Just finished Daily Lives of High school boys.
So the first 3 episodes. Amazing. Fanastic humour, lots of laughs and great jokes. A good summer vibe, I really liked where this series was going. 8/10.
However as it went on it became hit or miss. The hits where fricking home runs. In 12 episodes there was at least 7-8 episodes worth of anime comedy gold. However there where a lot of misses I felt. Some of the jokes went on for too long and amounted to nothing.
A guy having an inner struggle about telling a girl she has a hair sticking out of her mole = Hilarious
A guy recalling a dull humourless tale of some super hero kid at a shrine saving him from bullies and than the big joke being it was really one of his friends = Not funny
Again when the humour was on it was gold but a lot of it was just "meh". Also the animation. Putting the stupid shadow shades on 70% of the characters was a bad idea and looked horrible and cheap. I hate that shadow shade in general but having eyeless characters, especially secondary ones like the sister characters, was stupid. It really really bothered me and detracted from the series. It's a small thing but it bothered me. This show was very self aware and made fun of itself a lot but it never said anything about that. Then the main guy of the group disappears for like 5 episodes, they make a few jokes of it but it amounts to nothing when he re-appears at the end. There was no big pay off to the joke of him being gone. It made sense but it didn't add up to anything.
I'm being very nitpicky but after seeing 2 excellent anime, Barakamon & Monthly Girl's Nokazki-Kun, back to back I expected another home run with this series. I got that, for about 3 episodes. Again it was funny and I did laugh a lot, It wasn't a bad show!!! Literacy Girl and Ringo where pretty funny characters and that part when the tough guy learns to ride a bike was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in anime. EVER. My God it was right up there with the beaten & mauled/World Cup misunderstanding joke from School Rumble 2 (the funniest scene I've seen in all anime). The good jokes in this show where top tier anime comedy! It's just the misses where so boring!
This is not a show to marathon. I watched it in 3 days and I think I would have enjoyed it more if I watched it in 6. Like Seitokai Yakuindomo, if taken in small does it's great. Also this anime had THE WORST ED IN THE HISTORY OF ALL ANIME EVER. Maybe it was a parody of other animes, how the VAs from the show sing the ED song and sometimes are really bad at singing but my God it was so annoying! It makes Baby Sweet Berry Love from HenNeko sound like Hotel California.
So overall this show is a 7/10 for me. If I didn't watch it so fast I might have liked it more but there was a big drop off after episode 3...but the good jokes kept coming! I mean episode 10 was all pure hilarity. However the misses and the stupid shadow eye shades keep it from being a 8/10 to me.