Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

While scrolling down the Spring 2016 anime list I encountered Tanaka-kun is Always Listless. It seemed like an anime with no presence and no one would've cared about it.

I was wrong.

The anime is actually really good overall and people started noticing it because it was actually good. I feel this is really underrated because of the unusual synopsis and such.

The story is about Tanaka and his friends around him, basically like the usual high school girl with the conflicts with the outside connections between the main MCs. This is the lowest point because, it is extraordinary in a way but the plot didn't really get ... to me. The story is cute though so it's okay.

The art backgrounds were very beautiful in my opinion. Character designs were unique in a way. I really liked the art for Tanaka-kun for some reason, what a relaxing sight.

The sound was also well made. I don't understand Japanese, but the upbeat tune with the cool, jazzy music works well with the anime

I love the characters so much. They are so different from most other anime characters which are bold with no intentions at all. Basically they all have a reason for acting the way they do. This doesn't seem to be a anime with character development but it still does.

Overall I give this a 9 and I enjoyed this very much. Please give this underrated anime a try!

This is an anime that was FULL of potential. I started it without many expectations, but the first two or three episodes managed to raise them, and make me think of this as the possible gem of the season.

From summaries and reviews, one might be thinking Tanaka-kun defies mainstream narrative clichés, and that the overall product tends towards a certain general calm feeling.

The truth is: Tanaka-kun had the potential to be that. It had the potential to tell an entertaining, relaxing, non-stereotypical story, while having an upbeat general tone and characters.

Then it became... something else. There were a lot of harem hints, and a ... lot of moe that didn't really add anything of value to the story, and also a lot (A LOT) of unnecessary emphasis on the romantic feelings from one of the characters towards Tanaka.

Does this suck in general? Not really. If you're watching something from a romantic, moe, or harem genre, then you're expecting this. If you're not, and you've come here looking for some nice gen slice of life, or have been bought over by the first episodes, then you'll feel like me, which can be summed up as: :/

I feel like Tanaka-kun dropped the ball. It could've been something incredibly engaging and somewhat original, but instead it chose to be... basically the same as the 1000 harem, school life anime that came before it.


All that said, there ARE some episodes that are funny and entertaining, and some of the characters are GOLDEN (Miyano, Ecchan and Ohta). The art style isn't anything groundbreaking or particularly remarkable, but it accompanies the general atmosphere and feel of the story, and the coloring is really, really nice. The animation is okay most of the time. Just that. Okay. It gets below average, but never above. The sound is one of its best points, to me, since there are moments where really interesting things happen, diegetically. The opening song is really fitting.

Tanaka kun is Always Listless-and this may surprise you-is a comedy anime with a school setting as if there aren't a ton of garbage out there with the same premise. It's as if the industry that produced so many exciting and thought provocative animes is now a stagnant pool of shit and i blame YOU, the viewers, cause when an interesting anime appears if it hurts your feelings you take to twatter and cry internet tears of despair so we end up with crap like this one.

TIAL is about Tanaka, who is a lazy as fuck student who wants to do nothing but sleep. In ... his quest for total nothingness his loyal comrade Ohta is always there to carry him like those dogs Paris Hilton carries around, you know the ones that look like a dwarf devil with an attitude. Thankfully a petite blonde bitch comes into play and she wants to know all about his dark ways of tantric sex but she quickly finds out that what he does isn't a cult like ceremony into adulthood but he's just a lazy fuck sitting on his ass all day..And she liked that and wanted to be his apprentice triggering a downpoor of whores who wanted to be in his harem as well....LOL!

TIAL does little to go past its' premise and by premise i mean Tanaka doing nothing and being lazy. 12 episodes of a lazy fuck doing lazy shit and when he does his lazy shit he does them with such laziness that i swear my watch almost grinded to a halt. If it wasn't for the secondary characters this show would be dead and gone in mere minutes. Characters like Tanaka’s best friend Ohta, the petite Miyano who follows Tanaka and calls him her master, the all time classic athletic and self proclaimed deliquent Echizen and the perfect student Shiraishi among others...Speaking of others we also meet Rino, Tanaka’s sister....Now remember the harem part i mentioned earlier? Turns out that every female in this anime has feelings at some point for Tanaka...Even his fucking sister! BUT the show is too lazy to do anything even with that aspect and it's bored out of it's mind giving the girls any love so they end up being the same old stereotypes we can watch in every other shit anime these days.

I also mentioned that this is a comedy right? Well depends on how you define comedy to be honest. This has the light feather like comedy style which means the jokes go like this: Tanaka has a conversation with someone the someone is awaiting for his reply but Tanaka has dozed off and never responds..Imagine my shock thinking that Dave Chappelle was a genius comedian only to find out this little gem to enlighten me on the ways of comedy....There were even times where they had to explain to you that what you're seeing was a joke so they had some huge letters to give you the idea...Yeah it's that bad.

Visually it's well done with soft colours and quite decent artwork and i couldn't care less cause even with colourful animation you can't escape the fact that this belongs into the darkest recesses of the abyss..Don't bother looking into tha abyss though it's too lazy to look back at ya.

And that's all i had to say about this anime really. This anime is definitely not for everyone and certainly those past the age of 10. TIAL is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow even for a SOL and don't get me started on this annoying twat of a main character. I wish this anime would focus on everyone else instead and it would be better off than this simplistic approach and i've seen simplistic anime before but most of them at least made an effort to be something..This wants to be nothing and you should treat it as such.