Jan Ken Pon!

So some time ago my friend Travis told me to watch this anime called Nichijou. He gave me some hard drives with all the episodes available. And now that my brain is slowly settling so I actually have time to watch anime, I've taken an interest in Nichijou.

This anime is a slice of life anime where it follows the lives of high school students. It mainly follows three girls named Yukko, Mio, and Mai, three friends who have bizarre events happen to them every day at school, and an 8 year old Professor with her robot, Nano.

Yukko, Mio and Mai go to high school and have strange things happen to them that's oddly normal such as one of their classmates pulling guns out of thin air and the richest boy coming to school on a goat with his butler. Depsite these bizarre characters and situations that happen daily, they live life "normally" as they go through their lives as high schoolers.

Meanwhile, an eight year old scientist, known as Professor, lives at home without going to school living with her robot Nano and a stray cat she picked up she named Sakamoto who wears a red handkerchief that allows him to talk. Despite her intelligence, Professor still acts like the child she is which even includes adding bizarre functions to Nano without her noticing such as having missiles shoot out and having openings in her arms that pop out log cakes much to Nano's dislike when she wishes to be able to go to school normally especially without the wind-up key on her back.

This is by far one of the most random animes I've seen since Fooly Cooly, and THAT was random beyond belief. But it's a really really good anime to watch and is really funny with awesome characters to love. It's only available in Japanese with subs so if you like dubs better you'll just have to wait, but the original Japanese is really good and I still recommend it.

~Liz~