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0-6!

(If you’re wondering how I’m getting these done so fast, it’s because I’m doing these ahead of time. I'm running on a queue.) I used dictation and actual keyboard typing for this one, so it’s going to be long. (Side note, I love the ability to dictate things and using split screen mode! Highly useful features and I have no idea why it’s taken me this long to actually use them.) Also, I guess I should say that there will be spoilers in this and probably future posts too, because I’ve already read the manga. Okay! Onto the commentary.

I love that Saiki outright states he doesn't want to be the "guy you know what he's thinking.” Like, come on Saiki, admit it; you have a little bit in common with Kaidou. (I think he secretly kind of likes freaking people out. He definitely likes the fact that people are a little scared of him.)

He's always the odd one out; He's one of the loner kids. I don't think he really thinks it makes him look normal. I think that's just what he tells himself to feel better about the whole thing.

I think it's funny that he dislikes Kaidou for the same reasons that he thinks he's so different from everyone else. I mean, Kaidou is always trying to stand out, and Saiki does have a legitimate reason for not wanting to stand out. But even so. He’s just got it in his head that is so much better than Kaidou at the beginning of the series. Like, dude, you're no different from him. You're the same breed of weirdo in a different font. Lol. That font is “really intentionally manipulating others’ perception of you for personal reasons.” It’s just that Kaidou’s version is much flashier than yours. I like seeing it this early on in the comic; it's interesting to see how it all started. Also, Kaidou is a lot more polite than Nendou, apologizing for talking to Saiki out of nowhere. Amusing. He absolutely knows how to behave like a normal person, but chooses not to because his persona gives him confidence.

I also like that here in the beginning of the comic, we have an unnamed guy who is was basically parroting what Kuuusuke says further on in the comic, and it’s more clearly framed as delusional weirdo behavior.

Yes, duh, he came to you because you were alone, Saiki. Weirdo behavior attracts weirdos (weirdos attract weirdos.) That's just a basic social law for ya.

Also, I laughed out loud at “okay, I’m calling you Junpei.” good response, honestly. Saiki’s narrative commentary addressed to no one in particular is always really funny.

He also seems to be egging him on in the next panel with his sarcastic remarks (wow. Your punch was soooo fast I couldn’t see it at all), though it’s never clear in this manga whether the person being spoken about can actually hear anything he’s saying in all of its dry sarcasm. My headcanon follows the lines that Saiki uses hypnosis when he’s not actively addressing them (sending telepathic messages to them), so people just hear whatever they want to hear from him. Or something like that. I’m guessing that we, the readers, are supposed to assume that they can’t hear him unless Saiki is actively sending them telepathic messages/‘broadcasts’. "I fancy you" is a strangely British way of putting it. Which also means "I like-like you" if memory serves. Translators??? strange. anyways.

Ah… XD. I forgot that Kaidou saw him teleport in the manga. That’s perfect considering Kaidou’s name joke (shunkaidou = teleportation.) wahh, I wish this one came in the tankobon volumes so I could read them.

You know… since the third chapter of this volume was adapted into the anime, can volume 0 really be called non-canon? Maybe to the manga. Hmmmmmm.

Oh come on. Why didn’t they put this in the anime??? It would have been hilarious to have Kaidou imagining some kind of green monster-humanoid hybrid and then the screen transitions to Saiki’s expressionless face, with pink limiters and green glasses. There’s an element of color that manga sadly lacks. I get the point with the black arrows, Mr. Asou, but it just isn’t quite the same without actual color.

XD Asou’s attention to detail is good. We actually see the teacher wondering where the hell he’s going when he runs out of the room, and then following through showing that he won’t be running students down just to make sure they stay in class. It’s a small thing, but it definitely makes a difference, making the Saikiverse seem a bit more realistic.

Also, look, it’s this guy who appears a bajillion chapters later in that weird gag… What was his name again? Gah… refer back to this later, future me.

Yes, Kaidou becomes a completely different person outside of his riddiculous chunnibyou persona, which he only uses at school. I do like that Asou sensei writes him this way. It would be easier to have him be in character all the time, but he’s much more realistic like this. I love that Saiki remembers the stupid nickname he gave himself. It makes the contrast even more funny. Okay, I’ll stop analyzing Kaidou and explaining every joke for now.

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Things like this make me wonder if Saiki really doesn’t know that’s how his looks might be interpreted at a distance… even though he understood from the verbal description that he could be perceived as having “pink horns” and “green eyes.” And he spaces out in class just thinking about it. Thoroughly neurodivergent behavior.

I also love things like this, that imply but don’t outright show that Nendou just… openly teleports in front of Nendou because he can get away with it.

I also enjoy Saiki’s stubbornness in calling Kaidou ‘Junpei.’ Peak comedy.

I love that Kaidou would rather Saiki think he has multiple personalities instead of just being polite to people outside of school. And Saiki says he appreciates the effort… lol. I think he does actually appreciate it, in a way, sarcasm aside. Kaidou is committed to the bit.

“Whether that’s true or not, you need to get to a hospital.” Lollll. But also… makes me wonder if he really believes it, again. That along with the “Kaidou personality chart” further on in this comic. From Saiki’s other confrontations with people who clearly need help (including the one where he talks down a suicidal guy. And of course Terushashi’s brother.) It’s as if it never even occurred to saiki to have a sense of urgency about these kinds of things.

Mmmm! Once again I wish I had the Japanese version because I’m sure he is using polite speech here, for a minute.

