This newest series
was my first introduction to this typical yonkoma (4-panel) comedy title. The series revolves around 4 ronin
(pre-college students) who all live in a small apartment building and slack
their lives away. While each ronin is
supposed to be studying hard and trying to pass the entrance exam to get into
college none of them actually do anything other than lay around and goof
off. The series follows them through
about 1 year and a half worth of time in which they discuss the exams only a
handful of times. Most of the time is
spent joking with each other, sleeping or wondering about oddities on reality.
This series really
doesn’t bring anything new to the genre of comedic slice of life series based
on yonkome manga. But at 3 minutes per
episode (including the 30 second sugary intro theme) you spend maybe a little
over an hour watching this series, so it’s not a waste of time. On one hand it’s nice that the legitimate
internet streaming services allow these short series a better chance of broad distribution
but on the other hand, some of them really aren’t that great to begin
with. Use this series to fill in the
gaps while the ending credits for Lucky Star or Minami-ke are rolling.
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