Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he’s having a hard time making friends. It doesn’t help that his blond hair tends to make people think he’s a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she’s talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting.
That is how The Neighbours’ Club was formed, a club specifically designed for people who don’t have very many friends. As other lonely classmates slowly join their little club, they’ll try to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But will this group of relationship-challenged misfits really be able to get along?
Published by: Media Factory
Filled with frolicking fun, a host of great character interaction from the typical anime types we have come to know from myriad other shows, this series deals with uncommon problems of how and why your appearance or attitude can leave you as an outcast, to being incredibly popular but still feeling alone in a crowd, and yet thriving to remain true to yourself instead of forcing you to change to fit in.
The events and interaction that are presented for the viewer are believable, the simple yet elegant style of line, the off-color humor and embarrassing situations all give something one can identify with on some level. In the end, this may be a great way for introverts to identify and unite! While I find some of the humor a bit base, and a couple of characters a bit too easily fitting the over-the-top stereotypes, I thoroughly enjoy this one, and feel that Kodaka has found another friend. I give it 3 1/2 of 5 stars.
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