4-koma on Class 4-2's Sadomi the sadist and friends! Elementary school JUST like you remember it!
50 Chapters (Complete)






This might or might not be worth reading. I can completely understand that no one bothered to keep on translating the sequel. The only thing that makes this readable and not that bad is that there's only 90 pages out for both this manga and the sequel, so you'll read it in less than a hour.
It's extremely average. Predictable doesn't even begin to describe it. We have all these characters who literally have ONE trait and they just do one or, at most, two things which they repeat every single time. What they do is actually in their name! Sadomi is a sadistic b*tch that tries to hurt everyone and finds pleasure in their agony, tomomi is a friend type, the only relatively normal person here, heromi or whatever her name was is only there to be extremely frail and vomit blood everywhere, jiromi is only there to leer/hiss at people, being generally hostile, the principal is just a masochist who loves being abused, the teacher is just there to react to everyone abusing her, ecomi or whatever her name was is just there to be environmentally friendly, nidome is only there to do double takes or repeat her actions...
Well, you get the gist. Sure, it sounds like a funny setting, but it is, quite honestly, only slightly amusing at best, most of the time it's just boring. None of these girls have even slightly complete personalities, they only have this one trait and everything centers around that as they bring it to the extreme, even their names centers around it. This results in everything being ridiculously predictable, they do the same thing over and over again and it's not made in a way where it feels fresh nonetheless, no, it's just the same scene event all over again with barely different details. They will always do the same thing and as soon as one character starts doing something, you know what will happen. Very dull and utterly lacking spirit.
I guess it's good there's only around 90 pages out, because no one would want to read more of this than that since all the jokes got old after the first time yet keeps on getting reused, mind you that these are gags that were barely even slightly amusing the first time. Giving it anything above a 5/10 is insanity, I already feel like I was very generous to honor this work with a 5/10 instead of a lower score. The sequel is exactly the same, so the review is for that one as well.
this manga have the best kind of characters, with sadist child, deadpan friend, long suffering teachers....however the execution is a little weak. it start quite abruptly and chug along without rest. some of the humour dont come across, and most are a little too forced. more successful 4koma have a bit of a plot, where there is progression of the story even though individually they look separate. a more structured outlook for this manga will turn this from mediocre to good.
For this, I feel like it was trying so hard to be original and unexpected that it was actually just the opposite. The whole time while I was reading it, it felt so dull and predictable. It's hard for me to put my finger on why, but I think one of the main causes was that there's not much "normal" to contrast the crazy against--every important character is over-the-top ridiculous, and I think that as a result I just sort of accepted that as the norm in this manga's universe, which made the crazy characters become unremarkable to me.
But, I think sometimes a 4-koma will need to "set the stage" and such, and so the first few dozen strips seem boring, but then it picks up after that (it also normally takes me at least a few chapters to really get into a manga). Unfortunately for this one there was no chance for that, as it's only 50 strips long.
The characters were a little bit cute and I felt like if it were longer it would have gotten better (that is to say, I think it had potential), but because it was overall just not that interesting, it only gets a 5/10 from me.
Funny, I guess.
Weird & crazy - totally.
Loved the headmaster.
Bwahaha.
Nothing much to talk about other than a crazy bundle.
Poor Heromi though.=/
Art's nothing special, it's full color and all in all if you enjoy sick fun it might be just for you. :3
Edit:
Two years later and all I wanna know is "Is it wrong to laugh at that"?
Good stuff. Read the sequel if you liked this one.
Thank you, Rabbit People!
Gonna up the vote on this one.
only 53 ppl completed this? this title is really cult! i've already read it 3 times....if u like sick or black or off-beat humour try it! you will love it...best 4-koma i've read...the art is really unique as well...it looks more like an anime's style rather than a manga
if u like unique manga read it