Asobi Asobase

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Asobi Asobase uses classic slice of life tropes and cute characters in order to deliver bizarre comedy from hell. Characters find themselves fighting a string of easily avoidable problems, that are only made worse by the girls' awkwardness and freakiness. It's a peculiar humour, full speed extravaganza with no stops. You have been warned.

Three girls in highschool with dark and disgusting secrets find solace in each others companionship that allows them to forget their mounting insecurities.

Watching some Asobi Asobase anime is advisable. Its phenomenal voice acting gave me an idea of how characters talk and how well that meshes with the theme.

Recommended!

WOOOO its finally fully translated :))!! I loved it a lot!!

It was perfect and flawless in the beginning. Every chapter seemed a bit stand alone, but as it progress stories and plot lines started forming in very goofy ways!!

I think the art is 10/10 amazing and spectacular

However the story in the final chapters got a little messy, rushed, and aimless. I, personally, think its worth the read, but if you are highly attached to the main trio and want a satisfying end, I think it can be a little disappointing. The mangaka definitely lost a little interest in the main characters and changed focus ... to other background characters, now the main characters in their new manga "Outsider's Paradise."

Asobi Asobase is known for one of the best and craziest batshit nonsensical comedies you're going to find in the otaku industry. The art contributes greatly to give you at first the feeling this is just another school manga, but oh, boy, this is one of the many ways it's going to troll you. In fact, as probably the series which made me laugh the most in my life, I regret all its qualities really end right there.

The author maintains a great pace up until the first 100 chapters or so, but then she starts adding some new characters who don't even add anything to ... the plot, are funny or developed afterwards. The comedy starts to suffer from ever more exaggerated tones and the story ends quite abruptly. Everything turns out therefore to be forgettable and like a waste of time.

As for the side plots (even a comedy must have one), one of the idyosyncratic paths this manga chose was for example trying to match one of the cast's members with a (transgender) woman. Well, the issue here is that it has no synergy with the flow or the mood of this series (like many of the sub-stories), and to make things worse, the "character arc" is, like I suggested, never concluded.

In short, it was all laughs, but no substance. Things got, as expected, eventually obnoxious and unsustainable. The author failed at the basics and gave all too much focus to the sidelines. The entire building finally fell apart and we were left with the feeling that maybe it wasn't so funny after all.

Verdict: 3/10