Nichijou: My Ordinary Life

Nichijou (Japanese: 日常, Hepburn: Nichijō, "Everyday") is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Keiichi Arawi. The manga began serialization in the December 2006 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine Shōnen Ace, and was also serialized in Comptiq between the March 2007 and July 2008 issues. Kadokawa Shoten later published all chapters of the series' initial run in ten tankōbon volumes from July 2007 to December 2015. After a six year hiatus, the manga began serialization again in 2021.

Plot
Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.

Why It's an Extraordinary Life

 * 1) It's an anime equivalent to SpongeBob SquarePants, where even one of the simplest and relatable moment can easily be the most entertaining.
 * 2) From time to time, the humor embraces its absurdity that it can go to it's most hilarious.
 * 3) It's title Nichijou: My Ordinary Life is an ironic take that this show is anything but ordinary, like how Regular Show is anything but regular.
 * 4) Even on it's most basic of storytelling, the animation is really splendid, like how the movements are just really fast but well-done.
 * 5) Likable and iconic characters:
 * 6) * Yuuko, the idiot, but well-meaning friend.
 * 7) * Mio, the sweet but easily to anger and also very insecure about her yaoi manga.
 * 8) * Mai, the quiet girl who actually loves messing around with everyone.
 * 9) * The 8 year old prodigy Hakase, who happens to be an inventor.
 * 10) * Nano, a robot that wants to blend in with humans.
 * 11) * And lastly, Sakamoto, the smart-mouthed talking cat.
 * 12) Great opening and ending.
 * 13) * The first opening also inspired Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (also one of KyoAni's other works) opening for the second season.
 * 14) When the segment isn't about the main 3-6 protagonists, it does show cutaways about the side characters, and they're just as interesting.
 * 15) It also parodies popular mainstream anime like Dragon Ball or Naruto for instance, with how the characters often exaggerate during intense moments and have powerful beams come out from their mouths as they scream in pain.
 * 16) Surprisingly memorable quotes:
 * 17) * "GOD IS DEAD!"
 * 18) * "EEEEHHHHHHH!?"
 * 19) * "Selamat pagi."
 * 20) * "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
 * 21) ** (Mai) "I've erased it."
 * 22) ***(Mio) "YOU WANT ME TO ERASE YOU!?"
 * 23) *"IT'S RAW SALMON!"
 * 24) The Funimation dub, released in 2019, is surprisingly good, as the voices were cast perfectly and the jokes were translated well. It's even better knowing Funimation began being a terrible company in 2019.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some segments tend to be incomplete, leading them to end abruptly with no payoff.
 * 2) While Misato Tachibana is an entertaining character, she often brings guns and explosives to school and often retaliates whenever she gets annoyed or flustered. Though that isn't that much of a letdown as her scenes are really funny.
 * 3) Due to the poor sales of DVDs, the anime has been dormant and only 26 episodes and an OVA were ever made.

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Trivia

 * While the series was a commercial flop in Japan, it later became a major success in the West, spawning several internet memes.