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Series · 2016

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto

坂本ですが?

Genres:Comedy
Sakamoto wears glasses and a black school uniform beneath an open transparent umbrella.
©佐野菜見・KADOKAWA/坂本ですが?製作委員会

A schoolboy handles bullying, chores and social disasters with such elaborate cool that everyday problems become comic performances.

Sakamoto's classmates try to embarrass, imitate or understand him, but each challenge supplies another occasion for an improbable solution. The humour comes from the gap between an ordinary school setting and the seriousness with which everyone responds to his effortless-looking style.

Three women sit together on a patterned sofa, looking ahead.
A licensed promotional frame places the series' conspicuous cool within an everyday social world. ©佐野菜見・KADOKAWA/坂本ですが?製作委員会

The premise depends on witnesses as much as on Sakamoto. A small task becomes a spectacle because classmates and adults treat his composure as an event worth decoding. Their reactions give the impossible elegance a recognisably ordinary setting. The accompanying group frame makes room for that audience, while the lead keeps Sakamoto's immaculate uniform and conspicuous poise in view. This is an episodic comedy rather than a training story whose protagonist gradually acquires competence. Begin with the first television episode; the original episode 13 was released as a disc bonus and follows the twelve broadcast episodes.

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