It's gags clean and simple, a review of 'The Daily Lives Of Highschool Boys' A short-ish review of one of the funniest manga's one monkey brain has ever read. # Introduction (how and why I read this manga, skippable)

This was a manga I came across by pure luck. After looking more into it I understand that it had a fairly popular anime adaption, however I am not allowing that to bias my review of the manga. Anyway, I came across this manga by luck after looking around anilist for a new manga to read, and added it to my disgustingly long, and ever growing, backlog. I didn't think about it for a little while, until after i had finished 'fist of the north star', a series which has fairly serious tones. After this, I read 'Zombie Powder', and decided I wanted a comedy rather than delving ever deeper into the shonen cesspit, so my brain doesn't fry in the greasy, disgusting shonen jump fanboy brain.
This series came as a breath of fresh air from the usual shonen/seinen action manga I read a lot. While I love manga that aren't shonen/seinen action mangas, this series is unlike anything i've ever read.

Brief summary of how this manga portrays itself.

This manga is so easy to pick up and read, that anyone can enjoy any chapter without any context. On the surface, the characters are just 'nerd schoolboy' stereotypes, and that's partly what makes them so great. While their actions make them each fairly unique throughout the manga, the fact they are so blank slate and understandable to anyone means that each of the chapters are incredibly easy to pick up and enjoy. Unlike a series like 'Grand Blue Dreaming' (a series I also consider a 10), the comedy isn't so much character driven as it is more slapstick humour and goofy puns. While 'Grand Blue Dreaming' uses it's well established characters and their superbly written interactions to make me chuckle, this manga delivers one suberb and goofy punchline, like a hit of pure comedy into my veins. Speaking of that comedy....

#Jokes, Comedy, Humour (essentially whatever you wanna call the haha's)
So, these are the exact reason why i give this series a 10. It's a gag manga through and through, and doesn't try to overplay itself or stretch itself too thin. The author uses a few pages of chuckle-worthy lines before giving you a punchline that makes you belly laugh. Wether it's the boys getting bored in school, or going to the beach to try and get some 'female attention', the jokes always land at the right time and make me laugh pretty much every time. The key thing with these jokes is that they are NOT deep and dark humour, they're stupid puns and slapstick jokes. An example would be the boys getting bored and attempting to find a way to cure their boredom in school. We see Hidenori and Tanaka in the playground, before attempting to play catch with something. We see them try and ball up and throw their blazers, leading to an on-running joke of them not understanding that the force will break the bundle of jacket apart. This is then followed by them playing catch with one of their shoes. As they go to throw the shoe, it proceeds to get stuck in the air- floating above the boys, before the boys say 'shoe-rreal'.
While not as funny explained, the stupid pun on the words shoe and surreal is perfectly on brand for this mangas stupid gags, and its dumb puns and slapstick never fail to make me laugh.

#Bonus chapters that don't feel forced in, and are actually really funny.
This series does exactly what any series should do in utilising it's bonus chapters. They follow a side plot that doesn't feel crammed in, and are on par quality wise with the main chapters. These bonuses mainly consist of the side story 'High School Girls are Funky', and while sounding like a Lidl version of Nichijou, it maintains it's own identity and compliments the main story perfectly. It's a roughly 20 chapter or so story focusing on the over the top and comedic lives of highschool girls, rather than the boys. It often plays on how grudge-holdy and territorial girls are stereotyped to be, but in a more light hearted and funny way. This all culminates in a funny yet satisfying end to this 20 chapter sub plot in 94.5, not going on for too long but still making me chuckle every time.

#Conclusion
'The Daily Lives Of Highschool Boys' is a manga that anyone with a sense of humour can pick up and read, and laugh at at least something. Wether you laugh at the funny reaction faces, the dumb puns, or the well portrayed slapstick, there's something here for everyone. This kept my monkey brain well entertained and laughing for it's duration, and is the 2nd best comedy manga i've ever read, just behind 'Grand Blue Dreaming'- This is a lot more easily accessible than 'Grand Blue Dreaming', however. It is incredibly funny and one of the most entertaining manga's i've ever had in a manga. It's something anyone can and should read and enjoy, and is easily one of my favourite comedies, as well as being one of my favourite mangas overall. There's not a thing I'd change for the world.