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As a fan of comedy and slice of life anime, I am pretty surprised at how well-received this anime is. I just didn't find it very funny - for the most part it just grossed me out.

The story? Well this isn't a story-based anime. It's a slice of life comedy, so calling it out on its lack of story would be foolish. The idea is that a nervous new teacher has a class of bratty children to deal with, including three sisters who are sure to give him a hard time. "Hilarity" ensues.

The art and sound are both sub-par. Which is unsurprising from the forgettable ... studio Bridge. I dislike the character designs a lot. They are very unappealing in that they aren't at all cute. They are sort of comedic with some occasionally funny expressions, but not exceedingly. I'm no expert on OST but this left on impression on me whatsoever. The OP is... alright at capturing the tone of the show. So yeah, it's pretty grating and not very listenable. I have no issues with the voice acting - there are a few big name seiyuu's but none of the voices I heard left much of an impression.

When it comes to the characters, I am not a fan either. Some of them have okay personalities, or at least personalities that clearly fit what archetype they should be. But the character comedy was weak. The tropes were set in stone and just sort of acted accordingly. This can be done well but the characters themselves were just not likeable for me.

The teacher is forgettable and just sort of has no spine. He lacks personality. The sisters - I actually find all of them annoying. One is a real himedere, and likes seeing others suffer - but she's often downtrodden herself. Then there is the airheaded one who is also very strong. She is also mostly a nice person, but then is inconsiderate sometimes too? She had the most potential to be likeable, but between doing some physically gross things and just not being helpful I couldn't warm to her. The youngest sister is the worst. She's got a very dark aura, but not in a brilliant relate-able way like Tomoko Kuroki from Watamote for example. She's just sort of... terrible. A very unpleasant character. Other supporting characters are mostly forgettable and not likeable. The boys are pretty much just perverts which is... ugh. And there is the new school nurse who is just a ditz. In a very over-the-top and annoying way. She's absolutely useless, and it goes too far to be funny. I just wound up disliking her. She's also part of the most disgusting scene ever - let's just say it involves urine.

Now I know it seems that I have been overly-critical of these 11-year old characters. After all, they are kids. Kids are supposed to be bratty. Well... Sure. But maybe in a less vulgar way? And maybe they shouldn't all be so consistently irritating? I'm not saying they necessarily had to be cute, but they REALLY weren't cute. At all. They are about as un-cute as it gets. And yet, there are all of these swimming pool scenes, various scenes about getting a bra and boys being interested - I don't really like this aspect of it either. It felt weird to me. I know they aren't babies so it's not exactly unreasonable, but I just couldn't get enjoyment over that stuff that happens in the class at all. Again, a lot of this would be forgivable or maybe even a good thing if it was actually funny. But for me, it just wasn't.

I may have touched on this, but my personal enjoyment was the problem here. It got barely a couple of chuckles out of me. I think I cringed more while watching it. The jokes were pretty predictable and never really caught me by surprise - except for when it got more unpleasant than I expected it to.

Please by all means take this review with a pinch of salt from the fact that I've seen so little of the show. But with these kinds of anime with no real plot, that is less of an issue that clouds judgement. I think this anime has too many overly-positive reviews, so just please be warned that this anime might not be as hilarious to you as some are painting it to be.

So, I dropped this at episode 7. Clearly I won't have a full perspective on this anime. But it's a continuous story of randomness so that doesn't really matter. It's not about a narrative.

I really wanted to like this anime. I'm a fan of studio Shaft, and a fan of wacky comedy anime (Nichijou is my favourite anime, and I'm also a fan of Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan and Osomatsu-san), but PaniPoni Dash just didn't do it for me.

The story is mostly done in episode 1. Rebecca "Becky" Miyamoto is a genius 10 year old from abroad who becomes a Japanese high school teacher. It's ... a pretty good premise, and the characters interact with her well. I can't really speak on development of the story. Some characters gradually change their attitude towards Becky as it goes on, but that's just their sympathy towards her childish side. There's also the side-story of these robot alien things watching the events at this school (with particular focus on the character Ichijou) but nothing's really come of that yet, so it's just a side gag. My bad for dropping it, I guess.

