Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Review chronicles of the going home club, aka Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku

Review Chronicle of the going home club

                                                                    It's so cute when they can't do stuff
Natsuki and Karin are new high school students and like all high school students is pressured into joining a school club. Natsuki says she wants to join the going home club (the going home club is a Japanese euphamism for not joining a club). Much to her suprise there is an actual going home club and like all clubs in anime they are eager to get their roster up to five members (which of course having Natsuki and Karin join would bring their total amount of member to). The other members of the club are, Botan who is a very powerful martial artist and lover of video games, The obscenely rich Claire, and Sakura, who is quite normal. What does this club do? Various activities that the members would think are fun.

                                                           take that vastly more popular show
The Chronicle of the going home club is a very obvious gag comedy anime where there is little to any plot or character except to make a joke. In fact most episodes are broken up into  I find shows like these hard to grade or review as everyone has a slightly different sense of humor, but overall I found the show's humor to be somewhat tepid. For a show that tries to cover everything, this show has an annoying habit of going back to a few jokes repeatedly. Particularly bad offenders in doing this are jokes about the ending song starting too early and a limited amount of character based gags. This is not to say that there aren't good episodes, episodes three, five and seven tend to stand out as good episodes in my opinion.
Overall I found The chronicles of the going home club to be a show that is not really bad but just isn't good enough to honestly be considered good. This show feels like such a giant pile of nothing (I stand by my adding paradoxes in my reviews) that I couldn't work up the energy  or motivation for a proper review.
Rating  The tine daddy hat (Azumanga Daioh) for being a mildly enjoyable but ultimately rote gag comedy show.

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