Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time (Season 1)

Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time (となりの関くん, 2014) is a Japanese short-episode comedy anime you can watch online on iFILM. Rumi Yokoi sits next to Seki in class and genuinely wants to pay attention. Seki has other plans — pencil golf courses, paper robot armies, full chess matches conducted in absolute silence while the teacher talks.

Twenty-one episodes, each under seven minutes. Hiro Shimono and Kana Hanazawa voice the pair; adapted from Takuma Morishige's manga. The joke has one engine: Yokoi's escalating internal commentary, which makes her far more invested in Seki's distractions than he ever is. Stream Tonari no Seki-kun online on iFILM.