Obviously we don't watch these anime for a "story". So, it's best to talk about the character comedy. In a word, it's weird. It's very weird, bizarre. Hard to comprehend, and full of Japanese references that fly past me. Sometimes it does make me laugh, but most of the jokes are a miss. Crazy stuff just happens out of nowhere. Unlike Nichijou where extremes are found in mundane events, PaniPoni dash is about extreme things happening in what should be a mundane setting, often as a result of unexplained and bizarre characters, or just not explained at all.

The characters are probably why I haven't gotten into this anime. Basically, there are too many of them. They all have a set personality trope and have the same kind of interactions with each other, but from what I've seen we don't get to know them. They're just all their to do their own thing. Becky is the best one because she is multi-faceted. The rest are set in stone. Which I actually don't mind if it's done well, like in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. There are like 4 classes and each have their own set of students. Becky's class are by far most important, but the others are given a good amount of screen time too. The hijinks they all get into are quite predictable, but there's also the problem of being too many things happening to care about anything. There are cutaways from the events of students in one class to the events in another that do feel a little jarring to me. I'm unable to remember the names of them and all that happens is nothing but a bizarre thing that aims to make you laugh. And fails, usually. They lack depth, and this is not made up for by strong enough comedy. Ichijou is a character that I like but has too much power to just do anything. It makes her completely un-relatable, even though she's one of the strongest comedy elements. The characters are actually not as wacky as you might expect. Most of the eccentric personalities here are more annoying than funny. Another character I care for, though, is the bunny mascot. So seeing it suffer all the time is tough.

The art is mostly quite simple. It works for the anime, though I'm not a huge fan of the colour palette. Then the anime kicks it up to extremes and has really experimental stuff. I enjoy this element of the anime; it does set up some pretty good visual humour.

The soundtrack isn't really memorable. I remember there being a song I like but I can't fully remember it. The Opening songs are very good though. I especially like the 2nd one, it's always a real blast. The ending themes are solid too, perhaps the first one is a bit weak though. The voice acting (Japanese) is also very solid. Some seiyuu's I know and like are here, the usual Shaft anime suspects with Chiwa Saito, Ai Nonaka and Yui Horie all in major roles. There was also the blessing of a minor character voiced by Tomokazu Sugita. Someone familiar with Japanese voice actors will appreciate the voices in this anime.

Overall, though there are clear redeeming qualities to this anime and I encourage anyone to watch this anime if they think it looks good, my personal enjoyment could not hold up my experience watching. The jokes and situations fell flat a lot of the time, and I couldn't find much attachment to this large cast of characters. Give it a try, but I don't accept the notion that a fan of wacky comedy anime will certainly like this anime.

Komori-san wa Kotowarenai is a very short anime. So short in fact, that the total episode time from the 12 episodes is still less than your average 24-minute show. It's 2 minutes per episode, and with the 30 second theme song, there is very little airing time indeed.

And if you look at the tags, you'll notice that "ecchi" isn't on there. That's because that's not what this show is all about, so don't come expecting that.

The characters aren't terrible. There's Komori, a girl with humongous cow tits who can't turn down anyone's request. The others, I can't really describe having seen them for just ... 20 minutes. They're nothing special, and obviously don't change in any way throughout this very short anime. It's all about admiring, envying or relying on Komori.

Everything is set up for this to be a pretty terrible show, but the reason I didn't give it a too low score is because of the lack of ecchi fanservice in the show. I thought from the beggining that they would play on Komori's ample breast to make a predictable, generic "I just happened to slip over --> pantsu!" kind of anime. But they didn't. It was all about Komori's "needing to help everyone" or "lack of willpower to say no" personality rather than "look --> boobs". I praise the show for that, but it was far too short and kind of pointless. I probably would have dropped it if I watched it while it was airing, but I watched it all in one go (which I recommend if you want to go for it).

I wouldn't recommend this anime, but I also wouldn't say that you shouldn't watch it. And besides, it'll hardly waste much of your time being as short as it is.

I'm a pretty generous reviewer, giving this anime 4/10. Though, I might add, as a 2 minute episode show, it was almost impossible for it to be "good".