Tonari no Seki-kun Episode 6
What They Say:
Class is in session at a certain high school. While the teacher isn’t looking, a boy named Seki-kun is playing games by himself on his desk, while the girl who sits next to him, Yokoi-san, observes (or interferes or participates). Each time, Seki-kun’s games reach unimaginable levels… And this time the game is…
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Seki-kun manages to hit two new episodes this week and while it’s always fun with what it does, can getting two episodes at once be a bad thing? With the sixth episode, we get a disaster drill session that’s going to happen but Seki is totally enthralled with the toy robot he brought in that day. Of course, it’s not just the main robot he has but rather a cute little robot family that he’s messing around with. And when the disaster drill comes along, he has them doing the same exact thing, though he himself is completely bored by it whereas the toys are taking it ultra seriously. And that, strangely enough, has Yokoi totally taken in by the toys and admiring them. She ends up getting so into it, like everything else, that she ends up becoming the one that gets possessive about them and tries to put Seki in his place over it to good effect.
With the seventh episode, the show again puts Yokoi in that kind of weird position that changes things up nicely. The focus is on note sharing, which she sees others in front of her doing which turns far more complicated when Seki starts doing it. He essentially starts up a postal system with it, complete with stamps, and begins tossing them around. It’s an amusing acknowledgement by others in class to Seki’s weirdness and he totally goes overboard with it, though of course she ends up getting drawn into it because her friend uses it. It is comical just how detailed Seki’s postal system becomes and how Yokoi can’t help but to follow its rules. When it’s open! It all naturally spirals out of control and you have to love how Seki sets all of this up.
In Summary:
With a double dose this week, Tonari no Seki-kun definitely has a lot of fun with what it does here. Yokoi just can’t help herself when it comes to getting involved in what Seki is doing and that means overdramatizing what she sees with the robot family to the point where she gets protective and then getting drawn into his amusing postal system, which he uses to mess her over with since it becomes even more complicated. The internal dialogue she has continues to be fantastic to see play out and the nudge of a few friends making their way into the show in very small ways works very nicely here to keep the laughs coming.
Grade: B
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.