Well, at least Kaidou acknowledges here that he’s in fact a chunni and therefore doing this on purpose. Which, again, makes me wonder why Saiki would ever believe even for a second that it isn’t an intentional thing. Or maybe it’s just supposed to be taken as sarcasm outright, but the panel where Saiki is confused about the Horns Saiki drawing really is throwing me off. Another thing I should look for raws of, to see if there’s anything to be gleaned from the OG text.

YES! You and saiki are pretty similar. In a way. Yes, he is worrying about his high school debut… in a way.

Saiki, it is entirely understandable that you think Kaidou is an egomaniac, but given his “other personality,” how did you not guess that he’s just lonely??? He literally had to explain his entire thought process for you to get it??? Yeah, emotional EQ in the single digits.

Earlier, I said Kaidou knew full well how to act like a normal person and just doesn’t do it, but he’s definitely awkward. I mean, of course it’s going to be awkward asking strangers if they’ve seen a guy with green eyes, sharp teeth and horns. (I am not quite sure why Kaidou is so committed to the bit myself.)

LMAO?!?

Saiki, that’s your own goddamned fault, lmao. Put your money where your mouth is and shut him down if you’re tired of annoying people “entering your life”… :)

That wraps up 0-6.

There’s a lot going on here, to be sure. In conclusion, I think Saiki works really well here as a character who is technically omniscient, in terms of perspective, but deeply limited in his ability to interpret information.

Alright, the end. Ja mata! 💫

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the fact that we never actually got to see kuboyasu interact with saiki in gym class is such a crime

hes like the most perceptive of the group so it wouldve been so fun to see how kusuo would hide his powers around him

i kinda wouldve loved to see them flesh out the "shadow leader" bit a little more instead of just forgetting about it lmao, yasu being sorta like hairo and thinking saiki has hidden power or something

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i can't imagine how annoying it would be to watch a movie with kuusuke

like imagine kurumi just shunning kuusuke from family movie night because he'd constantly spoil it, especially with murder-mystery type movies.

"its the guy in red, i know he did it."

"the movie just started, kuusuke."

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yeah he's just standing there with her for no reason

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saiki got arrested?! he has an ankle monitor?!?!

HE’S GOING TO PRISON?!?!?!?

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SPY X SAIKI

been catching up with these shows lately, theyre both very fun🫶🫶

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i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

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Saiki family goes to counseling and it ends with kusuo and kusuke getting into a fist fight, kuniharu crying in a corner, kurumi flipping the couch over, and the counselor considering a career change

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saiki doodles :P

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Saiki and Akechi bet on reality TV. They find the most trashy, obscure reality TV show (the kinds where someone is voted off every episode) and bet on who will be the next to leave.

Much like the horse raising they did, it's usually Akechi who wins. Saiki can't read minds through TV and has a hard time understanding body language without telepathy, so he doesn't really know how the contestants feel. Akechi isn't the best at reading body language either, but he's so perceptive on literally everything else that he is slightly better than saiki at reading what the episode will play out like.

However, unlike the horseracing, they both kind of suck anyway. It doesn't really matter who's better or worse at guessing honestly because most of the time neither of them is right. They get in to arguments with each other just as much as they team up to argue with the TV itself.

The longer they watch one show, the less it becomes about betting and the more it's just raging at the plot. But everytime they finish and start a new show, it goes right back to the civil bets.

They kick the other psychickers out bc their TV time is sacred between them.

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Started watching The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. a few years too late and while I love all the characters, if I had to pick a friendship it would be these two idiots.

Whenever I watch a new thing I like to look up what the most popular tags and ships are which is how I found out Aren would be in the show several episodes before he even made an appearance. But after seeing him in action with Kaido I could not be more disappointed in the shippers. I know they visually fit the stereotypical yaoi seme/uke roles but I will accept nothing less than them switching because Aren wouldn’t care and Kaido would care way too much and feel like he had something to prove. Besides, a bizarre trope for delinquent male characters is that they’re always virgins.

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rip kuusuke you would have loved those AITA Reddit posts

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Chapters: ½ Fandom: 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kuboyasu Aren & Saiki Kusuo, Kaidou Shun & Saiki Kusou, Nendou Riki & Saiki Kusuo Characters: Saiki Kusuo, Kaidou Shun, Nendou Riki, Kuboyasu Aren, Saiki Kusuke, Saiki Kurumi, Saiki Kuniharu, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: powerless saiki, as much as he’s supposed to be anyway, Anxiety, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Sexual Abuse, One-sided Incest, Attempted Sexual Assault, Manslaughter, Self-Esteem Issues, i originally wanted one of kuboyasu’s gang members to meet him and think he was a bitchy brat, but then it turned into this monster. so., also wanted to explore what would be enough to drive kusuo to kill someone in self-defense :3, it isn’t kusuke he kills btw but maybe it should be, /hj Summary:

Kusuo is learning to function without his powers—and slowly beginning to realize that taking them away doesn’t automatically make him 100% normal. He still needs to work at getting people to ignore him, and still has to put effort into living just like everyone else.

Hooray.

Unfortunately, some of the assumptions Kusuo had made about his brother aren’t exactly true. Just because he lost his psychic abilities doesn’t mean the game is over: it just means that the scales aren’t tipped in his favor anymore. It means Kusuo is more vulnerable than ever before.

Losing might very well be in the cards, now.

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the title is a bit messed up but it was too perfect not to do it lmfaooo

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Kusuo and Kusuomega design in gl2.(Y'all know the difference between them)

Kusuke design in gl2

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Aiura, Toritsuka and Akechi get kidnapped by Kuusuke and Aiura and Akechi kinda freak out but Toritsuka is uncharacteristically calm/unresponsive/serious and they don't know how to react to that