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37. SKET Dance (2011)
Raka (4/5)


SKET Dance is a slapstick comedy revolving around a group of high-schoolers, who formed a club called the SKET Dan in order to solve the problems of their peers. It's not really a very deep show, relying almost solely on humor, but it gets the job done well for me!

The show hits most of it's quality in it's side characters and vocal performances. The main three have some incredible VAs backing them, and it more or less makes them work. I felt this pretty hard when I tried to read the manga, and none of them were all that funny. It's probably lame to let funny voices be such a huge factor in my enjoyment, but hey, comedy is comedy. The side characters are where the show hits it's stride. My favorites are Roman, an aspiring shoujo manga artist with awful artistic abilities, who sees everything through the eyes of a shoujo protagonist, and Shinzo, a guy with the mannerisms of a classic samurai, who can only perform well after eating a Friske Mint.

I did find the episodes where it covered the backstories of the three mains to be a little offputting. It can be difficut to remove characters from their purely comedic identities when the tonal shift is so massive without any kind of warning. Switch's is especially terrible, since it basically ends by showing that his computer speech is the result of trauma that he was never able to cope with, and it just immediately goes back to making a joke out of it. Thankfully, there are only about 8 "serious" episodes, and most of the other episodes are, at the very least, decent. It's hard to be on your game for 77 episodes, but I think SKET Dance manages quite well.
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