Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku (Chronicles of the Going Home Club)

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English: Chronicles of the Going Home Club

Japanese: 帰宅部活動記録

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 5, 2013 to Oct 11, 2013

Premiered: Summer 2013

Broadcast: Fridays at 02:43 (JST)

Producers: VAP, Nippon Television Network

Licensors: NIS America, Inc.

Studios: Nomad

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.79¹ (scored by 13,069 users)

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Ranked: #4404²

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Popularity: #2317

Members: 40,846

Favorites: 108

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When a friend asks Natsuki what high school club she's going to join, she cheerfully responds "the go-home club" (meaning, she's not going to join any of them). However, she soon realizes that this club actually exists at her high school, and she's just expressed interest in joining it! Before she knows it, she ends up as one of the two new members of "the go-home club," which is a small group of eccentric school girls. One of the girls likes fighting bears, while another is ridiculously rich. But what exactly constitutes the activities of "the go-home club"?

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Adaptation:	Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku
Side story:	Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku: Miniature Theater

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Characters & Voice Actors

Doumyouji, Sakura

Main

Kobayashi, Miharu
Japanese

Andou, Natsuki

Main

Kido, Ibuki
Japanese

Oohagi, Botan

Main

Aiuchi, Sae
Japanese

Touno, Karin

Main

Yuina, Mizuki
Japanese

Kokonoe, Claire

Main

Senbongi, Sayaka
Japanese

Azarashi

Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Furuhashi, Ai

Supporting

Tanabe, Rui
Japanese

Takamado, Reina

Supporting

Misawa, Sachika
Japanese

Akabane, Shieru

Supporting

Itou, Miku
Japanese

Shirata, Taiga

Supporting

Onuma, Hideki
Japanese

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Satou, Hikaru

Director, Storyboard

Tsuchiya, Masaki

Sound Director

Morita, Geisei

Episode Director

Ueda, Shigeru

Episode Director

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"2 Gakki Debut Daisakusen!! (2学期デビュー大作戦!!)" by Otome Shinto

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#1: "Wakuwaku DAYS☆ (ワクワクDAYS☆)" by Natsuki Andou (Ibuki Kido) & Sakura Doumyouji (Miharu Kobayashi) (eps 1-3)
#2: "Hanabi (花火)" by Botan Oohagi (Sae Aiuchi) & Azarashi (M·A·O) (eps 4-7)
#3: "Kimi ni Tsuite Ieru Koto (キミについて言えること)" by Karin Touno (Mizuki Yuina) & Claire Kokonoe (Sayaka Senhongi) (eps 8-10)
#4: "Best Friend (ベスト·フレンド)" by Sakura Doumyouji (Miharu Kobayashi) & Botan Oohagi (Sae Aiuchi) & Claire Kokonoe (Sayaka Senhongi) (ep 11)
#5: "Wakuwaku DAYS☆ (ワクワクDAYS☆)" by Natsuki Andou (Ibuki Kido) & Karin Touno (Mizuki Yuina) & Sakura Doumyouji (Miharu Kobayashi) & Botan Oohagi (Sae Aiuchi) & Claire Kokonoe (Sayaka Senhongi) (ep 12)

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Oct 11, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

chicagopiano (All reviews)

164 people found this review helpful

Deconstruction of the comedy, school genre.

It never takes itself seriously, too many comedies ruin themselves by adding unnecessary drama. The art is quite a bit better than the manga. Sound is appropriate, they manage new OPs and EDs despite their budget.

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Apr 23, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

k0nata (All reviews)

63 people found this review helpful

Very nice and refreshing gag and parody anime. It has nothing to do with "cute girls & cute things" as some people think for unknown reason. The show heavily relays on breaking 4-th wall and abstract humor and it seems most of the anime watchers are not used for this and miss entire point of the series. The show is full of self-irony and mocks anime-industry quite a bit, and it feel kinda honest which I like.

People bash this show due to inability to understand content outside of typical school comedy/drama tropes. So, while I can't guarantee that you will like it, there are no read more

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Dec 25, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

ktulu007 (All reviews)

20 people found this review helpful

Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku is a comedic manga written by Kuroha and published by Square Enix. Thi year it was adapted into a twelve episode anime by Nomad, a studio that's only headed about a dozen productions, none of which I've seen. Let's take a look and see what this studio can do.

The series opens with High school student Andou Natsuki going in for the opening ceremony. Afterwards she checks out some of the club adverts, the strangest of which is someone flailing around in a seal costume. When asked what club she's going to join she responds by saying that she might just join the going home club, only to find out that it's a real thing when her classmate, Touno Karin, decides to go with her to check it out. From their it goes into the details of the club activities, which seems to consist of doing strange things for fun. The comedy in this is a strange blend of absurdist elements, breaking the fourth wall and jokes about everyday school life. The closest anime I can compare the humour to is Gokujou Seitokai. The humour is strange, can be very random and mostly works pretty effectively. The series has a lot of great moments, particularly the musical chairs bit and the Schubert episode. One thing I really appreciate about the series is that they actually use pop culture things they reference for actual jokes and parody purposes, which shouldn't be surprising but there are a lot of series that just treat the reference as a joke by itself because “this thing exists, it's funny” and that's not only completely lacking in humour but just lazy, (glaring at you, Lucky Star.) A lot of their humour is also based around making fun of really stupid tropes, their gags about fan-service for example. They do have some jokes that don't really work or just fall flat, but those are in the minority.

The characters aren't particularly deep. They're really simple archetypes who don't develop very much with their major defining characteristics played up for comedic effect. I will grant that the characters play off of each other very nicely and the dynamics among them are well handled. They're also used in a very self aware fashion, which helps make them more interesting than they would have been had they been played completely straight.

The art is pretty standard. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it isn't anything special or eye-catching. Save for a few visual gags.

The voice acting in this is well done. Most of the main cast doesn't have a lot of roles outside of this which is a shame since they are quite good. Particularly Senhongi Ayaka, Kobayashi Miharu and Kido Ibuki. The music is fun and they do some really clever things with it.

The ho-yay factor is a 6/10. The girls do get really homo-erotic. Karin and Claire are the ones who get the most screen time, but a lot of the dynamics have heavy homo-erotic undertones.

That's Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku. All in all, I rather enjoyed it. There are a lot of funny moments. The characters play off of each other nicely and the voice acting was good. That being said, it wasn't the best comedy I've ever seen and the art was certainly nothing special. Final rating, 7/10. It's a good little anime, check it out if it sounds like your type of humour. That does it for December. The request queue going into the new year is: Battle Athletes Daiundoukai, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, Shinsekai Yori and One Outs. Next week I'll ignore all of that because it's the beginning of a new year and those of you who have been reading my reviews for a while know what that means. Studio Ghibli month. We'll begin with what some claim is the first Studio Ghibli film and others argue isn't on a technicality, Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.

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Apr 7, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

ccmdo (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

Chronicles of the Going Home Club; yet another school comedy?

Everyday, literally millions of school comedy anime are brought forth into existence. No joke. It’s a somewhat... saturated market where the term “sink or swim” springs to mind.

And to start this review, I’ll admit. Going Home Club went the way of the majestic rock. Rocks have, infact, never been very good swimmers, but perhaps I’m getting slightly off topic.

Of course, just because one rock… I mean anime, gets dragged under the clambering of other more popular shows doesn’t mean it’s bad. If anything, Going Home Club is misunderstood.

For instance, those seeking a show with “character development” read more

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