4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku (2024)

Marinate1016

Recommended

4 uso is easily the hidden gem of the season. Airing on a packed day like Saturday led it to get overshadowed by other titles, but this was one of the funniest and most enjoyable rides of the year.

Japanese comedy isn’t for everyone. A lot of times it simply doesn’t hit, but on rare occasions, like 4-uso it’s genuinely hilarious. The whole story revolves around 4 girls at a school who have massive secrets they’re hiding from each other. While on the surface they’re having normal middle school girl interactions, on the inside they’re having these hilarious monologues and working out how to keep their ...

stopthisregbs

Recommended

Preliminary (5/11 eps)

8/10

It seems that this show was somewhat bypassed despite being a work of high quality. Art, direction, sounds, voice acting and music are all on good levels. As I see it, this anime fullfills its intended mission quite well - character profiles combine quite well for comic and absurd situations, relatively many of which I found genuinely funny.
While freely diving into absurdity is the main idea, it has an inner logic in it, interconnections do make "senseless sense", so to speak, making it interesting to watch and allowing the getaway from the constraints of common sense to be a comfortable experience.
The core of ...

smurdles

Recommended

Preliminary (7/11 eps)

This is a show to watch while eating, that's the best way I can describe it.
Each episode is filled with clever jokes and these 4 funny and compelling characters. It's a very light-hearted, sweet and wholesome anime, but we always get to see the thoughts of each character which are sometimes brutal or just completely different than the character acts. This aspect of the show is carried by the excellent voice actor performances, they switch the tone of their voice depending on the situation which is important in an anime that's all about secrets you want to keep.

It's a comedy through and through, not much ...

Zakception

Recommended

The characters are definitely what made this show somewhat enjoyable, cute girls doing cute things (( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)) but funny enough to be enjoyable. I like the fact that 'I' as a viewer can see them lying and make assumptions on how they'll try to hide the facts about them either by playing it or trying to be weird to the extent that the others just turn the other way.

It somewhat reminded me of Daily Lives of High School Boys, it pretty much the same vibe, funny and cute but most certainly enjoyable moments. The goofiness also is top notch like how Rika erases ...

SanaeK10

Mixed Feelings

4-nin Uso does bring to mind comparisons to similar shows such as Asobi Asobase and JoshiMuda, in that it's a show with a primarily female cast (well, almost) that deals in rough, physical comedy instead of the usual girls being cute-and-nice-to-each-other affair. Although this one is a lot less grounded in reality.

The premise is simple, with the show often having each character fulfill their roles through out each episode's runtime. They can get pretty repetitive, especially with the Narrator over-explaining the jokes at times. I didn't mind this much, since I do like the Narrator butting in at times, but they do age the joke ...

supurauto

Recommended

underrated.

> STORY/ENJOYMENT: 9.5

i wanna start with the ending cause that's one of the only reasons this isn't a 10: the ending feels relatively rushed and not very satisfying, but it still feels natural with how the show's pacing and story development usually go. it's also quite wholesome, so i still like it a bit.

pro-tip on most comedy, sol, cgdct, and especially gag humor: don't focus on the story.

it shouldn't matter if the story is pointless, unreasonable, nonsensical, or almost nonexistent—but here, it does. because that's what makes it so good.

a lot of humor is based on non sequitur ...

PixelB

Recommended

Remember Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi? That small show that no one remembers about? And how the premise of the show was how it had a time traveler, a psychic, and an alien? Of course, the biggest surprise was that Haruhi herself.

That being said, this show contains extremely similar themes. A ninja, a psychic, an alien, and instead of Haruhi, we have a crossdressing guy. However, the shows can't be said to be really similar to each other. In fact, despite having virtually the same plot, the style, the comedy, and the pacing of the shows are completely different.

That's what I love about comedy. There's just ...

NekoCatSidhe

Recommended

An alien, a ninja, a telepath and a cross-dressing boy walk into a bar… I mean, go to an all girls school and have zany adventures while trying to hide their secrets from each other. This was a very silly and funny comedy show, but also went completely under the radar for some reason.

As befit a gag comedy show, it was very episodic and plotless, and yet it managed to regularly make me laugh out loud. The characters all had very strong and well-defined personalities that played off well from each other :
- Rikka the alien played the role of the cheerful and ...

aristophones

Recommended

Yare Yare. Do you love Saiki K? The similarities between the two shows is profound but with a very different cast of characters. This show will be hit or miss for you, but if this is your kind of humor every episode will have you laughing out loud. The writers always "lean in to the bit" pushing it too far which is a must for this type of humor. I wish both this and Saiki K would just keep running as the story really never ends. They just reboot when it gets too far along, and these shows always deliver a smile when needed.

Easy, ...

i-like-this

Recommended

Four Lies, One Cock.

The absurd lengths people will go to hide the biggest secrets about themselves from their friends out of insecurity or a fear of rejection can’t be seen as a good thing to do in real life, but in a Japanese cartoon about a former ninja on the run, an alien, a psychic and an unwilling crossdresser it can lead to some hilariously stupid scenarios.

That is the premise and the story of The Little Lies We Tell in a nutshell. Four friends who spend every day together also have to secretly navigate around bizarre scenarios brought on by the fact that Chiyo ...

P0R0R0C4

Recommended

Overall, it is an anime with a well-utilized plot, in which the author demonstrated versatility and applied it very efficiently. They showed skill in interpreting different types of contexts and situations. For example, in a typical anime, a character pretending to be of the opposite sex could be treated superficially, without us caring much about that plot. However, the author gave proper attention to this character, highlighting their discomfort in various situations. This also applies to the other characters, making them unique and distinct from each other.

Humor is subjective, so I won't dwell on it too much. In my opinion, it is well executed, working ...

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Rian_Rahmat

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/11 eps)

I misjudged this anime, I was suspicious from the start.

The first thing is the strange character backgrounds, really very strange, starting from aliens and others.

The second thing is Tsukkomi, or the person who responds, among these 4 characters only 1 responds the most, even though sometimes it's not expressed directly, but it's quite boring.
Yes, who else if not someone who can read everyone's mind? Among the other strange characters, only the mind reader excels, and who gives a lot of Tsukkomi to the other characters' behavior.

In my opinion, if it's like this, it's better to watch Saiki Kusuo, with the same power of ...