The idea of psychic abilities seems enthralling at first, and really, who wouldn’t want the ability to read minds or teleport? However, if your powers were too strong or had some comedic limitations how would you feel.

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, whose title and name is a pun on the word ‘psychic’, reflects on these weird trivialities through a anthology of shorts, based on a  4-koma manga (a serialized manga with each chapter having 4 panels). Generally, each episode has 3 shorts, some of which are interconnected into larger arcs, revolving around Saiki’s struggles in his daily life, most of which include is psychic nature to some degree.

He chooses to either use his power for his own personal convenience, such as getting coffee jelly, or to stop some sort of disaster, such as a world ending explosion. Either way, this type of short often makes light of his abilities, and how it’s not always enough despite the circumstances, due to their own limitations.

Saiki also chooses to keep his psychic nature a secret from his peers, with only his family and other psychics knowing the truth. With this being the case, another common plot point throughout the anthology is Saiki attempting to conceal his power from other, while ironically using his powers more often than not.

Due to the series’ nature as an anthology, it is normally episodic and comedic in tone, while not really following to strict of a plot structure. However, with this being the case, it also ensures the audience knows there is no real stakes involved, seeing as Saiki would probably be able to solve the situation, or at least enact some sort of damage control.

The series genre as snippet of a slice of life also makes it a point to focus on character characterization rather than any overarching plot point, although there is continuity to be seen with character development and their personal identification traits.

For instance, Saiki becomes more comfortable talking to people about being a psychic, as well as helping them with his powers. He also becomes more aware of their emotions and how he should account for them. In doing so he becomes more sociable, even though people still seemed to gather around him either way.

There are still some thematic points addressed sparingly throughout the series, such as social relationships, power, responsibility, and morality. However, most of these points come as a conflict to be resolved during the short, and whether or not they can be interpreted as negative is an entirely separate matter.

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K is composed of 3 ‘seasons’ with numerous episodes (depending on what you consider episodes: the shorts, or the combination of shorts), all of which are available on netflix to my knowledge.

Any who fun show, super funny def recommend for a casual watching experience or a binge, whatever floats your boat it’ll probably be an overall good time.

So uhh i would give in a solid 8/10 would watch again maybe with some friends