Sket Dance is about a group of 3 high schools part of the Sket-Dan club that is aimed to help people with various tasks. The premise reminded me of Violet Evergarden's way of storytelling, in that it isn't solely about the main character but in-depth telling of many supporting characters. It is like that for Sket Dance as well, I know a lot about the supporting characters too.
The 3 characters are amazing. Bossun, Onihime, and Switch. Bossun's backstory is wholesome yet tragic, and he is a great guy. Onihimes backstory is quite interesting and tragic too. Switch's backstory is tragic and quite messed up, to say the least. It is insane how in such a wholesome comedic anime there are just like a random 3-to 4 episodes of some of the most depressing storytelling ever.
Switch is by far my favorite character. He is somewhat relatable, comedic, and downright amazing. He adds so much to the scene although I wished he had more lines in the show. Bossun and Onihime were also great, and I enjoyed their presence a lot.
When it comes to comedy, it is always very subjective. This show reminded me of Gintama's legendary comedy, and dare I say this show is better with comedy. The one aspect of Gintama I did not enjoy as much was Kagura over-acting and I felt bad for Shinpachi a lot. Here that does not happen, and in fact, it is very wholesome and everyone is having a great time. Honestly my favorite comedy 2nd only to Nichijou's amazing contemporary SoL comedy, but alas that is something that will not change.
The amazing part of this show, and better than Nichijou for that matter, is the sheer quantity of jokes that hit home. Every single joke I laughed at. For a show with 77 episodes, you'd think a couple would miss.
Nope. Every single one I laughed, laughed hard at. I still cannot preface this enough, I watch a lot of comedy shows. a LOT. And yet at least half of the jokes fall super flat. The anime I finished before this, Maid-Sama, in my opinion, was a snooze-fest in terms of comedy. Maybe its just this over-the-top gag humor that enlightens me, especially saiki-K and gintama-type shows.
It is still crazy that this show is so underrated. Like no one knows about this show. Even I only heard about it because of Gintama, otherwise I would not have watched this gem which is definitely in my top 15 now, maybe top 10. Literal Kaguya-Sama levels of humour.
With Kaguya-sama they balanced an amazing story while this did not have *as* much of a developed story. I felt the love-aspect of it was quite rushed/forced. Also a lot of stories went unfinished, maybe its that the anime is done but there's more manga due to budget issues. But still, super unfortunate I do not hear more about Chuu-sensei or the samurai story.
All in all amazing amazing anime, receiving a rare 10/10
Thanks a ton Sket-Dance!!!
-CyanCheetah
