Asobi Asobase

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Japanese: あそびあそばせ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 8, 2018 to Sep 23, 2018

Premiered: Summer 2018

Broadcast: Sundays at 21:00 (JST)

Producers: Hakusensha, AT-X, Sony Music Communications, Kadokawa Media House, Kadokawa

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Lerche

Source: Manga

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Gag Humor, School

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.19¹ (scored by 227,809 users)

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Ranked: #383²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #469

Members: 479,516

Favorites: 6,727

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8.19

Ranked #383Popularity #469Members 479,516

Episodes: /12

Synopsis

During recess, Olivia, a foreign transfer student who doesn't know English, plays a game of "look-the-other-way" with Hanako Honda, a loud-mouthed airhead. Their rowdy behavior spurs the ire of Kasumi Nomura, a deadpan loner constantly teased by her older sister for her tendency to lose games. Not willing to compete, Kasumi declines Olivia's offer to join the fun, but eventually gets involved anyway and dispenses her own brand of mischief. Soon, a strange friendship blossoms between the peculiar trio, and they decide to form the "Pastime Club," where they are free to resume their daily hijinks.

Whether it be failing to learn English, trying desperately to become popular, or getting caught by teachers at the wrong time, school life will never be boring when the girls of Asobi Asobase are up to their hilarious antics.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Honda, Hanako

Main

Kino, Hina
Japanese

Olivia

Main

Nagae, Rika
Japanese

Nomura, Kasumi

Main

Kohara, Konomi
Japanese

Maeda

Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou
Japanese

Aozora, Tsugumi

Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Fujiwara

Supporting

Uchida, Shuu
Japanese

Oka, Ruu

Supporting

Kanazawa, Mai
Japanese

Baby

Supporting

Iwata, Mitsuo
Japanese

Olivia's Brother

Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Sharekoube, Tokuko

Supporting

Kanazawa, Mai
Japanese

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Tanaka, Shou

Producer

Higa, Yuuji

Producer

Iizuka, Aya

Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro

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Opening Theme

"Three-Piece (スリピス)" by Hanako Honda (Hina Kino), Olivia (Rika Nagae), Kasumi Nomura (Konomi Kohara)

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Ending Theme

"Inkya Impulse (インキャインパルス)" by Hanako Honda (Hina Kino), Olivia (Rika Nagae), Kasumi Nomura (Konomi Kohara) feat. Ikepy & KSKN

Reviews

Sep 23, 2018

KANLen09

Recommended

Move over, Grand Blue (despite the MAL score) and Hinamatsuri (Spring 2018's best comedy)!

Asobi Asobase is here to take your place not just as AOTS for Summer 2018's super weak BUT strong comedic presence, but also AOTY for the overall yearly comedy genre, and I have the full experience to tell you why this series is damn underrated, and hidden behind it is pure insane high school gag-comedy...AT ITS BEST AND FINEST!

If there was a rating above 10, I would give this series a multiplier 100/10, because this is more than just some mindless AF comedic masterpiece. It's comedic execution will creep you with its ...

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Mar 20, 2021

mimimilk

Mixed Feelings

[No spoilers review] Make sure to watch Asobi Asobase alone and if using earbuds, keep volume lowered. This show is outrageous and hilarious! Multiple times I found myself having to pause to recuperate myself after dying from the crazy obnoxious screaming and over the top facial expressions. Asobi Asobase: Workshop of Fun is not your slife of life girl's doing cute things anime despite what cover picture and opening shows. Anyone watching would realize quickly after the first episode, no just a few minutes into the first episode.

Art -
The animation is the weakest point for this show. After multiple ... uses of the similar surprise scenes they lose their touch. Besides that, other scene to scene animations parts are mediocre at most, nothing to get excited for. Nonetheless this does not take away from the comedy yet also does not add anything.

Sound -
The OP and ED surprised me. Inkya Impulse feat. Ikepy & KSKN was the perfect song to mirror the op Three-Piece. The singers Hanako Honda, Olivia, Kasumi Nomura did a amazing job doing a 180 from the calm gentle summer breeze op into the death metal ed. If Three-Piece was the clickbait of a youtube thumbnail then Inkya Impulse would be the thumbnail for a suggested video edging viewers to watch the next episode.

Again, props to the voice actors for bringing the characters alive on screen. Asobi Asobase wouldn't be the same without them. Hanako Honda's voice actor
Hina Kino's streaking, screaming and yelling was very annoying as they should be, bringing the Hanako alive.

