Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu.

In the distant past, Miguel, the God of Destruction, was sealed inside the knight who ruled over light and darkness, Sturmhurt. Alongside the knight was Gestöber, who accompanied him through countless battles. In the present day, destiny causes them to reincarnate as Kabuto Hanadori and Seri Koyuki, two classmates.

Their reunion should be a joyous moment, if not for the fact that these fantasied heroes are just products of Kabuto's delusions. As the fictional "Gestöber," Seri finds himself in various embarrassing situations due to Kabuto's antics that sometimes grow out of his control. Moreover, his classmate Utsugi Tsukimiya joins the fray with his absurdly accurate mind-reading abilities, slowly destroying Seri's social life.

Seri tries hard to stay away from them, refusing to acknowledge their shenanigans, however with Kabuto's chuunibyou and Utsugi's unpredictability, he is only bound to be swept by the craziness coming his way.

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Hanadori, Kabuto

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Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Koyuki, Seri

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Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Tsukimiya, Utsugi

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Kimura, Ryouhei
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Kimiya, Hibiki

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Yonaga, Tsubasa
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Akasaki, Chinatsu
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Mogami, Kimikage

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Tachibana, Shinnosuke
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Sumiso, Kotoko

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Kayano, Ai
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Tokimune, Shikimi

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Toriumi, Kousuke
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Aitsu

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Masuda, Toshiki
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Mogami, Suzuran

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Ikuta, Yoshiko
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Isogai, Noritomo

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Kurosu, Nobuhiko

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Yoshida, Kento

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Miyamoto, Hideaki

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"Take mo' Chance" by all at once

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"FREEDOM de Muda ni Muteki!! (FREEDOMでムダに無敵!!)" by AOP

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Jun 29, 2021

Peepeepoopoo033

Recommended

This is my first time making a review and It’s because I don’t want people to think this anime is bad. I personally don’t understand why this is rated so low. This was one of the most wholesome and cute animes I’ve watched. The characters are not unique but they are still super cute in their own way! This anime made me laugh so hard and it gave me hardcore secondhand embarrassment. It was definitely a fun watch!

I had my doubts because the first episode was not that nice, but this is the type of anime that grows on you. I felt like Koyuki ...

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Nov 27, 2021

MillennialDemon

Mixed Feelings

When I first started Bokuhaka, I found it unexpectedly charming because Hanadori the hopeless chuuni wasn’t the one being ridiculed, it was his “normal” classmate Seri who tried his best to not go along with his ridiculous roleplaying. By virtue of not being a cruel comedy when it easily could have been, I figured I could add it to the pathetic single piece of paper that comprises my Anime Comedy Good Book.

12 episodes later, I’m not so confident. While the series does hand Seri the L in every situation, I find that by relentlessly doing so it actually loses the touch of kindness a ... series like this could benefit from. Seri’s assumptions, even the wholesome ones – like his worries about Hanadori’s wellbeing, social or otherwise – are uno-reversed the same way his negative assumptions are. You could argue his self-sacrificing assumptions are driven by a sense of self-importance he shouldn’t have and him getting unwittingly checked by Hanadori or Tsukimiya is satisfying, but after the first time it just started to feel a little malicious. Even if Hanadori never means to insult Seri by rejecting his rare offerings of kindness or concern, it left me waiting for a pay off when he would accept and there would be some normal bonding moment uninterrupted by cynical comedy, but that moment never came.

I get that it’s funny that the times when Seri gives in and tries to be nice to his wildly annoying friends who are obsessed with him, that it backfires because haha, he thinks they’re obsessed with him! Except, they actually are...?

And so the usual episode format goes one of two ways:

1. Seri gets wrecked by his annoying friends who can’t leave him alone and he eventually snaps and yells at them for embarrassing him.
2. Seri gets wrecked by his annoying friends but something happens that makes him feel guilty about how he reacts, or causes him to worry about their well-being, and when he expresses these things it is revealed that he shouldn’t have, and he snaps and yells at them again for embarrassing him.

It does get tiresome to see the same formula again and again and again, and by the end of it, I was there in despair with Seri and wondering if he would ever escape his friends' tormenting. When Seri becomes more soft, it just backfires on him and the universe proves that he should stay cynical. When Hanadori reveals any other aspect of his character other than just being a chuuni, it’s backpedalled into him just being a chuuni actually. When Tsukimiya actually says something with an ounce of truth to it, he then twists it to be another part of his game of 4D chess he’s playing to make Seri suffer. And so it turns out there are consequences to making literally every scene a joke: nothing happens and no one changes.

It made for a rather insincere final impression, even if Hanadori and Seri are endearing… their endearing traits go nowhere because it wouldn’t be funny if they did. But it would be better.

Oh, and the side characters are either useless (Hibiki) or annoying (Tsukimiya and Mogami). Hibiki’s entire thing was just being unlucky and getting ignored by Hanadori and I found him easy to ignore as well. He really has no presence whatsoever after his introductory episode. I don’t care about Tsukimiya and him “being a God “ with literally supernatural abilities like being able to read Seri’s mind and always knowing where he is -- it just felt like Godmodding. I don’t get what’s “cool” about the kid that ruins a D&D session by rambling about how unexpectedly invincible his character is against the boss that should wreck him. And Mogami is just… a masochistic teen boy… really don’t care about a teen larper begging to be stepped on.

So considering we have an ensemble cast where only 2 characters have anything resembling development, and that development is caught in a perpetual state of Take-Backsies, I would say Bokuhaka deserves its middling score and rather poor reception, even if I enjoyed it more than the average critic. I didn’t find it cringeworthy, and I did find it funny enough, but there really is no substance. And I am not of the belief that comedy is magically exempt from expectation.

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Sep 16, 2023

PokerHeel

Not Recommended

At first, I was expecting another genre given the synopsis, but I don't mind the comedy, on the contrary. So I went in without much expectation, and I was still disappointed. Everything becomes confusing from the first episode.

And I've been confused in the past by some anime, but for this one, I didn't even want to understand, that's the feeling I felt from the start. Maybe it's my fault, who knows.

The characters are ok, but they don't stand out in my opinion, which is really important in an anime for me.

The storyline makes no sense which is neither interesting nor funny to me. I haven't ...

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