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 Akebeko time! |  Mai-chan |  Nano |  Average day |
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| Mariko Honda | as | Yuko Aioi |
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| Mai Aizawa | as | Mio Naganohara |
| Misuzu Togashi | as | Mai Minakami |
| Hiromi Konno | as | The Professor |
| Shizuka Furuya | as | Nano Shimonome |
| Minoru Shiraishi | as | Sakamoto |
| Mami Kosuge | as | Izumi Sakurai |
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| Yoshihisa Kawahara | as | Kojiro Sasahara |
| Chika Horikawa | as | Misato Tachibana |
A day in the life of 3 high school students, as well as an android and her 8-year-old creator.
With really no prompting, Riza decided to show me this series one day and we just carried on with it.
Basically, imagine Seinfeld as an anime starring 3 high school girls in Japan. There may be a concept or two carried over between segments, but in general there's no particular narrative, and things can get rather unbelievable at times. Such as, when Misato hauls a giant-ass gun out of hammerspace and assaults Sasahara with it.
Sometimes this series seems more like a satire of slice-of-life anime than an actual slice-of-life anime. Not that I've seen much, but I've been on Tumblr for most of 15 years, so I'm pretty familiar with the genre. Of course, there's something to be said about how teenage girls like to take everything to an absurdist extreme and this series is all about that. Also, I'm pretty glad to see that we're not hypersexualising 16-year-olds here. In fact, we're portraying them more as pre-teens and more interested in personal prestige than relationships. Of course, Mio turns out to be quite good at drawing cute boys
8/10 stars 
Like I said, it's not the most serious attempt at slice-of-life anime, but it's the most realistic from a "pre-teen girls always treat everything like life and death" standpoint.