You can choose your friends but you can’t really choose your classmates. And if you happen to go to a school with assigned seating, you can’t even choose who you end up sitting next to. This can be a [...]
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Shorts are things I don’t typically watch. There have been a few exceptions for some that were really good, like Wakako-zake. So when The OASG overlords gave me Tonari no Seki-kun to watch, I wasn’t [...]
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Tonari no Seki-kun (My Neighbor Seki) is a gag-manga centering around class hijinks. Rumi Yokoi is an above average student trying to pay attention in class when, never failing, her classmate next to [...]
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Today, Tonari no Seki-kun dub previewed, Hunter x Hunter manga returns from hiatus, and Konosuba gets a second season. Sources: Story 1 Story 2 Story 3
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. The master of procrastination’s ready to laze his way into stores! Earlier today, Sentai Filmworks announced the English dub cast for Tonari no [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SENTAI FILMWORKS LICENSES “TONARI NO SEKI-KUN: THE MASTER OF KILLING TIME” HOUSTON, DECEMBER 17, 2015 – Sentai Filmworks is [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Earlier today, Comic Natalie reported that a live-action adapatation of Tonari no Seki-kun is in the works. The 30-minute drama will be delivered [...]
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Tonari no Seki-kun was a pleasure to watch over the course of 21 weekly seven-minute episodes. There’s not much I want to say about it other than I laughed a lot at Yokoi’s reactions to what her [...]
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Seki does dumb crap during class. Hanazawa Kana gets pissed at him. They’ve been making these short anime for years, but Tonari no Seki-kun is the first one I’ve really enjoyed. Many of them try to [...]
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Spring has come and gone, and summer is upon us. If this were a Japanese letter, I would open with a seasonal greeting such as the following: The early summer weather brings the scent of greenery [...]
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I have no idea what to call this episode of Tonari no Seki-kun, so I'll just call it hilarious.Is this in actuality the 22nd episode if Tonari no Seki-kun the TV series?  Is the show actually [...]
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Fruits Basket face.
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Nope, they definitely don't have the Fourth Amendment here...Is this the end for Tonari no Seki-kun?  Well, no - apart from the fact that I've stopped making any assumptions about the broadcast [...]
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…It’s awesome. Nuff said. :)   What you have to keep in mind before picking this series up is that it’s extremely formulaic and short. With only 7 minutes per episode and a setting that’s mostly [...]
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Seki-kun is really raising the bar every week.  The show, too.Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara – 07 This is a pretty odd series to begin with, but I found that episode especially [...]
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Oh yeah, Yokoi is hopelessly ensnared now.Tonari no Seki-kun – 19 The little show that could just keeps delivering.  This is very much the same sort of impact the manga has - [...]
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Seki-kun wins!Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara – 05 The phrase that leaps to mind for Gawoware is "curiously compelling".Surely, this is one of the strangest series of the year.  [...]
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Yokoi wins!Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara – 04 Well now - thinks got pretty serious there for a bit.This is a bit of a funny show, Gaworare is (funny-unusual, though it is pretty [...]
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Hunter X Hunter is back!No, it has nothing to do with either show,  Just felt like repeating it.Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara – 03 I officially like this show.  Yeah, it's [...]
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Doskoi! Tonari no Seki-kun – 15 I guess it's pretty much official now that the reports of TV Seki-kun's demise were incorrect, as it's now aired two weeks in a row as [...]
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