Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu.

In the distant past, Miguel, the God of Destruction, was sealed inside the knight who ruled over light and darkness, Sturmhurt. Alongside the knight was Gestöber, who accompanied him through countless battles. In the present day, destiny causes them to reincarnate as Kabuto Hanadori and Seri Koyuki, two classmates.

Their reunion should be a joyous moment, if not for the fact that these fantasied heroes are just products of Kabuto's delusions. As the fictional "Gestöber," Seri finds himself in various embarrassing situations due to Kabuto's antics that sometimes grow out of his control. Moreover, his classmate Utsugi Tsukimiya joins the fray with his absurdly accurate mind-reading abilities, slowly destroying Seri's social life.

Seri tries hard to stay away from them, refusing to acknowledge their shenanigans, however with Kabuto's chuunibyou and Utsugi's unpredictability, he is only bound to be swept by the craziness coming his way.

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Hanadori, Kabuto Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Koyuki, Seri Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Tsukimiya, Utsugi Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Kimiya, Hibiki Supporting

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Cerberus Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu Japanese

Sumiso, Kotoko Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Mogami, Kimikage Supporting

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Aitsu Supporting

Masuda, Toshiki Japanese

Mogami, Suzuran Supporting

Ikuta, Yoshiko Japanese

Tokimune, Shikimi Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Warashina, Tomoyuki Producer

Masaki, Daisuke Producer

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Mar 28, 2020

KANLen09

Recommended

To have a show like this mirror last season's surprisingly good Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy in all aspects (plot and character) and with 100% inspired accuracy, needless to say I'm always quite skeptical of the chuunibyou gag formula at the start, and come out feeling satisfied at the end. Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy did it to me last season, and this show is largely more of the same.

The extents of Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy and this show play down the same game: a non-existent plot about the MC wanting to get some quietness out of life, and in comes the eccentric "otherworldly" boys playing around in their own ... world and messing the world's balance around with their antics, and finally the MC ropes in together with these boys in an unshakable bond of friendship.

Again, the characters are what makes shows like this so endearing, apart from all the ridiculous antics and comedy:
Koyuki Seri, nicknamed Gestober, the main attraction of the group, a plain-looking boy wanting to have some calmness in school, and always gets arrowed for insane reason he always "dies" in spirit at the end. Plus, his desire to have classmate Kotoko Sumiso notice his crush for her are always thwarted by (mostly) Hanadori. "RIP Koyuki" has been the recurring gag that never fails to make me laugh that hard. Props to VA Jun Fukuyama for doing such a wonderful job.

Kabuto Hanadori, the over-excessive chuunibyou, nicknamed Miguel, the dark God of Destruction. He's always performing alter-ego acts of chuuni so much that it irks Koyuki, but in truthness, wants to be Koyuki's friend and cares deeply for him...that is, unless he's asked to do in consideration.

Utsugi Tsukimiya the teaser and joker of both Koyuki and Hanadori. Always never-ceasing in spreading his "knowledge" to both of them and the constant low-ley teasing that ends both in hilarious states, he's the straight man to their inherent relationship.

As for Hibiki and Mogami, they're just as chuuni in their own ways, the former being a shy one and the latter trying his best to be noticeable at best and helping Koyuki out.

The best has got to be the bond between Tsukimiya, Hanadori and Koyuki and their endless antics that drive the comedy and the bond between Hanadori and Koyuki so well, and Tsukimiya being the "threat" to them both.

With great character comes great animation...in the comedic sense whilst keeping it low budget, and any studio would've been fine in this treatment. What's enough is more than enough, and with all those cartoony, slice-of-life caricatures, the enjoyment shines through. In the sound aspect, it's decent at best. The OP is as average as wack, but I love its bop and hoppity feel, say whatever you want but this is my hidden gem of a great song. AOP's ED...well, just sounds the typical idol group kind.

This show (like Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy) are shows that you can enjoy regardless of the score/rating, and if you need a time to flex your laughing stock and funny bones, it's worth the watch (plus a re-watch too).

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 27, 2021

MillennialDemon

Mixed Feelings

When I first started Bokuhaka, I found it unexpectedly charming because Hanadori the hopeless chuuni wasn’t the one being ridiculed, it was his “normal” classmate Seri who tried his best to not go along with his ridiculous roleplaying. By virtue of not being a cruel comedy when it easily could have been, I figured I could add it to the pathetic single piece of paper that comprises my Anime Comedy Good Book.

