Supposedly, you're are sitting in your classroom looking at your teacher running his mouth nonstop, it's the easiest to have your attention deflected at such a time even with those minor distractions.What'd you do if the things happening beside you are more interesting than what's going on before you? Could you avoid it? That our Rumi Yokoi for you.
I'll make myself write something brief and prompt for an anime that only runs a little over 6 mins in every episode, as 30 seconds are dedicated to the OP & ED songs.
Rumi is the main protagonist and the narrator of the show and Seki~kun who sits next to her is always playing games at his desk. That is pretty much the whole gist there is no real plot, which actually seems to work well here. Humor is mostly delivered through Seki's actions and expressions,exaggeration of events and Rumi's incessant commentary. Even then both characters seems to be likeable and you'll only laugh out loud listening to Yokoi rattle away since the anime mostly depends on it to convey its hilarity.The episodes open to normal games whether it's domino,chess or Shogi but things get more ridiculous with each passing second. The comedy is nice and light hearted. The animation neat and clean considering each episode is so short and such series are mostly low budgeted and focused on content
There is no music in the series other than the OP & ED and a Robot song, I personally have come to even like the ED and am enjoying listening to the full version.
There aren't many character interactions as each secondary character doesn't show up more than twice or thrice through out the whole series, their appearances and encounters with the main characters are kept strictly minor.
Yokoi's seiyuu is Kana Hanazawa, a renowned voice in the industry (notable roles are Kosaki Onodera and Angel Kanade Tachibana) which is important as much of the humor is in the comical dialogue delivery too. Seki never really talks.
The anime series is a braincandy and can be watched when your trying to take a break between episodes, seasons or when your thinking of what to watch after you've just finished something. The show proves a point to you that humor can be created without the ecchiness and still be very funny. It's not just a bunch of boob and panty jokes thrown together (Mangaka-san to Assistant-san, I am eyeing u) but the gags are just for laughs so don't judge or take the show too seriously.
The series is very innovative and gripping, something creative has been done but as a second opinion, Always, the girl however reluctant ends up getting involved in Seki-kun's acts that results in her name getting called out by the teacher, It all comes down to personal taste as some may find this repetitive and boring,So if you find yourself paying more attention to what the teacher is saying instead of what Seki-kun's doing, you're bored of the show, because that's what the show should be doing, keeping your mind off the lesson but I am only speaking hypothetically.
Hence, watch it before you windup a conclusion. As for me I felt much enjoyment in watching it. If you get really entertained by the series you'll find yourself chuckling at the ludicrousness of it all, I was never bored and got really consumed in the series I was only disrupted when I had to choose another episode to watch but I really enjoyed my 150+ minutes
I found each episode ending rather quickly but contrary to that I won't be complaining about the length of every episode because even though I am left wanting for more, some things are best left just the way they're, It's an intuition that the anime is an adaption of a 4-panel comic strip. The run time of the show is also the reason for it's excellence, because while the characters might feel so underdeveloped to some, having a normal run time would have more character interactions, romantic development but we want to preserve the show's uniqueness, or else it would've drifted away from it's main motive of creating humor, simply humor, ordinary humor, amusing humor, the run time adds to distinguish the show from the other animes. Though this can become a long time running anime series but with short episodes. I hope it comes back soon.
Conclusion- when you're looking for ways to kill your time, why not do it in an extravagant manner with Seki~kun, The master of killing time, afterall nobody does it better than him.
Thanks for reading it right till the end ^^ if u did, I know I said it would quick.
