 If you liked
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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 ...then you might like
Nichijou
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Wordy, yes. Daily life, yes. Trying to do stuff in a Mr. Bean way, yes times ten. Both show share the ways of being funny, if you can really overlook the art style people normally can't.
Uh, sure, when you watch SZS it's feel like New Zealand All Blacks somehow dominate the monitor, but the real promise of SZS is just the wacky daily life of a very stereotypical cast of characters. Art style simply do the trick of differentiating the show from other school life.
If I like Nichijou I will like SZS, you kidding? No. Darker atmosphere in SZS is not real, it is
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Both series have a surreal style and delightfully bizarre humor. Nichijou's a bit less dark in its comedy, but still gives you that "what did I just watch?" feeling while you laugh.
- Set in a classroom
- Absurdist humour
- Large cast of regular characters all with different designs
- Lots of puns
- Everyday occurrences exaggerated to the extremes
School setting? Check. Weird teachers and weird students? Check. Absurd humour you won't fully understand if you aren't from Japan? Check. Over-the-top animation their respective studios spent 99.9% of budget on? Check. The only differences that matter? Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is darker and more packed with pop-culture references, while Nichijou is more light-hearted and into Buddhism.
Oh, and also Yukko is literally Kafuka (but there's also one important difference).