Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan

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Synonyms: The Disaster of PSI Kusuo Saiki, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Chounouryokusha Saiki Kusuo no Sainan, Omaenchi, Obake Yashiki, Gekidan! Improvisation, Terrace House Dust, Seishounen Yuugai Kankyou Kiseihou

Japanese: 斉木楠雄のΨ難

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 26

Chapters: 290

Status: Finished

Published: May 14, 2012 to Jul 26, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Supernatural

Themes: Gag Humor, School, Super Power

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Asou, Shuuichi (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.30¹ (scored by 10,551 users)

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Ranked: #307²

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Popularity: #529

Members: 32,695

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8.30

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MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Asou, Shuuichi (Story & Art)

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Kusuo Saiki is not your typical high schooler—behind his glasses, pink hair, and antenna-like appendages exists a being of unfathomable psychic power. Telekinesis, teleportation, and astral projection might sound exciting to the average person, but from Saiki's viewpoint, they are nothing but an annoyance. Psychic powers are unnecessary—this is all that Saiki has believed since he was a kid.

As a secret esper with the sole dream of living an ordinary life, Saiki tries to use his psychic abilities to stay out of the public's gaze. However, having to clean up after his odd classmates and their antics, all the while keeping his psychic powers a secret, makes it rather difficult to achieve the peaceful life he desires.

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Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Chounouryokusha Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (pilot)
Volume 2: Omaenchi, Obake Yashiki
Volume 3: Gekidan! Improvisation
Volumes 4, 6: Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan & Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: Korosense VS Saiki Kusuo - Iruma-shi Saishuu Kessen
Volume 12: Terrace House Dust
Volume 25: Seishounen Yuugai Kankyou Kiseihou

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Prequel:	Chounouryokusha Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 0
Character:	Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
Side story:	Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan: Extra Story of Psychics
Adaptation:	Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (ONA), Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 2, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan: Ψ-shidou-hen, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan: Kanketsu-hen

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Saiki, Kusuo

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Kaidou, Shun

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Nendou, Riki

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Teruhashi, Kokomi

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Kuboyasu, Aren

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Hairo, Kineshi

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Yumehara, Chiyo

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Aiura, Mikoto

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Toritsuka, Reita

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Saiki, Kuusuke

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Jun 11, 2019

69thStreet

Recommended

This was a manga I continuously skipped for a while til one holy day I decided to pick it up. So here's the review!
Story (9): It's an instant classic the moment I decided to read up chapter 1, all the jokes always hit right on mark, whenever it wants to bring in sad, cute, or any type of emotion to the story element, it always delivers. So essentially it was perfect up til the end... the ending left you off with a cliffhanger and so many questions, if felt as if there was supposed to be another chapter right after but nope, it just ends ...

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Feb 4, 2020

zztl9

Recommended

Overall:
This was my first ever manga that wasn't shoujo or had any sort of romance in it, and surprisingly I enjoyed it very much.

About the manga (general events, and characters):
The character you see with this pinkish-red hair and odd things on his head is the main character, "Saiki Kusuo". If you aren't into animes/mangas that don't have a big goal the characters work towards (like saving the world, killing a villain, or just graduating from school), this is NOT your thing.

If anything, it's very random, and sometimes even breaking the 4th wall, but very enjoyable nonetheless simply because it was vERY out of ...

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Sep 21, 2023

VanVeleca

Mixed Feelings

Ahhh Saiki K., some consider it an absolute hidden gem within the dark valley magazine that is WSJ. Had this manga been axed sometime around chapter 100 or so I would agree, but there is no denying that at a certain point the quality seriously degraded with many characters either fading away, getting flanderized or shoved to the side so we introduce a new wacky addition that will eventually lose their whole charm for the sake of jokes that are really not all that funny in the first place anymore.

Let me start off with the good, Saiki himself as well as a majority of the ... introductory cast. The main Trio of Saiki, Kaidou and Nendo are really strong hooks especially mixed with the fact that neither of them know or notice anything off about Saiki.

But that's not all! We can't forget Teruhashi of course. Essentially god's chosen child who acts like she's some sort of angel when in reality she's a stuck up and egomaniac who's only reason for falling for Saiki being that he is the first one to not instantly cream his pants at the sight of her.

These four as well as several others such as Saiki's parents and grandparents, Yuuta, Mera, Hairo, Toritsuka, Yumehara and Teruhashi's siscon brother serve as great tools for the comedy, most of them having strong personalities or setups that may annoy Saiki but entertain the reader quite well.

But then it keeps going.

And it keeps going.

And what the actual fuck happened.

We get introduced to new characters that feel incredibly one dimensional or get thrown away once the very few limited jokes they were there to provide have been used up. Pretty much the only ones that actually provide some sort of character depth are Aiura and Kusuke and even then after his like third appearance Kuusuke's plotline just became so loose and it felt like his initial set up was completely thrown away in favor of making him just another mild annoyance.

Aiura exists as a sort of rival love interest to Teruhashi...sorta, again after most of her jokes have been used up she kind of just fades to the side and doesn't even get any serious romantic moments like Teruhashi does.

Let's not forget the rather drastic changes to certain characters that turned them from funny to just straight up annoying to both the reader and Saiki.

Mera and Yumehara, seriously, what the fuck happened here? Pretty soon these two become a detriment in almost every chapter due to them making the exact same jokes over and over with little variation.

I wanna write more but this review is starting to feel too negative, overall I still like and reccomend it but after a while it seriously loses it's charms. Feel free to drop it once Aiura gets introduced or even before that.

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