Rakshun

Oh, Konosuba... it will hit you like a train :D

The show has all the anime trophies anime is usually ridiculed for and never shy away from any of it. Loud, crazy girls, irrationally bouncing boobs, panty play, fan service, embarrassing moments, nasty jokes around sexuality and so on.

(There is a thin line between lewd jokes and degrading jokes - mostly for the female cast -, and Konosuba _usually_ does not cross that line. I found the first OVA a little bit more embarrassing from that aspect, thb. It's not ecchi, but lewd.)

The characters are all nuts. Aqua, the big mouthed talk-more-think-less goddess, who is wearing short skirts without panties, is childish like hell; Darkness, our female hit-nothing-catch-everything paladin knight with "Z-something" cups is a perverted masochist; Megumin, the arch-mage loli, who has the coolest head among them all, can cast only one spell and only once a day and stubborn enough to be fine with it. The MC, Kazuma, is a cool guy in general and not a whining idiot, which is a big plus, but he is perverted to the core and never thinks twice to blurt anything offensive out. (But at the end of the day he has a heart <3 )

Ok, so why is it working? ;) First, because all these crazy characters are pretty fun and interesting to watch interacting. Crazy and perverted, yes, boring, no. Secondarily, the script, which is well written, never ever gets boring or predictable. I suppose the writers made fun about twisting and turning every situation upside-down and always aim for the unexpected. You can never be sure what will happen next or where the current episode will run out. Sarcasm and satire are also key here, they make fun of the RPG genre and anime stereotypes at once. I laughed a lot and many of these laughs came from the sick turn of the events. There are situational jokes of course, but the dynamics of the story is which will make you laugh most of the time, I guess.

The first two seasons and the movie were great, give it a try, it will be worth it. Just check the first episode, it will be clear, what we are talking about here ;)

Found this unexpectedly after looking up a nasty meme and got into it immediately. Slice of life is close to my heart and I also really liked - instead of highscoolers - the office dorks in Higehiro, even though, that show has some bad reputation reasonably.

Well, it's not the case here. The small, but strong headed Futaba and the big shaped and big hearted Takeda lead a really healthy relationship here as they are getting closer to each other. The show comes with a nice set of supporting characters with all the different and bit cliche stereotypes, but nonetheless, they are likeable, the jokes are funny, the story is not annoying or forced and altogether everything is okay, from writing to animation. I watched it with the English dub, it's pretty good. The tough-as-nail biker grandpa and the drunken Russian(?) girl with the vodka bottle and Siberia jokes were my absolute favorite side characters. And yes, it's a must to mention that Takeda is a real gentleman with excellent communication skills - he is a sales guy after all -, not some annoying schoolkid, which does lots of good to the show... senpai is not annoying a bit.

Not a must watch per se, but as a romentic comedy for grown ups or younger adults it can be recommended easily.

UPDATE: After my preeliminary review just lowered my points to 8 from 9 and the reason for that is... well, I should better not spoiler it. It was still fun to watch, but I feel sorry for the missed opportunity.

(I really wonder if I just watched highschoolers in an office environment, because at the end, some maturity was certainly missing from the characters... And at what point it became a hard requirement for _any_ romantic animes to include: a beach episode, an aquarium episode, a bathhouse/hotel episode and - even if it's about salarymen -, a school episode? Feel like I can scream or something... where is originality? Second part was a downhill.)