Characters -
Our three main characters Hanako Honda, Kasumi Nomura, and Olivia if described in one world, it would be, stupid. But that works in favor for a gag comedy show. Their stupidity added together causes a exponential explosion that causes their overall stupidity to triple, no quadruple, allowing the trio to find themself in random questionable events that make their day to day high school life unexpecting but hilarious.

Enjoyment -
Asobi Asobase is a really fun to watch, but not all in one sitting. As a gag comedy it lacks any sort of real plot making it more enjoyable if watched over a long period of time instead of all in one day. The characters get annoying after watching episodes back to back, and no matter how funny Honda screaming is, she gets annoying after one too many times. The mediocre art doesn't help in this department much ether. The jokes are funny but character reaction should also play a important part of the comedy, so when the reaction is the same thing over and over it gets dull.

Overall I would give Asobi Asobase a 6 out of 10. I genuinely enjoyed it, and if a sequel or spin off shows up I would probably watch it and enjoy it as well. I would not recommend this how to friends who just started watching anime as a comedy show recommendation because of how obnoxious the characters are.

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Mar 23, 2019

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

Overview:

Hoo boy, this review might be a little controversial with some of my MAL friends. We all know how subjective comedy is and how we all find different things funny. I heard glowing reviews about this anime, but the jokes just really weren't working for me.

Humor Style:

Do you have young kids in your family? Have you ever watched Teen Titans Go? Asobi Asobase uses a very similar approach to its humor and episodes, only in my opinion its slightly less funny. For example, characters will constantly make stupid faces and that's the joke. Characters will reference popular things, and that's the entire joke. There's ... an episode devoted to bad online yaoi fanfics and that's probably the best episode. The rich girl's butler is probably the best character just from his line delivery. His character's quirk is that alien's gave him an anal probe and now he fires lasers out of his ass. That's the level of intellectual humor we're working with. Another episode involves the girls getting into a contest to smell each other's armpits. The foreign girl wins because East Asians have less apocrine sweat glands and produce less body odor. You see kids, that's because East Asians usually have the AA allele of the ABCC11 gene that produces apocrine sweatglands. The AA allele is a mutation that makes the gene non-fuctional, so not as many apocrine sweat glands form. Most humans have the GA or GG alleles, so they produce more body odor. Those alleles were selected for in most of the world because body odor acts as an aphrodisiac for primates like us. Scientists believe the smelly alleles were not selected for in East Asians and Native Americans likely due to the cold climate of 20,000-10,000 years ago nullifying the advantage of smelling bad. The whole joke is that the episode is wasting your time teaching you about something you probably don't care about. It's the mortgage and real estate episode of Teen Titans Go!!! Same joke, same technique.

Characters:

There are 3 main girls that make up the pastime club. The first is Hanako, who is rich and stupid. That's her character. The second is Kasumi, who is a geek girl that dislikes games because her older sister always beat her at games. The final girl is Olivia, who was born in Japan to American parents. She pretends to speak English and acts like she can't speak Japanese, but she actually can only speak Japanese. That's the ENTIRE joke with her character. Every episode basically just uses variations of that joke.

Plot:

It's a show about nothing happening except 3 shallow characters hang out and do dumb gags. Occasionally they troll the audience and waste our time. Once again, kind of reminds me of this other cartoon I know.

Animation:

Studio Lerch used all their budget on Assassination Classroom, so this was made with whatever spare change they had left over.

Overall:

If you thought this show was hilarious, that's totally cool. I have shit taste in comedy and I'm in no position to cast judgment on anyone. I recently watched an anime called "Miss Bernard Said", which as of this review is rated at 6.02 here on MAL. Everyone here on MAL hates that series and thinks it's less funny than a brain tumor. I personally thought Miss Bernard was utterly hilarious. It's a simple show about a girl named Sawako who wants to impress people with how intelligent and cultured she is, but she's too lazy to actually read novels or watch art films. She just constantly brags about stuff she didn't actually read and is a pseudo-intellectual snob. I found it funny because I used to be a Sawako in Middle School. I think most people at some point have gone through a Sawako phase and that familiarity makes it funny. At least to me. If you're in the mood for a particular brand of VERY goofy humor, I can see why this show would be appealing. Personally though, I can't really recommend it easily.

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