An anime focusing on comedy, Seitokai Yakuindomo is a highschool story where the straight man Tsuda, one of the first male students of the up-till-then female-only school, is forced to become a part of the student council, since the president (Shino) has decided that she needs a male's opinion in managing the now-both-sexes school. Along with her are the secretary, Aria, and the adorable blonde loli Suzu.
That said, from the start Seitokai shows clearly that it isn't interested in promoting any sort of story and each episode after the first is a standalone excuse for hilarity to ensue. The anime hits us with one sex joke and gag after another, with the occasional trolling by the animation team spicing things up (for example fake last episodes, game and movie announcements etc etc). Overall I am totally in for this sort of mindless fun. The gags focus mostly on Suzu's height and all sorts of pervertidness (hell, the only scene where they show the girls naked is just an excuse for another gag.)
The problem is that I quite often caught myself FORCING myself to laugh at the jokes, and when you do this long enough to realise it on your own, something, dear animators, has gone wrong. See the dialogue below from ep 11 and you'll understand:
President:I really hate wearing skirts on windy days.
Sex-crazed secretary:You shouldn't say that indiscriminately...
Sex-crazed secretary (cont): You can legitimately expose yourself!
See the problem with the above dialogue? You read the first 2 lines and leave your imagination to do the work, which in turns leads you to laughter. But when they add an explanation of the joke on the third line it just ruins it. This is the one rule that Seitokai Yakuindomo always fails to realise: NEVER EXPLAIN THE JOKE. Implications are far more hilarious than going to someone and saying: "HERE! THIS IS WHAT I MEANT WITH THAT JOKE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW AUDIENCE?" Apart from ruining the mood it also feels like the show is insulting our IQs on purpose.
In the end I can't really hate Seitokai though. With every episode I get the sweet wonderful feeling of my brain cells dying, and recreating its jokes is usefully very successful, provided you know WHEN NOT TO EXPLAIN THINGS.
