zondag 12 augustus 2018

(Good) The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Series in one sentence:
Yare yare.


Series in more sentences:

A straight-faced teenager with immense psychic powers wishes to lead a peaceful, average life where nobody will bother him, but finds himself in all kinds of situations with his ever-growing group of unwanted friends.
While Saiki prefers not to get involved with other people's problems, he often helps out under the guise of "doing it to benefit himself".

 

Damn hilarious with addicting characters, I've watched it in Japanese and English.

Despite this, the series can be difficult to follow for certain people. As a foreigner with a short attention span, I need to focus especially hard in order not to miss reading or hearing a funny line, as the show is extremely fast-paced. The English version was easier to follow, but only slightly.
Often 2 or more people are heard talking at the same time, and when you're watching the Japanese version, that means reading multiple subtitles in 2 seconds before the scene switches over. The show can be quite overwhelming and it doesn't help that the main character speaks telepathically to people -not moving his mouth- and just as often thinks to himself. It's not always clear when he's doing what. Saiki is basically Garfield the cat.

Episodes consist out of shorter episodes and the change of story is what functions as a pause between the madness. In that sense, they applied a clever way of making the fast pacing work.
While it's all short stories, most plots and characters make a return, so you're not at all dealing with a show that presses the reset button every time.

I loved its self-awareness and the cheap excuses made for its cheapness, this must've been a blast to produce.


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