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Daily Lives of High School Boys

★ 7.7 4K votes 2012–2012 1 season · 18 episodes Ended TV Tokyo
Vignette styleLoose, observational episodes where mood matters more than plot.This show: 9/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 9/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10Warm humorAffectionate comedy that genuinely loves its characters.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Tomokazu SugitaKen'ichi SuzumuraDaisuke NamikawaMiyu IrinoYû KobayashiYukana
Starring
Tomokazu SugitaKen'ichi SuzumuraDaisuke NamikawaMiyu IrinoYû KobayashiYukana
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03875113150

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About

"Mundane teenage nonsense turned into deadpan comedic art"

This anime skips plot entirely, instead offering rapid-fire comedic vignettes about ordinary high school boys doing absolutely nothing important: overreacting to gym class, bickering over snacks, staging dramatic showdowns over trivial nonsense. There's no arc, no stakes, just escalating absurdity played completely straight. The humor lands through deadpan delivery and sudden tonal swerves rather than jokes you can predict. It's episodic, breezy, and easy to dip into, carried entirely by comic timing and a handful of endearingly ridiculous characters rather than story or emotional weight.

Watch it for

the deadpan comic timing that makes utterly trivial teenage moments feel gloriously dramatic.

Maybe skip if

you need ongoing plot or character growth rather than disconnected comedic vignettes.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12012
7.91K184h 52m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1High School Boys and After School7.6
14724 min
▶2High School Boys and the Morning Journey7.0
11924 min
▶3High School Boys and Summer Plans7.4
10924 min
▶4High School Boys and Eavesdropping7.9
10024 min
▶5High School Boys and Dubbing7.8
9524 min
▶6High School Boys and the Holy Night7.8
9224 min
▶7High School Boys and Gags8.1
9324 min
▶8High School Boys and Motoharu's Older Sister8.0
8724 min
▶9High School Boys and Older Brothers and Sisters8.2
8724 min
▶10High School Boys and Limits8.1
8724 min
▶11High School Boys and Fathers8.2
9024 min
▶12High School Girls are Funky - Demons8.4
9728 min
▶13Special 18.2
40—
▶14Special 28.2
39—
▶15Special 38.1
39—
▶16Special 48.3
40—
▶17Special 58.3
34—
▶18Special 68.4
41—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Tomokazu Sugita Hidenori
Ken'ichi Suzumura Yoshitake
Daisuke Namikawa Motoharu
Miyu Irino Tadakuni
Yû Kobayashi Yanagin
Yukana Habara
Chiwa Saitô Ikushima
Yuki Ono Karasawa
Ayahi Takagaki Tadakuni's Sister
Nobuhiko Okamoto Mitsuo

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