Audience reviews
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Skylistical
So, I read Manga instead of anime. From what I experienced, after chapter 22, everything became so confusing that I couldn't understand anything, and that's why I dropped it.
Was it bad? No, the characters were good, I enjoyed it very much, very chaotic. I enjoyed the comedy, but ye, ah after 22 chapters I was getting confused, and I dropped it.
Honestly, it was refreshing. I like the action/romance genre, but this was something new. The only comedy anime I liked is Grand Blue, but this anime made a place in my comedy anime list. It is also because I have not seen much comedy anime.
Do I recommend it? Yes, character and comedy are God, maybe I am the only one who understands after chapter 22, but it doesn't mean everyone will be confused.
Overall good anime, recommended!
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underrated.
> STORY/ENJOYMENT: 9.5
i wanna start with the ending cause that's one of the only reasons this isn't a 10: the ending feels relatively rushed and not very satisfying, but it still feels natural with how the show's pacing and story development usually go. it's also quite wholesome, so i still like it a bit.
pro-tip on most comedy, sol, cgdct, and especially gag humor: don't focus on the story.
it shouldn't matter if the story is pointless, unreasonable, nonsensical, or almost nonexistent—but here, it does. because that's what makes it so good.
a lot of humor is based on non sequitur and just sheer absurdity due to the fact that all the main characters are really weird and try their best to be "normal." they also just do the most unnecessarily dumb things, unwarranted, on a…
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Overall, it is an anime with a well-utilized plot, in which the author demonstrated versatility and applied it very efficiently. They showed skill in interpreting different types of contexts and situations. For example, in a typical anime, a character pretending to be of the opposite sex could be treated superficially, without us caring much about that plot. However, the author gave proper attention to this character, highlighting their discomfort in various situations. This also applies to the other characters, making them unique and distinct from each other.
Humor is subjective, so I won't dwell on it too much. In my opinion, it is well executed, working with sarcastic situations resulting from each character hiding their secrets, leading to comedic misunderstandings. This, to me, was v…
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Remember Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi? That small show that no one remembers about? And how the premise of the show was how it had a time traveler, a psychic, and an alien? Of course, the biggest surprise was that Haruhi herself.
That being said, this show contains extremely similar themes. A ninja, a psychic, an alien, and instead of Haruhi, we have a crossdressing guy. However, the shows can't be said to be really similar to each other. In fact, despite having virtually the same plot, the style, the comedy, and the pacing of the shows are completely different.
That's what I love about comedy. There's just a limitless amount of scenarios that you can do even with similar characters and setting. So I also find it hard to review this show. After all, in a show about slice of life and com…
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Four Lies, One Cock.
The absurd lengths people will go to hide the biggest secrets about themselves from their friends out of insecurity or a fear of rejection can’t be seen as a good thing to do in real life, but in a Japanese cartoon about a former ninja on the run, an alien, a psychic and an unwilling crossdresser it can lead to some hilariously stupid scenarios.
That is the premise and the story of The Little Lies We Tell in a nutshell. Four friends who spend every day together also have to secretly navigate around bizarre scenarios brought on by the fact that Chiyo is a former ninja, Rikka is an alien, Sekine is a psychic and Tsubasa is an unwilling crossdresser, whilst maintaining the facade of being completely normal people. Of course, being a psychic Sekine already knows Chiyo a…
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Yare Yare. Do you love Saiki K? The similarities between the two shows is profound but with a very different cast of characters. This show will be hit or miss for you, but if this is your kind of humor every episode will have you laughing out loud. The writers always "lean in to the bit" pushing it too far which is a must for this type of humor. I wish both this and Saiki K would just keep running as the story really never ends. They just reboot when it gets too far along, and these shows always deliver a smile when needed.
Easy, funny, a perfect no commitment laugh. Heck even the deadpan narrator kills it. The opening song is fun too. You'll know after one watch if this is for you. If it is, there aren't enough episodes. If not your thing you can confidently pass as it isn't changing. Ho…
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An alien, a ninja, a telepath and a cross-dressing boy walk into a bar… I mean, go to an all girls school and have zany adventures while trying to hide their secrets from each other. This was a very silly and funny comedy show, but also went completely under the radar for some reason.
As befit a gag comedy show, it was very episodic and plotless, and yet it managed to regularly make me laugh out loud. The characters all had very strong and well-defined personalities that played off well from each other :
- Rikka the alien played the role of the cheerful and clueless little girl to hide the fact that she had no idea what life on Earth was actually about. Her impulsive nature and superpowers created a lot of trouble for the other three.
- Chiyo the Ninja had a rather sweet nature and wan…
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4-nin Uso does bring to mind comparisons to similar shows such as Asobi Asobase and JoshiMuda, in that it's a show with a primarily female cast (well, almost) that deals in rough, physical comedy instead of the usual girls being cute-and-nice-to-each-other affair. Although this one is a lot less grounded in reality.
The premise is simple, with the show often having each character fulfill their roles through out each episode's runtime. They can get pretty repetitive, especially with the Narrator over-explaining the jokes at times. I didn't mind this much, since I do like the Narrator butting in at times, but they do age the joke and add to the repetition. A petty complaint I have is that the series doesn't go far enough in exploiting its characters for their full potential, like, the Rikka…
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The characters are definitely what made this show somewhat enjoyable, cute girls doing cute things (( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)) but funny enough to be enjoyable. I like the fact that 'I' as a viewer can see them lying and make assumptions on how they'll try to hide the facts about them either by playing it or trying to be weird to the extent that the others just turn the other way.
It somewhat reminded me of Daily Lives of High School Boys, it pretty much the same vibe, funny and cute but most certainly enjoyable moments. The goofiness also is top notch like how Rika erases their memories or turn all of them to the opposite sex.
Especially the boy was the most absurd one between them, because how do you hide the fact for so long and nobody notices? Was hilarious to me with how Tsuyoshi scare shitless…
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4 uso is easily the hidden gem of the season. Airing on a packed day like Saturday led it to get overshadowed by other titles, but this was one of the funniest and most enjoyable rides of the year.
Japanese comedy isn’t for everyone. A lot of times it simply doesn’t hit, but on rare occasions, like 4-uso it’s genuinely hilarious. The whole story revolves around 4 girls at a school who have massive secrets they’re hiding from each other. While on the surface they’re having normal middle school girl interactions, on the inside they’re having these hilarious monologues and working out how to keep their true identities from one another. The show is really easy to digest, knows what it is, is confident in that identity and does a great job of presenting Japanese comedy in a digestible manner f…
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Secrets. Lies. Everyone has a tale that they don't want to tell to hide it away from the world for 1001 reasons. Be it being a human or an extraterrestrial, a boy or a girl being in the suit of the opposite sex, straight or transgender, this is what makes the world revolve in its oddball-shaped mess of a planet that we call Earth. But in this season, there's a show like it: mangaka Madoka Kashihara's 4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku a.k.a The Little Lies We All Tell, that showcases the bizarreness between hiding what's true to the heart as opposed to exposing whatever is appropriate in reality. And with just 2 volumes in circulation, one would expect that shows like this needed more time to get noticed, but apparently by the grace of the anime gods, this feels like a breakneck speed of fast…
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