces.
Character 4/10
The main 3 protagonists as a whole had odd one-sided chemistry as it felt like Hanako was the middle man between Olivia and Kasumi's interactions with each other. Olivia never did anything funny or memorable when I t…
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[No spoilers review] Make sure to watch Asobi Asobase alone and if using earbuds, keep volume lowered. This show is outrageous and hilarious! Multiple times I found myself having to pause to recuperate myself after dying from the crazy obnoxious screaming and over the top facial expressions. Asobi Asobase: Workshop of Fun is not your slife of life girl's doing cute things anime despite what cover picture and opening shows. Anyone watching would realize quickly after the first episode, no just a few minutes into the first episode.
Art -
The animation is the weakest point for this show. After multiple uses of the similar surprise scenes they lose their touch. Besides that, other scene to scene animations parts are mediocre at most, nothing to get excited for. Nonetheless this does not take…
Read at the sourceDawnSGC
I expected this show to be a nice slice-of-life series because the opening provides three main girls with pretty dresses singing about friendship. Then it quickly turns out to be a vicious comedy about the three main jealous schoolgirls who have brought some wacky, over-the-top sense of humor. Hilarious situations and rapid gags between the three main girls are what make this show so entertaining, and I am amazed by the direction and cleverness of the humor.
The main cast consists of three girls, and they are Hanako, Kasumi, and Olivia. Hanako is obsessed with being popular, Kasumi dislikes most fun things, and Olivia is an American that was raised in Japan and speaks very little English. Together with their teacher adviser, they form the Pastimer's Club, though what the club actually do…
Read at the sourceSharjeeeel
You know the humor is dead when Asobi Asobase is everyone's definition of a "Comedy" Anime.
This is just... I tried to enjoy it but Goddamm this was just so bad.
>The jokes felt forced like they were trying too hard. In result it turned out everything but funny.
>Relying too much on weird faces which at times felt way too weird and out of place.
You see weird faces can be funny too if executed perfectly. Prime example would be Grand Blue and maybe even Great Teacher Onizuka.
>Voice Acting was full of cringe. I am sorry but the voices in this show was really bad. Want to know what a Good voice acting is like when comes to comedy genre? Watch Disastrous life of Saiki.K. Voice acting in that show is absolutely gold and fits perfectly with characters and moments.
Here it was just a bu…
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Before I get to Asobi Asobase, I wanna touch on another series I'm acquainted with.
Nichijou is, in my opinion, one of the more overrated anime of all time. While the animation is phenomenal, I don't believe the writing and pacing are nearly good enough to back it up. While it is an enjoyable series, it is not the pinnacle of comedy as some people treat it to be. My experience with Nichijou made me believe that explicit randomness would be extremely difficult to pull off in anime.
Why do I bring up Nichijou, you may ask? Because Asobi Asobase completely killed the preconceived notions that Nichijou set up for me. It takes that explicitly random style and executes it to near-perfection.
The main reason Asobi Asobase works so well is that it succeeds in an area where Nichijou fails: focus…
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You know that feeling when you yearn for something that is just fun? Nothing else, no depth or wrinkled foreheads, thinking of the plot...well, this is the anime I longed for a while ago.
I had sooo many real good laughs from, I almost fell out of my sofa. These girls sure knows how to make you laugh, with their hilarious expressions and longing to be among the popular kids.
I will try to review this show in the order that MAL has put up, I want to warn you for mild spoilers ahead.
First; the story: story? What story? There is not a single clue to this show to have a story, in fact that is one of the charms with it.
The sound; it´s a great sound; especially all the funny and laughable screams coming now and then.
Character; the three girls, in middleschool for once, are the real main c…
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Asobi Asobase represents why anime comedy is pretty damn special: because it can reach limitless possibility without betraying the sense of normalcy.
What I'm trying to say is: Asobi Asobase is funny as hell.
First of all, do not be fooled by the cover art/poster of the series. In fact, the Shoujo-ness of the poster simply represents the irony that is about to unveil: a story about girls being girls in rawest ways imaginable. It is not to say that what we're dealing with is an Ecchi or blue comedy in vein of Seitokai Yakuindomo or Ao-chan Can't Study. In Asobi Asobase, everything that is wrong about being fifteen is celebrated to a fault: ranging from having odd sense of style, the guilt and pleasure of being a fujoshi, the dillema of being vulnerable and menacing all at the same time, a…
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First of all, I went into this anime without much prior reading. I reverse searched a smug anime girl reaction maymay and tracked it down to this show. The rating was solid and the description sounded like it could be decent. I was hesitant to continue watching after the first two episodes, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The description of Asobi Asobase really makes it sound like a slice of life show, and the first couple episodes mainly focused on introducing the characters would make most viewers believe it is in fact just another mediocre slice of life. However, once the foundation is built up, Asobi Asobase turns into a fantastic comedy.
Going into Asobi Asobase nearly blind is the experience the creators want most for viewers. The opening theme is a light, fluffy song played to a slid…
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Overview:
Hoo boy, this review might be a little controversial with some of my MAL friends. We all know how subjective comedy is and how we all find different things funny. I heard glowing reviews about this anime, but the jokes just really weren't working for me.
Humor Style:
Do you have young kids in your family? Have you ever watched Teen Titans Go? Asobi Asobase uses a very similar approach to its humor and episodes, only in my opinion its slightly less funny. For example, characters will constantly make stupid faces and that's the joke. Characters will reference popular things, and that's the entire joke. There's an episode devoted to bad online yaoi fanfics and that's probably the best episode. The rich girl's butler is probably the best character just from his line delivery. His…
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Daily lives of highschool girls AKA nichijou on crack 10/10
Story lacks depth but makes up for it by high-quality and consistent stupidity and slapstick
Low budget moebait art that I usually hate works so well here, since part of the enjoyment comes from being jebaited so hard
Hina Kino is a demon goddess. You could remove all music and I'd still rate sound 10/10 because Hina Kino on Hanako is good enough to be a standalone piece of art.
