Honto ni Atta! Reibai Sensei

A breath of fresh air from the mediocre stuff I got across lately. Lured by the cover image, I pressed the play button and unexpectedly discovered that it is a gem and I'm stuck at my pc screen for the following 22 5-minute episodes. Probably due to short episodes format the storytelling is bold and fast-paced (same as in Saiki Kusuo). Jokes are very random in first episodes, somewhat resembling a softer version of South Park or Robo Chicken, but after some time become repetitive, and stories gradually shift from fun to touching (strong Gintama vibes).

I loved how artist put random funny stuff on background, ... and the details put into every character: each of them had a strong presence and added value to the story (except for tsukkomi guy, but he was more or less fine too).

One thing that somewhat ruined the mood was cliched settings of some episodes: "festival", "beach", "scary stories", sounds familiar? It only missed the school sports event for full set, but that's probably just because of insufficient air time. I swear there is some guy in editors board of every created anime that tells "you have to make your series as unoriginal as possible at cost of your lives!"

Well, that's all from me, I'm off to reading the manga!

In the short anime Honto ni Atta! Reibai Sensei, a small class of students receives a new teacher: the occult-loving Kibayashi Juri who speaks with spirits and yokai and who promptly summons the spirit of Oda Nobunaga into the body one of her students (permanently), burning down her classroom as their new school life begins.

Most episodes revolve either around the various classmates (some of them being an hilariously poor girl, a delinquent who kinda looks like a Cromartie High School character and an adorable aho-genki girl) interacting with Kibayashi and sometimes with the science teacher Nagara-sensei, her rival who doesn't believe in the occult, thrown ... into the mix. Be it hosting a mystery hotpot party or infiltrating a mysterious inn in Mt. Cat to help their friend from another class find her missing cat, this teacher and her class never have a peaceful day. Let's also not forget the 4 or 5 episode long subplot revolving around the feline characters. There's Kuroneko, a male black cat with an extremely adorable voice who has a fateful encounter with the very own King of Cats and the three really cool space cats from the We Wanna Conquer Earth Squad who came to Earth in order to rule it with an iron paw.

There isn't much to say about the animation, it kinda looks like it was animated in flash and is almost slideshow-like... except for the last episode which is very, very special and different, but that's something for you to find out. I wouldn't call the animation bad either way, I think the budget style fits this kind of anime well. The three different EDs are all amazing too, especially the last one, too bad they're very short. There's not much character development either if at all, but there are some small interesting moments where certain characters break out of their archetypes.

All in all, this is a really good short with some laughs to be had and it's worth watching for Kibayashi's and the cat's designs alone, they're all very cute.

Stroy:
This show didn't really have any plot or story. It all revolves around a psychic teacher who causes various problems to the school and makes everything seem much more funny and adventurous than normal. On the other side I believe that it was really interesting some episodes seems to have a deeper meaning than what it seemed. However, this show is to be watched when someone feels like having a good time laughing a bit. Also, there were some episodes that dealt with the life
Art:
The art wasn't really interesting. I have actually seen similar types of art in anime that have just 5 ... minute episodes. However I must state that the art in the last episode looked so much different, though it wasn't the typical art you would see in a 2012 anime, but it was really nice, I like Reibai-sensei's character design.
Sound:
I don't really remember anything remarkable about the sound, except from the ending! It was really catchy.
Character:
There was actually some character development, the character personalities were intense and everyone seemed to have something like a label. Though I'm not really sure whether that is good or bad.
Enjoyment:
I can say that I did enjoy this series. The ending was completely unexpected and different in almost every way, it was more calm and deep compared to the comedy found in the other episodes.