Review of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

tl;dr: you liked Nichijou-like humor and you've seen a lot of anime? Watch this it's brilliant. Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan is one of my favorite anime. It's a gag anime that deconstructs many other genres in anime as well as manga, and does so brilliantly. There have been episodes where I was laughing out loud for a solid 10 seconds, which is something that happens extremely rarely for me when watching anime. The type of humor it takes to enjoy this anime is similar to Nichijou or Asobi Asobase. If you liked those, you'll definitely like Saiki, but there's one problem... Saiki (the show) is very much reference-based,and so it's probably best to not watch it until you've watched many different anime of many different genres. At least watch the major shounen, some romance, and some seinen.

The way Saiki deconstructs these other shows is brilliant, it sets up their premise and breaks them using Saiki's cynical disinterest. Really makes you think "yeah,.. maybe those shows are a waste of time and effort". Saiki also frames their premises in such a way to perfectly predict their outcomes.

To add in to this criticism and humor we have a wonderful cast of characters that are all memorable and in general very fun, except Mera, but hell I even remembered her name without looking it up. Just goes to show how strong the characters are in this show. The main cast is very much archetypal of different shows, for instance, Nendou is a bumbling but hilarious idiot who is super strong, much like some shounen protagonists, whereas Hairo is your typical "give 120%" character. Saiki basically criticizes these characters' ridiculousness and thereby transitively criticizes other anime and manga.

Absolutely a fantastic show - and - while the story/art/sound are all meh (really, there isn't a big story, it's very much SoL), the characters and enjoyment make up for it, easily.