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 Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Koyuki, Seri Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Tsukimiya, Utsugi Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Kimiya, Hibiki Supporting

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Cerberus Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu Japanese

Mogami, Kimikage Supporting

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Sumiso, Kotoko Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Aitsu Supporting

Masuda, Toshiki Japanese

Mogami, Suzuran Supporting

Ikuta, Yoshiko Japanese

Tokimune, Shikimi Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Warashina, Tomoyuki Producer

Segawa, Noboru Producer

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Mar 28, 2020

RPWPA

Recommended

As a fan of SOL anime, one of the things I look forward to is that one great comedy-focused anime that comes out every season and I'm glad to say I found it in this one.

Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu is a very traditional comedy anime, it heavily focuses on punchlines as the main way of presenting its jokes yet somehow it doesn't get repetitive. At times it may seem overused but I never felt the need to close the episode or drop the anime while watching. On the contrary, I found myself laughing multiple times during certain episode and that ... was like a proof to me that I should finish it and I'm glad I did.

As this is a Comedy-focused anime, It doesn't really have a story so it has to depend on the characters to carry it. The characters are great I have to say, we have the MC who wants the peaceful life, the mind-reading sadist who enjoys tourmenting him and the chuunibyous that are the rest of the main characters. What I enjoyed about this cliche cast was that they weren't just chuunibyous, unlike lots of other anime characters with the same troops, these are much closer to reality. They feel embarrassed when they do dumb shit and people call them out for it, even Miguel has his cute childish and the "too embarrassed to talk to females" characterstics that made him stand out than the normal chuunibyou you see in other anime. To sum it up, the characters are unique. They don't feel repetitive despite presenting the same ideas done before in many different anime.

The fact this anime has very low focus on romance was nice. Lots of comedy anime get ruined when romance is involved and many use the romance as the source of the comedy and tho that idea isn't bad in itself, the execution of them leads mainly to either the "tsundere hitting the MC" type of humor and the "we feel on each other by accident" type so the fact the anime actually presents what little romance it has in a good way was nice to see.

The sound, voice actors, art and overall animation were great as well as the op.

Overall I would give the anime an 8/10. I hope to see more of it and to see more great comedy anime in general.
Would recommend it to anyone wanting to watch a relaxing comedy anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 30, 2020

Kami-O

Not Recommended

This anime is about 3 kids. 1 is like an upgraded version of Rika. And by upgrade I mean even more delusional, not better. He is in love with the supposed main character for some reason. The Main character is a masochist that likes to blame everyone for his shortcomings when he is the one to blame for having the temperament of a bob-omb. He almost literally explodes in fits of rage at the chuunibyou character. His indecisiveness makes him the most unlikable character in the show. Lastly there is the God of the show. He can hypnotize people with his eyes and read the ... MC's mind. He always uses this to pick on the MC. I was gunna say the MC probably enjoys it, but after thinking carefully he has anger issues and the people picking on him are an intelligent being who knows his everything and a clown who wishes he were Rika but needs to be in a hospital.

That being said watching this is kinda like watching NTR. You wanna feel bad for the victim (the one who is being stolen) but you know at the end of the story they actually enjoy whats happening then you wonder why you felt bad and end up hating them instead. Its like "enjoy it or shut the fuck up and stop complaining". Its just annoying. Hope this review sheds some light on why this anime is currently 6.75 and not the 8 some people seem to think this garbage deserves.

Like everything it has its moments but overall what a shit show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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