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I have a lot of thoughts about this anime but ultimately as a woman viewer I know I'm the target demographic. I rated this a 6/10; and if not that a 5.

What I liked:
The different Archetypes of the main characters
-I like how different all of the main characters are and how they all have unique silhouettes emphasizing good character design.

The art style worked well with the anime and was unique. It worked really well for the show's poster and marketing.

The premise and plot of 4 boys going to an all girl school and immediately being put in jail for their ... gross behavior (suffered actual consequences)


my favorite character: Mari (The president) and Hana
-i loved Hana's character and how she was introduced

Kinda liked the Comedy aspects

Kiyoshi's "Save the cat" moment was a good establishment of his character

The principle being a perv running gag was funny

Storytelling

Dislikes:

I don't like how we're just thrown into the middle of the story and they go to jail so fast.

- We never fully got introduced to the 4 main characters individually and outside of school; we just know they're all friends who wanted to transfer to an all girl school to be surrounded by women. That's it.
-This doesn't work because the anime makes it seem like they want us to feel bad that the four of them are in jail and going through such cruel punishment without establishing an emotional connection to them.
-Needed at least 1 episode introducing them all and watching them be friends before jail
-They were thrown into jail way too quick and we never got to see how they acted in any environment besides the school/prison. I was hoping to see their rooms or like at least have one hangout to establish how close they were before all of this

Most of the girls were sexualized and none of the guys were. (Hence why I say I probably am not the target for this show)

-There was a ton of panty shots, ton of boob shots, ton of girls in suggestive positions all the time when giving their dialogue but not really any of that for the dudes with some exceptions. my rule is sexualizing characters is fine but if you do it to the girls you gotta do it to the guys too. Never really saw the boys sexualized unless it was like gay jokes.
Example: Kyoshi and Takahito dropping the soap in one of the episodes

-Most of the humor felt like shock value

-Vice president characterization

-The prison guard women are made to feel really smart and cunning at running a prison but the vice president "punishes" them in ways they like and when she learns that they like a certain punishment she berades them and then keeps doing it. This confused me.
-Also acted stupid/made terrible judgement calls a lot which I don't think fits with her character
- ex: her burning herself with frying grease and then one of the guys had to tell her to put an apron on.

Overall I thought it was fine and I don't really regret watching it. If you're really bored and have watched a lot of anime and looking for something different then I guess I would recommend this.

Saiki K has to be the best comedy anime I've ever watched. The characters, episodic nature, and jokes always manage to hit and went beyond my expectations. The story is unique and the art style fits well with the jokes. The characters are well -rounded and all have their own running gags within the anime. Even the dub is amazing and i would recommend watching it in dub if you're an English speaker. I usually don't enjoy slices of life but the show makes it work and manages to make every episode interesting. The best character for me was Saiki and how well his personality ... goes with his powers. Ive rewatched it several times and it never fails to get a laugh from me. Would recommend :)!

This anime has many strengths and works well as a fantasy anime. However as you've heard it's faced controversy for its sexism, SA pandering, and overall just being needlessly uncomfortable to sit through. This is the first time I've ever dropped an anime as someone's who's watched 100+ anime in their anime career. Im not easy to make uncomfortable but this is one of the first anime's that's done it. The beginning is done well and I like how the story progresses as well as the individual characters. Some of them such as Elizabeth are done well in terms of character design and story and ... some of them such as Elaine's character being dependent on her romantic relationship with Ban while looking like a literal child is uncomfortable to sit through. This is one of those animes that has so much such potential in terms of story and characters but are ruined by problematic tropes and writing choices.