Despite being only eight minutes per episode, Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time is possibly the funniest anime this season. One of the latest episodes, “Disaster Drill”, features the titular Seki-kun playing house with robot action figures that look suspiciously like Transformers.
Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time is the story of Rumi, a normal Japanese girl, who sits next to Seki, a boy who goes to amazing lengths to keep himself entertained in class — and paying attention to the teacher is not an option he considers.
In “Disaster Drill”, Rumi and Seki’s school has an earthquake disaster drill in the middle of class — interrupting Seki’s distraction of the day: acting out traditional Japanese home life scenes with his robot action figures. Seki himself doesn’t take the drill seriously at all; instead, he sets up new scenes with the robots showing how seriously they are taking the disaster drill. It’s even funnier when you realise that these robot toys are clearly transformers knockoffs.
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The role of the father in Seki’s scenes is obviously Optimus Prime.
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The son is Bumblebee.
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And the wife, despite the colour difference, appears to be Arcee (though I suppose it could be Nautica).
These earnest scenes of the transformers trying to survive a natural disaster as a normal Japanese family would — and Rumi’s reactions to their ordeal — are equal parts cute and hilarious.
To see more pictures of this episode, check out gallery below or watch the full episode for free over at Crunchyroll.
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Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time airs on Tokyo TV in Japan and can be watched for free with English subtitles on Crunchyroll.
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