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I think this guy is the worst thing about the show. He just seems to be there to set up jokes without really having any personality of his own. He's even more boring than Tanaka.

>>15432
Someone has to be the straight man.

You are the worst delinquent ever.

This show probably has the cutest girls of the season.

Based

This girl is cute in all of her transformations.

How on earth did they get to be best buds with Outa doing everything for Tanaka without Outa knowing this?

CUTE

>>15529
>>15582
She's so boring though.
I'm glad best girl finally came back.

>>15621
She has her occasional moments.

Just caught up with this series. It's actually a pretty nice unengaging slice of life. Delinquent best girl. Time to see the web shorts, I guess.

>>15663
The first episode was kind of discouraging but the show went up a notch when the girls were introduced.

>>15664
The first episode was too much of the same joke.

This show has a lot of cute background girls.

I like her. And it's totally not only because I'm into little sisters. I mean, I watched the entire second season of Snafu just because of Komachi, but that wasn't because I'm into little sisters. They just so happen to always be great characters.

Echizen chapters are the best chapters. She's wonderful.

>>15724
Yes, she's so lovely~

>>15732
Truly a good waifu.

I took a lot of caps this episode.

I want more of this.

Absolutely wonderful.

>>15813
Besides this Echizen moment, it was kind of a lackluster episode. I hoped for better Tanaka hijinks - or simply more focus on the rest of the cast. That aside, Tanaka really is designed after a lazy cat, down to the love of boxes.

And it's over. A bit of a crap final episode, but this was definitely my favourite SoL of the season.

>>15871
It was definitely more of a comedy than a SoL.

>>15873
The most listless comedy of all time?

>>15873
Eh. Consider the following: in this thread whenever people mention jokes, it's in a negative sentence. This probably means the series doesn't really hold up if viewed as a pure comedy. Thus I'd say it's explainable to describe it as SoL if you want to avoid clustered expressions like "slice of life comedy".

Anyway, pointless word vomit aside.
I enjoyed the last episode, maybe because I've been cheering for Shiraishi since they introduced her. Not because I like her that much (Echizen the best), but she just makes me want to cheer for her romance.
As a whole, it's not a show I'd particularly remember, but the time spent watching it was totally worth it, it was a good series.

>>15873
Are comedy and slice of life opposing categories in any way though? I always looked at it as comedy describing the tone of the show and SoL describing the format of the show.

>>16104
Of course everything can be in any combination, but anime already has a problem with every second series being tagged as a SoL. So at some point you have to ask yourself if the focus of the anime is more towards telling you about the everyday life of the characters or trying to get a laugh out of you. Especially in the current state of the industry where SoL SoL pretty much implies some heavy level of relaxation having a strong comedy element is not only disturbing that relaxation element, but in the case of Tanaka-kun it is disturbing even the reality of the show, meaning what is happening is determined mostly by if it is considered funny (from the author's view point) instead of really telling us that much about the life of Tanaka, and if it is not trying to make a joke it is not important enough to show it us. It is not a clean difference, but generally I think it is not hard to get the feeling of what the author is really going for.

Just because the setting is high school and they are not fighting ancient evil it doesn't mean it is a SoL, right? I consider a good example of what an SoL focused SoL really is right now would be series like Amanchu! and Flying Witch. There was for example Sansha Sanyou not long ago and people were talking about how it was one of the original SoL series of the manga magazine even before K-ON!, but is it really? Just think about how hard it was trying to make the viewer laugh. The reality of the show was completely disturbed with things often not making any sense and being okay with even breaking the laws of physics on a regular basis for the sake of a joke attempt.

>>16106
Ahh, I see where you're coming from. I misunderstood what you were saying.

The Yona bot is Tanaka bot now?

Stop it, Tanaka bot.