Well I’m impressed. GoHands may be going with a similar style as Princess Lover in this adaptation of a 4-koma gag manga, but it’s still a noticeable step up from their work there. For a series where most of the humor comes from the dialogue itself, the screenplay is done really well too, without relying on any stylistic touches that SHAFT is known to employ to help scene transitions. As the source material is only comprised of short four-cell skits, a lot of padding needed to be done. Many of the scenes were simply concluded with a one-liner stamp to add to the humor of what was shown; however, there were a lot of skits strung together to form a much longer scene as well, which is what impressed me the most. The original content with its witty and subtle jokes is amusing enough on its own, so all that was really needed was everything in between to fill in the gaps to make it work as an anime. Some of that was extra dialogue, but the goofy super-deformed scenes were what I really enjoyed. In addition, the sound effects and creative use of camera angles that added to the scene variety and allowed the original jokes to speak for themselves. For now, it looks like GoHands has opted to simply reorganize the manga material and make it flow, with the preview for the next episode even joking about exactly which pages of volume one will be covered. If they actually do stick to the manga and focus on the presentation like they have in this premiere, this series should turn out to be a lot of lighthearted fun.
In terms of humor, some jokes weren’t nearly as funny as others, but I felt the delivery was pretty good for most of them production-wise. A lot of the time it’s just Shino saying something stupid and Takatoshi thinking how stupid she is and wishing he was never dragged in as the vice-president, but I still found myself chuckling more often than not. At other times, we actually get to see some of the silly antics such as Shino tightening Takatoshi’s tie, smacking him for standing on her left when he’s supposed to be her right-hand man, or drawing a vagina-like design on the suggestion box to make it look more “inviting”. Suzu’s attempt to kick Takatoshi for calling her a kid had me laughing pretty hard in comparison, simply because it went from a dramatic slow motion scene to a dismal display. The best one had to be her punching him in her sleep though, because I really didn’t see that coming at all.
In terms of humor, some jokes weren’t nearly as funny as others, but I felt the delivery was pretty good for most of them production-wise. A lot of the time it’s just Shino saying something stupid and Takatoshi thinking how stupid she is and wishing he was never dragged in as the vice-president, but I still found myself chuckling more often than not. At other times, we actually get to see some of the silly antics such as Shino tightening Takatoshi’s tie, smacking him for standing on her left when he’s supposed to be her right-hand man, or drawing a vagina-like design on the suggestion box to make it look more “inviting”. Suzu’s attempt to kick Takatoshi for calling her a kid had me laughing pretty hard in comparison, simply because it went from a dramatic slow motion scene to a dismal display. The best one had to be her punching him in her sleep though, because I really didn’t see that coming at all.