Keiichi Arawi is one funny dude and he’s created a bunch of genuinely hilarious books - his third volume of Nichijou is definitely his best, most consistently funny yet.
The opening story of the two schoolgirls and their silently aghast faces was brilliant and makes me wonder if any of the American Dad writers took inspiration from this book when they did a similar opening sketch where Roger works as a waiter and serves everyone with his mouth silently open!
I won’t list everything I loved here because, quite honestly, it was all of it. But once again Nano and the Professor were the best - the Professor giving Nano weird robot additions (soup arm!), trying to avoid brushing her teeth again after snacking, and the superglue sequence were fantastic.
The whole fake bills/gay manga sketch was insane (the goat reappears randomly!) as was the two girls fighting over one of them buying her the wrong lunch. Stoic Mai is fast becoming my second favourite character and the whole copying homework/camping trip stuff at the end was amazing. I also liked the cute romance between the two teachers storyline. And the addition of the Gentleman character was great - another quirky Arawi creation to add to the cast!
Arawi’s comic timing is perfect as is the tone and execution of his increasingly imaginative and wonderfully bizarre stories. The world of Nichijou is a delightful and enchanting one full of bonkers people and Volume 3 in particular is the highest point this creator has reached so far.
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