Oh youth and the tremendous voyage called growing up. The adolescent years often characterize most people in one way or another. While some people have happy memories of high school and others have unpleasant ones, I think we can all agree that it was an exceptional time in our lives that cannot be compared.
Daily Lives of High School Boys. That's all there is to it. It's a typical slice-of-life tale, yet it works surprisingly nicely. The episodes are segmented and center on numerous characters-each with unique quirks-as they go about their daily lives. It is quite difficult to depict something so simple in a humorous way, and I believe that most animes that attempt to do so wind up with a lot of uninteresting scenes that detract from the overall atmosphere. DKN manages to avoid it in practically every scene, which is pretty incredible. You'll still laugh aloud a lot, even in its worst episode.
There's hardly much to note here. It was an acceptable level of art. Better wasn't necessary anyhow. The character designs were passable, with several figures having well-worn expressions. That worked well enough with the animation. It didn't really stand out, but I never thought it needed to be much better, so I suppose they did a decent job.
Okay, so there are two main reasons why I had to give this a nine. To begin with, the soundtrack was hilarious and well suited. The Literature Girl Song was hilarious to me every time; it was ideal for those kinds of situations and, as you can tell by simply listening to the song, it's a terrific job. The voice performers then account for the second reason. I wasn't sure where to discuss this because I'm not an experienced anime reviewer, so for obvious reasons, I'm just included it in the sound.
