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This show really knows how to do comedy right. It plays around with clichés instead of becoming one, and the every dialogue feels like it's part of a skit (there's a lot of that Japanese "konto" style humour).

The premise is simple and funny enough that you don't have to think or wonder about (like you might with Overlord, Log Horizon, etc.), the characters are great, and you can see that the main thing the entire studio focused on was the humour. The drawing, the movements, the sound effects, the quickness of the witty replies, the voice acting, everything is centred around humour, and it WORKS.

I ... loved how Kazuma will reply to anyone calling him with "Yes, I'm Kazuma" RIGHT AFTER he gets called, and in quick, low volume addition that gets IGNORED by the caller. It's probably a common joke in high schools or comedy skits in Japan, but we get to see it in anime with fresh eyes.

Megumin's voice actor is simply amazing. Even in simple scenes she adds character. E.g. When Kazuma first meets her, he pulls on her fake eye-patch, and she shouts "Yame, yamero!!", but instead of just keeping it a monotone and upset shout, she adds this commanding, growling tone in the middle to kinda give it a "How dare you! How about you stop?!" feeling. Excellent!

It's a great comedy show, totally worth a 9/10.

The first episode and the community hype gives you a lot of hope. But other than the interesting concept (well, it's not that new, even Osmosis Jones did it), the show is very cliché, has no story (more slice of life), and the characters are all basic.

Before you go on hating this review because this show is your new favourite anime, please give it a minute.

There have been 5 episodes, and they all have the same storyline.
Something harmful enters the body.
Scares the Red Blood Cell girl.
The White Blood Cell guy comes to save her.
The enemy is stronger than expected (some biological explanation).
Some new ... cell or method saves the day (some biological explanation).

DONE. That's it. That is the whole show just on repeat. On top of that, we really don't see any progress in character relationships, the events are predictable (there a scene where a lady cell with a scythe comes to fight zombie like cells, gets surrounded, a T-Cell goes "Ah! Watch out!" and of course, she just swings the scythe to kill them all), and the humour is average (they even missed a chance at the beginning of Epi 5 to make the alert scenes like Evangelion's).

It's not a bad show, but nothing amazing, nothing that lives up to the community hype. It's a solid 5/10.