Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Teppen Grand Prix is a competition established out of an appreciation for stand-up comedy. As devoted fans of such performances, Yayoi Sakamoto and her two friends—Yomogi Takahashi and Yuzu Hosono—form the stand-up trio Young Wai-Wai. After qualifying for the final round in the prix, the three go up against other comedic trios, but only one group can emerge victorious.

With participants housed in a famous dorm where many comedians before them have lodged, the contestants' time living at the establishment will give them a chance to prove they have what it takes to make their audience laugh until they cry!

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Sakamoto, Yayoi Main

Itou, Ayasa Japanese

Takahashi, Yomogi Main

Terakawa, Aimi Japanese

Hosono, Yuzu Main

Sasaki, Mikoi Japanese

Ishiya, Mone Supporting

Suzuki, Aina Japanese

Rokkatei, Yuina Supporting

Kojima, Nanae Japanese

Kasama, Hina Supporting

Hazuki, Himari Japanese

Shirakabe, Mako Supporting

Kohara, Riko Japanese

Komatsuzaki, Miyu Supporting

Sakuragawa, Megu Japanese

Hokuto, Chihori Supporting

Koyama, Momoyo Japanese

Amano, Chitose Supporting

Aiba, Aina Japanese

Tanaka, Hiroyuki Producer

Oonuki, Yuusuke Producer

Kitazawa, Fumitaka Producer

Miyakoshi, Tooru Producer

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Oct 3, 2022

trickymindful

Recommended

Teppen is one of my favourites in this season. The wackiness, the unreasonable boke, and fast pacing comedy is what I love in this. Tbh, this anime is the only comedy anime that cracks me up in this season. The approach is similar to Kill la Kill, i.e., over the top and fast-paced. Absurdness upon absurdness come like a barrage of machine-guns.

Its only weakness is in the last episode, where some seriousness is present. To most people, the comedy is unfunny because it has layers. You need to know many japanese trivias to really grasp the meanings. But to me, comedy with more than 1 ... layer is more interesting because it contains informations rather than laughs only. Seitokai Yakuindomo is one such instance where knowledge of kanji and dirty jokes is required.

The other reason why I like this is that seiyuu's ability to deliver comedy is significant in their career. I have watched how veteran seiyuu in older comedy anime performed and they are marveous. Usually the ones that cannot deliver as good can be seen as newcomers or just not as experienced. Looking at these newcomers is something that I look forward to because some of them lately had matured into incredible seiyuus and in high demand.

If you come for easy laughs, this anime is not recommended. If you otherwise look for trivias or layered comedy, this anime will be a good choice.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 24, 2022

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Here I am, questioning to myself again: yet another manzai comedy? And after the blandness that is Maesetsu! that only really speaks to the native Japanese (which everyone else will not understand), is Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (And yes, that is 15 exclamation marks, the most after Keijo with 8) gonna be any different? In a hopeful way, I wish I do, because of all the manzai comedy that has been seen, Teppen is easily the best out of the lot that I remember, though not without its issues.

We all understand comedy in all sorts of various ways. But when if it's one that's ingrained only to a ... certain demographic, that honestly is a bit hard to justify its existence to everyone else. And this is exactly what Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has going for it, being a Japanese manzai a.k.a stand-up comedy that's all the rage in Japan as a traditional pastime. Unfortunately, if you don't understand much about that, I can tell you that it's hard to really love this show for all that's worth of its various references and such.

The basis for Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is exactly what it sounds like: a group of girls incorporated into a competition (the Teppen Grand Prix) from the views of 3 new and aspiring young rookies (Yayoi Sakamoto, Yomogi Takahashi and Yuzu Hosono) whom want to make it big with comedy, and finding themselves living together with other groups with their own quirks and features, all in the vying to win the competition with the best they could. And I'll say that I give marks for some originality that's done here to showcase the various groups according to their regions (Young Wai-wai from Kansai (region), Celebri-Tea from Tokai, Akudare Kingdom from Kanto, Invaders from Hokkaido, and Bullet Kunoichi from Kansai (area)) and fully establishing the real-life counterpart identities from where they come from, for all 15 girls.

As for the part of the show that supposedly wants to make the audience "Laughing 'til You Cry"...well that is pretty much a mixed bag. You either love it or find it boring (as is my case) that some references will be generally understood, but for a comedy skit performance, it isn't as refined as say the CGDCT moments for the group that lives in Takako-so under the watch of "Onegai Muscle" rip-off Manager-cum-caretaker Seiji Tani. Throughout the course of the anime showing the groups' various skits (at least on my watch), most of them were quite boring but not stale, as per the motive to infuse comedy where it works best. To this I say, maybe you can understand the inference better than I do, and there're two sides to the comedy coin in this case.

The most impressive I've seen from this show is the mixed usage of Seiyuus that for a large character cast such as this, they did their job well to retain the feeling of infused, fine comedy. And this is brought forward to the OP, which is the most creative that I've both seen and heard of others calling it a banger, and it's not without reason that its over-the-top goofiness allows to embrace its intentions wholeheartedly. And largely for that, it succeeded. May'n's ED isn't half bad either, now that I think of it, especially when the OST is that subpar and generic, there were a few standouts, though it honestly didn't make my experience watching this any better, even with studio Drive's whack-outta-the-wazoo like visuals, which also got the job done as it should.

It's absurd, it's wacky, it's just comedy. And believe me, I've tried to like Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and what it has going for it, but it's just boring and ludicrious to sit for 12 episodes expecting to understand references and body jokes, to the point of messing with my brain and thinking: "Comedy can be better than this, and it doesn't have to be limited after all."

Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s definitely not a snoozefest, but a sleepfest of a dream with sheep baaing question marks on top of my head, now that's more affirmative.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 19, 2022

Flubberdoodles

Not Recommended

Even despite how Japanese-centered the comedy is, even if you can understand most of the jokes and gags, the fact of the matter is that Teppen !x15 is simply not that funny. It has funny moments, and the characters are slightly unique, but the jokes in this anime are not what you'd expect from "professional" comedians even though we're expected to believe they're the best of the best and the audience is supposedly laughing along with you as the story plays out. There were a few good gags and jokes, sure, of course there were, but any semi-decent slice of life has some comedy bits ... here and there. I felt more obligated to laugh at parts than actually naturally laugh. Unlike something like Joshiraku where we laugh because of the characters' developments on the side of their profession, Teppen !x15 is literally about their comedy, which brings in even higher expectations, yet fails to deliver. Also, the whole actual driving plot was totally left on the side which was a real shame. Honestly, this anime had so much potential, but went in a completely wrong direction.

All in all, it's a comedy anime that focuses on top-notch comedy, yet doesn't get any funnier than your average rom-com. You're better off watching Joshiraku even if you don't understand the jokes because at least most of the setups are somewhat decent. Or better yet, just watch an actual funny gag anime like Asobi Asobase and Joushikousei no Mudazukai. It should honestly be labled more as a CGDCT and leave it at that. The girls are cute and fun, but that's about it.

As a side note, I have to say that the visuals for the OP were absolutely stunning. It's weird because it's not super flashy or has crazy effects, but seeing how they animated the girls and backgrounds was just so pleasing to look at. I watched the OP every single episode and partially finished the anime at all just to keep looking at the OP. The song itself isn't anything crazy either. I've seen worse, but it's not playlist-breaking either. 8/10 on the OP for sure (only -2 cuz song)

Overall, 4/10 for being somewhat average, but failing to adhere to the expectations of the main focus of the entire story, comedy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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