Best Student Council is a comedy/social situation anime with some fairly original, often very weird things going for it. If you like Azumanga Daioh, Paniponi Dash!, or any of the other slightly oddball comedy anime out there featuring school girls with too much time and energy for their own good, you may have just found your next viewing pleasure. Best Student Council features socialization, conflict, and comedy - normal and not normal forms of it. Sometimes it’s almost believable and you find yourself being able to relate to it. Other times it just throws you a curve ball and you have to just laugh or sit there shaking your head. The animation is colorful and bright, with a wide range of characters in both visual and personality type aspects. There’s not too much that could be considered inappropriate about its content, so it’s also safe for most ages with a PG rating. It offers many things that are different enough from the other anime that are like it to make it worth picking up and giving a chance. It’s downright funny for the most part, and who doesn’t like to have a good laugh?

Volume three reminds us that every day is an adventure when you’re a member of the “maximum authority wielding” Best Student Council at Miyagami Academy (did we mention that these girls are obsessive compulsive over-achievers of the strangest kind?). Some days, you may have to battle student councils from rival high schools – even when the whole team is horribly ill (never a high point in one’s student council career). Other days, pesky new transfer students may mess up the dorm and force the entire student council to eat and sleep in the science wing (not cool). And there’s simply no telling what could happen next – that’s the wonderful thing about this show. Who knows? Maybe one of the student council members is actually a secret agent in disguise (hint, hint). All the madness unfolds with Rino, Pucchan (the weirdest… “thing” ever to grace anime), and their friends in volume there, aptly named “Campus Antics.”  Antics are really only the half of it, they’re being modest!

This series is certainly pushing the limits (in a good way) more and more as it moves along. It’s nice to be consistently surprised at the raising level of oddity and spontaneity in both the animation and the characters themselves. It’s never so much that your head hurts or younger viewers get confused – Best Student Council always manages to keep within a certain boundary of weirdness, but still brings an entertaining set of stories and situations to the table. Good stuff!

EXTRAS:
The disc extras include a clean opening and closing animation as well as a look at a few of the Japanese DVD promos.

IN SUMMARY:
Best Student Council is both funny and energetic. It’s good fun for a wide range of ages and works on a concept that’s already proven itself, but still has a lot of kick left in it – the school situation anime still rules!

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