Great deconstruction of CGDCT into Questionably Cute Girls Doing Stupid Shit (QCGDSS)
Haven't enjoyed this level of mindless comedy since Saiki & Nichijou. The only thing that threw me off my enjoyment was the fact that there aren't any more episodes
The fake s2 reference and the ending is like a big fuck you to viewers, but it is only then we will r…
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One dimensional cardboard characters, plain bad looking art style and jokes that aren't funny in any way, there's the essence Asobi Asobase. The comedy is mostly build around either characters doing or saying something completely random and unexpected or character having a weird over the top facial expression. After seeing first 10 minutes I had already seen all this show had to offer. I still went and watched every episode trying to confirm there weren't any good jokes in the show, there were not. Confirming this wasted about 6 hours of my time though, so I guess joke's on me.
A good situational comedy would have build ups leading to a punchline, Asobi Asobase doesn't. Just constantly spewing bad memes one after another isn't what I could call funny or entertaining. Characters themselve…
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My friend recomended me this one (usually the other way around) and i was a bit sceptical because his taste in anime isn't the same as mine but i gave it a shot and BOOOOI i was wrong, this anime is one of the best comedy i've ever seen, from the OP it looks like a normal school anime series wtih 3 friends having fun and doing cute stuff but after like a few minutues i was already laughing my arse off and had it's moments and blew me away but then the ED came and i was like
-this is the most fricked up anime i've seen in a long time.
so diffrent from the OP but it fitted so well, it all made sense, the ED was the real version of the girls.
If u have a few hours spared and want to have a rly good time then you should watch this series
9/10 for me atleast
Read at the sourceSamuelSanjaya
If there's an anime that can beat nichijou in terms of comedy, than it's asobi asobase.
The art was kinda a little bit offputing at first, but you'll get used to it at certain point.
The comedy is just brilliant. this is the first anime that i know of, to put a "shittyflute star spangled banner" as a BGM.
The character is so well done, and did i mention the voice acting ? some of them are still new to the industry but have such a great voice. Especially for Hanako Honda seiyuu.
Overall, it's a great anime, and kinda underrated. hoping for a season 2 soon
Read at the sourceUber_Bacon
I am a huge sucker for comedy anime and I always go out of my way to watch shows like this season’s Grand Blue (another really good comedy) and less conventional comedies like Watamote. Asobi Asobase is probably one of if not THE greatest among them.
Story 8: I wasn’t looking for a spectacular story with a dozen underlying messages so I’m content with what I got.
There isn’t much to say about the story except for the fact that it tied everything together. If you watch Daily Lives of High School Boys, the story flows almost the exact same way, with exceptions to a certain main character never making an appearance. The events shown consists mostly of boring situations transformed into a hilarious spectacle or a serious misunderstanding acted upon comedically with the characters in the sho…
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Every time I have done watching one episode of this anime, I should... No... I must wonder how many screws in my brain that had fallen off from its original place because this anime is so vulgar yet stupidly funny at the point I became more and more stupider every time I finished one episode of this anime. Asobi Asobase is becoming a very proof of one proverb that is "Don't judge book from its cover" as its innocent and beautiful art style really swayed me into its very dark yet vulgar jokes and I still like it for some reason.
While the jokes in this anime are very funny in my opinion, those jokes are certainly not for everyone or maybe those with fainted hearts. Not everyone could enjoy this anime's jokes as I do and I think this point as both flaw and advantages at the same time. Asobi…
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If I told you Summer 2018 was lacking in comedy shows, then that statement itself would sound like a joke. There were several ones including an anime that dealt with gender bender idols, a show that made every journey to school look like a misadventure, and even one with a demon girl dealing violent dropkicks. It wasn’t easy to stand out as much when it comes to comedy. Yet somehow, some way, we have Asobi Asobase that came along like a God-sent gift.
Diving myself into this series felt like entering a world of absolute absurdity. Asobi Asobase is like a deconstruction of the ‘cute girls doing cute things’ at its finest. And I say this as someone who really enjoy slice of life anime. There’s no complex storytelling and a show like Asobi Asobase knew what it was doing from the very start.…
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At first, I thought this anime will be your typical girl show with no comedic element whatsover. Why did I expected that? The opening. Openings are always the one that summarizes the plot or the composition of the story of an anime. And I was definetely wrong. I actually asked myself "Am I watching this on YouTube right now?" because I got clickbaited really hard.... and I love it. Comedy anime will always be there this season. It is a rule already on the anime industry that at least 1 comedy show will be a talk on the anime community. One of them this season is "Asobi Asobase".
Story
The plot is not really chronological as each episode is divided by "content" or "parts". This is no issue for comedy shows for the past years as long as it makes the audience laugh out loud. The plot revolv…
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Move over, Grand Blue (despite the MAL score) and Hinamatsuri (Spring 2018's best comedy)!
Asobi Asobase is here to take your place not just as AOTS for Summer 2018's super weak BUT strong comedic presence, but also AOTY for the overall yearly comedy genre, and I have the full experience to tell you why this series is damn underrated, and hidden behind it is pure insane high school gag-comedy...AT ITS BEST AND FINEST!
If there was a rating above 10, I would give this series a multiplier 100/10, because this is more than just some mindless AF comedic masterpiece. It's comedic execution will creep you with its insane amount of gag comedies, obscene figures, face expressions and all-so-you-desire thoughts straight in your face that make you question much! Oh, and the endless amount of refer…
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