12 episodes later, I’m not so confident. While the series does hand Seri the L in every situation, I find that by relentlessly doing so it actually loses the touch of kindness a ... series like this could benefit from. Seri’s assumptions, even the wholesome ones – like his worries about Hanadori’s wellbeing, social or otherwise – are uno-reversed the same way his negative assumptions are. You could argue his self-sacrificing assumptions are driven by a sense of self-importance he shouldn’t have and him getting unwittingly checked by Hanadori or Tsukimiya is satisfying, but after the first time it just started to feel a little malicious. Even if Hanadori never means to insult Seri by rejecting his rare offerings of kindness or concern, it left me waiting for a pay off when he would accept and there would be some normal bonding moment uninterrupted by cynical comedy, but that moment never came.

I get that it’s funny that the times when Seri gives in and tries to be nice to his wildly annoying friends who are obsessed with him, that it backfires because haha, he thinks they’re obsessed with him! Except, they actually are...?

And so the usual episode format goes one of two ways:

1. Seri gets wrecked by his annoying friends who can’t leave him alone and he eventually snaps and yells at them for embarrassing him.
2. Seri gets wrecked by his annoying friends but something happens that makes him feel guilty about how he reacts, or causes him to worry about their well-being, and when he expresses these things it is revealed that he shouldn’t have, and he snaps and yells at them again for embarrassing him.

It does get tiresome to see the same formula again and again and again, and by the end of it, I was there in despair with Seri and wondering if he would ever escape his friends' tormenting. When Seri becomes more soft, it just backfires on him and the universe proves that he should stay cynical. When Hanadori reveals any other aspect of his character other than just being a chuuni, it’s backpedalled into him just being a chuuni actually. When Tsukimiya actually says something with an ounce of truth to it, he then twists it to be another part of his game of 4D chess he’s playing to make Seri suffer. And so it turns out there are consequences to making literally every scene a joke: nothing happens and no one changes.

It made for a rather insincere final impression, even if Hanadori and Seri are endearing… their endearing traits go nowhere because it wouldn’t be funny if they did. But it would be better.

Oh, and the side characters are either useless (Hibiki) or annoying (Tsukimiya and Mogami). Hibiki’s entire thing was just being unlucky and getting ignored by Hanadori and I found him easy to ignore as well. He really has no presence whatsoever after his introductory episode. I don’t care about Tsukimiya and him “being a God “ with literally supernatural abilities like being able to read Seri’s mind and always knowing where he is -- it just felt like Godmodding. I don’t get what’s “cool” about the kid that ruins a D&D session by rambling about how unexpectedly invincible his character is against the boss that should wreck him. And Mogami is just… a masochistic teen boy… really don’t care about a teen larper begging to be stepped on.

So considering we have an ensemble cast where only 2 characters have anything resembling development, and that development is caught in a perpetual state of Take-Backsies, I would say Bokuhaka deserves its middling score and rather poor reception, even if I enjoyed it more than the average critic. I didn’t find it cringeworthy, and I did find it funny enough, but there really is no substance. And I am not of the belief that comedy is magically exempt from expectation.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 30, 2020

Kami-O

Not Recommended

This anime is about 3 kids. 1 is like an upgraded version of Rika. And by upgrade I mean even more delusional, not better. He is in love with the supposed main character for some reason. The Main character is a masochist that likes to blame everyone for his shortcomings when he is the one to blame for having the temperament of a bob-omb. He almost literally explodes in fits of rage at the chuunibyou character. His indecisiveness makes him the most unlikable character in the show. Lastly there is the God of the show. He can hypnotize people with his eyes and read the ... MC's mind. He always uses this to pick on the MC. I was gunna say the MC probably enjoys it, but after thinking carefully he has anger issues and the people picking on him are an intelligent being who knows his everything and a clown who wishes he were Rika but needs to be in a hospital.

That being said watching this is kinda like watching NTR. You wanna feel bad for the victim (the one who is being stolen) but you know at the end of the story they actually enjoy whats happening then you wonder why you felt bad and end up hating them instead. Its like "enjoy it or shut the fuck up and stop complaining". Its just annoying. Hope this review sheds some light on why this anime is currently 6.75 and not the 8 some people seem to think this garbage deserves.

Like everything it has its moments but overall what a shit show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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