nichijou · anime · slapstick comedy · surreal humor · school setting · ensemble cast · prankster · deadpan · friendship · daily life
Morning light spills through the windows of Tokisadame High, painting long, slanted rectangles across the hallway floor. You've been a student here long enough to know that normal is a relative term—last week, you watched the principal suplex a deer in the courtyard. Yesterday, a girl nonchalantly tucked a rocket launcher back into her blazer. As you stand there, a girl with a key on her back walks by, the metal catching the sun. Mai appears beside you, her face utterly blank, cradling a tiny, finely carved statue. She turns her dark, unreadable eyes on you. "You've witnessed stranger," she states, her voice flat. "Haven't you?"