(13 episodes)
What’s it about ?
Adaptation of a comedy light novel series.
Characters
Yuuki, our generic highschool student male lead. He’s been tasked by his cousin (who’s the president of the Second Newspaper Club) to shepherd the life advice columnists. Which mostly means he has to play the straight man to those bozos.
Rino, the science specialist, is an arrogant and socially awkward nerd whose idea of casual conversation involves advanced scientific topics that leave everyone else baffled. Also, she’s obviously being pushed by the other characters to become Yuuki’s love interest ; she’s not entirely uninterested, but it’s going to be a long road.
Fumi, the humanities specialist, is a nice girl who tries desperately to accommodate everyone, however absurd that may be. Also, big jugs.
Ikumi, the sports specialist, is athletically superhuman, but rarely bothers to consult her brain before acting.
The format involves Yuuki reading aloud letters from other students (3 this episode), and the four of them brainstorming an answer to publish ; since the three specialists have wildly different opinions and agendas and keep going on completely unrelated tangents, the final result is usually utterly chaotic.
Production Values
Decent, although the shine in Yuuki’s hair is really distracting.
Also, there’s a completely gratuitous wet T-shirt scene, and some breast fondling.
Overall Impression
Oh, dear. This is a gag show that just isn’t funny. Most of the jokes are too laborious or over-extended to work, when they’re not completely impenetrable. It doesn’t help that a lot of them rely on walls of text that probably worked better in the source medium. Moreover, the format is already starting to get repetitive.
Well, they can’t all be winners. Having two good comedy shows this season (three if you count Barakamon) is already pretty good.
