# Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012)

> Three high school friends navigate the absurd, relatable everyday trials of an all-boys school in short comic vignettes.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/41590

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy
- Network: TV Tokyo
- Cast: Tomokazu Sugita, Kenichi Suzumura, Miyu Irino, Daisuke Namikawa, Yuki Ono, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yoko Hikasa, Ayahi Takagaki
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180883/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: absurdist, breezy, comforting, witty, irreverent

## What critics say

Audiences rate the single season positively as a light, absurdist look at everyday high school life between three friends.

## Synopsis

Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012) is a Japanese animated slice of life comedy produced by Sunrise and broadcast on TV Tokyo, a single-season run of twelve episodes of about twenty-four minutes each. Its central trio is Tadakuni (Miyu Irino), Hidenori Tabata (Tomokazu Sugita) and Yoshitake Tanaka (Kenichi Suzumura), three friends whose goal is simply to get through ordinary days at an all-boys high school. Rather than following one continuing plot, the series is built from standalone vignettes, each staging a familiar school situation such as classroom mishaps, friendly rivalries and small social embarrassments, with classmates like Toshiyuki Karasawa (Yuki Ono) and Mitsuo (Nobuhiko Okamoto) drifting in and out. The engine of each episode is the gap between how seriously the boys take a trivial problem and how small it actually is. The tone is breezy and absurdist, with a self-aware parody of school tropes and a warm bromance at its core. Its episodes are light, quick and easy to dip into, appealing to fans of Azumanga Daioh, Gintama and Nichijou who enjoy short, observational anime comedy.

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