If youve watched Asobi Asobase or Daily Lives of High School Boys then Chios School Road is a similar deal. Its episodic each episode consists of multiple short gags and the main cast is great. Where Chios School Road diverges a bit from the two would be: 1. Its setting from the perspective of Chio the protagonist on her way to school. 2. The original creator Kawasaki Tadatakahttps://anilist.co/staff/110041/TadatakaKawasakis other works were all hentai doujins. 3. Theres a lot of lewd elements which is expected given the author. Now depending on the person the fact that the author is more known for their hentai might be a dealbreaker. Even if that does bother you I still implore you to check this out. Ive watched some pretty raunchy ecchi and the lewd parts in this werent close to as bad this isnt even an ecchi. All that said what makes comedy tough is the fact that its subjective. What someone like myself finds to be funny others might not and viceversa. Thats just how it is. For me all that matters is enjoyment. And I can definitely say I got a whole lot of that from this show. Was this a good adaptation? When one watches an anime adaptation how faithful it is to the source material is a fair question to ask. Now for me it doesnt necessarily have to be an exact 1:1 translation. However the original spirit and intention should be intact. In the case of a comedy such as this that would be preserving the humor. I actually didnt read the manga prior to watching this. However upon finishing this I did check it out. As far as I could tell the anime adapted 30 or so chapters of the manga it looks like some werent in the exact order. Given that there are 53 chapters that does leave a bit more content for people to read if one takes a liking to this. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021291413838770189/1075509881051824241/chiomanga.PNG https://files.catbox.moe/9d7knz.mp4 But was this adaptation faithful? Yes Id say so. In fact I think it was so good that whether you watch this or read the manga boils down to personal preference. From what I can see you wont be missing out on anything by choosing one over the other. I really liked Kawasaki Tadatakas art style I may or may not check out his other works to compare. The style used in the anime obviously isnt the same but I do think that diomedahttps://anilist.co/studio/51/diomeda still did a great job. If I were to choose between the two I honestly think Id have to go with this anime. No disrespect to Kawasaki Tadataka I did really like the original manga. Between his art style and the comedy he really did have a great idea. However I think that this anime took the novel idea he had and really elevated it for me. To have sound the VA and the effects/OST accompany the illustrations and to see it in an animated format really did make a big difference for me. I liked the OP and ED and thought they were a good fit. Im also pretty sure the seiyuu for the main cast sung in them trio for the OP Chio and Manana for the ED. How are the main characters? What I really like about this type of show is how the focus is on the characters. Theres no complex overarching plot or some villain to defeat. Just regular people and crazy shit happening to them. And I thought that the main cast was phenomenal. Chio would be the 2nd anime schoolgirl that Ive related to a lot after Bocchi. I really liked that she was a chuunibyou that instead of fantasy was obsessed with western PC gaming. A lot of the gags played off this too and it was just fun to watch. Also the fact that Naomi Oozorahttps://anilist.co/staff/117329/NaomiOozora did the voice for her was perfect. I loved her as Jahyhttps://anilist.co/character/124618/Jahy so I quickly recognized that voice. Mananas VA I wasnt familiar with but I also think she did an excellent job. 425https://files.catbox.moe/bd17zz.gif Speaking of Chio and Manana I loved their relationship. They were both adorable assholes but still clearly best friends. Every time they were both on screen I was excited to see what shenanigans Id witness. I dont recall being disappointed either. There is a 3rd girl Yuki who I also liked. I definitely didnt like her as much as the other two but she was weird and goofy. Shes one of those brutally honest types so as you can imagine she says stuff that is hilariously savage. And the side characters? Note: I will only be talking about some of them. Mayuta Andou Mayuta is a biker gang leader that Chio ends up running into. I actually thought that he was fine for the most part. I enjoyed most of his gags. However I wasnt overly fond of his relationship with Chio. They clearly got closer with each time they interacted. But given their age gap it felt really weird and at times made me uncomfortable. https://files.catbox.moe/1e7xbs.gif I read somewhere that theres only a 4year gap. Even so I personally just wasnt a fan especially with how drastically different they appeared in age. It would be one thing for this to appear in a hentai doujin but in this context it just felt plain odd. Despite this though I was able to just overlook it and still enjoy the show for what it was. Madoka Kushitori Then theres Madoka an older girl at Chios school. Shes captain of the Kabaddi Club who and has a desire to grope other girls. Because why not. When she first appeared I thought it was sort of funny. But then the gag continues with her grabbing Yukis ass. Who repeatedly tells her to stop. And she doesnt. https://files.catbox.moe/uljh38.gif A character like this mightve been something that wouldve made sense in a hentai or ecchi but here it just felt out of place and forced. I guess the mangaka really wanted to include a character like this here. If you dont mind more lewd humor and arent sensitive to this sort of stuff then it might not be that big of a deal for you. For me Ive seen far worse so I wasnt fazed all that much. But everyone is different so make of this what you will. Unnamed Homeless Man Lastly there was this random homeless dude. It gets suggested that he got to where he was because he groped a schoolgirl. I just felt uncomfortable whenever he was on screen. I didnt find him funny at all nor did I think he added much. Thankfully he didnt have many appearances in the anime. But unfortunately he still exists. How much fanservice is there? From everything Ive said up to now you can probably gather that this anime has fanservice. Its definitely there but its not to the point where its constantly in your face. It is definitely present and comes up enough where its worth pointing out to anyone thinking of watching this. Aside from the lewd stuff Ive already mentioned I only recall unsolicited panty shots. I know with anime and/or manga this can happen. I wasnt a huge fan of it here. I simply found it weird and would often try to look past it. But it happens multiple times throughout the show sometimes more than once in a single episode. Just another treat from the mangaka I suppose. Whether or not one wants to watch/read this depends on how much they care for lewd stuff. Again I didnt think it was terrible but it is undeniably there and is baked into some of the comedy. How would I rate this anime? To close this all off I will acknowledge that this anime is flawed. There mightve been a few things I wasnt fond of in this anime. Maybe not all of the comedy worked for me either. The issues I had might have been relatively minormild for me but for others they could be a bigger deal. Despite all that I would still say that I got a fair amount of enjoyment out of this. If you enjoyed Asobi Asobase or Daily Lives of High School Boys Id recommend this one too. As for how Id rank them all personally Id probably go: Asobi Asobase = Daily Lives of High School Boys Chios School Road There was no ignoring all the flaws and I just couldnt give it a 9/10 like what I gave the other two. Even so Id still rank it well above a lot of other comedy anime Ive seen up to now. For that reason I give Chios School Road an 8/10.