What is Nichijou? A true work of art. A masterpiece of anime. It's just wonderful. Comedy gold. Finely crafted humor double cooked.
Nichijou is a comedy about random and bizarre situations that occupy our lives. Normal mundane things such as going to school or eating food is made into humor. An example is one of our characters or taking a test and seeing your friend standing on their desk or going shopping for something only to find its out of stock.
That being said Nichijou is realistic but also bizarre and absurd. It isn't supernatural or outworldish as everything they do is grounded in reality for the most part. It's a slice of life comedy.
Where else would you see a girl's sister wearing a wrestling mask underneath a bear mask before getting corkscrewed by her sister?
Where else do you watch an episode where they go to buy cat food and come home with a SNOWMAN? (Why is there a snowman in the supermarket during summer?!) Or the principal of a school SUPLEXING A DEER?. This show makes Gintama blush with how utterly absurd it can get.
This show is just delightful. It's based off the manga and operates as such. There are segments in the show split up lasting from 30 seconds to 5 minutes or so.
Some of the characters in the show are:
Yukko: the "protagonist" who is terrible at drawing, isn't very bright and is accident prone.
Mio: an artistically talented girl with blue hair who seems to be the most normal and sane out of our quirky group who - aaaand she's drawing Yaoi again.
Mai: a bispecled quiet girl who is very odd and possibly autistic as she memorizes strange things and shows little emotion. She also wears a wig underneath a wig underneath her real hair.
Nano: A girl who is actually a robot as if it wasn't evident by the comically sized wind up screw in the back of her body. She just wants to live a normal life but is often plagued by problems relating to her mechanical self and having to care for the professor as her pseudo-mother
Hakase: The child professor who built Nano, despite being a genius she is extremely immature and acts like a literal child often modifying Nano with useless and sometimes dangerous modifications like a sweet roll dispenser or rocket fist and talks/acts as a child would doing acts such as coloring pictures, throwing tantrums and wanting snacks or sugary stuff.
The animation is incredibly well done and is better then most modern anime in terms of production. Its very clear with little shading but retains a good aesthetic. Coloring is very light but not bright. The animation itself is very fluid and expressive with tons of variety thoughout and changes based on dramatic moments.
Sound wise, I prefer the sub, several characters like the professor just sound better (in my opinion!) The dub is fine however, just preference. Light jolly classical music plays throughout the episodes.
This is not an anime for kids. This is an anime for teenagers to adults I would argue as it contains sexual jokes and references at times only they would understand.
I fully recommend watching Nichijou if you need a good comedy, it is very very entertaining and worth while. If you don't find a principal wrestling a deer or a student bringing a gatling gun to school funny...then I don't know what to tell you.
All I can say is..
Hakase da~Nya 😸
