Incidentally, the synopsis of this would be, the daily lives of a high school student name "Tanaka". Who have a natural talent for being listlessness, with his friend Ohta who's the opposite. And because he's the kind of a good person in nature; he usually helps Tanaka out, taking care of him due to the adverse effect that it has on Tanaka's high school lives for having the attribute of listlessness and indulging it, because "it feels good". In which they became best friend. Then they meet several others, with a pretty interesting attribution to each of the character presented. Some with a twist to their actual character, some pretending to be someone else just to be recognize among other (theme of appearance vs reality), and some having a raucous and Yankee like behaviour but actually weak towards cute things and inherently nice as a person. And the moe within this show is shining incandescently bright as fuck. And because of this, i can't resist the urge to see more of Tanaka in the future and the other character as well (especially Tanaka's sister, SHE's JUST TO DAMN CUTE!). These characters are pretty interesting so far, and unique. Plus their dialogue is pretty deep as well. One of these dialogue talk about globalization through the English language, some philosophy, rationalizing behaviour, evolution of humans etc. Some things that i have never expected a show like this to start talking about lol. But it was delivered so well and interesting coz it was deliver by our 2 stoic faces characters, Ohta and Tanaka. While Tanaka is listless, and stoic. His characters make him look like a quiet child that needs to be help in a lot ways. So you will get this feeling of spoiling him, or not wanting to left him alone to sulk. Because, ummmm. Im a guy but he's just too adorable man LOL. No homo. Just moe... Really...
These includes the act of wanting to carrying him to class (Ohta my man), carrying him to his home (Ohta again), carrying him to his home or his friend's house (Ohta again...). Yea he can't live without someone to help him get through his day, because he's really just too tired to do anything by himself lol. This makes Tanaka as a character alot cuter than he actually is without his silliness and ideas that will baffle us that will make us think, "Why did you think like that man?" or "Tanaka... Dude how did you come into that conclusion lmao", or just simply, "WTF Tanaka".
Not only that, these characters, especially Tanaka are very unique and some of the very deep or touchy moment of this anime thus far are affected by his personalities as well. They are pretty good, while not having that pertinent to the cliche that we usually sees in a scene in relation to those parts. It's more of a self aware kinda thing for a character such as Tanaka which makes those scene alot more unique than the other anime out there. Probably because this is not an anime to stress yourself out into thinking about the bad stuff, and the complicated, emotional stuff to deeply. It's a relaxing anime. And Ohta has that quality of being the nagging wife or presumably good in nature. It's worth a try if you want to find something to watch for relaxation, filling your lack of cuteness in your lives, some light hearted moment and stoic comedy etc.
The artstyle and the background art really fit in perfectly to what the anime is aiming at when we, the audience is watching it.
And obviously, this isn't a story aim to be the best anime out there. I mean we usually try to make out what makes an anime great based from the story progression of the story, the flow of the story, the dialogue, character development, intellectual/complicated plot development, being able to find other elements to forward the story in a unique ways, rational or badass MC and characters that makes a certain story great. But that isn't the case for an anime such as this. These kind of restriction kinda complicates the actuality of what makes a certain type of anime, story, movie or whatever great to certain individuals. That's why there are so many kind of these type of animes that are not aiming to be the best in the eyes of critics who wants to see something serious and profound, but to help the audience relax, enjoy the moe, and enlightening the meaning of happiness for many depressive men in Japan, or the stressful days we all have with reality.... ummmm i guess? I only watches this because the comedy is unique and new to having an MC that's listless. There're alot of female student selling themselves off, servicing men to walk with them, talk to them (old business, to young, or otakus), and so forth in Akihabara. And Otakus whose life are miserable and using anime as a pretext to live on with their unsatisfying life. But i'll end this conversation there, since it's kinda out of context. And yea.... Why the hell did i start talking about it.. Oh yea, these kind of animes, or story are popular in the anime community because sometimes we need something to alleviate the hates that we sees in the world, people, or community, or even family. And this anime kinda alleviate it in a more relaxing way. The kind of relaxing and cute that will makes you want to watch more of Tanaka-Kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge.
Nevertheless, this anime is pretty great so far, the humor is cute, silly, refreshing and funny. The aesthetics of the anime was great. Character design are pretty interesting (except for Ohta, his appearance looks plain). It's for that interesting for me at the very least, but just check it out for a couple of episodes.
