I wholly agree that some of the jokes fall pretty flat. I can only assume those work better if you've actually been a kid in Japanese grade school. But most of it works fine regardless of where you grew up.
I've never thought it was all that cute, though. The appeal (for me) is more like "ha ha, that could totally have happened when I was a kid". (Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and we had to fight hordes of raptors on the way to school. In the snow. Uphill, both ways.)
Somewhat like "Yotsuba to!" with less "universal" jokes. Some of the humor is rather random but overall it's an excellent series. Has me laughing out loud quite a bit.
The only problem this series has is that some of the humor relies heavily on the japanese language, with a number of jokes falling flat if you aren't at least clued in to what's going on. Other than that, this is a must read.
This is definitely an odd manga, and probably not for everyone. I can see the humor, I just didn't like it. The eccentricity was definitely lost on me.
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